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Josh Felker is co-founder of Nascent. Previously, he founded Vigilant Global Trading in Montreal, which was acquired by DRW Trading in 2012, where he spent five years as a partner overseeing liquidity provision, risk/directional trading, venture capital, cryptocurrency trading, and more. Josh holds a Bachelor's degree in Genetics from Western University.
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Michael Sanders
Michael Sanders is the Chief Storyteller and Co-Founder of Horizon Blockchain Games. He is an investor and advisor in various industries, including blockchain, clean energy, education, real estate, precious stones, music, and dance. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Ayahuasca: An Executive's Enlightenment. Michael is passionate about storytelling, exploration, athletics, and movement. He practices sound nutrition, regular introspection, daily meditation, and play. He strives to embody unconditional love and to treat each and every thing and person as a sovereign being that is free to make its own choices.
Jonathan Mui
Jonathan Mui is the co-founder and CEO of Moongate. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Canada.
Austin Abell
Austin Abell is formerly Software developer at NEAR Protocol and Technical Lead at ChainSafe Systems. Ugraded go-ethereum classic Atlantis and Aghara hard forks; Developed Ethermint, EVM on Tendermint, with support for existing Ethereum dev tooling; Led a team to build Forest, a Rust Filecoin node implementation.
Joshua Field
Joshua Field is the co-founder and managing partner of Contango Digital Assets and previously worked at Monex Group. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Jason Sheman
Jason Sheman is the COO of Bitcoin.com. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Ethan Jackson
Ethan Jackson is the co-founder and research lead at Theori. Ethan was formerly at Vector Institute, where he met and worked with Ron Bodkin, the now-CEO of ChainML, as technical lead with focuses on privacy in machine learning, deep learning-based forecasting, and reinforcement learning to advance the adoption of emergent AI technologies. Ethan focused on computer science, deep learning, and time series models, which led him to get a post-doctorate in AI technology.
Theresa Regenstreif
Theresa Regenstreif leads Finance, Operations, and People at Nascent. Previously, Theresa was Head of Finance at an early stage Fintech company that was acquired, with a VC who built and invested in early stage consumer facing Fintech companies, and worked with an impact investor seeding early stage agribusinesses in sub-Saharan Africa. Theresa holds a graduate degree in Accountancy from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.
Jamil Nazarali
Jamil Nazarali is the Executive Chair at EDX Markets.Presively, he worked as Global Head of Business Development at Citadel Securities.He graduated from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and holds an MBA degree from the University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
Jacob Franek
Jacob Franek is the co-founder and COO of Alliance and previously served as the co-founder and COO of Coin Metrics. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario and holds a Master's degree in Community Health and epidemiology from the University of Toronto.
