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Marieke Flament was previously CEO of Near Foundation and Chief Marketing Officer of Circle. He holds a master's degree in information security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Arpit Sharma
Arpit Sharma is Head of Ecosystem at Aethir and previously COO at PWR Chain. He has also worked at the NEAR Foundation with Polygon Technology.
James Cheng
James Cheng is the Chief Financial Officer of Canaan. His resume includes vice president of Zhaopin Recruitment, financial director of Lenovo China and Asia Pacific, senior sales financial director of Nokia China, and demand planning manager of Effem Foods Beijing (Mars Inc.).
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.
Chaosmos
Chaosmos is the Head of Asia at Botanix and previously worked at CoinDesk and NEAR Protocol. He graduated from Columbia Journalism School.
Yadira Blocker
Yadira Blocker is Head of Events for the NEAR Foundation. She graduated from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Lorny Pfeifer
Lorny Pfeifer is the Grants Lead at Safe and was previously the community Manager for NEAR Protocol.
Dafu Gao
Dafu Gao is a partner at OnePiece Labs. He graduated from Lehigh University and holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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).
Alexis Masseron
Alexis Masseron is the Co-founder and CEO of Atlendis Labs. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at ConsenSys. His educational background includes ESME and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Jane Lippencott
Jane Lippencott currently works at Volt Capital and was previously a partner at a16z Crypto, a partner at Winklevoss Capital, and also worked at Distributed Global.