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Alpin Yukseloglu is a partner at Paradigm and previously served on the Executive Board of Blockchain at Berkeley. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Engineering.
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Katie Biber
Katie Biber is the Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance and policy functions. Previously, she was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Before Brex, Katie was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and she has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Additionally, Katie serves on the boards of directors of Anchorage, Code for America and Protocol Labs. She is a veteran of political campaigns, having served as General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from George Washington University.
Nathan Apsel
Nathan Apsel is the Chief Financial Officer at Maveron. Prior to joining Maveron, he was the Chief Financial Officer at 8VC and Paradigm. Before that, he was a Senior Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he was part of the Asset Management Practice. Nathan holds a Master of Accounting and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Oregon.
Gina Moon
Gina Moon is General counsel at Paradigm and former General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at OpenSea. She previously worked at Facebook and Uber. Gina Moon is a graduate of Columbia Law School.
Dan Robinson
Dan Robinson is a General Partner and the Head of Research at Paradigm, focused on crypto investments and research into open-source protocols. Previously, Dan was a protocol researcher at Interstellar. Before Interstellar, Dan practiced as a litigation attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.
Justin Slaughter
Justin Slaughter is the Policy Director at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he was the Director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Allison Herren Lee. Justin also served as Chief Policy Advisor and Special Counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and General Counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey. He has also worked as a consultant in private practice, focusing on fintech and smaller technology companies. To begin his career, Justin was a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
John Patten
John Patten is the co-founder of TreasureDAO and was previously the Head of Growth at Osmosis.
Matt Huang
Matt Huang is co-founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm. Previously, he was a partner at Sequoia Capital, focusing on early-stage venture investments, including leading the firm's cryptocurrency efforts. Matt was the founder and CEO of Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012, and was an angel investor in companies such as Bytedance and Instacart. He bought his first Bitcoin from MtGox in 2012. Matt holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.
David Swain
David Swain is Paradigm's chief marketing officer and was previously vice president of global partnerships at Strava and head of global communications at Instagram. He is a graduate of St. Lawrence University.
Sunny Aggarwal
Founder of Osmosis Labs, Sunny Aggarwal, has been developing blockchain technologies since he was an engineering student at UC Berkeley. There, he founded the renowned Blockchain at Berkeley student organization and taught the Blockchain Fundamentals course. In the summer of 2017, Sunny discovered Cosmos and left college after two years to work on the BFT consensus engine Tendermint. Additionally, he is a Co-Founder and Co-Host of the Epicenter podcast, a leading tech podcast in crypto since 2013, and a Co-Founder of Sikka, a validator company running the largest validator on the Cosmos Hub.
Alexander Grieve
Alexander Grieve is the Government Affairs at Paradigm. Presively he was Vice President at Tiger Hill Partners. Alexander Grieve graduated from Yale School of Management.
