Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. He is also the Managing Partner of Morgan Creek Digital Assets. Morgan Creek Capital Management was founded in 2004 and currently manages close to $2 billion in discretionary and non‐discretionary assets. Prior to founding Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was CIO and Founder of UNC Management Company (UNCMC), the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that, he was Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office.

Mr. Yusko has been at the forefront of institutional investing throughout his career. An early investor in alternative asset classes at Notre Dame, he brought the Endowment Model of investing to UNC, which contributed to significant performance gains for the Endowment. The Endowment Model is the cornerstone philosophy of Morgan Creek, as is the mandate to Invest in Innovation. Mr. Yusko is again at the forefront of investing through Morgan Creek Digital Assets, which was formed in 2018. Morgan Creek Digital is an early stage investor in blockchain technology, digital currency and digital assets through the firm’s Venture Capital and Digital Asset Index Fund. Mr. Yusko received a BA with Honors from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago.

Dan is a veteran Global Macro investor and a co-founder of GBI. In his 20 year career, he has worked as a portfolio manager and analyst with a number of well-known investors such as Stan Druckenmiller (Duquesne Capital), Michael Steinhardt (Steinhardt Capital), Julian Robertson (Tiger Management), Steve Cohen (SAC Capital), and Lord Rothschild (RIT Capital).

He founded a global macro fund, DTAP Capital, in 2004, co-founded a private U.S. farmland REIT, AGCOA, in 2007, GBI in 2008, and US Farm Trust in 2013. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York and Business Executives for National Security (BENS). Dan sits on the investment committee of the Lawrenceville School, where he is a board member. Dan graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in 1990 and an MA in History in 1991 from Brown University.

Bart Smith is Head of the FICC, ETF & Portfolio Trading Group at Susquehanna International Group (SIG). As such, Mr. Smith oversees the Firm's activities in the crypto space, including private investments, market making and OTC trading, and also works with regulators on the developing market structure. In addition, Mr. Smith is responsible for the Firm’s ETF lead market making and exchange-related business, ETF issuer relationships, ETF client trading (through SIG affiliate Susquehanna Financial Group, or SFG), global equity and fixed income portfolio trading (also SFG), and other strategic ETF initiatives.

Prior to his current role, he helped Emerging Global Advisors launch its EGShares lineup of ETFs. Mr. Smith has also worked at AllianceBernstein and UBS in variety of sales and consulting roles.

Mr. Smith is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Human & Organizational Development.

Mr. Steinberg founded WisdomTree and has served as Chief Executive Officer since 1998 and from August 2012 to September 2019 as a President. He has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 1988, serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors from October 1988 to November 2004. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of Individual Investor and Ticker, two magazines formerly published by WisdomTree. Mr. Steinberg was responsible for the creation and development of WisdomTree’s proprietary index methodology. Prior to founding WisdomTree, Mr. Steinberg was employed as an analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm, from 1986 to 1988. Mr. Steinberg is the author of Midas Investing, published by Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc. He attended The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rebecca Rettig is General Counsel at Aave.  She began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, litigating complex commercial disputes; prior to joining Aave, Rebecca was a partner in Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP’s financial services group.  With unique and deep-rooted expertise representing companies at the forefront of the financial services industry’s digital transformation, Rebecca spent the past four plus years advising blockchain and cryptocurrency clients on legal and regulatory matters—with a particular focus advising DeFi projects over the past two years; she also represented clients in all aspects of litigation and regulatory enforcement proceedings as well as in licensing matters.  In 2019, Rebecca was recognized as one of the top 100 women lawyers in New York City by Crain’s New York Business.

