Blockchain Architect | Accenture

Cody Burns

CTO | ETCDEV Team

Igor Artamonov

Igor Artamonov is a seasoned software engineer and software architect with more that 15 years of experience in building distributed systems. He has a strong passion for blockchain, Ethereum Classic and decentralized computing. He didn’t like the idea of breaking immutability in Ethereum, so he decided to contribute to the original network at the moment of the fork of Ethereum ETH. Later he has formed a robust team of developers, and now is the driving force behind ETCDEV team to achieve its mission of improving and building on the ETC blockchain.

Program Manager | ETCDEV

Darcy Reno

Darcy Reno is business focused technologist providing strategy and leadership. He has spent almost 20 years making blockbuster films and games inside companies like Electronic Arts, Technicolor, Starz Media and working with clients such as FIFA, Fox, Disney, Marvel, DreamWorks, Nickelodeon and Warner Bros to name a few.

Associate, Product Development & Research | Grayscale Investments

Matthew Beck

Matt Beck joined Grayscale Investments in April 2016. He leads Product Development & Research for Grayscale’s growing suite of digital currency investment products, including Bitcoin Investment Trust™ (OTCQX: GBTC), Ethereum Classic Investment Trust (OTCQX: ETCG), and Digital Large Cap Fund™. Matt is the author of some of the first investment-focused research papers on digital assets, which have been featured by Bloomberg, Fortune, and Real Vision. Prior to joining Grayscale, Matt spent two years as a research analyst at Bridgewater Associates. Before Bridgewater, Matt spent four years with MSCI, consulting on investment products ranging from equity indexes to multi-factor models. Matt is a CFA charterholder and holds Series 7 and 66 licenses. He received his B.A. in Economics and Business from Lafayette College.

Managing Director | Grayscale Investments

Michael Sonnenshein

Michael Sonnenshein joined Grayscale Investments in January 2014.  As Managing Director, he is responsible for overseeing the daily operations and growth of the Grayscale business, spanning sales, operations, product development, and investor relations. With $2+ Billion in assets under management, Michael is responsible for maintaining many of the firms’ key client relationships including family offices, hedge funds, and other institutions as well as forming strategic partnerships and evaluating service providers. Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions. He also worked in a similar capacity at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. Michael earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and his Master of Business Administration from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Director, US | Ethereum Classic Cooperative

Anthony Lusardi

CEO and Co-Founder of IOHK

Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado at Boulder to study Analytic Number Theory prior to moving into cryptography via industry exposure.

His professional experience includes founding three Cryptocurrency related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and a variety of colorful positions in the public and private sector. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in September of 2013.

His current projects focus on education of cryptocurrency topics, evangelism of decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream.

CEO | ETC Labs

Terry Culver

Terry Culver is CEO of ETC Labs, which are committed accelerating the development of the blockchain ecosystem and innovative enterprises on the Ethereum Classic platform.

Terry has extensive global experience in fundraising and business development in the fields of technology, emerging markets, and education. He serves as Senior Adviser to the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, where he formerly held the position of Associate Dean for Development.

Co-founder and Managing Partner Fundstrat Global Advisors

Thomas Lee

Thomas has over 20 years of experience in macro markets and equity research. Prior to co-founding the
independent strategy research boutique, Fundstrat Global Advisors, he served as Chief Equity Strategist of J.P.
Morgan Chase & Co. from 2007 through 2014. And prior to that, was both a highly regarded
telecommunications equity research analyst and also small -cap equity/ bankruptcy/reorg strategist (2004-
2010).

He is known for his data-driven approach (“analysis not opinions”) as well as his identification of secular drivers
of market forces such as generational shifts, leverage cycle or technological disruption. His clients view his
work as both contrarian and highly differentiated, as his approach incorporates an extensive study of historical
fundamentals, reliance on credit and cross market leading indicators, as well as market-based views driven by
positioning and sentiment.

Recently, he has brought this focus onto Crypto-currencies and blockchain, as the innovation of this area looks
like a rejuvenation of the industrial/technological revolution.

He has also received numerous award and recognition during his career. He has been top ranked by
Institutional Investor (II) and from 1998 to 2013, was top-ranked 1, 2 or 3 every single year.

He was at J.P.Morgan from 1999 to 2014. He has previously served as Managing Director at Salomon Smith
Barney from 1996-1999. And prior to that was at Kidder, Peabody and Oppenheimer.

