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Ricardo J. Méndez is a member of the board of directors of ZkCloud. Previously, he was the Chief Strategy Officer of Marinade Finance, the Chief Strategy Officer of Equilibrium, and the European Technical Director of Samsung NEXT. Ricardo J. Méndez graduated from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. Ricardo J. Méndez graduated from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology.
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Chris Kurdziel
Chris Kurdziel is a ex-Partner at Mirana Ventures, where he invests in the intersection of crypto and games. He previously worked on gaming and creative technology investments for Samsung NEXT Ventures, and is currently a Venture Partner and Advisor to Joyance Partners and SocialStarts. Chris has experience helping video creators monetize and distribute their content online, as well as working with the R&D team at Samsung on their smart TV platform. His interests include networked creativity and human-centered computing, and he is passionate about technologies such as Bitcoin and P2P wireless mesh networks.
Arunkumar Krishnakumar
Arunkumar Krishnakumar is Head of Institutional Growth and RWAs at Kamino. Prior to this he was a contributing writer for Cointelegraph, Head of Institutional Growth at Marinade.Finance. Arunkumar Krishnakumar holds an MA from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Colin Goltra
Colin Goltra is the CEO of Morph and previously the chief operating officer of YGG and the head of Binance SEA. Colin is an avid collector of NFT-based Crypto Art and an active proponent of Filipino self-empowerment in the Crypto-Metaverse. Along with Gabby Dizon, Colin co-created the Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. His thoughts on the Crypto Art movement have also been featured globally in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times Magazine,' as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications.
Olli Tiainen
Olli Tiainen is the CEO at Equilibrium and Equilibrium Group.
Heslin Kim
Heslin Kim is the Chief Business Officer at ZkCloud and was previously Head of Growth and Ecology at Republic Crypto, venture partner at Digital Strategies, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at SupraOracles, and vice president of business development at Polymath. He graduated from the University of Georgia.
Henri Kämäräinen
Henri Kamarainen is Vice President of Operations at Gevulot, having previously been Vice President of Partners at Dropper. He holds a Master's degree in electrical Engineering from Aalto University.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Tuomas Mäkinen
Tuomas Makinen is CTO at Gevulot, where he previously worked at Equilibrium.
Gary Coover
Gary Coover is the co-founder and COO of SuperLayer. Before joining SuperLayer, he spent nine years at Samsung Next, the software and services innovation arm of Samsung Electronics, where he launched and scaled new investment vehicles and startup ecosystems globally, and served as the Ventures Operating Managing Director and Silicon Valley GM. he is also an active angel investor, startup advisor, and non-profit board member/advisor for the LT Murray Foundation, and HBM Oncology Foundation. He hold an MBA in Strategy from UC Berkeley - Haas School of Business and previously co-founded an ecommerce startup that was acquired in 2017.
Teemu Päivinen
Teemu Paivinen is the founder and CEO of Gevulot and founder of Equilibrium Labs. He graduated from Aalto University.
