CRYPTO CHAIN UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Adam Back

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & President of Blockstream, @Adam3us

Adam Draper

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, @AdamDraper

Adam Ludwin

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of Chain, @Adamludwin

Alan Silbert

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of BitPremier, Senior VP at Capital One Healthcare

Alex Sunnarborg

Job Titles:
  • Founding Partner at Tetras Capital

Alexander Tapscott

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of the Blockchain Research Institute, @Alextapscott Blog
  • President & CEO of the Tapscott Group, Inc., @Dtapscott

Amber Baldet

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Clovyr, @AmberBaldet

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Bitcoin Evangelist & Author of ‘Mastering Bitcoin', @Aantonop Blog

Andrew DeSantis

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of BTC Media

Ansel Lindner

Job Titles:
  • Host of Bitcoin & Markets, Founder of Blockchain I / O, @AnselLindner
Ansel Lindner, Host of Bitcoin & Markets, Founder of Blockchain I/O, @AnselLindner

Anthony Di Iorio

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Ethereum & Founder of Jaxx

Anthony Gallippi

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & Executive Chairman of BitPay
  • Co - Founder and Chairman of BitPay

Anthony Pompliano

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Morgan Creek Digital Assets, @Apompliano

Apolo Anton Ohno

Job Titles:
  • Founder of HybridBlock, @ApoloOhno

Ari Paul

Job Titles:
  • CIO of BlockTower Capital, @AriDavidPaul

Arianna Simpson

Job Titles:
  • Venture Partner at Crystal Towers Capital

Arthur Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of BitMex, @Cryptohayes

Barry E. Silbert

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group, @Barrysilbert

Bart Stephens

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner at Blockchain Capital

Ben Davenport - CTO

Job Titles:
  • CTO

Bill Shihara

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Bittrex

Blythe Masters

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Digital Asset Holdings, @Blythemasters

Bobby Lee

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of BTCC, @Bobbyclee

Brad K. Garlinghouse

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Ripple, @Bgarlinghouse

Brandon Chez

Job Titles:
  • Creator of CoinMarketCap.Com

Brendan Blumer

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Block.One, @Brendanblumer

Brett King

Job Titles:
  • Founder & Executive Chairman of Moven

Brian Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO of Coinbase, @Brian Armstrong

Brock Pierce

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Blockchain Capital, @Brockpierce

Bryan Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Well Known Developer

Caitlin Long

Job Titles:
  • Crypto Investor, @CaitlinLong

Cameron Winklevoss

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & President of Gemini Exchange, and Winklevoss Capital, @Winklevoss

Carl Bennetts

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Status, @Carlbennetts

Carolyn Reckhow

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations and Client Services at Casa, @CReckhow

Catherine Coley

Job Titles:
  • Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple, @Cryptocoley

Changpeng Zhao - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Charles Hoskinson

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Input Output, Co - Founder of Ethereum, @Iohk Charles

Charlie Lee

Job Titles:
  • Creator of Litecoin, @SatoshiLite

Charlie Shrem

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, @CharlieShrem

Chi-Hyung Song

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Dunamu Founder, Upbit

Chris Burniske

Job Titles:
  • Partner at Placeholder VC

Chris Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Founder of ProTip

Chris Larsen

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple

Connie Gallippi - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Founder

Damijan Merlak

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Bitstamp

Dan Morehead

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Pantera Capital, Board of Directors at Bitstamp, @Dan Pantera

Dan Wasyluk

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Blockchain Foundry, @Blockchaindan

Daniel Larimer

Job Titles:
  • CTO of Block.One, @Bytemaster7

Derin Cag

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of BlockchainAge

Diego Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • CEO of RSK Labs

Dinis Guarda

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Ztudium

Dominik Schiener

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of IOTA, @Domschiener

Dr Gavin Wood

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Parity Technologies, Former CTO and Co - Founder of Ethereum

Dr. Craig S. Wright

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist of NChain, Founder of DeMorgan Inc, @ProfFaustus

Elaine Ou

Job Titles:
  • Blockchain Engineer at Global Financial Access

Elizabeth McCauley

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Advisor, @Etmccauley

Elizabeth Stark

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of Lightning, @Starkness

Emin Gün Sirer

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of CryptoCurrencies & Contracts ( IC3 ), @El33th4xor

Eric Larchevêque

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Co - Founder of Ledger, @EricLarch

Eric Lombrozo

Job Titles:
  • Co - CEO and CTO of Ciphrex Corp

Erik T. Voorhees

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO of ShapeShift.Io, @ErikVoorhees

Francis Pouliot

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research at Catallaxy, CEO of Satoshi Portal

Fred Ehrsam

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Coinbase

Fred Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures, Founder of VC Firm Flatiron Partners

Gavin Andresen

Job Titles:
  • Chief Scientist at Bitcoin Foundation & Lead Developer of Bitcoin Core

