FinTech Advisory Council

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Ngoc Can

Senior Director, Private Equity at Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS)
Ngoc Can serves as senior director of private equity at the Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS). In her current role, she helped lay the foundations for TMRS’s internal direct coinvestment portfolio and participated in underwriting its commitments in private equity, private credit, and direct investments.
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Brett Tejpaul

Brett Tejpaul serves as head of Coinbase Institutional, where he oversees the expansion of Coinbase’s institutional client base, introduces new features and services expected by institutional investors, and continues to educate the institutional community about crypto.
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Nilmini Rubin

Nilmini Rubin leads global public policy for Hedera, a leading sustainable, enterprise-grade distributed ledger technology network. As chief policy officer, she engages with policymakers, civil society, and the media to shape blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and economic policy.
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Matt Oppenheimer

Matt Oppenheimer is the co-founder and CEO of Remitly, a trusted provider of digital financial services that transcend borders.
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Natalia Karayaneva

Natalia Karayaneva is the founder and CEO of Propy, a Silicon Valley company revolutionizing home purchasing via smart contracts and artificial intelligence. She is a World Economic Forum Pioneer, an award-winning real estate developer, software engineer, and serial entrepreneur with extensive knowledge in real estate and cryptography.
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Peter Mintzberg

Peter Mintzberg is the CEO of Grayscale Investments. He joined Grayscale from Goldman Sachs, where he served as global head of strategy for Asset and Wealth Management.
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Avery Ching

Avery Ching is the chief executive officer, chief technology officer, and co-founder of Aptos Labs, the team that helped to launch the Aptos layer-1 blockchain.
Nadab Akhtar

Nadab Akhtar

Founder and Managing Partner, Old Parkland Capital
Nadab Akhtar is the founder and managing partner of Old Parkland Capital.
Sridhar Chityala

Sridhar Chityala

Chairman and Managing Partner, The Vedas Group
Sridhar Chityala is chairman of Vedas Group and chairman and founding partner of Elevate Innovation Partners.
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Chester Spatt

Chester Spatt is the Pamela R. and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught since 1979. He served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2004-2007).
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