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“Delphi Digital” is a collaborative association of independently owned and operated entities sharing the “Delphi” brand and certain shareholders, resources, personnel and values. “Delphi Ventures” entities, “Delphi Research” entities and the “Delphi Labs” entities collaborate under the "Delphi Digital" brand.
At Delphi, Anil focuses on designing and implementing long-term strategies for the firm. He translates this strategy into actionable goals to keep in mind as he oversees daily operations. In addition to his duties as COO, Anil contributes to Delphi’s ongoing research. While he’s spent a lot of time diving into Bitcoin and the emerging space of open finance, Anil enjoys keeping up with the rapidly changing landscape of DAOs.
Prior to co-founding Delphi Digital, Anil was a Leveraged Finance CRM Associate at Deutsche Bank where he covered the Retail and TMT sectors. In this role he performed extensive fundamental analysis including enterprise value assessments, FCF analysis, and downside stress testing on high risk companies. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Anil spent two years at Bloomberg L.P. covering new debt issuances and producing data-driven insights for Bloomberg News. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance with a concentration in entrepreneurship. Anil has passed Level II of the CFA exam and has his Series 79 and Series 63 license.
At Delphi, Medio focuses on identifying new opportunities across various key sectors. He manages the research team, guiding overall strategy and recognizing themes for the team to prioritize. Medio’s expertise is broad in terms of the diverse topics he’s well versed in, while also being able to dive in at a granular level. He plays an important role in writing research, analyzing data and building economic models. If it’s interesting, it’s on his radar. Before co-founding Delphi Digital, Medio was an Associate in Deutsche Bank’s risk department. His responsibilities included assessing derivatives exposure, legal negotiations, structured financing transactions, and non-recourse equity loans for the bank’s hedge fund clientele. Prior to working at Deutsche Bank, Medio was an Analyst at Bloomberg L.P. covering U.S. corporate bonds and Treasuries. Medio has a bachelor's degree in supply chain management and has also passed Level II of the CFA exam. Medio has his Series 79 and Series 63 license.
Yan's focus at Delphi has always been on the quantitative side, ranging from developing predictive on-chain metrics to dissecting various types of Automated Market Makers. His time was primarily spent building out models for research reports and designing token econ for projects on the consulting front. This has helped him develop a strong understanding of token mechanics and assessing their ability to accrue value.As Managing Partner of Delphi Ventures, his focus will be on investing in and working with portfolio companies. He will also host Delphi’s Deconstructing DeFi podcast.
Yan brings a strong understanding of fundamental and quantitative analysis to Delphi Digital having spent a sizable part of his career in a research capacity. He provided in-depth, company-specific insights and thematic research in a previous role as an Equity Research Associate covering the global technology sector for Bloomberg Intelligence. Prior to this, Yan worked as a Dividend Forecasting Analyst for Bloomberg L.P., where he developed a systematic approach for predicting future capital distributions of companies leveraging fundamental and regression analysis. After his time at Bloomberg, Yan moved to Deutsche Bank's Leveraged Finance CRM group covering the Retail sector. Yan holds a bachelor's degree in economics and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. Yan has his Series 79 license.
Kevin’s core focus lies at the intersection of global macroeconomic trends, financial markets, and the emergence of crypto and digital assets. As Head of Global Macro Strategy, Kevin provides key insight on the salient trends impacting both traditional and digital asset markets, helping bridge the gap between conventional market analysis and blockchain-specific applications. He strives to grow the institutional awareness of crypto assets and their allocation benefits in today's unique investing environment. Kevin comes with a background in traditional equity research. In his prior role as a U.S. Equity Strategist, Kevin provided insight on global equity markets for a vast array of institutional clients. He brings with him extensive experience in equity market data, analytics, and research, often being cited in financial journalism or discussing markets on financial media outlets (TV, radio, etc.). Kevin is a CFA charterholder with a bachelor's degree in finance and economics. He is also the host of Macro Matters, a podcast that examines key investment themes across various asset classes under The Delphi Podcast brand.
