2023 Speakers

Alison Martin has extensive management, financial and commercial experience within the insurance sector. She was appointed chief executive officer Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and bank distribution in July 2019 and is responsible for sustainability at Zurich Insurance Group. Prior to that, she served as Group chief risk officer from January 2018 to September 2019. A qualified accountant, Ms. Martin began her career at PwC, where from 1995 to 2003 she worked with insurance clients in audit and advisory roles. She then served in leading executive positions at Swiss Re, starting in 2003 as finance director, Life & Health. Starting in January 2011 she served as group managing director of Swiss Re’s Life & Health Products Division. She was appointed Swiss Re’s head of Life & Health Business Management in 2013, a position she held until joining Zurich as Group chief risk officer-designate and a member of the Executive Committee in October 2017.

Ashley Alder became Chair of the FCA Board in February 2023.

Ashley was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong, a role he has held since 2011.

He also chaired the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

Ashley began his career as a lawyer in London in 1984 and practised in Hong Kong for more than 20 years. He was Executive Director of the SFC's Corporate Finance Division from 2001 to 2004, before returning to private practice at Herbert Smith LLP, a law firm, as Head of Asia.

Roman Regelman is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Securities Services and Digital. He is a member of BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee.

Securities Services includes Asset Servicing and Issuer Services, which comprises the Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts businesses. As CEO of Securities Services, Roman focuses on product strategy and development to accelerate the transformation of Securities Services into a more data- and analytics-led business. He is responsible for driving end-to-end delivery of solutions to our Asset Servicing and Corporate Trust and Depositary Receipts clients.

As Head of Digital, Roman sets the direction for the firm’s digital future and drives investments in our digital capabilities, including data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Roman took on senior leadership roles that spanned Chief Operating Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Head of Transformation and Head of Customer Journeys. He was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he co-led its Financial Institutions Digital business and led Customer Journey, North American Financial Institutions Operations and Lean Practices. At BCG, he ran numerous financial institution and service company transformations, including end-to-end customer journeys, process digitization, Agile, restructuring technology and operations. Prior to BCG, he worked at Booz and Company, Bain & Company, NerveWire/Wipro, Mitchell Madison Group, One Core, GTE/BBN and Gazeta Distribution.

Roman earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia and a Master of Business Administration from Olin Graduate Business School at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass. He is a recognized author and thought leader on digital and financial services industry topics.

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’.From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She currently serves as the CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leading Swiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 231 ambassadors, across 109 jurisdictions and disciplines.

In 2019, she was appointed as the Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, International Securities Services Association’s DLT & ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board, Salesforce’s Web3 Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, and UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council.Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including Hyperledger Foundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

She is a frequent guest lecturer at universities discussing topics from fintech to data privacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions as well as filing the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the USPTO. Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of this technology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.

Alexander Zanker is an executive director at LGT Capital Partners. He is heading the team ESG Analytics, and responsible for LGT Capital Partners' proprietary ESG assessment tool called LGT ESG Cockpit. Alexander also is a member of the ESG committee of LGT Capital Partners.

He holds a MSc in Physics and is a CFA charterholder.

Alexandre Kech is Head Digital Securities at the SIX Digital Exchange. As a member of the Executive Board, Alex has full executive responsibility for the Digital Securities business vertical, including: sales and relationship management, product development, business design and ecosystem expansion.

Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian (ONC) and most recently Citi Ventures. As co-founder and CEO of ONC, Alex led the Singapore and Shanghai-based team that built from scratch a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. As Blockchain & Digital Asset director at Citi Ventures, he built a team to engage across the European ecosystem on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital assets.

Alex earned a Bachelor’s degree in translation, and an Executive MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology while building Onchain Custodian—putting theory to practice in real-time.

CEO of BBVA in Switzerland, the international private banking arm of the BBVA Group, a position he has held since July 2014; he is also a member of the Board of the Association of International Banks in Switzerland, a member of the Advisory Board of Cyverse, an Israeli company focused on cybersecurity, and a member of the Board of RFS, a Think Tank focused on the transformation of the financial sector.

