Entrepreneur and celebrity designer has been in the Fashion & Manufacturing industry for over 8 years, consistently working with some of the largest companies in the world. King is the founder and creative director behind the luxury streetwear brand AKINGS, a brand with the ethos of “WE MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A KING” – a mission to excel and extend that feeling of confidence through their pieces. Alan can be seen mega-viral with videos that have crossed millions of views across social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram and was also on “THE HYPE”, a fashion show on HBO Max that featured celebrities such as Offset, Wiz Khalifa and Cardi B to name a few. He can also be seen in major publications such as Forbes, WWD, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, and more.

4 years in fashion helping run and operate 6-7 figure apparel brands. Bryan has been instrumental to the reason AKINGS as a brand has been able to grow throughout the years and has been with Alan through his journey as a designer and CEO through thick and thin.

Khailee Ng is a managing partner of 500 Global, early backers of Solana, Animoca Brands, and Axie Infinity. Khailee himself has led seed investments in 7 unicorns like Grab, Cars24, Carousell and more. Prior to being a VC, he founded and exited two startups: Groupsmore (acquired by Groupon) and Says.com.

PhD ABD (all but dissertation) with a background in EE from USC with a computer music/computer science + music tech and signal processing from Stanford (masters) UCSD (PhD ABD). He worked as DSP Researcher for Native Instruments, Naver/Wav Media (Kanye Livestream), and eventually became the Matter.online (CTO-> CEO) then SoundMint (CTO).

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There are few CTOs that can simultaneously push 3D and Unreal Engine and audiovisuals and also Solidity and also web dev and also audio signal processing with hands-on experience in all and massive amounts of the codebase. Mike has also successfully launched one of the lowest gas contracts ever: $12 for 20 mints.

Derek holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing & Psychology from Stony Brook University. Coming from a background of reselling collectibles and streetwear, he is a full-time NFT Degen trader since early 2020 where he invested and held blue-chip projects like S1 Neo Tokyo. He is a member of the Neo Tokyo Outreach Team where he has connected to both AKINGS and KEYS to eventually become involved in their team.