Tom Shaughnessy was the founder and lead crypto analyst at 51percent Crypto Research before merging and becoming a part of the Delphi Digital team. Tom focuses on the planning and execution of strategies to meet the firm's objectives. These activities include securing partnerships and consulting contracts on a global basis, helping to build the firm's divisions, networking, growth and more. Tom also hosts Chain Reaction which features top founders of major projects. Prior to Delphi Digital, Tom was on the cloud and communications equity research team at Oppenheimer. Tom’s coverage at Oppenheimer included the cloud companies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure), wireless companies (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) and various infrastructure providers including datacenters and tower companies. In this role, he performed extensive financial modeling work for each company while also researching and writing numerous white papers with the team spanning 5G, NFV/SDN, and other tech-focused topics. Eventually, this cloud coverage led Tom to co-write an extensive 100+ page crypto/blockchain white paper exploring the dynamics of cloud companies and blockchain back in 2018, which was sent to Oppenheimer’s institutional clients. Tom graduated with a B.S. of Finance and holds his Series 7, 63, 86 and 87 licenses.
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Piers is a Partner at Delphi Ventures where he specializes in the gaming space. He also leads the crypto efforts for BITKRAFT—the most active gaming investor globally. This positioning allows both firms collaborate closely and combine two fields of deep expertise. Time is also spent as a board member for the Blockchain Game Alliance to help steer the nascent sector's growth. Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in Runescape. He reached a top 100 global position in the videogame Rainbow Six Siege, is a first-generation virtual-reality user, and has grown up immersed in crypto. With a computer science and philosophy background, he leverages his insight into the undercurrents of the web to uncover exceptional opportunities. Piers also runs a Delphi Podcast series called Metaverse Musings where he hosts conversations with prominent figures around the intersection of crypto, video games, and other forms of interactive media.
José was previously the founding partner at AmaZix Capital as well as being Partner & Head of Advisory at AmaZix - one of the largest marketing, community management and advisory companies in the space, having worked with over 130 projects, including the likes of HDAC, Bancor, Bankex, GBX, WePower and Gochain. Starting off as an analyst, José worked his way up to eventually co-found and lead the advisory department at AmaZix (eventually spun-off to AmaZix Capital) where he helped build a strong team comprised of economists, computer scientists, and finance executives which played a key role in auditing & designing the token economic models as well as drafting the documentation (whitepapers, technical papers, token economic papers, and pitch decks) for many of AmaZix’s 130 partners. Before entering crypto, José studied Economics & Philosophy with a focus on Game Theory and Econometrics, graduating with a first-class honours while starting several businesses, including a successful exit to a large UK-based wholesaler. His business ventures have been featured on National TV and Huffington Post, as well as earning him the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award (presented by Prince Andrew), Shell Livewire Grand Ideas Award, Enterprise Champion award and Student Entrepreneur of the Year. José has spoken at conferences all over the world, regularly writes about token economics and his writings and thoughts have been featured on publications such as EuroNews, Yahoo Finance, and Bitcoin.com among others. He is also a member of the scientific committee for San Marino where he acts as its token economic expert, advising the government on how to understand, structure and regulate crypto assets.At Delphi Ventures, José will focus on overseeing, iterating and improving the investment process, working with portfolio companies and building a world-class investment team.
Luke leads all things technical within the Delphi Digital team. Working closely with Anil to identify and implement technical initiatives which feed into our long term goals and maximize value to our subscribers. These include data collection and analysis, the creation of dashboards tracking key metrics and augmenting our research with live data feeds and automation.During a 20-year career as a software developer, Luke was involved with many tech and web startups, including being part of the founding team and lead developer of a project that scaled to over 3 million unique visitors per day and achieved a successful eight-figure exit. His interest in open source development led him to be a member of the core team of one of the leading (at the time) web frameworks. He also co-founded AmaZix, one of the premier crypto community management and advisory firms, which at its peak had over 150 staff and generated over seven figures in monthly revenue. Luke holds a degree in Computing and a Master’s (Distinction) in Artificial Intelligence. With his varied background in business, technology and token design, Luke bridges theory and practical implementation.
