About Emil Woods

Emil Woods is a founding partner at Liberty City Ventures. He also co-founded Cedar Hill Capital Partners LLC (Cedar Hill) in 2004. He currently serves as Portfolio Manager of Cedar Hill, which is an institutional asset management complex that comprises several funds, including hedge, venture and private equity funds. Prior to founding Cedar Hill, Emil was a portfolio manager at SAC Capital Management. Prior to that, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for over 8 years in various capacities in the Equities and Asset Management divisions, including as a portfolio manager as well as head trader. Emil Woods  is on the Board of Directors of the GO Project, which provides critical academic, social and emotional support to low-income New York City public school children. He is the founder and a trustee of the Imago Dei Foundation, serves on the board of The Centurion Foundation and is an Undergraduate Executive Board member of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Emil Woods  holds a B.S.E. from the Wharton School, of the University of Pennsylvania, where he sponsors the Emil K. Woods Award for entrepreneurship and well as the Su Chin Catherine Chian Scholarship. A venture capital fund firm founded in 2013 focused on investing in companies building blockchain technology infrastructure and companies implementing blockchain technology for real world use cases and Web3. He also co-founded two prominent blockchain infrastructure companies, Paxos in 2012, the first regulated bitcoin exchange in the world, and Lukka in 2014, the leading enterprise software, enterprise data, and tax reporting provider for institutions managing crypto assets. Emil Woods Award for Entrepreneurship. He is also an advisor to the Wharton Alternative Investments Initiative. He has been an early participant in the Bitcoin ecosystem as an investor since early 2010. He also co-founded and is on the board of itBit, the world's first regulated exchange and qualified custodian for crypto assets, a clearing and settlement platform for digitized assets and known for launching the world's first regulated stablecoin.