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Will Liu is the Founder of Yoz Labs. He is an ex-Facebook and ex-Ripple employee, a Y Combinator founder, and wears many hats - both literally and figuratively.
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Ethan Beard
Ethan Beard is the co-founder of Yoz Labs and previously served as Senior Vice President of Ripple Xpring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ron Hammond
Ron Hammond is currently the Head of Policy and Advocacy at Wintermute.Previously he worked at Ripple and Blockchain Association.
Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Amir Mehrbakhsh
Amir Mehrbakhsh is Head of Marketing at Walrus and previously worked at Sui, Celo, and Ripple.
Sabir Alizada
Sabir Alizada was previously Technical Lead at Trust Machines and previously 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.