In the three years prior to assuming this position, he worked as Director of Global Private Banking, based in New York, leading strategic projects in all the Private Banking Units of the geographical regions in which BBVA operates and before that he was Head of Private Banking for Spain and Portugal, in Madrid. From 2004 to 2008 he lived in London, where he was General Manager of Corporate Banking, Global Trade Finance and Global Clients, becoming Country Manager of BBVA UK in 2006.

An advocate for transformative technology and the potential of video games to shape a better world. Have dedicated four years to gaining practical experience in the educational and marketing domains. Student in Master's program "Applied Information and Data Science" at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Bachelor's degree in international legal relations.

Alokik leads the Strategic Ventures team at Fidelity International focused on making investments in fintech companies that have some strategic relevance to Fidelity International. Some of the investments made by the team include Moneybox, Drivewealth, Moonfare, Finbourne, Smart Pension and Steeleye. Prior to Fidelity, Alokik held similar roles at Goldman Sachs in Asia Pacific and Merrill Lynch in New York and London.

Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. After working at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, she left government to serve as the Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company. She briefly returned to government service when she was asked to lead the financial investigation for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. After serving on the Select Committee, she launched the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency, where she is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer. The Association was founded to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries, who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance. 

Amar Rahman earned a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Baghdad in 1988. He completed his PhD in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and went on to complete two postdoctoral fellowships, one at Canterbury and the second at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany). He earned an executive MBA from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) in 2011. In his role, Amar leads a team supporting customers in identifying, evaluating and improving physical and operational resilience related to natural hazards and climate change. Prior to joining Zurich Insurance in 2011 he held several roles in the civil engineering sector, specialising in large-scale infrastructure projects. He developed the natural hazards resilience service after the 2011 Thailand floods and was also the global head of the natural hazards risk engineering technical centre.

Amer is a third-generation family business member and coordinates the investment holdings through Ikigai Ventures in Switzerland. The approach is hands-on and active, identifying businesses that are catalysts for making an impact in their sectors. Investments are diverse; from an impact driven multi-family office, mental health to impact investments using technology such as blockchain. 

Amer has a background in finance, having spent over five years with Rothschild Bank in Zurich. He originally moved to Zurich in 2010 to join a multi-family office where he was responsible for all merchant banking. He started his career in London, where for almost a decade he was advising entrepreneurs and family businesses on private equity and M&A at First Capital and direct investments at First Ventures.

Amer studied Manufacturing and Management at Cambridge University as post-graduate and earned a Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce with Japanese from Birmingham University, which included a year on scholarship in Japan. He holds a Diploma in Accounting and Finance (ACCA) and an Investment Management Certificate (IMC) from the CFA Institute.

Amer is on the committee of Philanthropy Impact in Zurich and lectures on impact investing at the Anant University, where he has also founded the Ikigai Scholarship to help disadvantaged students.

• Faculty Research Associate at NBER, and one of its research group heads on capital markets and economics.
• President of the Foundation for the Advancement of Research in Financial Economics  (FARFE).
• Member of the Board of the Western Finance Association.
• Chairman of SFS Cavalcade.
• Editor of a number of periodicals.

Amira is the Public Policy Lead in Payments and Financial Services for Amazon, and has close to two decades of experience in digital policy engagement across public and private sectors. Previously, she has held senior roles at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she has also acted as the World Bank’s Private Sector Development Specialist. Prior to joining Amazon, she worked as Head of Public Policy in Asia Pacific at Stripe, where she was responsible for building a government relations and advocacy strategy to accelerate Stripe’s global expansion.

Amit believes in the power of digital and communities to an ecosystem, and it is that belief that brought him to found two successful enterprises he currently runs - Ecosystm, a next generation Technology Research and Advisory Platform, and its spinoff Kampd, a professional communities led social learning platform.

Amit has been a tech entrepreneur since founding his first company at 23, and has also held regional positions at firms including IDC and Current Analysis (now Global Data).

Driven by his passion for innovation, Amit is an active Angel investor and sits on the advisory board of several digital start-ups; he is the Chair of TiE Singapore and a Global Board of Trustees, TiE, the world’s largest entrepreneur organisation; has been an Advisor to the New Zealand government, and a global brand ambassador for the Singapore FinTech Festival by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Amit holds a Master’s in Engineering Management (Hons) from the University of Auckland.

