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Chuck Thompson is the Chief Legal Officer of Brassica, and previously served as Co-Founder and Chief Compliance Officer of Custodia, Chief Compliance Officer of LedgerX, and Vice President of Morgan Stanley. He holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
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Zev Shimko
Zev Shimko, co-founder, chief operating officer at Avanti Financial Group. Mr. Shimko will be joining Avanti full-time in April. He is currently a director at Figure, focusing on its enterprise blockchain efforts, and before that he headed corporate development at SALT, a crypto-backed lender. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in global capital markets, where he was promoted as part of its STAR program and where he and Ms. Long worked together. Mr. Shimko holds a B.S. from Northeastern University.
Caitlin Long
Caitlin Long is the Founder and CEO of Custodia, Co-founder of the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, and responsible for the recent groundbreaking crypto-friendly legislation in Wyoming. She is a Harvard Law School graduate and a 22-year Wall Street veteran, and is often asked to provide expert commentary on the SEC. Institutional Investor named her one of the most influential people in pensions from 2013 to 2015.
SJ Oh
Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.
Ronson Chau
Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
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.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fortress Trust Company. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Natalie Funai
Natalie Funai is head of strategic operations at CoinList, having previously worked at BlackRock and Morgan Stanley. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University.