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Jake Loo is Chief Technology Officer at thirdweb. Formerly, Software Engineer at Twitch and Bebo.

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in multiple programming languages and have worked on different environments from Frontend development to Backend infrastructure development.

thirdweb

Jake Loo

Dr. Steven Waterhouse (SEVEN) is the CEO and Co-founder of Orchid Labs. Orchid Labs is developing an open source protocol to open up the entire Internet to everyone.

From its inception in 2013 until July 2016, Steven was a partner at Pantera Capital, focused on blockchain investments. He served on the board of Bitstamp till 2016.

Steven was a Co-founder and CTO of RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC) and previously Director and founder of the Honeycomb product group at Sun Microsystems.

He holds a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus in speech recognition and machine learning. Steven is an avid waterman and loves the kelp-filled cold waters of the Pacific west coast.

Steve Waterhouse

Andre Cronje is Architect at iearn.finance, Chief Crypto Code Reviewer at Crypto Briefing. Former Chair, Technology Council at Fantom Foundation, Technology Analyst at Lemniscap. I'm a lab accident away from becoming a super villain.... that lab accident really needs to show up sometime soon now...

Andre Cronje

Mick Hagen is the founder and CEO of Mainframe, a blockchain-based communication network that's impervious to censorship or surveillance. He's also a budding angel investor, having made several investments in startups like MyCrypto and others in recent years.

Mick is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor in the startup ecosystem. After dropping out of Princeton University (computer science), Mick founded Zinch, an ed-tech company connecting students globally with opportunities in higher education. Mick helped Zinch grow to an international, 8-figure revenue-run-rate startup that served millions of students and 800+ colleges & universities worldwide. After six years, Zinch was acquired by Chegg (CHGG, NYSE) for $45mm. Mick is currently CEO of Mainframe -- a new decentralized messaging protocol focused on productivity.

A few of Mick's notable angel investments include Andela, Kalo, Degreed, Origin, Dice, Weav, and Good Audience. Mick is also a crypto investor and bought his first Bitcoin in 2013. Mick leads a crypto investment syndicate which focuses on early-stage, private pre-sale investments in blockchain projects. Some recent pre-sale investments include Polkadot, ICON, Wanchain, Zilliqa, Aion. Mick's crypto syndicate will invest between to $6-8M per month.

Mick has been a speaker at various industry events including Techcrunch Disrupt, Mobile World Congress, Founders Forum, Gartner CIO Forum, InboxLove, TedX, Latitude59 and others. He’s a mentor to various accelerators including Techstars, Ignite, Barclays, StartupWiseGuys and CyLon. His writing has been featured in various newspapers and magazines, including Fortune Magazine and Techcrunch.

Mick has been named to the v100 (Top high tech entrepreneurs) and Top 40 business persons under 40 by Utah Business Magazine. Mick's work has been featured in the New York Times, Boston Globe, US News, Washington Post, CNN, and ABC among others.

Mick also enjoys philanthropy/charity work and is currently on the Board of an international non-profit, Effect.org.

Mick Hagen

Jeff Garzik is Builder, Co-founder Bloq Inc, Space Chain & others, proud son of a USMC F-4 pilot.

Husband, father, futurist, author, bitcoin core developer, Linux kernel engineer, cloud computing hacker, armchair foreign policy nerd, kinda sorta libertarian.

Jeff Garzik

Dietrich Ayala is IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Technical PM for IPFS Browser Integrations at Protocol Labs. Interested in the web and browsers, decentralization and distributed networks, IoT ethics and design of physical and room scale computing, connected device manufacturing life cycle, mobile Web as first-class development platform, device power/data consumption and optimization, optimization for slow/rare/unreliable network conditions, mentoring & technical academic partnerships.

Dietrich Ayala

Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of MakerDAO. MakerDAO issues Dai, the world’s first stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain, that eliminates volatility through a system of smart contracts designed to respond to market dynamics. Since 2015, I have focused on establishing the vision and organizational structure of the Maker Decentralized Autonomous Organization and the economic foundations of the Dai stable digital currency. Previously, I served as co-founder of Try China, a company providing international recruiting.

Rune Christensen

Noah Zinsmeister is senior engineer at Uniswap Exchange; creator of Web3-react; co-author of ERC-1484.

I graduated from Columbia in 2016, where I studied economics and math. After a close call with an econ PhD I became fascinated with cryptocurrencies, and have since gone fully down the rabbit hole. Right now I'm a Senior Engineer at Uniswap, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum.

I have a B.A. in Economics-Mathematics from Columbia University. After graduating I spent nearly two years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York working as a Senior Research Analyst in the Money and Payments Studies division. My long-standing interest in cryptocurrencies eventually led me to an engineering role at Hydrogen, where I wrote security grade smart contracts, co-authored ERC-1484 (a digital identity protocol), and developed open-source blockchain tooling. I'm now a Senior Engineer at Uniswap, a decentralized exchange protocol for trading Ethereum-based assets.

Noah Zinsmeister

Juan Benet is the founder and CEO of Protocol Labs and inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a new protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open. Benet is also the founder of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage network. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Obsessed with Knowledge, Science, and Technology - Protocol Labs, IPFS, Filecoin.

Juan Benet

Greg Osuri is Founder & CEO of Overclock Labs and Akash Network, where he develops protocols, tools, and infrastructure to make foundational elements of the internet open, decentralized, and simple. Previously, Greg founded AngelHack and was the CTO for the world's largest hackathon-accelerator with over 80K developers in the ecosystem.

He is the author of several prominent open source toolkits that are well-regarded by the DevOps community and downloaded over 25M times. He has been ranked amongst top 20 programmers worldwide on several occasions for authoring open-source libraries used by widely-adopted projects like Ubuntu and Kubernetes.

Jake Loo

Chief Technology Officer at thirdweb.

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