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Jezerc Jack Begaj is the COO of CMS Holdings and previously worked at Circle and PWC. He is a graduate of Bentley University and Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.
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Jonathan Geenty
Jonathan Geenty is a venture partner with Accomplice VC, where he focus on pre-seed and seed investments in the blockchain industry. Formerly, Data Scientist at Coin Metrics, Data Science and Financial Product at Hometap, OTC Trading - Quantitative Trader and Data Engineer and Market Analyst at Circle.
Jeremy Fox-Geen
Jeremy, the Chief Financial Officer at Circle, brings 25 years of experience in corporate finance and financial services. He has served as a strategic advisor, operator, and finance officer, and has held senior leadership roles at iStar and Safehold, McKinsey, PwC, and Citigroup, as CFO, management consultant, and finance officer.
Michael Leonard
Michael Leonard is Vice President of Finance at CMS Holdings and previously was a senior accountant at Kraken and Circle. He is a graduate of Suffolk University and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Dante Disparte
Dante Disparte is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading digital financial services firm building the most trusted treasury and payments infrastructure for the internet. Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact. He has two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.
Simon Wu
Simon Wu is the co-founder of Meex and formerly served as the chief security officer of Huobi.
Phil Chang
Phil Chang is the Deputy General Counsel at Solana and previously worked at Ropes & Gray LLP. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Boston College.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.
Gala Wen
Gala Wen has joined zkSync. Previously, she was the Director of Ecosystem Development at BNB Chain, Head of Partnerships at OKX Marketplace, Investment Director at Zonff Partners, and Auditor at PwC. She graduated from the University of Washington.
Yam Ki Chan
Yam Ki Chan is Vice President and Managing Director of Circle Singapore Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he held strategic and public policy roles at Google Pay and Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google, Yam Ki served as the Director of Global and Asian Economic Affairs at the White House National Security Council, where he coordinated U.S. economic strategy in Asia and was involved in negotiations related to the Group of Twenty (G20) and Group of Seven (G7).
Lily Zhang
Lily Zhang is the CFO of Xinhuo Technology and the co-founder of D11 Labs. She was previously the CFO of Huobi. She was responsible for the US stock listing of Canaan Technology (CAN.US), worked for Guotai Junan Securities and PricewaterhouseCoopers, and has more than 10 years of experience in corporate financing, auditing, and mergers and acquisitions. Zhang Li graduated from Tsinghua University.