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Ben is the Head of Corporate Development at Figment, the market-leading blockchain infrastructure provider for institutions that was recently valued at $1.4bn from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Previously, he was the Director of Product at Fidelity Digital Assets, focused on building the institutional infrastructure to support custody and trading of crypto assets. Prior to that, Ben led the corporate development effort for Symbiont, an enterprise FinTech company creating the next generation of financial markets infrastructure using blockchain technology. Before Symbiont, Ben was an Associate at SenaHill Partners, a merchant bank where he advised and invested in early-stage FinTech companies. He began his career as an Equity Trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Ben graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business with a double major in Finance and Technology Management from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
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Rob Pellecchia
Rob Pellecchia is Director of operations at Figment Capital. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University.
Nick Yushkevich
Nick Yushkevich is Director of product at QuickNode and previously was Senior Product Manager at Figment. He is a graduate of the University of Enopolis and the Russian Institute of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) under the President of the Russian Federation.
Dennis Bree
Dennis Bree is the vice president of revenue at Figment and previously was a managing director at Twitter. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin.
Andrew Cronk
Andrew Cronk is the co-founder and chief Product officer at Figment. He graduated from Kettering University.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Ryan Funduk
Ryan Funduk is Co-founder at Figment Networks, Founder and co-creator of CourseCraft, Bugrocket. Maker of many weekend open-source projects. Occasional tweeter and blogger.
Clayton Menzel
Clayton Menzel is head of strategy at Rio Network. Previously, he was Director of Strategy at Figment and Head of Communities at YEN.io and CariClub. He is always learning about blockchain and is often confused, entertained, and inspired by the people he meets.