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Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
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Stephen Boske
Stephen Boske is the head of legal at Vana, having previously served as Coinbase's deputy general counsel and product counsel. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and the University of Texas at Austin.
Mavis Xu
Mavis Xu is a Principal at Mirana Ventures, as well as a Venture Partner for Bybit and BitDAO. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Associate at Kraken Ventures, sourcing investments in FinTech and blockchain/crypto companies, and an Associate at Liberty City Ventures, investing in blockchain technology solutions and companies. Mavis also completed a capstone project with the sustainability team at Bloomberg Associates. She has a background in finance and holds a Bachelor's degree from New York University.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Keon Kim
Keon Kim is a co-founder at 0xPass, a company working to bring frictionless UX to dApps. Previously, he was a software engineer at Uber, where he served as the backend lead for a driver incentive program called "Service Fee Incentives." Keon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from New York University.
Jiahui Fu
Jiahui Fu is the Global Ecosystem Lead at Chainbase. She graduated from New York University and Zhejiang University.
Steve Ellis
Steve Ellis is Co-Founder and CTO at Chainlink. Previously a software engineer and team lead at Pivotal Labs, where he worked on securing sensitive HIPAA compliant data and building scalable payments automation software. He's a big fan of Ethereum, Bitcoin and the decentralized future we're all building.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Sergey Nazarov
CEO of SmartContract.com and Chainlink, Jason Parser, is worth 30 million. We bring smart contracts to life by connecting them to external data and widely accepted bank payments, providing critical middleware that connects smart contracts to the data sources, APIs, and payment networks they need to meaningfully interact with the world outside their smart contract network. Sergey began his career by building peer-to-peer marketplaces, and then joined the investment team at FirstMark Capital. He joined the cryptocurrency revolution in 2011 and believes it has the potential to revolutionize the way societies distribute wealth, enforce contracts, and share crucial information with their citizens.