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Gina Abrams is Growth and People Partner at Blockstack PBC. I started with the company in 2017 prior to our token sale. Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps, powered by blockchain and designed for personal data ownership. With Blockstack, you control your own data and keep your privacy, security, and freedom. She studied Psychology and Social Sciences at Binghamton University. Previously she spent two years in technical recruiting, during which time she assisted numerous NYC start-ups in mission-critical hires.
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Igor Sylvester
Igor Sylvester is a founding member of Ritual and was previously an engineering partner at Trust Machines. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from MIT.
Louise Ivan
Louise Ivan is the co-founder and CEO of Ryder. Louise was the Growth Lead at the Stacks Foundation, leading community and token growth. He holds a master's degree from the University of Amsterdam.
Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin is Co-Founder of Sommelier and Founder at Strangelove. He has been working in the Cosmos ecosystem since 2018, first becoming Director of Product at Tendermint, the company that built the consensus protocol that underpins inter-blockchain communications in Cosmos. He then moved on to become VP of Product at Akash Network. Jack has been developing blockchain projects since 2017, when he joined the engineering team of Blockstack. He holds a BA from Washington and Lee University.
Rena Shah
Rena Shah is Vice President of Product and Operations at Trust Machines and previously he was Head of exchange at Binance.US. He graduated from the University of Houston.
Kyle Ellicott
Kyle Ellicott is a partner at Bitcoin Frontier Fund, COO of Fundamental Labs and head of investor Relations at Stacks. He is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University and Washtenaw Community College.
Sabir Alizada
Sabir Alizada is the Engineering Lead at Trust Machines and was previously a senior Software engineer at WhatsApp and Meta. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University.
Dan Held
Dan Held is a General Partner at Asymmetric and was previously Head of Business Development at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised with the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.
Tycho Onnasch
Tycho Onnasch is a co-founder of Zest Protocol. He was previously general manager of Trust Machines and Chief operating officer of Deedmob. He holds a Bachelor's degree in History and Politics from Oxford University.
Ken (Yukan) Liao
Ken (Yukan) Liao is the Founder & CEO at Xverse Wallet.He graduated from University of Waterloo.
JP Singh
JP Singh is a renowned expert in scalable infrastructure and applications. He earned his PhD from Stanford and is a Computer Science Professor at Princeton. JP is the co-director of Princeton's DeCenter, a center for blockchain technology. He was the interim CTO of Right Media, Inc., a SaaS online advertising exchange that was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 for $850M. Prior to that, JP co-founded CaaStle, Inc., a technology and logistics firm that is revolutionizing the apparel industry with its Clothing as a Service model. He sits on the board of directors of 8x8, Inc., a publicly listed company, where he is currently the Chairman.