Armani Ferrante – Founder
@armaniferrante
Armani graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in computer science.
Developed some of the most popular iOS apps at Apple, including Reminders and Calendar.
In early 2018, Armani joined the fledgling Alameda team (SBF’s hedge fund firm), where he participated in the development of trading systems.
In 2020, Armani joined the Solana ecosystem. He created Coral, a platform for web3 developers. In 2021, Coral developed Anchor, a tool for developers, which is still the most popular smart contract development framework on Solana.
In 2022, FTX and Jump Capital led a $20 million seed round of investment, which also provided Coral with funds to develop xNFT Backpack, an interactive crypto wallet.
Tristan Yver - Co-founder
He previously served as Head of Strategy at FTX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and Director of Sales and Business Development at Marketplace Software. With experience in project management, recruitment, strategy development, and EOS implementation, Tristan also completed a finance internship at CMC - Compania Maritima Chilena.
Tristan Yver is the co-founder of Backpack
Peter Piekarczyk - Genesis Engineer
@peterpme
Education: Earned a degree from Y Combinator and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Peter was previously VP of Product at Bootler and was a co-founder of Tally. Peter was previously a software engineer at Trunk Club, a front-end developer at One North Interactive, and a founder and writer at Cheesin' Blog. Peter also worked as an IT consultant at the Copernicus Center.
Peter Piekarczyk is currently a founding engineer at Backpack.
Nicholas Ting —— COO
https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-ting-cfa-frm-aa591227/…
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the American University in Bulgaria.
He has extensive experience in the financial industry, having held positions ranging from Assistant Portfolio Manager to Chief Operating Officer. Nicholas has worked at companies such as Genesis Block HK, APG Asset Management, LaSalle Investment Management, Grace Financial, Dealogic and Deloitte. He was also the Chief Strategy Officer of Genesis Block.
Nicholas Ting is COO of Backpack
Oliver Slerfer —— CFO
https://linkedin.com/in/oliver-sleafer-b8993820/…
Education: Birkbeck College, University of London and University of Westminster.
Responsibilities: Served as Stripe's Head of Liquidity Management in Asia Pacific. Also worked at Credit Suisse, a leading global wealth management institution, with strong investment banking capabilities.
Oliver Slerfer is currently the CFO of Backpack.
Laurence King – Head of Audit
https://linkedin.com/in/laurence-king/…
He has nearly 30 years of experience leading audit and risk functions for global financial institutions. Most recently at Citibank, he served as Citibank’s Asia Pacific Country Audit Head and Citibank’s Asia Pacific Regulatory Head, overseeing Citibank’s regulatory audits with the Financial Services Agency of Japan, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and more than a dozen other regulators in the Asia Pacific region.
Prior to joining Citibank, he held senior management positions in various financial institutions, including Executive Director of IT Regulatory Risk, Asia Pacific at Morgan Stanley, Head of Global ITGC Audit and Head of IT Audit, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank, and Head of IT Risk, Asia Pacific at JPMorgan Chase. He has extensive experience overseeing complex audit processes, implementing strong compliance frameworks, and ensuring operational transparency at some of the world's leading financial institutions.
Laurence King is Backpack's Head of Audit
Can Sun —— Legal Director of Backpack, Co-founder of BP Exchange
@GoLadsCS
Education: Double E from Princeton and PhD from Yale Law School
As a lawyer, Can has served hundreds of projects in issuing tokens and participated in the listing of Coinbase. Coinbase once wanted to issue stocks and tokens at the same time, and Can helped it design Tokenomics, but in the end, only stocks were issued for various reasons;
As the former general counsel of FTX, Can testified in the fraud trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. After SBF was convicted, Can participated in the establishment of Backpack Exchange, hoping to establish it as a global financial institution that is not only innovative but also compliant;
Can once worked for the well-known Fenwick & West law firm, which was founded in 1972 and helped Jobs register Apple in 1976.
Can Sun is currently the legal director of Backpack and co-founder of BP Exchange.
in conclusion
I dug deep into the founding team information of @Backpack_CN and felt very excited after reading it!
The essence of investing in or participating in a project is to look at the people, and such a team is worthy of everyone's recognition! !
In web3’s words:
In traditional terms: awesome
Optimistic about 3 years#backpack Grow into the world's leading exchange!!!
Let’s wait and see!!!