Amitabh is a career central banker with more than 20 years of service in RBI. He is working in the Department of Payment and Settlement Systems for last six years. He is looking after cross-border projects using fast payment system, namely Unified Payments Interface (UPI). He was the nodal person from RBI for UPI-PayNow connectivity between India and Singapore.

His experience in other functions of RBI includes Forex Management and Investments, Currency Management, Banking, and Human Resources. He also has an experience of working at senior levels in State Government. He has represented RBI in various national and international fora. He holds an MBA in Banking & Finance.

In her 25-year career with the Federal Reserve System, Amy has worked in a number of capacities in payments. She led large-scale technology replacement programs for the Cash service line and the Fed’s national policy and strategy function for Cash services. She also spent a year on secondment to the Board of Governors, where she served as head of the Banknote Issuance and Currency Operations function. In 2021, she became head of Wholesale Payments, a position she held until the Federal Reserve established Federal Reserve Financial Services. In this new organization, Amy is head of Payment Operations Strategy, which is charged with integrating and establishing a strategic vision for the payment operations function of the Federal Reserve System.

Amy joined the BIS Innovation Hub London Centre in September 2021 as an adviser. Previously, she worked as a regulator and policymaker at the Prudential Regulatory Authority, Bank of England. Her work contributed to the development of regulatory reforms after the 2008-09 financial crisis. Amy also represented UK at various international working groups. 

Prior to joining the Bank of England, Amy spent many years in the private sector, gaining experience from a range of different roles in finance, compliance and accounting.   

 Amy holds degrees in finance and computer science, and is a member of chartered accountants, Australian and New Zealand. 

Andréa M. Maechler was born in Geneva in 1969. She studied economics at the University of Toronto, and then at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, where she obtained her Master's in International Economics. Following a period of study at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Public Administration in Lausanne, she obtained her PhD in International Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2000.

Andréa M. Maechler's early career took her to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an economist in the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) Financial Stability unit in Zurich. She then moved to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she occupied a number of senior positions in the Africa, Monetary and Capital Markets, Western Hemisphere and Strategy, Policy and Review departments. From 2012 to 2014, during a sabbatical from the IMF, she worked for the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) in Frankfurt. Upon returning to the IMF, she was appointed as Deputy Division Chief in the Global Markets Analysis Division. The functions of this division include monitoring global capital markets, and assessing systemic risks and the macrofinancial impact of capital market developments.

With effect from 1 July 2015, the Swiss Federal Council appointed Andréa M. Maechler as Member of the SNB's Governing Board - the first woman to occupy a Board position. At the same time, she became Head of Department III (Money Market and Foreign Exchange, Asset Management, Banking Operations, Information Technology).

Andréa M. Maechler is a member of the Advisory Board of the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich.

Working on innovation at the ECB since 2015.

Global Head of Crypto Trading

Andy is a Senior Fintech Analyst at the Bank of England's Fintech Hub, focused on the adoption of AI/ML and DLT in financial services. In his 10 years at the Bank, Andy has worked previously on risk management, international economic analysis, and financial stability.

Anton leads KPMG's fast growing global fintech and Singapore based Financial Services Advisory practices. He has 25 years digital experience in new business model development, advising on innovation within global institutions, supporting scaling of technology led firms and working with Investors and Regulators to prove out new ways of working. Anton works across all regions and key global markets supporting the next generation of ecosystem cross sector development.

Anton Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset trading technology. At Talos, he is responsible for leading the firm’s overall operations and driving its strategic initiatives around the world. Talos, now a unicorn, is a platform that bridges traditional finance firms into digital asset markets and is quietly becoming the primary infrastructure used by most institutional investors in digital assets, from the biggest hedge funds to global banks.

Before co-founding Talos, Anton served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, one of the world’s most prominent quantitative investment firms. Prior to that he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently serving as Director of Software, where he led trading technology development projects for dozens of leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. He began his technology career at Microsoft. 

Anton was born in Ukraine and is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to that, Anton was a member of the Israeli National Shooting Team where he won a gold medal in the 1998 World Championships. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Antonio is the chief compliance officer at Crypto.com, where he leads a global team responsible for the design, implementation and scaling up of the regulatory compliance program for the company in the demanding context of an exponentially growing business. As a global payments and remittances compliance officer, Antonio has nearly two decades of experience building and leading regulatory compliance programs for cash, electronic payment forms and crypto-based business models. 