Colleen Sullivan is Co-Founder and CEO of CMT Digital Holdings LLC and has been a partner with the broader CMT Group since 2013. Ms. Sullivan oversees CMT Digital’s trading, investments, and regulatory initiatives in the crypto assets / blockchain technology space. Ms. Sullivan is also a Co-Founder and Managing Member of Sullivan Wolf Kailus LLC, a boutique law firm based in Chicago that specializes in hedge fund, private equity, venture capital, digital assets, and other alternative investment products. Ms. Sullivan previously practiced law in the Investment Funds and Derivatives group at Sidley Austin LLP and, at age 25, co-founded a company called iOptions Group LLC, which developed hedging and monetization strategies for holders of employee stock options.  Ms. Sullivan currently serves on the Board of Directors of Silvergate Bank and on the Advisory Board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. 

Ben Forman is the Founder and Managing Partner of ParaFi Capital, an investment firm focused on blockchain and decentralized finance.   Prior to founding ParaFi in 2018, Ben spent 10 years investing across private equity and credit markets.  Most recently, Ben was a Director at KKR, responsible for leading investments across the capital structure, including distressed debt, special situations, and liquid credit, on behalf of KKR Credit’s $70 billion of assets under management.  Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Forman spent four years at TPG Sixth Street Partners, the credit investment platform of TPG Capital, with over $30 billion of assets under management.  At TPG, Mr. Forman served as a Vice President and one of the first employees of the private credit business, TPG Specialty Lending, which publicly listed on the NYSE in 2014.  Prior to TPG, Mr. Forman worked at Littlejohn & Co., a middle market private equity firm, and Rothschild & Co., an M&A and restructuring investment bank. Mr. Forman graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tatiana Metodieva, CFA leads Nexo’s global corporate finance and M&A processes. She plays an
integral role in developing strategic relationships and identifying key market opportunities for Nexo.
Tatiana boasts more than 12 years of leadership and hands-on experience with a dedicated focus on the
commercial banking and fintech sectors. Prior to joining Nexo, she worked in leading banking institutions,
as well as the Big Four of consultancy and accounting, where she gained versatile analytical and advisory
credentials.

Tatiana’s strong business acumen and proven track record in advising on and executing M&A
transactions are key to accelerating Nexo’s market outreach and increased capacity to grow. In addition
to having a strong background in traditional finance, she is a firm believer that Nexo will help bring the
needed level of credibility, compliance, and institutionalization to the digital assets space and establish
cryptocurrencies as a mainstream asset class that large institutions can easily invest in.

Arjun Balaji is an Investment Partner focused on crypto investments. Previously, Arjun was an independent cryptocurrency analyst, consulting with NY-based hedge funds and family offices on allocation models, mining, crypto-derivatives, and other financial services and infrastructure businesses. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.

Dmitry is a software and financial engineer. Prior to founding Copper, Dmitry was CTO and Partner at Dolfin Asset Management in Mayfair. He is a passionate advocate for the role distributed ledger technology will have in reshaping financial services.

Mrinalini “Ria” Bhutoria has an extensive background in digital finance. Before her current role as principal at Castle Island Ventures, she was director of research at Fidelity Digital Assets, and previously a senior analyst at Circle Research, a spin-off of digital payments giant Circle. Prior to that, Bhutoria worked as an equity research analyst at Credit Suisse. Her work has given her prominent status in the Bitcoin industry, as Fidelity was one of the first asset managers to embrace Bitcoin openly.

Travis Kling is Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Ikigai Asset Management, a L/S, multistrat crypto asset management firm based in Marina del Rey, California. Prior to founding Ikigai, Travis spent ten years in traditional finance. Most recently, he was a L/S Equity Portfolio Manager ($200mm) at Point 72 ($90bn) through 2017. Prior to that, Travis was an Energy Analyst at Magnetar Capital ($4.6bn), 2011 to 2015, investing across the capital structure in L/S equities and non-control private equity and debt. From 2008 to 2010, he was an Investment Banker with Simmons & Company, focused on M&A. Travis has a BBA in Accounting and MS in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial technology. He is Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, a pioneer in cryptoasset index funds with more than $1.2 billion in assets under management. He was previously CEO of ETF.com, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference, Inside ETFs. Hougan is co-author of both “A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors” from the CFA Institute’s Research Foundation. He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, and a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable.

Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Christine Sandler is head of Sales and Marketing for Fidelity Digital Assets SM , which provides enterprise-grade digital asset solutions for institutional investors. She leads all sales, marketing, and business development activity to accelerate business growth.

Prior to joining Fidelity Digital Assets SM , Christine served as U.S. Head of Sales for Coinbase, Inc. She has extensive experience in sales leadership and previously served as Head of Equity Electronic Sales for the Americas at Barclays Investment Bank, where she led cross-selling efforts and new business generation, and as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Sales for NYSE Euronext. Christine also previously served as Head of Electronic Sales at Merrill Lynch and worked as a buy-side trader.

An advocate for women’s leadership and the autistic community, she co-founded the Women’s Leadership Action Network, has chaired the Women in Finance Committee for the Security Trader’s Association, and serves as a Trustee of two public charter schools serving autistic students in New York.

Christine earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and is a graduate of the INSEAD Global Executive Program.

Andrew is Head of Digital Asset Markets at Morgan Stanley, he covers the topics of crypto and digital assets broadly for the firm and for clients. Prior to joining MS in 2018, Andrew spent most of his career at Credit Suisse as a structured products trader and market maker, he has been a practitioner in bitcoin and other crypto markets since 2013 and is a CFA Charterholder.

Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Founded in 2013, Circle is the pioneer of USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing, fully-reserved, and regulated digital dollar stablecoin. Governed by the Centre Consortium, and led by Circle and Coinbase, USDC has grown by nearly 500% in 2020, from a market cap of just over $400 million to more than $2.9 billion. Previously, Mr. Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech. Mr. Allaire provides perspective and policy recommendations at the highest levels inside financial bodies across the US, UK, and Europe. 

Flori has spent her career managing alternative lending products. In the marketplace lending industry, she helped build, scale, and optimize a $125MM portfolio for Bond Street (acquired by Goldman Sachs). As Head of Portfolio Management, Flori managed all operations from point of origination through default and litigation. Prior to Bond Street, Flori helped develop and maintain institutional partnerships at Oak Hill Advisors, a $30B fixed income asset manager. Flori graduated from Cornell University, majoring in pre-law with a minor in economics.

Oli is part of the Digital Assets team at Goldman Sachs, responsible for North America.

Previously, he was at J.P. Morgan where he created the Corporate & Investment Bank’s Digital Strategy & FinTech team, including their InResidence incubation programme, before becoming Head of Digital-Assets Strategy & Quorum.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, he was seconded to the Office of Tony Blair, was a Project Manager at the World Economic Forum where he led their New Energy Architecture Initiative, and was a Strategy Consultant at Accenture.

Oli is a passionate design thinker, having spent time at Stanford’s d.school, a mentor at selected accelerators, and a member of Allen & Overy’s selection committee for their Fuse innovation program. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.

David Grider is Head of Research at Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital currency asset manager. In this role, he leads Grayscale's research team, tracks the evolution of the digital currency ecosystem, and develops reports that educate investors and inform product development.

Most recently, he was Head of Digital Asset Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, where he oversaw emerging technology research within the blockchain, cryptocurrency, fintech and internet space. Previously, he was a founding partner at Aenigma, a digital asset venture capital fund and investment banking advisory firm. He has also worked in the Financial Instruments, Structured Products & Real Estate group at PwC performing investment valuation consulting. David began his career on Wall Street in 2012 at Noble Financial as a VP of Equity Capital Markets.

Amanda Fabiano is Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital. The GDM team is building a one-stop financial services shop for miners. Prior to joining, Amanda was at Fidelity Investments for six years in various roles, including Director of Bitcoin Mining and Senior Program Manager. During her time at Fidelity, she scaled their mining operations, created bitcoin-focused products, and organized its first Bitcoin-related public events. As Head of Mining at Galaxy Digital, Amanda works across principal investments, trading, investment banking, and asset management to ensure we deliver the full firm to our mining clients.

