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Lakshman Sankar, a brain on the internet interested in the future. currently: ETH2+ZKP researcher at Ethereum Foundation. I build things for fun and profit. I like stirring the pot and prefer a world with diversity to one that's maximally efficient. These days, I spend most of my time as a researcher/hacker at the Ethereum Foundation. I spend some remaining time advising/consulting. I've been lucky to work with some really cool companies.
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Brian Gu
Brian Gu is co-founder of 0xPARC and creator of the Dark Forest game.
Max Resnick
Max Resnick is currently a technologist at Anza. He previously worked at ConsenSys and has extensive experience in developing within the Ethereum ecosystem.
Arun Devabhaktuni
Arun Devabhaktuni is a professional with a background in systems biology, physics, and biology. He is currently a Lead Researcher at Mirana Ventures and an Angel Investor at Valhalla Capital. He has also served as the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of ZenMaid Software. Arun has received a PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University School of Medicine and a BS in Physics and Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dan Elitzer
Dan Elitzer is co-founder at Nascent. Previously, Dan co-founded IDEO CoLab Ventures, a crypto-focused venture firm associated with the renowned design agency, IDEO. During that time, he also helped launch YAM Finance. Dan began his career in social enterprise and microfinance, working with both domestic social impact organizations and international development agencies. Dan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he co-founded the MIT Bitcoin Club and MIT FinTech Club, and a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pomona College.
Theo Diamandis
Theo is pursuing an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD at MIT, where he works on algorithms for and applications of mathematical optimization. These interests inevitably led to him being nerd sniped by Guillermo into working on crypto. When he’s not working on optimization solvers for DeFi-related applications, Theo can be found backpacking or skiing in the California Sierras.
Pierre Samaties
Pierre Samaties is Chief Business Officer at DFINITY. He was the former Partner at Roland Berger leading the Global Digital Assets, Web3 and Metaverse practice and the CEO of energy and innovation specialist RWE Middle East.
Christian Reitwiessner
Dr. Christian Reitwiessner is Team Lead at Ethereum, Creator of Solidity - looking for C++ engineers. Created the smart contract programming language Solidity and worked on the C++ implementation of Ethereum. Ethereum is a blockchain-based trusted and transparent decentralised computing platform and Solidity is a statically typed programming language that compiles to the bytecode native to the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Roel Nuyts
Roel Nuyts is VP of Products and AI at Nillion, a technical advisor at Evidium-Contract, and a managing partner at Spirit River Atlas . He has continued his studies in AI at Stanford University and studied the fundamentals of quantum computing at MIT where he received a certificate.
Nitya Subramanian
Nitya Subramanian is the founder of Capsule. He was the former product lead of Celo. Nitya Subramanian graduated from MIT.
Paul Grewal
Paul Grewal is Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer.