Name: Digital Asset Summit 2022 | London
Start: 2022-10-17T04:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-18T21:00:00.000Z
Location: The Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

Monday, October 17 

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Greeting & Welcome

Michael Ippolito

David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, a global, high-growth financial technology company based in London. A former City banking executive and currency specialist, he joined LMAX Group in 2011 and after a successful management buyout, rapidly built LMAX Group into the leading operator of institutional FX and cryptocurrency exchanges with offices in 11 countries and global client base. An outspoken industry commentator, David is a long term champion of the UK’s fintech sector and passionate about supporting entrepreneurship in the UK.

David Mercer

Green Shoots of Crypto Winter: How Do We Make Spring Last?

Alfonso&nbsp;Peccatiello is the author of The Macro Compass, the world's fastest growing financial newsletter. The Macro Compass leverages on Alf's experience running a large pool of institutional money and offers actionable investment ideas and unique macroeconomic insights.



Before launching The Macro Compass,&nbsp;Alfonso&nbsp;was the Head of Investments for a $20 billion portfolio for ING Germany.



Widely recognized as an investment portfolio and global macroeconomic expert,&nbsp;Alfonso&nbsp;has a solid track record in enhancing portfolio's risk/return profiles and anticipating important changes in macroeconomic trends - with a special focus on monetary mechanics and fixed income

Alfonso Peccatiello

Imran Lakha is Founder of Options Insight



He has been a professional options trader for over 20 years and worked for some of the top tier investment banks on Wall St like BoA and Citibank.



At Options insight he now provides clients with research on macro options trading opportunities for both portfolio hedging and yield enhancement, as well as relative value within the volatility space to optimize returns and risk profiles.



Imran has also created multiple options trading courses from platforms such as Real Vision and Spotgamma helping traders to understand the intuition behind options and how to use them practically in the real world across all asset classes including crypto.

Imran Lakha

Bilal Hafeez is the Founder and CEO of Macro Hive – a leading independent research firm. Prior to Macro Hive, Bilal was Global Head of International Fixed Income Strategy at Nomura between 2016 and 2019. Before that Bilal held various senior roles at Deutsche Bank between 2002 and 2015 including Head of Multi-Asset Research, Advisor to the CEO, Head of Asia Research in Singapore and Global Head of Foreign Exchange Research. Bilal started his career at J.P. Morgan in 1998. During his sell-side career, Bilal was rated #1 market strategist by Euromoney and Institutional Investor for most years between 2004 and 2013. He also pioneered FX investment and smart beta benchmarks.  Academically, Bilal was an Honorary Visiting Professor of Finance at Cass Business School. He studied Economics at St Johns College, Cambridge. Bilal lives with wife, two children, seven cats, four chickens, a beehive and one dog.

Bilal Hafeez

Patrick Perret-Green has worked in financial markets for 35 years. He began his career in the fixed income and currency research department of Greenwell Montagu, worked as a fixed income flow trader for Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan, a research head for Mizuho, and a proprietary trader and Asia strategist for Citi. He was based in Asia between 2010 and 2016. Over the past six years he has focussed on providing a global macro research service that provides actionable trade ideas.

Patrick Perret-Green

The Macro Crystal Ball: What Comes Next? 

Ian brings over 20 years of experience in capital markets and fintech and is widely regarded as one of the UK’s foremost experts in blockchain and digital assets. He most recently led KPMG’s UK Crypto &amp; Digital Assets practice, and previously served as Executive Director and Board Advisor to CryptoUK, the UK’s digital asset trade association.

Ian Taylor

Dr Lisa Cameron is the MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow and was first elected in 2015. Lisa is also the Chair of the newly created Crypto and Digital Assets All Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster.



Before entering politics, Lisa worked as a clinical psychologist and received a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Glasgow.&nbsp;



Lisa has a keen interest in crypto and digital assets. She is particularly interested in the potential for this new technology to transform the landscape of emerging digital payments and financial services. Lisa has said that a top priority for her is consumer protection and she wants to see the sector and regulators making protecting consumers from the risks of harm a key focus. She is also interested in the opportunities that exist from the crypto and digital asset sector in terms of jobs, benefits to the economy and skills.



As a member of the Financial Education APPG in Parliament Lisa is also passionate about the importance of educating people and improving people’s understanding about crypto and digital assets.

Lisa Cameron

Suzanne Morsfield is Lukka’s Global Head of Accounting Solutions. She brings more than 15 years of data-driven international corporate reporting and quantitative research experience to her role. She gained a wide-range of industry and practical experience while at JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, EY, Thomson Reuters and Capco that she subsequently used in her position as Director of Research at Columbia Business School’s Center for Excellence in Accounting and Security Analysis (CEASA). 



After CEASA, Suzanne joined the IFRS Foundation, where she led projects on improving financial reporting standards and served with distinction on committees for both the FASB and the IFRS Foundation. Subsequent to that role, she provided independent consulting to public and private companies, as well as to standard-setters and regulators. Her academic lecturing and research experience includes contributions to London School of Economics, New York University, and other US universities. She holds a PhD from the University of Arizona and has won numerous teaching and research awards.

Suzanne Morsfield

Ijeoma is an experienced executive and senior finance, securities and regulatory lawyer with extensive experience advising financial services firms and corporate clients globally. Ijeoma is also an expert on existing cryptocurrency regulation and public policy in the US and UK and the gaps that exist in the legal frameworks. She speaks regularly on digital assets at institutions and conferences in the US and Europe. She was part of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s first ever Crypto Sprint where the regulator brought together experts to advise it on what its approach to crypto assets should look like in the future. Ijeoma is a digital assets investments adviser; a co-Founder and co-Director of the Digital Economy Institute, an independent digital assets think tank in London focused on US and UK crypto public policy; a member of the Board of the Museum of London; and a founding member and limited partner of Impact X Capital Partners, an ESG focused venture capital fund. She previously was an Executive Director and Digital Currency Risk Management Lead at JPMorgan focused on designing the firm’s global digital currency risk management and governance framework and advising on crypto related business proposals. She was also a member of the Board of Directors of Aldermanbury Investments Limited, a JPMorgan subsidiary. Since 2019, she has been a judge for the Power List of Britain’s Most Influential People of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage. She was listed on the 2020 FTSE Board Report’s 100 Women to Watch list, was named Investment Woman of the Year at the 2020 Woman in Investment Awards, won the Outstanding Contribution of the Year Award at the 2021 Women in Finance Awards, and was listed as one of Brummell Magazine’s 2022 Inspirational Women in the City and PitchBook’s 2022 Female Founders and Investors to Know. Ijeoma holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Cornell University.

Ijeoma Okoli

Jonno Evans&nbsp;co-founded Project Vellir – a leading European web3 policy, advisory and investment firm. Prior to this, he worked at 10 Downing Street as Private Secretary for two successive prime ministers, in the Cabinet Office, and in the Diplomatic Service, working across Europe, the US, and the Middle East and Africa, where he focused on international economic policy. He was awarded an OBE for services to foreign policy in 2021.

Jonno Evans

Navigating Regulatory Uncertainty 

Coffee Break 

Sabrina Wilson is the Chief Operating Officer of&nbsp;<a href="http://copper.co/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Copper.co</a>.



Prior to joining&nbsp;Copper&nbsp;in March 2022, Sabrina was the Global co-Head of the Listed Derivatives, OTC Clearing and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage business at Citi. Sabrina has over 20 years’experience in Financial Services and Global Markets having held a variety of senior roles in New York, London and Singapore for JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.



Sabrina received a Masters and Post-Graduate in Economics and Finance at the University of Paris - Assas Sorbonne. In 2017, she was voted amongst the top 100 most influential women in Finance (Europe) by Financial News

Sabrina Wilson

Andrew is Chief Compliance Officer at Zodia Markets, where he leads the compliance function including surveillance, financial crime and regulatory affairs across the organisation.



Zodia Markets is a digital asset exchange and brokerage by Standard Chartered and OSL. It combines institutional-grade levels of regulatory compliance, risk management, transparency and integrity with cutting-edge digital asset trading technology.



Previously, as Head of Global Authorisations at Revolut, Andrew built the Global Authorisations Department responsible for all regulatory applications from initial licence scoping through to becoming authorised and operational entities. Andrew started his career in financial services consulting at Accenture and PA Consulting before moving to the FCA to specialise in regulation, financial crime and supervision. At the FCA he was a Lead Supervisor for one of the UK’s largest wholesale banks as well as working closely with Markets Supervision. Moving into FinTech regulation, he worked with the FCA’s Innovation Hub to encourage and support ground-breaking financial products and services within the UK and abroad.



He holds a Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.

Andrew Price

Jenna Wright is the Managing Director of LMAX Digital, part of LMAX Group, and has recently been named as one of the top 25 Women Leaders in Financial Technology of Europe by The Financial Technology Report. Jenna has been instrumental in driving growth of LMAX Digital and building it into the leading institutional spot crypto currency exchange globally. &nbsp;Jenna joined LMAX Group in January 2009 and has held multiple senior managerial roles at LMAX Group, including Head of Broker Operations and Head of Client Services. Prior to LMAX Group, Jenna worked at Cantor and UBS. Jenna holds BA in Economics &amp; Politics from the University of Manchester.

Jenna Wright

Beyond Borders: Compliant Crypto Investing for Institutions

Jason Yanowitz

Matt Fiebach

Sam Martin, based in Ohio, is a research analyst at Blockworks. Prior to Blockworks, Sam spent 2 years working at various firms in the agricultural commodity business.

Sam Martin

Blockworks Research

Richard Muirhead is the Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and Chairman of Fabric Ventures, a venture firm backing founders building the Open Economy and Open Web: user control of data, developer access to code, and collective ownership. Fabric Ventures has invested in pioneering projects like Polkadot, NEAR, Ocean Protocol, Sorare, 1inch, and The Graph, supporting builders and businesses from inception through scaling. Richard’s venture career spans over a decade, with a focus on blockchain and decentralised technologies since 2012. His portfolio includes notable investments in Bitstamp, Tray.io, Bitrise, TransferWise, and Citymapper. He has been an active participant in the blockchain revolution, purchasing his first Bitcoin in 2013 and leading one of the first Web3 investments in Bitstamp. With a pedigree in developer-centric products and open-source communities, Richard combines hands-on experience as a former 3x software CEO/entrepreneur, having built and scaled companies like Automic (acquired by CA for $640m), Tideway (acquired by BMC), and Orchestream (acquired by Oracle), reaching a cumulative market cap of over $2.2bn. Richard sits on governance bodies for NEAR Foundation, Ocean Protocol, and is a Senior Advisor for Orchid. He continues to be a leading voice in the intersection of venture capital, blockchain, and the Open Web, driving innovation and transformation in the crypto and digital asset space.



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Richard Muirhead

Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO and Co-founder of CoinShares, has been a pivotal figure in the digital asset industry since 2014. Holding a Master’s degree from Sir John Cass Business School in Mathematical Trading and Finance, he boasts extensive experience as a commodity trader specializing in quantitative analysis and risk management. Prior to CoinShares, Jean-Marie honed his expertise at Hermes Commodities Fund Managers, where he managed trading programs with a focus on macroeconomic commodities, including cryptocurrencies. Under his leadership, CoinShares has emerged as a leading force in the alternative digital asset management space in Europe.

Jean-Marie Mognetti

Max is the co-founder of PV01. Founded in 2022, the company makes it possible to invest in government bonds directly from stablecoins. As a broker-dealer, PV01 arranges the issuance of digital bonds as tokens on public blockchains. Previously, Max co-founded B2C2, a pioneering firm that became the largest dealer of the digital assets markets. B2C2 was acquired by Japanese banking group SBI in 2020

Max Boonen

As Global Head of Growth at OKX, Shimon Lazarov oversees the company’s international user acquisition and retention. He oversees a range of marketing channels, including paid, organic, out of home, TV and affiliates, among others. Prior to OKX, Shimon was Head of Growth at Kraken, CEO of LiveCoach, and a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BS in biology and business administration from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shimon Lazarov

Bulls vs. Bears - The Next 12 Months of Crypto

Jonathan Dakin

Wayne Hughes

How BNP Paribas is Driving New Investor Value with Digital Assets 

Networking & Lunch 

Cocktail Reception & Networking

VIP & Speaker Dinner 

Main Stage

Melvin Deng is the Chief Executive Officer of QCP, one of the first digital asset trading firms in Singapore and global market maker in digital asset derivatives. As the CEO, Melvin leads the company’s rapid growth and expansion towards its vision to partner the next generation of investors to unlock institutional opportunities in digital assets. Under his leadership, he has built the company’s institutional-grade experience, research and infrastructure into a compelling proposition for clients, in addition to overseeing all operations and risk management. He is a believer in the immense growth potential of digital asset derivatives, to unlock future adoption by traditional and institutional players. Inspired by the opportunity to disrupt financial services through digital assets and blockchain technology, he left a more than 15 year career in banking to join QCP in 2021. He was previously the Head of Treasury for a global bank, where he was a member of the Singapore management team, responsible for business and balance sheet strategy. In addition to oversight of all the bank’s Treasury-related activities, he also led balance sheet optimisation initiatives, and launched the first SORA bond in Singapore, deepening the local financial market. Melvin holds a Bachelor of Engineering with honours from the National University of Singapore, and speaks four languages.