Gabriel Shapiro is General Counsel at Delphi Labs and a U.S. attorney with over a decade of experience in the structuring, negotiation and execution of strategic transactions for technology clients. He has represented and advised clients in connection with:
Prior to joining Delphi Labs, Gabriel practiced for many years in the tech M&A groups of top corporate law firms of Dewey & LeBoeuf, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Hogan Lovells.
Gabriel obtained his B.A. from Brown University and his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, and is admitted to practice in California.
Kevin leads operations for Delphi Labs, supporting the overall Labs mission and helping with operational initiatives within the incubation portfolio. Kevin has spent the last 15 years working at the intersection of finance and technology serving in a variety of executive positions at companies such as McKinsey, IBM, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Kevin holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and is a CFA charterholder.
At Delphi, Jonathan focuses on supporting the consulting practice and actively looking for new investment opportunities across the space. Prior to joining Delphi Digital, Jonathan worked in management consulting at Virtus Partners, a boutique firm that operates across LatAm, with a focus on strategic planning and incentive system design. He then went on to launch a profitable hospitality group in his native Colombia. Jonathan completed bachelor’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and later graduated from Lambda School as a Full Stack Software Engineer in 2019.
Ayana provides critical help to Delphi in the form of risk analysis and quantitative modeling. Ayana just obtained her Doctoral degree in Physics from Nanyang Technological University. She has dedicated her PhD studies to research blockchain systems using tools from Statistical Physics and Machine Learning. Results and findings were published in high impact journals and presented in several interdisciplinary conferences and workshops. While pursuing her PhD degree, she also was a Research Scholar at the Agency of Science, Technology and Research in Singapore. Prior to starting her PhD studies, she worked as a Quantitative Model Validation Analyst in Econophysica Ltd., which provides consulting services to banks and financial institutions.
Mathijs couples his knowledge of the crypto industry with creativity and originality. He enjoys creating tools which increase a project’s usage.He’s been active in the crypto space since 2013 managing a private fund, supporting local crypto enthusiasts and collaborating on community projects. Prior to going full-time into crypto he worked as a sales manager for a multinational company. He completed a bachelor in business management from the University of Amsterdam. He’s got a deep love for Thorchain and is more widely known as Bitcoin_Sage on Twitter. Where he shares his insights to help move the crypto movement forward.
José was previously the founding partner at AmaZix Capital as well as being Partner & Head of Advisory at AmaZix - one of the largest marketing, community management and advisory companies in the space, having worked with over 130 projects, including the likes of HDAC, Bancor, Bankex, GBX, WePower and Gochain. Starting off as an analyst, José worked his way up to eventually co-found and lead the advisory department at AmaZix (eventually spun-off to AmaZix Capital) where he helped build a strong team comprised of economists, computer scientists, and finance executives which played a key role in auditing & designing the token economic models as well as drafting the documentation (whitepapers, technical papers, token economic papers, and pitch decks) for many of AmaZix’s 130 partners. Before entering crypto, José studied Economics & Philosophy with a focus on Game Theory and Econometrics, graduating with a first-class honours while starting several businesses, including a successful exit to a large UK-based wholesaler. His business ventures have been featured on National TV and Huffington Post, as well as earning him the Duke of York Young Entrepreneur Award (presented by Prince Andrew), Shell Livewire Grand Ideas Award, Enterprise Champion award and Student Entrepreneur of the Year. José has spoken at conferences all over the world, regularly writes about token economics and his writings and thoughts have been featured on publications such as EuroNews, Yahoo Finance, and Bitcoin.com among others. He is also a member of the scientific committee for San Marino where he acts as its token economic expert, advising the government on how to understand, structure and regulate crypto assets.At Delphi Ventures, José will focus on overseeing, iterating and improving the investment process, working with portfolio companies and building a world-class investment team.
