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Carl Hua is the CTO and Investment Partner of Shima Capital. He previously served as Chief Architect at Celsius Network and General Manager of CelsiusX, the DeFi division of Celsius. Before that, Carl led the research and development efforts at RippleX, Ripple's open-source/developers platform business unit. He also co-managed the C++ (XRP Ledger) team during his time at Ripple. Before Ripple, Carl was the CTO for Logos Network - a first-layer, high-performance blockchain company, which was later acquired by Ripple. Earlier in his career, he contributed to the next-generation real-time flight software for the Europa mission at JPL NASA. He has also led engineering teams developing flight software at Northrop Grumman.
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Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Shadow. Presively he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Paradigm. Ex-Product at Goldfinch. Before that Alvin Hsia worked at Airbnb. He graduated from UCLA.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Moran
Charles Moran is the COO of North Island Ventures. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.
Jackie Bona
Jackie Bona is the CEO of Valora, a mobile-first crypto wallet whose mission is to unlock access to financial opportunity for people around the world. She has spent the last 15 years of her career in product marketing and GTM leadership roles at various global technology companies such as Spotify, Twitter, and Google. Jackie is passionate about financial inclusion and believes that blockchain technology has the potential to provide new economic opportunities to those who would not typically have access.
Jimmy Bingham
James (Jimmy) Bingham is executive vice president of business development at Fortress and was previously senior vice president of business development at Prime Trust. He graduated from UCLA and the University of Connecticut.
Holly Liu
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at PKO Investments. Formerly, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Kabam. She founded the venture backed mobile gaming company, Kabam in 2006 with UC Berkeley alumni. Her work has contributed to record revenue growth for Kabam year over year from $0 to $400MM annually, that led Kabam into the unicorn club in 2014. She led the design for Kabam’s award-winning "Kingdoms of Camelot" franchise, which has grossed over $250 million in less than four years. She was also the founding mobile designer for extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012. She was Chief Development Officer in charge of developing Kabam internationally through key relationships - starting with China. Among other things, she continues to develop global cultural initiatives within Kabam.
Erick de Moura
Erick de Moura is a co-founder of Cartesi. He is a graduate of the University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of California, Los Angeles.