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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com
Peter Smith is a Co-Founder and CEO at Blockchain. He is also the Director, Board Member at UK Finance.
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About Blockchain.com, Blockchain.com Ventures: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
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Nicolas Cary
Co-Founder & President of Blockchain.com
Nicolas Cary is the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com.
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About Blockchain.com, Skysthelimit.org, YBA: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
Chirdeep Singh Chhabra
Founder of Ocean Protocol
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About Ocean Protocol: Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data while…
Gilbert Verdian
CEO and Founder of Quant Network
Gilbert is building the Internet of Trust by converging Blockchain and Cybersecurity as the Founder and CEO of Quant Network, tasked with connecting the world’s networks to blockchains. Having over 20 years of industry experience and C-level accountability, he has worked across Government in Downing St, HM Treasury, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Justice and NSW Health and private sector at CSC, EY and HSBC. Having a keen interest in disruptive technology, he’s the author behind the Blockchain ISO Standard TC307 initiative and is the Chair of the UK’s national committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger technologies (DLT/1). He also sits on committees in the Federal Reserve, the EU’s Blockchain Observatory, PayUK’s Cybersecurity board and UK Government’s DLT committees. He’s actively working to advance technology in the areas of AI, Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Fintech & Health.
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About International Organization for Standardization, Quant Network, Remitt, Trudera, Wekitt: We’re unleashing the power of networks as connected as the world we live in.
Rune Christensen
Founder & CEO of MakerDAO
Rune Christensen is Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of MakerDAO. MakerDAO issues Dai, the world’s first stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain, that eliminates volatility through a system of smart contracts designed to respond to market dynamics. Since 2015, Christensen has focused on establishing the vision and organizational structure of the Maker Decentralized Autonomous Organization and the economic foundations of the Dai stable digital currency. Previously, he served as co-founder of Try China, a company providing international recruiting. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen and studied International Business at the Copenhagen Business School.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Kumar Gaurav
Founder and CEO of Cashaa
Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cashaa, a UK based neo-bank providing businesses access to crucial banking infrastructure. Cashaa is a community of more than 250 crypto businesses including the industry leaders making it the biggest crypto-friendly banking platform. Kumar started his career as an engineer by building navigation systems for Ferrari before pivoting into the FinTech space in 2014 to begin working on blockchain-powered innovations. In recognition of his pioneering work on blockchain technology, he was awarded extraordinary (O-1) status by the United States government in 2017 and got listed among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2016-2018 by Rise global. As a thought leader in the Fintech space, he has been invited to numerous global forums, including Money 2020, TechCrunch Disrupt, the European Parliament and Ivy League universities. In 2017, he was also nominated among the ‘World’s Top 50 Innovators from the industries of the future in the UK.
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About Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Janina Lowisz
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Cashaa
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About Auxesis Group, Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Joanna Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Electron
Jo-Jo Hubbard is the co-founder and COO of Electron, one of the original energy tech firms to harness blockchain technology for transactive grid systems. She is a thought leader on the topic of digital energy and a frequent keynote speaker at energy and technology events. Her previous experience includes renewable energy investment banking, cleantech VC, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co. Jo-Jo sits on advisory boards for several UK utilities on digital transformation and community trading models and writes for international publications on these topics.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Paul Ellis
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Electron
Paul Ellis is co-founder and CEO at Electron, a new platform focusing on reinventing the retail energy market in the UK using the Ethereum blockchain. Prior to Electron, Paul spent 13 years in Investment Banking. He founded a development business and fin tech incubator. He then created and ran an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives for a number of years.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Michael Raven
Founder of Blazon Agency
Michael Raven is Founder & Managing Director of Blazon Agency. Michael has had Two Startup exits, and has ran 70 Agency Campaigns across Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and direct launches, actively participating in the raising of over $115M+ for his extensive list of clients.
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About Blazon Agency: The Brand Launch Agency
Tazz Gault
Co-Founder of StateZero
Entrepreneur, investor and brand strategist with a current focus on blockchain for business. Tazz is Co-Founder and Director of StateZero Labs, the first solution-led Blockchain Lab for startups. Leading the way in discovering blockchain for business use cases, StateZero Labs takes a new approach to founder success, focused on wellness, inclusion and bridging the gap between humanity and tech. She has spent the majority of her career in brand, strategy and marketing across multiple verticals for corporates and SMEs, is an investor in tech-for-good, and a regular on the mentoring scene, championing ell over 200 early-stage startups.
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About StateZero: StateZero is a dedicated blockchain lab for startups.
Abdumalik Mirakhmedov
Executive Chairman & Founder of Genesis Digital Assets
Abdumalik Mirakhmedov is an Executive Chairman & Founder of Genesis Digital Assets.
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About Genesis Digital Assets: Genesis Digital Assets is an industrial-scale bitcoin mining operator.
