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Hadley Stern is Marinade's Chief Business Officer and was previously the founder of Fidelity Digital Assets and COO of Bloq. He is a graduate of Concordia University. He is committed to pushing technology and financial services forward within regulatory frameworks. From 2021 to 2023 at the Bank of New York Mellon, Stern led the development of the first bank-grade crypto-custody platform as the Global Head of Digital Asset Custody, integrating Bitcoin and Ethereum custody into banking systems under regulatory oversight. At Bloq, from 2018 to 2020, as COO, he significantly boosted revenue and managed operations, overseeing P&L and the product roadmap for a leading blockchain infrastructure company. His earlier role at Fidelity Investments from 2001 to 2018 includes serving as the Founding President of Fidelity Digital Asset Services, launching trading and custody services for digital assets, and leading initiatives in Fidelity's Blockchain Incubator starting in 2014.
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Emiliano Bonassi
Emiliano Bonassi is Head of Product at Conduit, and was previously Head of Research at Immunefi, co-founder of Rentable, and CTO at HAL.
Matthew Roszak
Matthew Roszak is Co-Founder and Chairman of Bloq Blockchain Technologies, Founding Partner of Tally Capital, Co-Founder of Vesper, and Founder of Metronome, a Next-Generation Cryptocurrency. He is a Leading Blockchain Investor, Entrepreneur, and Advocate. He also serves as the Chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce Blockchain Industry Association, Founder of Token Alliance, and a Board Member of BitGive. He is also the Founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center and the Producer of the industry's first documentary, "The Rise of Bitcoin".
Christina Smedley
Christina Smedley is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Lightspark. She has led marketing, communications, content and branding teams at Amazon, Facebook/Meta, PayPal and Robinhood.
John C. Vernaleo
John C. Vernaleo is Hemi's Head Engineer and Vice President of Engineering at Bloq. He holds a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland.
Ricky Tsang
Ricky Tsang is the Chief Information Officer at Meex and formerly served as CIO at BC Group. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
Irfan Shaik
Irfan Shaik is the founder of Interstate and previously worked at Snap and AWS. He graduated from Rutgers University.
David Schwed
David Schwed is Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood and previously was COO at Halborn and global Head of digital Asset Technology at the Bank of New York Mellon.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Ted
Ted is a co-founder of DILL, and was previously a co-founder and CTO of Secure3, a software engineer at Amazon, and a founding developer at CertiK. He has a master's degree in computer science from Yale University.
Nazreen
Nazreen is a Software Engineer at LayerZero, and was previously Head of Developer Relations at SOON, Technical Lead at Blockchain Sherpa, and a Software Engineer at AWS.