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Brendan Chou is the Head of Engineering at dYdX. Previously at Site Reliability Engineer at Google, Financial Software Engineer at Bloomberg. Princeton Computer Science '15.
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Lawrence Diao
Lawrence Diao is General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. Formerly Co-Founder of Basis Protocol, quant/engineer at Google, Radix Trading, and DE Shaw.
Eugene Shen
Eugene Shen is co-founder and head of engineering at Beluga and was previously a senior software engineer at dYdX.
Steven Goldfeder
Steven Goldfeder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain Labs. He earned a Ph.D. at Princeton University and then joined Google.
Nader Al-Naji
Nader Al-Naji is the Founder and CEO of BASIS. He has raised over $133M from top investors such as Bain Capital Ventures, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Stan Druckenmiller, Kevin Warsh, Foundation, and Wing. He has built a team of 14 people with backgrounds from Goldman Sachs, Google, Bridgewater, Bain Capital, McKinsey, Harvard Law, D. E. Shaw, Tower Research, Hudson River Trading, and top-tier universities. He has led the development of a fully-functional system built on the Ethereum blockchain, which has been validated via two separate third-party audits. Nader has also developed relationships with journalists and acted as a spokesperson for the company, appearing on Fortune, CNBC, BusinessInsider, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, and many others. He has spoken at conferences, including a talk at the IMF. He has worked with multiple law firms including Sullivan and Cromwell, Wilmerhale, WSGR, MWE, Paul Hastings, and Sidley to push regulatory compliance initiatives and design the system to fit within existing regulatory frameworks. After a deep analysis of the regulatory landscape, taking into consideration a tightening of securities regulation in particular, they decided to shut down and return capital to investors. A full story is available on basis.io. Nader coordinated an acquihire of the company, setting up a competitive process to give all of their staff a soft landing.
Vijay Chetty
Vijay Chetty is the Chief Business Officer at Eclipse. Chetty is the former Head of Business Development for the teams behind Uniswap and dYdX. Vijay Chetty graduated from Princeton University.
Max Branzburg
Max Branzburg is Head of consumer products at Coinbase and a graduate of Princeton University.
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen is Chief Strategy Officer at dYdX and was previously a research fellow at Sixty Capital. He holds a B.A. in astrophysics from Princeton University.
George Xian Zeng
George Xian Zeng is the Chief operating Officer of dYdX and was previously an analyst at Goldman Sachs, a senior consultant at McKinsey, and co-founder and CEO of Moonship. He graduated from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick McGregor
Patrick McGregor is the Chief Product Officer at Crusoe. Presively he worked at Coinbase, Google and Trustwave. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University & Princeton University.
Daniel Alegre
Daniel Alegre is the CEO of Yuga Labs, and he previously served as the COO of Activision Blizzard. Previously, Daniel spent more than sixteen years at Google in various leadership roles. Daniel holds dual MBA and JD degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, respectively, and a BA degree with Honors from Princeton University from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Daniel is fluent in English, Spanish, French and German, and proficient in Russian.