Gary Liu
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Gary Liu is the Co-founder & CEO of Terminal 3, a company building the trusted user data layer to 'empower an equitable web3 future'. He is also the Founder & Director of Artifact Labs which is on a mission to 'preserve and connect history' through the development of historical NFTs.In his previous role as CEO of the South China Morning Post, Gary oversaw an extensive transformation of the century-old publishing group, expanding its global audience reach and influence, establishing new revenue channels, and cementing SCMP as Asia’s leading news media company. Previously as CEO of Digg, Gary spearheaded the New York startup’s reinvention as a data-powered news platform. He was also Head of Labs at Spotify, after joining the company as Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. Gary has also worked at AOL and Google.Born in the United States, Gary grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, before returning to America where he lived and worked for 20 years. He now lives in Hong Kong with his wife and son. Gary is an Economics graduate from Harvard University.
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Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012.
Geoff Hamilton
Geoff is an Investment Research Partner at Variant, where he focuses primarily on DeFi. Prior to joining Variant, Geoff spent 15 years investing in private and public companies. During that time, helped start and grow five investment firms, including Askesis Capital, Dayah Capital, Sachem Head Capital Management, and Conatus Capital. Before that, Geoff worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company and studied Economics at Harvard.
James Hutchins
James is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. He leads the firm’s research efforts, and is passionate about leveraging data to uncover new trends, inform investment decisions, and support portfolio companies. James has been a full-time crypto investor since 2018, and was previously Head of Research at Coatue Management. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard.
David Bonanno
David Bonanno is chief strategy officer at Bullish and was previously chief financial officer at Far Peak Acquisition Corp. He holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University.
Cully Cavness
Cully Cavness is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Crusoe Energy. He was educated at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
Li Jin
Li Jin is the co-founder of Variant Fund and the founder of Atelier Ventures. Prior to that, Li Jin was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Glenn Hutchins
Glenn is co-founder and Chairman at NIV. Previously, he co-founded the private equity firm Silver Lake. He is currently a director of AT&T, Co-Chair of the Brookings Institution, Chair of CARE, and Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. He was a Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. Glenn founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution. He holds an AB from Harvard College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Will Roller
Will Roller is Head of Growth at Hyperline and was previously Head of Product at Multiplyr and a member of the founding team at Affine DeFi. He graduated from Harvard University.
Jeff Yan
Jeff Yan is a co-founder of Hyperliquid. Jeff began his career in high frequency trading at Hudson River Trading but soon moved over to the world of crypto where he built one of the largest market making firms in the space.
Virginia Tiernan
Virginia Tiernan is Chief of Staff at New Form. Previously, Virginia worked in the Government Relations division at Blackstone with a focus on real estate. Prior to that, Virginia was in the Global Government Affairs division at Carlyle and covered real estate, aerospace and defense, and infrastructure assets. She graduated from Harvard with a BA in Government and received honors for her thesis on political threats to the dollar as the world reserve currency.