Company Info for allenandgledhill.com | IcebreakerMembers
Masha is an entrepreneur and investor, expert in events marketing in Web3 and tech. She was awarded a full LLM scholarship at UC Berkeley, then moved to San Francisco from Zurich in 2017.
Masha started to explore cryptocurrencies in 2014 and bought bitcoin.
In 2018, Masha founded Crypto PR Lab. She worked in public relations, marketing and events with cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchain protocols, decentralized marketplace and other tech startups and tech conferences.
Some of the notable projects she worked with are ZkSync, CasperLabs, Ankr, Marlin Protocol, Heroes, Animal Concerts, Charged particles, Metamall, RocketVault, Deeper Network, CoinSwap, Liti Capital, ShopX, Coinspaid, Blockcities, Plasma.Finance.
Crypto PR Lab received two acqui-hire offers, in 2018 and in 2019, but we decided to continue building the business.
Between 2018 and 2023, she organized over 50+ Web3 and tech side events and conferences, 50-1500 attendees, which exposed her to a large amount of interesting people and helped her boost her network.
Partner at Story VC, Masha invested in 40 blockchain and NFT startups. Story VC is an entity investing in blockchain startups and helping to boost their growth with PR and marketing.
Deals where we had the most successful exits in 2020-2022:
- Splyt-ShopX: 350X
- Deeper Network: 40X
- RocketVault: 80x
- Casperlabs: 25X
- PlasmaFinance: 35X
Based in Miami since 2021, she has held executive roles at some of the leading blockchain protocols in the space such as Polygon and Waves.
At the start of her career, Masha worked for Clifford Chance LLP and Gowling WLG in France and Monaco. As a relationship manager for UHNWI in 2015-2017, Masha represented UBS and HSBC private banks in Switzerland.
In 2006 Winter Olympic Games, Masha represented Russia as the youngest participant in the halfpipe event. She was also a Champion of Russia in snowboarding two consecutive years.
Masha holds 3 Master degrees (Sorbonne, UC Berkeley, University of Nice) and speaks four languages: Russian, French, German, and English. 
