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Cecilia Li is Founder of Formless Capital, early stage investor, builder. Formerly director of Okcoin ventures, building formless capital , building mask.io ecosystem.

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Cecilia Li

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Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital. I’m a programmer, a writer, a teacher, a public speaker, and an Effective Altruist. Formerly, I’m a general partner at MetaStable Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund.

I teach a class on cryptocurrencies at the Bradfield School of Computer Science. I was formerly a software engineer at Airbnb. Before that I was Director of Product at App Academy. Before that I was a mental coach and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Poker. And before that I was a world-class professional poker player, sponsored by Full Tilt Poker.

That’s me in a nutshell. It’s a pretty strange path, from professional poker player to software engineer to investor. But if you want to get the full picture, you’ll need to know my origin story. It’s good, I promise.

Haseeb Qureshi

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

Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.

Stefan Thomas

Shawn Fanning is Co-Founder of Helium, and angel investor. He developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer ("P2P") file sharing platforms, in 1999. The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine.

The site in its initial free P2P incarnation was shut down in 2001 after the company's unsuccessful appeal of court orders arising from its encouraging the illegal sharing of copyrighted material. A paid subscription version of the site followed, and was purchased by Rhapsody on December 1, 2011. Following his involvement with Napster, he joined, and invested in, a number of early-stage technology startup companies.

Shawn Fanning

Founder of CoinFund. Engineer; Investor; Researcher of Crypto Economic Systems & Decentralized Networks.

I am a technologist with a background in mathematics and computer science and experience in distributed systems, web development, product management, private equity research, and startups.

My current area is deep technical and financial expertise in the field of blockchain technologies and decentralized systems. I am a co-founder of CoinFund, a blockchain research company and one of the first private investment vehicle focused on the blockchain space.

Previously, I was Partner & CTO at Triton Research, technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and spent 5 years in financial technology in New York City.

Jake Brukhman

Casey K. Caruso is Investment Partner at Paradigm. Engineer, BS Computer Science, MS Machine Learning. Building Search Google. Investing in crypto.

Her main interests are technology and social pyschology. She is a transparent, bold, and reflective person.

Casey Caruso

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

Bart Stephens is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Blockchain Capital, a VC investmend fund focused on the crypto and blockchain space. In addition, he also heads up his own family fund, Stephens Investment Management, which takes a diversified investment strategy beyond crypto.

Bart Stephens

Alex Thorn is Head of Research at Galaxy Digital. Formerly Investor at Avon Ventures, Blockchain Research at Fidelity Investments. Investing in digital assets and bitcoin/crypto/blockchain companies at Avon Ventures, a venture fund affiliates with FMR LLC, the parent company of of Fidelity Investments.

He is at Avon Ventures, Invest in early stage ventures working on bitcoin, cryptoassets, and blockchain technology at Avon Ventures, a venture fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments.

And he is Director of Blockchain Research, Conduct and produce research on bitcoin, cryptoassets, digital assets and blockchain technology at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and Fidelity Labs.

Represent Fidelity Institutional to state and federal regulators. Research, investigate and respond to inquiries and examinations made by regulatory agencies. Liaise with Legal Department on complex litigation and regulatory matters resulting from regulatory scrutiny or inquiries. Innovate technology and systems solutions for the compliance team to create more efficiency business processes, workflows, and strategies. Consult on emerging technology issues, including cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and cyber security. 

Manage document review process for Fidelity Legal. Consult with in-house counsel and management on discovery process, innovating procedures and creating efficiencies to improve quality. Manage vendor relationships for data processing and hosting. Oversee or directly manage hundreds of cases affecting all Fidelity business units. Act as project manager communicating clearly with in-house and outside attorneys, business partners and management and coordinating projects to successful outcomes. Advise enterprise infrastructure and business units regarding the use of new media, data sources, and communications tools in a regulated environment. Promote Fidelity's positions on retention, legal discovery and social media at conferences and to external parties and industry groups. 

Performed interviews in support of litigation and ensured accuracy and integrity of data collected. Collaborated with design team to develop business processes and software necessary to create a centralized litigation research team. Acted as gate keeper responsible for extracting information from legal documents served on Fidelity and identifying specific allegations and potential business issues. Conducted research to identify and collect evidence for litigation and regulatory investigations. Researched and managed evidentiary case file for over 200 legal investigations. Trained 5 new hires before leaving this role.

Cecilia Li

Founder of Formless Capital.

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