Ben Reynolds joined Silvergate in January 2016. He is the Chief Strategy Officer and is responsible for crafting our strategy, product development, marketing and M&A activities. Prior to his current role, Ben was responsible for growing the digital currency business.

Over the past twenty years, Ben was an entrepreneur for two different businesses that he co-founded, VP of product at HSBC and a CPA in the audit practice at KPMG. He is an experienced builder who is passionate about creating remarkable products for customers and extraordinary businesses for shareholders.

Ben earned a B.S. in accounting from San Diego State University, an MBA from Pepperdine University, and is a licensed CPA.

Tushar leads portfolio construction, risk management, and manages the team at Multicoin Capital. He is passionate about the new economic paradigm enabled by blockchain technology and focuses on decentralized financial products, token economics, and blockchain go-to-market strategies.

Tushar previously founded ePatientFinder, a health IT tech startup that raised more than $10M in VC, and which was acquired by Elligo Health Research. Tushar holds degrees in Finance and Political Science from NYU.

Tim McCourt serves as CME Group’s Managing Director and Global Head of Equity Products and Alternative Investments.  He is responsible for leading the company’s global Equity Index product line.  He also serves on the S&P Dow Jones Indices U.S. Advisory Panel. 

Before joining CME Group in 2013, McCourt worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was responsible for building and managing the Americas Index and Delta One trading book.  Prior to RBS, he held a senior trading role with JPMorgan in New York, spending 10 years with the Equity Derivatives Group. 

McCourt holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston College and a MBA from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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.

Michelle Noyes joined AIMA in 2012 as Chief Operating Officer of AIMA's New York office, and became the Association's Head of Americas in 2017. Previously, she was Head of International Sales and Investor Relations for BRZ Investimentos, one of the largest independent asset managers in Brazil. While in Sao Paulo, she also served as the Brazil representative for AIMA and established the AIMA Brazil network. Michelle began her career in hedge funds as General Manager for a global conference organizer, where she launched and managed a portfolio of successful asset management and investment events. Michelle holds a B.A. and M.A. from New York University and is a CAIA Charterholder.

Joshua Lim is Head of Derivatives at Genesis. Prior to Genesis he ran the Spot and Derivatives trading business as a Director at Galaxy Digital. Previously, as VP of Treasury and Trading at Circle Internet Financial, he built the firm’s automated liquidity and OTC trading desk while managing the market, liquidity and counterparty risk of the payments and trading businesses.

In traditional markets, Lim traded systematic cash equities strategies at UBS, focusing on index rebalance and corporate actions. He also traded exotic equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs.

Cynthia leads business development and sales across international markets at Matrixport. She was previously Investment Director at Bitmain Technologies, focused on investments in blockchain for the financial services sector.
Prior to venturing into crypto, Cynthia was Vice President at Hong Kong Exchange (HKEX), responsible for derivatives product development and institutional sales. She started her career as a commodities trader.  

Julian Sawyer is the CEO of Bitstamp where he leads the global team and is in charge of the company’s overall strategy and vision. Julian brings 30 years of experience in financial services and  consulting, as well as hands-on experience building finance companies from the group up. Prior to Bitstamp, Julian worked as Gemini’s Managing Director for Europe. 

Prior to that, Julian built an extensive career in traditional finance as the co-founder of Starling Bank, where he served as Chief Operating Officer until 2019, overseeing the expansion of business services and growing Starling into one of the largest mobile banks in the U.K. Before Starling, Julian founded Bluerock Consulting, a financial management consulting firm where he advised challenger banks, and eventually, successfully sold.

Julian is also an advisor to the board of the leading Australian challenger bank, Volt, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at CASS Business School’s Faculty of Management.

Elodie is currently Head of Growth at Kaiko, the leading global market data provider for digital assets. Previously, she spent 9 years in Silicon Valley: in Investment Strategy at VMware where she worked in M&A, working on 18 acquisitions and led the finance integration of CarbonBlack ($2.2B EV acquisition) and Corporate Venture Capital (direct investments in startups), and as Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank. 

