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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).
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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.
Adrian Brink
Adrian Brink is a Co-Founder of Cryptium Labs & Anoma Network.He is also a Web3 Foundation developer, Cosmos and Tendermint core developer.
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.
Ethan Buchman
Ethan Buchman is CEO of Informal Systems and formerly CTO of Tendermint. Ethan Buchman is an Internet Biophysicist. With background in cell biology, neuroscience, mathematics, machine learning, and distributed computing, his goal is to build tools that encourage humans to self-organize into functional systems, much like molecules managed to self-organize into Life.
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.
Jae Kwon
Jae Kwon is a blockchain software architect and co-founder of Tendermint, as well as the President of the Interchain Foundation. After graduating from Cornell in 2005 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science, he worked as a professional developer in Silicon Valley, including at Alexa and Yelp, where he led the mobile application development team. He also co-founded iDoneThis, a productivity service. Jae has worked on numerous open-source projects, such as a CoffeeScript compiler/interpreter written in Javascript, an end-to-end encrypted email system called Scramble.io, and a cryptocurrency exchange. These projects were inspired by the cryptopunk hacker ethos, which ultimately led to his current work with Tendermint. In 2014, Jae created the Tendermint project, and he, along with Ethan Buchman and Zarko Milosevic, further refined the Tendermint consensus algorithm and implementation, with the aim of liberating the blockchain from the costs and drawbacks of proof-of-work mining. His mission is to make this technology more accessible, in order to accelerate the adoption of decentralized ledger technology.
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.
Adriana Laura Mihai
Adriana Laura Mihai is the VP of Marketing and Community at Ignite.