MEET OUR
TEAM
We are a group of traditional finance executives, crypto natives and venture capitalists who believe Ethereum is a once-in-a-generation asset.
Som Seif
Founder & CEO of Purpose Inc. and Purpose Investments. Som also founded Claymore Investments, which was sold to Blackrock Inc. in 2012. Prior to Claymore, he was an investment banker at RBC Capital Markets.
Benjamin Roberts
CEO of Citizen Hex and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Ether Capital. Ben has spent the past decade working in technology, primarily focused on cryptocurrency. In 2017, Citizen Hex closed a seed round from Version One Ventures, OMERS Ventures, Purpose Investments and 3 Angels Capital.
Colleen McMorrow
Corporate Director at Exco Technologies Limited and Norbord Inc. Previously, Colleen was an Audit Partner at Ernst & Young.
Cam Di Prata
Founder and Managing Partner of venture capital firm Gibraltar & Co. Previously, Cam was EVP & Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at National Bank Financial.
Liam Horne
Co-founder of L4, an R&D firm focused on Ethereum scalability, and ETHGlobal, a hackathon and developer-relations organization for Ethereum. Liam previously co-founded the world’s largest hackathon: Hack the North.
John Ruffolo
Previously CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of OMERS. John is a board member of top technology companies including Hootsuite and D2L (Desire2Learn).
Boris Wertz
Founding partner of Version One. Boris is a seasoned entrepreneur who sold his company, AbeBooks.com, to Amazon. He is also one of the top early-stage tech & blockchain investors in North America.
Joey Krug
Co-founder of Angur, a decentralized prediction market. Joey is a Co-Chief Investment Officer at Pantera Capital, a leading blockchain investment firm & institutional owner of cryptocurrencies.
Ethan Buchman
Co-founder of Cosmos and CEO of Informal Systems, a core developer in the Cosmos ecosystem that researches, operates and secures critical infrastructure. Ethan’s goal is to build technology that encourages individuals to work cooperatively through methods of self-organization. He also serves as the President of the Interchain Foundation, which funds and coordinates development of public goods throughout the Interchain. Prior to Informal Systems, Ethan co-founded and served as CTO of Tendermint Inc.
