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Hans is the CTO of Plasma and was previously the CEO of Topl. He graduated from UC Irvine and holds a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a managing partner at Unsupervised Capital and was previously a senior research analyst at Messari. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Jatin Mehta
Jatin Mehta is the Founder of BlockDog. He is currently building the trust infrastructure for web3 lending. Jatin is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and holds a degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering. He also earned his master's in Computer Networking at the University of California, Irvine.
Fariz Chowdhury
Fariz Chowdhury was previously the co-founder and technical director of Proof of Play. He graduated from Arizona State University in the United States.
Caroline Friedman
Caroline is the Head of Operations at Bastion and former Chief of Staff on the a16z crypto team. Prior to joining a16z crypto, she was at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where she held a Chief of Staff role and a Regulatory Strategy Counsel role. Before that, Caroline worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. She has prosecuted cases related to cyber-crime, international terrorism, and the illegal export of sensitive U.S. technology. Caroline has also worked as an associate at Jones Day, and has experience at INTERPOL and the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Kevin Oakeson
Kevin Oakeson is the co-founder and chief Business Development officer at Arcade. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Viviana Fang
Viviana Fang is CEO of Avz Fund and CEO of Biov Biotech. She is a graduate of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Arizona State University and Hainan University.
Jacob Wittman
Jacob Wittman is the general counsel of Plasma and previously worked at Pixel Vault. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University.
Ryan Rodenbaugh
Ryan Rodenbaugh is CEO/Co-Founder at Wallfacer Labs and formerly Head Of Business Development at TrustToken. Versatile business generalist that loves throwing myself deeply into problems. Experienced in business development/partnerships, operations, and product strategy. He lives in San Francisco and work on the business development team at TrustToken. He is an alum of Arizona State University. He enjoys learning about a number of topics, including blockchain and decentralized applications, artificial intelligence and the future of industry, behavioral psychology, and how to be more rational.
Chris Battenfield
Chris Battenfield is a member of Obol Labs Inc. Prior to that, he was Head of front-end Engineering at Keep Network and Head of Product at ConsenSys. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Karen Shen
Karen Shen currently works on ecosystems at Plasma and was previously an investor in Collab+Currency and a research analyst at Messari. She is a graduate of Queensland University of Technology.
