Details
Lawrence Chu is the founder of BlackPine and a partner at Lever VC. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chicago.
Work Experience
Education Experience
Relevance Person
Cais Manai
Cais Manai is co-founder and head of Product at Ten and was previously Principal Product Manager at R3 and associate Director of prime brokerage at UBS.
Jasper Lewitton
As President of Pantera, Jasper drives and oversees the strategic vision, direction, and operational management of the firm. He has over twenty years of leadership experience across Global Investment Management firms. For close to a decade, he served as Business Unit Head and Senior Leader at Bridgewater Associates, where he managed and transformed the Investment, Client, and Operational areas of the firm. Prior to Bridgewater, Jasper held several senior strategy and operational roles, including Global Head of Strategy at UBS, Head of Alternative Investment Strategy at Citigroup, and COO of Citigroup's Real Estate private equity business. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group and has worked in the US, Europe, and Asia. Jasper has a LLM from the University of Cambridge and Finance, Economics, and Law degrees from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he grew up.
Yuki Yuminaga
Yuki Yuminaga is a lead researcher at Distributed Capital and was previously a co-founder of Byto. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Caspar Sauter
Caspar Sauter is the co-founder of D8X development company Quantena. He formerly worked for UBS and has a master's degree in economics and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Neuchâtel.
Michael Toporek
Michael Toporek is the Co-CEO of Soluna Holdings and Managing General Partner at Brookstone Partners. He graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
Joshua Lim
Joshua Lim is the co-founder of Arbelos and previously Managing Director and Head of Derivatives at Genesis Trading. He previously managed the Spot and Derivatives Trading Desk at Galaxy Digital, and built the Treasury and Over-the-Counter Trading Desk at Circle. Before entering the cryptocurrency space, Josh traded Equity Volatility at Goldman Sachs.
Jeff Ren
Jeff Ren là đối tác của OKX Ventures. Ông có hơn 20 năm kinh nghiệm trong ngành tài chính và từng là giám đốc điều hành của UBS.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Duncan Hoffman
Duncan Hoffman is the chief revenue officer at Kiln and previously worked at Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Peter Knez
Peter Knez is the Chairman of Venom Foundation.Peter Knez is a former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock.Prior to that, Peter held positions with Lincoln Capital Management and Goldman Sachs, where he led quantitative research and fixed income. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Peter held professorship positions at Kellogg School of Management, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Peter completed his PhD work at The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, with a research focus on term structure models and asset allocation.