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Adrienne A. Harris

Superintendent

New York Department of Financial Services

Adrienne A. Harris

Superintendent

Adrienne A. Harris was confirmed by the Senate as Superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services on January 25, 2022.

Superintendent Harris began her career as an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City representing a number of U.S. and non-U.S. based corporations in various forms of litigation and regulatory matters, before accepting a position at the United States Department of the Treasury under President Obama.

While at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris served as a Senior Advisor to both Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Mary Miller, and Deputy Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin. Her work ranged from financial reform efforts to identifying solutions to the student loan crisis, analyzing the nexus between foreign investment and national security, and working to promote financial inclusion and health in communities throughout the country.

Following her time at the Treasury Department, Superintendent Harris joined The White House, where she was appointed as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, as part of the National Economic Council. In this role, she managed the financial services portfolio, which included developing and executing strategies for financial reform and the implementation of Dodd-Frank, consumer protections for the American public, cybersecurity and housing finance reform priorities.

After leaving the White House in January 2017, Superintendent Harris went on to serve as General Counsel and Chief Business Officer at States Title, Inc. (now DOMA), which provides a more simple and affordable closing experience for homebuyers.

Prior to joining DFS, Superintendent Harris served as a Professor and as Faculty Co-Director at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's Center on Finance, Law and Policy at the University of Michigan, as well as a Senior Advisor at the Brunswick Group in Washington, D.C.

Since taking over at DFS, Superintendent Harris has taken decisive actions on defining issues such as climate change, financial inclusion, and New York’s continued leadership on digital currency regulation.

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Alessandra Perrazzelli

Deputy Governor

Bank of Italy

Alessandra Perrazzelli

Deputy Governor

Born in Genoa on 13 August 1961. Member of the Governing Board and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy from 10 May 2019 (Presidential Decree of 3 May 2019). In this capacity, she is also a member of the Joint Directorate of the Insurance Supervisory Authority (IVASS).

She sits on the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) of the European Central Bank.

Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bambino Gesù children' hospital in Rome and a member of the Advisory Board of the FinTech and InsurTech Observatory of the Polytechnic University of Milan. She was previously Italy Country Manager for Barclays Bank and sat on the Boards of Directors of Monte Titoli SpA, A2A and ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanese).

She worked in Intesa Sanpaolo as Head of International Regulatory & Antitrust Affairs and as CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Eurodesk. She began her career as a lawyer at leading law firms in New York and Brussels, specializing in the fields of banking law, financial services and public utilities.

She is a member of the New York State Bar.

In Italy, she was a founder and chair of Valore D, an association that aims to help propel talented women to corporate management roles. She also founded and directed the Gemma Project, set up to support female talent within the Intesa San Paolo group. In the course of her career, Alessandra Perrazzelli has received widespread recognition and awards for her work on diversity and inclusion, and for the promotion of technological innovation in the financial industry.

In 1986 she graduated with honours from the University of Genoa with a degree in law. In 1988 she obtained a Master of Laws in Corporation Law from New York University School of Law.

She has been an alumna of the University of Stanford Business School since 2018.

In 2021, she was awarded a Knighthood in the Order of the Merit of the Italian Republic.

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Alison Martin

Chief Executive Officer EMEA & Bank Distribution

Zurich Insurance Group

Alison Martin

Chief Executive Officer EMEA & Bank Distribution

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.

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Ashley Alder

Chair

Financial Conduct Authority

Ashley Alder

Chair

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.

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Christian Mumenthaler

Group Chief Executive Officer

Swiss Re

Christian Mumenthaler

Group Chief Executive Officer

Christian Mumenthaler started his career in 1997 as an associate at Boston Consulting Group. He joined Swiss Re in 1999 and was responsible for key company projects. In 2002, he established and headed the Group Retro and Syndication unit. Christian Mumenthaler served as Group Chief Risk Officer between 2005 and 2007 and was Head of Life & Health between 2007 and 2010. In January 2011, he was appointed Chief Marketing Officer Reinsurance and a member of the Group Executive Committee and became Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance that October. In July 2016, Christian Mumenthaler was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer.

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Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Global Policy

Circle

Dante Disparte

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Global Policy

Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, responsible for overseeing company strategy, communications, policy and public affairs. Since joining Circle in 2021, his leadership in driving market expansion, regulatory engagement, and more have been integral in furthering the company’s mission to raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of financial value.

Prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association, leading policy, communications, membership and social impact. He also brings two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert, most recently as founder and CEO of Risk Cooperative. He also served as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council. Currently, he is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan 2016).

He earned a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College, is a PLD graduate of Harvard Business School, and has an MSc in risk management from NYU Stern School of Business. Outside of work, Dante enjoys speaking and commentating, such as in media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fortune, BBC, Forbes and Diplomatic Courier.

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Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair for Global Public Policy

Bloomberg

Mary Schapiro

Vice Chair for Global Public Policy

Mary L. Schapiro is the Vice Chair for Global Public Policy of Bloomberg, the global financial technology company that was founded in 1981. She has been at Bloomberg since October 2018, and also serves as a Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman.

Ms. Schapiro oversees Bloomberg’s public policy and regulatory priorities globally. Her service as the 29th Securities and Exchange Commission Chair culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC Chair, and the only person to have served as chair of the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During her four years as SEC Chair, Ms. Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rulemaking agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors and pursued aggressive enforcement of the federal securities laws.

Ms. Schapiro oversees Bloomberg’s public policy and regulatory priorities globally. Her service as the 29th Securities and Exchange Commission Chair culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC Chair, and the only person to have served as chair of the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). During her four years as SEC Chair, Ms. Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rulemaking agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors and pursued aggressive enforcement of the federal securities laws.

Ms. Schapiro also serves as an advisor to Bloomberg in multiple capacities, including as the leader of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, or TCFD. The TCFD has developed and garnered widespread support for a voluntary framework for corporate disclosure of climate-related risk information to help investors, lenders, and underwriters make informed financial decisions. She is also the vice chair of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative created at the request of the UN Secretary General to work on scaling climate finance. Ms. Schapiro is also the Vice Chair for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, a practitioner-led coalition working to increase the financial sector's ambition on climate change and accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy.

Before becoming SEC, Chair and working for Bloomberg, Ms. Schapiro served as chief executive officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest nongovernmental regulator of securities firms.

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Ravi Menon

Managing Director

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Ravi Menon

Managing Director

Mr Ravi Menon was appointed Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in 2011. He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance.

Mr Menon began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years in MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions. Mr Menon spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Singapore Government's Meritorious Service Medal and Public Administration (Gold) Medal, Mr Menon has served on a variety of boards in the public, private, and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, Mr Menon chairs the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System as well as Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero APAC Network Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Steering Committee. Mr Menon holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

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Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer, Securities Services & Digital

BNY Mellon

Roman Regelman

Chief Executive Officer, Securities Services & Digital

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.

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Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

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.

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Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

UBS Group AG

Sergio P. Ermotti

Group Chief Executive Officer

Sergio P. Ermotti has been Group CEO of UBS Group AG and President of the Executive Board of UBS AG since April 2023. He was already the Group CEO of the firm from 2011 to 2020. He re-joined UBS from Swiss Re, where he is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors1. Prior to joining UBS in 2011, he was at UniCredit Group where from 2007 to 2010 he served as Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking and Private Banking, prior to that he served as Head of the Markets & Investment Banking Division. Between 1987 and 2004, he held various positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the areas of equity derivatives and capital markets. He became Co-Head of Global Equity Markets and a member of the Executive Management Committee for Global Markets & Investment Banking in 2001.
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Professor Thomas J. Jordan

Chairman of the Governing Board

Swiss National Bank

Professor Thomas J. Jordan

Chairman of the Governing Board

Thomas J. Jordan is Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). He received his PhD in economics from the University of Bern in 1993. Following a three-year post-doctoral research position at the Department of Economics at Harvard University, he joined the SNB as an Economic Advisor in 1997. The University of Bern appointed him lecturer in 1998 and honorary professor in 2003, and he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel in 2017. In 2007, the Federal Council appointed Thomas J. Jordan to the position of Member of the SNB’s Governing Board. In 2010, he was appointed Vice Chairman and in 2012 Chairman of the Governing Board. He is Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Switzerland and member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel. Thomas J. Jordan represents Switzerland in the Plenary and the Steering Committee of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). He is also Chair of the FSB’s Standing Committee on Budget and Resources (SCBR).

