Chris Hofmann

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Chris spent the past 7 years at Brown University’s Investment Office investing across public and private asset classes. He first became interested in crypto in 2017 and specializes in the Cosmos ecosystem. When not working, Chris can be found playing squash or slowly acquiring NFTs.

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Dan Tapiero

Dan Tapiero is the CEO and Managing Partner of 10T, a global investment management firm. Prior to founding 10T, Dan was the managing partner of DTAP Capital Advisors, a global macro investment fund that he founded in 2003. He is also the co-founder of Gold Bullion International (GBI), a physical precious metals platform for the wealth management industry that expanded into the cryptocurrency universe in 2014. Additionally, he co-founded the Agricultural Company of America (AGCoA), which was one of the largest farmland REITs in the U.S. at the time of its sale in 2013. Dan has a wealth of experience as a macro-focused portfolio manager and analyst, having worked at Tiger Management, Duquesne Capital Management, Steinhardt Management Co., and SAC Capital Advisors from 1992-2012. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University, where he earned his B.A.'90 and M.A.'91 in European History. Dan has also served on the Board of Trustees of the Lawrenceville School for the past 12 years and currently leads the Investment Committee for its endowment.

Alex Evans

Prior to joining Bain Capital Crypto, Alex was a researcher at Placeholder, where he focused on early-stage investing in DeFi, blockchain scalability, and privacy technologies. Drawn to problems that bridge theoretical ideas to practical implementation, he has published research on financial protocols, privacy, and consensus.

Guillermo Angeris

Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.

TuongVy Le

TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.

Mandy Campbell

Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.

Theo Diamandis

Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.

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.

Ann Jaskiw

Ann Jaskiw is the Founder and CEO of Tactic. Previously, she worked as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Ann Jaskiw graduated from Brown University.

Kevin Zhang

Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.

Wei Dai

Wei Dai focuses on zero-knowledge cryptography and protocol design. Prior to his work as a research partner at 1kx, W. Dai worked as a research partner at Bain Capital Crypto. He also held research positions at NTT Research, the University of Washington, and Visa Research, where he contributed to cutting-edge research in the field of blockchain technology. W. Dai obtained his Ph.D. from UC San Diego and holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, as well as a Masters's from UCSB.