Cole Petersen is Head Of Operations at Elixir. Formerly, Associate at BlockVenture Coalition, Founder of NodeBridge. First learned about Bitcoin in 2013 and began working in the space in 2017. While on a gap year as a student at the University of California, Irvine, he co-founded and helps lead LINKPAD. He has worked as an associate at BlockVenture and previously founded a node management/ development service.