Sam Abbassi

Founder at Hoseki

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Sam Abbassi is the founder of Hoseki. He previously served as the director of Bitcoin Products for Developer Relations and Fidelity Investments at Algorand.

Work Experience

Hoseki

Founder

Aug, 2021 - Now

Algorand

Developer Relations

May, 2019 - Apr, 2020

Fidelity Investments

Bitcoin Product Director

Apr, 2020 - May, 2021

The Archives Including

78 Individual, Updated May 28

Bitcoin2025

Relevance Person

Jurrien Timmer

Jurrien Timmer is the Director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments. He is part of Fidelity's Global Asset Allocation group, where he specializes in asset allocation and global macro strategy. Jurrien has been at Fidelity for 27 years and has close to four decades of experience in the industry. Prior to assuming his current position in 2005, Mr. Timmer held various other roles within Fidelity, including director of market research and technical research analyst. He also co-managed Fidelity Global. Jurrien earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Babson College. He was born and raised a Dutch citizen in Aruba and has been living in the United States all of his adult life. He became a US citizen in 2002.

Joe Gerber

Joe Gerber is the founder of IDEO CoLab Ventures and was previously a senior Product Manager at Fidelity Investments.

Matthew Ballensweig

Matthew Ballensweig is the Managing Director, Head of Go Network at BitGo. Presively he was the Managing Director, Co-Head of Trading and Lending at Genesis.

Rochelle Guillou

Rochelle Guillou is a Senior Marketing Lead at Valora and was previously Head of Content Marketing at XMTP, a market researcher at Flipside Crypto and community Project manager at Algorand.

Matthew Walsh

Prior to founding Castle Island Ventures, Matt was a Vice President at Fidelity Investments where he led a number of the firm’s blockchain / cryptoasset initiatives. While at Fidelity, he led the creation, operationalization, and the investment strategy of a private fund focused exclusively on the cryptoasset sector. Matt holds a BS in Business Administration from Babson College and an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

David Kinitsky

David Kinitsky is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Everstake.Previously he worked at Kraken and Circle. He graduated from Cardoso Law School and the University of California, Berkeley.

Shumo Chu

Shumo Chu is the co-founder of NEBRA and the co-founder of sudobase, and previously the co-founder of Manta Network. He graduated from Wuhan University and the University of Washington.

Sam Fang

Sam Fang is the Chief Financial Officer at Blockstream and holds a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

W. Sean Ford

W. Sean Ford is the founder and CEO of XSY and was previously the COO of Algorand. He has extensive experience in advanced operations and listing management, early blockchain and cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and consultants.

Silvio Micali

Silvio Micali received his Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Rome and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1983, he has been a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT. His research interests include cryptography, zero knowledge, pseudo-random generation, Byzantine agreement, secure protocols, mechanism design, and distributed ledgers. Silvio has been awarded the Turing Award (in computer science), the G?del Prize (in theoretical computer science), and the RSA Prize (in cryptography). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academia dei Lincei. He is also the founder of Algorand LLC, a new foundational blockchain developed from scratch on totally new principles which simultaneously guarantees true decentralization, scalability, and security.