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Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

Urban Angehrn

Chief Executive Officer

Urban Angehrn (1965) has been FINMA’s CEO since 1 November 2021. In this role he is responsible for the operational management of FINMA.

From 2015 to 2021 Urban Angehrn was a member of the Executive Committee and Group Chief Investment Officer of Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). In this role he was responsible for the Group’s entire investment portfolio as well as for the sustainability strategy and for the operations, including digitalisation, in investment management. In addition, from 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Zurich Life Insurance Company, most recently serving as Chairman, as well as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Zurich Insurance Group Swiss Pension Plan from 2015.

From 2007 to 2015 Urban Angehrn was Head of Alternative Investments at Zurich, prior to that Head of Strategy Implementation and prior to that Regional Investment Manager Europe. Before that, from 2005 to 2007 he worked as Head of Allocation & Strategy in Asset Management at Winterthur (now AXA), from 1999 to 2005 at Credit Suisse First Boston in Fixed Income Derivatives Marketing and from 1994 to 1999 at JP Morgan in Fixed Income Sales and Derivatives Marketing.

Urban Angehrn holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University and a Master of Science in theoretical physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).

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Andrea Maechler

Member of the Governing Board

Swiss National Bank

Andrea Maechler

Member of the Governing Board

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.

Adrian Ang

Adrian Ang

Partner

Allen & Gledhill LLP

Adrian Ang

Partner

Adrian is Co-Head of Allen & Gledhill’s FinTech Practice, and Co-Head of Allen & Gledhill’s ESG & Public Policy Practice. Adrian has been active in the FinTech sphere, contributing to policy formation and enactment of FinTech related legislation. He has advised on a variety of FinTech models including payment systems, equity and debt crowdfunding platforms, P2P lending platforms, online lending intermediary based platforms, online money transfer systems, robo-advisors, virtual stored value facility providers, initial coin offering structures, security token exchanges, digital payment token exchanges and the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Adrian is recommended as a key practitioner in several leading publications including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers FinTech, The Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

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Adrien Treccani

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Metaco

Adrien Treccani

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Adrien Treccani is an entrepreneur, author and, at core, a software engineer specialized in financial mathematics, confidential computing, cryptography and digital assets. A former hedge fund quant, he has been advising banks and financial institutions on distributed ledger technology for more than a decade, and in 2015 he founded Metaco, a market-leading technology company providing software infrastructure to financial and non-financial institutions looking to integrate digital assets into their business model. He now serves as the company’s CEO, being responsible for setting the strategy and overseeing the growth execution of the firm.

Adrien lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) in cryptography and the financial applications of blockchain and is a published scholar in leading international peer-reviewed finance journals. Most recently, Adrien co-authored the best-seller book ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics’, a detailed and self-contained introduction to the founding principles behind blockchain, DLTs and cryptocurrencies, for professionals operating in quantitatively oriented fields such as mathematics, computer science and banking.

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Alan Lim

Head, FinTech Infrastructure Office

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Alan Lim

Head, FinTech Infrastructure Office

Alan heads the FinTech Infrastructure Office at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is responsible for developing Singapore’s digital financial infrastructure. 

Alan leads the development of strategies to drive digital transformation across the financial industry, and oversees research into emerging technology areas. He spearheads innovation acceleration programs to foster responsible innovation through the MAS regulatory sandbox and is responsible for the establishment of platforms for open finance and cross border financial connectivity.

Prior to this, he held various leadership roles in the private sector including managing consulting and development teams across Asia Pacific.

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Andy Walters

Senior Fintech Analyst

Bank of England

Andy Walters

Senior Fintech Analyst

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.

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Anikó Szombati

Chief Digital Officer, Executive Director for Digitalization and Fintech Support

Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary)

Anikó Szombati

Chief Digital Officer, Executive Director for Digitalization and Fintech Support

Economist, graduated at Corvinus University, Budapest. Joined the central bank in 2001. She is responsible for promoting digital transformation in the financial sector as well as within the central bank, including the implementation of cutting edge technologies and research on CBDC. She is member of the Financial Stability Council.

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska

Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska

Governor

National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia

Anita Angelovska-Bezhoska

Governor

Anita Angelovska Bezhoska is Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia. She assumed office of Governor in May 2018, after almost twelve years of work experience in the institution, first as a chief economist, and almost eight years after, as a Vice-Governor in charge of the monetary policy, research and statistics. She is also a Governor for the Republic of North Macedonia on the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and member of the Steering Committee of the Vienna Initiative 2, as representative of the six countries Western Balkan economies. By the end of 2019, she was also a member of the Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.

Previously, Angelovska Bezhoska worked at the IMF in Washington DC, USA, as a member of the IMF negotiation missions with member states, and providing technical assistance. She started her career in the Ministry of Finance, first as a head of the project for establishing a treasury system and then, as a state treasurer and state secretary. As a state secretary in the Ministry of Finance, she coordinated processes related to the European integration, budget reforms and negotiations with international financial institutions. Her contribution to the development of public finances was acknowledged with an award granted by the US Embassy in Skopje in 2004. In 2015, Angelovska Bezhoska received her doctorate in economics at the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia. She is the author of several expert and research papers. During her career, she has been engaged as a lecturer by many domestic and international educational and scientific institutions.

 

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Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament

Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament

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.

Benjamin Anderegg

Benjamin Anderegg

Head of Money Market and Foreign Exchange

Swiss National Bank

Benjamin Anderegg

Head of Money Market and Foreign Exchange

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.

Brad Garlinghouse

Brad Garlinghouse

Chief Executive Officer

Ripple

Brad Garlinghouse

Chief Executive Officer

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.

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Hon. Caroline D Pham

Commissioner

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Hon. Caroline D Pham

Commissioner

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham, Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Honorable Caroline D. Pham was sworn in as a CFTC Commissioner on April 14, 2022. Commissioner Pham is an internationally recognized leader in financial services compliance and regulatory strategy and policy. Her substantial experience spans key global issues such as prudential regulation and systemic risk, financial markets, fintech and digital assets, ESG, implementation of global regulatory reforms, and addressing the impact of major disruptions like the 2008 great financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Commissioner Pham is the sponsor of the CFTC’s Global Markets Advisory Committee.

Previously, Commissioner Pham was a Managing Director at Citigroup where she held various senior roles, including Head of Market Structure for Strategic Initiatives on the Institutional Clients Group Business Development team; Head of Capital Markets Regulatory Strategy and Engagement; Deputy Head of Global Regulatory Affairs; and Global Head of Swap Dealer and Volcker Compliance. She was a member of firmwide governance forums and has held leadership roles in many industry and professional organizations.

Commissioner Pham is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and has received various awards. She has a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, where she has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council for Business and Finance Law and was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Law, Economics and Finance.

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Carrie Suen

Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies & Head of APAC (ex GBA) Public Policy

Ant Group

Carrie Suen

Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies & Head of APAC (ex GBA) Public Policy

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.

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Cecilia Skingsley

Head of BIS Innovation Hub

Bank for International Settlements

Cecilia Skingsley

Head of BIS Innovation Hub

Cecilia Skingsley became Head of the BIS Innovation Hub in September 2022. She is a member of the BIS's Executive Committee. Previously, she held the position of First Deputy Governor of the Riksbank since November 2019.