Prior to Crypto.com, he was VP of compliance at Coinbase where he led the company’s global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) program, and was responsible for the company's sanction programs, regulatory and independent examinations and financial partner compliance relationships. Antonio was also chief compliance officer at online and mobile payments solutions provider Yapstone, has held senior compliance/regulations roles at Western Union and Visa. Earlier in his career, Antonio served in several different roles during a 13-year tenure at American Express, where he was responsible for leading the business transformation and compliance governance programs across multiple business lines and geographies. 

Antonio's work expands across North and South America, Europe and Asia, and he is a dual U.S. and European citizen fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese. He is a member of ACAMS, the largest international membership organization for Anti-Financial Crime professionals.

As a seasoned Technology and Growth Executive, Anubhav specialises in incubating and building businesses from scratch having started Snap Inc’s South East Asia operations as Employee #1 and the Regional Site leader. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director and Head of Rakuten Viber’s APAC operations having established the business as the first employee in the region.

Passionate about innovation and break through technology, he is also a Strategic and Board Advisor and Investor to multiple startups. He is currently the Chief Growth Advisor at Ecosystm.

Since July 2017, August Benz is Head of Private Banking and Asset Management at the SBA and, since March 2023, he is entrusted with the management of the office on an interim basis. He is responsible for all matters relating to Private Banking, Asset Management, Europe, digitalisation and sustainable finance. Since April 2022, he is also President of the Swiss Financial Sector Cyber Security Centre (FS-CSC). He started his time at UBS in 1999 and held various management positions. He was head of UBS Asset Management’s global strategy department. He was responsible for leading and restructuring Europe’s largest fund platform and for leading the B2B distribution in Switzerland. He built up UBS Asset Management’s global distribution management function and was Head Client Servicing, with global responsibility for establishing and implementing client servicing standards. He has a proven track record in the finance industry and is well acquainted with the various aspects of financial market regulation. He has a Ph.D. in political science from St. Gallen University and a Master of Science from Edinburgh University. 

Appointed in October 2019, Aurelie Bergugnat is currently the group Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President in charge of Performance Management.

Prior to this role, after multiple operational roles in Finance, such as CFO of IT channel division for SE (US$2 Bn/ year) and M&A integrations, Aurelie led special projects for the Executive Committee of Schneider Electric, on the operationalization of strategy between Functions, Businesses and Operations; and the creation of the Digital Performance Office of the group – defining and deploying performance management for Digital Transformation and Subscriptions businesses of SE portfolio.

Aurelie received an Executive MBA from Columbia University (NY) and London Business School (UK); she is also a graduate of HEC Paris (France) in Strategic Management and Ecole Nationale Superieures d’Arts et Metiers (France) in Mechanical Engineering.

On a more personal note, Aurelie has been an active member of MIT CISR Data Board and WEST – Women in the Enterprise of Science and Technology – based out of Boston, supporting women in their careers in Technology.

Axel Voss (CDU) - born in 1963 - studied law at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg and Munich. Since 1994, he is working as a lawyer. From 1994 to 2000, he was a civil advisor at the EU Commission's representation in Germany. Afterwards, he worked for nine years as lecturer for European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of the College of Koblenz.

He became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009, where he represents the Mittelrhein area, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen and the districts Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. Axel Voss is EPP-coordinator for the Committee on Legal Affairs as well as deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and from 2020 to 2022 member and rapporteur in the special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Besides questions of European Law, his main area of expertise is the digitization of our daily life. For the European People’s Party group, he was among others (shadow-)rapporteur for the new Copyright Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Passenger Name Record Directive (PNR) as well as for the updated Eurojust Regulation. At the moment, he is (shadow-)rapporteur for the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

Axel Voss is also CDU chair of the regional section Mittelrhein, regional chair of the Europe Union Bonn/Rhein-Sieg and Vice President of the Mérite Européen Friendship and Assistance Association, Germany.

