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Charles Hoskinson is a technology entrepreneur and mathematician based in Colorado. He studied analytic number theory at Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder before getting into cryptography through industry exposure. He has founded three cryptocurrency-related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and has held various positions in the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013. Currently, his projects are aimed at educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization, and making cryptographic tools more accessible to the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design, and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that was launched in September 2017.
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Vanishree Rao
Vanishree Rao is the founder of Fermah and was previously Head of Cryptography at IOHK and Chief cryptographer at O(1) Labs. She holds a PhD in cryptography from UCLA.
Shruti Appiah
Shruti Appiah is Chief Economist at Huddle01 and previously Head of Product at IOHK and Research scientist at BlockScience.
Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. He became involved with cryptocurrency early on, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.
Joel Dietz
Joel Dietz is a serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who has helped found several key initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract education channel, and the first academic book on cryptoeconomics.
Chris Li
Chris Li is the co-founder and CEO of Ava Protocol and was previously a smart contract expert at Block.one. Before founding Ava Protocol, Chris Li built a strong foundation as a Messaging Protocol Engineer at Microsoft and distinguished himself as a successful serial entrepreneur. He is a seasoned EVM smart contract developer, a Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and a core contributor to Polkadot. Additionally, Chris serves as a lecturer at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy at UC Berkeley and as a judge at the Permissionless Hackathon. He is a graduate of Southeastern University and holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Nico Arqueros
Nico Arqueros is co-founder and core developer of Shinkai Protocol. He was previously a board member of the Cardano Foundation and Chief Technology Officer of EMURGO. He started programming at the age of 13 and trained as an industrial and electronics engineer at university.
Babajide Fashola
Babajide Fashola is the global Head of financial infrastructure at Cardano.
Eva Beylin
Eva Beylin is a director at The Graph Foundation and previously led strategy and research at OmiseGO.
Mihai Alisie
Mihai Alisie is a co-founder of Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine, and is currently focused on making the Akasha Project a reality. He has been actively involved in the blockchain technology space since 2011 when he, along with Vitalik Buterin, created the world's first Bitcoin-centric publication, Bitcoin Magazine. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the magazine until late 2013, when he joined Vitalik in founding the Ethereum project. In the early days of Ethereum, Mihai played a key role in establishing the business infrastructure and legal framework critical for the Ethereum "pre-sale" campaign, leading the Swiss efforts. Following the successful Swiss setup, he oversaw Ethereum operations as Strategic Manager and Vice-President of the Ethereum Foundation until late 2015, when he shifted his focus to making the AKASHA dream a reality.
Jacob Czepluch
Jacob Czepluch is the Lead Developer Relations Engineer at Phylax.
