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Curtis Spencer is Partner at Electric Capital, Engineer, Entrepreneur and Startup Advisor. Ex-facebook / oss maintainer / fan of terminal UIs and pixel art.

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Curtis Spencer

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.

Alex Thorn

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

Michael Anderson

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

Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and  Claremont McKenna College.

Michael Arrington

Imran Khan is Crypto Investor at Volt Capital, Network Catalyst Leader at Village Global. Formerly, Venture Partner at zk Capital.

Imran Khan

Co-founder of Scalar Capital. Previously Product Manager of Coinbase. Advisor of 0xProject.

Linda Xie is the co-founder of Scalar Capital, a cryptoasset fund. Xie is also an Advisor at 0x, a decentralized exchange run on Ethereum. Previously, Xie was a Product Manager at Coinbase. Prior to that, she was a financial analyst at AIG in New York. She holds a BS in Economics from University of California, San Diego.

Linda Xie

Alexander Liegl

Arthur Hayes is the co-founder and CEO of BitMex, one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. With years of experience in the banking industry at Citigroup, Arthur is now helping the Hong Kong-based exchange execute on its ambitious growth strategy.

Arthur Hayes

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.

Curtis Spencer

Partner at Electric Capital.

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