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Alexandra Wilkis Wilson is Serial entrepreneur, Investor, NFT enthusiast, champion of women. Co-Founder of Clerisy Capital, Gilt, Glamsquad. NYTimes bestselling author “By Invitation Only”.

MetaCollective DAO

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Liam Horne is Contributor at Optimism PBC, Co-founder of ETHGlobal, State channels developer. Formerly, Co-Founder at  L4V, Director of Engineering at Atomic, CTO at PiinPoint.

Liam Horne

As an entrepreneur, inventor, and investor, Gary Kremen has over twenty five years of experience with emerging growth companies and developing breakthrough technology.

He is founder of several Silicon Valley companies.  In 1993, he founded Match.Com the world’s largest dating company where he came up with he idea of online dating, wrote the original business plan, invested the original capital, lead the design of the product and hired the first 20 employees.  Kremen also founded Clean Power Finance (backed by Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Claremont Creek Ventures), the leading residential solar power financing platform company which over one third of all solar installers in the U.S. run their business upon.  He co-founded, with Ben Dubin, Full Source Software and Los Altos Technologies, early Internet firms.  Gary incubated, was the first outside board member and wrote the first check in Dolores Labs (now Crowdflower), the leading crowdsourcing company.

He is an investor in over 50 companies including such clean technology companies as HydroNovation, Watersmart Software (where he is the Chairman), Sunlink, Carbon Flow, Recurve, Greenbox (acquired by Silver Springs Network), Enmetric, Ready Solar (acquired by Sun Edision), Solar Universe, Lifefactory, People Power Co., Niman Ranch, and Marone Bio Innovations.
Gary is the primary inventor of the seminal U.S. patent for dynamically created web pages, patent #5,706,434 as well as patents #7,698,210 and #7,890,436.  He holds an MBA from Stanford University as well as degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Gary Kremen

Ash Egan is Founder of Acrylic. Formerly Partner and Web3 investor at Accomplice VC. Investing in blockchain and crypto enabled protocols, applications and companies. 

Ash Egan is a Partner at Accomplice focusing on early stage blockchain and crypto investments. Previously, he was a founding Principal on the venture team at ConsenSys, the largest blockchain company in the world, where he led investments in BlockFi, Vault, RocketPool, and Quantstamp. Ash began his career in venture at Converge VC, where he focused primarily on blockchain/crypto and machine learning applications, and led the firm's investment in Chainalysis' seed round. Ash received his AB in American Politics from Princeton University where he captained the Men's Varsity Squash team and played on the National Champion Team in 2012. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and serves as an advisor to university students at Harvard Ventures and uConsortium. Ash has been published in Coindesk, VentureBeat, and the Boston Globe.

Ash Egan

Steve Bennet is founder and managing director of Bodega Partners and is an active participant in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ecosystem as start-up CFO, Angel Investor, and Professor.  Over the past 20 years, he has been CFO, investor, and/or board member of over 50 technology start-ups, primarily in the software, Internet, and mobile sectors. Since 1995 he has taught entrepreneurial finance and is currently adjunct faculty at San Jose State University. He is also on the Steering Committee for the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship and UCLA Venture Capital Fund. Prior to and concurrent with Bodega, Steve was a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, Board Member of Sand Hill Angels, Partner at Menlo Incubator and held various financial and management positions at Bay Logics, Digital Microwave, and Arthur Andersen. Steve earned an undergraduate degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He blogs at www.professorvc.com and tweets @ProfessorVC.

Steve Bennet

Spencer Noon leads investments at Doggie Tail Crypto Capital, a fundamentals-focused crypto fund. Previously he worked at SeatGeek, started an early Bitcoin ATM network, and was an investment management analyst at UBS.

Spencer Noon

Thomas Bailey is Venture Partner at Notation Capital, lead blockchain efforts. He is also General Partner at BitRiver. Formerly, Analyst at Perry Capital.

Thomas Bailey

Michael Anderson is Co-Founder at Framework Ventures. Previously, he was at Hashletes, Snap and Dropbox.

Michael Anderson

Jason Choi is GP, head of research at Spartan Group, Founder of Blockcrunch Podcast.

I lead research at Spartan Capital, a hedge fund investing in decentralized networks. I also host The Blockcrunch Podcast, a popular podcast dissecting the economics and technology behind blockchain projects. I'm fascinated by digital privacy, incentive design and frontier technologies.

Previously, I invested in early stage startups as a founding partner at Contrary Capital, a seed stage venture fund backed by former executives at Tesla, Twitch and MuleSoft. I spent time briefly at Deloitte Consulting, where I supported the firm's Blockchain Lab and Fintech practices, and global macro hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, where I was exposed to Ray Dalio's Principles and became interested in macroeconomics.

I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on blockchain at conferences in New York and San Francisco, and was previously a contributing writer for tech startups on The Huffington Post and Forbes. I share my thoughts regularly on Twitter and Medium, and have appeared on multiple panels and interviews.

Jason Choi

Roham Gharegozlou is Founder and CEO of Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties and upcoming projects like NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain. Former CEO at Axiom Zen, an award-winning venture studio based in Vancouver, BC, creators of ZenHub, Routific, Timeline, and more. Investor/advisor to awesome startups, former VC, relentless optimist. Interests focused on entrepreneurship, technology, bio-medicine and economic development.

Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

Serial entrepreneur, Investor, NFT enthusiast.