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Valentine Samko is the Chief Technology Officer of Wintermute. Before joining Wintermute, Valentine was working on a low latency trading platform at XTX, a leading global quantitative trading firm. Valentine holds a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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SJ Oh
Oh Seung Joon is a Co-Founder and COO of Pow.re, a position he has held on a full-time basis since November 2019. Prior to that, he worked as the Director and Head of Custody and Prime Sales at OSL, and as a VP Trader for 1 year and 8 months. He has also held positions as a Sales Trader at Morgan Stanley and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Oh Seung Joon holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from Korea University.
Ronson Chau
Ronson Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of BULB. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley.
Thomas Chippas
Thomas Chippas is the CEO of Argo Blockchain. Previously, he was CEO of ErisX and COO of Axoni.
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.
Ilya Veller
Ilya Veller is co-founder and CFO of Gear Technologies and has more than 20 years of experience working with high net worth individuals and global hedge funds at Renaissance Capital, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. He is a graduate of New York University and Wisconsin Business School.
Robert Bogucki
Robert Bogucki is a portfolio manager at Brevan Howard Digital and previously was a managing director at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Cornell University in the United States.
Natalie Funai
Natalie Funai is head of strategic operations at CoinList, having previously worked at BlackRock and Morgan Stanley. She is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
Jan-Philip Grabs
Jan-Philip is a founding partner at web3 Studios, an investment banking firm facilitating mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and secondary transactions in the web3 & digital assets space. Previously, JP was a private equity investor at Blackstone and gained experience at Boston Consulting Group and Barclays Investment Bank. He earned his M.A. in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Yoann Turpin
Yoann Turpin is Co-Founder & Head Of Business Development at Wintermute. After more than a decade in trading, investing, advising startups and building a few businesses, I decided to join Evgeny and Harro to co-found Wintermute Trading, an algorithmic liquidity provider in the crypto space. We are now 3 years old , have 15 staff, 3 investment rounds under our belts - proudly backed by Lightspeed, Blockchain.com and a cool bunch of angels. We are very much striving for a culture of excellence and fair practices in this maturing space. I currently lead our business development, focused on maximising our access to flow and always trying to add value to anyone I interact with. In general, I am passionate about entrepreneurship, technology and finance and have invested in a good few start-ups (near 30 directly and 60 indirectly).
Luke Li
Luke Li is the Head of Markets at Amber Group. Previously, Luke was a Credit Strat, FID Department at Morgan Stanley. Luke holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the Columbia University.