Giancarlo Devasini

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CFO of Bitfinex.Com

Gilles Babinet

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Eyeka S.a

Herbert R. Sim - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Founder of Crypto Chain University, a.K.a. TheBitcoinMan, @HerbertRsim
  • Its Founder
Herbert R. Sim is the founder of Crypto Chain University, founded on February 2010. He served as Chief Marketing Officer of Cryptology Exchange till December 2018. Herbert was previously the Director of Global Operations of the World's Leading Blockchain Asset Exchange - Huobi Pro. He also founded award-winning Asia's High Fashion & Luxury Online Magazine - WardrobeTrendsFashion. The magazine was acquired on February 2017, Herbert still sits as the Executive Chairman. The portal won the most coveted title of ‘Best Lifestyle Website' GOLD award at 2015 Asian Digital Media Awards, jointly presented by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and Google; also won a GOLD award for category of Media & Entertainment at the 2017 International Business Awards by Stevie Awards. Simultaneously, Herbert always had a passion towards charitable causes mainly to help children break-free of the poverty bondage, to "Follow their Heart, Chase their Dreams". Thus, in 2014, he forged a collaboration with Christian relief and development umbrella organization - World Vision. Herbert also contributed to Forbes and Huffington Post. And has been the executive producer for various film projects listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). He has a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Wolverhampton, UK; and a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Oklahoma City University, USA. He was honored with the 2016 '30 under 30' award by Oklahoma City University. Read more on his LinkedIn Page here.

Hongfei Da - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Jackson Palmer

Job Titles:
  • Creator of Dogecoin

James Radecki

Job Titles:
  • Global Head of Business Development at Cumberland, @JamesRadecki32

Jameson Lopp

Job Titles:
  • Engineer at Bit

Jed McCaleb

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CTO of Stellar, @Jedmccaleb

Jeff Garzik

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of Bloq

Jeff Wilcke

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Ethereum, @Jeffehh

Jeremy Allaire

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Circle, @Jerallaire

Jesse Powell

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, CEO of Kraken Exchange, @Jespow

Jihan Wu

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & Director of Bitmain Technologies Ltd., @Jihanwu

Jill Carlson

Job Titles:
  • Cryptocurrency Consultant

Jim Marous

Job Titles:
  • Owner, Editor & Publisher of the Digital Banking Report

Jimmy Song

Job Titles:
  • Venture Partner for Blockchain Capital LLC, @Jimmysong

Joey Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner at Cyborgenic

John McAfee

Job Titles:
  • Crypto Investor and Entrepreneur, @Officialmcafee

Jon Matonis

Job Titles:
  • Founding and Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, @Jonmatonis

Jonas Borchgrevink

Job Titles:
  • Founder of CryptoCoinsNews.Com, Now Known As CCN.Com

Jonas Schnelli - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Developer
Jonas Schnelli, Bitcoin Core developer and maintainer, Co-founder of digitalbitbox, Author of libbtc

Joseph Lubin

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of ConsenSys, @EthereumJoseph

Joseph Young

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at News

Josh Fraser

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Origin Protocol, @Joshfraser

Josh Olszewicz

Job Titles:
  • Advisor to Experty.Io and AltCoinExchange, Writes for BraveNewCoin.Com

Juan Benet

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Protocol Labs, Inventor of the InterPlanetary File System ( IPFS ), Founder of Filecoin, Juanbenet

Julian Zawistowski

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Co - Founder of Golem Factory, @Julianzawist

Justin Sun

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of TRON, @Justinsuntron

Kathleen Breitman

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Tezos, @Breitwoman

Kathryn Haun

Job Titles:
  • General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Kris Marszalek

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Monaco, @Kris HK

Laura Shin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Editor at Forbes & Co
Laura Shin, Senior Editor at Forbes & Co-lead Reporter of the Forbes Fintech, @laurashin

Leon Li

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Huobi Global

Linda Xie

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Scalar Capital, @Ljxie

Loi Luu

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Kyber Network, @Loi Luu

Lon Wong

Job Titles:
  • CEO of ProximaX, President of the NEM.Io Foundation, @2017lon

Luis Iván

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of the Aragon Project, @Licuende

Luke Martin

Job Titles:
  • Host of Coin Chat, Founder of VentureCoinist

Mai Fujimoto

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Grecone Investment Group, a.K.a. "Miss Bitcoin", @Missbitcoin Mai

Marc L. Andreessen

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Netscape Communications & Co - Founder of LoudCloud, @Pmarca

Marco Streng

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Genesis Mining, @Marco Streng

Marek Palatinus

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Head IT Architect at Satoshi Labs

Marie Wieck

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Mark Yusko

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, @MarkYusko

Mars Cheng

Job Titles:
  • CTO of Huobi Global

Matt Corallo

Job Titles:
  • Bitcoin Developer at Chaincode Labs, @TheBlueMatt
Matt Corallo, Bitcoin developer at Chaincode Labs, @TheBlueMatt

Matthew Spoke

Job Titles:
  • Founder of the AION Network, @Mattspoke

Matthew Tan

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder of Etherscan and Blockscan, @Etherscan

Meltem Demirors

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development at Digital Currency Group, @Melt Dem

Micah Winkelspecht

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Gem.Co, @Winkelspecht

Michael Arrington

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Former Co - Editor of TechCrunch, Lead Partner of Arrington XRP Capital

