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Julie Muroff is senior vice president of events at Blockworks and previously served as the company's chief operating officer. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Business.
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Ian Wittkopp
Ian Wittkopp started at Sino Global Capital in mid-2017 and has led the investment team in 50+ deals spanning token and equity in key verticals like DeFi, GameFi and crypto adjacent infrastructure. As COO, Ian overseas all team components daily across four continents as they produce best in class research, evaluate 100+ projects per week, and provide top-tier post investment support. Previously, Ian spent six years as an economist and budget analyst at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. At the BLS he worked on inflationary indexes in the Producer Price Index program before moving to the budget office and overseeing day-to-day execution of a USD $600M+ annual budget. He also led special projects including a ten-person team that worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to establish a joint survey on small business credit conditions. Ian also spent time as a product manager for an insurtech start-up, Bowtie Life Insurance. At Bowtie he led the launch of a digital microinsurance product that aimed to increase coverage among foreign workers from the Philippines and Indonesia who moved to Hong Kong for employment. Ian received his bachelor’s degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. and his MBA from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Katie Biber
Katie Biber is the Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance and policy functions. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Before Brex, Katie was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and she has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Additionally, Katie serves on the boards of directors of Anchorage, Code for America and Protocol Labs. She is a veteran of political campaigns, having served as General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from George Washington University.
Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Zhuojie Zhou
Zhuojie Zhou is the Co-Founder and Chief Engineer of Magic Eden.
Jason Yanowitz
Jason Yanowitz is Co-founder of BlockWorks Group. He is currently managing the revenue side of BlockWorks Group (BWG), a podcast and events company based in NYC. Come and join us at one of our events or listen to one of our 15 podcasts.
Arthur Sabintsev
Arthur Sabintsev is the COO of Pocket Network and has served as head of mobile payments at Capital One and chief Mobile Architect at ID.me. He has a master's degree in nuclear physics from George Washington University.
Matt Bontaites
Matt Bontaites was previously VP Sales at Blockworks and VP Sales Asia Pacific at Brave.
Carolyn Polke
Carolyn Polke is the former chief strategy officer at Blockworks.
Dan Hennessy
Dan Hennessy is Vice President of Marketing at Blockworks and previously served as Creative Director at BlockFi. He is a graduate of James Madison University in Media Arts and Design.
Jacquelyn Melinek
Jacquelyn Melinek is co-founder and CEO of Token Relations and was previously a reporter for TechCrunch, Blockworks, and Bloomberg. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.