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Ian Lee is the Co-Founder at Syndicate and formerly Managing Director of IDEO CoLab Ventures and General Partner at Digital Asset Investment Company. He focuses on blockchain technology, distributed ledgers, digital currencies, and Bitcoin. Previously, he was the head of Citi's Global Lab Network and led Citi's Blockchain Accelerator. He worked with Citi's innovation labs, venture investing team, business unit executives, and strategic partners to pursue important growth opportunities for Citi that required deep relationships, coordinated investment, and open collaboration. Ian also helped lead Citi's investments and activities in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. Ian brings more than ten years of experience in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship to Citi Ventures. Before joining Citi Ventures in 2014, he helped build the global innovation organization at Deloitte, a $34B professional services firm. He co-founded two startups, including a communications app and social enterprise, and spent more than six years as a management consultant at Monitor-Deloitte. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and double bachelor degrees in Design Media Arts and Economics from UCLA.
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Alvin Hsia
Alvin Hsia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Shadow. Presively he was Entrepreneur In Residence at Paradigm. Ex-Product at Goldfinch. Before that Alvin Hsia worked at Airbnb. He graduated from UCLA.
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.
Clo G.
Clo G. is the co-founder of CARV and previously served as managing director at Contentos. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Scott Keto
Scott Keto is Chief Operating Officer at CoinList. Formerly Finance Research Practicum with Citi Ventures, Internship at Accomplice VC.
Joe Gerber
Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.
Andrew Elkins
Andrew Elkins is the Co-founder at Legends of Venari. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles.
Charles Moran
Charles Moran is the COO of North Island Ventures. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Vanishree Rao
Vanishree Rao is former Head of cryptography at IOHK and former Chief cryptographer at O(1) Labs. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Conner Symmetry
Conner Symmetry is the co-founder and CTO of Station, and previously he was a protocol architect at Syndicate. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Eric Wang
Eric Wang is the Head of BD at Analog, where he oversees its go-to-market, partnerships, and strategy. Prior to Analog, he was the Head of Strategic Growth at Parity Technologies, in charge of growing Polkadot’s ecosystem from 2019-2022, and was a General Partner at ROK Capital. Eric is a Chemistry PhD dropout from Stanford and holds a MS from Stanford and BS from UCLA.