Marc Blinder
Co-Founder & CEO of Aikon
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About Aikon, Emmerge: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Bashar Aboudaoud
Co-Founder and CSO of Brinc
Bashar is an entrepreneur that has established several businesses in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and London. From 2002-2009 he co-founded Ecico Group’s Hong Kong procurement business and established major clients in Europe and the Middle East. In 2005 he founded Cicero Capital that invested in prime real estate in Guangzhou and London. Cicero Capital built up an investment portfolio of high end residential and commercial properties in Guangzhou that caters to foreign multinationals and local state owned enterprises requirements. Bashar also entered the F&B business in 2008 and opened his first restaurant in Guangzhou.
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About Brinc, Brinc Accelerator of Accelerators: Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in 7 countries.
Mark Hipperson
Founder and CEO of Ziglu
Mark has founded a UK retail bank and two financial technology businesses. He is a commentator and speaker on banking, FinTech, crypto, technology, PSD2 and open banking. Mark is the founder and CEO of Ziglu, the modern challenger. Previously, he founded Starling Bank where he was responsible for helping to secure the UK banking licence with regulators and obtaining the initial funding the Bank achieved in December 2015. He was also responsible for the design, build, implementation and support of the Bank’s IT platform, apps and infrastructure. He started his career at Barclays where he was Head of Technology.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Niall McConnell
Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Ziglu
Niall McConnell is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer at Ziglu.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Nejc Kodric
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitstamp
Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength to strength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements. Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength. With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014. Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg. Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Laura Kornelija Inamedinova
Founder and CEO of LKI Consulting
Laura K. Inamedinova is communications and branding expert that has her own PR agency. Laura helps companies understand what are their marketing goals and what kind of communication they seek and later on, if needed, implement it. Her primary focus is technology, fin tech and IT industries. Among her client list there are million dollar valuation companies. Miss Inamedinova also shares her expertise about startups in her columns at Forbes and Huffington Post. Besides that, she frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like, advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc. Laura has also been actively involved in various NGOs – she is a member of World Economic Forum Global Shapers Vilnius hub and Lithuanian Marketing Association. Laura holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university she was a member of Physics faculty student association.
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About LKI Consulting: International marketing, PR and communications agency focusing on fintech, crypto and ICOs.
Barney Mannerings
Co-Founder of Vega Protocol
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About Vega Protocol: Vega Protocol is a technology protocol for fully automated end-to-end financial product trading and execution.
David Janczewski
Co-Founder and CEO of Coincover
David Janczewski, Head of Strategic Marketing, The Royal Mint The Royal Mint, the world’s leading export mint, and CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a collaboration to transform the way that market participants can trade gold. The Royal Mint, a 1,000-year-old institution owned by HM Treasury, has partnered with CME Group to build and launch a digitised gold offering called Royal Mint Gold (RMG). RMG will change the way traders and investors trade, execute and settle gold. The innovative new product, launching in 2017, will see The Royal Mint issue RMG as a digital record of ownership for gold stored at its highly-secure on-site bullion vault storage facility. CME Group will develop, implement and operate the product’s digital trading platform. Taken together, this new service will provide an easier, cost-effective and cryptographically secure alternative to buying, holding and trading spot gold.
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About Coincover, Fullvision: A complete set of technologies to protect, secure and recover crypto assets, with an insurance-backed guarantee as a failsafe.
Inga Mullins
Founder & CEO of Fluency
Inga Mullins is a Founder & CEO at Fluency
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About Fluency: Fluency is a CBDC proprietary blockchain revolutionising and powering the existing financial system.
Hossein Kakavand
Founder and CEO of Luther Systems
Hossein is an entrepreneur with a diverse background in the enterprise technology industry. He did his Ph.D at Stanford in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School. He was a fund manager at Soliton Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He was at Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform focused on Peer to Peer (P2P) financing. He has also advised startups, with highly successful exits including, a distributed computation platform for automation of portfolio risk modelling, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine.
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
George McDonaugh
Co-Founder, CEO and Managing Director of KR1 plc
I’ve been involved in blockchain technology since 2011. Before then I was an advertising copywriter for London based agencies. I have a masters degree in Anthropology and a further degree in Creative Advertising. I helped form one of London’s most popular blockchain meetups and co-founded kr1 in early 2016 and as such it become the first token focussed investment company in the world. We have the longest track record in the space and a global network of funds, developers and investors.
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About KR1 plc: KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE) is Europe’s leading digital asset investment company focused on decentralised and open-source blockchain networks.
Keld van Schreven
Co-Founder and Managing Director of KR1 plc
Keld is cofounder of KR1 UKs leading crypto investment public company. First investors in Melonport, Funfair, Rocketpool and Etherisc. Keld is advisor to IXLedger and previously cofounder of several web startups since 1995. www.kryptonite1.co
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About KR1 plc, MAMA: KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE) is Europe’s leading digital asset investment company focused on decentralised and open-source blockchain networks.
Jamie Burke
CEO & Founder of Outlier Ventures
Jamie Burke is the chief executive officer of Outlier Ventures.
