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Josh Hawkins is currently the Executive Vice President, Strategy, Policy & Communications at Aleo.Previously he worked at Circle. He graduated from University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Li Fan
Li Fan is the Chief Technology Officer at Circle. He is responsible for managing Circle's engineering team. Previously, he has served as CTO and interim CPO at Lime, SVP of engineering at Pinterest, Senior Director of Engineering at Google Inc., and Vice President of Engineering at Baidu, China.
Dante Disparte
Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.
David Kinitsky
David Kinitsky is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Everstake.Previously he worked at Kraken and Circle. He graduated from Cardoso Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
Ash Ashmawy
Ash Ashmawy is the founder and CEO of Kemet Trading. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Yam Ki Chan
Yam Ki Chan is Vice President and Managing Director of Circle Singapore Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he held strategic and public policy roles at Google Pay and Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google, Yam Ki served as the Director of Global and Asian Economic Affairs at the White House National Security Council, where he coordinated U.S. economic strategy in Asia and was involved in negotiations related to the Group of Twenty (G20) and Group of Seven (G7).
Grace Li
Grace Li is the Chief Marketing Officer at MetaScan Labs. Presively She was Head of Business Development at Solv Protocol.
Michael Tong
Michael Tong is the Co-founder & CEO at Xterio. He also is the Chief Strategy Officer at FunPlus. Michael Tong graduate from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Periwinkle Doerfler
Periwinkle Doerfler is the co-founder and CTO of Glittr and previously worked at Facebook. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds a PhD in Computer Science from New York University.
Howard Wu
Howard Wu is the co-founder of Aleo Systems as well as Co-Founder and CEO of Provable, the managing partner of Dekrypt Capital, and an advisor to the Berkeley University Blockchain Research Center. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Google, and he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
