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Inal Kardan is a partner at TON Ventures and was previously Head of gaming at the TON Foundation and co-founder and CTO of Meta0. He graduated from the National University of Management (SUM).
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Howard Peng
Howard Peng works at TON Ventures and was previously Head of Development Relations for Asia at Ton. He previously worked as a data analyst at Nascent and Binance.
Ian Wittkopp
Ian Wittkopp is a managing Partner at TON Ventures, having previously joined Sino Global Capital in mid-2017, where he has led the investment team on more than 50 transactions. Previously, Ian spent six years as an economist and budget analyst at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in Washington, DC. At the BLS he worked on inflationary indexes in the Producer Price Index program before moving to the budget office and overseeing day-to-day execution of a USD $600M+ annual budget. He also led special projects including a ten-person team that worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to establish a joint survey on small business credit conditions. Ian also spent time as a product manager for an insurtech start-up, Bowtie Life Insurance. At Bowtie he led the launch of a digital microinsurance product that aimed to increase coverage among foreign workers from the Philippines and Indonesia who moved to Hong Kong for employment. Ian received his bachelor’s degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. and his MBA from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Lisa Ferdman
Lisa Ferdman is the Head of Events and Production at TON Foundation.
Daniel Yang
Daniel Yang is the former head of Global Business development at the TON Foundation and is currently the founder of T-Fund.
Nan W.
Nan was previously a mergers and acquisitions analyst at Binance Labs and now works at the TON Foundation.
Jason Fung
Jason Fung was previously the CEO of Meta0 and previously served as TikTok’s global head of gaming.
Steve Yun
Steve Yun is the founder of TVM Ventures and serves as the Board Member of the TON Foundation. Prior to this, he worked at Koinvestor and InterCP.
Pavel Durov
Pavel Durov is the CEO and founder of Telegram, a messaging application that has attracted over 60 million active users in less than two years since its launch in 2013. Before that, Pavel founded VK – the most popular social network in Russia and some other countries, with over 100 million active users. In early 2014, Pavel left Russia and VK to focus on developing Telegram.
Vlad Degen
Vlad Degen is DeFI Lead at the TON Foundation.
Max Crown
Max Crown is the co-founder and board director of MoonPay and CEO of Ton. He graduated from City University London with a Masters in Finance. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
