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Dan McArdle is Co-founder of Messari. He has co-founded multiple companies, such as the Digital Currency Council and Volara Voice. With his background in computer science and economics, he has been investing in Bitcoin and the cryptoasset space since 2011. Dan holds a degree in computer science and economics from Brown University.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a partner at OSS Capital and was previously a Senior Research Analyst at Messari. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Ken Yip
Ken Yip is Director of product at Messari. He graduated from Cardiff University in England.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
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.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is an Investment Partner at Variant. Prior to joining Variant, Mason was a Sr. Research Analyst at Messari focused on Web3 protocols and cryptoassets. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Chris Hofmann
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.
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.
Eren Derman
Eren Derman is the founder and CEO of DKODA Labs, developers of the Wasabi Protocol. He graduated from the Brown University School of Engineering.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Phil Davis
Phil Davis is the CFO at ConsenSys, oversee ConsenSys’ finance and accounting functions, including expanding the company’s pioneering treasury strategy. Davis joins ConsenSys from Afiniti, where he was the company’s CFO. He brings a variety of other experiences from earlier in his career, including investment banking at Goldman Sachs, strategy and corporate finance consulting at McKinsey, and advanced data science and algorithm design experience at the MIT Media Lab and MIT Lincoln Lab.