Melvin Deng

As the Head of VIP &amp; Institutional at Binance, Catherine leads the global coverage of the exchange’s most sophisticated clients, including individual traders, mid-sized proprietary teams, and global financial institutions. With over 15 years of experience in traditional finance at bulge bracket banks such as Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, Catherine has a deep and extensive background across multiple asset classes and products, with a particular expertise in structured derivatives and derivative solutions. Catherine is at the forefront of accelerating institutional growth, developing an institutional-grade product stack at Binance that includes industry-first solutions bridging traditional financial institutions with the cryptocurrency industry. Her leadership has been instrumental in launching such first-to-market products, positioning Binance as the trusted crypto asset platform of choice for institutions and high-net-worth clients. Catherine holds an Executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST as well as dual BA degrees in Economics and International Relations from National Taiwan University.

Catherine Chen

Jonathan is Global Head of BD at Wintermute, a leading algorithmic trading firm in digital assets. Jonathan has +10 years of experience in tradfi as Derivatives and Options Trader in companies such as Citadel Securities and BlackEdge Capital, as well as Investor in Columbia Threadneedle Investments.Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Jonathan Chan

Tim McCourt serves as CME Group’s Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Equity and Foreign Exchange Products. He is a member of the company’s management team and is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s global equity index, foreign exchange, cryptocurrency and alternative investment product strategies. He serves on the CME Ventures Investment Committee and the S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices U.S. Advisory Panel.&nbsp; Before joining CME Group in 2013 as Global Head of Equity Products, McCourt worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was responsible for building and managing the Americas Index and Delta One trading book.&nbsp; Prior to RBS, he held a senior trading role with JPMorgan in New York, spending 10 years with the Equity Derivatives Group.&nbsp; McCourt holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and an MBA from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Tim McCourt

The Rise of Crypto Derivatives 

With over 15 years experience in both the traditional finance and crypto markets with an emphasis in quantitative analytics and data science, Rachid is an entrepreneur heavily involved in the development of Web3 technologies. As CEO, he co-founded AllianceBlock, which is a foundational layer that delivers the building blocks for DeFi before more recently co-founding Nuant - the first unified platform for digital asset management, analytics, research and intelligence. He has produced an academic article about the AllianceBlock DEX which showcases a new generation of Automated Market Makers that mitigates the risk of Impermanent Loss. Rachid holds an engineering degree in Computer Science &amp; Signal Processing and a masters in Probability Theory, Stochastic Process and Quantitative Finance. Rachid's vision behind Nuant is to create an integrated solution for institutional professionals to support their digital asset portfolio management, research and data intelligence needs. This institutional-grade portfolio analytics platform is powered by Nuant's integrated market data and proprietary on-chain data services, specifically catered to and curated for the needs of portfolio managers, analysts and data scientists in order to reduce risk and maximize returns.

Rachid Ajaja

Ambre Soubiran is a pioneering executive at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, with two decades of experience spanning equity derivatives and blockchain technology. She is the CEO and Chairman of Kaiko, the premier independent provider of cryptocurrency market data, analytics, and indices, delivering institutional-grade and regulatory-compliant solutions to global financial institutions. Ambre has raised over $80M in venture funding for Kaiko and scaled the company to a multinational organization with offices in New York, London, Paris, and Singapore. The company stands as the only founder-led independent provider of crypto-benchmarks and indices, issuing EU BMR and IOSCO-compliant rates that power the Derivatives, ETF, and ETP industries. Before Kaiko, Ambre excelled at HSBC’s Global Markets and Equity Capital Markets divisions in London, where she specialized in structuring sophisticated equity derivatives and equity-based financing solutions. A graduate of Paris Dauphine University with a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ambre has been an early adopter and investor in cryptocurrencies since 2012. She now combines her technical expertise with a vision for transformative technology to drive innovation in the financial tech services industry.

Ambre Soubiran

Alain Kunz is the European Sales Head at GSR focusing on market-making and liquidity provision for digital assets as well as risk management and trading. Before GSR, he founded various ventures in the financial service and digital asset space, and advised public and private institutions as well as political exponents and private individuals on the intersection of innovation, business &amp; finance, technology and society. He started his career at the UBS Investment Bank after studying at the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

Alain Kunz

Developed European environmental commodities markets at STX Group and Covalence.



Contributed to the growth of derivatives platforms for FTX US Derivatives and Paradigm.



B.S. in Finance from ESADE Business School and M.S. in Computer Information Systems from Boston University.

Laura Vidiella

Translating Market Intelligence into Alpha 

James joined AIMA in May 2019 as Director of Asset Management Regulation. Prior to joining AIMA, he worked at a leading Brussels-based consultancy, offering strategic communications support to predominantly financial services clients before returning to the UK at the end of 2013, to join the Government Relations team at U.S. insurer MetLife. During his time at MetLife, he led on public policy and advocacy programmes across the EMEA region. He retains deep knowledge of EU and UK political and regulatory systems as well as a detailed understanding of financial regulation. He previously worked at the Industry &amp; Parliament Trust, an organisation that works to promote the mutual understanding of Parliament and business and he holds a degree in Law (LLB Hons) from the College of Law. At AIMA, he co-leads their work on digital assets which is overseen by AIMA’s Digital Assets Working Group (AIMA DAWG).

James Delaney

Mike Castiglione joined Eventus as Director of Regulatory Affairs, Digital Assets in February 2022 where he focuses on preparing clients for the range of global rules that could affect crypto and their compliance systems. He joined Eventus after 15 years in the US government focused on national security and emerging technology policy, including with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During that time, he advised the White House, Defense Department, others in government about global risks, the implications of technological advancements, and policy options. He has led teams specializing in data analytics and over-the-horizon forecasts during foreign crises. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Michigan State University and a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) from Princeton.

