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Walt Smith is a partner at Standard Crypto and was previously the executive director of Cyber Fund and the head of venture capital at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Grove City College.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a managing partner at Unsupervised Capital and was previously a senior research analyst at Messari. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Ken Yip
Ken Yip is Director of product at Messari. He graduated from Cardiff University in England.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Alok Vasudev
Alok Vasudev is Co-Founder of Standard Crypto, Early-stage technology investor. Formerly, Partner at s28 Capital.
David Schwed
David Schwed is Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood and previously was COO at Halborn and global Head of digital Asset Technology at the Bank of New York Mellon.
Nick Garcia
Nick Garcia is currently the Investment Partner at Breed VC.Previously he worked at Messari.
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.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Will Nuelle
Will Nuelle is a General Partner at Galaxy Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in protocol layer infrastructure, DeFi applications, and software products. He began his career at Galaxy in Research, where he developed quantitative risk software for trading. Prior to Galaxy, he interned at FOAM and built incentive simulations for the Ethereum protocol. He holds B.S. degrees from Stanford University in Mathematics and Architecture. Furthermore, he is a Board Member for Skolem Technologies and has led more than 13 investments for Galaxy.
Erin Brown
Erin Brown is the Chief Operating Officer of Galaxy Digital. She is a seasoned executive with significant experience in treasury, risk, and trading operations. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Brown served as Chief Risk Officer at Jump Trading and was formerly the Head of Global Treasury and Operations at DRW.
