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Michael Lee is the Senior Vice President, Growth at Matter Labs. Presively he was Vice President at Activision Blizzard & DFINITY. Michael Lee graduated from the University of Chicago & Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.
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Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Imran Khan
Imran Khan is a Podcast Host at Good Game Podcast, a Core Contributor for Alliance, and a Co-Founder and Venture Partner for Volt Capital. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Business.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is currently the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
Yuan Sun
Yuan Sun is a co-founder of Nest Wallet and was previously a data scientist at LinkedIn and Google. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and Northwestern University.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Marco Cora
Marc Cora is the Head of Business Development at Matter Labs, a role he has held since November 2021. He has previously held various positions in the finance industry, including Partner/Owner at RM Partners, Quant Associate at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, and Quantitative Analyst at Depfa Bank. Additionally, Marc has been a board member at Azimut Investment Management, AZ Private Wealth Services Pty Ltd, and AZ Next Generation Advisory. He graduated from Universit¨¤ Bocconi with a degree in Economics and Social Sciences and Economics of New Technology and International Markets. Marc is a CFA certified professional with a 10-year milestone badge and is highly skilled in Economics, Portfolio Management, and Trading
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Ben Livshits
Ben Livshits is the Chief Scientist for Brave Software, a company that makes a novel privacy-friendly web browser (www.brave.com). He is Professor, Security expert, Stanford PhD, taught at UW, MIT. Computer scientist interested in security, privacy, blockchain, tokenization, compilers, software testing, crowd-sourcing, statistical reasoning.
Eric Brown
Eric Brown is the Co-Founder and COO of Franklin. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.