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Nikita Kaskov is Head of cryptography team at =nil; Foundation. Formerly, DevSecOps Engineer at SolidLab.

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Nikita Kaskov

Entrepreneur, Product Geek, and Investor. Chartered Financial Analyst.

After a career in finance, Robert decided to help make the world a better place. One part web designer, one part finance jock, he spends his time dreaming of ways to make privacy mainstream.

He holds an Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has worked at awesome financial institutions.

Robert Leshner

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

Matt Odell is the co-founder of Final Message, Bitcoin Citadel. Advisor of Bottle Pay. He is also co-founder of CoinPrices, a site that delivers news and analysis on cryptocurrencies.

Matt Odell

Dawn Song is CEO and co-founder of Oasis Labs and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Dawn has spent significant time researching and building security and privacy technologies, specifically in the areas of software, networking, distributed systems, applied cryptography, blockchains, smart contracts, and machine learning. She has been recognized for contributions in computer security through numerous prestigious awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies, and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She is a serial entrepreneur, including Ensighta Security (acquired by FireEye Inc.) and Menlo Security. She obtained her PhD from UC Berkeley.

Dawn Song

Mrinal Manohar is a Venture Partner with Reflective Ventures. He has been personally investing in the crypto space for six years. Prior to this, he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head of a ~$1b long-only hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston, and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company in Boston. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science since he began programming at age 11.

Mrinal Manohar

Raúl Kripalani is tech leading libp2p at Protocol Labs. Engineer: fixer of some things; breaker of many.  Project Management Committee at TheASF. Investor at Bbooster Ventures. Previously: ConsenSys, Red Hat, FuseSource, Atos, freelance. From Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

Raul Kripalani

Ish Goel, Building PlotX.io, ex-CTO at Nexus Mutual, ex-GovBlocks, CEO and key blockchain architect at Somish Solutions. Established blockchain centre of excellence in 2016 and has overseen development of several blockchain MVP’s across several industries and government.

Ish Goel established the ‘Blockchain Centre of Excellence’ at Somish in 2016. Through the Somish Group, he has worked with the Government, Real Estate, BFSI, Manufacturing, Retail, Agriculture and Logistics industry over the past one decade.

Ish is one of the key blockchain architects at Somish and has led delivery of blockchain products using platforms like Ethereum and Hyperledger globally. Key products where Ish served as a CTO / Founder include:

1) Nexus Mutual (alternative to insurance on Ethereum)
2) GovBlocks (Governance Protocol on Ethereum, govblocks.io)
3) Certy (Document Timestamping on Ethereum, certy.io)
4) DEF (Data Exchange Framework on Hyperledger Fabric)

Ish has been involved as a key speaker at blockchain conferences across the globe. A brief highlight on his thought leadership include:

‐ Winner at London Blockchain Week Hackathon 2017
‐ Speaker at Berlin Blockchain Expo 2017
‐ Keynote mention at Amsterdam ATA Aviation Forum 2017
‐ Speaker at ICT for Agriculture Conference Washington DC 2017
‐ Speaker at Blockchain Summit Bangalore 2017
‐ Speaker at London Fintech Week 2017
- Keynote speaker at India Blockchain Week 2017
- Speaker at Token Summit III, New York 2018
- Speaker at Fintegrate, Mumbai 2018 (Adjudged as Top 10 Startups in India)
- Keynote Speaker at USAID Conference, Bangkok 2018
- Winner at Chhattisgarh Blockchain Grand Challenge 2018
- TEDx speaker at TEDxMICA 2019

Seeking excellence ‐ Ish is always looking to develop that intangible quality which makes his work distinctive and truly excellent. He has his roots in the belief that ‘the more you give, the more you receive’.

Ish is also a passionate musician and a trained Tabla, Flute & Piano player.

Ish Goel

In this website, I talk about “real” stuff, or anything that involves me (that is, “Wei Tang”). I write about computer science, philosophy, and occasionally about art and music. Topics ranges from Functional Reactive Programming, why we need details in writings, to why I failed in my first startup.

Wei Tang

Igor Barinov is an award-winning blockchain expert known for pioneering developments in blockchain enabled notary. Igor is currently a project manager of POA Network, a foundation that launched POA Network, which is open, permissioned and public blockchain network based on Ethereum protocol with Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus reached by independent, pre-selected validators. Igor devotes all his time to innovating around blockchain scalability and making open networks more affordable for businesses.

Prior to POA Network, the developer and serial entrepreneur co-founded Block Notary, a notary for the digital age built on blockchain technology. Data records produced through Block Notary products can be used as self-authenticating evidence based on State of Vermont’s blockchain application law. He also developed the first Know Your Customer (KYC) application recognized by the state. Concurrently, he built several closed PoA-based networks for various businesses. Insights from these experiences laid a foundation for POA Network project.

Igor holds more than 16 blockchain and computer programming accolades and won blockchain hackathons at the Consensus, Texas Bitcoin Conference, BitHack, and Distributed Trade. He also holds 12 professional certifications in programming and data science as well as deep learning in the design of memory networks, implementation of generative models, design and training segmentation systems and neural translation systems from the University of San Francisco. Igor graduated from Russian State Technological University with a degree in material science, studied computer science at Lomonosov Moscow State University and attended Blockchain University.

Nikita Kaskov

Head of cryptography team at =nil; Foundation.

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