Most recently she chaired the BIS's Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures Future of Payments Working Group, was the Governor of the Riksbank’s alternate on the General Council of the ECB and member of the Advisory Technical Committee (ATC) of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB).

Prior to holding the position of Deputy Governor of the Riksbank from May 2013 to November 2019, Ms Skingsley held various roles including Head of FX and Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist at Swedbank (2007-2013); financial journalist and Head of Financial Market Section at Dagens Industri (2000-2007); Macro Analyst, ABN Amro Bank (1998-2000).

Ms Skingsley holds a degree in economics and political science from Stockholm University. She received a financial analyst degree from SSE Executive Education at Stockholm School of Economics (formerly IFL at Stockholm School of Economics) and studied journalism at Poppius School of Journalism in Stockholm.

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Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

Ant Group

Chen Leiming

Senior Vice President

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.

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Choo Oi-Yee

Chief Executive Officer

ADDX

Choo Oi-Yee

Chief Executive Officer

Oi-Yee was appointed CEO of ADDX in March 2022. She has 20 years of capital raising and M&A advisory experience.

Before joining ADDX as Chief Commercial Officer in January 2020, Oi-Yee was with UBS for 6 years, and was Head of Investment Banking for UBS Singapore. She joined UBS from Morgan Stanley, where she was Head of Singapore Investment Banking. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she ran the Southeast Asia real estate investment banking franchise for Nomura Singapore. She started her investment banking career with Citigroup, covering Singapore corporate and real estate clients.

Between 2006 and 2008, Oi-Yee was Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, for Parkway Holdings, the largest healthcare company in Asia, and helped create the Parkway Life REIT.

Oi-Yee graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Accountancy. She also has a Master of Business Administration from Manchester Business School.

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Chris Hackworth

Adviser

BIS Innovation Hub

Chris Hackworth

Adviser

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. 

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Dr Christian Spindler

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sustainaccount AG

Dr Christian Spindler

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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.

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Dr Christian Westermann

Head of AI & Data Transformation

Zurich Insurance Company

Dr Christian Westermann

Head of AI & Data Transformation

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.

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Christiane Hoppe

Head Competence Center AI

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Christiane Hoppe

Head Competence Center AI

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.

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Christoph Baumann

Envoy for Sustainable Finance

State Secretariat for International Finance

Christoph Baumann

Envoy for Sustainable Finance

Christoph Baumann is Envoy for Sustainable Finance at the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). In this role, he leads the Swiss government's sustainable finance activities, ranging from negotiations in multilateral bodies (such as the G20) to domestic regulatory projects. Before joining SIF, he worked in executive positions at financial institutions and fintechs. He is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge, holds an LLM in public international law from the University of London, a master's degree in economics from the University of Zurich, and is both a CFA and FRM charterholder.

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Dr Christoph Puhr

Lead CoE Digital Assets

UBS Group AG

Dr Christoph Puhr

Lead CoE Digital Assets

Christoph has been with UBS for more than 22 years. The first part of his career was spent in Wealth Management, with clients, after which he held various senior risk management and operating office positions. He became interested in digital assets when he started to understand the potential that DLT has to significantly reshape the financial services industry. Christoph now leads the Digital Assets Center of Expertise for UBS, overseeing the management of the Group’s Digital Assets initiative globally.

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Clara Durodié

Chief Executive Officer

Cognitive Finance Group

Clara Durodié

Chief Executive Officer

Clara Durodié is a leading technology strategist specialising in the governance and business application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the financial services industry.

Clara advises boards, regulators and governments on best practices in the adoption, selection, and implementation of AI systems. She also mentors fintechs on product development and works with data scientists to design human-centric AI.

A former asset management professional, Clara authored “Decoding AI in Financial Services” the first book on the business and governance of AI , writes a popular weekly DecodingAI® Board Briefing, hosts a biweekly podcast DecodingAI®, and founded Cognitive Finance Institute® – the pre-eminent AI learning platform for financial services professionals. 

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Cornelia Andersson

Group Leader, Sustainable Finance & Investments

London Stock Exchange Group

Cornelia Andersson

Group Leader, Sustainable Finance & Investments

 Cornelia Andersson leads Sustainable Finance & Investment business for the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), with a mission to create sustainable growth through market leading data, analytics, workflow and index solutions.

An experienced financial professional, with more than a decade in private equity and asset management, turn-arounds and high growth business building under her belt, she is passionate about building thriving businesses for the future. A frequent speaker at industry events and in the media, Cornelia is a chartered information professional (CILIP), FIA qualified and holds an MBA from Imperial College, London. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from Lund University, Sweden.

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Cornelia Stengel

Attorney at Law, Partner

Kellerhals Carrard

Cornelia Stengel

Attorney at Law, Partner

Financial Market and Data Protection Lawyer. Commited to interdisciplinary cooperation for #fintech and #innovation in #banking and #finance.

Partner at Kellerhals Carrard; Co-Director at Swiss FinTech Innovations (SFTI); visiting professor and head of the interdisciplinary #FinTank at FHNW; permanent guest of the Expert Commission on Digitalisation of the Swiss Bankers Association.

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Daniela Stoffel

State Secretary

State Secretariat for International Finance

Daniela Stoffel

State Secretary

Daniela Stoffel (born in 1968) took up her role as State Secretary for International Finance at the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) on 1 March 2019.

In 1998, Daniela Stoffel entered the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). In 2005, she took over as Head of Public Relations and Culture at the Swiss Embassy in Washington D.C. and in August 2009 she moved to the Swiss Embassy in Berlin as Head of Economic and Financial Affairs. There she was appointed Deputy Head of Mission in 2012. In 2015, Daniela Stoffel assumed a staff function in the General Secretariat of the OECD in Paris.

From 2015, Daniela Stoffel was on detachment to SIF with the title of Ambassador, latterly as Head of Political Staff. From 2016, she was also the Diplomatic Advisor to the Head of the Federal Department of Finance (FDF). In these functions, Daniela Stoffel was involved in safeguarding and dealing with current financial policy issues and challenges and in the corresponding international negotiations and contacts.

Daniela Stoffel graduated from the University of Zurich in 1992 with a degree in Philosophy, Economics and German Linguistics. Accompanying her work as a University Assistant at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich, she wrote her thesis in 1996. She is a citizen of Winterthur, in the canton of Zurich, and is the mother of an adult daughter.

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Darko Stefanoski

Partner - Law Leader Financial Services Switzerland

EY

Darko Stefanoski

Partner - Law Leader Financial Services Switzerland

Darko leads the Law and Digital Law teams in Switzerland for financial services clients and is based in Zurich.

For over 13 years at EY, Darko has been advising clients in setting up various financial institutions. Accompanying them during license application procedures with various regulators/authorities as well as bringing the operating model to live. He also has been advising various companies regarding digitization, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization and Web3/metaverse, including interaction with regulators. Further, he advises on corporate/M&A and performs legal/regulatory due diligence as well as legal managed services.

He is an Attorney-at-law and Notary Public, and has a law degree from the University of Zurich (UZH), a Certificate of Advanced Studies UZH in Financial Market Law, and a LLM UZH in International Banking and Finance Law.

How Darko is building a better working world:

In leading the Law and Digital Law teams for financial services at EY in Switzerland, Darko combines his passions to build the future of legal and compliance services and a better working world for all stakeholders. 

As an inclusive leader, Darko believes that only exceptional and diverse teams can help create long-term value for EY clients. In times of uncertainty, the importance of trusted relationships increases considerably. 

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David Newns

Head

SDX

David Newns

Head

David Newns was made Head SIX Digital Exchange in October 2021 with a mandate to lead SDX in building the next generation fully regulated digital market infrastructure and establish SDX as a leader in global institutional Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency services.

