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Zack Rosenblatt is Chief of Staff, Operations and Strategy at Collab+Currency. Loyal to the University of Oregon Investment Group & Oregon Blockchain Group.

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Zack Rosenblatt

Crypto researcher and investor. Research at TokenDaily, Postdoctoral Researcher- Northwestern University. Engineer. PhD at NorthwesternU.

Researcher in the field of optics with experience in hypersensitive optical gyroscopes, photonic chip integration, nanofabrication and applications of atom-light interactions.

Mohamed Fouda

Entrepreneur. I'm Founder / CEO of Omise - Payment platform. Founder of OmiseGo, and member of Ethereum Community Fund.

Jun is an entrepreneur and no stranger to the startup world. Prior to founding payments company Omise, he was involved in founding a series of tech companies in Japan mainly in the fields of e-commerce, life log and mobile payments. He has over 16 years of professional experience in web & product design and previously held several management positions with Alpha-do Inc. in Japan.

Currently based in Bangkok, Jun is the full-time CEO of Omise, a multinational payments company currently present in Thailand (HQ), Japan, Singapore and Indonesia that has raised over USD 50M in funding. He has led the company through dramatic growth, from its launch in 2013 to its establishment as one of Southeast Asia's leading online payment platforms.

In 2015, Jun's desire to stay on the pioneering edge of practical tech innovation led to Omise becoming one of the first companies, and the very first financial services company, to join the Ethereum community. In 2017, after over a year of research and development, this culminated in the launch of OmiseGO, the crowd-funded blockchain division of Omise tasked with creating the OMG network, an Ethereum-based public blockchain with the ambitious vision of enabling financial service equity by radically decentralizing value transfer and exchange.

Jun Hasegawa

Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a best-selling author, speaker, educator, and one of the world’s foremost bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is known for delivering electric talks that combine economics, psychology, technology, and game theory with current events, personal anecdote, and historical precedent effortlessly transliterating the complex issues of blockchain technology out of the abstract and into the real world.

In 2014, Antonopoulos authored the groundbreaking book, Mastering Bitcoin (O’Reilly Media), widely considered to be the best technical guide ever written about the technology. His second book, The Internet of Money, unveiled the “why” of bitcoin—and became a bestseller on Amazon— and led to the wildly successful follow-up The Internet of Money Volume Two. His fourth book, Mastering Ethereum (O’Reilly Media) will be available in December of 2018.

He is a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, serves on the Oversight Committee for the Bitcoin Reference Rate at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and has appeared as an expert witness in hearings around the world, including the Australian Senate Banking Committee and the Canadian Senate Commerce, Banking and Finance Committee.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Spencer Bogart is currently the Head of Research at Blockchain Capital, one of the first funds focused solely on blockchain technologies. He formerly was the VP of Equity Research at Needham, where he led the firm's research on blockchain technologies. He holds a BS in Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Spencer Bogart

Tim Draper is founder of DFJ Venture Capital, Draper Associates, Draper University, Innovate Your State.

He helps entrepreneurs drive their visions through funding, education, media, and government reform. He has founded thirty Draper venture funds, Draper University, Bizworld, and two statewide initiatives to improve governance and education.

Tim Draper

Michael Clear, a postdoc at Georgetown University, working with Adam O'Neill. Clear was well versed in economics, cryptography and peer-to-peer networks. He said that "I'm not Satoshi, but even if I was I wouldn't tell you."

Michael Clear

Dr Garrick Hileman, head of research at Blockchain, co-founder of Mosaic, research associate at the London School of Economics.

Garrick is best known for his research on monetary and distributed systems innovation, particularly cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. 

Garrick was ranked as one of the 100 most influential economists in the UK & Ireland. He is regularly invited to share his research and perspective with public sector institutions, including the CIA, US Army and Naval War Colleges, Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and the Financial Stability Board, as well as media, including the BBC, CNBC, FT, WSJ, and NPR. Garrick is frequently sought as a speaker.

Notable cryptocurrency and blockchain research publications include the "2017 Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study" (University of Cambridge) and the "2017 Global Blockchain Benchmarking Study" (University of Cambridge). He also created and published the CoinDesk "State of Bitcoin" and "State of Blockchain" reports from 2013-2016. Garrick's other research interests include sovereign debt, financial crises, financial repression and prudential regulation, black markets, and systemic risk. He completed his PhD in economic history at the London School of Economics under the supervision of professors Albrecht Ritschl and Niall Ferguson.

Garrick's teaching includes developing the UK's first university taught class on blockchain technology at the University of Cambridge, and teaching on numerous executive education programs and other classes for Cambridge, Oxford, Columbia, Northwestern, and the London School of Economics.

Garrick has worked for 15+ years in the private sector with both start-ups like Blockchain and Mosaic and established companies such as Bank of America, The Home Depot, IDG, and Allianz. Garrick’s technology experience includes co-founding a San Francisco-based new venture incubator and IT strategy consulting for multinationals. Garrick has served on the boards of directors of both publicly traded and private companies, and he has worked or consulted in a wide range of industries, including banking, technology, online media, specialty finance, insurance, business services, retail, non-profit, education, and government.

Garrick’s volunteer work includes serving as a Big City Mountaineers guide for at-risk urban teens on backcountry excursions in the Sierra Nevada. He also was a founding member of the record-setting PolarVision expedition, which raised funds and awareness for sight-related charities.

Garrick Hileman

Bitcoin Core developer, and an advisor to Coinkite. Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech') PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04.

Peter is an independent applied cryptography consultant - what the cool kids call "blockchain tech" - known for his research and educational work on better understanding and making use of "blockchain" technology, with a particular focus on scalability. He's also a long time contribution to Bitcoin Core, as well as maintainer of the python-bitcoinlib and OpenTimestamps projects. He brings to this field a very diverse background, including a fine arts degree, and a stint doing analog electronics design for a geophysics startup.

Peter Todd

Geoff Teehan is VP, Head of Design, Meta FinTech. He began his career in digital media in 1996, working as a designer for an Internet startup. He moved on to run his own design firm, building some of the first Flash sites on the web. He then joined Modem Media in 1999, where he worked as Associate Creative Director. During his tenure there he created effective and award-winning work for a variety of US and Canadian clients. 

Geoff founded Teehan+Lax with his business Partner Jon Lax in 2002. He has been designing digital products there ever since. He and his company have been featured in countless publications and is often referred to as one of the premier product design firms in the world. In 2014, Teehan+Lax was named the Net Awards Agency of the Year.

Geoff lead a cross-functional team consisting of designers, engineers and planners that has help shape products for Google, Medium, Yahoo, Prismatic, Flipboard, YouTube, Kifi, Virgin, Shipwire, Nuvango, Weather Network, LG, Globe and Mail, Blackberry, Readability and more.

Throughout his career, he has received international acclaim for his work, winning Cannes Lions, ADDY awards, and CMA RSVP awards. He has also received top honours from W3, The WebAwards, MITX, Flash in the Can, Marketing Magazine, and the Advertising & Design Club of Canada. 

Geoff has received the honour of representing Canada as a Jury member for many top tier award shows like Cannes Lions, Clio, One Show, D&AD and the London International Awards. 

In 2015, Geoff went to Facebook after being acquihired alongside a number of his peers. He continues to act as the Product Design Director for News Feed—the largest surface on the internet.

Zack Rosenblatt

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