He is a CFA® charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA) and the
Economic Club of NY.

He received his BSE from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in Finance
and Accounting.

Community Manager, Asia | ETHEREUM CLASSIC COOPERATIVE

Christian Xu

Christian had worked as a software engineer for over 10 years since his graduation. In 2014, he joined blockchain area and became an enthusiast. Since then, Christian had served several roles as a director of a large crypto exchange, a blockchain researcher, a VC investment manager and a business developer. In April 2018, Christian took the responsibility for Ethereum Classic Asia Community. As the community manager, he is contributing all his efforts to Asian community and dedicated to Ethereum Classic.

Special Projects | Ethereum Foundation

Virgil Griffith

Virgil Griffith is part of Special Projects at the Ethereum Foundation. He has a PhD in theoretical neuroscience from Caltech. His Erdős and Bacon number are both 3. He is interested in finding positive sum games that ETH and ETC can play together.

Ethereum Classic Community Manager | IOHK

Kevin Lord

LEGAL | GRAYSCALE INVESTMENTS

Craig Salm

Craig Salm joined Grayscale Investments in January 2018. He leads Legal for Grayscale’s growing suite of digital currency investment products, including Bitcoin Investment Trust™ (OTCQX: GBTC), Ethereum Classic Investment Trust (OTCQX: ETCG), and Digital Large Cap Fund™. Prior to joining Grayscale, Craig spent four years in the Capital Markets & Securities practice of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Craig holds Series 7 and 63 licenses. He received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and his B.S. in Brain, Behavior & Cognitive Sciences from the University of Michigan.

University of Strathclyde (UK) | Parallel Industries

Dr. Wassim Alsindi

Wassim Alsindi is a cryptocurrency researcher at the University of Strathclyde and founder of independent research laboratory Parallel Industries. His research activities have spanned astronomy, chemistry, physics, arts and financial technology and he has held executive roles at a number of startups and non-profit organizations.

Current interests are in comparative analytics of forking P2P monetary networks, taxonomic frameworks for cryptographic asset characterization, widening access through low-tech and high-resilience cryptocurrency and technology implementations and insider asymmetries in blockchain-oriented ecosystems via gaming of governance mechanisms.

Varro Technologies | Quantfury | Ethereum | CryptoChicks

Bob Summerwill

Bob Summerwill is a candidate for the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, Co-Founder and CTO for Varro Technologies, Blockchain Lead at Quantfury, a community leader for the Ethereum Project and Community Ambassador for CryptoChicks. He first met Vitalik Buterin in 2014 and has been actively involved in the Ethereum project since 2015. He has been building bridges to enterprise and towards mainstream adoption since 2016.

Javascript Developer | ETCDEV

Shane Jonas

Javascript Developer | ETCDEV

Zachary Belford

Zachary Belford, BSc Comp Sci, is a Javascript developer on the ETCDEV team working on the Emerald Platform.

Zachary has been developing software for over a decade, building applications and scaling software products to millions of users.

A few years ago, he formally started contributing to the blockchain community. He worked on LBRY, Ubiq (formally known as Jumbucks), Sarcoin, and built trustless web wallets. Then in May 2018, Zachary joined the ETCDEV team to advance blockchain technology and the ecosystems surrounding it in order to enable a more decentralized world.

CEO | OriginalMy

Edilson Osorio Jr.

Director at Coinbase

Kayvon Pirestani

Kayvon Pirestani is a Director within Coinbase’s Institutional division, which includes the Prime
trading platform and Coinbase Custody. Kayvon is responsible for marketing Coinbase’s
institutional offerings to the growing number of institutional investors interested in investing in
cryptoassets.

Prior to Coinbase, Kayvon ran the Japan OTC equity derivatives sales desk for Morgan Stanley
where he marketed structured volatility and synthetic equity products to global institutional
investors. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Kayvon was at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong where he put
together some of Asia’s largest-ever equity options transactions.
Kayvon received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his
Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Kayvon has been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013.

CEO | Linzhi

Chen Min

Chen Min was born in Beijing in 1988. While studying ceramics at Hunan University, she designed the world’s first Bitcoin mining ASIC, Avalon A3256 in 2012. She designed another 6 generations of Avalon mining chips and helped build her company into a leading global hashrate ASIC manufacturer with over 100 people. She left in 2017 as CTO to pursue new endeavors. Today, Chen Min lives and works in Shenzhen on future semiconductors. She is co-founder of Chinese transgender foundation Trans-Life.