David is an entrepreneur and financial services professional with over 20 years of experience in capital markets. Prior to SDX, he was Senior Managing director at State Street and Global Head of GlobalLink Execution Services. In this role he was responsible for the award winning Currenex and FX Connect independent multi-asset class trading platform businesses.

Previously, David was Global Head of Currenex and SwapEx. Before that, he held the roles of Chief Operating Officer for State Street Global Exchange Trading & Clearing and State Street eExchange EMEA.

In 2001 David joined Currenex as a founding member of Currenex’s London operation. Before joining Currenex, David held several positions in technical services at MicroStrategy, a leading global provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence.

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Dea Markova

Managing Director

Forefront Advisers

Dea Markova

Managing Director

Dea is Managing Director and Digital Assets practice lead for Forefront Advisers, a boutique Brussels and London-based political intelligence and risk firm. Her team forecasts and scrutinises the critical emergent political and regulatory risks affecting digital assets, digital payments, and artificial intelligence in the EU and UK.

Dea moved into this role, having led private sector EU advocacy campaigns in digital finance, crypto-assets regulation and AML, as Europe drafted its seminal regulatory framework in these areas.

Prior, Dea was part of the FinTech and Innovation Group of the MAS, responsible for market differentiating infrastructure for innovation initiatives. Dea spent 10 years in London, as an adviser on financial regulation in the 2008 re-regulation period as well as Head of Programmes for Innovate Finance, the UK FinTech trade association.

Dea is an affiliate with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and Evaluation Committee Member for IFSCA, Gujarat, India. She holds MSc in Financial Regulation from the LSE, and speaks Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian and Portuguese.

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Deng Chao

Head, HashKey Singapore & Chief Executive Officer, HashKey Capital

HashKey

Deng Chao

Head, HashKey Singapore & Chief Executive Officer, HashKey Capital

DC is the Head of HashKey Singapore, and CEO of HashKey Capital which invests in crypto and blockchain globally through three dedicated funds with more than $1 billion in client assets under management. Previously, DC was Managing Director at DataYes, a data-intelligent FinTech company, and a core founding member of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. DC started his career with Bosera Asset Management and has a Master’s Degree from The University of Hong Kong.

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Devina Paul

Chief Financial Officer

Zumo

Devina Paul

Chief Financial Officer

Devina has over 20 years’ experience as a finance professional and has spent the last 10 years working with start-ups to prepare their business for investment, scale and high growth. As Zumo’s CFO, she has oversight of the company’s financial goals, objectives and budgets.

Devina is also an early-stage investor and Co-Founder of Galvanise Capital, an angel investment syndicate. She has multiple exits and funding rounds under her belt - most notably with I Spy to Dentsu Aegis, Encore Digital Media to Next 15 and Aquila Insight to Dentsu Aegis. Well known on the business scene, she holds several board NED and advisory roles; is a trustee of Re:Generate and Centre for Youth Impact; and is an advisor to One Tech. Devina is passionate about financial wellbeing and accessibility, and regularly hosts workshops on best investment practices.

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Dino Kos

Special Advisor to the CEO

CLS Bank International

Dino Kos

Special Advisor to the CEO

Dino Kos is the Special Advisor to the CEO of CLS Bank International. Prior to that he was CLS’s Chief Regulatory Officer. He joined CLS in February 2013. He is also a member of the Strategic Committee of Agence France Trésor. From 1985 until 2007 he worked in various capacities at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, ultimately rising to be Executive Vice President and Head of the Markets Group, where he was responsible for open market operations, foreign exchange trading, treasury auctions, the discount window, and the correspondent banking services provided by the Fed to other central banks. He was also Manager of the System Open Market Account, reporting to the Federal Open Market Committee on the implementation of monetary policy and foreign exchange operations. Dino represented the New York Fed at numerous international meetings, including meetings of G10 central banks at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), at the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, and the Foreign Exchange Committee. Earlier in his career he was seconded to the Secretariat of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision at the BIS in Basel, Switzerland, where he worked on the development of a capital adequacy standard for market risk. Prior to joining CLS he worked for several firms providing macro research and advisory services to hedge funds, mutual funds, and sovereign wealth funds.

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Dominic Williams

Founder & Chief Scientist

DFINITY Foundation

Dominic Williams

Founder & Chief Scientist

Dominic is a crypto theoretician and entrepreneur. His recent research includes Threshold Relay and PSC chains, Validation Towers and Trees, and USCIDs, and he proposes new ideas such as "The 3 E's of Sybil Resistance". Previously he ran a venture-backed MMO game using his own distributed systems that hosted millions of users.

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Elif Kocaoglu Ulbrich

Founder & Author

Contextual Solutions

Elif Kocaoglu Ulbrich

Founder & Author

Elif has a background in law (qualified lawyer) and business. She has over 15 years of project management, business development, and regulatory strategy experience in tech platforms and banks (Denizbank, finleap, Cringle, Lendico, etc.). She is the Founder of Contextual Solutions, a tech consultancy in Berlin specializing in venture development, marketing, and expansion. Elif is a design thinking expert and a published author ("The PayTech Book," "The LegalTech Book," "The AI Book," "Blockchain Applications Guidebook," and "FinTech Guide for Practitioners and Lawyers"). She writes columns for many tech blogs and is FinTech Istanbul's Germany representative. Elif is a Jean Monnet, Joachim Herz, and Break Fellow and has recently been listed as an Innovative Women Inventor by FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys.

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Emma Butterworth

Head of FMI Innovation and Payments Policy

Bank of England

Emma Butterworth

Head of FMI Innovation and Payments Policy

Emma is responsible for developing domestic and international policy in relation to traditional payment systems as well as more innovative forms of payment and settlement, including stablecoins and the FMI sandbox

Emma has almost 20 years of experience across a wide range of policy roles at the Bank of England. Prior to her current role, Emma worked in the Bank of England's financial stability area and supported the establishment of the Bank's Financial Policy Committee.

Emma holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics from Durham University and University College London.

Emma has two relatively young children and is committed to the promotion of flexible working.

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Professor Fabian Schär

Professor for DLT and FinTech

University of Basel

Professor Fabian Schär

Professor for DLT and FinTech

Fabian Schär is Professor for Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) and Fintech at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel. In addition, he is the Managing Director of the University’s Center for Innovative Finance. He has a PhD in Cryptoassets and Blockchain economics, co-authored the bestselling book “Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptoassets”, published by MIT Press and several publications in scientific journals. His research is at the intersection of economics and computer science, with a particular focus on public Blockchains, Cryptoassets and Decentralized Finance protocols. His work has been featured in the Economist, the Financial Times and Forbes, and he has been listed in the NZZ ranking of the most influential economists in Switzerland.

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Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao

Chief Executive Officer

SBI Digital Asset Holdings

Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao

Chief Executive Officer

Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao is an open-source software industry veteran with over 20 years of experience across technology innovation and governance, capital markets and digital assets. Fernando holds unparalleled knowledge of the Asian financial services sector from both a business and technical perspective.

He is currently CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, a company that oversees and operates digital asset- related businesses, under the umbrella of SBI Holdings. Fernando started his career in academia where he became deeply involved with the Linux community. This led him to the corporate world with a number of roles at the Japanese NTT Group. Fernando has held different roles at SBI Group, including Director of SBI VC Trade, CTO of Japannext, CEO of SBI Digi Trust and CEO of SBI Security Solutions.

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Francesco Di Salvo

Senior Financial Sector Specialist

World Bank

Francesco Di Salvo

Senior Financial Sector Specialist

Francesco Di Salvo is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank’s Payment System Development Group. He joined the World Bank in 2020. He performs technical assistance to governments and central banks. The assistance is aimed to support policy reforms and implementations in a series of thematic areas related to the financial systems: regulatory and policy frameworks, payment systems development, innovation, digital identity, financial inclusion, government payments, and international remittances.

