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Rich Kim is Head of Web3 Entertainment and Media at zkSync. He is a graduate of the University of California and Columbia University Teachers College.
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Jon Jones
Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.
Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Kevin Zhang
Kevin has led early-stage investments in financial technology and developer products since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2017. Prior to Bain Capital, Kevin was the first business hire and Head of Product at Fundera, a lending marketplace acquired by NerdWallet (NASDAQ: NRDS). After hard weeks in the email salt mines, Kevin likes to catch Magic: the Gathering prereleases and watch Team Liquid play Starcraft.
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is a Research Data Engineer at Polychain Capital and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Data Science. Caoimh previously worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for Falcon Ambulance.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent
Yijia Chen
Yijia previously led the backend team of Treelab, a Sequoia-backed Series A company. He is now founding Curio, where he is spearheading the development of a new generation of crypto-powered games with massive social UGC.
Srini Dhulipala
Srini Dhulipala is a General Partner at New Form managing Liquid Opportunities. He has 20+ years of experience running business verticals in risk management, portfolio construction and trading. Formerly, he was CIO & Founder of Kildonan Castle Asset Management; Head of Proprietary Credit trading and Global Head of Credit trading at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America; Credit Derivatives trader at Morgan Stanley. A former automotive design engineer, Srini holds and MBA from Columbia University and MS (Mech Eng) from Virginia Tech.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.
Sean Lippel
Sean Lippel is a general partner at FinTech Collective, having previously worked at Salesforce Ventures and Credit Suisse. He graduated from Columbia Business School and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Holly Liu
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at PKO Investments. Formerly, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Kabam. She founded the venture backed mobile gaming company, Kabam in 2006 with UC Berkeley alumni. Her work has contributed to record revenue growth for Kabam year over year from $0 to $400MM annually, that led Kabam into the unicorn club in 2014. She led the design for Kabam’s award-winning "Kingdoms of Camelot" franchise, which has grossed over $250 million in less than four years. She was also the founding mobile designer for extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012. She was Chief Development Officer in charge of developing Kabam internationally through key relationships - starting with China. Among other things, she continues to develop global cultural initiatives within Kabam.