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Raagulan Pathy is a co-founder of KAST and was previously Vice president of Asia Pacific and CEO of Singapore at Circle. Previously, he worked at Zoom, Facebook, and Amazon Web Services.
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Nikhil Chandhok
Nikhil is the Chief Product Officer at Circle, responsible for developing accessible and easy-to-use products for all Circle customers. He has extensive experience in developing tech-forward products and software, tailoring advanced mobile devices, streaming video, AI, and Augmented Reality for companies such as Meta, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft.
Sherice Torres
Sherice is formerly Chief Marketing Officer at Circle, and she has more than 25 years of experience in helping cutting-edge brands innovate and engage with customers as a marketing executive at Meta, Google, and Nickelodeon. She has been recognized by the National Diversity Council, Black Enterprise Magazine, and Crain's Business, among others.
Mandeep Walia
Mandeep is the Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Circle. He previously held the role of Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Facebook. Mandeep is responsible for leading Circle's compliance and risk management globally. He has held senior leadership roles in global compliance and enterprise risk management at financial services/fintech companies such as PayPal, LendUp, and State Street. Most recently, Mandeep was the Chief Compliance Officer/Head of Enterprise Risk at Novi, Facebook's digital wallet business.
Christina Smedley
Christina Smedley is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Lightspark. She has led marketing, communications, content and branding teams at Amazon, Facebook/Meta, PayPal and Robinhood.
Guillermo Angeris
Guillermo is a Stanford lifer (BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering). He spends most of his work time in a dark corner of a room, figuring out random math problems for fun. He also loves to work with teams to model many of the weird (and fascinating) incentives in DeFi and beyond. Outside of work, Guillermo likes to cook pizza, hike, and have long, silly conversations with friends over wine.
Abhinav Vora
Abhinav Vora is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperline. He was previously the head of engineering at Lyft Pink and a software engineer at Meta and Microsoft. He graduated from RMIT University.
Sahil Thaker
Sahil Thaker is the co-founder of Hyperline and previously worked at Microsoft, Uber, and Meta. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Oakland.
Sabir Alizada
Sabir Alizada is the Engineering Lead at Trust Machines and was previously a senior Software engineer at WhatsApp and Meta. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University.
Daniel Chavez
Daniel Chavez is Unchained's COO and previously served as the Senior Manager of Global market Operations at Meta. He is a graduate of Pittsburg State University.
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