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Gal Stern is the Community & Marketing Leadt at deBridge and previously served as Head of Community and marketing at xBacked DAO and Business Development Manager at GDA Capital. He is a graduate of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and the College of Charleston.
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Tharusha Jayasena
Tharusha Jayasena is the chief scientific officer of AxonDAO and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Sasha MacKinnon
Sasha MacKinnon is the founder of Mino Games. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, founded Bit Battalion, and worked as a Technical Assistant to the CEO at Zynga.
Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Avocado Guild
Avocado Guild is a co-founder and was previously a co-founder of SnowPak. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
William Wu
William Wu is the Co-CEO of Catheon Gaming. Previously, he was an investment professional at Oaktree Capital Management in Hong Kong, focusing on special situations and distressed private equity opportunities, as well as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Conor McNamee
Conor McNamee is Head of product at Vertex Protocol and previously served as business development and Operations manager at Eterna Capital. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the City University of Hong Kong.
Todd Ma
0xTodd is a partner at Nothing Research, co-founder of Ebunker, and former Huobi Principal researcher. He graduated from Nankai University and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Stephan Livera
Stephan Livera is Head of education at Swan Bitcoin. He is an Australian and New Zealand Chartered Accountant and graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Ryan Silva
Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.