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Sreeram Kannan is an information scientist, entrepreneur, and associate professor at the University of Washington. He is the founder of Eigenlayer and has expertise in information sciences and its applications in blockchains, AI, wireless, and computational biology. Sreeram earned his Ph.D. in information theory of wireless networks and distributed computation from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has also completed internships at Qualcomm and Microsoft, and holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Vyas Krishnan
Vyas Krishnan is a Product Manager at EigenLayer with experience in programming, entrepreneurship, and financial services. He previously worked as a Product Owner at Nium and founded a subscription-based catering company. He has also interned at US Foods, where he designed and implemented a prototype infrastructure using TensorFlow, engineered scalable cloud ETL processes, and migrated legacy database solutions to modern cloud architecture. Vyas has a background in business strategy and has conducted exploratory data analysis and developed scoring models as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Vyas Krishnan
Vyas Krishnan is the head of product at EigenLayer. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jon Jones
Jon Jones is the Co-Founder of Supra. He is also involved in web3 venture studio Unitychain, where he co-founded and helped launch several blockchain projects in the region. Previously, he was the president of the Taiwan chapter of the Government Blockchain Association, where he advocated for the strategic advancement of blockchain technology in the government and corporate sector.
Caoimh Conway
Caoimh Conway is a Research Data Engineer at Polychain Capital and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Data Science. Caoimh previously worked as an Emergency Medical Technician for Falcon Ambulance.
Eduard Kotysh
Eduard Kotysh is Founder, CEO at Solidified. Tech executive working on blockchain security and in my free time doing biomedical research in Genetics. Presented at: - Harvard Business School - TechCrunch - Numerous blockchain conferences - Facebook and Amazon Re:Invent
Yijia Chen
Yijia previously led the backend team of Treelab, a Sequoia-backed Series A company. He is now founding Curio, where he is spearheading the development of a new generation of crypto-powered games with massive social UGC.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Kevin Lehtiniitty
Kevin Lehtiniitty is co-founder and chief technology officer of Fortress Trust Company. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Soubhik Deb
Soubhik Deb is Head of protocol research at EigenLayer and was previously a research associate at the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Washington.
Holly Liu
Holly Liu is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner at PKO Investments. Formerly, Visiting Partner at Y Combinator, Co-Founder of Kabam. She founded the venture backed mobile gaming company, Kabam in 2006 with UC Berkeley alumni. Her work has contributed to record revenue growth for Kabam year over year from $0 to $400MM annually, that led Kabam into the unicorn club in 2014. She led the design for Kabam’s award-winning "Kingdoms of Camelot" franchise, which has grossed over $250 million in less than four years. She was also the founding mobile designer for extension Kingdoms of Camelot: Battle for the North, which was the top grossing app on iOS in 2012. She was Chief Development Officer in charge of developing Kabam internationally through key relationships - starting with China. Among other things, she continues to develop global cultural initiatives within Kabam.