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Farbod Nassiri is the Finance Manager at Cypher Capital. Having joined the Phoenix Group in 2021 as a Day Trader Farbod’s attention to detail and work ethic quickly saw him promoted to Finance Manager for the newly established Cypher Capital in 2022. With more than 12 years of experience in the field of civil and marine construction along with a history of operational and coordinating excellence Farbod excels in his chosen field. Farbod also has a passion for Blockchain projects and Crypto in general and he lends this expertise to the wider Phoenix Group daily. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Farbod speaks Farsi and English fluently.
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Aziz Ali
Aziz Ali is the Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Cypher Capital. Presively, he worked as Chief Strategy Officer at Phoenix Technology.
Elaine Liu
Elaine Liu is a Partner at the Cypher Capital Group. Her core responsibilities reside within Cypher’s Investor relations and its Asian ecosystem build-up. Before joining the Cypher Capital Group, Elaine served as an operating partner at Trustbridge Partners, a global growth-oriented PE firm with more than $15bn AUM. Elaine is also one of the major investors in ICB Hiring Platform. Prior to this, Elaine Liu served as the senior vice president of Meituan Dianping.
Bill Qian
Bill Qian is the co-founder and managing partner of Cypher Capital Group and the group chief investment officer of Phoenix Group. He was previously the head of global investment and M&A at Binance Labs. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and holds a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Mary Gooneratne
Mary Gooneratne is the co-founder and COO of Bridgesplit and was previously the co-founder of Phoenix. She graduated from Duke University in the United States.
Jarry Xiao
Jarry Xiao is a co-founder of Phoenix and was previously an engineer at Solana and Citadel Securities. He graduated from the School of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bijan Alizadeh
Bijan is a leader within the blockchain ecosystem and has a longstanding track record of spearheading blockchain adoption in the MENA region and globally. In 2015, Bijan co-founded Phoenix (part of the Phoenix Group of companies), which is building one of the largest mining farms in the United Arab Emirates. Bijan also co-founded Phoenix VC, a venture capital firm that has successfully invested $10 million in blockchain startups. Following Phoenix VC’s great success, Bijan established Cypher Capital. It is covering venture capital, public markets, nodes, mining, etc., and is recognized globally with its highly successful track record of investments. Bijan believes in working with visionary innovators and outstanding talent to create a holistic blockchain community, whereby the ecosystem can benefit and grow.
Eugene Chen
Eugene Chen is a cofounder at Phoenix, which designs and builds sustainable DeFi protocols from first principles. Prior to co-founding Ellipsis Labs, Eugene worked on DeFi protocol design, MEV, and HFT.
Vineet Budki
Vineet Budki is the managing partner and CEO of Sigma Capital. He was previously the managing partner and CEO of Cypher Capital. He has invested in multiple web3 projects including bitsCrunch, Web3Auth, Cymbal, Cross The Ages, etc. He graduated from Cornell University.
