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Stephan Livera is Head of education at Swan Bitcoin. He is an Australian and New Zealand Chartered Accountant and graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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Tharusha Jayasena
Tharusha Jayasena is the chief scientific officer of AxonDAO and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
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.
Benedict Chan
Benedict Chan is Vice President Of Engineering at Chainlink Labs. Formerly, CTO at BitGo. He enjoys thinking about BTC, ETH, the potential of smart contracts and DeFi. As CTO of BitGo, Ben Chan led the engineering team and is responsible for the company’s technological architecture and innovation. Ben began building Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure projects in 2012, including wallet platforms, key management, early blockchain identity management, and machine to machine payments. With vast experience across blockchains and crypto technologies, Ben serves as the core driver for BitGo’s engineering initiatives. Prior to joining BitGo, Ben worked at Microsoft on the conversation understanding platform. Previous to his time at Microsoft, Ben was a partner and quantitative analyst for automated trading at Manticore Investment Group. He also worked as product manager at Zopim Communications and as an engineer at Vr-Zone. Ben holds a degree in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Avocado Guild
Avocado Guild is a co-founder and was previously a co-founder of SnowPak. He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Yan Pritzker
Yan Pritzker, co-founder and CTO of Swan, previously served as CTO and Director of Infrastructure at Reverb. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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.
Raphael Zagury
Raphael Zagury is the Chief Investment Officer of Swan Bitcoin and previously was a managing Director at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from Yale University.
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.
Jeremy Showalter
Jeremy Showalter is Swan's Chief Product Officer and was previously Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Microsoft Vietnam. He has a master's degree from George Washington University.
Cory Klippsten
Cory Klippsten is the CEO of Bitcoin financial services firm Swan.com. He is a partner in Bitcoiner Ventures, El Zonte Capital, and The Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, and as an angel has funded more than 60 early stage tech companies. Before startups, Klippsten worked for Google, McKinsey, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley, and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago. He grew up in Seattle, split 15 years between NYC and Chicago, and now lives in LA with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include basketball, history and travel (Istanbul and Barcelona are favorites).