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Michael Lee is the Cofounder & CEO at Abstract, having been SVP of Growth at Matter Labs, as well as working at Activision, Blizzard, and DFINITY, and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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Gengmo Qi
Gengmo Qi is a Partner at Dragonfly, having led seed investments in companies such as Monad, Kaito, and MegaETH. Prior to joining Dragonfly, Gengmo worked as an engineer at Chainlink Labs, where he spearheaded the development of Chainlink’s MEV product, Fair Sequencing Services. Before that, he focused on designing and implementing consensus algorithms for high-performance EVM Layer-1 blockchains. He graduated from Cornell University and the University of Chicago in the United States.
Marco Cora
Marc Cora is the Head of Business Development at Matter Labs, a role he has held since November 2021. He has previously held various positions in the finance industry, including Partner/Owner at RM Partners, Quant Associate at DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale, and Quantitative Analyst at Depfa Bank. Additionally, Marc has been a board member at Azimut Investment Management, AZ Private Wealth Services Pty Ltd, and AZ Next Generation Advisory. He graduated from Universit¨¤ Bocconi with a degree in Economics and Social Sciences and Economics of New Technology and International Markets. Marc is a CFA certified professional with a 10-year milestone badge and is highly skilled in Economics, Portfolio Management, and Trading
Benjamin Charbit
Benjamin Charbit is the Co-founder & CEO at Life Beyond Studios. Before Life Beyond, Benjamin led Strategic Planning for online games and held the Monetization and Game Director roles at Ubisoft where he contributed to successful AAA titles such as Assassin's Creed or TheDivision. Benjamin began his career as an Investment Banker at Lazard before following his passion for video games and the metaverse. Benjamin graduated in Economics and Finance from The University of Chicago and Paris Dauphine.
Ben Livshits
Ben Livshits is the Chief Technology Officer of Eclipse. Previously, he was the Vice President of Research at zkSync and the Chief Scientist at clipseBrave. He is also an Associate Professor at Imperial College London, a PhD from Stanford University, and a Research Scientist at Microsoft Research. He graduated from Cornell University and Stanford University, has written hundreds of academic papers, and holds dozens of patents.
Terence Kwok
Terence Kwok is the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol and was previously the founder of Tink Labs.
Zack Seward
Zack Seward is a Contributing Editor-at-Large and former Deputy Editor-in-Chief at CoinDesk. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Technical.ly, a network focused on local tech communities on the U.S. East Coast. Prior to that, Seward worked as a reporter covering business and technology for a pair of NPR member stations, WHYY in Philadelphia and WXXI in Rochester, New York. Seward originally hails from San Francisco and went to college at the University of Chicago. He worked at the PBS NewsHour in Washington, D.C., before attending Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Nick Pann
Nick Pann is a co-founder of Sindri and was previously Vice President of Product at TenantBase. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Alvin Kwock
Alvin Kwock is the Co-founder & CEO of OneDegree.Alvin is a member of United Nations ESCAP’s Banking and Finance Task Force, Hong Kong Insurance Authority’s Future Task Force, CUHK Business School’s Advisory Committee in the Department of Finance, and a founding member of Innovate for Future. Alvin started his career in J.P. Morgan and spent 11 years there, prior to founding OneDegree. Alvin was JPM’s Asia-Pacific Head of Emerging Technology and Taiwan Head of Research.
Anshum Bhambri
Anshum Bhambri is the co-founder of FanCraze. Previously, he worked for six years at bulge-bracket investment banks in New York and London, and was involved in trading derivatives and structured products, as well as providing corporate finance and M&A-related advice to technology companies such as Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, and eBay. Anshum is a graduate of Stanford University and The University of Chicago, and holds degrees in Computer Science, Financial Mathematics, and Business.
Jason Teutsch
Jason Teutsch is the founder of TrueBit, a scalable verification solution for blockchains. He has held postdoc positions with Prateek Saxena at NUS, Trent Jaeger at Penn State and Wolfgang Merkle at Universität Heidelberg. Previously he has served as a US Fulbright fellow to Israel and to Hungary. From 2008-2010 he held a research staff position at CCR-La Jolla, and before that he worked at the RAND Corporation. He fulfilled his dissertation research as a CIC Traveling Scholar at the University of Chicago computer science department under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. He earned a PhD in mathematics from Indiana University in 2007, a DM in composition from the IU School of Music in 2004, and a BA in guitar performance and mathematics from Pomona College in 2000.