Meet our team

• Daniel Shin

  CO-FOUNDER

  Dan is the founder and former CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5 billion in GMV. He is also a co-founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo). Dan is one of the best known entrepreneurs and investors in East Asia, with extensive expertise and deep networks in e-commerce. He has a BS in Economics from Wharton Undergrad.
  

• Do Kwon

  CO-FOUNDER

  Do is the founder and former CEO of Anyfi, a wireless mesh network startup building one of the most sophisticated decentralized applications in real world use. During his time at Anyfi, Do co-invented several of the company's key patents around decentralized networks and routing systems. Do was a software engineer at Microsoft and Apple, and studied Computer Science at Stanford.
  

• Nicholas Platias

  HEAD OF RESEARCH

  Nicholas founded Guru Labs, a Lightspeed backed machine learning startup that models risk and fraud in commercial insurance. He previously developed algorithms and distributed systems while at Nest (acquired by Google) and RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce). Nicholas studied Math and Computer Science at Stanford and has won numerous medals at Math Olympiads.
  

• Marco Di Maggio

  CORE RESEARCHER

  Marco Di Maggio is a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a visiting Professor at the Federal Reserve of Philadelphia and at the European Central Bank. Professor Di Maggio received his PhD in Economics from MIT, and in 2016 Poets and Quants named him to its list of the Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors.
  

• Don Kim

  HEAD OF BUSINESS

  Don was a Business Development manager at the Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX, where he saw the company grow from launch to 250M+ USD in daily volume. Prior to GOPAX, Don was a Military Diplomacy officer for the Korean Air Force, and studied Government at Harvard.
  

• Gigi Kwon

  HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS

  Gigi was a Marketing Manager at Uber's Korea office, serving as the local lead for Uber’s product marketing and Uber Eats’ CRM and paid online campaigns. Prior to that, she worked as an Associate at a boutique PR agency based in New York, developing and implementing strategic communications plans for a wide variety of clients. She studied Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.
  

• Joon Kim

  Chief Legal Officer

  Joon worked in the New York office of Goldman Sachs as an Assistant General Counsel and Vice President, providing legal guidance within the asset management division. He also worked at a New York-based private equity firm focused on investing in financial services companies. Before becoming an in-house counsel, he worked at international law firms, including Kirkland & Ellis LLP, focusing on corporate and private fund matters. He has a BA from New York University and a JD from Cornell Law School. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.
  

• Ophelia Cai

  Corporate Strategy Lead

  Ophelia enjoys thinking about the big picture and brings to Terra her expertise from leading strategy at a Chinese family office, a hedge fund technology startup and a Beijing based blockchain investment house. Prior to this she was an impact investing expert at BlackRock, where she helped to develop the firm’s carbon foot-printing methodology. Ophelia is a Schwarzman Scholar and holds a Masters in Global Affairs from Tsinghua and a BA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.