Fede is the Lead Developer at Delphi. Prior he worked on several roles on Human Resources and Sales Consulting and was a college teacher on a Corporate Finance course before attending to a programming conference by accident and falling in love with it. Taught himself how to program and went on to work as a developer for several startups such as Mejuri, AmaZix and Timeline.Has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Luke leads all things technical within the Delphi Digital team. Working closely with Anil to identify and implement technical initiatives which feed into our long term goals and maximize value to our subscribers. These include data collection and analysis, the creation of dashboards tracking key metrics and augmenting our research with live data feeds and automation.During a 20-year career as a software developer, Luke was involved with many tech and web startups, including being part of the founding team and lead developer of a project that scaled to over 3 million unique visitors per day and achieved a successful eight-figure exit. His interest in open source development led him to be a member of the core team of one of the leading (at the time) web frameworks. He also co-founded AmaZix, one of the premier crypto community management and advisory firms, which at its peak had over 150 staff and generated over seven figures in monthly revenue. Luke holds a degree in Computing and a Master’s (Distinction) in Artificial Intelligence. With his varied background in business, technology and token design, Luke bridges theory and practical implementation.
At Delphi, Michael is focused on utilizing quantitative modeling and simulations to optimize Defi protocols capital efficiency and mitigate risks. Moreover, he provides projects with token economy expertise that ensures sustainable development and user growth of new protocols. Apart from numbers, Michael support venture team with his expertise on Defi and gaming space.
Prior to Crypto, Michael worked at a fintech-focused corporate VC fund. Michal holds a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics in Economics.
Yan's focus at Delphi has always been on the quantitative side, ranging from developing predictive on-chain metrics to dissecting various types of Automated Market Makers. His time was primarily spent building out models for research reports and designing token econ for projects on the consulting front. This has helped him develop a strong understanding of token mechanics and assessing their ability to accrue value.As Managing Partner of Delphi Ventures, his focus will be on investing in and working with portfolio companies. He will also host Delphi’s Deconstructing DeFi podcast.
Yan brings a strong understanding of fundamental and quantitative analysis to Delphi Digital having spent a sizable part of his career in a research capacity. He provided in-depth, company-specific insights and thematic research in a previous role as an Equity Research Associate covering the global technology sector for Bloomberg Intelligence. Prior to this, Yan worked as a Dividend Forecasting Analyst for Bloomberg L.P., where he developed a systematic approach for predicting future capital distributions of companies leveraging fundamental and regression analysis. After his time at Bloomberg, Yan moved to Deutsche Bank's Leveraged Finance CRM group covering the Retail sector. Yan holds a bachelor's degree in economics and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. Yan has his Series 79 license.
Drew leads fund operations for Delphi Digital, supporting the ventures teams and operations across all multiple investment vehicles. Drew spent the first six years of his career at PwC, most recently as a Senior Manager leading M&A engagements for F500 and Private Equity focused on technology value creation and cybersecurity. Drew holds Masters and Bachelors degrees from the University of Florida, is a licensed CPA, and is very active on-chain and in crypto communities.
At Delphi, Alex focuses on producing quality and in-depth research that provides actionable insights for clients. He covers a diverse group of topics and sectors across the digital assets landscape, with a special interest in the thriving Ethereum ecosystem. Alex combines fundamentals focused research with a strong focus on token economic design and product-market fit. He enjoys testing out projects and using on-chain analysis to separate the signal from the noise to identify opportunities both at a project and sector level. Given the nascent industry, Alex prefers to keep an open mindset and is constantly reading up on the latest advances in crypto-systems design to stay on top of market trends. Prior to joining Delphi Digital, Alex was a Financial Analyst at Barclays Investment Bank with a focus on the Equities asset class and also played an instrumental role in building out the Volcker Finance program at the firm. Additionally, as a Community Research Analyst at Messari, he helped expand the cryptoassets library by creating resource pages, asset profile pages, and publishing 3rd party research. Alex then interned with Delphi before joining full-time. Alex earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and has passed Level 1 of the CFA exam.
