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Gao Han is the co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance. He was previously a software engineer at Google and Amazon. Gao Han attended the University at Buffalo from 2011 to 2013, where they studied Computer Science. Gao then transferred to Cornell University, where they completed a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science in 2015.
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Lian Zhu
Lian Zhu is the Co-founder and CEO of Aperture Finance, a DeFi platform for structured products. Prior to starting Aperture, he had served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Technical Program Manager at Netflix for 3 years respectively. Lian founded Internest Inc., a Natural Language Processing (NPL) focused startup that empowers multi-media marketing, localization, and publishing. He obtained his Executive MBA degree from UC Berkeley in 2022. An American Association of Chinese Writers member, he has published over 30 books, including the Chinese translation of Revival by Stephen King and the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series.
Peiqian Li
Peiqian Li is co-founder and co-chief technology officer of Aperture Finance and was previously a senior software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Ronny Conway
Ronny Conway is the Founder & General Partner at A.Capital. Prior to starting A.Capital, Ronny was one of the first Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was the head of seed and early-stage investing and was involved in such high profile investments as Airbnb, Instagram, Optimizely, Pinterest, Dollar Shave Club and Twitter. Before a16z, Ronny spent six years at Google, and was one of the first employees at Google Ventures. Ronny has spent most of his life around venture capital, and received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
Arran Schlosberg
Arran Schlosberg was the VP of Engineering at Proof Holdings. Presively, he worked at HealthMatch and Google. Arran Schlosberg graduated from University of Sydney and University of Cambridge.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a talent partner at Dragonfly, and previously she was head of technical recruiting at OKX. She graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Robert Bogucki
Robert Bogucki is a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard Digital and previously was a managing director at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Alex Marinier
Alex Marinier is Founder & General Partner at New Form. Previously, Alex was an investor at Sand Hill firm DCM Ventures, where he led the firm's expansion into blockchain investing. Prior to that, Alex worked in private equity at Blackstone in New York underwriting secondary transactions. He's a seed investor in Compound Finance, Blockfolio, and Chia among others. A native New Yorker, Alex holds a BSc from Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business.
Mike Belshe
Mike Belshe is the co-founder and CEO of BitGo. He previously created the world's first multi-signature web wallet for Bitcoin, and was one of the top 10 engineers on the Google Chrome team.