Sam Yao

Head of Business Development
Avalanche Asia

Sam serves as BD Lead of Avalanche Asia. Sam was the BD and Operation Head of KuCoin Community Chain and built that ecosystem from the ground up to around $80M in TVL in 2022. Prior to becoming part of the industry, Sam served as a management consultant and provided solutions to Deloitte, Amway Global, Veritas along with a few other top companies. Mr Yao also co-founded an E-Commerce company while he went to school in University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell. Now Sam and his teammates are keen to provide a direct end to end solution to help web2 enterprises enter web3.