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Bobby Cho is President and Founding Partner at CMS Holdings. CMS is a principal investment firm focused on crypto assets. Previously, Bobby was chief operating officer of DRW’s crypto trading arm, Cumberland. Prior to DRW, Bobby was Director of Trading at Paxos Trust Company concentrating on building out crypto trading and custody products. Bobby started his career at SecondMarket working in illiquid asset-backed securities. At SecondMarket, Bobby helped build out their bitcoin trading arm, Genesis Global Trading, and asset management division, Digital Currency Group. Bobby is a graduate of Villanova University.
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Charles Cascarilla
Charles Cascarilla is the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain technology company that allows companies to trade, hold, and tokenize assets in the crypto space, achieved through the company's array of software solutions. Cascarilla is a certified financial analyst and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame. His experience in the finance industry dates back to 1999, when he began his career as an analyst at Bank of America, followed by a brief stint as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in 2000. Since then, he has worked with a number of other notable companies, including Claiborne Capital Management, Cedar Hill Capital Partners, Liberty City Ventures, and the Association for Digital Asset Markets.
Barry Silbert
Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group (DCG). He is at the epicenter of the bitcoin and blockchain industry, and DCG is a global enterprise that builds, supports, and invests in companies worldwide. As an early and active investor in the industry, Barry established himself in 2012. He founded DCG in 2015 and the company is now one of the industry's most prolific investors, backing hundreds of companies globally. In addition to its investment portfolio, DCG owns Grayscale Investments, Genesis, CoinDesk, Foundry, Luno, TradeBlock, and HQ. DCG also invests directly in digital currencies and other digital assets. Before DCG, Barry was the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, a venture-backed technology company that was acquired by Nasdaq. He has been recognized with several awards and honors, such as Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's "40 under 40" list. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Barry worked as an investment banker in New York. He graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University.
Mark Shifke
Mark Shifke is the Chief Financial Officer at DCG. Presively he was CFO at Billtrust & Green Dot Corporation, Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, Vice President at Goldman Sachs. Mark Shifke graduated from New York University School of Law.
Mark Murphy
As President of DCG, Mark works closely with the company's six wholly-owned subsidiaries on strategy, execution, and all management matters. He leads DCG's legal, communications, marketing, brand, and public policy efforts, and supports the CEO on day-to-day management. Mark also advises DCG's 175+ portfolio companies on public relations, brand, and marketing efforts. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blockchain Association, the industry's leading trade association.
Michael Kraines
Michael Kraines was the Chief Financial Officer of the Digital Currency Group.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Travis Scher
Travis is co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. Prior to founding NIV, he led investments at Digital Currency Group from 2015-2019, during which time he invested in over 100 crypto startups and protocols across dozens of countries. Travis started his career as an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He holds a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, and a JD from the University of Michigan Law School.
Walter Hessert
Walter Hessert is the Head of Strategy and BD at Paxos. He also is the Founder of Gold Games.
Jezerc Jack Begaj
Jezerc Jack Begaj is the COO of CMS Holdings and previously worked at Circle and PWC. He is a graduate of Bentley University and Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard is Vice President of Finance at CMS Holdings and previously was a senior accountant at Kraken and Circle. He is a graduate of Suffolk University and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.