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Ryan Fennelly is Global Head of OTC Sales and Trading at Crypto.com and was previously Head of OTC at Abra.
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Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Caroline Friedman
Caroline is the Head of Operations at Bastion and former Chief of Staff on the a16z crypto team. Prior to joining a16z crypto, she was at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where she held a Chief of Staff role and a Regulatory Strategy Counsel role. Before that, Caroline worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. She has prosecuted cases related to cyber-crime, international terrorism, and the illegal export of sensitive U.S. technology. Caroline has also worked as an associate at Jones Day, and has experience at INTERPOL and the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Tim Ogilvie
Tim Ogilvie is Head of Staked at Kraken and was previously co-founder and CEO of Staked. He was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AdBuyer.com, which was acquired by Mediaocean in 2011. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
Matthew Howells
Matthew Howells is VP of Growth at Kraken and formerly served as Chief Marketing Officer at Decentral Games.
Ru Chiang
Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
Ricky Tan
Ricky Tan is Head of BD & Partnerships at Nexus Mutual. Previously, Founder of TokenData, a high-profile crypto research company. Prior to TokenData, Ricky worked in various business development roles at Adyen, Earnest Inc., and ABRA. He started his career as a global commodities trader at JP Morgan.
Ricardo Da Ros
Ricardo Da Ros is the CEO of Patex. He was ex-Head of Brazil at Binance & Crypto.com.
Gary Or
Gary Or is the founder of Cronos and previously he was the co-founder and CTO of Crypto.com\n. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong.
Rafael Melo
Rafael Melo is the Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Crypto.com. He has 15 years of experience in finance and a deep understanding of risk, compliance, and the Mobile Payments ecosystem in Asia. As CFO at ASX-listed Ensogo, he led fundraising efforts, securing strategic investment from VIPSHOP (NYSE:VIPS) and raising over A$50m from blue chip institutions such as Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock.
Jon Russell
Jon Russell is a ZetaChain contributor who works in Content, communications and marketing, and was previously a partner at Crypto.com Capital.