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Sam Blackshear is Co-founder and CTO at Mysten Labs. Formerly, Principal Engineer at Novi Financial, creator of Move.

Mysten Labs

Sam Blackshear

Jutta Steiner was Co-Founder, CEO at Parity Technologies.

Before starting Parity, I was responsible for IT security and partner integration within the Ethereum Foundation around the launch of the public blockchain in 2015. I am also a co-founder of Project Provenance Ltd, a London based start-up that employs blockchain technology to make supply chains more transparent. I advise various projects that use blockchain technology, such as Energy start-up Grid Singularity. 

Originally trained as a Mathematician and hold a PhD in Applied Mathematics, I started my early professional career as an associate for management consultancy McKinsey.

Jutta Steiner

Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.

Marek Olszewski

Kelvin Fichter is developer at Plasma Group, currently work on a lot of stuff related to Optimistic Ethereum.

Kelvin Fichter

David Nuñez is Cryptography R&D at NuCypher. Previously, postdoc researcher at Nics Lab Dev, University of Málaga.

I am a cryptographic researcher at NuCypher. My research is oriented towards cryptographic solutions for privacy and security in untrusted environments; in particular, with the use of proxy re-encryption. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at NICS Lab (Universidad de Málaga, Spain).

David Nunez

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

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

Lawrence Nahum is a technology entrepreneur, Bitcoin expert and executive with a strong focus in bringing innovative and disruptive tech to market.

Lawrence is working at Blockstream as Chief Architect. Previously, he was CEO and founder of GreenAddress (https://greenaddress.it), a prime, Bitcoin services company that offers the industry's first and most advanced multi-signature Bitcoin wallet.

Before getting involved with Bitcoin and Blockchain Lawrence was a technology Vice President at OTC financial services leader Markitserv where he led various products and technology teams and directed other strategic initiatives for the company.

Lawrence holds a first class BSc Computer Science with Distributed System from London City University.

Specialties: bitcoin, innovation, technology, internet, mobile apps, full development cycle management and team values.

Lawrence Nahum

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.

Igor Barinov

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.

Sam Blackshear

Co-founder and CTO at Mysten Labs.

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