Dr. Thuc Vu

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Dr. Thuc is a serial entrepreneur, with multiple company acquisitions, the last one by Google. He has deep expertise in game theory, tournament design and multi-agent systems. He earned his PhD from Stanford and BS from Carnegie Mellon, both in computer science. Dr. Thuc is a social entrepreneur in Vietnam, involved in several community projects.

Jared Go

CO-FOUNDER & CTO

Jared is an avid maker and roboticist, previously CTO and founding member at a networks startup. He has extensive experience in blockchain, AI, real-time graphics, VR, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. Jared is a Stanford Graduate Fellow and has a BS in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Tingxi Tan

CO-FOUNDER & CPO

Tingxi has a background in cloud computing, network infrastructure and distributed system design. He has been active in Crypto Investment since 2010. He was responsible for building the global scale cloud infrastructure at a networks startup. He graduated from MSc Computer Science U of Calgary and BSc Applied Math Western University.

Prof. Manuela Veloso

AI & ROBOTICS

Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was the President of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Dhana Pawar

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Dhana Pawar is a seasoned business and product, management executive. She launched award-winning, innovative products with an emphasis on delighting consumers. She has led teams to develop compelling applications which led to strategic acquisitions and mergers. Her other expertise includes product management, product strategy, end to end product development and partnerships.

Jill Nguyen

PARTNERSHIPS

Jill Nguyen is the Head of Partnerships of Kambria. In this role, she is responsible for growing the company’s customer base, brand presence and strategic partnerships. She joined Kambria in August after 3 years at Phone2Action, a software company in Washington DC, where she was the Director of Digital and Partnerships and joined the company at the post-seed stage as the 5th employee. In this role, she created the Customer Success team from the ground up, managed a team of Digital Account Managers, and was responsible for revenue retention, growth, customer support, community building, and operations for the company. She pioneered the customer marketing program and led numerous initiatives to grow the community of Phone2Action users across the country.

Prior to joining Phone2Action, Jill worked for some of the largest non-profit organizations in the United States. Born and raised in Hanoi, Vietnam, she came to the United States at 14 to attend high school, and later Hendrix College where she was awarded of the only International Student Scholarship in her class. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Prof. Tra Vu

COO

Tra has a background in Financial and Civil Engineering. She earned her Master’s in Financial Engineering and her PhD in Transportation Planning & Engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tra currently teaches at her alma mater and was responsible for leading her previous company in designing the first city-wide Transit Signal Priority system in New York City.

Dr. Minh Nguyen

RESEARCH

Graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a Ph.D. in Genetics, Minh has gained broad research expertise in cancer study and its genetic root. She received her B.S/M.S in Biochemistry from George Mason University and was awarded the best graduate student for her class. She believes that an active open AI and robotics platform will advance research in every field exponentially, especially in Medical Sciences.

Lien Cao

VIETNAM OPERATIONS

Lien has over a decade of experience in operation management. She was the program manager of the Advance Program in Computer Science at the University of Science in Vietnam. She also co-founded BeRich Corporation and has been serving as its managing director. Lien believes in leading from the heart and wishes to do little things to make the world a better place.

Simon Seojoon Kim

HASHED

Simon Seojoon Kim is CEO and founding partner of Hashed, a leading crypto fund based in South Korea. He is a Blockchain evangelist and organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier Blockchain Seoul meetup community. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded numerous companies. He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed-tech startup that was named one of World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.

Loi Luu

KYBER NETWORK

Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.

Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente, the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain.

Nam Nguyen

TAGCHAIN, TAG VENTURES & GOURMET GALAXY

Mr. Nam Nguyen is the Founder of Tagchain and TAG Ventures, one of the leading Venture Funds in South East Asia. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Gourmet Galaxy (GUM), an innovative Yield Farming platform.

As a Kambria advisor, Mr. Nam will consult on upcoming products, support our expansion to new markets and strengthen our company structure.

Roger Lim

NEO GLOBAL CAPITAL

Roger Lim is an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is the Founding Partner of NEO Global Capital and an advisor for projects like Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Thekey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, Switcheo, Open Platform, and nOS. He is also a successful entrepreneur who founded Webvisions, an Asian cloud hosting company.

George Li

WETRUST

George is an ex-Googler who previously co-founded CottonBrew, a Stanford StartX computer vision company. Prior, he held roles in Corporate Strategy and Infrastructure at Google, and was a consultant at McKinsey. He holds a M.S in Management Science Engineering from Stanford and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Eng from Rutgers.

Dr. Long Vuong

TOMOCHAIN

Long Vuong is CEO and founder of Tomochain, a public blockchain infrastructure providing an innovative solution to the scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain. He is often invited as guest speaker of many reputable blockchain events around the globe. Prior, Long Vuong was co-founder and the former project lead of very successful NEM blockchain (New Economy Movement). He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UMass-Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.

Lily Sarafan

HOME CARE ASSISTANCE

Lily Sarafan is CEO of Home Care Assistance, the leading consumer health company in the $100B in-home care market, with a mission to change the way the world ages. Under Lily’s leadership, HCA has grown from startup to industry champion with more than 7,000 employees across 160 markets in the United States, Canada and Australia. Lily is also an investor and advisor for startups and VC firms and a mentor for 500 Startups, StartX and Endeavor. She serves on boards for high-impact organizations including the Stanford Alumni Association, the Freeman Spogli Institute, the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, Shared Studios, and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement. Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science Technology and Society with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been honored as Women Health Care Executives’ 2016 Woman of the Year, Ernst & Young’s 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a member of YPO and Chatham House and a 2017 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Michelle Tsing

ROBOTICS FOR GOOD

Co-founded a blockchain payments startup in 2015 and is a strategic ICO advisor. She is also a mentor for SVI Academy and Hack Temple and advises a number of startups in 3D printing, AI, biotech and social sharing. She founded Robotics for Good: Chatbots, Messaging and AI community; and donates her time to both The Loving AI XPRIZE Project and Robots Without Borders. She is also producer and host of Laptop Radio at Stanford University.

Ro Charlz

VICKERS VENTURE PARTNERS

Ro Charlz is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups. He comes from a background in professional motorsports as a consultant to the automotive industry with a focus on tech development for over 10 years, consulting to several of the world’s largest automotive makers.

Kenzi Wang

AU21

Kenzi Wang is the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Caesar Chad

University of Science and Technology of China

Caesar Chad is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. He currently works as a Professor of Finance at the University of Science and Technology of China where he has published several academic papers on blockchain technology. He is also the Vice President of Sino-Israel Blockchain Research Institute. Caesar has co-founded several blockchain research companies, including ArteToken, Bitconch, and Cronus. Caesar is the author and patent holder of POR consensus algorithms and has been an early adopter and advocate of blockchain technology since 2010. He is a former developer at Google, contributor of Ethereum and Technical Lead at IBM.