Balbir joined LSEG as Group Chief Risk Officer and Member of the Executive Committee in January 2021 and brings a deep commercial understanding and knowledge of risk management. Balbir was previously Group Head of Non-Financial Risk Management at Deutsche Bank and served on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A. as Chair of its Risk Committee. Prior to this, Balbir was Global Head of Operational Risk Management at Credit Suisse, having held a variety of senior roles at Credit Suisse International Ltd, including UK Investment Banking Chief Risk Officer and Head of Market Risk. Balbir is also a Board member of LCH Ltd, LCH S.A and Tradeweb Markets Inc.

Appointed as Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) in April 2022. H.E. Basel Al-Haroon held several high-ranking positions in the banking and financial sectors. He started his career at the CBK in 1989, advancing in various posts last of which being the Manager of the Foreign Operations Department until he became the Executive Director of Operations and Research Sector to oversee both the Foreign Operations Department and Economic Research Department until 2012. Al-Haroon was appointed as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) in 2012. In 2021, he became the President of Kuwait Financial Intelligence Unit until March 2022.

Ben Dyson is an Advisor at the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore, where he leads the technology work on Nexus, a blueprint for instant cross-border payments. Prior to joining the Hub in September 2020, Ben was at the Bank of England, where he led their work on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), as well as developing policy and regulation on cryptoassets and stablecoins. He was the lead author on the Bank of England’s first discussion paper on CBDC. 

Benjamin is a Director of the Swiss National Bank and heads the Money Market and Foreign Exchange division in Zurich. He is responsible for the implementation of monetary policy of the SNB. Benjamin joined the SNB in February 2017.

Before joining the SNB, Benjamin spent almost 15 years at UBS Investment Bank in the FICC division.  He worked in Zurich, Singapore and lastly London, where he was Head of FX Exotic Options Trading for EMEA.

Benjamin is co-Chair of the Swiss Foreign Exchange Committee and a member of the board of ACI Suisse.

Benjamin Lee currently serves as the Acting Centre Head for the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH) in Singapore. Before assuming this role, Benjamin served as the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)'s senior liaison and secondee to the BISIH and tasked with the establishment of the Singapore centre’s operations and supporting its innovation and technology project pipeline.

Prior to this, Benjamin worked on international finance matters at the MAS, and on public finance administration at the Ministry of Finance in Singapore. Benjamin also previously served as Singapore's representative to the Executive Board of the World Bank Group between 2014 - 2016.

Chief Business Unit Officer Payment Solutions
Doctorate in Cross-Cultural Management (HSG), lic. oec Business Administration (HSG)

Professional background

• Avaloq Group, Head of Global Banking Operations (2017 – 2021)
• B-Source SA (now Avaloq Sourcing Ltd), Head of Banking and a member of the Executive Board (2008 – 2017)
• Credit Suisse Group AG, various management roles (1998 – 2008)

Specialises in risk management in capital markets and digital assets, helping traditional financial institution clients push into new products and services, and native digital asset players to adapt to the evolving global regulatory environment.

Former Manager @FINMA

Former Chief Compliance Europe - Credit Suisse

Expert on crypto-assets since 2015 

Founder law firm in Luxembourg and Switzerland. Field: financial regulation, compliance, licenses, authorization, AML/CFT, KYC, Digital assets

Brad is the CEO of Ripple and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL and prior to that he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President.

Earlier in his career, Brad helped to pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.

Brando Benifei is an Italian MEP in his second term and the head of the Partito Democratico delegation to the European Parliament. He is the rapporteur for the Artificial Intelligence Act as a member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He also deals with employment, legal and constitutional affairs. He was also shadow rapporteur of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age.

In 2016, he was included by Forbes in its list of 30 under 30 to watch out for.

Breno Lobo is a senior advisor at the unit in charge of Pix management and operation at the Central Bank of Brazil. He has been working in the payment system area of the Central Bank of Brazil for 17 years. He was Pix's project manager, which implemented the Brazilian instant payment scheme and system in 2020. He currently works as a technical specialist on Pix's evolutionary agenda and Pix's operationalization processes.

Brooks Entwistle is Senior Vice President and Managing Director at Ripple. Prior to joining Ripple, he served as Chief Business Officer International for Uber, responsible for business development and the firm’s relationships across APAC, EMEA and LatAm. Previously, he was the CEO of Everstone Capital, a premier India and Southeast Asia focused private equity and real estate investment firm. 

