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David Wells
David Wells is the CEO of Ondo Perps, the equity-perpetuals trading arm of Ondo Finance, where he leads the push to bring leveraged trading of U.S. stocks, ETFs, and commodities onchain with tokenized shares usable as collateral. He founded and ran Enclave Markets, the first Fully Encrypted Exchange, incubated within Ava Labs, after earlier roles at Two Sigma and Paxos. A Harvard Business School graduate and long-time markets operator, Wells has spent his career building institutional-grade trading infrastructure and arguing that crypto markets still hold real inefficiencies for those who can build fair, private, and efficient venues.
Jasper Zhang
Jasper Zhang is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic, an open-access AI cloud and GPU marketplace based in San Francisco. A math prodigy who won gold medals at the Chinese and Russian Mathematical Olympiads and finished a UC Berkeley math PhD in two years, he moved from quantitative research at Citadel Securities to blockchain research at Ava Labs before founding Hyperbolic in 2022 with Yuchen Jin. His mission: make large-scale AI compute affordable and available to anyone with an idea, from students to enterprises.
Kevin Sekniqi
Kevin Sekniqi is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor best known as the youngest co-founder of Ava Labs, the company behind the Avalanche blockchain. A former PhD candidate at Cornell University who dropped out to build, he began mining Bitcoin at age 16 from his childhood bedroom in Brooklyn. After helping scale Avalanche to millions of users and a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem, he transitioned to running a family office focused on investing in and incubating companies tackling tough problems across biotech, nuclear energy, blockchain infrastructure, and quantum computing.