Sarah Brennan joined the Delphi Ventures team as a general counsel in October 2021 and will help lead advocacy and policy initiatives. Sarah brings over a decade of corporate and securities legal experience, having worked in NY, DC and internationally. She has been actively involved in the digital asset space since 2017, founding and leading a practice focused on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. More broadly, Sarah has a range of experience representing public and private companies, venture capital firms, startups, and investment banks on a wide array of commercial and business transactions, including capital raising transactions and financings, private and public M&A transactions, corporate governance, and public company reporting and regulatory compliance.
Tom Shaughnessy was the founder and lead crypto analyst at 51percent Crypto Research before merging and becoming a part of the Delphi Digital team. Tom focuses on the planning and execution of strategies to meet the firm's objectives. These activities include securing partnerships and consulting contracts on a global basis, helping to build the firm's divisions, networking, growth and more. Tom also hosts Chain Reaction which features top founders of major projects. Prior to Delphi Digital, Tom was on the cloud and communications equity research team at Oppenheimer. Tom’s coverage at Oppenheimer included the cloud companies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure), wireless companies (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) and various infrastructure providers including datacenters and tower companies. In this role, he performed extensive financial modeling work for each company while also researching and writing numerous white papers with the team spanning 5G, NFV/SDN, and other tech-focused topics. Eventually, this cloud coverage led Tom to co-write an extensive 100+ page crypto/blockchain white paper exploring the dynamics of cloud companies and blockchain back in 2018, which was sent to Oppenheimer’s institutional clients. Tom graduated with a B.S. of Finance and holds his Series 7, 63, 86 and 87 licenses.
At Delphi, Rob is actively looking for new investment opportunities across the ecosystem as well as supporting the current portfolio. Prior to joining Delphi Digital, Rob had a stint in consulting focusing on technology strategy before joining Blockchain Capital as a Research Scholar, where he performed deep analysis on various scaling solutions and open finance primitives. Though Bitcoin is his first love, he approaches the space with an unbiased mind and is focused on projects that reduce friction in the traditional world. Rob attended Stevens Institute of Technology where he earned both a M.E. in Systems Engineering and B.E. Engineering Management with a concentration in Financial Engineering.
Piers is a Partner at Delphi Ventures where he specializes in the gaming space. He also leads the crypto efforts for BITKRAFT—the most active gaming investor globally. This positioning allows both firms collaborate closely and combine two fields of deep expertise. Time is also spent as a board member for the Blockchain Game Alliance to help steer the nascent sector's growth. Piers acquired his first bitcoin at 13 years old in exchange for virtual currency in Runescape. He reached a top 100 global position in the videogame Rainbow Six Siege, is a first-generation virtual-reality user, and has grown up immersed in crypto. With a computer science and philosophy background, he leverages his insight into the undercurrents of the web to uncover exceptional opportunities. Piers also runs a Delphi Podcast series called Metaverse Musings where he hosts conversations with prominent figures around the intersection of crypto, video games, and other forms of interactive media.
Aansh runs operations and trading for Delphi Ventures. His primary responsibilities include fund operations and structuring for portfolio investments and SPV co-investments. Additionally, he runs the portfolio management process actively managing liquidity and keeping stakeholders updated on fund performance. Prior to joining Delphi Aansh was an AVP at Deutsche Bank working within risk management for hedge fund and private equity clients. There he negotiated credit terms (ISDA/CSA, GMRA/MRA, etc) and worked on structured credit transactions. Prior to Deutsche Bank Aansh was a data analyst at Bloomberg working closely with Bloomberg News and data science groups. Aansh has a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Villanova University. He is currently pursuing his Master of Science in Applied Analytics at Columbia University.
gmoney is an NFT collector and investor and helps run the INFINFT fund. He is an strong advocate for NFT technology, and was featured in the innaugural Fortune NFTy 50.
