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Tashi Nakanishi is Co-Founder at XPV, Managing Partner at HartBeat Ventures.

Tashi Nakanishi

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Meltem Demirors is a cryptocurrency investor, advisor, and advocate, with a unique blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. On the legacy finance front, Ms. Demirors worked with some of the largest companies in the world, mainly on financial risk management and capital efficiency. On the blockchain-based finance side, she has had an intense focus on portfolio management and network development, beginning in the early days of cryptocurrency ecosystem development.

Meltem Demirors is the Managing Director at Digital Currency Group, which invests in (and advises) 100+ bitcoin and blockchain startups.

She is a member of the Global Future Council on Blockchain at the Davos World Economic Forum; building products CoinShares; investing, advising, lurking in trollbox; and is also an advisor and teacher at MIT and the University of Oxford.

Meltem Demirors

Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, he is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technology and secure election systems.

David Chaum

Adam B. Struck, Founder and Managing Partner at Struck Capital. Prior to Struck Capital, Adam was a Co-Founder of Long Island Brand Beverages, a CPG company acquired by Cullen Investments and taken public on the NASDAQ. Previously, Adam was an M&A / PE attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, one of the largest law firms in the world. Adam graduated from Northwestern University where he completed the Kellogg School of Management Certificate Program. He also graduated from Georgetown Law where he received his Juris Doctorate. Adam is a member of the NY Bar Association and has also been recognized by Forbes, making the coveted 30 Under 30 List for Venture Capital.

Adam B. Struck

Applied Cryptographer, Inventor Hashcash, Comp Sci PhD Distributed Systems.

Adam Back is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in bitcoin. He is the co-founder and CEO of blockchain technology company Blockstream.

Adam Back

AI, blockchain, Founder & CTO of BigchainDB, Ocean Protocol, IPDB Foundation.

Trent McConaghy has 20 years of deep technology experience with a focus on machine learning, data visualization and user experience. He was a researcher at the Canadian Department of Defense and in 1999, he co-founded Analog Design Automation Inc. and was its CTO until its acquisition by Synopsys Inc. In 2004, he co-founded Solido Design Automation Inc., once again in the role of CTO.

Trent has written two critically acclaimed books on machine learning, creativity and circuit design and has authored or co-authored more than 40 papers and patents.

Trent has a PhD in Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium and Bachelor’s degrees in Engineering and in Computer Science from the University of Saskatchewan where he won awards for the top PhD thesis and top undergraduate thesis.

Trent McConaghy

Brain behind Lightning Network, Plasma, and writer of the OMG whitepaper.

Joseph Poon is co-founder of Lightning Labs, which is implementing the Lightning Network White Paper Poon wrote to solve limitations in the Bitcoin blockchain. It’s designed to give Bitcoin trustless support for thousands of very low-cost transactions per second. In addition to overcoming Bitcoin’s scaling limitations, it adds capability for cross-chain transactions, privacy protection, micropayments, payment receipts, and multi-hop payments.  Poon is also on the team that’s building OmiseGo, a proof-of-stake blockchain, and the decentralized ethereum-based exchange that will use OmiseGo to let crypto investors trade almost any currency, both fiat and crypto, with each other directly rather than through third-party companies. The OmiseGo blockchain is expected to launch Q4 2017.

Joseph Poon

Jack Dorsey is the creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square. Originally from St. Louis, Jack's early fascination for mass-transit and how cities function led him to Manhattan and programming real-time messaging systems for couriers, taxis, and emergency vehicles.

Throughout this work, Jack witnessed thousands of workers in the field constantly updating where they were and what they were doing; Twitter is a constrained simplification designed for general usage and extended by the millions of people who make it their own every day.Jack was recognized as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people and was named an "outstanding innovator under the age of 35" by MIT's Technology Review.

Jack Dorsey

Vinny Lingham is known as the "Bitcoin Oracle" on account of his highly accurate predictions around the pricing of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

He is the founder and CEO of Civic, an identity management startup run on the blockchain. He was previously recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos.

By the way, He is General Partner at Multicoin Capital and Newtown Partners.

Vinny Lingham

Yoichi Hirai is Formal Verification of Ethereum Contracts.

Tashi Nakanishi

Co-Founder at XPV, Managing Partner at HartBeat Ventures.

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