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Anthony Albanese is Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer at a16z crypto, a position he has held since November 2020. As COO, he oversees the firm's operating teams spanning legal, regulatory, policy, compliance, network governance, network operations, trading operations, security, marketing and communications, and talent. He works directly with portfolio companies and projects on strategy, hiring, and building scalable businesses. He also leads the firm's UK operations, based in London.

Before joining a16z crypto, Albanese served as Chief Regulatory Officer at the New York Stock Exchange, where he oversaw regulation and engagement with regulators at the state, federal, and international levels. Prior to that, he served as Acting Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, an agency regulating more than 3,800 financial services entities. While at DFS, he signed and issued New York's first-ever BitLicense. He spent more than a decade at Weil Gotshal as a partner specialising in securities litigation and corporate governance. Albanese holds a JD from St. John's University School of Law, where he served as an editor on the Law Review, and a BA from Union College. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa on the New York State Court of Appeals.

Chris Dixon is Founder and Managing Partner of a16z crypto, the dedicated crypto and blockchain investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz, which he founded in 2018. He has been a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz since 2013. Through five dedicated funds, a16z crypto has raised more than $9.8 billion to invest in crypto and blockchain companies. Dixon ranked first on the 2022 Forbes Midas List.

Prior to his current role, Dixon co-founded Founder Collective in 2009, a seed-stage venture capital fund. He also founded two startups: SiteAdvisor, an internet security company acquired by McAfee in 2006, and Hunch, a recommendation technology company acquired by eBay in 2011. Earlier in his career, he worked as a professional programmer at the high-speed options trading firm Arbitrade, and joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2003. He has made personal angel investments in companies including Uber, Venmo, Pinterest, Kickstarter, BuzzFeed, and Makerbot. In January 2024, he published Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (Random House), which became a New York Times bestseller. Dixon holds a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Daren Matsuoka is a partner on the crypto investment team at a16z crypto, where he supports deal flow and portfolio companies by extracting data from public blockchains. His LinkedIn profile lists his title as Head of Data and Fund Strategy, with his current role at Andreessen Horowitz beginning in February 2021.

Prior to a16z, Matsuoka was a Senior Manager on the Data Science team at SVB Capital, where he worked from November 2014 to February 2021. In that role, he created a relational database from unstructured data to house proprietary investment information, built an analytics platform to support the firm's venture capital investment strategy, and managed data operations including oversight of a ten-person team in India. Before SVB Capital, he completed financial training programs at Morgan Stanley and State Street. Matsuoka holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.

Fiona M. Kennedy is Sr. Security Operations Manager at Andreessen Horowitz, based in Menlo Park, California, a position she has held since January 2022. Since October 2023, she has also held a concurrent role as Events, Security Partner for the firm's crypto division, giving her direct operational responsibility within a16z's crypto practice. Alongside her work at Andreessen Horowitz, she has operated as an independent Security Consultant since November 2016, working across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kennedy's career spans more than two decades in security and operations. Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, she served as Global Security Area Manager at Facebook from September 2018 to November 2021. Before that, she was Security Manager at Bently Reserve, Regional Security Manager at International SOS and Control Risks, and GSOC Manager at G4S. Earlier roles include Senior Consultant at TSG Solutions Inc., Emergency Response Manager at NBC Universal, and Director of Risk Management and Corporate Security at Oxygen Media. She holds a Master of Science in Protection Management from the City University of New York–John Jay College of Criminal Justice, completed between 2006 and 2010.

Mike Jones is Partner, Executive Talent, Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), a position he has held since June 2022. His mandate is to help a16z crypto portfolio companies build executive hiring strategies and find and retain executive leaders for their projects.

Prior to joining a16z crypto, Jones was an Executive Recruiter at Netflix from January 2019 to May 2022, where he recruited talent for Creative Content Film, Marketing, Editorial & Publishing, and Publicity teams, and built a network of studio executives to work in-house on Netflix films. Before Netflix, he was a Technical Recruiter at Facebook, based in the Bay Area. He also has prior experience at Google. Jones grew up in the Bronx and completed the Half Dome hike in Yosemite. He mentors high school students through Good City Mentors.

Miles Jennings is Head of Policy & General Counsel at a16z crypto, the digital asset-focused venture capital arm of Andreessen Horowitz, a position he has held since March 2025. In this role, he advises the firm and its portfolio companies on decentralization, DAOs, governance, NFTs, and state and federal securities laws. He first joined a16z crypto in August 2021 as General Counsel, Crypto, before his mandate was expanded to include policy.

Jennings' involvement in the crypto sector dates to 2017, when he began working with ConsenSys. Prior to joining a16z crypto, he was a partner at Latham & Watkins, where he co-chaired the firm's global blockchain and cryptocurrency task force. His transactional experience at Latham included venture capital financings, initial public offerings, high yield debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and general company representation. He was a member of both the firm's Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Group and its Fintech Industry Group, and acted as an outside advisor to ConsenSys' Tachyon Accelerator Program. He joined Latham as an associate in November 2009, was promoted to partner in January 2020, and departed in August 2021. He received a JD, magna cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law, where he was a fellow in the Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & the Law, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Pyrs Carvolth is a Partner and Business Development Lead at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto), where he has been part of the go-to-market team since April 2022. His stated mandate covers growing the a16z corporate network and supporting a16z crypto portfolio companies across go-to-market motions, with a specific emphasis on business development. He has authored and co-authored published pieces on topics including blockchains for traditional finance, go-to-market messaging, and building business development and growth teams.

Prior to joining a16z crypto, Carvolth served as Director of Business Development at DraftKings, where he led web3 business development and contributed to the launch of the company's NFT Marketplace and related partnerships. Before DraftKings, he held a Senior Manager of Business Development role at TuneIn, where he built programmatic advertising sales for streaming audio, and an Account Executive position at LinkedIn. He began his career at Jefferies in equity derivatives sales and trading and equity sales, and earlier worked at Bloomberg LP as a Fixed Income Advanced Specialist. He is also a member of The Seed Project, an angel platform focused on funding seed-stage technology companies, a role he has held since January 2020. Carvolth holds a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.