Prior to moving into leadership roles in the technology industry, Brooks spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs in various capacities, including 15 years based in Asia. Most recently, he was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Southeast Asia as well as CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore. Prior to this, he spent 5 years in Mumbai as CEO and Founder of Goldman Sachs India where he was responsible for leading and building the firm across all divisions. He also served as the Founder & Co-Head of Goldman Sachs Asia’s High Technology Group. 

Earlier in his career, Brooks served as a District Electoral Supervisor with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). 

Prof. Bryan Ford leads the Decentralized/Distributed Systems (DEDIS) research laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).  Ford's research focuses on decentralized systems, security and privacy, digital democracy, and blockchain technology.  Since earning his Ph.D. at MIT, Ford has held faculty positions at Yale University and EPFL. His awards include the Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award, the NSF CAREER award, and the AXA Research Chair.  Inventions he is known for include parsing expression grammars, delegative or liquid democracy, and scalable sharded blockchains.  He has advised numerous companies and governments, including serving on the US DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group and on the Swiss Federal E-voting Experts Dialog.

Calissa leads ASIC’s Market Supervision team, responsible for oversight of investment banks, market participants and issuers of complex retail products, as well as monitoring of trading activities across Australia’s equities, futures, and OTC markets.

Calissa has held senior leadership roles in ASIC’s Market Supervision and Market Infrastructure teams since 2009. Before joining ASIC, she held roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, the UK Financial Services Authority, Markit and the Australian Treasury.

Carmen Munoz is Managing Director and the Global Head of Resources at Sustainable Fitch. An important part of her time is spent ensuring that the Sustainable Fitch's Analytical and Research Teams have the necessary tools to effectively carry out their jobs and to help contribute to making ESG Ratings consistent and comparable across asset classes and jurisdictions.

Before this, she formed part of Fitch Ratings' Structured Finance and Covered Bonds Enhanced Analytics team and participated in creating the methodology used to assign ESG Relevance Scores related to credit ratings. She began her career at Fitch Ratings, leading the Financial Institutions rating team for Spanish banks, while also rating bank and non-bank financial institutions internationally.

She is a firm believer of the value of training, having delivered courses internally as well as Corporate Governance and credit ratings sessions at the Financial Stability Institute in Switzerland.

Moderator and Journalist

Caroline is the Vice President of Global Public Policy at Chainalysis, the international leader in blockchain analytics, focused on bringing greater transparency to the world of blockchains and digital assets. She has more than 15 years experience at the international level working with governments and international organisations, and was the founding head of the OECD’s Global Blockchain Policy Centre. She is one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders. 

Carrie Suen is the Senior Advisor at Ant Group, where she is responsible to drive our global strategies and thought leadership of Ant's international policy objectives to bring more inclusive, green and sustainable changes to the ecosystem. She also oversaw the legal and privacy functions for Ant International Business Group.

Carrie is a seasoned lawyer and has experience in wide range of subject matters ranging from fintech regulatory, corporate governance, M&A, equity offerings to listed companies compliance. Since joining Ant in 2014, Carrie has been at the forefront of the global digital payment and regulatory development, where she accumulated practical insight of the market pain points. Carrie has been involved in regular direct communications and dialogues with regulators/government and international organizations, to raise awareness the importance of financial inclusion and help shape the policy landscape globally. Under her leadership, Ant’s International Legal team grew fourfold from 2017-2020, supporting over 100 markets/regions.

She is currently an advisory board member of the Emerging Payments Association Asia and a member of the women in fintech sub-committee of the Singapore Fintech Association, to drive more community support and sponsorship to champion for women leadership in Singapore and the region.

Mr. Leiming CHEN has been Senior Vice President of Ant Group since March 2016, responsible for International Public Policy and Government Affairs of Ant Group. He also leads the ESG initiatives and the implementation of the sustainable development strategy of Ant Group’s international businesses.