Previously, Francesco held several roles within Mastercard, the last being director of product management for the Data & Services unit. Moreover, he served for three years as a market infrastructure expert at the European Central Bank.

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Dr Germán Villegas Bauer

Economist

International Monetary Fund

Dr Germán Villegas Bauer

Economist

Germán Villegas Bauer is an Economist at the Macro-Financial Division of the IMF Research Department. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. His research interests include institutional investors, financial markets, fintech, and climate change.

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Gerrit Sindermann

Deputy Executive Director

Green Digital Finance Alliance

Gerrit Sindermann

Deputy Executive Director

As Deputy Executive Director at Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA), Gerrit especially leads the work on one of GDFA's strategic pillars, the Every Action Counts (EAC) Coalition. EAC was founded in 2021 and is a global network of leading players in digital finance and commerce, with combined access to 2.7bn customers, and joined around the pledge to empower 1 billion people to shift towards more carbon-efficient and nature-positive lifestyles by 2025. Other work at GDFA covered the climate impact of food consumption and its change potential, as well as energy-efficient mortgages. Earlier, Gerrit had been leading the Swiss business of F10, a global incubator & accelerator network for the financial services industry. In this capacity, he initiated a climate fintech-focused program, co-authored the Green Fintech Action Plan for the Swiss finance ministry, and served as a board member at F10’s investment arm. Prior a banker for 10 years, mostly with ABN AMRO Bank, he became an entrepreneur in 2010, co-founded, led, and worked with - mostly FinTech - start-ups over the past 12 years, and led mobile payment projects at Swisscom. Gerrit holds an MBA from IMD International in Lausanne and a BBA in Banking & Finance from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

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Hugo Coelho

Director

Binance

Hugo Coelho

Director

Hugo is a director for EU affairs at Binance. Previously, Hugo served as political advisor to the former Eurogroup President, Mário Centeno, a role in which he coordinated negotiations on the reform of the eurozone fiscal framework and the EU’s economic response to the pandemic. He also worked as a macro researcher and a journalist specialising in financial regulation and political economy. Hugo co-authored a critically-acclaimed investigative book on Portugal’s bailout and the Euro crisis.

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Iota Nassr

Senior Policy Advisor

OECD

Iota Nassr

Senior Policy Advisor

Iota Kaousar Nassr is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Division of the OECD, where she leads the analysis around the digitalisation of finance for the OECD Committee on Financial Markets. Some of her recent work includes analysis of DeFi and crypto-assets; CBDCs; environmental impact of digital assets; asset tokenisation; initial coin offerings; marketplace and FinTech lending; artificial intelligence in finance; open banking and open finance; and country studies of national FinTech ecosystems. Prior to that, she worked on issues related to financial markets, SME financing, insurance intermediation and the accession reviews of new countries to the OECD for the Committee on Financial Markets and the Insurance and Private Pensions Committee. Prior to joining the OECD, Iota was an Investment Banker, working for the M&A desks of Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in London. She holds an MBA from ESSEC Grande École and an MSc in Accounting and Finance from Athens University of Economics and Business.

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Irene Arias Hofman

Chief Executive Officer

IDB Lab

Irene Arias Hofman

Chief Executive Officer

Irene Arias Hofman is the CEO of IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the leading source of development finance for Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of IDB Lab is to drive innovation for inclusion by supporting early-stage entrepreneurial solutions capable of transforming the lives of vulnerable populations.

Previously, Irene worked for 20 years at the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where she managed the Financial Institutions Group and also the LAC region with its 16-billion-dollar portfolio. Her focus has been on innovation and technology, venture capital, and organizational development.

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Dr Iwa Salami

Director, The Centre of FinTech

University of East London

Dr Iwa Salami

Director, The Centre of FinTech

Dr Iwa Salami is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Financial Law and Regulation at the Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London (UEL). She is the Director of the Centre of FinTech at UEL and the Programme Leader for the LLM in FinTech Law. She has published extensively in the field of financial and FinTech regulation. Iwa is a highly sought-after voice in FinTech Regulation and is one of the leading minds in digital assets regulation. She is currently researching the legal and regulatory implications of the adoption of AI in Finance; regulatory frameworks for Web 3.0 application in finance, including crypto-assets, stablecoins, decentralised finance (DeFi) and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs), Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the metaverse and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

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Prof. Dr Jan-Alexander Posth

Professor of Asset Management

ZHAW School of Management and Law

Prof. Dr Jan-Alexander Posth

Professor of Asset Management

Dr Jan-Alexander Posth is a Professor of Asset Management at the Institute for Wealth and Asset Management at the ZHAW School of Management and Law, with a research focus on GreenTech and AI in finance.

He has more than 12 years of professional track record in the financial industry, where he gained extensive expertise as a risk manager, quant and portfolio manager.

Starting at Deutsche Postbank as a credit risk manager, Alexander moved on to Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, where he led the fund derivatives trading desk.

Joining STOXX Ltd. in 2012, he was responsible for developing smart-beta equity indices before becoming Head of Research and Portfolio Management at a start-up hedge fund in 2015.

Alexander changed to ZHAW in 2017; he holds a PhD in theoretical physics.

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Janine Hofer-Wittwer, CFA

Head of ESG Data and RegRisk Services

SIX

Janine Hofer-Wittwer, CFA

Head of ESG Data and RegRisk Services

Janine Hofer-Wittwer has been with SIX since 2014. She has been responsible for creating the ESG Data proposition ever since SIX entered the field of ESG and sustainability several years ago. This enables her to contribute to more sustainability in finance and economy, which is a topic close to her heart. Her role comprises analyzing market trends, strategy definition and leading the creation of innovative services for the wealth, asset and risk management industry. Prior to that she was driving the development of risk and analytics services.

Before joining SIX, Janine Hofer-Wittwer worked at UBS in Private Banking and at the Investment Bank both in Switzerland and abroad. After UBS she joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London where she was a Risk Manager for several years. Janine Hofer-Wittwer has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Berne and is a CFA charter holder. She also holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute.

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Jesse Chenard

Founder & Chairman

Monetago

Jesse Chenard

Founder & Chairman

Jesse is a founder and Chairman of the board of Monetago. MonetaGo is the world’s foremost provider of fraud prevention technology in the trade finance space. With multiple successful exits including Tremor Video and Image Space Media, Jesse is the definition of an entrepreneur.

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Jessica Rusu

Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Jessica Rusu

Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer

Jessica joined the FCA as Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer in June 2021.

As CDIIO, Jessica is leading the transformation of the FCA’s ability to analyse and use the data, intelligence and information we receive to effectively oversee the 50,000 firms we regulate. Jessica is building and evolving our relationship with big tech companies, fintechs and the wider data science community.

Jessica was the Chief Data Officer of Chetwood Financial limited, a digital native, start-up bank, where she spearheaded the use of machine learning. Before moving into fintech, Jessica was Senior Director of Finance & Analytics at eBay in Europe where she built out their advanced analytics and customer insight function.

She previously worked in credit analytics at Ford Motor Company and Stress Testing at GE Capital. Jessica has a degree from Penn State University in Management Science and Information Systems and an MBA from University of Michigan. More recently, she completed the Oxford Said Business School’s Artificial Intelligence programme.

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Dr Jez Mohideen

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Laser Digital - Nomura Group

Dr Jez Mohideen

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Jez Mohideen is the CEO and a co-founder of Laser Digital. He was also a founder of Komainu, a Laser Digital portfolio company launched by Nomura in 2018, where he continues to serve as a non-executive director.

Prior to Laser Digital, Jez was Nomura’s Chief Digital Officer and Co-Head of Global Markets EMEA, responsible for the development and execution of Nomura’s digital strategy and flow trading. Previously, Jez was a partner at Brevan Howard, where he led the development of systematic trading capabilities.

Jez has a PhD in Process Systems Engineering and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London.

