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Jake Greenstein is a Partner and the Head of Infrastructure at Hivemind. Jake focuses on Hivemind’s staking and mining activity, capital deployment into DeFi applications, and leads DeFi and Market Infrastructure venture investments, as well as Hivemind's internal infrastructure needs. Prior to Hivemind, Jake spent the last four years leading Algorand’s strategy team, where he supported the organization’s growth from a dozen to one hundred employees. Jake also played a key role in launching the Algorand protocol and the achievement of its all-time high market cap of over $13B. Before joining Algorand, Jake pioneered a hybrid software development and consulting role at Mastercard where he led teams building analytic and other software products for external clients and the firm’s own use. Jake received his MBA from Stanford University where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar. He also received a BSE in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and was elected to the Phi Betta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.
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Marc Vanlerberghe
Marc Vanlerberghe is the chief marketing officer of Algorand and previously served as senior marketing director at Google. He graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Gary
Gary is the Managing Partner at Momentum Capital. Gary is a Silicon Valley-based investor, a serial entrepreneur, a Stanford-affiliated researcher, and a true believer in Web3. Gary has over six years of experience in blockchain technology and is currently focusing on scaling, DID, and liquidity solutions. Gary finished his Ph.D. and postdoc research at Stanford University before transitioning into the industry.
John Lilly
John Lilly is the Board Member at Figma.He spents the past 30 years working at and investing in technology companies that help people create & connect -- Mozilla, Apple, Instagram, Duolingo, Figma, Dropbox, Tumblr & more. He also spent a lot of time helping non-profit and civic tech organizations like Code for America, VotingWorks and Daffy.org.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Nicholas Zaldastani
Nicholas Zaldastani is the chairman, co-founder and head of marketing of CESS. He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Business School.
Mandy Campbell
Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington is the Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.
Krish Chelikavada
Krish Chelikavada is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0xPass, a Venture Capital Fellow of DECODE, a Course Assistant at Stanford University, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford, a Product Manager at Microsoft, and a Software Engineer at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business.