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Sheldon Xia is the Founder & CEO at BitMart. He also is the Founding Partner at Cipholio Ventures.Sheldon X. graduated from Columbia University and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
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Lee Fan
Lee Fan is chief strategy officer at Bitmart and partner at Cipholio Ventures.
Kaimin Hu
Kaimin Hu is Chief Commercial Officer at Bitmart and Partner at Cipholio Ventures and EMURGO. Kaimin graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Computer Engineering and obtained a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jonas Zhao
Jonas Zhao is the investment director of Cipholio Ventures and graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Eric Bai
Eric Bai is a founding partner of Cipholio Ventures and CEO of Meta Era. He previously worked at Binance and Bitmart. He graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law and New York University.
Yuki Yuminaga
Yuki Yuminaga is a lead researcher at Distributed Capital and was previously a co-founder of Byto. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Michael Toporek
Michael Toporek is the Co-CEO of Soluna Holdings and Managing General Partner at Brookstone Partners. He graduated from the University of Chicago in the United States.
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.
Duncan Hoffman
Duncan Hoffman is the chief revenue officer at Kiln and previously worked at Chainalysis. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
Peter Knez
Peter Knez is the Chairman of Venom Foundation.Peter Knez is a former Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock.Prior to that, Peter held positions with Lincoln Capital Management and Goldman Sachs, where he led quantitative research and fixed income. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Peter held professorship positions at Kellogg School of Management, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Peter completed his PhD work at The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, with a research focus on term structure models and asset allocation.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a partner at Dragonfly and was previously a researcher and engineer at Chainlink. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.