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Niels is the initiator of BuidlerDAO, formerly of Yahoo, Alibaba, and ZhenFund.
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James Cheng
James Cheng is the Chief Financial Officer of Canaan. His resume includes vice president of Zhaopin Recruitment, financial director of Lenovo China and Asia Pacific, senior sales financial director of Nokia China, and demand planning manager of Effem Foods Beijing (Mars Inc.).
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blockchain Association and previously served as General Counsel at Anchorage, Partner and Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer at Bain Capital Crypto, and Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and Yale University.
Alex Shek
Alex Shek is the chief operating officer of Bitkeep. He was previously the vice president of AAX.COM Asia Pacific, the chief operating officer of ZB.com, and the head of Alibaba’s O2O business unit. He graduated from Beijing Normal University.
Jake Schwartz
Jake Schwartz is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
Andrew Israel
Andrew Israel is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.
Philip Simotas
Philip Simotas is an Investment Partner at New Form focusing on liquid opportunities. He has 30+ years of experience in business development, risk mgmt, operations, and trading. Most recently, Phil was the CFO of Datawhys, a data analytics SaaS firm; COO & head of Business Development of ROW asset mgmt, a $1.5B quantitative global macro fund; and President of FX Concepts, a $14B investment mgmt firm specializing in global fixed income and foreign exchange. Phil graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in Economics.
Dafu Gao
Dafu Gao is a partner at OnePiece Labs. He graduated from Lehigh University and holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Frances Hou
Frances Hou is a Venture Partner and Developer Relationship Lead at Paramita. Since 2012, she has focused on consumer tech, cloud computing, and fintech, and previously served as an investor in the TMT sector at Hongy Capital. Frances holds an MBA from Columbia University and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Economics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Alexis Masseron
Alexis Masseron is the co-founder and CEO of Atlendis and Rialto, and previously worked as a software engineer at ConsenSys. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Dr. Victor Saylor
Victor is the CMO of DeepSafe and has served as an executive at Alibaba India, Paytm, Time Group, and iPAY.
