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Founder of Osmosis Labs, Sunny Aggarwal, has been developing blockchain technologies since he was an engineering student at UC Berkeley. There, he founded the renowned Blockchain at Berkeley student organization and taught the Blockchain Fundamentals course. In the summer of 2017, Sunny discovered Cosmos and left college after two years to work on the BFT consensus engine Tendermint. Additionally, he is a Co-Founder and Co-Host of the Epicenter podcast, a leading tech podcast in crypto since 2013, and a Co-Founder of Sikka, a validator company running the largest validator on the Cosmos Hub.
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Jin Kwon
Jin Kwon is co-founder and chief strategy officer of Saga and previously served as vice president of corporate development at Ignite. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dev Ojha
Dev Ojha is a co-founder of Sikka and a contributor to Cosmos&Osmosis. He is a graduate of the School of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a research assistant.
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.
Adriana Laura Mihai
Adriana Laura Mihai is the VP of Marketing and Community at Ignite.
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.
Claire Hough
Claire Hough is Lyte's CTO and previously served as VP of Engineering at Apollo GraphQL. Prior to joining Lyte and Apollo, Claire led all engineering-related efforts for Udemy's corporate geographically distributed teams. Before joining Udemy, she held executive positions at Citrus Lane, NexTag, Napster, and Netscape. Claire has led the delivery of innovative software platforms, infrastructure middleware, tools and applications and has a track record of building and growing strong global teams focused on innovation, quality and customer service. Claire holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and an MS in Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley.
Lucas Bertrand
Lucas Bertrand is the Head of Product at Ignite. He is an Engineer and product manager specialized in blockchain, web3, and DeFi technologies.