CSO | Gödel Lab

Kong Gao

Kong Gao, with a background in Research Psychology, is the Chief Strategy Officer at Godel Lab of Guangzhou. Eager to play a greater role in Bitcoin community, he dropped out of graduate school and left for China for a more stimulating bitcoin community. He has previously worked at Richfund, an early crypto hedge fund in China, as Oversea Marketing Manager and BitcoinWorld.com, a peer to peer crypto trading platform, as CEO. Over the past couple of years, he has been working as a freelance OTC trader and an avid ETC evangelist.

Researcher | IOHK

Dionysis Zindros

Managing Director, Asia Pacific | Circle

Jack Liu

Jack C. Liu is the Head of Trading, Asia Pacific, at Circle. Jack is a widely-recognized key opinion leader and entrepreneur in the cryptocurrency and digital asset community. He has been featured by Bloomberg and has been hosted at numerous public and private speaking events to provide insight and education on key industry trends. He previously served as Chief Strategy Officer of OKCoin and co-founded the company’s subsequent platforms OKLink and OKEx.

Chairman | ETC Labs

James Wo

James Wo is the Chairman of ETC Labs; Board member of Ethereum Classic Cooperative. As an enthusiast for blockchain, he is also the founder of Exchange Union— an open source platform that connects digital asset exchanges all around the world; Chairman of board of Digital Finance Group, an investment group focuses on Blockchain and cryptocurrencies; and Board member of Purse and Ripio. His solid entrepreneurship knowledge is one of the most attractions for blockchain technology enthusiast to succeed.

CEO | Zeniex

Will K Choi

Co-chair | AMCHAM Korea Blockchain Committee

Jiwon Joung

Early ETC Enthusiast | ETC KakaoTalk Admin

Kim Gyung Seop

VARRO TECHNOLOGIES | QUANTFURY | ETHEREUM | CRYPTOCHICKS

Alison Alexis

Scala Developer | IOHK

Alan Verbner

Co-Founder | Horizen

Rob Viglione

Rob’s the co-founder of Horizen and President of the Zen Blockchain Foundation. He’s a scientist with background in physics, mathematics, and financial economics, and teaches “Bitcoin & Blockchain Applications in Finance” at the University of South Carolina.

Researcher | Akomba Labs

Zhen Yu Yong

Zhen is a researcher with an academic focus in cryptography and blockchain technology. He serves as a technical advisor to multiple blockchain projects, has built full-stack Ethereum dapps and has spoken at various blockchain events across the world. He is currently working on research projects that include interoperability across chains, trustless identity based encryption and different forms of credibility exchange. He is a huge fan of Lee Kwang Soo and keenly looks forward to episodes of Running Man.

Developer | Kyber Network

Desmond Ho

CEO | Genesis Global Trading

Michael Moro

Michael Moro serves as the CEO of Genesis Trading and Genesis Capital, responsible for planning and executing the strategic vision for the respective firms. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer for Genesis Trading and was responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations. He started his career at Citi in investment banking, covering financial institutions and finance companies. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 86/87 licenses. Additionally, he sits on the Oversight Committee for the CME CF Bitcoin Pricing Products.

Tech Lead | POA Network

Igor Barinov

Founder | Portal Network

Christopher Shen

Portal Network is an incentivized and fully-decentralized platform that provides blockchain protocols and projects with BNS standards governed by smart contracts. Portal Network is robust, reliable, and user-friendly. Portal Network has successfully deployed BNS-compatible systems like Wanchain Name System (WNS), QTUM Name Service (QNS), ICON Name Service (INS), QuarkChain Name Service (QCNS), and TomoChain Name Service (TNS) for our protocol partners.

In addition to our BNS technology, Portal Network has developed a product suite which allows both technical and non-technical users to create, deploy, and experience decentralised websites and applications. Our initial deployments for this product, including Ethereum Improvement 1062, Ethereum Classic Improvement 1044, and a MetaMask integration, have already been proposed and adopted by these industry-leading projects.

Our mission is to provide the tools necessary to empower developers and users to create new value within the blockchain ecosystem, driving widespread adoption of decentralised technology.

Business Analyst | IOHK

Tom Flynn