Zac's experience includes leadership roles at multiple successful tech companies. Initially in adtech, where he was a part of two successful acquisitions, Admeld (Acquired by Google) and Sociomantic (acquired by DunnHumby). Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. He graduated Cum Laude from Texas State University with a BA in International Business and a minor in Spanish.

Diana Pires is the senior vice president of institutional sales at Crypto.com where she is the driving force behind institutional business development, partnerships and liquidity globally.

Diana boasts over eight years of financial sales experience having held positions across the US, Europe and APAC at S&P Global, Numerix and ICE. In 2018 Diana pivoted to the crypto industry as the first institutional sales manager at OKEx, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, where she established the institutional sales team and launched institutional events later that year before being named AVP of financial markets.

After a brief stint at market maker and liquidity provider B2C2 as head of OTC sales, Diana joined Crypto.com to head the institutional sales team driving the growth of exchange business for the firm.

Today Diana is currently working towards her MSc in Digital Assets & Blockchain and a Leadership & Management Certificate from Wharton online.

Juri joined Foundry as VP of Strategy in March 2021. He comes from Fidelity Investments, where he spent 8 years, most recently as the Director of Bitcoin Mining, building and managing the company's self-mining operation. Prior to that he held research, strategy, and product management roles at Blockchain Incubator within Fidelity Center for Applied Technology. Before that he worked in Fidelity’s internal management consulting unit working on the most strategic projects for the firm's senior leadership, including the Bitcoin/Blockchain strategy project in 2015. Juri graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics.

Vanessa Grellet is a Global Executive with over 20  years of expertise in the Financial Services and Tech industry. At CoinFund she is the Head of Portfolio growth where she oversees and supports the portfolio companies . Prior to joining CoinFund she was an Executive Director at ConsenSys where she focused on driving adoption for Ethereum,  Strategic initiatives, Alliances and Channels.  She was involved in setting up the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), sits on the Board of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition (ABC) and is the President of the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC). Prior to joining ConsenSys she was a Strategy Executive at NYSE and a key member of PwC’s global wealth management team. Vanessa is a Founding Board member of AABC focused on Blockchain and Art, she sits on the Advisory Council of ConsenSys and the Resolution Project. She is a Milken Institute Associate and contributed to the  World Economic Forum Digital Future Council. Mrs. Grellet graduated Cum Laude from Law School (Paris II Assas) and Business School (HEC).

Young has a diverse background with over 24 years of banking and startup experience, and is the Chief Financial Officer of Hedera. Previously, he was the Chief Investment Officer at Abra where he built their institutional crypto lending and trading business. Prior to Abra, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Celsius Network and Alt Lending, both in the crypto lending space. Before getting involved in startups, he was an Executive Director at UBS Private Finance, the Managing Director and Co-founder of Newtonian Capital, and the Director at Citigroup Global Special Situations Group. Young has a BS in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Financial Engineering from Cornell and an MPA in Economic Policy Management from Columbia.

Robert Materazzi is the CEO of Lukka, the leading provider of enterprise software & data for crypto middle and back office solutions. Robert has diverse experience leading Product, Customer, Risk, and Marketing and other teams.  Prior to Lukka, he led large scale risk, cybersecurity, & technology transformations while at PricewaterhouseCoopers for 6 years. Before joining PwC, Robert was a Marine AH-1W Super Cobra pilot for nine years.

Kalin Metodiev, CFA is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of leading digital assets institution Nexo. His professional focus has always been directed towards investor wealth maximization and company growth, allowing him to take on the responsibility of managing the Sales, Trading, and Corporate Finance departments at Nexo.

Kalin boasts 20+ years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance, securities issuance, M&A, private equity, and executive management for multinational financial institutions, including Prudential Securities, Allianz, and Metlife, among others. As an MBA graduate with a track record that exceeds $1 billion worth of transactions, Kalin is currently overseeing Nexo's bank acquisition efforts in Europe and the U.S.