Protocol geek, coder and serial technology entrepreneur who hails from the UK. Dominic's last venture was an MMO that grew to 3M users and allowed him to indulge his passion for scalable tech. Dominic is a bit of a hippy, but once won prizes in Computer Science at London University.

Serial entrepreneur, founder of Blockchain University and previously a senior manager at eBay who comes from Shanghai. Tom caught the blockchain wave in 2013 and hasn't looked back. Back in the day, he graduated in Computer Science at age 14 and from business school at 20. Tom's a regular startup and crypto pundit.

Once an Aachen University mathematics and cryptography professor in Germany, Timo caught the decentralization bug. Timo has worked on numerous crypto products and prior to joining String Labs invented and patented the famous AsicBoost (http://asicboost.com/). At String he works on Third Generation crypto systems.

Enzo has built and maintained high-throughput computing infrastructure for several high-growth startups in Silicon Valley. He is passionate about cloud computing, automation, and loves to share his knowledge and enthusiasm with others. Enzo holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego.

A highly dynamic coordinator of String projects and business development activity, Tomomi was previously at the Women's Startup Lab in Menlo Park. She is a bilingual Japanese speaker, recently graduating Cum Laude with a B.A. in Communication from Santa Clara University. She proves you don't have to be a crypto geek to help drive String!

As an internationally renowned and influential designer, Jon has worked for many, many well known names, contributing a unique and highly original sense of style and stunning visions in print, digital and video. Jon also once worked with Dominic to create a "growth monster" MMO that reached 3M users. A rockstar of design!

Shigeo is a talented cryptographer with interests in pairing implementations, x86/x64 optimization and machine learning, and the publisher of several academic works. He currently works with Timo evolving a BLS threshold signature library that sits at the core of the Dfinity "threshold relay chain" system. A C++ rockstar!

Assistant Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, Will Cong holds positions such as George Shultz Scholar at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and prizes from the Shmuel Kandel Award in Financial Economics to gold medals in international and national Math contests: a bona fide financial economics maestro!

Currently a Professor of Law at New York Law School, Houman is a world renowned expert on law relating to cutting-edge fintech, hedge funds and securitization. This has led him to testify to congress on hedge funds and the financial crisis, and to the CFTC on Bitcoin derivatives.