Mike Castiglione

Delphine Forma is an experienced Chief Compliance Officer who worked across different countries and industries including large banks in the U.K. such as Bank of Tokyo – Mitsubishi UFJ and HSBC Bank plc., and global blockchain/crypto businesses (exchanges and miners) in Switzerland. She holds a diploma from Sciences Po Lyon, and two master’s degrees specialized in European Criminal Business Law and Frauds and Money Laundering Prevention. Delphine is a Senior Compliance Manager at BitMEX and a Board member of the OpenVASP Association (a non-profit association formed to develop a protocol and standards to allow virtual assets providers and others to comply with the Financial Action Task Force's "travel rule" requiring identifying information for parties involved in transfer of Digital Assets) and has served has a Board Member of the Crypto Valley Association. Delphine sees compliance as a way to help and support the business to grow and expand. She is passionate about crypto and all blockchain things.

Delphine Forma

Mark joined Elliptic’s Global Policy and Research Group, as Senior Policy Advisor, EMEA, early this year. Before that, he worked at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), as a Technical Specialist in the Capital Markets Policy Dept. Mark has primarily worked in regulatory policy areas, both retail and capital markets but also worked in the FCA’s Financial Crime Advisory Team, where he was responsible for delivering the UK’s cryptoasset amendments to the anti-money laundering regulations (MLRs), and then working with FCA Authorisation and Supervision to act as policy support and to provide internal training. Before leaving the FCA, he was engaged with HM Treasury and the Bank of England on the financial markets infrastructure (FMI) cryptoassets sandbox. He has also been seconded to the FCO and HM Treasury, spending time in Brussels as financial attaché in the UK’s Representation to the EU, negotiating a variety of dossiers, including payment services, e-money and UCITs legislation, and at HM Treasury negotiating AIFMD and developing EU-exit financial services policy. Mark is keen to work with Elliptic clients to help them better understand their regulatory obligations and expectations, particularly at this time of significant regulatory development.

Mark Aruliah

Regulatory Clouds on the Horizon

Samantha is RockawayX's Partner &amp; Chief Growth Officer. Samantha invests across stages and is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. She also oversees the firm's post-investment engine and portfolio management, and its growth efforts across operating divisions.



Samantha previously spent four years as Head of Growth at DCG (parent company of CoinDesk, Grayscale, Luno, Foundry, Genesis and Tradeblock.) In that position, Samantha oversaw the firm's 250+ company venture portfolio and ran strategic growth and corporate development initiatives on behalf of DCG and its network of businesses. Prior to DCG, Samantha led business development efforts at Elder, a London-based health tech company, and spent four years at Orbis Investments, the global asset manager, working on its emerging market equity fund and spearheading the roll-out of an innovative online retail investment platform.

Samantha Bohbot

Chuck Mounts is the Chief DeFi Officer in S&amp;P Global Ratings and leading the newly formed DeFi strategy team. In this role Chuck will help advance S&amp;P Global Ratings' approach and capabilities in the fast-moving decentralized market environment. The team will focus on bringing S&amp;P Global's robust analytic and risk assessment capabilities forth to support both traditional institutional (TradFi) clients and the growing universe of crypto-native DeFi clients. With 30 years of experience in global financial markets, Chuck has led global businesses comprised of research teams, strategists, and product specialists that integrate market knowledge, product expertise and analytic capabilities across asset classes. Chuck began his career as a bank regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and spent the majority of the following two decades as a global credit analyst and a manager of research teams, including stints at Goldman Sachs and UBS, where he was the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Research for UBS investment bank. He has served as the Chairman of the Bond Market Association’s Committee on Research Conflicts and has been recognized by global institutional investors for his understanding and insights in global financial markets. During his career Charles has presented at numerous conferences, has been cited in international publications and has appeared in the media. Chuck holds B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.

Chuck Mounts

Lucas Vogelsang is the CEO and Co-founder at Centrifuge, focusing on bringing Real World Assets to DeFi since the early days of Ethereum. Before diving into crypto in 2017 Lucas has been working at the intersection of tech and business since dropping out of University. He co-founded the Swiss e-commerce startup DeinDeal as its CTO. After its successful sale, he helped the German startup KaufDA with their international expansion. Lucas spent 6 years in Silicon Valley where he was working at early stage startups including Taulia where he met his Centrifuge co-founders.

Lucas Vogelsang

Tyrone is the Head of Onyx Digital Assets, a multi-asset tokenization platform that enables the exchange of value for various types of digital assets. Tyrone also leads J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain team where he is responsible for creating innovative Web3-focused products &amp; solutions for J.P. Morgan’s businesses and clients, and for engaging with the industry at large in order to provide a holistic blockchain strategy for the firm. Tyrone was previously a Senior Blockchain Product Manager in J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center of Excellence and was also the Head of Product for Quorum, an open-sourced Ethereum-based blockchain platform built for Enterprise use. Prior to moving into the blockchain industry in 2015, Tyrone was a software engineer within J.P. Morgan's Credit Markets business, and before that he spent several years in Product transformation, managing and delivering large strategic programs across various businesses within J.P. Morgan, across Front, Middle and Back Office risk and trading systems. Tyrone sits on the Board of Directors of The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.

Tyrone Lobban

Jason Guthrie is Head of Digital Assets for WisdomTree in Europe. Guthrie oversees WisdomTree’s digital assets efforts which include bringing new products to market, identifying opportunities to enhance existing products, driving distributions strategies, and leading on client education and engagement on cryptocurrencies. He is responsible for efforts beyond the traditional product set and is actively pushing the digital asset agenda by pursuing alternative and strategic projects. Previously Guthrie was head of Capital Markets for WisdomTree in Europe for 4 years, where his team was responsible for ensuring clients had a smooth trade execution experience. Prior to joining WisdomTree, Guthrie worked at Deutsche Bank’s ETF Capital Markets group as well as Macquarie Bank as an Investment Executive based in Sydney, Australia. Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from Macquarie University in Sydney.

Jason Guthrie

Real World DeFi and Tokenization 

Breakout Stage East 

Alex Wenham

Martha is a veteran emerging markets specialist, with two decades of experience in capital markets, including sales and distribution and portfolio management, with a strong emphasis on equities research and macro analysis. Martha studied International Finance at Columbia University and has an undergraduate degree in International Relations, with a focus on trade and economics, She sees digital assets as the new frontier in investing, and is particularly interested in the potential for blockchain&nbsp;technology in developing nations.

