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Ahmed Al-Balaghi
Ahmed Al-Balaghi is a co-founder at Biconomy, a blockchain and fintech researcher, and an investor. He is also the founder and co-host of the Encrypted podcast and the Community Partner for Fintech Connector in Dubai. Ahmed's current focus areas in the blockchain space are investments, media, and growing the blockchain and crypto ecosystem both locally and globally, with an emphasis on bridging the gap between East and West. With over two years of experience within the blockchain industry in China, the U.K., and Dubai, Ahmed has developed deep industry expertise and regularly delivers talks and workshops. His research and investments span across blockchain infrastructure and protocol layers, security tokens, digital identity, cryptoeconomics, and exchanges. Ahmed previously worked for Viewfin, a leading Chinese blockchain company, where he headed up their Middle Eastern expansion through office set up, deal sourcing, as well as government and investor relations. He has also launched the first podcast dedicated to blockchain in the Middle East called Encrypted. Ahmed graduated with a first-class degree from Queen Mary University of London, studying Economics and Maths. He was also awarded a scholarship to study Mandarin at Fudan University for two years, where he was the co-founder and President of the Fudan Blockchain Association and the FinTech Lead for an entrepreneurship project in Shanghai with a team of UK-China entrepreneurs and the British Government. Ahmed has also worked in institutions such as Citibank, Dow Jones, and Ofgem. He can speak Arabic and Chinese and enjoys playing FIFA and smoking shisha in his spare time. He also dares you to accept Bitcoin!
Vincent Niu
Vincent Niu is a former partner at Sky9 Capital, focusing on investments in the blockchain industry infrastructure, middleware, application layer (DeFi/NFT) and other fields. He previously founded DappReview, a decentralized application data analysis platform, which was acquired by Binance in 2019. Since then, he has also served as the product leader of CoinMarketCap and has invested in several early NFT and DeFi projects. Prior to this, Niu Fengxuan worked as a quantitative analyst at BlackRock.
Jacky Choi
Jacky Choi is the Co-Founder of Fairdesk. He is a System Architect, High Performance System Designer, and a CFA. Jacky Choi was the Senior System Architect of Binance.
Jiang Xin
Jiang Xin is Investment and Research Lead at SGB, and was previously a founding partner of Old Fashion Research and an investment director at Binance Labs.
Ignacio Martínez Guimerá
Ignacio Martínez Guimerá is the Vice President of Business Development at Layer3, previously responsible for Binance's strategy and BD.
Thomas Yao
Thomas Yao is a founding partner of IMO Ventures and Chief Business Officer of Zero Gravity. He holds a bachelor's degree in applied Physics from Fudan University.
Hakuna Xie
Hakuna Xie is an Investment Director at LD Capital. She has previously worked as a Partner at BlockArk and PR at Binance. She received her education from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics in Shanghai, China.
Rain Long
Rain Long is CHO at HashKey Group, formerly the head of human resources at Binance, and also served as CHO at JD.com. Rain Long graduated from China Europe Business School EMBA and Stanford University Mini MBA.
Erick(Weijen) Wu
Erick(Weijen) Wu is the Chief Marketing Officer at X World Games. Presively was the Head Of Investor Relations Asia at Sympath Capital. Erick(Weijen) Wu graduated from Fudan University and New York University.
Ali Martinez
Ali Martinez was the global head of news at BeInCrypto and a content manager at Binance.