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Yarco Hayduk is the Partner at Pragma Ventures . Formerly Senior Blockchain Engineer at Covalent, Blockchain Researcher at Hex Capital. Yarco has in-depth understanding of innovative technologies and trends in the cryptocurrency space. His academic experience includes working as a post-doc at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in the area of Distributed Systems and Scalable Data Processing. He completed his PhD program at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, which focused on Distributed Systems, Concurrency and Transactional Memory. During his PhD studies, Yarco published research papers in the area of concurrent processing of book orders, and has deep understanding of exchange matching engines.
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Levi Aul
Levi Aul is the Chief Technology Officer at Covalent, a blockchain analytics platform. Prior to this role, he was a Systems Engineer at Walter.ai and the Chief Technology Officer at Bex.io. He also founded Peripia, a real-time messaging platform. Levi has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science from Langara College. He has extensive experience in developing and maintaining ETL pipelines and data architectures, distributed-systems engineering, and building horizontally-scalable real-time messaging architectures.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim is Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and formerly a research analyst at CoindDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Henry Liu
Henry Liu is the CEO at BTSE.com. He graduated from The University of British Columbia and MIT-Sloan School of Management.
Anthony Isaacson
Anthony Isaacson is the co-founder and COO of Nimble Network. He graduated from the University of British Columbia.
Simon Vieira
Simon Vieira is the CEO and game producer of MixMob. He graduated from Royal University and the Vancouver Film School
Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi is an investor at Social Graph Ventures. He was previously Head of Marketing and Head of Growth at Covalent.
Ganesh Swami
The CEO and founder of CovalentHQ.com, Ganesh Swami is an expert in blockchain, data, SQL, analytics, and startups. With a personal blog at iamganesh.com, Ganesh has entrepreneurship running deep in his blood. He founded a software consultancy while still in high school, founded the Simon Fraser Linux user group, and built products that have been featured on national television. Ganesh has been in the data space for over 10 years and is well-versed in collecting, storing, searching, and packaging data. He currently leads Covalent, a brand new, venture-backed company dedicated to bridging centralized databases with distributed ledger technologies (blockchains.) Ganesh is passionate about using technology to make the world a better place and has specialties in product development, business development, public speaking, open source, technical marketing, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.
Tom H
Tom H is the chief product officer of AmazeWallet. He was previously the product director of Binance.US and the product director of Crypto.com. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.
Angie
Angie is senior executive and the Chief Strategy Officer at Shipyard Software, a Web3 startup building a fleet of specialized DEXs to suit every crypto trader. Prior to Shipyard, Angie was a management consultant at Accenture Strategy, where she worked with C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies from industries such as Financial Services, Consumer Packaged Goods, and Pharmaceuticals to identify new revenue streams and drive business growth. Angie has served as a startup advisor to early-stage companies in the deep tech space. She has a breadth of experience working with both public companies and early-stage startups. Angie holds a B.Sc degree in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia.
Jay Pozo
Jay Pozo is the head of product at Covalent and was previously the CTO of Predicative. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and Capilano University in Canada.