MEET THE TEAM
AMOS ZHANG
Founder
As a founder/executive at VC backed startups, Amos worked on public chains, enterprise blockchain, and SaaS products. Amos has assumed multiple leadership roles across product, marketing, and sales. engaged with a dozen Fortune 500 companies, as well as some of the largest crypto projects in the world. At NEAR Protocol, Amos was both the Head of Global Marketing and GM of Asia.
Amos earned a BA in Economics and a MS in Engineering from Brown University.
DANI OSORIO
Partner
Dani has spent 15+ years at high-growth startups, enterprises, and blockchain. Previously, she was the Head of Developer Ecosystem at NEAR Protocol and an Executive Director at Infura & ConsenSys. Dani is also the Head of Content for EthDenver and a board member of SporkDAO. Dani graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in Comparative Literature and Sociology.
VINCENT PUN
Principal
Vincent worked in tech investment banking at Citigroup, advising world-leading tech companies in M&A and IPO transactions, and moved to WeBank (the leading digital bank in China) managing capital markets and strategic development responsibilities. Vincent earned a BA in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University.
STANLEY HE
Head of Research
Stanley is a research analyst and product manager, focusing on economic mechanisms and on-chain data analytics. He worked as a data scientist and strategy consultant before joining MetaWeb. He holds Bachelor of Social Science in Politics from the University of Hong Kong and M.Sc. from the University of Chicago.
ANLING TONG
Head of Growth
Anling (Twitter @motherofqianbei) specializes in growth, marketing and business development at MetaWeb. Previously, Anling co-founded an NFT project, Turtlecase Gang, one of the most well-popular NFT projects in Greater China. Prior to Web3, She worked as a data scientist at Metuan and a venture analyst at Plug and Play. Anling graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Economics.
ROBERT YAN
Technical Due Diligence
Robert is a full-stack developer with over 11 years of experience. Before joining NEAR and MetaWeb, Robert worked as an Engineering Director at MicroStrategy, and contributed to open source projects such as Ethereum and Steem.
He graduated from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University with a major in Computer Science.
DANIEL WANG
Technical Due Diligence
Daniel has over 5 years of experience developing big data and distributed systems. Previously, Daniel co-founded a VC backed startup as the CTO, and priort to that, he worked as an engineer at Salesforce and Gilt.
He graduated with B.S. in Computer Science from Fudan University and M.Sc in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
MARIA MA
Business Operations
Maria has a strong operations and investment background. She was previously the Head of Business Operations at MYKEY and EOS Cannon. Prior to crypto, she worked as an analyst in a early stage VC in China.Maria graduated from NWPU with a master's degree in Management.
TECHNICAL ADVISORS
ILLIA POLOSUKHIN
Co-Founder of NEAR
Ex-engineering manager @ Google and major TensorFlow contributor
Author of multiple impactful research papers on artificial intelligence and distributed systems
MATT LOCKYER
Co-Founder of Satori
UX researcher and full-stack developer, Ph.D. computer science lecturer, inventor of the Ethereum ERC-998 standard for composable Tokens
Published in a16z's crypto canon reading list
EVGENY KUZYAKOV
Co-founder of Proximity Labs
Core developer at NEAR
ICPC gold medalist (2008)
Former Google and Facebook engineer
Deep research experience in DeFi, machine learning, and blockchain
YAJIN ZHOU
C.S.Professor at Zhejiang University, one of the most quoted researchers in the field of software security, operating systems security, and smart contract security
Founder and CEO of BlockSec
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