Martha Reyes

David is a Portfolio Manager at Nickel Digital, where he runs the Diversified Alpha Fund, a multi-strategy fund designed to generate non-correlated returns in the digital asset markets. He was previously CIO at Cambrial, where he ran one of the first Fund of Funds specialised in market neutral crypto strategies. David has been researching and investing in the space since 2013 and previously sat on the Advisory Board of Global Digital Finance, a SRO engaging policy makers and regulators to advocate industry best practice in cryptoassets. David holds an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh.

David Fauchier

Mark is the Head of Trading at Zodia Markets, where he leads the OTC execution desk. Zodia Markets is an FCA Registered digital asset exchange and brokerage, which combines Standard Chartered’s institutional banking background and OSL’s expertise in Digital Asset markets



Previously, Mark was Head of Prime Brokerage Equity Finance at Credit Suisse EMEA where he was responsible&nbsp;for migrating the Prime trading business from London to Dublin.&nbsp;He began his financial markets career in Goldman Sachs Equity Finance before moving to UBS as a sales trader focusing on US institutional clients.



Mark holds BSc in Chemistry from University College Dublin and a Postgraduate in Business Studies from the Smurfit School of Business.

Mark Richardson

Bridging the Gap Between Speculation and Fundamental Value in Digital Assets

Michael Bodley is a New York-based managing editor for Blockworks, where he focuses on the intersection of Wall Street and digital assets. He previously worked for the institutional investor newsletter Hedge Fund Alert. His work has been published in The Boston Globe, NBC News, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.



Contact Michael via email at michael.bodley@blockworks.co

Michael Bodley

As Chief Revenue Officer, Jason Nabi is charged with spearheading growth and global expansion of the Bosonic Network™. Jason brings a wealth of diverse capital markets experience in leading go-to-market and revenue growth, having worked across both traditional finance and FinTech. He has held senior leadership roles focused on the digital asset market with the likes of Euroclear, HSBC, Paxos and has led business growth and expansion at Bloomberg and BNP Paribas, as two examples. He helped launch the Post-Trade Distribution Ledger (PTDL) working group and the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) and has been a Board Member of the International Securities Services Association (ISSA). Jason has advised FinTech start-up and scale-up businesses and is a regular speaker on the topic of digitalization of capital markets.

Jason Nabi

Michael Hall is the Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Nickel Digital Asset Management Ltd. From 2016 to 2019 Mr Hall worked with a Swiss-based wealth manager to advise on macro and digital asset arbitrage portfolios, including, from July 2018, managing a digital asset arbitrage strategy for the founder of one of London’s largest hedge funds. From 2011 to 2015 Mr Hall pursued entrepreneurial projects in the financial industry including macro and fixed income hedge fund and fund of funds advisory and automated market-making and trading strategies. From July 2005 to November 2010 Mr Hall set up and managed the Texel Macro fund, a liquid fund trading a relative value arbitrage strategy, which generated returns of over 20% in 2008. From December 2002 until February 2005, Mr Hall was a senior trader at a large Spanish Macro Fund, trading a US$200 million allocation of its Relative Value Fund. From November 1999 to December 2002 Mr Hall was co-founder and President of Metapack, a java software company whose clients include Boots plc, John Lewis and other large UK retailers. In 2018 MetaPack was sold for £175 million. From 1992 to 1999 Mr Hall worked as a trader in the Fixed Income Arbitrage group of Bankers Trust New York (Bankers Trust was taken over by Deutsche Bank in 1999). He ran a proprietary trading book focusing on relative value opportunities in the G10 countries producing average annual returns of over 18 percent. He also managed risk for multi-billion dollar mortgage, asset-backed and municipal bond portfolios. Mr Hall received a degree in Electronic Engineering (1st class) from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1986 and an MBA in Finance from Wharton Business School.

Michael Hall

Tara is the CEO of Lantern Ventures, a digital currency trading firm with over $250 million under management. Lantern was founded on philanthropic principles, and 50% of founder profits are donated to high-impact charitable causes. Prior to founding Lantern, Tara was also a co-founder of Alameda Research. Before becoming a full-time trader, she was the CEO of the Center for Effective Altruism. Tara first started trading crypto while working in Indonesia in 2013, where she built models to settle invoice payments faster and cheaper than alternatives using BTC.

Tara MacAulay

Tim Grant is Chief Executive Officer of Deus X Capital, a family office-backed global investment and operating company. He is Chairman of AlphaLab40, a crypto market maker and portfolio company of Deus X, as well as Chairman of ApexE3, an institutional multi-asset big data analytics and AI platform. Prior to launching Deus X in October 2023, Tim served as Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for Galaxy, a diversified financial services and investment management company in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. Prior to joining Galaxy, Tim held chief executive titles and founded several companies across the financial technology space. Previous roles have included Chief Executive Officer of SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), the Switzerland-based regulated digital asset exchange of SIX Group; Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DrumG Technologies, a builder and operator of enterprise distributed ledger- and blockchain-based applications and networks; and, Chief Executive Officer of R3 Lab and Research Center. Before that, Tim was a Managing Director at UBS O’Connor, a $6.5bn multi-strategy hedge fund, and Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank. Tim earned a MA in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Financial Engineering from the Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Tim Grant

Sebastian leads Institutional Sales for <a href="http://crypto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crypto.com</a>'s spot and derivatives exchanges. He joined <a href="http://crypto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Crypto.com</a> from Kraken, where he led Institutional Relationships and Solutions for the EMEA region. Having spent the prior decade in traditional finance, including experience as an algorithmic equity-options trader, Sebastian leverages his technical background and understanding of both traditional and crypto-native industries to help bridge these two worlds.

Sebastian Gawenda

The Next Frontier of Trading & Risk Management 

David Canellis is an editor and journalist based in Amsterdam who has covered the crypto industry full time since 2018. He's heavily focused on data-driven reporting to identify and map trends within the ecosystem, from bitcoin to DeFi, crypto stocks to NFTs and beyond. Contact David via email at david@blockworks.co.

David Canellis

At Polygon, Amit leads the research and development of next-generation DeFi protocols to grow and support the DeFi ecosystem. He specializes in the field of crypto-economics, spearheading the development of blockchain economic models at Polygon. Previously he has researched in the intersection of cryptocurrency, finance, econometrics, and statistics. Amit had also worked in quantitative roles in TradFi firms like JPMorgan Chase and ICICI bank. Amit started his career in the field of computational fluid dynamics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, an MA in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur.