Mr. Chen joined us in March 2016 and served as our General Counsel from March 2016 to May 2020. In his day-to-day responsibilities, Mr. Chen undertakes a broad range of regulatory engagement in connection with our Group's international business activities. Prior to joining us, Mr. Chen was a partner and head of China practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, a New York-based international law firm, where he worked on a variety of equity and debt offerings and mergers and acquisitions involving primarily PRC companies, including his lead role in advising Alibaba in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014. Mr. Chen has extensive experience in corporate governance and regulatory matters. Mr. Chen is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and is a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong. Mr. Chen obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in Toronto, Canada.

Tek Yew has more than 30 years of consulting experience and is a subject matter expert in multiple aspects of financial services, including working with central banks and regulators across Asia and the Middle East. He is based in Singapore and leads the Asia Pacific insurance practice for Oliver Wyman.

Tek Yew has most recently focused on areas of sustainability, market disruption in financial services, working with regulators on payments modernization and fintech promotion as well as with fintechs and payments organizations in their business and operational model development.

Tek Yew holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) degree from National University of Singapore and participated in the INSEAD International Management Development Program and Hewlett Packard/Stanford University Executive Development Program.

Chloe White is an award-winning consultant, a former regulator and policymaker for virtual assets, and a classically trained economist with experience across macro, micro and financial economy issues. Chloe applies her skills in the web3 context through her work on tokenomics, stablecoins, venture capital advisory and licensing support. She is experienced in advising clients throughout the value chain including start-ups, listed companies, asset managers, associations and government. Her most recent appointment was her role within VARA, the virtual assets regulator in Dubai, where she served as the inaugural International Regulatory Policy Advisor. Chloe previously served as the Australian Government’s National Blockchain Roadmap Lead and was the primary crypto-asset expert at the Commonwealth Treasury. Chloe has appeared as an expert witness in Senate hearings and continues to hold a number of notable advisory positions. She has worked full-time on virtual assets for more than 5 years. Chloe is based in Dubai.

Chris works as an adviser at the BIS Innovation Hub’s London Centre having joined from the Bank of England. His recent focus has been on identifying how technological innovations can be applied to central banks’ work. At the Innovation Hub, Chris has been the lead on Project Meridian, which built a prototype for a new way to settle a complex transaction in RTGS systems. In previous roles, drawing on his background as an economist, he has led work implementing advanced analytic techniques to provide better insights for monetary and financial stability policy makers. 

Started my career at BNP Paribas Global Markets, in equities derivatives, 17 years all in. Took several roles, starting with Quantitative Research, and mathematical modelling of financial assets, to Structuring and finally to Trading products on systematic strategies indices.

Joined Kaiko at the beginning of 2023 to launch a new initiative: Tokenized Indices to build an infrastructure that offers automatic tracking of crypto indices, and was recently appointed Head of Portfolio and Innovation.

Christian Spindler is co-founder of Sustainaccount. With his company, Christian helps real asset developers, asset managers and portfolio investors to make their assets resilient to climate change. Sustainaccount quantifies the financial risks implied by the changing climate, and develops optimal adaptation pathways. With the Sustainaccount solution, customers are enabled to both adequately report on climate risk alongside regulatory requirements such as SFDR, TCFD and CSRD, and also develop an optimal investment roadmap to develop climate resilient real estate and infrastructure assets.

Before founding Sustainaccount, Christian Spindler headed the development of products and solutions in the field of data science and sustainable finance in corporates such as PwC, Deloitte and ABB.

Christian Spindler holds a PhD in climate science and an MBA from the University of St. Gallen.

Christian Stoll is a co-founder of CCRI – Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute and a research affiliate at the Center for Energy Markets of the TU Munich and MIT CEEPR. His current research focuses on the sustainability of digital assets. Christian  received his Ph.D. from TU Munich in 2019. Before and after his Ph.D. leave, he worked as a management consultant in Europe and the Middle East 

Christian is the Head of AI & Data Transformation at Zurich. He is a technology enthusiast who has worked on ESA and NASA space missions in the 90ies. In the early 2000s he started his career in consulting, where he spent 17 years, supporting many large companies on their technology journey towards data and AI-driven innovation, in financial services, healthcare, pharma and industrial manufacturing. His mission at Zurich is to drive the AI transformation in the most significant business areas of the company.

Christiane is heading the AI competence center at FINMA since 1 June 2022. She has over 20 years experience in pricing, trading and risk management in large international banks and 4 years as a co-founder of an AI start-up company.