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Chris is formerly Head of Talent at Shima Capital, formerly the Head of Talent at Atomic VC where he helped scale teams from seed to Series C and implemented talent programs for early teams. He was also the first Sourcer at Uber, having personally hired 300 candidates and leading a team of 20. He has also recruited for Google and Pinterest.
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Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Driss Benamour
Driss Benamour is the Co-Founder & CEO of Exponential DeFi. Previously, he worked as Head of FinTech Products at Uber. He holds an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Mehdi Lebbar
Mehdi Lebbar is the Co-founder and President of Exponential. Previously, he worked as an Operations Manager at Uber. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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.
Jess Lo
Jess Lo is the Chief Marketing Officer at Hooked Protocol. Presively, She worked as Marketing Strategist at Google and Uber.Jess L. graduated from Duke University.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon is the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. Presively she worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon graduated from Columbia Law School.
Justin Jow
Justin Jow is the VP Finance at OpenSea.He is ex Uber, Google. He graduated from Harvard University and MIT-Sloan School.
Yida Gao
Yida Gao is a General Partner at Shima Capital. Also serves as a member of the Open Campus (EDU) committee,Previously, he was a General Partner at Divergence Digital Currency and Struck Capital. He was also a technology investor at NEA, one of the world's largest VC funds with over $20 billion in AUM. Before that, Yida was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York City, where he helped execute deals worth a total of $15 billion. Yida graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, and was a varsity pole vaulter. He attended Stanford GSB for a brief period before dropping out to join Struck Capital.
Dor Levi
Dor Levi is the founder of smlXL and was previously Head of Transit, Bikes and Scooter at Lyft.
Dan Held
Dan Held is a General Partner at Asymmetric and was previously Head of Business Development at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised with the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.