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Aya Kantorovich is Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Fractal 安and formerly Head of Institutional Coverage at FalconX. She has spent the last few years scaling FinTech companies and currently drives Strategy and Business Operations at FalconX, an institutional digital asset brokerage backed by Accel Partners, Flybridge Capital and Lightspeed Ventures. Previously, Aya worked at Pantera Capital, the first cryptocurrency fund in the United States, founded in 2013, directly supporting Dan Morehead, CEO as well as Bill Healy, Pantera’s President. Aya has worked intimately with over 60 portfolio companies prior to joining FalconX to expand adoption in the ecosystem. Prior to Pantera Capital, Aya was an Investment Manager at Tegus, a buy-side investor research startup focused on TMT investments, joining as the team’s first-hire and scaling offices in both San Francisco and Chicago. Aya graduated with a double major in International Affairs and Finance from the George Washington University.
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Ian Wittkopp
Ian Wittkopp started at Sino Global Capital in mid-2017 and has led the investment team in 50+ deals spanning token and equity in key verticals like DeFi, GameFi and crypto adjacent infrastructure. As COO, Ian overseas all team components daily across four continents as they produce best in class research, evaluate 100+ projects per week, and provide top-tier post investment support. Previously, Ian spent six years as an economist and budget analyst at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. At the BLS he worked on inflationary indexes in the Producer Price Index program before moving to the budget office and overseeing day-to-day execution of a USD $600M+ annual budget. He also led special projects including a ten-person team that worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to establish a joint survey on small business credit conditions. Ian also spent time as a product manager for an insurtech start-up, Bowtie Life Insurance. At Bowtie he led the launch of a digital microinsurance product that aimed to increase coverage among foreign workers from the Philippines and Indonesia who moved to Hong Kong for employment. Ian received his bachelor’s degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. and his MBA from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Katie Biber
Katie Biber is the Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance and policy functions. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Before Brex, Katie was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and she has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Additionally, Katie serves on the boards of directors of Anchorage, Code for America and Protocol Labs. She is a veteran of political campaigns, having served as General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from George Washington University.
Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Rogers is Head of Operations at BitOoda and previously Director of Operations at VersiFi.
Prabhakar Reddy
Prabhakar Reddy is also the Co-founder of FalconX, a blockchain technology company.
Julian Leitloff
Julian Leitloff began his career in the Frankfurt branch of Deutsche Bank just five days before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. He then returned to academia and completed his graduate studies at Zeppelin University. Shortly thereafter, at the age of 22, he co-founded his first company, Stilnest, which achieved business worth millions of dollars with customers from over 60 countries. In 2016, he was named one of Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Europe. In 2017, he co-founded the Fractal blockchain platform with Júlio Santos.
Josh Rosenthal
Josh Rosenthal is a partner at Polychain and has worked at FalconX, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase.
Baris Cetinok
Baris Cetinok is the Vice President of Product, Software & Services at General Motors. Presively he was Chief Product Officer at FalconX. Vice President, Product Management at Robinhood.
Jon Kaplan
Jon Kaplan is the Chief Revenue Officer at Madhive. Presively he was Chief Revenue Officer at FalconX. Earlier he worked at Pinterest and Google.
Zhuojie Zhou
Zhuojie Zhou is the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Magic Eden.