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Jo Yeo

Head, Payments Development & Data Connectivity

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Jo Yeo

Head, Payments Development & Data Connectivity

Jo is a division head at the FinTech & Innovation Group (FTIG) at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Her division, the Payments Development and Data Connectivity Office, is responsible for developing the Singapore payments ecosystem and driving payments development initiatives in addition to the development and implementation of cross-border data connectivity. In her previous role as payments policy lead at FTIG, Jo was the project director for the Payment Services Act.

Prior to joining FTIG, Jo was Assistant General Counsel at the MAS Legal Department. In that role she advised extensively on financial services regulations and free trade agreements. Her private practice experience was at Allen & Gledhill and Amica Law.

Jo graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) Degree, and was called to the Singapore bar. She has a Master of Laws from University College London, and is a non-practising solicitor of England and Wales.

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Dr Jochen Dürr

Chief Risk Officer & Member of the Executive Board

SIX

Dr Jochen Dürr

Chief Risk Officer & Member of the Executive Board

Dr. Jochen Dürr is Chief Risk Officer for SIX and also a member of the company’s Executive Board. 

Prior to joining SIX in 2015, Jochen held various leadership positions in risk management with State Street Corporation and served as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company in Europe and the US.

Jochen holds a doctorate degree from the University of Rostock, a graduate degree in Economics from the University of St. Gallen and studied at the University of Warwick as well as Stern Business School.

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John Jackson

Policy and Product Lead

Bank of England

John Jackson

Policy and Product Lead

John Jackson is the Policy and Product Lead for the Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Renewal programme, working in the Bank of England’s Payments Directorate.

During his 20+ years at the Bank John has worked in the Markets, Financial Stability and Prudential Policy areas. He has also spent a year on secondment at the New York Fed.

John joined the RTGS Renewal programme in December 2015 as the Business Lead. He played a key role in developing the Blueprint for renewing the UK’s RTGS service and is responsible for Policy and Product development on the future shape of RTGS. In 2020 John represented the Bank on the CPMI Cross-Border Payments Task Force.

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John Reynolds

Chief Operating Officer

Coadjute

John Reynolds

Chief Operating Officer

John Reynolds is the COO and founder of Coadjute, a ground-breaking blockchain network revolutionizing the real estate industry. With 25+ years of experience in digital transformation, John excels in creating innovative solutions and fostering collaboration.

His achievements include winning and delivering an industry first distributed ledger project with HM Land Registry, collaborating with the Bank of England, Bank for International Settlements, and HM Land Registry to successfully deliver a synchronized settlement prototype, and serving in leadership roles across UK government and technology firms Dell, Fujitsu, and Lockheed Martin.

A passionate advocate for open data, John has been a key contributor to the UK's Open-Source Property Data Trust Framework, the open-source standard upon which the Coadjute network operates. A sought-after speaker and thought leader, John shares his insights on blockchain, real estate, and technology's future in the property sector.

Outside of work, he enjoys running, reading, and spending time with his family.

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Jorge Familiar

Vice President and Treasurer

World Bank

Jorge Familiar

Vice President and Treasurer

Jorge Familiar, a Mexican national, has more than 20 years of leadership experience in economic development, finance, and corporate governance. As Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank, he leads a global team of professionals in the prudent management of debt and asset portfolios for institutions in the World Bank Group (WBG) and over 70 clients. He is responsible for capital markets operations and oversees annual funding programs of US$60 to 70 billion through bonds issued by IBRD and IDA.  He also leads the World Bank Treasury’s capacity building, advisory and capital market intermediation services in financial analytics, asset management, and financial solutions for its clients. As Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group, he supervises the investment and administration of the WBG pension plans with almost US$40 billion assets under management invested in a diverse pool of asset classes. Before joining the World Bank Treasury, he served in multiple roles in the World Bank Group: as a member of the Board of Executive Directors; Vice President for the Latin America and Caribbean Region; WBG Corporate Secretary; and Vice President for Finance and WBG Controller. Starting January 2022, Mr. Familiar is a Trustee at the IFRS Foundation, a public interest organization established to develop a single set of high-quality, understandable, enforceable, and globally acceptable accepted accounting and sustainability disclosure standards. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, where he graduated with honors.

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Chief Technology Officer

International Financial Services Centres Authority

Joseph Joshy C J

Chief Technology Officer

Joseph Joshy is the Chief Technology Officer at International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), a unified financial sector regulator for IFSCs established as a statutory authority by the Government of India. He is a Senior Technology Leader driving FinTech, Supervisory Technology (SupTech) and other strategic initiatives including contributing to the FinTech Agenda at India UK Financial Partnership, India US Financial Regulatory Dialogue, India - Japan Macroeconomic Policy Dialogue, Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN), Inter Regulatory Technical Group (IRTG) on FinTech under the Financial Stability and Development Council - SubCommittee (FSDC - SC), FinTech bridges with Overseas Regulators [like Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)] among others. He is the architect of the unique FinTech Entity Regulatory Framework which provides regulatory authorization to FinTechs and TechFins at GIFT IFSC.

Prior to this stint, he was part of the Management team (Sr Vice President and Vertical Head) that co-founded Reserve Bank Information Technology (ReBIT), the IT Subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India, India’s Central Bank. Joshy had worked on RBI’s Technology Vision with the Information Technology Sub-Committee of the Central Board of the RBI. He was associated with numerous Technology Projects and Initiatives for the Reserve Bank of India across 25+ Departments spanning across Inspection, Supervision, Enforcement, Risk Monitoring, Currency Management, Foreign Exchange, Consumer Education and Protection among others. He was member of more than 20+ Technical Advisory Groups, Committees and SubCommittees at Reserve Bank of India.

He is an experienced professional with more than 2+ decades in technology, consulting and delivering transformational technology projects for Government/Regulators and Fortune 100 clients with stints in the US, Canada and Mexico. During his tenure with a Tier-1 IT MNC, he had managed a portfolio size of more than 100+ MUSD with 450+ team size across different time zones and geographies spread across US, UK, LATAM (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), Philippines, China and India. He was also involved with the Start-up Ecosystem and has experience in setting up a Technology Business Incubator as its CEO.

Joumanna Bercetche

Joumanna Bercetche

Anchor

CNBC International

Joumanna Bercetche

Anchor

Joumanna Bercetche is co-anchor of the European edition of CNBC’s ‘Street Signs’. In addition to providing commentary and analysis on major company earnings and macro events, Joumanna spends much of her time interviewing policymakers and CFOs/ CEOs from across EMEA. She also reports live on monetary policy decisions of financial institutions around the world, such as the European Central Bank and Bank of England. 

Joumanna has led coverage on Italian politics and has reported on Spanish Catalunya events and Eurogroup meetings in the past. She has also moderated panels and hosted roundtables at the annual IMF, WEF and OECD conferences.

Bercetche joined CNBC in 2017 after 11 years in the City, working for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs as a macro and fixed income specialist on the trading floor. She studied Economics as an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut where she was the recipient of the Penrose Award. A dual national with UK and Lebanese citizenship, Joumanna speaks Arabic and English fluently. In May 2022, she obtained her CFA in ESG Investing. 

Julian Osborne

Julian Osborne

Chief Executive Officer

Pelt8

Julian Osborne

Chief Executive Officer

Julian Osborne is the Founder & CEO of Pelt8, a Swiss startup specializing in making sustainability reporting easy and traceable for companies. 

Before founding Pelt8, Julian worked for almost a decade in various roles across the financial service sector and FinTechs, including a successful Exit from an AI FinTech company. 

Julian has a Master's degree in "Democracy, Development & International Relations" from the University of Zurich, during which he spent time in Central Asia collecting experience in various Microfinance companies. 

