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Urvit (Urv) Goel is the Global Head of BD and Vice president of Optimism, and previously was the VP, Head of Global BD at Polygon and also worked at Amazon. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Vishnu Patankar
Vishnu Patankar is the CTO of Kraken.Before joining Kraken, he was CTO at StockX where he played an integral part in facilitating the company’s growth and launching its NFT offering.
Tess Rinearson
Tess Rinearson is the head of product at OP Labs and previously worked at Twitter and the Interchain Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Carnegie Mellon University.
Baek Kim
Baek Kyoum Kim is Hashed's General Partner and Syndicate Protocol's DAO Founding Investor. Kim is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in IoT and robotics. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and was a founding member of a last-mile logistics startup. Furthermore, Kim is a former Bank of America and Google Lunar XPrize alumnus and holds a degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
Kathleen Chu
Kathleen Chu is Head of marketing communications at Avail, and previously she was Head of Communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.
Sung Cho
Sung Cho is the co-founder and CEO of beoble , previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and is a graduate of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.
Alexa Beaver Smith
Alexa Smith is an advisor & investor for crypto/web3 founders and teams. She was the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
Elaine Shi
Elaine Shi is the co-founder and chief scientist of ThunderCore. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and later obtained a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, serving as an associate professor of computer science at Cornell University.
Wenyi Zhu
Wenyi Zhu is the founder of Kuddo and was previously head of business development at CyberConnect.
Mrinal Manohar
Mrinal Manohar is a Venture Partner with Reflective Ventures. He has been personally investing in the crypto space for six years. Prior to this, he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head of a ~$1b long-only hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston, and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company in Boston. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science since he began programming at age 11.