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About Outlier Ventures: The World’s Leading Open Metaverse Accelerator
Gary Bracey
Co-Founder & CEO of Terra Virtua
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About Terra Virtua: Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive, blockchain-driven VR entertainment Platform.
Thomas Hain
Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder of Fetch.AI
Thomas Hain is a professor at Sheffield and established scientist in advanced machine learning AI who bridges real world and academia and is inspired by the opportunities AI brings to modern society.
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About Fetch.AI, Nagoya Institute of Technology, UKRI Speech and Language Technologies CDT, University of Sheffield, University of Sheffield: Fetch.AI develops a decentralized network for digital representatives to find, communicate, and trade with each other.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Co-Founder of Blockchainsmokers
Daniel Doll-Steinberg had a successful career in investment banking in London and New York. Daniel is a Founder / Director of several other companies in the entertainment, marketing and health spaces, and also advises the UK Government and European Commission on Innovation and education policy. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the values of Intellectual Property (IP) and IP protection.
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About Blockchainsmokers: Blockchainsmokers provides a platform and expertise to those wishing to embrace blockchain technology to achieve transformational growth.
Marius George Ciubotariu
Project Lead and Founder of Hubble Protocol
Marius Ciubotariu is a Project Lead and Founder at Hubble Protocol.
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About Hubble Protocol: Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.
Pawel Aleksander
CIO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Pawel Alexander is Co-Founder and CIO of Coinfirm. One of the more recognizable fraud prevention experts in Central Europe, former Head of Fraud Investigations in ArcelorMittal, AML/CTF Project Manager in the Royal Bank of Scotland, fraud investigator and auditor in Ernst & Young; holds the titles of Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Internal Auditor.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Jakub Fijolek
CTO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Jakub Fijolek is Co-Founder and CTO of Coinfirm. An innovative IT and security specialist, has been analyzing and developing around blockchain, cryptocurrencies and their applications since 2010; the former head of multi-algorithm virtual currency mining farms.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Antoni Trenchev
Co-Founder of Nexo
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About Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Kosta Kantchev
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Nexo
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About Credissimo, Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Olivier Roussy Newton
Co-Founder, Director of HIVE Blockchain
A visionary young technology leader and a co-founder of HIVE, Olivier advises Genesis Mining, the world’s largest crypto miner, on new business initiatives. He is a partner at Latent Capital, an investment fund focused on quantum computing, financial technology and bioinformatics. Olivier’s expertise in the blockchain space helps the HIVE board to navigate challenges and identify new opportunities.
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About HIVE Blockchain, Valour: HIVE Blockchain is a partnership between Genesis Mining and Fiore Group to accelerate the development of the blockchain sector.
Chris Wray
Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer of Mattereum
Chris Wray is Chief Legal Officer, responsible for legal design of Mattereum’s smart property platform and delivery of smart contract consulting projects, as well as heading the group’s corporate legal function. Chris studied physics and philosophy at New College, Oxford, before co-founding ophthalmic lens technology company Adlens. He later attended City Law School and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2011. Chris’ legal practice focused on company and shareholder litigation, and licensing and joint ventures in respect of technology and intellectual property. He also practices as a commercial mediator, accredited by ADR Group; and he is a director of the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, which has designed and distributed low-cost, self-adjustable glasses for communities lacking access to professional eye care.
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About Mattereum: Mattereum is a provider of legally-enforceable smart contracts.
Peter Waterland
Founder of Quantum Resistant Ledger
Surgeon and Founder of The Quantum Resistant Ledger.
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About Quantum Resistant Ledger: The Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) is a first blockchain of its kind – a future-proof post quantum value store.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Zachary Williamson
Co-Founder and CTO of Aztec Protocol
Zachary Williamson is Co-Founder & CTO at CreditMint.
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About Aztec Protocol, CreditMint: Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain.
Ilyas Vali
Co-Founder , Assistant Project Manager of rLoop Incorporated
Ilyas Vali is the Co-founder and APM at rLoop. The company is a SpaceX Hyperloop award winning team and globally distributed organisation with over 1300 engineers from more than 59 countries. rLoop is a decentralised crowdsourced research and development organisation, engineering solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges. rLoop’s mission is to develop and launch innovative technology fuelled by a genuine desire to improve the world and humanity.
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About rLoop Incorporated: rLoop is a decentralized moonshot engineering organization with a global network of talent and resources.
Vytautas Karalevicius
CEO & Co-Founder of SpectroCoin
Serial fintech enterpreneur, founder of SpectroCoin (all in one solution for cryptocurrency) and Bankera (banking for the blockchain era) companies.
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About Bankera, SpectroCoin, UAB Pervesk: All in one solution for cryptocurrencies
Alex Rea
Founder of Colony
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About Colony : Colony provides a social collaboration platform that makes it easy for people all over the world to build companies together online.
Kimon Gkomozias
Co-Founder of Nomisma
Kimon started his career at Goldman Sachs in 2003 before moving to ECM, a boutique fixed income asset manager, in 2004 to work on the development of structured fixed income funds. Kimon joined the Standard & Poor’s Structured Finance group in 2005 as a Senior Quantitative Analyst where he led the development of the rating methodology and monitoring process for the hybrid synthetic CDO business that involves the securitization and risk sharing of cross-asset (Equity, Credit, Commodity, FX and Rates) derivative exposures. At 2008 he started working at Barclays Wealth & Investment Management in 2008 within the Quantitative Analytics team. Until 2009, he worked on the development of quantitative investment strategies and portable alpha solutions for UHNW private clients and by 2011 he was leading the Quantitative Analytics team responsible for the model development of the Barclays strategic asset allocation for the Wealth business. In 2012, he moved into the Key Clients & Family Offices team to lead a Portfolio Solutions & Consulting function that provides cross asset customized investment solutions and portfolio construction of liquid and illiquid assets to UHNW and Family Office clients with a focus on asset liability management, risk-based and factor investing, alternative risk premia and yield enhancing overlay (portable alpha) solutions.
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About Nomisma: Nomisma is a design to blockchain-based toolkit that enables the application of financial engineering tools to the Cryptoasset universe.
Jessi Baker
Founder & CEO of Provenance
Jessi Baker is the founder of Provenance, building the future of supply chain transparency and product trust on the blockchain. She is an Art and Science hybrid, with Master’s degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and Design from the Royal College of Art. She has worked with brands on technology strategy across the US and Europe, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, British Airways and Will.I.Am. She is an associate researcher at the Intel Institute for Sustainable Cities and a regular speaker on technology and social business.
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About Intel, Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Irfon Watkins
Founder and CEO of DOVU
Irfon co-founded Coull in 2008 and has led its growth from a small office in Bristol, UK, to a global data-driven video advertising platform with offices in London, New York and San Francisco. Earlier in his career, Irfon worked as Sales Director at Dell, before moving to Florida, where he led the acquisition and running of six software companies across Africa and Europe. Following this stint Irfon decided to set up his own company. Realizing online video was the next great medium, and recognising its potential as a platform for brand engagement and publisher revenue, he founded Coull with Aden Forshaw, CTO. Coull’s platform, which processes 15bn+ video ad requests every month, dynamically validates inventory against brand safety, viewability and fraud metrics and enriches it with IAB-standard content categories. This inventory is made available to the programmatic video marketplace via a variety of ad formats across desktop, mobile and in-app environments, giving advertisers access to validated, highly-targetable audiences and enabling media partners to realize the full value of their inventory.
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About DOVU, Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata): DOVU is a global rewards platform for smart travel, powered by cryptocurrency.
Krasina Mileva
COO, Legal Counsel & Founder of DOVU
Register European lawyer with over 11 years of experience in Contract and Commercial Law. Krasina has headed an international legal department in a law firm, having to deal with various civil and international matters. Then she became a sole-practitioner, focused mainly in Contract, Commercial and Company Law, whilst co-founding a construction business in Belgium. As Head of Legal at a million dollar ad-tech company she discovered her passion around Data protection, Privacy and Smart legal agreements. Being part of the Company Secretariat team in Associated British Ports gave her an additional layer of Corporate Governance expertise.
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About DOVU: DOVU is a global rewards platform for smart travel, powered by cryptocurrency.
Alan Vey
CEO and Co-Founder of Aventus Network Systems
Alan is an entrepreneur in the blockchain industry and is currently focused on his role as co-founder and CEO of Aventus Network Services, a blockchain layer 2 network, reshaping digital assets including ticketing, loyalty and financial assets, to name a few. Before moving into Blockchain, Alan worked at Deloitte in the Entrepreneurial Business Department and macro hedge fund Brevan Howard. He completed a Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College London. His masters thesis investigated film rights distribution using blockchain in partnership with BAFTA. a
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About : Aventus is a layer-2 blockchain protocol that brings scalability, lower costs, and speed to Ethereum transactions.
Gael Itier
CIO, CEO and Co-Founder of Automata
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About Automata: Automata provides trading strategies for cryptocurrencies with a focus on risk management and capital protection.
Austin Kimm
COO, Co-Founder of Crypterium
Former CEO of Renaissance Life and Pensions (Russia & Ukraine) and CEO Renaissance Insurance Group. Austin led company to #1 Position for Life Insurance in Russia (by written premium – approx $250m per annum) and Top 10 Position for voluntary pensions in Russia ($800m assets under management. Company was sold for approx $200m in 2013. Former CEO of Workle, a high-profile digital startup with over $30 million business turnover and 200 000 active users in 2015, specializing in creating sales forces via online training and support systems Director for Strategy at PayQR, an electronic payment systems pioneer with a market valuation exceeding $20 million.
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About Crypterium: Crypterium mobile app allows instant payments in cryptocurrency. Whatever you can do with your money, you can now do with your crypto.
Sam Enrico Williams
Founder & CEO of DocTailor
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economy markets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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About Crypt2, DocTailor, LiveFor Class: DocTailor is a unique legal document platform.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Jeremy Longley
CTO & Co Founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Oliver Hopton
Co Founder & Developer of FunFair Technologies
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About EveryFan, FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Co-Founder and CEO of LazyLedger
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About LazyLedger: LazyLedger is a blockchain distributed ledger.
Duncan Johnston-Watt
CEO & Co-Founder of BTP
Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Cloudsoft Corporation Limited in 2008 and serves as its the Chief Executive Officer. Duncan Johnston-Watt co-founded Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. in 2002 and served as its Principal since 2000. He served as the Chief Technology Officer of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd. until December 2008. He is a serial entrepreneur and industry visionary with over twenty years experience in the software industry. He also has experience developing technology for the financial services industry specialising in the development of large-scale systems including the global FX and Money Markets data delivery infrastructure for BNP and the Fixed Income analytics infrastructure at UBS. In April 1998, Duncan Johnston-Watt joined the Reuters Group subsidiary, Instinet Corporation where he led the development of new Fixed Income brokerage platform that was launched in March 2000 and served as Managing Director, Fixed Income Technology since May 2000. At Instinet, he pioneered the use of Java enterprise technologies in Financial Services. He serves as a Director of Cloudsoft Corporation Limited. Duncan Johnston-Watt has been a Non Executive Director of Enigmatec Corporation Ltd., since December 2008 and previously served as its Director until December 2008. In recognition of the work, he was nominated for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award in April 2000. Duncan Johnston-Watt holds MSc in Computation from Oxford University and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Leeds University.
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About BTP: Blockchain Technology Partners is an enterprise blockchain company.
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller
Co-Founder of Banger Games
Nicolas Gonzalez Keller is the Co-Founder of Banger Games. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing at University of Westminster.
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About Banger Games: Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities.
David Rutter
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of R3
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3. With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronic trading in the global OTC derivatives industry. David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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About R3: R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
Matthew Luczynski
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Office of Travala.com
Matthew Luczynski is a Tech & Marketing Entrepreneur, Strategic & Innovative Thinker, and the Founder of Travala.com. Book 2,200,000 hotels and homes worldwide with savings of up to 40%. Pay with 30 cryptos and credit card. Best price guaranteed and 24/7 Support. Matthew has worked on a number of start-ups within the travel space, with a focus on Fintech & Blockchain technology.
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About Travala.com: Travala.com, the world’s leading cryptocurrency-friendly hotel booking service with the best prices on 2 Million+ properties, worldwide.
Mingxing Xu
Founder of Okcoin
Mingxing Xu (徐明星) is the founder of OKCoin.com, a globally-oriented BitCoin trading platform that uses advanced technologies. Previously, he worked as a CTO at Docin.
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About Okcoin, OKLink: One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Okcoin is building an inclusive future of finance for all.
Shane Kehoe
Co-Founder of SVK Crypto
Shane is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at SVK Crypto, London. Shane oversees the ‘Cryptogon EOS’ Fund which invests in the most promising and early stage blockchain technology projects utilising the EOS.IO protocol. Shane is an experienced portfolio manager with more than 18 years investment and hedge fund management experience. Shane was formerly a hedge fund manager and partner at BlueCrest Capital Management ($35bn AUM) and ran their global equity capital markets business focusing on IPO’s fort he European Equity Long/Short and Emerging Markets fund.
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About SVK Crypto: SVK Crypto is a community-driven investment firm based in London focused on Blockchain Technologies and Digital Assets globally
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain
Adi has over 20 years of enterprise experience, working as a solution architect for blue chip companies and leading major deliveries of blockchain solutions is widely recognised in the industry. Adi is a noted speaker at major industry conferences, experienced in educating the C-suite on blockchain, and acts as an advisor for a number of early blockchain startups. His work has also been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to represent the industry at the Blockchain Round Table at the House of Lords. Additionally, Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents within the blockchain and mobile payments space. Adi holds a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA.
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About APPII, Applied Blockchain, Nuggets: Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications
James Smith
CEO & Co-Founder of Elliptic
James sets and communicates the strategy to lead Elliptic to success. James has a Computer Science PhD from the University of Oxford in Natural Language Processing, as well as a Computer Science MPhil and BA from the University of Cambridge.
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About Elliptic, Seedcamp: Elliptic makes cryptocurrency transaction activity more transparent and accountable.
Tom Robinson
Chief Scientist & Co-Founder of Elliptic
Tom Robinson is a global expert in cryptocurrency forensic investigations. He has advised governments, tax authorities and regulators on cryptocurrencies, and his forensic analysis of bitcoin transactions has helped secure the convictions of cybercriminals. He holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Oxford.
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About Elliptic: Elliptic makes cryptocurrency transaction activity more transparent and accountable.
Adam Joyce
Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Elliptic
Adam has an MSci Mathematics and a PhD in Mathematics (appropriately, Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms), both from Imperial College London. After a brief stint as an academic researcher, Adam joined an options market-making firm as a quantitative analyst, working on price and volatility modelling, real-time risk-analytics, and automated market-making software. Adam brings mathematical, cryptographic and programming skills to Elliptic’s technical team.
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About Elliptic: Elliptic makes cryptocurrency transaction activity more transparent and accountable.
Mushegh Tovmasyan
Chairman and Founder of Zenus Bank
Mushegh Tovmasyan is the Founder and Chairman at Zenus Bank.
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About : The first U.S. bank made for people outside the U.S.
Simone Mazzuca
CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust
Simone Mazzuca is the CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank.
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About Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust: Assets and Digital Assets financial service provider.
Dave Hendricks
CEO and Co-Founder of Vertalo
Dave is the CEO and Founder of SeriesX.net, the operating platform for the startup ecosystem. Dave has extensive real-world experience founding and scaling technology companies – and living with the problems solved by SeriesX – as a former startup CFO, COO and President and has raised $80 million and managed the marketing, corporate governance, due diligence/legal, and auditing functions of startups for more than 20 years.
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About SeriesX, Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Rushd Averroes
CEO, Founder of BABB
Rushd is founder and CEO of BABB, leading a diverse team of industry veterans to make his vision a reality. He is a financial inclusion specialist and has an MA from University of Greenwich in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion. Before that, he attended the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne and was awarded an IT Science Degree in 2006. Rushd has managed a highly successful Authorised Payment Institution (API) in the UK – Wowpaymobi.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Jacopo Visetti
Co-Founder of Efforce
Jacopo is a pioneer in energy efficiency markets. After years of experience as a quantitative analyst, he founded AitherCO2, a leading company in the energy efficiency market. He is a visiting professor in several universities worldwide, regularly participates as a speaker at energy-saving events and has consulted on environmental market mechanisms to Fortune 500 Companies and to the California State Senate. Jacopo graduated in Finance from the Cattolica University of Milan and in Macroeconomics from Harvard University. He is Project Lead and Co-founder with Steve Wozniak of Efforce, the first blockchain-based energy-saving platform.
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About Efforce: Efforce is to be recognized as the first and main platform in the world for tokenized energy Savings.
Ingemar Svensson
Founder & CEO of iXledger
Ingemar Svensson is the Co-Foundr and CTO at Payrue and Founder of Xledger. Ingemar was the CTO of Risk and Valuation at SunGard Asset Management. His experience ranges from managing large organisations to hands-on software development.
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About iXledger, PayRue: iXledger is a groundbreaking platform for insurance utilising blockchain technology.
Marco Robinson
Founder of NKD Technologies
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About NKD Technologies: The world’s first asset backed cryptocurrency powered by Patented Blockchain Technology.
Hugh Karp
Founder, Insurance Professional of Nexus Mutual
Insurance professional and actuary with 15 years of experience in a broad range of insurance and reinsurance roles including CFO of UK Life operations for a global reinsurer. Blockchain enthusiast since 2011.
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About Nexus Mutual: Nexus Mutual uses the power of blockchain technology and Ethereum to allow people from all over the world.
Tom Holder
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata)
Tom Holder is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Tapmydata.
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About Contactzilla, Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata): Tap is a mobile app and new breed of CRM to help companies build a positive privacy dialogue with their customers.
Craig Massey
Founder of Satoshi Block Dojo
Over the last 23 years, Craig has started five technology companies primarily in the mobile and digital marketing space. He has sold four of those companies including Last Second Tickets, to Monitise PLC in June 2014 for £12.3M and Brainstorm to Opera Telecom for £3.2M. This means he totally connects with entrepreneurs and understands their pain in starting a new company. It also means that he understands how to use digital marketing efficiently to reach both B2B clients and direct to consumers.
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About Satoshi Block Dojo: Satoshi Block Dojo provides best-in-class with cutting-edge technology to educate, develop, and elevate start-up entrepreneurs.
Adetunji Adegbesan
Founder/CEO of Gidi Mobile
Dr Adetunji Adegbesan is the Founder & CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, Africa’s leading curriculum mastery & learning-as-a-service platform. Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering, and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of her leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents. Immediately prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS), where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years at LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanned software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors. Tunji is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Businessday Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Center for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geo-political affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba and Catalan.
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About Gidi Mobile: Gidi Mobile is the creator of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-opportunity platform
David Hoggard
Co-Founder of Monolith
David Hoggard is the Co-Founder at Monolith
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About Monolith: Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Mel Gelderman
CEO and Co-Founder of Monolith
Mel Gelderman is the CEO and Co-Founder at Monolith
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About Monolith, Monolith Studio: Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Irra Ariella Khi
Co-Founder & CEO of Zamna
Irra Ariella Khi is a serial entrepreneur based in London, who is obsessed with cyber security and data privacy. She is the co-founder and CEO of VChain, a deep tech company that is developing and patenting a blockchain solution for Digital DNA, to identify each person online and reinvent verification, privacy and trust. Irra speaks 9 languages, and graduated from Oxford University with 1st Class Honours. She is a speaker and mentor at General Assembly, StartUpBootcamp and Oxford
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Alexander Gorelik
CoFounder,CTO & VP Product of Zamna
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Oliver Mehr
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Phuture
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About Phuture: Phuture is a crypto index platform, that simplifies investing in crypto.
Rajesh Parmar
Co-Founder & Group CEO of Cloud Africa
Rajesh is the co-founder of Cloud Africa Ltd. He brings a wealth of hands on experience having previously worked for Reuters and Investis in London for 10 years (Investis the leading corporate communications and investor relations company in the UK for web and mobile services providing online innovations to the London Stock Exchange which works for over 70% of the FTSE 100 companies) before moving to Barcelona to head up business development for NFC and beacon technology company Futurlink, a startup backed by La Caixa, the second largest bank in Spain. Under his guidance Cloud Africa has built up a very strong market reputation in Africa. A mobile and technology visionary and one of the early movers into the African region where he commands great respect from his peers in Africa and innovators looking to enter the market. He brings credibility and most importantly trust and gravitas both at the highest level in the African continent and with vendors and partners across the globe looking to successfully deploy products and services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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About Cloud Africa: Remittances to Africa.
Jón Helgi Egilsson
Co-Founder & Chair of Monerium
Jón discovered Bitcoin in 2012 and has since co-authored several reports on cryptocurrencies and blockchains, including a cover article in Proceedings of the IEEE. From 2011-2017 Jón served as vice-chairman and chairman of the supervisory board of the Central Bank of Iceland. Jón has co-founded four software companies, and served as Head of Capital Markets at Landsbanki bank.
Jón Helgi is an engineer from DTU, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a former adjunct professor in financial engineering at Reykjavik University and a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York City.
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About Monerium: Monerium is a regulated financial services company making currency more accessible, secure, and simple to transact.
Sergio Mottola
Founder & President of Public Pressure
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About Public Pressure: Public Pressure operates an online NFT marketplace for the music industry.
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak
Founder of Nethermind
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak is the Founder at Nethermind.
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About Nethermind: API marketplace with blockchain payments for pay as you go for API usage, Ethereum clients, infrastructure and consulting.
Edward Budd
Co-Founder of Adhara
Ed has performed a broad range of leadership and transformation roles both in Deutsche Bank’s Investment Bank (1998-2010) and GTB (2011-Present) including Head of eCommerce, Distribution Product Development/Autobahn, CIB and Head of Product Strategy & COO for Product Management, GTB. In 2015 he was selected as one of the rising stars in Brummel’s third annual Ones to Watch/Rising Stars awards, acknowledging outstanding talent in London’s financial-services sector and related fields.
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About Adhara, Deutsche Bank: Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Stefania Barbaglio
Director & Founder of Cassiopeia Services
Stefania Barbaglio is the Founder and Director of Cassiopeia Services. She is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist, and well-recognized PR and Investor Relations expert.
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About Cassiopeia Services: Cassiopeia Services is a public and investor relation consultancy firm.
Caleb Sheridan
Co-Founder & Product Lead of Eden Network
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About Eden Network: Eden Network is a priority transaction network that protects Ethereum traders from arbitrary block reordering.
Alex Batlin
Founder and CEO of Trustology
Alex Batlin, Trustology’s Founder and CEO, is an entrepreneur with extensive banking and blockchain experience. Previously, at BNY Mellon, Alex was Blockchain Lead and founding head of Emerging Business & Technology team. At UBS, Alex was founding head of a blockchain-focused FinTech Innovation Lab in UK’s Level 39 accelerator. Alex co-founded Utility Settlement Coin, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Trusted IoT consortias, and was featured in the 2015 FinTech Finance 35 and 2016 FinTech 40 lists.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Clare Stewart Munn
Chief Executive Office, Founder of Box Media
Media Executive and entrepreneur passionate about communication, Ai and equal pay. Focused on disrupting how information is digested and expressed in the workforce. In 94 Munn’s script and animation treatment to entertain and educate children about Africa and the environment was licensed by Paramount/Simon & Schuster Interactive . In parallel she co-founded Penga Partners with a vision to disrupt communication and training in the workplace. This became Employment Law Training Inc. owned by Littler Mendleson. ELT-Inc.com became the first multidimensional, online site for compliance story based training. Instrumental in raising $15 million from Lazard and selling for multiple X 10 years later. After ELT, Munn became EVP of Global BD & Partnerships instrumental in raising Series B $22 million for Playback Media, a $28M venture back software and media company founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley to deliver cutting edge e- Learning videos to Global 50 companies. Even though both companies had successes, Munn realized broadband was not quite there to create her vision of streaming mixed media short format engaging episodic videos in the workplace and after founding an award winning boutique agency, The Communication Group, Munn concentrated on creating brand and digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, ebay, Danskin, Eddie Bauer etc. This became the 1st 50 Green Certified agency in SF. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence, and H2H, Human 2 Human. And soon after being an Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film with Netflix, Munn knew it was finally time to realize her vision of 20 years ago and Boxspring Entertainment was founded in 2016. Boxspring was the 1st 100 to sign the Equal Pay Pledge.
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About Box Media, Unreasonable: Reinventing Learning. An EdTech company producing short form media and technology tools focused on the Future of Work
Kevin Hollands
Founder and CFO of Escrowblock
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About Escrowblock, XRED Foundation: Escrowblock is a platform that provides a gateway on the ethereum blockchain.
Nicole Junkermann
Founder of NJF Capital
Nicole Junkermann is the Founder at NJF Capital.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), NJF Capital, Owkin, Shanghai Really Sports Equipment: NJF Capital is an investment firm that has supported innovative technology-based businesses across the world.
Pascal Nizri
Founder and CEO of Chekk
Pascal Nizri is the Founder and CEO of Chekk.me, a digital identity start-up. With Chekk.me, individuals are empowered to own their Digital Identity and control what data they share, and businesses get a secure platform for seamless data request and on-going customer interactions (eg., customer due diligence at on-boarding and refresh; electronic verification of ID; secure messaging for chats, offers, alerts, statements). Pascal has over 16 years experience in the Financial Industry, having worked across geographies (France, UK, Hong-Kong, Australia, Indonesia), disciplines (strategy, business, technology, digital), and positions (Global Chief of Staff for a large international Retail Bank; Chief Operating Officer for Retail Banking & Wealth Management in countries; Global Head of Transformation for a leading international Private Bank).
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About Chekk: Chekk helps businesses by providing seamless on-boarding solutions.
David Nunn
Founder & CEO of Rvvup
David Nunn is the founder and CEO of Rvvup.
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About Rvvup: Bridging the 3 Generations of Payments
Nick Lukic
CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Nick has 20+ years in FX, derivatives, ecommerce, technology and consulting. Nick was a founding member of Atriax, the first FX ECN where he was responsible for product development and bank relationships. He went on to form worldflow, an e-commerce specialist software and consulting firm where he worked on setting up new ecommerce businesses for banks including several FX and retail CFD businesses. Nick was global head of FX and Interest Rate Derivatives technology at Chemical/Chase Manhattan Bank where he ran the quant analytics and risk management teams. He was also global head of FX and FX options IT at Citibank where he helped start the Citi FX e-commerce business.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Mark Suter
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of Digital Vega
Mark has 30+ years of front office experience in the Global FX market. Mark has managed cash and derivative businesses for Chase Manhattan, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banque Paribas and Standard Bank. In 2000, Mark joined Dresdner Bank to help build and roll out the Piranha and Click and Trade online platforms. With a strong mix of experience in Option trading and development of online trading systems. Mark was approached by FXall to develop a multi-bank FX options trading platform; as the shareholding and business focus changed, the option project was shelved in 2007. Mark’s view was that an opportunity clearly existed, backed by increasing demand from a range of clients, partnering with worldflow, an e-commerce development specialist. He went on to co-found Digital Vega.
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About Digital Vega: Digital Vega is a privately held company operating the Medusa FX Option trading platform.
Veera Johnson
Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Circulor
Veera Johnson is the co-founder and chief commercial officer of Circulor.
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About Circulor, groupthink: Circulor uses blockchain and AI to cut the cost of traceability and due diligence in raw materials supply chains.
Harjyot Singh
Founder of Provenance Labs
Harjyot is an Entrepreneur currently living in London. He has worked for over 8 years in a variety of companies, from early stage to established, each from different sectors (Finance, Music, Energy, Distributed Computing, Quantum Computing) in a range of roles -Engineer, Architect and Director. He has also founded two companies which build infrastructure to tackle issues like misinformation and privacy. His current focus has been to explore how cutting edge technologies like AI & Blockchain can improve the quality of the day-to-day experience the majority of consumers have on the internet.
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About Provenance Labs: The Truth layer of the Internet
Alexander Kleydints
Founder of KOWN
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About KOWN: KOWN is a mobile investor club, which empowers people to discover, discuss and invest in pre-seed stealth tech startups from east Europe.
Greg Griffiths
Founder of UCROWDME
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About UCROWDME: Global ideas marketplace leveraging blockchain, AI and best-of-breed technology.
Robert Sams
Founder & CEO of clearmatics
Robert Sams Founded Clearmatics Technologies. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About clearmatics: Designing protocols and build platforms for decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI).
Xavier Murtza
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitcoinus
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About Bitcoinus: Bitcoinus provided crypto payments solution for all e-commerce platforms and e-shops.
