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Alex Bazhenov is a founding engineer at Bastion, having previously been lead of Software Engineering at Zero Hash and Head of Technology at Thesis. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Caroline Friedman
Caroline is the Head of Operations at Bastion and former Chief of Staff on the a16z crypto team. Prior to joining a16z crypto, she was at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where she held a Chief of Staff role and a Regulatory Strategy Counsel role. Before that, Caroline worked as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. She has prosecuted cases related to cyber-crime, international terrorism, and the illegal export of sensitive U.S. technology. Caroline has also worked as an associate at Jones Day, and has experience at INTERPOL and the Bureau of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Will Reeves
Will Reeves is the CEO and co-founder of Fold, and was previously the Head of Payments at Thesis. He is a graduate of UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Mike Neuder
Mike Neuder is a Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation and previously a software engineer at Google. He holds a master's degree in computer science and engineering from Harvard University.
Riccardo Esclapon
Riccardo Esclapon is a Senior Data Agent Architect at Cambrian Network, having previously been a Senior Data Scientist at Edge & Node. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Matt Luongo
Matt Luongo is Founder of Thesis, where we build Keep and Fold. Husband and new(ish) dad. He is a developer in Atlanta with a computer science degree from Georgia Tech. He spent his time in school focused on artificial intelligence, networking, and software engineering, and developed a keen appreciation for good coffee. After graduation, he worked with a small consulting & recruiting firm before leaving to co-found Scholrly. As a developer, he strives for elegant solutions to messy problems. As an entrepreneur, he strives for novel solutions to problems we take for granted.
Bill Gleim
William Gleim (Bill) is the Chief Technology Officer of Equideum Health and previously worked at ConsenSys and Ripple. Previously, he created the iot Black Hat Group at Google.
Kyle Weiss
Kyle Weiss is the co-founder and CEO of Passport, previously the Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer and executive Director of Gitcoin, and the co-founder of Colorado.
Carolyn Reckhow
Carolyn Reckhow is the chief operating officer of Thesis and is also responsible for Keep Project, tBTC and other projects. Previously, she worked at Casa, ConsenSys.
Scott Eaton
Scott Eaton is the CEO of Carbonplace. He graduated from the University of Colorado. He was the CEO of Nivaura and a partner of Konsortium Capital Partners. Educated as a lawyer, but with training in finance through a 25+ year career in financial services, primarily in structured credit trading, Scott has demonstrated an ability to quickly learn and adapt to changing situations.
Cooper Turley
Cooper Turley is the Advisor at Audius, Contributing Writer at The Defiant, Editor at DeFi Rate, angel investor in Coop Records.