Amit Chaudhary

Johann is the Product Lead for MetaMask Institutional. Since launching the product in February 2021, Johann has managed the product strategy and roadmap, design and operations, and also crypto custodian integrations. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Johann spent time as a Fintech founder, Director of Product for a Pan-European Robo-advisor, and Global Macro Portfolio Manager, where he helped to start and build the business.

Johann Bornman

Alex Batlin founded Bitpanda Custody (formerly Trustology)in 2017 with the purpose of making crypto custody safer, faster, and easier. He has an extensive career leading blockchain research for BNY Mellon, UBS’ FinTech Innovation Lab and co-founding the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. His experience working within traditional finance and FinTech means he built TrustVault to meet the needs of institutions.

Alex Batlin

Jordan Lazaro Gustave

Institutional Access to DeFi

Seraphim is the Head of Risk at Euler Labs, the company behind Euler Finance. He also leads business development efforts, institutional relations and strategic partnerships. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Emerging Markets FX trader.



Euler is a leading DeFi lending protocol with innovative features like permissionless listing, market-based liquidations, and many more.&nbsp;

Seraphim Czecker

Born in an entrepreneurial family, since childhood Yichen was inspired to hold the reigns of his own future. Moving with his family from China to Finland in his teenage years boosted his can-do attitude, career ambitions, and multicultural charisma.



Educated on finance in Finland’s most prestigious university, and with the experience of working at top-notch corporations even before graduation, in 2016, Yichen’s mind was at work identifying the next big opportunity.



While Finland’s love for technology served as an inspiration, it was the birth of Bitcoin that truly enlightened his path. Insights from years diving into crypto markets materialized when he founded WhaleLend in 2017, a very early entrant in the crypto lending space. Whalelend eventually morphed into Tesseract, where he is the CEO and the team’s thought leader.



Yichen is one of the top ten crypto lending experts in the world. He loves a stage and the opportunity to share insights and inspiration with others.

Yichen Wu

Konrad Laesser is Head of Institutional Sales EMEA at Genesis. Konrad is responsible for accelerating Genesis’ client acquisition and revenue expansion strategy within the region. Konrad began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was an Executive Director within Global Markets. He was an integral member of the Multi-Asset Platform Sales team, where he drove growth strategy by scoping new markets, evaluating customer cohorts, and converting engagement into commercial results. After leaving Goldman Sachs and prior to joining Genesis, Konrad was Head of Cash &amp; Trading at BW Gestao, a leading single-family office. At BW Gestao, he was mandated to build out and scale its global fulfillment capabilities. In this capacity he was responsible for workflow and system design as well as investment/instrument selection.

Konrad Laesser

Blair Halliday was recently appointed as Kraken’s UK Managing Director.



Prior to Kraken, Blair was the Head of UK for Gemini, responsible for its first expansion outside of the US.



Blair is an industry expert in regulatory compliance and anti-financial crime, and has held several senior compliance and executive positions including roles at Gemini, Circle, CashFlows, ICE and Paysafe Group. Before moving into the fintech and digital assets industries, Blair spent over a decade in various positions at the NatWest Group focused on tackling financial crime.

Blair Halliday

Crypto's Institutional Lending Market 

Breakout Stage West 

Tuesday, October 18 

Welcome Breakfast & Networking 

Sam is Founder and CEO of Hoseki, the proof of reserves bitcoin platform. Prior to Hoseki, Sam worked on bitcoin products at Fidelity Investments focusing on open source self custody solutions and proof of reserves.

Sam Abbassi 

Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back, invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function. Throughout his two-decade-long vocation as an applied cryptographer and security architect, he has held senior roles with a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, EMC, PI, VMware, and Zero-Knowledge Systems, as well as advised many more companies on cryptography and peer-to-peer finance. Dr. Adam Back holds a computer science Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.

Dr. Adam Back

After 10 years in capital markets and 13 years running an e-commerce company she founded, Noelle stumbled across bitcoin in 2014, and hasn’t looked back since. She joined crypto media platform CoinDesk in 2016, and until May 2021 ran its research department and wrote the weekly Crypto Long &amp; Short newsletter. From June 2021-August 2022, she was Head of Market Insights at Genesis Trading, writing research and daily emails for institutional investors. Now she is focusing on Crypto is Macro Now, an independent research project focusing on the deepening overlay between the crypto ecosystem, traditional markets and centralized structures.

Noelle Acheson

Michael Leto is a Managing Director with Alvarez &amp; Marsal Co-Head of A&amp;M Crypto, a division focused on providing a comprehensive range of advisory services tailored to the diverse needs of the digital asset industry and the rapidly growing ecosystem of industry participants.



Mr. Leto has over 20 years of financial advisory experience, specializing in operational transformations and interim leadership across financial services and digital assets, including cryptocurrency. His cryptocurrency experience spans cryptocurrency trading (derivatives), lending (collateralized/unsecured), digital asset custody, centralized exchanges, decentralized finance (DeFi), regulatory frameworks and settlements, know-your-customer/anti-money laundering (KYC/AML) protocols, financial planning and analysis, accounting, and global tax matters.



Mr. Leto notably crypto engagements include the global restructurings of Genesis Global Holdings and Terraform Labs and is currently a key member of the FTX Post-Effective Date Trust advisory team.



In addition to his work in digital assets, Mr. Leto has extensive experience as a leader in financial operations roles. He served as interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., navigating complex financial and operational challenges. Other notable engagements include Gibson Brands, Bristow Group, and the YRC Corporation. His expertise includes operational assessments, complex financial transactions, enterprise resource planning implementations, business strategy development, and financial oversight in distressed and high-growth environments.

Michael Leto

The Bull Case for Bitcoin (and the Death of King Dollar?)

Alex is the Head of Ledger Enterprise bringing more than 15 years of experience in driving the adoption of emerging technologies in major financial services organizations. Alex joined Ledger Enterprise in March 2021 after almost two decades in capital markets technology. He previously worked at Nasdaq as director of global software development and associate vice president of enterprise architecture roles. More recently, Alex was working on the next generation of digital capital markets infrastructure as a senior advisor and head of architecture at SIX Digital Exchange.

