Riyaz Faizullabhoy

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Riyaz Faizullabhoy is the Co-Founder at Bastion and formerly CTO at a16z Crypto. Previously, he was in Security Infrastructure, Blockchain at Facebook, a founding engineer at Anchorage, and a Security Engineer at Docker. Work hard and be kind.

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Joshua Wu

Joshua Wu is Founding Engineer at OpenSea, Ex-Facebook, Founded Heaven Zero.

Omar Ramadan

Omar Ramadan is the Founder and CEO at Blockcast. Presively he woeked at Facebook. Omar Ramadan graduated from University of California, Berkeley.

Mike Lempres

Mike Lempres previously served as Executive Director, general counsel, and Head of government affairs at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he was Chief Policy officer at Coinbase. He has extensive expertise in emerging or challenging regulatory environments, international affairs and corporate governance. He was elected to the Atherton City Council and is an active board member in both private and non-profit entities.

Nassim Eddequiouaq

Nassim Eddequiouaq is the Co-Founder at Bastion, formerly Chief Information Security Officer at a16z Crypto, a Security Engineer at Docker, and a former Security Intern at Apple. He is a passionate human being with a love for security and graffiti. He enjoys creating security products and features that involve operating systems, cryptography, secure hardware, and distributed systems.

Yuchen J.

Yuchen J. is the co-founder of Jomo and previously was a senior software engineer and technical lead at Robinhood. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University.

Nick Pacilio

Nick Pacilio is Head of Communications at Nicholas Pacilio and was previously Director of Communications at Haun Ventures and PR Communications Manager at a16z crypto. Prior to that, he was senior PR Communications Manager at Twitter.

Hilary Kivitz

Hilary Kivitz is an angel investor. She works at a16z, Propel, and Ribbit Capital and has led a large number of financial technology investments. She received a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, a BPhil from Oxford University and a BA in philosophy from UC Berkeley.

Shiva Rajaraman

Shiva Rajaraman is currently the Chief Business Officer at OpenSea. Previously, he led Commerce at Meta (formerly Facebook), helping direct-to-consumer brands reach new customers through new experiences such as live shopping, product drops, and creator shops. Before that, he led technology at WeWork, where he launched a new on-demand space offering and received a masterclass in the importance of governance. Earlier, he was the Vice President of Product at Spotify, where he helped bring in an era of personalization, new product experimentation, and expansion into new formats, including podcasts.

Antonio Garcia-Martinez

Antonio Garcia-Martinez is the founder and CEO of Spindl and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mandeep Walia

Mandeep is the Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Circle. He previously held the role of Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Facebook. Mandeep is responsible for leading Circle's compliance and risk management globally. He has held senior leadership roles in global compliance and enterprise risk management at financial services/fintech companies such as PayPal, LendUp, and State Street. Most recently, Mandeep was the Chief Compliance Officer/Head of Enterprise Risk at Novi, Facebook's digital wallet business.