Team Members
Jack Zampolin
Founder of Strangelove
Bio
Jack Zampolin is the co-founder of Sommelier and the founder of Strangelove. Jack has been working in the Cosmos ecosystem since 2018, first promoted to Tendermint’s product director, which established a consensus protocol supporting communications between Cosmos and then served as vice president of product for Akash Network. Jack has been developing blockchain projects since joining Blockstack’s engineering team in 2017, with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and Lee University.
Work Experience
Sommelier
Stacks
Ondo Finance
VP Product
Education
University of Washington
Portfolio
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School Alumni
Simon Yu
Simon Yu is the co-founder and CEO of StormX and DuelNow. He graduated from the University of Washington.
Calvin Hsieh
Calvin Hsieh is the CTO and co-founder of DuelNow and StormX. He graduated from the University of Washington.
Colin Butler
Colin Butler is the head of institutional capital ball at Movement and was previously the global head of institutional capital at Polygon Technology. His background includes institutional equity sales and trading, private wealth management and alternative marketing.
Soubhik Deb
Soubhik Deb is General Manager of EigenLayer. He graduated from the University of Washington and Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai.
Jack Zampolin
Jack Zampolin is the co-founder of Sommelier and the founder of Strangelove. Jack has been working in the Cosmos ecosystem since 2018, first promoted to Tendermint’s product director, which established a consensus protocol supporting communications between Cosmos and then served as vice president of product for Akash Network. Jack has been developing blockchain projects since joining Blockstack’s engineering team in 2017, with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and Lee University.
Rick Ellis
Rick Ellis is the game director for SuperVerse. He graduated from the University of Washington in the United States.
3LAU
Justin David Blau is well known for his stage name 3LAU and is an American DJ and electronic dance music producer. He majored in finance at Washington University in St. Louis and then pursued his musical dream.
Brandon Kite
Brandon Kite is the chief technology officer of Fuel Labs and was previously a senior software engineer at Transparent Financial Systems. He graduated from the University of Washington.
Emin Gun Sirer
Emin Gün Sirer is co-founder and CEO of AVA Labs and a professor of computer science at Cornell University. He is mainly engaged in the research of operating systems, networks and distributed systems. Gün is also the co-director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts, a blockchain alliance funded by the National Science Foundation in 2015.
Joshua Seims
Joshua Seims is the founder of MetaStable Capital, CEO of TrustedCoin, a hacker, entrepreneur, and angel investor. After graduating from Harvard University, he participated in the founding of Hitplay, a platform for large-scale video distribution, and now lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.
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