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Tony Pham was previously Vice President of Marketing at SuperLayer, Head of Marketing at Kadena, Head of Marketing at TrustToken, and Vice President at Life360. He graduated from Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics.
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Stuart Popejoy
Stuart Popejoy is the Founder and CEO of Kadena, with 15 years of experience in building trading systems and exchange backbones for the financial industry. He is also a seasoned musician and composer working in the NYC area. Before co-founding Kadena, Stuart led engineering in the JP Morgan Blockchain Center of Excellence, where he helped develop the open-source blockchain Juno. He is the author and lead developer of the open-source Pact programming language, for fast and safe smart contracts offering formal verification support. In the New York area, Stuart leads and collaborates in numerous acclaimed musical projects, including Sugarlife, Bassoon and Day So Far. He is an active member of the creative/new music scene, playing electric bass and keyboards. Stuart has premiered and released compositions developed using novel algorithmic techniques written in Haskell. He is also a professional recording and mastering engineer. Stuart holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Quartz, as well as other publications.
Will Martino
Will Martino is the Founder and CEO of Kadena, a former JPM and SEC alumnus, and a specialist in distributed systems and formal verification. He was the Lead Engineer for Juno, JP Morgan's blockchain prototype, and was the Tech Lead for the SEC's Cryptocurrency Steering Committee and the Quantitative Analytics Unit.
Jimmy Zhong
Jamie Chung is the former co-founder of IOST. He graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. He was a member of Magna Cum Laude 500 startups. He has founded and exited several successful startups. He was also an early miner of Bitcoin/Ether.
Ryan Rodenbaugh
Ryan Rodenbaugh is CEO/Co-Founder at Wallfacer Labs and formerly Head Of Business Development at TrustToken. Versatile business generalist that loves throwing myself deeply into problems. Experienced in business development/partnerships, operations, and product strategy. He lives in San Francisco and work on the business development team at TrustToken. He is an alum of Arizona State University. He enjoys learning about a number of topics, including blockchain and decentralized applications, artificial intelligence and the future of industry, behavioral psychology, and how to be more rational.
Jacquin Mininger
Jacquin Mininger is the co-founder of Taralli Labs and previously was a software engineer at Kadena. He is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Full Stack College.
Vajresh Balaji
Vajresh Balaji is the head of product at Fantastic Day, having previously been the lead of product at Rally. He is a graduate of Millsaps College.
Edith Yeung
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups. Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Elizabeth Yin
Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. She was previously a Partner at 500 Startups, where she invested in seed-stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. Elizabeth also co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit, which was acquired in 2014. She holds a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Elizabeth has reviewed over 20,000 startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has helped numerous portfolio founders raise hundreds of millions of dollars. Her work and writing on startup fundraising has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Huffington Post, BetaKit, and more.
Stone Gettings
Stone Gettings is the Head of Growth at Mira and previously was Kadena's Partner and Ecosystem Funding Manager. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Arizona's Eller School of Management.
Yubo Ruan
Yubo Ruan is the founder at Parallel Finance and ParaSpace. Yubo is a two-time Stanford University dropout, having studied Computer Science and Economics. He was awarded the "30 under 30" by the LA Post and the Hurun US Innovation Outstanding Award.