Tegan Kline Head Int Bus Dev & Investor Relations Orchid. At Orchid, they are creating tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet. Prior to Orchid, Tegan was a blockchain technology consultant, helping leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem. Tegan’s professional experience has been with Fortune 500’s and startups, most recently as Executive VP of a patent marketplace powered by blockchain, analyzed by AI. She began her career in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays. Tegan is working to redistribute resources and income using blockchain and AI with Nature 2.0, Co-Founder of Blockchain Code of Ethics, Head of the U.S. for Triangles, a group that supports female founders and Ambassador to Buckminster Fuller Institute, helping to make the world work for 100% of us.
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Andrea Lo Head Business Development Harbor #stateoftokens
Andrea Lo Head Bus DevHarbor Andrea heads business development at Harbor. Prior to Harbor, Andrea was in early stage venture capital in London and Silicon Valley helping founders at the earliest stages of the startup life cycle while helping VC funds raise capital from LPs. Andrea also spent 4 years as the CEO and founder of a VC-backed fundraising platform for students, leading it from concept and financing to exit. Andrea is a TEDx speaker, alumni of UC Berkeley and University of Oxford, and San Francisco-born Silicon Valley native.
State of Tokens panel #stateoftokens
DISCUSSION: Joshua Rivera General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer Blockchain Capital; Tegan Kline Head Int Bus Dev & Investor Relations Orchid; Mike Zajko Head Sales CoinList; Andrea Lo Head Bus Dev Harbor; MODERATOR: Mark Albertson, Silicon Valley journalist
Blockchain: Bridging the Chains: Practical considerations in working with multiple Blockchains
Jae Yang, CEO Tacen Inc. #bridgingblockchains Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols. Before crypto assets can take over the world, first they need to escape the valley where they originated, a task which calls for building bridges. Jae Yang CEO Tacen Inc, a startup working on non-custodial solution to cryptocurrency exchange. Jae previously worked at Metal Pay as Director of Engineering, helping to build Metal Pay’s market infrastructure, graph-based AML and anti-fraud system, and other systems. Before that Jae worked in defense sector, helping to build high-fidelity engineering simulations. Jae started out as an aerospace engineer, but he found his passion in writing software. He is passionate about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He is active in the cryptocurrency community, often explaining technical details to newcomers. In his spare time, Jae develops various open source softwares in Node.js and is an avid reader.