Wynn joined Delphi Ventures in 2021 to pursue his passion for investing at the intersection of finance and technology. Alongside his work with Delphi, Wynn is currently completing his MBA at the University of Texas where he has worked as a Venture Fellow with Sputnik ATX, a startup accelerator. Prior to joining the Delphi team, Wynn worked as an analyst at SWK Holdings, an early stage Life Sciences Investment firm, structuring a number of bespoke, non-dilutive financing solutions including term loans, bridge loans, royalty purchases, and product acquisitions. Before that, he worked as an analyst at Oaklawn Investments focusing on Special Situations and Distressed Credit investment opportunities. He is a founder-focused investment professional with a keen interest in Decentralized Finance and Blockchain Gaming. His work at Delphi spans all aspects of the deal process including diligence, structuring, and execution.
Avi is a Venture Analyst working with the venture team to discover and partner with high impact, high value crypto projects. Avi seeks a deep understanding of technology and practices open mindedness when evaluating project and investment potential. He has a strong interest in blockchain infrastructure projects and tools.Prior to joining Delphi Digital, Avi was a software consultant for Pariveda Solutions where he programmed full-stack web applications. Avi studied Chemical Engineering at NYU Tandon and was an active member of the Leslie Entrepreneurship Lab.
Sonny has been active in crypto since early 2017, and has an avid interest in all things related to NFTs with a hyper focus on gaming. He counts himself lucky enough to have witnessed the rise and fall of the first wave of NFT games. The current focus of Sonny’s attention is bridging the gap between traditional and blockchain gaming by researching and analyzing projects that seek to innovate in this sector.
Sonny previously held a role as the partnership manager at The Metakey. Here he got to foster many different partnerships, and see many fledgling NFT projects proliferate from the ground up. He thinks community building throughout the NFT ecosystem is essential, and thinks that NFTs that generate meaning, and the next wave of blockchain games, are the perfect engine to onboard the masses to crypto.
At Delphi, Anil focuses on designing and implementing long-term strategies for the firm. He translates this strategy into actionable goals to keep in mind as he oversees daily operations. In addition to his duties as COO, Anil contributes to Delphi’s ongoing research. While he’s spent a lot of time diving into Bitcoin and the emerging space of open finance, Anil enjoys keeping up with the rapidly changing landscape of DAOs.
Prior to co-founding Delphi Digital, Anil was a Leveraged Finance CRM Associate at Deutsche Bank where he covered the Retail and TMT sectors. In this role he performed extensive fundamental analysis including enterprise value assessments, FCF analysis, and downside stress testing on high risk companies. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Anil spent two years at Bloomberg L.P. covering new debt issuances and producing data-driven insights for Bloomberg News. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance with a concentration in entrepreneurship. Anil has passed Level II of the CFA exam and has his Series 79 and Series 63 license.
Petro is no stranger to the complex world of cryptocurrency. With over ten years’ experience as an executive assistant, she has held roles with two industry-leading crypto companies. At Earn.com, a learning platform owned by top exchange Coinbase.com, she oversaw database administration, customer support, and fraud mitigation. Then, at fintech powerhouse Bitcoin.com, she worked alongside the company’s executive team, helping to manage and close crucial business deals, and coordinating everything from business travel arrangements to meetings spanning across multiple time zones. Today, she supports the Delphi Digital senior management team as they drive the digital asset space forward. From organizing calendars to keeping an open line of communication and managing projects from start to finish, Petro saves the team time so they can maximize productivity and focus on developing institutional-grade research for our clients.
Colin’s expertise centers around growth and the scaling of marketing operations. As the Head of Marketing, he is primarily responsible for the expansion of the Delphi brand and growing the customer base for the Delphi Portal. Colin is developing the marketing stack and strategy involving email, web, product and social media including the implementation of tracking and analytics.
As one of Tesla’s first marketing employees, Colin brings a versatile set of skills across technical disciplines; sales, marketing and operations which he developed over a decade working for other high growth startups. Prior to joining Delphi, Colin was leading the Go-To-Market team for another Silicon Valley startup, Mapbox, where he was responsible for the marketing website and lead generation programs.
