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Jai Prasad is the Co-founder at Definitive. Presively he Building TokenAnalyst, Crypto Product Lead at Coinbase, Product & Engineering at SeedInvest, College at UVA. Building the intelligence layer for the decentralized world. Former Co-Founder of EntryWire, Management Consultant at Accenture.
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John Zettler
John Zettler is the Staking Product Lead at Coinbase. He was a cofounder of $cbETH and has led a number of products at Coinbase through the years including Commerce (crypto payments) and Asset Hub. Before Coinbase, John founded one of the first art NFT marketplaces (RARE Art) and the first combined crypto/stock trading platform for US investors. In a past life, John worked on Wall Street.
John Mardlin
John Mardlin, Jon Maurelian is Security engineer at Optimism PBC, and a founding member of ConsenSys Diligence. He is a regular writer and speaker on smart contract security. Prior to joining ConsenSys, John worked at Coinbase.
Amanda Jacobsen
Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.
Nick van Eck
Nick van Eck is co-founder and CEO of Agora and was previously a partner at General Catalyst. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
Khurram Dara
Before joining Bain Capital Crypto, Khurram worked on the public policy team at Coinbase. A capital markets lawyer by training, Khurram has helped crypto projects navigate the legal and regulatory landscape since 2017, with a focus on tokens, DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs. He was previously general counsel at Fluidity, the team behind AirSwap and prior to that practiced law at Orrick, where he worked with crypto projects as outside counsel. He began his legal career at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Outside of work, Khurram enjoys playing soccer with friends and watching his beloved Buffalo Bills.
Rick Schonberg
Rick Schonberg is head of custody at Coinbase and was previously Senior managing Director at State Street and head of global product Development at LCH. He holds a Bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University.
Boris Ilyevsky
Boris Ilyevsky is Head of Derivatives at Coinbase and previously was Chief Product Officer at FairX and Head of Market Development at IEX. He graduated from New York University.
Manan Patel
Manan Patel is a co-founder of Neynar. He was previously a payment risk manager at Coinbase and a senior development engineer at Uber.
Julian Koh
Julian Koh is the founder of Aevo and previously worked in software development at Coinbase/NumerAI. He studied computer science at Cornell University, but dropped out after two years.
Katherine Dowling
Katherine Dowling is the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Bitwise Asset Management. She previously held General Counsel, CCO, and COO roles at various financial and private equity firms, and co-founded, was a GP, Managing Director and COO of Luminate Capital Partners, a software private equity firm in San Francisco. A Harvard Law graduate, Katherine spent over a decade as a federal prosecutor, most recently in the Economic Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, where she worked with the FBI, SEC, IRS and other agencies to prosecute cases of insider trading, fraud, and money laundering, among others. She also serves on the boards of two non-profit organizations.