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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.
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Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Caroline Friedman
Caroline is the Head of Operations at Bastion and former Chief of Staff on the a16z crypto team. Prior to joining a16z crypto, she was at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where she held a Chief of Staff role and a Regulatory Strategy Counsel role. Before that, Caroline worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. She has prosecuted cases related to cyber-crime, international terrorism, and the illegal export of sensitive U.S. technology. Caroline has also worked as an associate at Jones Day, and has experience at INTERPOL and the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is Head of Staked at Kraken and was previously co-founder and CEO of Staked. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdBuyer.com, which was acquired by Mediaocean in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
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.
Matthew Howells
Matthew Howells is VP of Growth at Kraken and formerly served as Chief Marketing Officer at Decentral Games.
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.