Colin has always been very passionate about personal finance, having begun his investing journey during high school in equities and forex. The intersection of technology and decentralized finance make Colin extremely excited about the future of crypto, since he bought his first Bitcoin in 2013.
Rashmi leads operations for Delphi Research and helps scale Delphi efficiently. In the broader world of crypto, Rashmi is keenly interested in - and is involved in - DAO governance.Previously, Rashmi launched and scaled Amazon's 2-hour delivery business in the US and drove the operational growth plan for Whole Foods post its acquisition by Amazon. Before Amazon, she led the digital overhaul of Tata Motors's after-sales processes in collaboration with 800+ dealer partners. While pursuing her MBA at London Business School, Rashmi built Amana Label, an AI service to simplify skincare discovery. She was a co-founder at LynkUp, a Y-Combinator finalist aimed at AI-based matching.
At Delphi, Jeremy spends his time identifying change makers in crypto - with a focus on DeFi. Jeremy has spent majority of 2020 learning about DeFi space and is currently deep diving into NFTs. In his professional life, he has a diverse entrepreneurial experience of founding a growth-driven agency serving clients such as Alibaba, ThinkWithGoogle, Melissa Shoes and more, helping them achieve growth and organisational objectives. A generalist by nature, he helps oversee and optimise operations at Delphi when he’s not researching about crypto. Jeremy also started multiple eCommerce and content businesses - having bootstrapped a $1.5m per annum business with a startup capital of $2,500 out of a basement. Jeremy is a trained T-shaped growth hacker (with a specialisation in SEO and analytics) for eCommerce and content-based businesses, and has knowledge in Ruby on Rails programming as well. Jeremy completed a degree in Economics and Finance from Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia and has a certified IQ of 156.
Luiz leads the development projects for Delphi Research. Luiz has over 15 years of experience as a full-stack software engineer, he has presented at conferences, and has contributed to a many open source projects. Most recently he worked with an YC company as a Tech Lead where he improved code quality and developer cycle time.
At Delphi, Thaxnay brings a wealth of creative experience to empower User Experience and User Interfaces across a variety of mediums, and ensure a unified vision. Thaxnay is a former Character Animator, having worked with big-brand licenses from Warner Bros. and Universal Studios after which he transitioned his career towards Design; garnering UX, UI and Product Design experience with clients around the world. Thaxnay has a bachelors degree in Animation, from the University of Lincoln.
Abraham focuses on designing and aligning Delphi's Brand Identity by arranging every visual brand component using design strategy and design systems to ensure that product and all collateral is branded effectively and consistently and remains cohesive in look and feel.
Before joining Delphi, Abraham worked as an independent designer. His work entailed the inception, refinement and maintenance of various Visual Identities. Abraham has a Bachelor's degree in Digital Media Design from the University of Bournemouth and a Master’s degree in Design Management from the University of Newcastle.
Becoming a Software Engineer was always Andre's passion, at the age of thirteen, he taught himself how to code. When he was fourteen, he built a Text-based game, which had around 1000 concurrent players and 10000 registered. Andre went to one of the best IT colleges in Portugal, New University of Lisbon, where simultaneously he built his consultancy company to help him pay his expenses.
At college, he was one of the few that had enough courage to complete one of the hardest subjects in the course, Computer Networks and Security, which in this new world of “Web3” is a must to understand it.
Nick is a Senior Analyst working across research, ventures, and operations. Previously, Nick was a longtime analyst at CB Insights where he covered blockchain and fintech venture capital.
At Delphi, Hartley works as an intermediary website developer between the design team and data team to ensure that the Delphi platform provides high-quality analytics and information that are easily digested. Prior to working at Delphi Hartley pursued a master’s degree in computational intelligence, and went on to work as a technologist for the FDA.