Karmela Holtgreve

Karmela Holtgreve

Director General Strategy and Innovation

Deutsche Bundesbank

Karmela Holtgreve

Director General Strategy and Innovation

Karmela Holtgreve is Director General Strategy and Innovation at Deutsche Bundesbank and responsible for numerous digititalization activities, the development of the BISIH Innovation Hub at the Eurosystem site, and the digital agenda of the entire bank. She has been at the Bundesbank since 2012, where she was part of the G20 management.

Before that, Karmela Holtgreve worked for Hering Schuppener or Dow Jones News, among others. Karmela Holtgreve studied political science and law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Katalin Kauzli

Katalin Kauzli

Co-Founder & Business Development Director

Partner HUB Ltd.

Katalin Kauzli

Co-Founder & Business Development Director

Katalin Kauzli is the cofounder and business development director of Partner HUB Ltd, she has been with the company since 2017. Partner HUB develops a white label e-invoicing platform that can be integrated into online and mobile banking channels for providing value added services such the integration of e-invoicing and request-to-pay. In 2021 Partner HUB was the winner of the Sibos Perfect Pitch competition for the Partnership and Collaboration section and the winner of the payment startup category for the EFMA-Capgemini Newtech Challange. Katalin is an advocate for using invoice data in banking. She is active in several industry initatives regarding e-invoicing. Katalin has a background in corporate finance and business development in financial institutions.

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Keith Bear

Fellow

Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge

Keith Bear

Fellow

Keith is a Fellow at the Centre for Alternative Finance, part of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is focused on research and industry collaboration in Digital Assets and Fintech innovation. He chairs the Cambridge Digital Asset Research programme, supported by 14 global institutions, and teaches on the Cambridge Digital Assets course for Regulators.

Previously, Keith was responsible globally for the strategy, development and execution of IBM’s business in Financial Markets, working extensively with global clients on major transformation programmes. 

Keith serves on the Advisory Board of 5 Fintechs, as a Board Member at DFNS (a Web3 wallet infrastructure provider), as a lead mentor at the Techstars ABN Amro and Web3 accelerators, as a member of the Technology and Operational Resilience Committee at the LME, as a member of WEF’s Expert Council, and also sits on the BoE’s CBDC Technology Forum.

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Keith deSouza

Group Head, Liquidity Funding Management, Treasury & Markets

DBS Bank Ltd

Keith deSouza

Group Head, Liquidity Funding Management, Treasury & Markets

Keith Desouza is the Managing Director of Treasury Liquidity Management at Treasury & Markets, DBS Bank. Leading a regional team based in Singapore, Keith is responsible for managing the bank’s funding & liquidity across the international network as well as funding programmes including USCP & ECP. In addition, Keith is also involved in the development of innovative digital strategies and products such as new digital payments and channels.

Prior to his tenure with DBS Bank, Keith has also worked in similar role at ING Bank and JP Morgan.

Keith is a member of the Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS) and holds a Masters degree with University of Mumbai.

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Kelvin Li

Head of Global FX & Liquidity Centre

Ant Group

Kelvin Li

Head of Global FX & Liquidity Centre

Kelvin is the Head of Global FX & Liquidity Centre of Ant Group. Since joining Ant Group in 2016, Kelvin took a number of leadership roles in our Global Funds & Treasury team where he led the team in building the world’s leading next-generation global liquidity and treasury system leveraging cutting-edge in-house developed decentralized technology to support the growing needs of our corporate clients in a more scalable and sustainable manner. Under Kelvin’s leadership, together with our major partner banks including JP Morgan, Citibank, Barclays and HSBC, we were able to propel transformation of FX and liquidity management framework connecting five global treasury hubs in Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, New York and London, covering more than 40 currencies and over 100 currency pairs across 60 entities. Ant Group was awarded the Adam Smith Awards Asia in 2021 as the winner in the best liquidity management solution.

Prior to joining Ant Group, Kelvin was the Head of Corporate Solutions Group for the China region from 2010-2016. He was also the Head of FX Sales of JP Morgan China from 2009 to 2010. Kelvin was an alumni of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

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Ken Nagatsuka

Executive Director (Payments)

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Ken Nagatsuka

Executive Director (Payments)

Mr Ken Nagatsuka is the Executive Director of the Payments Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The department is responsible for the authorisation, ongoing supervision and policymaking in relation to payment systems and payment service providers, such as e-money issuers, remittance providers and digital payment token (more commonly known as cryptocurrency) service providers under the Payments Services Act.

Prior to this, Mr Nagatsuka has worked in the field of capital markets regulation for over 15 years and was previously Head of the Capital Markets Policy Division responsible for policy formulation and reviewing legislation in relation to capital markets and market infrastructures. In his role, he represented MAS on various international committees under the FSB, CPMI and IOSCO, on subjects such as OTC derivatives reforms and financial market infrastructures. Prior to that, he also served in various roles in exchange and clearing house supervisory functions.

Mr Nagatsuka holds both a Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Singapore Management University.

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Dr Kimmo Soramäki

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

FNA

Dr Kimmo Soramäki

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of FNA and the co-author of the book ‘Network Theory and Financial Risk’. 

Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulator for optimizing intraday liquidity in interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. 

During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA for making systemic risks visible and financial market infrastructures and institutions more resilient and efficient. 

Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Accounting (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soramaki/

Lee Zhu Kuang

Lee Zhu Kuang

Chief Digital, Data & Innovation Officer

HSBC

Lee Zhu Kuang

Chief Digital, Data & Innovation Officer

Zhu Kuang (ZK) is the Chief Digital, Data & Innovation Officer for HSBC Securities Services where he is responsible for driving digital transformation and digital products globally for the business.

ZK holds a BA with Honours in Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from the Singapore Management University. He is currently doing his DBA with Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Leong Sing Chiong

Leong Sing Chiong

Deputy Managing Director (Markets and Development)

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Leong Sing Chiong

Deputy Managing Director (Markets and Development)

Mr Leong Sing Chiong was appointed as Deputy Managing Director for Markets and Development on 1 February 2021. He oversees the Markets & Investment, Development & International, FinTech & Innovation, as well as Sustainability Groups. Prior to this, Mr Leong served as Assistant Managing Director overseeing the Monetary & Domestic Markets Management Department and the Reserves Management Department since June 2018. He also served as Assistant Managing Director of the Development and International Group from 2013-2018.

Mr Leong began his MAS career with the Reserves Management Department in 1993 and served as Staff Assistant to the Managing Director from 1997-1998. In 1999, he joined the Monetary Management Division and was responsible for the implementation of MAS’ monetary policy and money market operations. Thereafter, Mr Leong was appointed Chief Representative of MAS’ London Representative Office from 2002-2004. Mr Leong spent six years with the International Department from 2004-2010 and was appointed as the Executive Director of Financial Centre Development Department from 2010-2013.

Mr Leong is a recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Silver). He holds a B.Sc Economics (Monetary Economics) from the London School of Economics and is married with two children.

Lily King

Lily King

Chief Operating Officer

Cobo

Lily King

Chief Operating Officer

Ms. King is an enthusiastic advocate for the application of blockchain technology in social governance and commercial fields as well as a seasoned legal expert in the financial industry.

She joined Cobo as Chief Operating Officer in 2021, responsible for the company's overall operations and affairs in corporate governance and compliance, finance, investor relations and strategic partnership.

Prior to Cobo, she served as General Counsel at PAG Asia Capital, one of Asia's largest alternative investment management firms, advising PAG's buyout and growth funds for over a decade. With a deep understanding of law, social policies, finance, and technology across domains, she excels in finding the most feasible and efficient architecture and mechanims for complex transactions.

She is regularly invited to speak on blockchain and technology industry events and write columns for media outlets such as the South China Morning Post, Forkast and Nikkei.

