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Dan Patterson is the General Partner of Sfermion and oversees the firm’s venture investment practice. In this capacity, he manages an investment team responsible for sourcing, diligencing, executing, and driving value to over 50 portfolio projects spanning the NFT and Web3 landscape. Prior to this role, Dan co-founded Polynexus Capital, a multi-strategy digital asset fund. Early in his career, Patterson was part of the investing team at a Hong Kong-based private equity firm, where he focused on growth equity investments, in the transportation and logistics sector. Dan graduated from Duke University with a B.S.E. in mechanical engineering, a minor in Finance, and has been a digital asset investor since 2014.
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Fabio Berger
Fabio Berger is the Co-founder and CEO of BlowfishXYZ. He has a Duke Computer Science degree, is a Full Stack Engineer, and co-founded WealthLift.com and ShelfRelief.
Olly Wilson
Olly Wilson is the Co-Founder & CEO at SimpleHash. He presively worked at McKinsey & Company. Olly Wilson graduated from Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Nicholas Zaldastani
Nicholas Zaldastani is the chairman, co-founder and head of marketing of CESS. He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Jon Charbonneau
Jon Charbonneau is the co-founder and general partner of DBA. He also co-hosts the Uncommon Core 2.0 podcast. Previously he was Head of L1, L2 and MEV Research at Delphi Digital. Prior to entering the cryptocurrency industry, he worked as a structured credit banker at Deutsche Bank in New York.Jon holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University.
Matthew Walsh
Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector. Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Melissa Zhang
Melissa Zhang is the Co-founder of Bonfire. She is also a Software Engineer at Coinbase and the Founder of Duke Blockchain Lab.
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.
Daniel A. Casanas
Daniel A. Casanas is Director of investments at the Stellar Development Foundation. He is a graduate of Duke University in the United States and the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.
Aditya Palepu
Aditya Palepu is Co-Founder & CEO at DerivaDEX. Duke Eng '13 (ECE/CS). Blockchain, ML/AI enthusiast. D.C. sports fanatic and burrito lover. Formerly, Software Engineer at Enigma MPC, Algorithmic trader/researcher at DRW Trading Group. Studied at Duke University (B.S.E. Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science).
Aakash Thumaty
Aakash Thumaty is the chief Product Officer of Wormhole, having previously held positions at Jump Crypto, Stripe and Salesforce Ventures. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.