At Delphi, Billy is focused on marketing and streamlining podcast offerings from end-to-end, while managing relationships with sponsors, guests, partners, and listeners. Prior to joining Delphi, Billy spent two years in venture capital as an analyst intern at firms Royal Street Ventures and Fountain Innovation Fund. Billy also spent the previous year leading an all-student venture capital fund, University Venture Fund Crossroads, where he led diligence, thesis creation and development, and podcast operations. Simultaneously, Billy completed his MBA at the University of Kansas and led Business Development for recently-acquired Agency0x, a DeFi-focused marketing startup whose clients include some of the biggest names DeFi. Outside of crypto, Billy has a deep interest in marketing and media, having grown large followings for a variety social media accounts representing a number of different brands during the process.
At Delphi, Justin aims to provide top class admin assistance to our analysts and friendly customer support to our clients. Prior to working at Delphi, Justin worked at and managed a youth community center which honed and developed skillsets that led to working in admin and customer support for a VOIP Telecommunications company that included testing functionality of the product and training new clients. Previously, he was involved with a property management company implementing procedures for staff as well as managing tenant queries, utility transfers and accounts for landlords. On his down time, Justin enjoys playing cricket, football (soccer), squash, and golf while balancing family life. Other interests include following various sports and being a (self-proclaimed) serial fantasy league winner.
Hana aims for emotional intelligence, personal growth, and well-being for all employees at Delphi. She's a Business Psychologist (M.Sc.) with a focus on work- and organizational psychology and a passionate interest in positive psychology.
Due to the rapidly changing global market and the associated increase in sick leave, she focused her academic research on the field of healthy leadership and emotional intelligence. After supporting an IT Bootcamp training provider for almost three years with project planning and management, Hana helped two companies in the blockchain and finance sector to develop their HR department. At Delphi, she supports the People Operations team and offers individual coaching sessions for all employees. The vision to rekindle the power of the individual has fundamentally contributed to her growing interest in DeFi.
System Engineer and MBA, over 14 years of professional experience in strategic planning, KPIs and systems & process assurance. Capable of monitoring and improving organizational critical processes to make them as efficient as possible. Delisse has a wide range of experience in reviewing policies and procedures manuals to make them more efficient as possible. In 2018 started up her own audiovisual production business in Nicaragua.
Portuguese designer, photographer, visual effects, compositing and 3D artist.
Cinema, design and photography afficionado, constantly searching for new experiences and learning opportunities in different areas of interest.
Keith combines his passion for crypto and data together as a Data Engineer at Delphi Digital. His focus is on building data products that answer difficult questions across the crypto space. Having spent a decade in the cloud and data space while watching the crypto ecosystem mature presented the perfect opportunity to build crypto data products for Delphi. The passion in crypto comes from a cross-section of technology, economics, game theory, social influence, and finance which changes on a day-to-day basis.
Eric Wiedeke is the current Director of People Operations at Delphi Digital. Eric’s career in Human Resources began after completing his Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resource Management at Rutgers University. His first role was at Healthcare Consultancy Group in the Omnicom Health Group network assisting the HR team with onboarding, payroll, benefits,and launching the groups inaugural summer internship program. He grew in hisrole there moving into performance management, global compliance, employee relations, immigration and overseeing the HR team for HCG. In 2019, Eric moved to GCI Health as an HR Generalist and received his SHRM-SCP certification in2020. In this role Eric led US HR operations responsible for all aspects of the employee life cycle and outlining the company’s transition to fully remote working 2020. He led the HR team to design and implement GCIH’s people strategies as the company doubled in size from 2019 to 2022. Eric oversaw a team of 3 HR professionals who ran and consistently improved HR operations to support GCI Has a Best Place to Work in PR in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Kaycie is highly detailed, analytical, and a multi-tasking guru. Kaycie assists with the financial operations at Delphi.
Before joining Delphi, Kaycie worked for eight years at a large non-profit. She helped grow their finance department by helping implement financial software and processes to support its significant growth. Kaycie has her bachelor's degree in Finance from Western Carolina University.
We started Delphi Digital with one simple mission: to build the best institutional-grade research firm dedicated to the emerging frontier of crypto and digital assets.
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