Michael E. Novogratz

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO of Galaxy Digital, @Novogratz

Michael Kitces

Job Titles:
  • Publisher of Nerd 's Eye View Blog, Director of Research at Pinnacle Advisory Group

Michael Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and Executive Director of Cardano Foundation

Michel Bauwens

Job Titles:
  • Founder of P2P Foundation

Mick Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Mainframe, @Mickhagen

Mike Belshe

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Bitgo, @Mikebelshe

Mike Kayamori

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of QUOINE, @MikeKayamori

Muneeb Ali

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Blockstack, @Muneeb

Naval Ravikant

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of AngelList, @Naval

Ned Scott

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of SteemIT, Creator of Smart Media Tokens ( SMT ), Founder of SteemNetwork

Nejc Kodrič

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Bitstamp, @Nejc Kodric

Nick Szabo

Job Titles:
  • Creator & Designer of Bit Gold, @NickSzabo4 Blog

Nicolas Cary

Job Titles:
  • President and Co - Founder of Blockchain.Com

Noriyuki Hirosue

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of Bitbank

Olaf Carlson-Wee

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Founder of Polychain Capital, @Zxocw

Olaoluwa Osuntokun

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer at Lightning Labs

Oleg Andreev

Job Titles:
  • Protocol Architect at Chain, Author of Gitbox App, @Oleganza
Oleg Andreev, Protocol architect at Chain, Author of Gitbox app, @oleganza

Oliver T. Bussmann

Job Titles:
  • President of Crypto Valley Association & Founder of Bussmann Advisory

Oscar Williams-Grut

Job Titles:
  • Senior Reporter at Business Insider UK

Patrick Byrne

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Overstock & Co - Chair at EdChoice

Pavel Durov

Job Titles:
  • Founder of VKontakte, and Telegram, @Durov

Peter Smith

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Blockchain, @OneMorePeter

Pierre Rochard

Job Titles:
  • Software Engineer at Axial
Pierre Rochard, Software Engineer at Axial, co-host of Noded Podcast, @pierre_rochard

Pieter Wuille

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Blockstream & Bitcoin Core Developer, @Pwuille

Preethi Kasireddy

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of TruStory, @Iam Preethi

Preston Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Former COO of Monax, @Prestonjbyne

Ran NeuNer

Ran NeuNer, host of CNBC Africa - Cryptotrader, Founder of OnChain Capital, CEO of The Creative Counsel, @cryptomanran

Raphael Nicolle

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CTO of Bitfinex.Com

Richard G. Brown

Job Titles:
  • CTO at R3

Richard Heart

Job Titles:
  • Founder of BitcoinHEX, @RichardHeartWin

Richie Lai

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Bittrex

Robin Zhu

Job Titles:
  • COO of Huobi Global

Roger K. Ver

Job Titles:
  • Bitcoin Angel Investor & Bitcoin Evangelist, @Rogerkver

Roger Wang

Job Titles:
  • CTO of Binance

Ryan Selkis

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Messari, Former Managing Director at CoinDesk, @Twobitidiot

Ryan X Charles

Job Titles:
  • Creator and CEO of Yours.Org

Satoshi Nakamoto

Job Titles:
  • Creator of Bitcoin and Blockchain

Shakil Khan

Job Titles:
  • Founder of CoinDesk, Investor in BitPay, @Shak

Sherman Lee

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Raven Protocol, @SHERM8N

Spencer Bogart

Job Titles:
  • Head of Research at Blockchain Capital

Star Xu

Job Titles:
  • CEO of OKCoin, @Starokcoin

Stephan Tual

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of AtlasNeue and Slock.It

Stephen Pair

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of Bitpay, @Spair

Sunny Ray

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & President of Unocoin, @SunnyRayShow

Susanne Chishti

Job Titles:
  • CEO of FINTECH Circle, Author of "the FINTECH Book"

Thomas Lee

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of FundStrat, @Fundstrat

Thomas Power

Job Titles:
  • Board Member of 9Spokes

Tiffany Hayden

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Casheer, @Haydentiff

Tim Draper

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Draper Associates & Draper University, @Timdraper

Tristan D'Agosta

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Poloniex

Tushar Jain

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital

Tuur Demeester

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief

Tyler H. Winklevoss

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Winklevoss Capital Management, @TylerWinklevoss

Valery Vavilov

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO of BitFury, @Valeryvavilov

Vinay Gupta

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Mattereum

Vinny Lingham

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder & CEO of CivicKey, @VinnyLingham

Vitalik Buterin

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Ethereum, @VitalikButerin

Vlad Zamfir

Job Titles:
  • Part of Ethereum Development Team, Analytics Consultant at Burson - Marsteller, @VladZamfir
Vlad Zamfir, Part of Ethereum Development Team, Analytics Consultant at Burson-Marsteller, @VladZamfir

William Mougayar

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Startup Management

Wong Joon Ian

Job Titles:
  • Reporter at Quartz

Yi He

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, Binance

Yuzo Kano

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and CEO of BitFlyer, @Yuzokano