Rashan A. Colbert
Head of Policy at dYdX
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Rashan A. Colbert has a range of experience in policy, legislative assistance, research, special assistant roles, and political organizing. Their most recent position was as the Head of Policy at dYdX in 2022. Prior to that, they worked in the United States Senate, starting as a Research Aide in 2016 and then progressing to roles such as Legislative Assistant, Research Director/Legislative Aide, and Special Assistant in the Office of Cory Booker. They also served as a Special Assistant to Senator Cory Booker in their campaign, Cory 2020, and held roles in other political organizations such as O'Malley for President and Friends of Don Beyer. Rashan also has experience in the private sector as the Founder and Managing Partner of Lucrum Verus Capital, LLC, and as an Operations Associate at Vineyard Vines.
Work Experience
Relevance Person
Zhuoxun Yin
Zhuoxun Yin is the Co-Founder of Magic Eden. He has been working full-time in the crypto industry since 2017, first as the second employee at dYdX and then as a Senior Product Manager at Coinbase. Before entering the crypto space, he spent the early part of his career in strategy at start-up companies, as well as advising corporate clients at Bain & Company.
Sarthak Jain
Sarthak Jain currently works at dYdX and was previously Director of Institutional Sales at BIT and European Institutional Sales at Binance. He is a graduate of Grenoble School of Management and Singapore Management University.
Arthur Cheong
Arthur Cheong is the Founder, CEO & CIO of DeFiance Capital, one of the leading Web3 & Crypto investment firms globally that have made signature investments in the DeFi and Web3 gaming space. He is also the Council President of dYdX Foundation, a foundation set up to support and grow the dYdX protocol ecosystem by enabling communities, developers, and decentralized governance. Before founding DeFiance Capital, Arthur co-founded a crypto start-up and worked on Growth and Strategy role at a blockchain protocol focusing on scalability and sharding. Prior to his work in the Web3 space, Arthur worked in the oil trading industry under BP’s flagship trading development programme, where he worked closely with oil trading professionals in trading, shipping and operation roles.
Taehoon Lee
Taehoon Lee is the co-founder of Ego and previously worked as a senior engineering manager at dYdX and Google. Taehoon Lee received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from Cornell University.
Corey Miller
Corey Miller is a co-founder of Ego and was previously Head of Product & Growth at dYdX, Partner at Genesis Block Capital, and an investor at BlockTower Capital. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Nathan Cha
Nathan Cha is Head of marketing for Eclipse and previously was Marketing Lead for dYdX. He graduated from New York University.
Bao Lee
Bao Lee is the CEO of PinGo and previously worked at dYdX.
Eugene Y. Q. Shen
Eugene Y. Q. Shen is co-founder and CTO of Plume Network and was previously a Senior Software Engineer at dYdX. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen
Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen is former CEO at dYdX and was previously a research fellow at Sixty Capital. He holds a B.A. in astrophysics from Princeton University.
George Xian Zeng
George Xian Zeng is the former Chief operating Officer of dYdX and was previously an analyst at Goldman Sachs, a senior consultant at McKinsey, and co-founder and CEO of Moonship. He graduated from Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.
