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Matt is the CEO and Co-Founder of Alluvial Finance. Alluvial is building the enterprise liquid staking standard. Recently, he was the Head of Liquid Staking Products at Figment, a blockchain infrastructure company focused on building web3. Prior to joining Figment, Matt spent 12 years in the proprietary trading space, leading teams in building high-frequency, algorithmic trading systems. He was a Partner and Managing Director at Transmarket Group. Matt graduated from Purdue University with a degree in Computer Engineering and from the University of Chicago with a Master's in Computer Science.
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Anthony Spezzano
Anthony Spezzano was previously Head of Growth at Hyperlane and was Chief Portfolio Analyst at Figment. He graduated from York University in Canada.
Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Gavin Birch
Gavin Birch is the founder of Knowable and was previously a blockchain protocol analyst at Figment Networks.
Stephen McKeon
Stephen McKeon is a Partner at Collab+Currency and was previously an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon, specifically researching crypto-assets, securities offerings, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions. Stephen McKeon is a graduate of Purdue University.
Jiang Xuxian
Jiang Xuxian is the founder of PeckShield, the Chief Scientist of 360, and a professor at the University of North Carolina.
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Terence Kwok
Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol and was previously the founder of Tink Labs.
Zack Seward
Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Nick Pann
Nick Pann is a co-founder of Sindri and was previously Vice President of Product at TenantBase. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Alvin Kwock
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder & CEO of OneDegree.Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force, CUHK Business School’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Finance, and a founding member of Innovate for Future. Alvin started his career in J.P. Morgan and spent 11 years there, prior to founding OneDegree. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research.
