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Richard Kim is General Partner at Galaxy Interactive. Richard’s experience spans investing, trading, law, finance, management and strategy. He joined Galaxy as COO in May 2018, before joining Galaxy Interactive in Dec 2018. Prior to Galaxy, he was the COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at Goldman Sachs from 2015-18. From 2012-15, he worked at J.P. Morgan, where he was the Co-COO of Global Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading, and prior to that was the COO of J.P. Morgan’s electronic trading franchise for FX/EM. From 2010 to 2012, he worked as a derivatives and regulation attorney at J.P. Morgan. From 2007-10, he worked as an attorney in Cleary Gottlieb’s financial products and markets group. Richard also served as an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2007 and studied philosophy and economics at the University of Washington, from which he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2004 at the age of 18.
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Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu is the founder of Web3 Chief of Staff and was previously the chief of staff of Metamask. She graduated from Columbia University.
Sam Peurifoy
Sam Peurifoy is a Partner and the Head of Interactive at Hivemind. In this capacity, Sam leads Hivemind's gaming and metaverse investments, venture pipeline, and early-stage token deals. In parallel with Hivemind, Sam is the CEO of Playground Labs, a sister organization that houses talented engineers to build protocols that drive the economic engine of the web3 metaverse. Sam is a founding member and participant of multiple DAOs and has a direct hand in shaping protocol design across myriad ventures. Prior to Hivemind and Playground Labs, Sam was the Director of Finance at Floating Point Group, a full-service institutional cryptocurrency trading and custody services provider. He's held positions within Goldman Sachs' Global Investment Research division with a focus on Clean Tech and has authored dozens of works across finance and the sciences. He has additionally authored patents in both the energy and nanomaterials sectors. Sam holds a PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University and a BS in Mathematics and Chemistry from the University of Miami.
Alex Ioffe
Alex is the Chief Financial Officer at Galaxy Digital and has over 30 years of senior-level finance experience. He spent over 15 years as CFO for the brokerage business at Interactive Brokers, with responsibility for seven brokerage companies that held a combined $135 billion in customer assets. Additionally, he was responsible for the IPO of the Interactive Brokers parent company in 2007. Alex holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Michael Daffey
Michael Daffey is Chairman of PubCo and Senior Advisor to Galaxy Digital, and has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector at Goldman Sachs. He was most recently Partner, Chairman of the Global Markets Division, and a Member of the Management Committee.
Rituraj Yadav
Rituraj Yadav is the Founder & CEO of Sonic Wallet. He has an undergrad in Computer Science and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, New York. He started his career building large-scale distributed cloud systems at Microsoft Azure and got intrigued into working on blockchain. After Microsoft, He worked as Senior Engineer at Zenefits where he built Zenefits Payroll and Zenefits International Contractor Payments - the systems process billions of dollars in transactions. Later, he joined WhatsApp (owned by Meta/Facebook) where he worked on building WhatsApp Payments that provided financial services to hundreds of million people across the globe.
Mike Novogratz
Mike Novogratz is currently an investor and CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, which invests in emerging blockchain startups. Previously, he was a principal and board member of Fortress Investment Group LLC, and the Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund.
Sid Viswanath
Sid Viswanath is Head of Operations and Strategy at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He graduated from Columbia Business School in the United States and the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom.
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.
Scott Army
Scott Army was previously the founder and CEO of Vision Hill Advisors and has extensive experience in the financial services industry, including portfolio and risk management, trading, investment and capital markets activities.
Sam Englebardt
Sam Englebardt is Partner at Galaxy and the Founding General Partner of Galaxy Interactive. Sam is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired and/or financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses and dozens of films and television shows over the past decade. Prior to Galaxy, he was a Partner and Managing Director at Lambert Media Group (LMG) from 2007 - 2016, where he sourced and managed a portfolio of media-sector private equity investments. Before LMG, he was a Vice President and Financial Advisor at Alliance Bernstein. Sam has been a prolific content producer throughout his career and spent three years running LMG portfolio company, Demarest Films. A licensed attorney in California, Englebardt earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.