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Adam Bates is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at XION, having previously served as Cardano's Chief Marketing Officer and Director of BBDO, a global marketing group. He has deep marketing experience, having been involved in the creation of the Cardano 360 news program, which grew the community audience 25 times in 3 months. Adam is experienced in branding, having worked with leading brands such as Virgin Atlantic, Barclays, Paralympics, Emirates, LEGO, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Samsung and many more. In addition, he spent 11 years as a Director at BBDO in London and has worked with over 300 offices globally.Adam's undergraduate degree is from the University of Manchester.
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Ramu Arunachalam
Ramu Arunachalam is the General Partner at A.Capital. Ramu was most recently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. A computer scientist by training, Ramu has over a decade of operating experience in product management and engineering at both startups and public companies. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Ramu led new product initiatives in Big Data for Aster Data (acquired by Teradata). Earlier in his career, Ramu was an engineer at VMware and part of the team that developed the industry’s first virtual switch for VMware’s flagship ESX server product line. Ramu holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (with University Honors) from Carnegie Mellon University.
TuongVy Le
TuongVy Le is a member of the Board of Directors of the Blockchain Association and previously served as General Counsel at Anchorage, Partner and Chief Regulatory and Policy Officer at Bain Capital Crypto, and Associate General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and Yale University.
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.
John Biggs
John Biggs is Hemi editor-in-chief and founder of TypeWriter Plus, who previously served as content director for Kraken. He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Carnegelung University and a master's degree in business and economics journalism from New York University.
Joe Z.
Joe Z. is the Chief Technology Officer at DeAgentAI, specializing in language translation models for specialized areas. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alexa Smith
Alexa Smith is an advisor & investor for crypto/web3 founders and teams. She was the Beacon Fund Manager at Polychain Capital, where she supports web3 founders and manages the Beacon Fund, which focuses on the Internet Computer ecosystem. Prior to this role, she was the Developer Partnerships Lead at DFINITY and held various other positions in the blockchain and chemical engineering industries. Alexa received her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jake Schwartz
Jake Schwartz is a Venture Partner at New Form focusing on firm strategy. Formerly Jake was co-founder and CEO of General Assembly, which sold to Adecco Group for over $400M in 2018. He has been actively investing in the blockchain sector since 2014 and is passionate about the technology's potential to challenge the existing structure of internet oligopolies. Jake holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.
Andrew Israel
Andrew Israel is an Investment Partner at New Form. Previously, Andrew worked on private credit transactions at Morgan Stanley on the Lev Fin team. He has been an active participant in Web3 networks since 2017 and is motivated by distributed computing's potential to change the way individuals interact with money, property, and each other. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in statistics, data Science, and economics.
Philip Simotas
Philip Simotas is an Investment Partner at New Form focusing on liquid opportunities. He has 30+ years of experience in business development, risk mgmt, operations, and trading. Most recently, Phil was the CFO of Datawhys, a data analytics SaaS firm; COO & head of Business Development of ROW asset mgmt, a $1.5B quantitative global macro fund; and President of FX Concepts, a $14B investment mgmt firm specializing in global fixed income and foreign exchange. Phil graduated magna cum laude from Yale with a BA in Economics.
Piers Ridyard
Piers Ridyard is CEO at Radix. Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the blockchain, crypto and financial services industry. Skilled in Management, Business Development, Finance, Venture Capital, and Private Equity. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), a Bachelor in Chinese and Business, and having achieved the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam, Level 1.
