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Christopher Maree is a research partner at Hack VC, head of UMA Protocol Research, and a former Devcon V Scholar.
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Sean Brown
Sean Brown is a research partner at Hack VC, a former UMA product lead, and a former IBM blockchain senior advisor.
Nicole Zahrah Civitello
Nicole Zahrah Civitello is Head of Investor Relations at Polychain Capital and was previously Head of Investor Relations at Hack VC and Head of Capital Strategy at Anchorage Digital.
Chichi Hong
Chichi Hong is the co-founder of ScalingX. Prior to that, Chichi Hong was the Founder and CEO of Hey Maet, Asia Partner at Hack VC , and Partner at Ausvic Capital.
Julian Rachman
Julian Rachman is the Founder & CEO at Otim, Venture Partner at Hack VC and former Growth Lead at Nomad. Formerly, Founder & CEO at Ripplink, Data Science Engineer at Pollenly and MediaHound.
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.
Alex Botte
Alex Botte is a partner at Hack VC and previously served as vice president at Two Sigma Ventures. She graduated from Cornell University.
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.
Hart Lambur
Hart Lambur is Co-founder of UMA Protocol. He is a believer in Universal Market Access and decentralized finance. Previously, he was the founder of Openfolio, a trader at Goldman Sachs, and a Computer Science graduate from Columbia University.
Matt Rice
Matt Rice is CTO at UMA. Previously, Software Engineer at Google, Principal Engineer at One Daijo Ltd. Engineering financial inclusion via blockchain.
