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Craig Sellars is the Co-Founder of Tether, the world's most widely traded cryptocurrency, and is now acting as an informal advisor since his departure in 2016. He also co-founded vAtomic Systems with Eric Pulier in 2015 and is the Chief Technologist of Bitcoin's Omni Layer.
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Paolo Ardoino
Paolo Ardoino is CTO at Bitfinex and Tether, a computer scientist, a geek, an innovator, and a creative.
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with an extensive track record of founding, advising, and investing in disruptive businesses. He is credited with pioneering the market for digital currency and has raised more than $5 billion for companies he has founded. Pierce is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and co-founder of EOS Alliance, Block.one, Blockchain Capital, Tether, and Mastercoin (first ICO). Block.one was created in 2017 and has sold over $4 billion tokens in the EOS crowdsale, making it the largest ever. Blockchain Capital was founded in 2013 and is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain technology companies. Pierce led the firm through the first ICO of a venture fund, which created the first security token. Blockchain Capital has made more than 100 investments in the sector across its four funds and was named the most active FinTech Venture Fund by Pitchbook. Tether is the first stable coin and asset-backed token. Pierce is an early investor in Bitcoin and one of the largest investors in the Ethereum crowdsale. He is the founder of IMI Exchange, the world’s leading digital currency marketplace for games, with annual sales exceeding $1 billion and investors such as Goldman Sachs, which was sold in 2016 for more than $100 million. Pierce founded ZAM, one of the world’s largest media properties for gamers, which was acquired by Tencent in 2012. He founded IGE, the pioneer of digital currency in online games, achieving revenues exceeding $100 million in 2006 and sold in 2007. Pierce is also a co-founder of D10e, GoCoin, Blade Payments, Five Delta (sold NASDAQ: SRAX), Xfire 2.0, Playsino, Evertune, GamesTV, and DEN. He also advises Airswap, Bancor, BitGo, BitGuild, BlockV, Bloq, DNA, Element Group, Metronome, Shyft, and tZERO.
Claudia L.
Claudia L. is the COO of Bitfinex and Tether.
Jean-Louis van der Velde
Jean-Louis van der Velde co-founded Bitfinex in 2013 and serves as its CEO. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Tether (USDT).
Giancarlo Devasini
Giancarlo Devasini is the Chief Financial Officer of Bitfinex and Tether.
Ashwin Khosa
Ashwin Khosa is Vice president of Business development at Ondo Finance and previously worked at Bitfinex and Citi. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
William E. Quigley
William E. Quigley is the Co-Founder of WAX and Tether.