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Lora Li is the head of Strategy and Finance at Taiko Labs and previously she was the Head of Partnerships and Strategic Business Development at XLD Finance. She is a graduate of Columbia University, Parsons School of Design and the Christian School of Greater Atlanta.
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Herbie Fu
Herbie Fu is a partner at Hack VC. He has served as a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, Alpha Square Group, and 8 Decimal Capital. He is also the co-founder of XLD Finance.
Emily Hsia
Emily Hsia is the Co-Founder & CTO of Shadow. Presively she worked at Goldfinch and Airbnb. She graduated from Columbia University.
Charles Cheng
Charles Cheng is the Co-Founder at Euterpe. He also is the Co-founder & CFO at BCE.IO. Charles Cheng graduated from Columbia Law School & Stanford Law School.
Terence Lam
Terence is the co-founder and CSO of Taiko, and previously was Vice President of Loopring, co-founder of Up Blockchain, and Vice President of HTC.
Brecht Devos
Brecht Devos is the Co-founder & CTO at Taiko.Brecht used to work for Loopring as the Chief Architect, but over the last 12 months or so, he had been working on PSE’s zkEVM with researchers and engineers from the Ethereum Foundation and other open-source projects. Brecht leads Taiko’s Zero-Knowledge R&D team with an objective to implement all remaining EVM opcodes and to customize the zkEVM to fit Taiko’s layer 2 protocol design.
Matthew Finestone
Matthew Finestone is the Co-Founder. He used to worked as Head of Business at Loopring.
Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Kevin Zhang
Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.
Michelle Latzer
Michelle Latzer is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tweed. Previously, she worked in Google's tech infrastructure. Michelle Latzer graduated from Columbia University.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon is the General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. Presively she worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon graduated from Columbia Law School.