Benjamin Roth

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Benjamin Roth is the Co-founder and CEO of Auros. He forged his early career at Optiver in Sydney and Chicago, running various trading books in New York and Hong Kong. Subsequently, he established Auros as the firm's Head of Trading. He holds a First Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance from UNSW.

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Tharusha Jayasena

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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.

Benedict Chan

Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.

Avocado Guild

Avocado Guild is a co-founder and was previously a co-founder of SnowPak. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

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.

Wilson Ho

Wilson Ho is Head of Operations at HashKey Group and previously was Vice President of Operations at Kenetic Capital. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

Jehan Chu

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Todd Ma

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Stephan Livera

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