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Karen Shen currently works on ecosystems at Plasma and was previously an investor in Collab+Currency and a research analyst at Messari. She is a graduate of Queensland University of Technology.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a managing partner at Unsupervised Capital and was previously a senior research analyst at Messari. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Ken Yip
Ken Yip is Director of product at Messari. He graduated from Cardiff University in England.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dale W.
Dale W. is the co-founder and CTO of Karsa and has worked at 10Planet, Messari, TruEra (acquired by Snowflake), and Microsoft, and he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
Mira Christanto
Mira Christanto was previously an Investment Director at DCG, a data analyst at Messari, and a senior portfolio Manager at APG. Mira manages real estate for lease in Indonesia and an urban meditation studio to engage the community in Hong Kong. Most recently, Mira was a Senior Portfolio Manager at APG Asset Management, focused on Real Estate equity investments across Asia Pacific. Since joining APG in 2009, the fund has also grown to the largest of its kind to US$7 billion. Prior to APG, Mira worked at US$15 billion hedge fund TPG-Axon Capital Management, an affiliate of Texas Pacific Group, where she was a private and public market investor across multiple sectors and geographies. Before that, Mira was in Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division in the Leveraged Finance and Restructuring group in New York and worked on a variety of mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and restructuring deals. Mira received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University.
Nathan Lenga
Nathan Lenga is currently working on growth at Plasma, having previously been co-founder and CEO of Kaskade Finance, co-founder of Elektrik Network and Head of Innovation at Zerocap. He is a graduate of Monash University.
Stephen McKeon
Stephen McKeon is a Partner at Collab+Currency and was previously an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Oregon, specifically researching crypto-assets, securities offerings, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions. Stephen McKeon is a graduate of Purdue University.
Jack Purdy
Jack Purdy is Vice President of Sales at Flipside Crypto and was previously Director of Sales at Messari and an analyst at Capital One.
Paul Faecks
Paul Faecks is the founder of Plasma and CEO and co-founder of Alloy, and previously worked at Deribit. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich.