Alex Zinder

Widmann serves as head of strategy at Komainu, an institutional digital asset custody business aiming to enable secure and compliant access to the growing ecosystem. He was part of the founding team that launched the Komainu joint venture with Nomura, Ledger and CoinShares in 2018 and since then has helped the business raise $25 million and reach more than $8 billion in assets under custody. Prior to Komainu, Widmann helped launch Nomura's digital asset team and led several strategic initiatives and investments for the Japanese investment bank.

Sebastian Widmann

Benoît is Partner in PwC France &amp; Maghreb, leading&nbsp;Risk &amp;&nbsp;Innovation activities&nbsp;for financial services. He&nbsp;is also&nbsp;head of “Blockchain for Finance” in PwC Paris office since 2018 and member of Paris&nbsp;Europlace&nbsp;digital finance association.



Benoit has 24&nbsp;years of professional experience in the financial services where he held several managing positions in&nbsp;front-office&nbsp;and&nbsp;risk&nbsp;management departments&nbsp;in large banking institutions.&nbsp;He&nbsp;has worked for 10 years in the Structured Finance business as&nbsp;a securitization and exotic products structurer after a position of&nbsp;senior analyst at FitchRatings. Before joining PwC he&nbsp;was&nbsp;deputy head of risk and capital modeling for Société Générale and then&nbsp;ExCo&nbsp;member of the Credit Risk department of the investment bank.&nbsp;

Benoît Sureau

Trust In and Out: Institutional Self-Regulation 

Omid leads Business Development&nbsp;for Matrixport across Europe. He was previously&nbsp;Sales Director at the London Stock Exchange Group within the capital markets trading division covering hedge funds and proprietary trading houses. Prior to that he was Vice President within ICAP's electronic broking division covering banks and the buy-side. Omid holds a BSc&nbsp;in Economics and Finance from the University of London and an MBA from Cass Business School.

Omid Zadeh

Edd runs Institutional Trading for the Digital Asset Desk at Flow Traders, having previously set up and run cryptocurrency trading desks in the city of London. Edd brings 11+ years capital markets experience as well as specialist Crypto, and Blockchain knowledge. Edd is a member of a number of industry groups as well as a regular speaker at Crypto and Blockchain events.

Edd Carlton

In 2005 Ms. Vujinovic identified a global need for mobile payment networks. She went on to acquire and develop over $700M assets across Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin American in mobile payments. This led her to Bitcoin and DLT in 2010 and since, has been an avid builder and an investor in some of the top projects. In 2013, Maja was involved in buying a first bank that held Tether. In 2014, as a CIO of Emerging Tech at General Electric, she was the catalyst for blockchain across all General Electric. Currently, Maja runs OGroup focused on investments and scale of digital assets/Web 3.0, particularly merging Web 3.0 technology and ideas with Web 2.0 users. Her focus lies in helping Web 3 companies scale and exit through operational know-how and M&amp;A. Second, she provides guidance to family offices and institutional investors directed towards DeFi. Maja is an investor in over 55 companies in digital assets and is an operational and growth partner to Kauffman Fellows DAO. Maja is on the board of Nayms, Civic, Prism partners and Coindesk, a lead contributor to InfoMoney.br and a frequent speaker at Money2020, LA token summit, Abudance 360, Financial Times, BTC Miami, Davos etc. Maja is also passionate about longevity and is on the board of Longevity Science Foundation.

Maja Vujinovic

George is the Founder and CEO of BEQUANT, the one stop solution for institutional digital assets traders. He is a trading and financial services expert, specialising in electronic trading and prime brokerage with nearly 15 years experience in the space. George has led teams at major international investment banks servicing institutional clients.&nbsp;



He has been at the forefront of the digital asset and electronic trading sectors, leading companies in these spaces around the world for the last decade. BEQUANT prime brokerage platform sees monthly trading volumes of up to $55bn and are launching a retail product in early 2022.

George Zarya

Institutional Market Access and Prime Brokerage 

Coffee Break

Guillaume Chatain is the Head of Institutional Sales EMEA at Coinbase. Prior to joining Coinbase he was the Founder and CEO at ResonanceX, a VC backed digital broker-dealer having launched the first Structured Product to clear, settle and receive custody on a public blockchain. Guillaume also spent a decade in traditional finance, as a Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Private Bank where he advised UHNW clients on large derivatives and financing transactions, and oversaw client solutions and product development for all types of equity and derivatives investments distributed in the Asia-Pacific region.



Guillaume is a CFA charterholder, an Aerospace engineer and he holds a MBA from Columbia Business School.

Guillaume Chatain

Itay began his career with Citi in 1998 and has 20+ years of senior global financial markets experience, spanning Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe and the Americas. He has built and grown trading desks, sales forces and technology teams in multiple geographies and across every major asset class. Most recently, he spent the past 5 years leading Citi’s Global Foreign Exchange business, spanning 70+ countries and delivering best-in-class FX services, liquidity and technology products to the world’s largest investors, corporates and a diverse array of active Forex market participants. Itay also chairs the industry-wide Global Foreign Exchange Division (GXFD), working closely with regulators and others to continue to build a well-functioning, safer, and more efficient Foreign Exchange industry. Over the past number of years, he has led the ongoing engagement between bank trading desks, global regulators and Digital Asset/Crypto-focused institutions both within Citi and for the wider FX marketplace. He is actively involved within the Crypto sector and in working with and advising companies straddling the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance.

Itay Tuchman

Building the Infrastructure for Institutional Crypto Adoption

Stani Kulechov is a pioneer in decentralized finance and web3 social, a strong believer in decentralized solutions, and an advocate for a more open and fair internet. He is the Founder and CEO of Avara, the software development company behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave, stablecoin GHO, web3 social protocol – Lens, and mobile crypto wallet, Family. Avara’s vision is a people-powered internet that benefits all.

Stani Kulechov

Michael Anderson is the co-founder of<a href="https://framework.ventures/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Framework Ventures,</a> one of the largest VC firms in the blockchain industry. Under the leadership of Michael and his co-founder Vance, Framework was arguably the first VC firm to <a href="https://decrypt.co/16943/why-framework-ventures-is-going-all-in-on-defi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“go all in”</a> on the emerging Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”) ecosystem, notching up major early investments in several multi-billion dollar apps and networks like Chainlink, Aave, Synthetix, The Graph, and more. Over the last year, the firm has raised $400M for its third fund, and has also expanded into additional maturing verticals like web3 gaming, real world assets, and social crypto. Before Framework, Michael and his co-founder Vance launched and sold Hashletes, a digital collectible startup with official licensing from the NFL. Before entering the crypto space, Michael served as a product manager at both Snapchat and Dropbox, where he helped build out their monetization platforms.

