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Mark Pfluger is the Director of Institutional Engineering at Kraken. Previously, he was the co-founder of Map3 and the Head of Crypto Engineering at Blockchain.com. Mark Pfluger graduated from the Technical University of Munich.
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Devan Purhar
Devan Purhar is a co-founder of Firewall and was previously a software engineer at Kraken and a founding engineer at Staked. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Sunny Ray
Sunny Ray is the co-founder of Unocoin, an India-based startup that aims to make it easy to securely buy, sell, and store bitcoin. He has been involved with cryptocurrencies since 2013, when he directed Business Development for Buttercoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrency trading firms. Sunny operates beyond the level of pure business & always considers relevant social, economic, environmental, political and cultural issues in the local, regional, national & global level. He is incredibly passionate about sales and business development with a drive to create partnerships and opportunities in new geographies. His drive is to work inside emerging and disrupting industries while leveraging his strengths in developing international markets. Since December 2013, he is the President of Unocoin, a leading bitcoin and blockchain company. Unocoin is a platform that makes it easy to securely trade bitcoin, ethereum and other crypto-assets. Unocoin employs more than 100 employees and serves millions of customers. The company is also backed by some of the most reputable investors in the space such as DCG.co (which is backed by CIBC, MasterCard, etc), Boost.vc (backed by Tim Draper, early investor in Hotmail, Skype and Tesla), FundersClub (early investors in Coinbase), etc. He also has a strong interest and international experience in robotics and mechatronic systems. Prior to 2013, Sunny spent nearly 8 years doing sales and international business development in the robotics and mechatronics industry. His clients included Stanford, University of Alberta, Georgia Tech, Universidad de los Andes Colombia, Indian Institute of Technology, etc. Sunny is an advocate for and founder of the Canadian Cannabis Club in Toronto. He looks forward to leveraging his extensive international business development experience and applying it towards the new and emerging Canadian Cannabis Industry.
John Biggs
John Biggs is Hemi editor-in-chief and founder of TypeWriter Plus, who previously served as content director for Kraken. He holds a bachelor's degree in management information systems from Carnegelung University and a master's degree in business and economics journalism from New York University.
Derek Rein
Derek Rein is the Chief Technology Officer of WalletConnect and was previously a software development engineer at Amazon. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Fabian Wetekamp
Fabian Wetekamp is Founder of Spaceship DAO, and previously Vice President of Product & Growth at dahmakan and Head of Product at Tribute Labs. He graduated from the Technical University of Munich.
Orest Tarasiuk
Orest Tarasiuk is co-founder and CTO of t1 Protocol, co-founder of zkWarsaw, and previously Scroll Engineer. He has a master's degree in Computer science from the Technical University of Munich.
Aya Miyaguchi
Aya Miyaguchi is the president of the Ethereum Foundation, having previously served as its executive director. Before joining the Ethereum Foundation, she managed operations for the Japan region at the Kraken trading platform.
Lewis Tuff
Lewis Tuff is the CTO of Brevan Howard Digital and previously was the CTO of Blockchain.com. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
Ryan Fennelly
Ryan Fennelly is Global Head of OTC Sales and Trading at Crypto.com and was previously Head of OTC at Abra.
Dan Held
Dan Held is a General Partner at Asymmetric and was previously Head of Business Development at Kraken. His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by AirBnB), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised with the founders of Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and others.
