Meet The Team
The students behind YBC
Austin is a 2Y candidate at Yale School of Management with a strong focus on fostering innovation and empowering founders. He is also the Co-President of Yale SOM's PE/VC Club. His past experiences include internships at several firms including Harlem Capital, Yale Ventures and Alumni Ventures. Prior to Yale, he founded a real estate company that provided long-term housing for low-income families. He worked as a solutions engineer at Salesforce and Scandit, where he consulted and implemented technical solutions for F100 companies. He aims to grow the club through expanding its partnerships with leading innovators and investors within the space and creating initiatives to provide ample resources for student founders & enthusiasts.
Austin Cai
Co-President
Mateo, is a senior at Yale College studying Computer Science and Cognitive Science. He works in various aspects of blockchain including decentralized/trustless GPU infrastructure, AI gaming on top of blockchain, and Crypto Market Sentiment Analysis. He wants to help transform Yale Blockchain Club into a hub of innovation by educating students on the foundations of Blockchain, providing hands-on opportunities to learn in different ecosystems, guiding project development, and connecting students directly with speakers from key ecosystems, established projects, developing projects, and investment firms. Mateo looks forward to seeing the potential of the Yale Blockchain Club begin to flourish over the coming year.
Vice President
Mateo Bastidas
Co-President
Tamara is a Junior at Yale studying Computer Science and Economics. She passionate about the theoretical foundations of quantitative finance and the social implications of economics. Having done academic research in a variety of fields from blockchain tokenomics to biology, she enjoys learning about and analyzing different topics. Her various internship experiences in corporate operations have further inspired her to continue exploring the intersection of business management and technology.
Tamara Gruslova
Nicola is a second-year MBA student at the Yale School of Management. With a background in technology and entrepreneurship, Nicola has worked at prominent organizations such as Capital One and the Irvin Medical School at Columbia University. During her first year at SOM, she also gained valuable experience in investing through her part-time role at Tsai CITY. She is currently working at her own startup company, Plate-X. Nicola is passionate about leveraging her diverse experiences to foster growth and build stronger connections within the Yale community, aiming to elevate the Yale Blockchain Club to new heights.
Nicola Yu
Public Relations
Vicky is a 2Y candidate in Yale SOM's EMBA program. Prior to her time at Yale, Vicky has worked as an Assistant Controller at Draper Associates, managing financial operations and valuation assessments for investment funds and PortCos. Currently, she works on the Investor and Finance team at DA, honing her skills in financial analysis, investment strategy, and stakeholder management to drive impactful decisions and growth.
Vice President
Vicky Kuang
Sid Arun
Partnerships
Siddharth is a 2Y Candidate at Yale School of Management with a strong interest in entrepreneurship and investing in emerging technologies. At Yale SOM, Siddharth is also part of the leadership team for the PE / VC and Healthcare & Life Sciences club, and has also completed internships at Yale Ventures, Necessary Ventures, and DigitalDx Ventures during his first year. Prior to Yale, he worked as a consultant at Charles River Associates in their Life Sciences practice, managing and supporting commercial strategy engagements with clients in Biotech, Digital Health, and MedTech. With Yale Blockchain Club, Siddharth looks to continue expanding partnerships with founders and investors spearheading innovation in this space and build on the existing community to support students.
Alumni Board
Empowering the next generation of innovators
Chris is on the Digital Assets team at Flow Traders, leading Business Development and Ventures in the US. Flow Traders, founded in 2004, is a prominent global trading firm specializing in ETPs, and extending its expertise into fixed income, commodities, digital assets, and FX across major exchanges. Besides trading, it houses an investment unit dedicated to market innovation and enhancing transparency and efficiency in the financial ecosystem. Chris has professionally been in the digital asset space for five years; prior to Flow Traders, he worked at Signum Growth Capital and Tower Research Capital. Chris holds a B.A. in Economics from Yale University where he was in Grace Hopper College and on the varsity lightweight rowing team.
Chris King
BD & Ventures, Digital Assets
Jonathan Wu (PC '09) is an early stage investor at Asylum Ventures, a Brooklyn based venture capital fund. He previously led marketing at Aztec Network, a privacy-first layer 2 for Ethereum. Earlier in his career, he was a private equity investor at Bain Capital and a consultant at Mars & Co. Jon is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Jonathan Wu
Investor at Asylum Ventures
Alexander Grieve serves as the VP of Government Affairs for Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Alex was VP of Tiger Hill Partners, where he led Tiger Hill’s crypto regulatory and advocacy practice. Alex also served as the Republican government affairs specialist for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the securities clearinghouse and financial market infrastructure, which provided his 2017 entry into crypto policy. Additionally, Alex served as an aide to Speaker of the House John Boehner, and began his career on the campaign of Gabriel Gomez for US Senate. He earned his MBA from the Yale SOM, and his B.A. from Colgate University.
Alexander Grieve
VP, Government Affairs
A former senior lawyer with the SEC, Vy comes to Anchorage Digital with over 15 years of experience as a financial regulatory lawyer, with a proven track record in both the traditional finance and crypto industries. Most recently, she served as Partner and Head of Regulatory and Policy for Bain Capital Crypto, and as Deputy General Counsel and Compliance Officer at Worldcoin. Prior to that, Vy spent almost six years with the SEC, first as Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement and, later, as Chief Counsel in the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs. At the SEC, Vy handled some of the Commission’s earliest crypto-related investigations, and engaged with Congress, the Treasury Department, and other federal and state agencies on digital asset regulation and capital markets policy. A graduate of Yale Law School, Vy began her legal career advising traditional financial institutions and public companies at a major international law firm.
TuongVy Le
GC & CS, Anchorage Digital