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Zaki Manian is the Co-Founder at Sommelier. He has deep expertise in cryptography and distributed consensus systems. Additionally, he is an advisor to the Cosmos project, as well as several other investment funds and startups in the space.
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Anton Kaliaev
Anton Kaliaev is Software engineer, polyglot developer, 8 years of experience in commercial software development, not a great programmer; just a good programmer with great habits. I did not focus on any particular language. Instead, I decided to devote more time to fundamental things (how OS works, design patterns, etc.). I like debug and fix complex bugs (using Linux utilities like strace, iostat, tcpdump and others); think about application's architecture and ways to improve it (although, sometimes I feel I do not have enough experience); see how the project I'm working on helps people and makes them happier; share knowledge with my colleagues. I am able to write code on a marker board in Erlang or Ruby or Golang. At various times I wrote > 1000 lines in Golang, Erlang, Ruby, Java, C, Clojure, Javascript, PHP, C# (I forgot last 3 languages). What I use in my daily work: Linux, Git, Ansible, Docker, Tmux, and Vim.
Ankit Wadhwa
Ankit Wadhwa is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rario. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Alfredo Terrero
Alfredo Terrero is the Co-Founder and COO of IntoTheBlock. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Yelena Cavanaugh
Yelena Cavanaugh is general counsel of the Solana Foundation and previously worked at Cooley LLP. He is a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
Robert Leshner
Robert Leshner is the founder of Compound and Superstate, and he also founded Robot Ventures, which invests in early stage blockchain projects.
Stephen Tse
Stephen Tse is the Founder and CEO of Harmony. He sold one of his startups to Apple and worked on infrastructure projects at Google. Stephen has raised $18 million in seed round funding and built a top-level engineering team to develop the next generation of high-performance blockchain protocols.
Evan Rosenbaum
Evan Rosenbaum is the Co-founder and Advisor of Genies. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Akshat Vaidya
Akshat Vaidya is the Head of Investments at Maelstrom Capital, former Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Finance at BitMEX。
Max Galka
Max Galka is the founder and CEO of Elementus. Prior to founding Elementus, he held various positions in the data science and finance industries, including being an adjunct lecturer in data science at the University of Pennsylvania, a derivatives trader at both Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, and a co-founder of Revaluate, a real estate data startup.
Kristi Põldsam
Kristi Poldsam is co-founder of Sommelier Finance, iqlusion and Seven Seas Capital. Before beginning her journey as a blochcain founder, she built out a decade long career in the world of traditional finance, serving as a Merril Lynch analyst, Investment Banker at Rodman & Renshaw and as a Vice President at Cantor Fitzgerald. She is a classically trained economist, earning a degree at Harvard before pursuing her Masters in computer science. Kristi is passionate about enabling more people around the world to leverage the expertise of finance professionals while also benefiting from the transparency and self-custody that blockchains allow. She's also keen on making decentralized finance about more than just crypto - to move beyond the experimental phase of crypto-native impact towards the real world impact, bringing real-world assets onto these new financial rails.