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Matt Hamilton is the lead Developer Advocate at Protocol Labs, having previously held positions at Bittensor and Ripple. He graduated from the University of Bristol.
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Carl Cervone
Carl is the co-founder of Kariba Labs. Kariba's first product is Open Source Observer, an analytics platform that helps foundations and ecosystem funds allocate funding to open source projects. He is also an active Gitcoin Steward and Cup of Excellence board member. Carl is most passionate about using data to improve governance and public goods funding.
Garrett Oetken
Garrett Oetken is the CTO of Bittensor. He graduated from the University of Idaho and North Idaho College.
Ala Shaabana
Ala Shaabana, co-founder of Bittensor, was previously an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo. He is a graduate of McMaster University.
Chris Larsen
Chris Larsen is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple, an enterprise blockchain solution for global payments. He is presently an advisor at Distilled Analytics, a data science firm. Prior to founding Ripple, Larsen was the CEO of Prosper, a P2P lending service, and was also the CEO of E-LOAN, an online lending service.
James Woodman
James Woodman is co-founder of Manifold Labs and former COO of Bittensor. He previously worked in business development at GSR. He is a graduate of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
Don Steul
Don Steul is the Vice President Global Services at Ripple. Presively he worked as Head of RCS Delivery at Google.Don Steul graduated from MIT.
Danny Aranda
Danny Aranda is the co-founder of PartyDAO and previously the Managing Director of Ripple Europe. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Catrina Wang
Catrina Wang is an investment partner at Portal Ventures and head of Penn Blockchain's alumni network and conferences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Guy Wuollet
Guy Wuollet is a partner on the a16z crypto investment team. Guy focuses on infrastructure and application layer investments across crypto. He believes decentralized networks can better align incentives on the Internet and enable the future of commerce and communication. Prior to joining a16z, he worked on independent research in concert with Protocol Labs. His work focused on building decentralized networking protocols and upgrading Internet infrastructure. Guy holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he rowed on the Varsity Crew team.
Juan Benet
Juan Benet is the Founder and CEO, and the inventor of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). He is also the Founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.