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Jack Carlisle was the Director of Credit at BlockTower Capital's Credit Fund, where he co-leads the firm's investment activities. Jack is focused on specialty finance solutions for non-traditional lenders and loan purchase agreements. Previously, Jack worked at Hildene Capital Management, where he was a Senior Investment Analyst. At Hildene, Jack covered primary and secondary trading for the firm's positions in asset-backed securities, legacy collateralized debt obligations, and mortgage-backed securities.
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Avi Felman
Avi Felman is a former general partner at GoldenChain and head of digital asset trading at Goldentree, and previously worked at BlockTower Capital, Wave Financial, and was co-founder of Ledger Capital.
Kevin Chan
Kevin Chan is the founder of Ampere Labs. He was previously the vice president of BlockTower Capital and the founder of Wristband. He also worked for Deloitte. Kevin Chan graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Corey Miller
Corey Miller is a co-founder of Ego and was previously Head of Product & Growth at dYdX, Partner at Genesis Block Capital, and an investor at BlockTower Capital. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ari Paul
Ari Paul is the CIO of cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital. Prior to his time in the crypto space, Paul was a portfolio manager for the University of Chicago's endowment, as well as a derivatives trader. He is interviewed about his views on crypto regularly by publications like BusinessInsider and Forbes.
Diana Zhang
Diana Zhang is currently the COO at Grayscale.Previously he worked at BlockTower Capital.
Steve Lee
Investor at BlockTower Capital; Formerly Portfolio Manager, Trader at Goldman Sachs; Engineering at University of Illinois; Japan, Korea, US, Singapore; Trilingual. Having been raised, educated, and working in the U.S., Japan, Korea, and Singapore and grown trilingual, Steve has worked as a investment director and Head of Asia in BlockTower Capital to contribute to the firm's global investment in cryptoasset and blockchain industry and lead its Asia business. Before BlockTower Capital, Steve worked as front, middle, back office roles in Tokyo and Singapore with Goldman Sachs. Before his career in financial industry, Steve worked as a research engineer in the U.S. working with U.S. government and world's leading semiconductor companies after he majored in Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Blake Richardson
Blake Richardson is a co-founder of Superform and was previously Head of DeFi at BlockTower Capital. He graduated from George Washington University with a degree in economics.
Thomas Klocanas
Thomas Klocanas is the General Partner & Head of Venture at BlockTower Capital. Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.
Elizabeth Ralston
Elizabeth Ralston is general counsel at Polymer and was previously general counsel at Turnkey and has also worked at Coinbase, Bison Trails, and BlockTower Capital. He graduated from the University of Arizona.
Vikram Arun
Vikram Arun is a co-founder of Superform and was previously an investor at BlockTower Capital and co-founder of Ledger Group. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis.
