Daniel Cawrey CoFounder/CEO Pactum Capital Pactum Capital is a firm helping cryptocurrency stakeholders manage risk. He was previously a Contributing Editor for CoinDesk, the largest news resource for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.
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George Li CoFounder WeTrust.io
George Li CoFounder WeTrust.io WeTrust.io’s mission is to enable decentralized financial inclusion using blockchain technologies. To date, WeTrust has deployed the Trusted Lending Circle on the Ethereum blockchain, and has partnered with top non-profit organizations in the US for their next product — a fundraising platform called WeTrust Spring. Learn more at spring.wetrust.io George is also currently an advisor to several blockchain companies including Marconi.org, Choon.co, and Bounty0x.io
Blake Richman Head Trader/Portfolio Manager NovaBlock Capital
Blake Richman Head Trader/Portfolio Manager NovaBlock Capital NovaBlock Capital is a blockchain and digital asset focused investment fund. Prior to his role at NovaBlock, Blake advised formation-stage funds on investment strategy, market dynamics, and custodianship. Before diving into the blockchain space, he held positions in venture capital and debt capital markets. Blake lives in Palo Alto, California, where he is involved in the blockchain investment and entrepreneur communities.
Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Venture Partner BitBull Capital
Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Partner Gumi Cryptos/Venture Partner BitBull Capital BitBull is a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He is a token holder in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy, Polymath and an investor in Lyft. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in Internet of value. As a 25 year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in venture capital for Open Source startups and over $250M in ICO capital. He currently advises cryptocurrency startups like Naga Group ($50M ICO Stock Trading), Playkey ($10.5M Streaming Gaming), Bee Token ($15M, Decentralized AirBnB), Celsius ($50M Ether Lending), Wala (African Cryptobanking), Lottery.com (Online Lottery), Millenium ESports (ESport Gaming), Refereum ($30M Gamer Affiliate Marketing), Pundi X ($35M Payments), WiFiCoin, Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services), Blockchain Terminal ($30M Bloomberg for Crypto) and Hub (Decentralizing Professional Social Networking). He is also an LP with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits. He holds an Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks. He’s leads the Crypto Underground meetup in San Francisco and is a well known speaker at many cryptocurrency and blockchain events.