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Jason Ma is Director of DeFi at the Axelar Foundation, and previously he was Head of GTM Strategy and Operations at Ripple. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Esade Business School in Spain.
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Chris Larsen
Chris Larsen is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple, an enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. He is presently an advisor at Distilled Analytics, a data science firm. Prior to founding Ripple, Larsen was the CEO of Prosper, a P2P lending service, and was also the CEO of E-LOAN, an online lending service.
Matt Hamilton
Matt Hamilton is the lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, having previously held positions at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
Danny Aranda
Danny Aranda is the co-founder of PartyDAO and previously the Managing Director of Ripple Europe. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Sanders
Michael Sanders is the Chief Storyteller and Co-Founder of Horizon Blockchain Games. He is an investor and advisor in various industries, including blockchain, clean energy, education, real estate, precious stones, music, and dance. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment. Michael is passionate about storytelling, exploration, athletics, and movement. He practices sound nutrition, regular introspection, daily meditation, and play. He strives to embody unconditional love and to treat each and every thing and person as a sovereign being that is free to make its own choices.
Gus Gutoski
Gus Gutoski is a cryptography engineer at Espresso Systems and is passionate about cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, and anything blockchain. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
Jonathan Mui
Jonathan Mui is the co-founder and CEO of Moongate. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Canada.
Austin Abell
Austin Abell is formerly Software developer at NEAR Protocol and Technical Lead at ChainSafe Systems. Ugraded go-ethereum classic Atlantis and Aghara hard forks; Developed Ethermint, EVM on Tendermint, with support for existing Ethereum dev tooling; Led a team to build Forest, a Rust Filecoin node implementation.
Joshua Field
Joshua Field is the co-founder and managing partner of Contango Digital Assets and previously worked at Monex Group. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Ethan Jackson
Ethan Jackson is the Co-Founder and Machine Learning Scientist at ChainML. Previously, he was a Machine Learning Scientist at Vector Institute, where he served as the AI technical lead for projects in privacy-enhancing techniques, time series forecasting, and large-scale mobility data modeling. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, focusing on applied machine learning for economic forecasting, and a Data Scientist at Preteckt, building ML models for predictive maintenance in transportation. Ethan holds a PhD in Machine Learning from Western University, with a focus on reinforcement learning.