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Jonathan is a general partner of BlueRun Ventures. Over his 20 years at the firm he has led investments in Coupa Software (NASD: COUP), Kabbage (American Express), Enpocket (Nokia), as well as Jackpocket, Paystand, FreeAgent, and numerous other early stage companies. Jonathan also has 15 years of marketing and finance experience in the telecommunications industry. Jonathan was the Vice President of Marketing for Qwest Communications, and held other senior level positions at Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions and MCI Communications. In addition, Jonathan founded and successfully exited Simply Savings, Inc., an early internet shopping service. He received his M.B.A. from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia, and holds a B.S. in Finance from Virginia Tech.
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Ori Shimony
Ori Shimony is a developer at dOrg and a venture partner at Portal Ventures. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
Jai Prasad
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.
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.
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.
Ryan Rodenbaugh
Ryan Rodenbaugh is CEO/Co-Founder at Wallfacer Labs and formerly Head Of Business Development at TrustToken. Versatile business generalist that loves throwing myself deeply into problems. Experienced in business development/partnerships, operations, and product strategy. He lives in San Francisco and work on the business development team at TrustToken. He is an alum of Arizona State University. He enjoys learning about a number of topics, including blockchain and decentralized applications, artificial intelligence and the future of industry, behavioral psychology, and how to be more rational.
Daniel Larimer
Dan Larimer, also known as BM, is a genius programmer and the only creator in the world who has produced three consecutive blockchain products in the top 50 by market capitalization. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His dream has always been to find a free market solution that can guarantee people's lives, freedom, and property security, and make the world a better place. He realized that everything had to start with free currency. In 2013, many Bitcoin exchanges were shut down by the US government, and bank accounts were also seized. At this time, BM began developing the world's first decentralized exchange, Bitshares, and invented bitUSD, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. In the following two years, Dan systematically solved many of the problems that blockchain technology encountered in application. For example, for the trading speed requirement of 100,000 transactions per second for exchanges, Dan developed the Graphene technology solution. In early 2016, Dan developed the Steem blockchain based on his new understanding and developed the Steemit social media application on this public chain. The DPoS consensus mechanism he proposed is based on the concept of shareholder voting to elect validators, which is used to prevent three to five large mining pools from attacking the network and achieve maximum decentralization. Concerns about the risks of DPoS are actually ignoring greater risks. The lack of unity between token holders and decision-makers is a greater risk for the network. In 2017, at the New York Consensus Conference, BM introduced the ambitious EOS project to the world, with the goal of becoming the operating system of the blockchain industry and being seen as a strong competitor to Ethereum. With parallel computing, millions of TPS, and no transaction fees, EOS contains several important features that, if successful, will make blockchain technology a truly practical technology.
Andrew Berkowitz
Andrew Berkowitz is the Founder and CEO of ValuesCo, a Cofounder of AfrofutureDAO, and a Fellow at the Milken Institute. His prior experience includes working as the Managing Partner of The Global Startup Movement, Chief Operating Officer of Tradeversity, and Chief Executive Officer of Socialstack. He studied Business Information Technology and Management Consulting and Analysis at Virginia Tech - Pamplin College of Business.
Ethan Fast
Ethan Fast is co-founder and CTO of Nash, a non-custodial exchange and management platform for cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has published articles in renowned journals and conferences, such as Nature, CHI, EMNLP, and AAAI. Prior to this, he co-founded Proxino, a web analytics company funded by Y Combinator.
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.
Shreyas Hariharan
Shreyas Hariharan is the Co-Founder & CEO at Llama.