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Walt Smith is a partner at Standard Crypto and was previously the executive director of Cyber Fund and the head of venture capital at Galaxy Digital. He graduated from Grove City College.
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Sami Kassab
Sami Kassab is a managing partner at Unsupervised Capital and was previously a senior research analyst at Messari. He graduated from Arizona State University.
Ken Yip
Ken Yip is Director of product at Messari. He graduated from Cardiff University in England.
John Cahill
John Cahill is Galaxy Digital's Chief Operating Officer for Asia.
Christine Kim
Christine Kim was previously Vice President of Research at Galaxy Digital and a Research Analyst at CoinDesk. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in International Relations and Economics, and her interests include writing and researching emerging technologies.
Ryan Selkis
Ryan Selkis is the Founder & ex-CEO of Messari, and was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at ConsenSys and a founding team member at the industry's most active investor, Digital Currency Group, and the largest media brand, CoinDesk. He is also working on new ventures and angel investing.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan is a co-founder and general Partner of DBA and previously was co-head of Investments at Galaxy Digital. Michael previously led Galaxy's efforts on Fireblocks (Series A, B, and C), Tagomi (now Coinbase Instituteal), and Bison Trails (now Coinbase) Cloud), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and other foundational winners.
Mason Nystrom
Mason is a junior partner at Pantera Capital and was previously an Investment partner at Variant and Senior Research Analyst at Messari. Before Messari, Mason worked at ConsenSys as a Content Marketer focused on marketing strategy for ConsenSys and its portfolio companies. Mason first entered the crypto industry as an Analyst at Gatecoin, the first cryptocurrency exchange to list ether, Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency. Mason obtained his Master’s in Business Management at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Alok Vasudev
Alok Vasudev is Co-Founder of Standard Crypto, Early-stage technology investor. Formerly, Partner at s28 Capital.
Dale W.
Dale W. is the co-founder and CTO of Karsa and has worked at 10Planet, Messari, TruEra (acquired by Snowflake), and Microsoft, and he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
David Schwed
David Schwed is Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood and previously was COO at Halborn and global Head of digital Asset Technology at the Bank of New York Mellon.
