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Joseph Poon

CEO at Warp

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Joseph Poon is the founder and CEO of Warp, previously the co-founder of Lightning network, and author of the OmiseGo white paper.

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Ryan Gentry

Ryan Gentry is the CEO of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. He previously served as Director of Business Development at Lightning Labs and was a Principal Analyst at Multicoin Capital. Prior to that, he worked as a Control Engineer at Intel Corporation, maintaining some of the world's most complex architectural systems and designing, installing, and maintaining central nervous systems. In 2016, he completed a dual master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering through Georgia Tech's distance learning program, shifting his focus to the Internet of Things while researching distributed systems and blockchain technology. Ultimately, in 2018, he left Intel to pursue cryptocurrency research full-time.

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