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Brendan began building innovative technology companies when he was in high school. After several successful exits-including Gamecliff, an in-game marketplace, and okay.com, Hong Kong's largest digital property agency-Brendan became an early investor in blockchain when he co-founded Block.one. He now serves as the Chairman of Bullish.
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Gavin Wang
Gavin Wang is the Managing Partner at SNZ Holding and formerly Director of Business Development & Strategic Investment at Futu Securities.
David Bonanno
David Bonanno is CFOat Bullish and was previously chief financial officer at Far Peak Acquisition Corp. He holds a BA in psychology from Harvard University.
Mothusi Majinda
Mothusi Majinda is the Chief Technology Officer of Bullish and was previously Director of Platform Engineering at BC Group, Assistant Vice President at Credit Suisse, and Analyst at JPMorgan Chase. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Daniel Larimer
Dan Larimer, also known as BM, is a genius programmer and the only creator in the world who has produced three consecutive blockchain products in the top 50 by market capitalization. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. His dream has always been to find a free market solution that can guarantee people's lives, freedom, and property security, and make the world a better place. He realized that everything had to start with free currency. In 2013, many Bitcoin exchanges were shut down by the US government, and bank accounts were also seized. At this time, BM began developing the world's first decentralized exchange, Bitshares, and invented bitUSD, a digital currency pegged to the US dollar. In the following two years, Dan systematically solved many of the problems that blockchain technology encountered in application. For example, for the trading speed requirement of 100,000 transactions per second for exchanges, Dan developed the Graphene technology solution. In early 2016, Dan developed the Steem blockchain based on his new understanding and developed the Steemit social media application on this public chain. The DPoS consensus mechanism he proposed is based on the concept of shareholder voting to elect validators, which is used to prevent three to five large mining pools from attacking the network and achieve maximum decentralization. Concerns about the risks of DPoS are actually ignoring greater risks. The lack of unity between token holders and decision-makers is a greater risk for the network. In 2017, at the New York Consensus Conference, BM introduced the ambitious EOS project to the world, with the goal of becoming the operating system of the blockchain industry and being seen as a strong competitor to Ethereum. With parallel computing, millions of TPS, and no transaction fees, EOS contains several important features that, if successful, will make blockchain technology a truly practical technology.
Sara Stratoberdha Stiefler
Sara Stratoberdha Stiefler is the CEO of CoinDesk. Presively she worked as Vice President, Head of Business Development at Bullish.Sara graduated from Georgetown University.
Ethan Tong
Ethan Tong is the founder and CEO of KnightSafe and was previously the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Aspen Digital and a partner at EVG.
Tom Farley
Tom Farley is the CEO of Bullish and was previously president of the New York Stock Exchange and senior vice president of financial products at Intercontinental Exchange. He holds a BA in political science from Georgetown University.
Chris Tyrer
Chris Tyrer is Bullish's head of Strategy and was previously Head of Institutional & Europe at Fidelity Digital Assets. Prior to joining Fidelity Digital Assets, Mr. Tyrer was a Managing Director at Barclays Investment Bank, where he headed the digital assets project, assessing the market opportunities for the firm. He also served as Global Head of Commodities Trading for Barclays. Before that, Mr. Tyrer was a founding member and Non-Executive Director of SAGAT Capital, a short-term, systematic managed futures firm. He advised the management on all aspects of the business, from trading and risk management to operations and business development. He also held a variety of leadership roles in trading earlier in his career.Mr. Tyrer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jay Chang
Jay Chang is a co-founder of Genopets and was previously the Director of product Marketing at Block.one. He graduated from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.