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Dr. Cathy Barrera is a Partner and Founding Economist at Prysm Group. With an impressive track record, Dr. Barrera has led economic advisory projects for Fortune 500 companies and prominent startups backed by renowned funds such as Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, and Y Combinator. She serves as an industry expert for executive education programs at MIT Sloan and Columbia Business School, and provides academic guidance to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum. Previously, Dr. Barrera held tenure-track faculty positions at Cornell University's S.C. Johnson School of Management and served as the Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter.
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Joeri van Geelen
Joeri van Geelen is the Founding Partner at NxGen, and Founding & Venture Partner at Longterm Ventures.Mentor Blockchain at Outlier Ventures. Business Advisor (former Managing Partner) APAC at Prysm Group. Joeri van Geelen graduated from Harvard Business School.
Stephanie Hurder
Dr. Stephanie Hurder is an entrepreneur and Harvard-trained economist who operates at the forefront of emerging technologies, education, and economics. As a co-founder and Partner of Prysm Group, Dr. Hurder's expertise and leadership extend to Prysm Group's advisory, research, and educational development divisions. Additionally, Dr. Hurder's contributions to academia include co-developing and teaching the first course on economic design for distributed ledger technology at the University of Southern California's CCI. She serves as an advisor to the World Economic Forum and contributes as an Opinion Columnist for CoinDesk.
Guido Molinari
Guido Molinari is a business leader and entrepreneur, currently serving as the Managing Partner of Prysm Group. With a diverse background spanning emerging technologies, consumer goods, and retail. He plays a pivotal role in Prysm Group, leading the firm's engagements with prestigious academic institutions, enterprises, investment funds, and government entities. Guido's extensive network includes collaborations with renowned organizations such as MIT Sloan, IBM, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, DARPA, and the World Economic Forum. In addition to his role as a Managing Partner, Guido has a rich professional history, having worked as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and served as a visiting lecturer in entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and the London School of Economics. He has also acted as an Imperial College Master in Innovation business coach and is recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Guido holds a BA in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University, a Graduate Diploma in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, a joint MSc in International Management from HEC Paris and the London School of Economics.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012.
Lucy W.
Lucy W. is the Vice President of Marketing at Horizen and previously served as Director of Brand and Marketing at Horizen Labs. She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Geoff Hamilton
Geoff is an Investment Research Partner at Variant, where he focuses primarily on DeFi. Prior to joining Variant, Geoff spent 15 years investing in private and public companies. During that time, helped start and grow five investment firms, including Askesis Capital, Dayah Capital, Sachem Head Capital Management, and Conatus Capital. Before that, Geoff worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company and studied Economics at Harvard.
James Hutchins
James is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. He leads the firm’s research efforts, and is passionate about leveraging data to uncover new trends, inform investment decisions, and support portfolio companies. James has been a full-time crypto investor since 2018, and was previously Head of Research at Coatue Management. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard.
David Bonanno
David Bonanno is chief strategy officer at Bullish and was previously chief financial officer at Far Peak Acquisition Corp. He holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University.
Cully Cavness
Cully Cavness is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Crusoe Energy. He was educated at Harvard Business School Executive Education.