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Tausif Ahmed is Vice President of BD at io.net and previously he was Head of NFT and Web3 Business Development at Kraken. He graduated from Drexel University.
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Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is the CTO of io.net and previously worked at Binance, Amazon, and eBay.
Vishnu Patankar
Vishnu Patankar is the former Chief Technology Officer at Kraken. Prior to joining Kraken, he was the CTO of StockX, where he played an integral role in growing the company and launching NFT products. Vishnu Patankar is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Emiliano Bonassi
Emiliano Bonassi is Head of Product at Conduit, and was previously Head of Research at Immunefi, co-founder of Rentable, and CTO at HAL.
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.
Sunny Ray
Sunny Ray is the co-founder of Unocoin, an India-based startup that aims to make it easy to securely buy, sell, and store bitcoin. He has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, when he directed Business Development for Buttercoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrency trading firms. Sunny operates beyond the level of pure business & always considers relevant social, economic, environmental, political and cultural issues in the local, regional, national & global level. He is incredibly passionate about sales and business development with a drive to create partnerships and opportunities in new geographies. His drive is to work inside emerging and disrupting industries while leveraging his strengths in developing international markets. Since December 2013, he is the President of Unocoin, a leading bitcoin and blockchain company. Unocoin is a platform that makes it easy to securely trade bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto-assets. Unocoin employs more than 100 employees and serves millions of customers. The company is also backed by some of the most reputable investors in the space such as DCG.co (which is backed by CIBC, MasterCard, etc), Boost.vc (backed by Tim Draper, early investor in Hotmail, Skype and Tesla), FundersClub (early investors in Coinbase), etc. He also has a strong interest and international experience in robotics and mechatronic systems. Prior to 2013, Sunny spent nearly 8 years doing sales and international business development in the robotics and mechatronics industry. His clients included Stanford, University of Alberta, Georgia Tech, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Indian Institute of Technology, etc. Sunny is an advocate for and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Club in Toronto. He looks forward to leveraging his extensive international business development experience and applying it towards the new and emerging Canadian Cannabis Industry.
Irfan Shaik
Irfan Shaik is the founder of Interstate and previously worked at Snap and AWS. He graduated from Rutgers University.
John Biggs
John Biggs is Hemi editor-in-chief and founder of TypeWriter Plus, who previously served as content director for Kraken. He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Carnegelung University and a master's degree in business and economics journalism from New York University.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Ted
Ted is a co-founder of DILL, and was previously a co-founder and CTO of Secure3, a software engineer at Amazon, and a founding developer at CertiK. He has a master's degree in computer science from Yale University.