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Raphael Zagury is the Chief Investment Officer of Swan Bitcoin and previously was a managing Director at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from Yale University.
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Sandra Ro
Sandra Ro was Executive Director of Digitization at CME Group. Ro was responsible for the company’s digital asset and blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiatives. Previously as Executive Director Foreign Exchange (FX) Research and Product Development she was responsible for the global development of CME Group FX solutions within listed and cleared OTC products. Ro is a core member of the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL), an industry group focused on bringing together regulators with sell-side and buy-side firms to collaborate and discuss the impact of blockchain / DLT. The PTDL is based in London with over 40 institutional members. Prior to joining CME Group in 2011, Ro led the EMEA M&A FX and interest rates derivatives advisory group at Morgan Stanley, London and worked at Deutsche Bank as a FX structurer on the London trading floor. Ro holds an M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School and a double B.A. Degree in History and Studies in the Environment from Yale University.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is Anchorage's general counsel and was previously a partner and head of policy at Bain Capital Crypto, where he advised portfolios on crypto regulatory issues. Vy has over a decade of experience as a financial regulatory and enforcement lawyer, advising companies in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. At the SEC, Vy served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement, where she worked on some of the agency’s first investigations involving digital assets, and as Chief Counsel of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, where she engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state entities on capital markets policy, including the regulation of digital assets. More recently, Vy oversaw financial regulatory strategy as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She began her legal career at the law firm WilmerHale, where she counseled clients on everything from the securities laws to AML compliance.
John Quinn
John Quinn is the Founding Partner and CIO at Decentral Park Capital, managing $130 million of digital assets. He is also the founder of Storj Labs and a recovering investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Flemings.
Max Galka
Max Galka is the founder and CEO of Elementus. Prior to founding Elementus, he held various positions in the data science and finance industries, including being an adjunct lecturer in data science at the University of Pennsylvania, a derivatives trader at both Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and a co-founder of Revaluate, a real estate data startup.
Yu Hu
Yu Hu is the Founder and CEO of Kaito AI. He is building an AI-powered search engine for digital assets. He graduated from the University of Cambridge.
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.
Tony Sweeney
Tony Sweeney is the chief information security officer at Deribit and previously served as head of information security at Unifonic and security compliance manager at Deutsche Bank.
Karl-Martin Ahrend
Karl-Martin Ahrend is the Co-Founder of Web3 Studios. Focusing on M&A and capital raising in the Web3 space.