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Aziz Ali is the Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Cypher Capital. Presively, he worked as Chief Strategy Officer at Phoenix Technology.
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Elaine Liu
Elaine Liu is a Partner at the Cypher Capital Group. Her core responsibilities reside within Cypher’s Investor relations and its Asian ecosystem build-up. Before joining the Cypher Capital Group, Elaine served as an operating partner at Trustbridge Partners, a global growth-oriented PE firm with more than $15bn AUM. Elaine is also one of the major investors in ICB Hiring Platform. Prior to this, Elaine Liu served as the senior vice president of Meituan Dianping.

Farbod Nassiri
Farbod Nassiri is the Finance Manager at Cypher Capital. Having joined the Phoenix Group in 2021 as a Day Trader Farbod’s attention to detail and work ethic quickly saw him promoted to Finance Manager for the newly established Cypher Capital in 2022. With more than 12 years of experience in the field of civil and marine construction along with a history of operational and coordinating excellence Farbod excels in his chosen field. Farbod also has a passion for Blockchain projects and Crypto in general and he lends this expertise to the wider Phoenix Group daily. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Farbod speaks Farsi and English fluently.

Bill Qian
Bill Qian is the co-founder and managing partner of Cypher Capital Group and the group chief investment officer of Phoenix Group. He was previously the head of global investment and M&A at Binance Labs. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and holds a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Bijan Alizadeh
Bijan is the founder and general partner of Cypher Capital Group and also a Co-Founder of Phoenix Group.

Vineet Budki
Vineet Budki is the managing partner and CEO of Sigma Capital. He was previously the managing partner and CEO of Cypher Capital. He has invested in multiple web3 projects including bitsCrunch, Web3Auth, Cymbal, Cross The Ages, etc. He graduated from Cornell University.