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Joeri van Geelen is the Founding Partner at NxGen, and Founding & Venture Partner at Longterm Ventures.Mentor Blockchain at Outlier Ventures. Business Advisor (former Managing Partner) APAC at Prysm Group. Joeri van Geelen graduated from Harvard Business School.
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Stephanie Hurder
Dr. Stephanie Hurder is an entrepreneur and Harvard-trained economist who operates at the forefront of emerging technologies, education, and economics. As a co-founder and Partner of Prysm Group, Dr. Hurder's expertise and leadership extend to Prysm Group's advisory, research, and educational development divisions. Additionally, Dr. Hurder's contributions to academia include co-developing and teaching the first course on economic design for distributed ledger technology at the University of Southern California's CCI. She serves as an advisor to the World Economic Forum and contributes as an Opinion Columnist for CoinDesk.
Cathy Barrera
Dr. Cathy Barrera is a Partner and Founding Economist at Prysm Group. With an impressive track record, Dr. Barrera has led economic advisory projects for Fortune 500 companies and prominent startups backed by renowned funds such as Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Sequoia, Union Square Ventures, and Y Combinator. She serves as an industry expert for executive education programs at MIT Sloan and Columbia Business School, and provides academic guidance to blockchain projects at the World Economic Forum. Previously, Dr. Barrera held tenure-track faculty positions at Cornell University's S.C. Johnson School of Management and served as the Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is the Co-founder and President of Gemini, a next-generation Bitcoin exchange. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Oxford University. In 2008, he represented the United States at the Olympics Games in Beijing, China, where he placed 6th. Since 2003, Cameron has been an angel investor and entrepreneur in emerging technologies. He began participating in the Bitcoin economy through direct investment in 2012.
Geoff Hamilton
Geoff is an Investment Research Partner at Variant, where he focuses primarily on DeFi. Prior to joining Variant, Geoff spent 15 years investing in private and public companies. During that time, helped start and grow five investment firms, including Askesis Capital, Dayah Capital, Sachem Head Capital Management, and Conatus Capital. Before that, Geoff worked at Bain Capital and Bain & Company and studied Economics at Harvard.
James Hutchins
James is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at NIV. He leads the firm’s research efforts, and is passionate about leveraging data to uncover new trends, inform investment decisions, and support portfolio companies. James has been a full-time crypto investor since 2018, and was previously Head of Research at Coatue Management. He holds an AB in Economics from Harvard.
David Bonanno
David Bonanno is chief strategy officer at Bullish and was previously chief financial officer at Far Peak Acquisition Corp. He holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University.
Cully Cavness
Cully Cavness is the Co-Founder, President, and COO of Crusoe Energy. He was educated at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
Li Jin
Li Jin is the co-founder of Variant Fund and the founder of Atelier Ventures. Prior to that, Li Jin was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Glenn Hutchins
Glenn is co-founder and Chairman at NIV. Previously, he co-founded the private equity firm Silver Lake. He is currently a director of AT&T, Co-Chair of the Brookings Institution, Chair of CARE, and Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. He was a Director and Chair of Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. Glenn founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution. He holds an AB from Harvard College, a JD from Harvard Law School, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Will Roller
Will Roller is Head of Growth at Hyperline and was previously Head of Product at Multiplyr and a member of the founding team at Affine DeFi. He graduated from Harvard University.