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Ryan Funduk is Co-founder at Figment Networks, Founder and co-creator of CourseCraft, Bugrocket. Maker of many weekend open-source projects. Occasional tweeter and blogger.
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Ben Spiegelman
Ben is the Head of Corporate Development at Figment, the market-leading blockchain infrastructure provider for institutions that was recently valued at $1.4bn from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Previously, he was the Director of Product at Fidelity Digital Assets, focused on building the institutional infrastructure to support custody and trading of crypto assets. Prior to that, Ben led the corporate development effort for Symbiont, an enterprise FinTech company creating the next generation of financial markets infrastructure using blockchain technology. Before Symbiont, Ben was an Associate at SenaHill Partners, a merchant bank where he advised and invested in early-stage FinTech companies. He began his career as an Equity Trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Ben graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business with a double major in Finance and Technology Management from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Nick Yushkevich
Nick Yushkevich is Director of product at QuickNode and previously was Senior Product Manager at Figment. He is a graduate of the University of Enopolis and the Russian Institute of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) under the President of the Russian Federation.
Guillaume Poncin
Guillaume Poncin is the director of engineering at Alchemy, a Web3 developer platform. He previously served as the head of Web3 at Stripe. During his work at Stripe, Guillaume Poncin launched a fiat-to-cryptocurrency channel and a cross-border payment product using stablecoins. Before joining Stripe, Poncin spent 12 years at Google as a technical lead for Google Books and Google Cloud. Guillaume Poncin graduated from Stanford University.
Melissa Strait
Melissa Strait is Chief Compliance Officer at Coinbase. Formerly, Global Head of Financial Crimes at Stripe.
Deepa Talwar
Deepa Talwar is the head of business development at Helius and previously served as BD at Gauntlet. He graduated from Northwestern University.
Matt Leisinger
Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
Clayton Menzel
Clayton Menzel is head of strategy at Rio Network. Previously, he was Director of Strategy at Figment and Head of Communities at YEN.io and CariClub. He is always learning about blockchain and is often confused, entertained, and inspired by the people he meets.
Daren Guo
Daren Guo is the Co-founder of Reap. He graduated from the University of Toronto in Canada.
Aakash Thumaty
Aakash Thumaty is the chief Product Officer of Wormhole, having previously held positions at Jump Crypto, Stripe and Salesforce Ventures. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
Oliver Sleafer
Oliver Sleafer is CFO of Backpack and previously served as Head of liquidity Management for Asia Pacific at Stripe. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Westminster.