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Tascha Punyaneramitdee is the Founder and CEO of Alpha Finance Lab, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lab for researching and innovating in the DeFi space. Their vision is to reform traditional finance in a decentralized manner. She has worked in San Francisco, London, and Bangkok, and was previously the Head of Strategy at Band Protocol, a Product Manager at Tencent, and an Investment Banker at Jefferies.
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Tascha Panpan
Tascha Panpan is the founder and CEO of INIT Capital, as well as the founder and advisor of Stella, and previously was Head of strategy for Band Protocol. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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.
CAI Yige
CAI Yige is the founder of PunkCode and was previously the general manager of blockchain at Tencent. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Nanjing University.
Jonathan Lai
Jonathan Lai is Partner at Andreessen Horowitz on the consumer team, investing in games, crypto, and social. Today, Jon serves on the board of Elodie, Mainframe Industries, Mountaintop, Singularity 6, and StarStock, and helped lead the firm's investments in RTFKT, Roblox, Parsec, Lowkey, and Z League, among others. Before joining Andreessen Horowitz, Jon led the North America games investments team at Tencent. Prior, Jon was a product manager at Riot Games, the developers of League of Legends, where he shipped the Riot API and Merch Store before the company was acquired by Tencent. He started his career in investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Jon graduated from Harvard University with an MBA and BA in Economics, and lives in the Bay Area with his family.
Joshua Wu
Joshua Wu is Founding Engineer at OpenSea, Ex-Facebook, Founded Heaven Zero.