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Erick Zhang is the Managing Partner at Nomad Capital. He formerly worked at Binance Research, providing professional, data-driven analysis for investors in the crypto space, with the mission of increasing transparency and improving the quality of information in the crypto ecosystem. Prior to Binance, he had several years of experience in banking, investment, and big data analytics. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Macau and his MSc degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
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.
Frank Ma
Frank Ma, co-founder and CEO of Ultiverse, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013 and worked at large tech companies in the Bay Area from 2013 to 2015.
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is currently the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
Peter Pong
Peter Pong is Head of engineering at Nest Wallet and was previously co-founder and CTO at Lumina. He graduated from Stanford University.
Rain Long
Rain Long is HashKey Group CHO, formerly the head of human resources at Binance, and also served as CHO at JD.com. Rain Long graduated from China Europe Business School EMBA and Stanford University Mini MBA.
Elaine Shi
Elaine Shi is the co-founder and chief scientist of ThunderCore. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and later obtained a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, serving as an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University.
Chase Guo
Chase Guo is the Co-Founder of Sleek. Previously, he was the Investment Director at Binance Labs.
Wenyi Zhu
Wenyi Zhu is the founder of Kuddo and was previously head of business development at CyberConnect.