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Riad Wahby is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cubist. Previously, he was a cryptographic researcher at Algorand and spent a decade as an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit designer at Silicon Labs. He received his SB and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, where he was supported by a Ripple Fellowship.
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Fraser Brown
Fraser Brown is the Co-Founder and CTO at Cubist. He is also an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science (Software and Societal Systems Department). His research focuses on security and program correctness, from verifying parts of production systems to automatically finding exploitable bugs in real codebases. For example, his tools have found many zero-day bountied bugs and CVEs in the popular Chrome and Firefox browsers. Fraser also works on compilation. In collaboration with CEO Riad and others, he developed the CirC compiler for cryptographic proof systems. He received his BA in English and MS and PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, where he was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Deian Stefan
Deian Stefan is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Cubist. He is also an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego, where he co-leads the Security and Programming Systems groups. His research focuses on the intersection of security and programming languages. He is particularly interested in constructing secure systems that are deployed in production. He was a co-founder of Intrinsic, a runtime security startup which was acquired by VMware in 2019.
Ann Stefan
Ann Stefan is the Co-Founder and COO of Cubist. She is an experienced strategic executive who has worked as a COO in the fintech sector for seven years in a high-risk consumer segment. Throughout her career, she has focused on expanding into new markets, developing products, and quickly scaling up early-stage SaaS and fintech companies. She has a broad range of technical and management skills, including risk management, product development, sales, marketing, customer support, and government contracts. Her main expertise is in payment processing, online payments fraud prevention, and anti-money laundering programs, which she has gained through years of building and managing a fintech risk team and product in-house. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical-Biological Engineering from MIT and is a member of the Board of Directors for First Generation Alumni of MIT.
Gary
Gary is the Managing Partner at Momentum Capital. Gary is a Silicon Valley-based investor, a serial entrepreneur, a Stanford-affiliated researcher, and a true believer in Web3. Gary has over six years of experience in blockchain technology and is currently focusing on scaling, DID, and liquidity solutions. Gary finished his Ph.D. and postdoc research at Stanford University before transitioning into the industry.
John Lilly
John Lilly is the Board Member at Figma.He spents the past 30 years working at and investing in technology companies that help people create & connect -- Mozilla, Apple, Instagram, Duolingo, Figma, Dropbox, Tumblr & more. He also spent a lot of time helping non-profit and civic tech organizations like Code for America, VotingWorks and Daffy.org.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Mandy Campbell
Mandy leads Bain Capital Crypto’s and portfolio marketing efforts across brand, content, events, and communications. Before joining the Bain team, she led Marketing for global crypto exchange Okcoin and managed fast-growing teams at companies like GitHub, Lyft, and Meta. When she’s not helping builders, she’s hiking with her family or searching for carrot cake in the Bay Area.
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington is the Founder of TechCrunch, CrunchBase and Arrington Capital.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.