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Swaroop Hegde is Co-Founder & CEO at PowerLoom Protocol, Entrepreneur. Currently building PowerLoom + BlockVigil. Sold Dotaprohub to Unikrn.

PowerLoom

BlockVigil

Swaroop Hegde

Coinshift

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

Charlie Lee is Creator of Litecoin, ex-Director of Engineering at Coinbase.

Lee created Litecoin while working at Google, where he served as a Software Engineer. He worked on YouTube, Chrome, and Play Games.

Although Lee was immediately excited by cryptocurrency, he was unhappy with the early altcoins. He claimed that most didn’t offer any true differences or advantages over Bitcoin.

Thus, Lee created Litecoin in 2011. Its Scrypt proof of work function was meant to keep mining distributed and fair. Unlike most altcoins at the time, Litecoin was launched publically and had no premine. Lee also cut Litecoin’s block time from Bitcoin’s 10 minutes to 2.5 minutes.

Despite being the creator of Litecoin, Lee claims “that in order for Litecoin to succeed, Bitcoin must first become adopted by the mass”. He currently spends about 95% of his time working on Bitcoin projects.

Charlie Lee

As the President and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com, Nicolas Cary travels the world to connect with the bitcoin community and be an evangelist for the story of Blockchain. As an active philanthropist, Cary executed the world's first University donation in Bitcoin. Cary is also an active investor in cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

Nicolas Cary

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.

Greg Osuri

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

Rod Vagg is Software Engineer and Researcher at Protocol Labs, focused on Node.js, JavaScript, Golang, Distributed Data Systems. Expert in: Software Architecture, Security, Node.js Enterprise best practices, Open Source Software.

Rod Vagg

Richie Lai is Co-Founder, CIO of Bittrex. He was a security engineering specializing in cyber crimes and areas around malware, botnets, and web exploits. He spent 12 years at Microsoft focusing on security where he helped shape many aspects of the program. His next stop was Qualys, where for a year he helped launch their Malware Detection Service. Today he works at Amazon securing their products, network and infrastructure.

In his spare time, he enjoys photography, poker, and spending time with his wife.

Richie Lai

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

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.

Swaroop Hegde

Co-Founder & CEO at PowerLoom Protocol.

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