Michael Anderson

Paul Harwood is a senior product manager at <a href="http://nansen.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nansen.ai</a>, focusing on NFTs, Defi and the crypto-native chat tool ‘Connect’. Paul takes an active research approach to product development and is currently in the later stages of a business based PhD exploring crypto networks and social capital. Previously, Paul has been a teacher and lecturer alongside supporting tech incubators and outreach projects where he resides in South-West England.

Paul Harwood

Will Harvey is responsible for global institutional sales coverage, which includes establishing new markets and relationships to increase adoption of the Bullish exchange. Will joined the institutional sales team at Bullish in Hong Kong in April 2021 prior to the launch of the exchange. Before joining Bullish, Will spent six years at CME Group in London and Hong Kong as a member of the client development and sales team. He was responsible for covering buyside and sellside institutions and growing the CME Group's presence in Europe and Asia. Originally from Sussex, England Will holds a MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Nottingham. Traveling and exploring new restaurants is a passion, and while in Hong Kong, he set up the HK Supper Club.

Will Harvey

The Cutting Edge: Next Gen Financial Primitives

Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology. After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.

Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie

Fireside Chat: BCB Group

Thomas Uhm is a part of Jane Street’s Global Crypto Institutional Sales &amp; Trading team. In this role, Tom coordinates activity between the crypto asset trading desk and external parties. He focuses on issues related to strategy, infrastructure, education and execution for both crypto-focused and traditional financial firms



Tom joined Jane Street in 2003 trading ADRs before moving to the London office in 2006. During his tenure in the UK, he has continued to work with the equities team while also working with ETFs, commodities, and cryptocurrencies.



Tom holds a BS in Political Science from the University of Illinois. He grew up in Chicago and misses the food there terribly. He moved to New York to become an actor, before switching to his career in trading.

Thomas Uhm

Jonathan Cheesman

Fireside Chat

DAS: London After Party 

Main Stage 

Doug is the founder and CEO of Crocodile Labs, the company behind CrocSwap. Prior to founding CrocSwap, Doug was an MEV searcher and arbitrage trader in the DeFi space. Doug has 12 years of experience as a quant trader in HFT, stat arb, and market making. Doug started his career as a quant at Citadel Securities in the original HFT group.



CrocSwap is an emerging decentralized exchange in the Ethereum ecosystem. The project focuses on improving market efficiency, execution quality, and liquidity by adapting best practices from modern electronic market structure into an AMM protocol.

Doug Colkitt

Jeremy is responsible for leading the Ribbon Finance structured products offering.



Prior to Ribbon Finance, Jeremy worked on an Exotic Derivatives structuring desk at Goldman Sachs in London.



Jeremy holds a BSc in Management Science and Engineering Mathematics from University College London and a Master of Financial Engineering from MIT.



Ribbon Finance is a decentralised protocol offering on-chain structured products.

Jeremy Obadia

Stefan is a contributor and senior advisor to the Bancor Protocol, advising on economics, finance and product development. He is also serving as CEO of IDCAP, University of Nicosia's Crypto Asset Certification initiative.



Stefan has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets. He started out as a quant, in charge of forex and equity derivatives at Paribas. After his MBA at INSEAD he joined McKinsey &amp; Co in the Corporate Finance practice in London. He then moved to J.P. Morgan to the bank advisory team, with a focus on securitisation and risk. After leaving J.P. Morgan, Stefan was a founder, advisor and executive in the startup world. Stefan is the author of "A Guide to Financial Regulation for Fintech Entrepreneurs", published by Wiley, and co-editor and co-autor of PRMIA's Risk Management handbook.

Stefan Loesch

The Next Stage of DEXs & AMMs

Limaris is an award-winning cybersecurity/blockchain engineer with a wide range of experience in different computing and networking systems. She has dedicated her career to making innovating safe again and assisting organizations to align with different security/technical frameworks as well as leading incident response for data breaches. She currently leads the Research &amp; Development team at Blockdaemon, a blockchain infrastructure company, where she focuses on Maximal Extractable Value(MEV), interoperability, and blockchain security. She also teaches at the cybersecurity certificate programs for the University of Miami and New York University. As a Latina, she is passionate about fostering the next generation of workers and serves as a member and mentor to several women in cybersecurity, tech, and Web3 professional organizations.

Limaris Torres

Mriganka Pattnaik is the CEO and co-founder of Merkle Science, leading the overall vision and strategic direction, fundraising, and sales of the company. Mriganka previously led growth and business expansion in Southeast Asia and India for London-based retail cryptocurrency exchange Luno prior to its acquisition by blockchain investment firm Digital Currency Group. During his tenure at Luno, Mriganka supported strategy and country-specific execution across three continents, giving him first-hand knowledge of the compliance challenges faced by digital asset businesses in diverse jurisdictions and the critical role regulations play in the industry’s health and sustainable growth.&nbsp;



Before Luno, Mriganka was part of the global investment banking team at Bank of America for the Technology, Media, and Telecom sectors. Mriganka holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

Mriganka Pattnaik

Tom is a global expert and commentator on cryptocurrency, blockchain analytics, and forensic investigations. Tom advises Elliptic's customers, regulators, and governments on cryptocurrency market developments and blockchain forensics to detect and prevent financial crime in the cryptoassets. He holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Oxford.

Tom Robinson

Katey Neate is the Chief Risk Officer for Securities Services &amp; Digital at BNY Mellon. Based in London, Katey is responsible for second-line oversight of all risk management across the business. Katey has been directly responsible for the risk management oversight of all digital asset products at the firm since the formation of the Digital Assets Unit in February 2021, drawing on her extensive and diverse experience in the financial services industry. Katey joined BNY Mellon in 2003 and has served in a variety of senior management roles within the Operations and Risk organizations. Prior to her current role, Katey served as the Chief Risk Officer of Asset Servicing &amp; Digital and the Risk Officer of BNY Mellon UK Legal Entities. As a leader in Risk Management and Digital Assets, Katey is engaged in driving diversity, equity and inclusion in the Digital Assets space. She is actively involved in advising leadership of digital asset startups on business and risk management strategy, which includes representing BNY Mellon on the board of Coin Metrics.

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