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Jessy is Head of Ecosystem at EigenLayer, Venture Partner at Nascent, and previously worked as an investment analyst at ZhenFund.
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Olivia Wang
Olivia Wang is an investor at Olive Capital and former Head of US for ZhenFund, a leading early stage venture fund in China. In 2016, after spending two years on the deal team in Beijing, Olivia moved to Silicon Valley to start ZhenFund’s US office and oversee its cross-border investments. Previously, Olivia worked at Huobi, a Sequoia China backed bitcoin exchange that is top ten in global liquidity, and currently serves on the company’s board of directors. She started her career on the Asia Equity Sales Desk at Credit Suisse. As an alumna of John Hopkins University, Olivia is an active member of the Hopkins crossborder biotech community. She was named one of Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ for venture capital in 2017.
Wang Bowen
Wang Bowen is the co-founder of Smrti Lab and a very young blockchain entrepreneur. He graduated from New York University with a major in Mathematics and Economics in 2017, and then joined ZhenFund as an Analyst. At the end of 2017, Wang Bowen founded DDEX and Hydro Protocol.
Diane Dai
Diane Dai is the founder and Chief Marketing Officer of DODO.
Teddy Knox
Teddy Knox is a Senior research engineer at EigenLayer and was previously Head of engineering at Duality and a senior software engineer at LinkedIn.
Sreeram Kannan
Sreeram Kannan is an information scientist, entrepreneur, and associate professor at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Eigenlayer and has expertise in information sciences and its applications in blockchains, AI, wireless, and computational biology. Sreeram earned his Ph.D. in information theory of wireless networks and distributed computation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has also completed internships at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Vyas Krishnan
Vyas Krishnan is a Product Manager at EigenLayer with experience in programming, entrepreneurship, and financial services. He previously worked as a Product Owner at Nium and founded a subscription-based catering company. He has also interned at US Foods, where he designed and implemented a prototype infrastructure using TensorFlow, engineered scalable cloud ETL processes, and migrated legacy database solutions to modern cloud architecture. Vyas has a background in business strategy and has conducted exploratory data analysis and developed scoring models as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Samuel Laferriere
Samuel Laferriere is a blockchain developer and researcher currently working as a Senior Software Developer at EigenLayer. He has previously worked as a Liquidation Bot Developer at Advanced Blockchain and as the Head of AI and R&D at Orangead. He has also held research internships at Element AI and the Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, where he worked on Visual Domain Adaptation and Deep Learning, respectively. Samuel holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University and a Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Université de Montréal.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Calvin Liu
Calvin Liu is the Chief Strategy Officer at EigenLayer, where he is building infrastructure to extend Ethereum's trust network to any distributed system. He is also an investor at Divergence Ventures, focusing on pre-seed crypto investments. Previously, he served as Strategy Lead at Compound Labs, where he helped build and deploy the Compound interest rate protocol. Calvin has also worked as a data analytics professional at Gusto and was the co-founder of Outpour, an iOS app that enabled users to write appreciative messages about their friends anonymously. He holds a degree in Economics from Harvard University.
Wu Xiankun
Wu Xiankun is the Co-Founder and President of rct AI and Delysium.