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Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
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Avi Felman
Avi Felman is a former general partner at GoldenChain and head of digital asset trading at Goldentree, and previously worked at BlockTower Capital, Wave Financial, and was co-founder of Ledger Capital.
Sasha MacKinnon
Sasha MacKinnon is the founder of Mino Games. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, founded Bit Battalion, and worked as a Technical Assistant to the CEO at Zynga.
Hannah Yang
Kejuan (Hannah) Yang is co-founder of Merlin Protocol and previously Head of Investment at Nebulas. He graduated from Northeastern University.
Alex Mashinsky
Alex Mashinsky is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Celsius Network, and the Founder and Managing Partner of the venture fund Governing Dynamics.
S. Daniel Leon
Daniel Leon is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Celsius Network.
Chris Ferraro
Chris Ferraro is the Chief Restructuring Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Interim Chief Executive Officer of Celsius Network.
Marco Mereu
Marco Mereu is the Founder & CEO at M80. He previously founded several game companies such as XSET, Roostr, Gameblyr. Marco Mereu graduated from Northeastern University.
Guillermo Bodnar
Guillermo Bodnar is the Chief Technology Officer of Celsius Network.
William Wu
William Wu is the Co-CEO of Catheon Gaming. Previously, he was an investment professional at Oaktree Capital Management in Hong Kong, focusing on special situations and distressed private equity opportunities, as well as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.
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.