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Anouska is the V.P. of Engineering at Chainalysis. With over 20 years of experience across diverse industries such as banking, crypto, government, telecoms, and insurance, Anouska has demonstrated expertise in building high-performing teams and leveraging cutting-edge technologies. Her focus on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration empowers engineers to deliver their best work and explore innovative ideas.
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Sasha MacKinnon
Sasha MacKinnon is the founder of Mino Games. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, founded Bit Battalion, and worked as a Technical Assistant to the CEO at Zynga.
Philip Gradwell
Philip Gradwell is Chief Economist at Chainalysis. I lead data-driven research on blockchain economics at Chainalysis. Previously, I led a team of economic consultants in energy and climate change at Vivid Economics, where I helped build the firm from start-up to 40 people.
Awa Sun Yin
Awa Sun Yin is the co-founder of Anoma & Namada and was previously the co-founder of Cryptium Labs. He has served as a data scientist and software engineer at Chanialysis, a Cosmos researcher, and a technical grant manager at the Ethereum Community Fund. Her main research areas are blockchain technology, cryptography for privacy and scalability of consensus algorithms, security in distributed and decentralized systems, and hardware, especially Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
Kevin O’Brien
Kevin O’Brien will is the President of Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS). CGS is a Chainalysis subsidiary that serves U.S. defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and civilian agencies. Kevin joins Chainalysis from Orbital Insight, the geospatial analytics company, where he has been serving as CEO since 2020. Prior to serving as CEO, Kevin was the Chief Operating Officer for three years. Kevin brings with him more than 25 years of global experience in leadership positions at both software and data companies.
Simon Ousager
Simon Ousager is the founder and CEO of Januar and previously served as the lead training specialist for Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen.
William Wu
William Wu is the Co-CEO of Catheon Gaming. Previously, he was an investment professional at Oaktree Capital Management in Hong Kong, focusing on special situations and distressed private equity opportunities, as well as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Duncan Hoffman
Duncan Hoffman is the chief revenue officer at Kiln and previously worked at Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Jim Lee
Jim Lee is the director of global capacity building at Chainalysis and was previously the head of criminal investigations at the IRS.
Pratima Arora
Pratima Arora is Chainalysis' Chief Product Officer. She is a revenue-generating, product-strategy, tech-loving mastermind who is delivering Chainalysis' blockchain data platform to customers globally. A self-proclaimed geek, she loves solving the toughest customer problems with simple and intuitive solutions. Pratima has worked with Salesforce and Atlassian and sits on the board of DigitalOcean.