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Ivan Brightly is Angel Investor, Bitcoin Trader. Formerly Chief Information Security Officer at Galaxy Digital. He has been a miner, investor, advisor, and founder in the cryptographic digital assets space since 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Ivan co-founded SolidX Partners in 2014, which offered synthetic institutional access to bitcoin through a total return swap and pursued an SEC-registered physically backed bitcoin ETF. Prior to SolidX, he was at the foreign currency trading firm FXCM, where he served as Chief Information Officer. As CIO for FXCM, he was responsible for the global technology needs of the firm. He also is a Certified Bitcoin Professional as deemed by C4 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Specialties: Crypto Assets, Bitcoin, Monero, Virtualization, Security, storage, ITIL, FX Trading, Trading Systems
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Amanda Fabiano
Amanda Fabiano is the Founder of Fabiano Consulting and was previously the Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital and the Director of Bitcoin Mining at Fidelity Investments.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and formerly a research analyst at CoindDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a co-founder and general Partner of DBA and previously was co-head of Investments at Galaxy Digital. Michael previously led Galaxy's efforts on Fireblocks (Series A, B, and C), Tagomi (now Coinbase Instituteal), and Bison Trails (now Coinbase) Cloud), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and other foundational winners.
Tim Grant
Tim Grant is the former Head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Galaxy Digital. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SIX Digital Exchange. Before heading SDX, Tim served as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DrumG Technologies. He holds a MA in Materials Science and Metallurgy from Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, as well as a MSc in Financial Engineering from Birkbeck College at the University of London.
Sam Englebardt
Sam Englebardt is Partner at Galaxy and the Founding General Partner of Galaxy Interactive. Sam is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired and/or financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses and dozens of films and television shows over the past decade. Prior to Galaxy, he was a Partner and Managing Director at Lambert Media Group (LMG) from 2007 - 2016, where he sourced and managed a portfolio of media-sector private equity investments. Before LMG, he was a Vice President and Financial Advisor at Alliance Bernstein. Sam has been a prolific content producer throughout his career and spent three years running LMG portfolio company, Demarest Films. A licensed attorney in California, Englebardt earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Luka Jankovic
Luka Jankovic is HHead of Product at Galaxy Digital LP. Ex-GoldmanSachs, a NYC-based multi-strategy cryptocurrency and blockchain investment firm with Mike Novogratz. Prior to joining Galaxy, Luka worked at Goldman Sachs in the Hedge Fund Strategies group between 2016 and 2017. He spent the summers of 2014 and 2015 at Goldman Sachs working in private equity and hedge fund groups. Luka graduated Summa Cum Laude in three years from Cornell University in 2015 where he majored in Applied Economics & Management in the Charles H. Dyson School with a triple concentration. In 2016, he completed his Master's degree at Cornell University focusing on behavioral finance.
Richard Kim
Richard Kim is General Partner at Galaxy Interactive. Richard’s experience spans investing, trading, law, finance, management and strategy. He joined Galaxy as COO in May 2018, before joining Galaxy Interactive in Dec 2018. Prior to Galaxy, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18. From 2012-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, and prior to that was the COO of J.P. Morgan’s electronic trading franchise for FX/EM. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a derivatives and regulation attorney at J.P. Morgan. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group. Richard also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.
Jon Kol
Jon Kol is the co-founder of Hyperlane. Previously, he was a Vice President at Galaxy Digital, an investor at Passport Capital, and a fixed income analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim is the Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.
David Schwed
David Schwed is the Chief Operating Officer of Halborn and has previously served as the Global Head of Digital Asset Technology at Bank of New York Mellon.