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José Maria Macedo is Partner at Delphi Ventures and Head of Consulting at Delphi Digital. Previously, I was a founding partner at 01 Capital (currently Special Advisor), a corporate finance advisory firm focused entirely on digital assets, where I was fortunate to work on some of the space’s most prominent M&A transactions, capital raises and consulting mandates. Before this, I was a Partner & Head of Advisory at AmaZix - one of the largest consulting & community management companies in the space, having worked with over 150 projects raising $1.3B, including the likes of HDAC, Bancor, Bankex, GBX, WePower, GoChain, among many others. Before entering crypto, I was a pro poker player and built a bankroll from $30 at the age of 16 to $1,600,000 at the age of 18, achieving one of the highest global win-rates in 6max poker, playing some of the highest stakes online and attracting sponsorships from LockPoker and PokerStrategy (the largest poker training site in the world). At 19, I quit poker and studied Economics & Philosophy with a focus on Game Theory and Econometrics, graduating with a first-class honours while starting several businesses, including a successful exit of my e-commerce business to Gailarde Ltd - a large UK-based wholesaler. My business ventures have been featured on National TV and Huffington Post, as well as earning me the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award (presented by Prince Andrew), Shell Livewire Grand Ideas Award, Enterprise Champion award and Student Entrepreneur of the Year. I've spoken at conferences around the world and regularly write about token economics on Medium, with writings and thoughts being featured on publications such as EuroNews, Yahoo Finance, and Bitcoin.com among others. I am also a member of the scientific committee for San Marino where I act as its token economic expert, advising the government on how to understand, structure and regulate crypto assets. Non-professional stuff: Enjoy reading, training and competing in martial arts, learning languages backpacking, going out, meeting interesting people, creating, advising and investing in businesses.
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Alex Gedevani
Alex Gedevani is Investment Associate at Sfermion. Formerly Research Associate at Delphi Digital, Financial Analyst at Barclays, Community Analyst at Messari.
Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is the co-founder of Delphi Digital, and previously worked as a stock analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He has a background in traditional equity research and provided insights into global equity markets for numerous institutional clients before serving as a US equity strategist. He has extensive experience in market data analysis and research and is frequently quoted or involved in discussions by financial news media. Currently, he is committed to improving institutional understanding of the cryptocurrency field and its allocation benefits in today's unique investment environment.
Piers Kicks
Piers Kicks is Partner, Head of Gaming at Delphi Digital. Exploring the emergence of the Metaverse through the lens of decentralized networks. Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in a video game. After reaching 69 global in Rainbow Six Siege (over 50 million players), building his own RSPS, being a first generation virtual reality user, and growing up with crypto, he leverages his unique insight into the undercurrents of the web to cross the digital divide. Computer science and philosophy background, entrepreneurial with a global digital asset network. Hunting asymmetric crypto/venture investment opportunities in early stage projects that seek to advance and support the decentralized dream.
Matt Bridges
Matt Bridges was Chief Operating Officer at Flipside Crypto, a talented technologist and leader. He currently serves as COO at Flipside Crypto. Previously, as CTO of Intrepid, he grew a small boutique agency into the largest mobile development team in Boston. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, with a track record of successful products including Timbre, the live music discovery app. Prior to Intrepid, he spent more than a decade working with Ray Kurzweil to develop industry leading pattern recognition technology for NLP, image processing, and quantitative finance. I love software. I lead teams that build amazing products. I didn't get my first taste of product development until almost a decade into my career, tasked with turning experimental technology into a consumer product. I realized two things: 1) Consumer software is challenging, frustrating, and unpredictable and 2) I LOVE it.
Jon Charbonneau
Jon Charbonneau is the co-founder and general partner of DBA. He also co-hosts the Uncommon Core 2.0 podcast. Previously he was Head of L1, L2 and MEV Research at Delphi Digital. Prior to entering the cryptocurrency industry, he worked as a structured credit banker at Deutsche Bank in New York.Jon holds a B.A. in Economics from Duke University.
Gabriel Shapiro
Gabriel Shapiro is General counsel at Delphi Labs and was previously co-founder and Head of Legal Engineering at ZeroLaw. As a lawyer, he focuses on the intersection of law and decentralized systems.
Praveen Lulla
Praveen Lulla is the Chief Financial Officer of Delphi Digital. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Certificate from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in 1989.
redphone
redphone is a contributor at Delphi Labs.
Ayush Menon
Ayush Menon is the Founder and CEO of Katana. He was previously a Software Engineer at Delphi Digital, and he graduated from Harvard University.
Luke Saunders
Luke Saunders is CTO at Delphi Digital. He is responsible for all technical matters within the Delphi Digital team. His work involves identifying and implementing technical initiatives that contribute to the company's long-term goals and maximize value for the company's subscribers. These initiatives include data collection and analysis, the creation of dashboards to track key metrics, and supplementing the company's research with live data feeds and automation. During his 20-year career as a software developer, Luke has been involved with many tech and web startups, including being part of the founding team and lead developer of a project that scaled to over 3 million unique visitors per day and achieved a successful eight-figure exit. His interest in open source development led him to become a member of the core team of one of the leading (at the time) web frameworks. He also co-founded AmaZix, one of the premier crypto community management and advisory firms, which at its peak had over 150 staff and generated over seven figures in monthly revenue. Luke holds a degree in Computing and a Master's (Distinction) in Artificial Intelligence. With his broad background in business, technology, and token design, Luke bridges theory and practical implementation.