Dr Marcel Rohner

Dr Marcel Rohner

Chairman

Swiss Bankers Association

Dr Marcel Rohner

Chairman

Dr. Marcel Rohner (1964), Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA)

Marcel Rohner has worked in the financial sector for 30 years. He has a degree in economics and a doctorate in econometrics from the University of Zurich. Marcel Rohner began his career in 1993 at Swiss Bank Corporation. From 1998 to 2009, he held various management functions at UBS AG, the last of these being Group Chief Executive Officer. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP SA) in Geneva since 2010 and its Vice-Chairman since 2016. From 2018 to 2021, he was also Chairman of the Association of Swiss Asset and Wealth Management Banks (VAV). Alongside his role at UBP, Marcel Rohner currently sits on or chairs a number of other companies’ boards. He joined the Swiss Bankers Association’s Board of Directors in 2018 and became its Chairman in September 2021. He also became Vice-Chairman of Economiesuisse in 2021. 

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Marco Bizzozero

Head of International & Member of the Executive Committee

iCapital

Marco Bizzozero

Head of International & Member of the Executive Committee

Marco is Head of International at iCapital and a member of the firm’s Executive Management Committee. He is responsible for the global expansion and overall development of the firm’s business outside the United States with focus on EMEA, APAC and LATAM markets.

Marco has more than 25 years of international experience in the financial industry and has held senior executive positions in global organizations in wealth management and private equity. Marco joined iCapital from UniCredit, where he was CEO of Group Wealth Management and a member of the Group Executive Management Committee. Previously, Marco was with Deutsche Bank for 14 years, including nine years as Head of Wealth Management EMEA and CEO of Deutsche Bank Switzerland and, prior to this, as Global Head of Private Equity for the Wealth Management division. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Marco was Head of Private Equity Secondary Investments at LGT Capital Partners. He started his career with UBS where he held various roles in investment banking and private equity in Zurich, London, and New York.

He received a Master of Arts (lic. oec. HSG) from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and has served on the boards of the Swiss Bankers Association, Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland, and the Swiss Finance Institute. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of Elevandi, an organization set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to foster an open dialogue between the public and private sectors to advance FinTech in the digital economy.

Marieke Flament

Marieke Flament

Chief Executive Officer

NEAR Foundation

Marieke Flament

Chief Executive Officer

Marieke is a French-born computer engineer who has worked across the globe: from the luxury giant LVMH of Louis Vuitton fame to Expedia’s Hotels.com and now CEO of the NEAR Foundation, a Swiss non-profit that supports the on-going growth and development of the NEAR Protocol, a high-performance carbon-neutral blockchain that is designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable. Before joining NEAR, Marieke pioneered turning niche blockchain products into globally recognised brands, scaling Circle from zero to two million users in less than two years and launching USDC. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Marieke was recognised in the Women in FinTech Powerlist for 2017 and 2019 and she is frequently quoted by the press; including The BBC, The Telegraph, Fortune, The Financial Times, Reuters, Forbes, and City AM.

Marion Leslie

Marion Leslie

Head Financial Information

SIX

Marion Leslie

Head Financial Information

Marion Leslie joined SIX in January 2020 as Head Financial Information at SIX Group and a member of the SIX Executive Board. She is also a member of the BME Board of Directors. As Head Financial Information, Marion leads the SIX global data business, serving financial institutions worldwide with critical data and insights to support their clients.

Leading global businesses and operations at scale, with a strong emphasis on data and technology, are the hallmarks of her career in financial services. Prior to joining SIX, Marion was Managing Director, Enterprise at Refinitiv (London Stock Exchange) with responsibility for delivering market data, platforms and services to the global financial markets.

Marion was included in the World Federation of Exchanges Women Leaders List 2021 and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in European Finance by Financial News in 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2017, she was nominated in the Cranfield University Female FTSE 100 Women to Watch Board Report and in 2014 was the winner of the Award for Achievement at the Women in Banking and Finance Awards.

In June 2021 Marion, was appointed to the board of Advance, the leading business association for gender equality in Switzerland and has been a Trustee at Prostate Cancer UK since 2016.

Marina Markezic

Marina Markezic

Co-Founder & Executive Director

European Crypto Initiative

Marina Markezic

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Marina Markezic is a board member of the Blockchain Think Thank Slovenia, facilitating the discussion between the regulators and the blockchain industry.

Marina has been a leading adviser in a blockchain accelerator and has advised blockchain projects since 2017. She contributes to initiatives like the Token Engineering Community, COALA and Dgov.

Martina Macpherson

Martina Macpherson

Head of ESG Product Strategy and Management

SIX Financial Information

Martina Macpherson

Head of ESG Product Strategy and Management

Martina is Head of ESG Product Management within the Financial Information Business Unit at SIX - the Exchange Group that operates the Swiss and Spanish Stock Exchanges. She has over 20 years of sustainable finance experience, in industry and academia, and is an award-winning ESG influencer, researcher, incubator and entrepreneur.

Prior to her role at SIX, she was Head of ESG Strategy at ODDO BHF Asset Management, Senior Vice President, ESG and Engagement Strategy at Moody’s, Global Head of ESG Index Products and Research at S&P DJI, Managing Director of Sustainable Investments Partners Ltd. and Vice President of ESG Solutions at MSCI. Earlier in her career, she worked in (ESG) product, research and engagement roles at Insight Investment, F&C AM and at Deutsche Bank AG.

Martina has an MBA certificate in finance and business from London School of Business and Finance in the UK, and a M.A. in Law and Human Sciences from University of Frankfurt in Germany. She is a fellow member of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS) UK, a honorary doctoral fellow of the Institute for Certified Risk Management Professionals (ICRMP) UK, and an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation (“Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”). She is currently undertaking a part-time PhD at University of Cardiff, UK, in sustainable accounting and finance.

Martina is an academic lecturer, writer and public speaker in sustainable investing and has co-authored a range of ESG and Fintech books, including “The AI Book” (Wiley, 2020), the “Handbook on Species Extinction Accounting and Biodiversity” (Routledge, 2022), and the text book on “ESG in Portfolio Analysis” (RiskBooks, 2022). She has formed part of various leading industry associations and initiatives and sits on the board of the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA), the industry’s leading body for the ESG data, ratings and index industry, and is FoSDA’s co-chair of the Policy and Regulations working group. Moreover, she is a member of the All-Parties-Parliamentary-Group (APPG) on ESG at Houses of Parliament UK, and a member of the European Law Institute’s Sustainability Regulations Advisory Group.

For her work in sustainable finance and leadership, she was awarded the title “Top 50 Woman in Finance” by the World Finance Forum (WFF) in 2022. For SIX, she has won two ESG-related Strategy (by Finance Magnates) and Initiatives (A Team Insight) Awards in 2022.

Mathias Imbach

Mathias Imbach

Co-Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer

Sygnum Bank

Mathias Imbach

Co-Founder & Group Chief Executive Officer

Mathias is a Co-Founder and Group CEO of Sygnum. Prior to Sygnum, he was General Manager at RNT Associates, Mr. Ratan N. Tata’s personal investment platform, which he joined as the first team member. He led multiple venture capital and private equity investments and participated in blockchain and DLT-related equity deals globally.

Mathias started his career at Bain & Company where he led advisory projects for private equity funds, family offices and technology companies.

He holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Mathias Ruch

Mathias Ruch

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

CV VC AG

Mathias Ruch

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mathias Ruch is a driving force in the development of the global blockchain startup ecosystem. As co-founder and CEO of CV VC he manages a portfolio of over 50 startup investments and as co-founder of the Swiss Blockchain Federation he leads the internationalization of Switzerland’s expertise. As an entrepreneur he has founded, managed, and successfully exited several companies.

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Michael Baldinger

Chief Sustainability Officer

UBS

Michael Baldinger

Chief Sustainability Officer

Michael Baldinger is the Chief Sustainability Officer at UBS. In this role, he is responsible for the implementation of the Group Executive Board-sponsored sustainability and impact strategy and provides oversight for sustainability-related projects and activities across UBS.

He also represents UBS Group as a Board Member of Swiss Sustainable Finance and is President of the Swiss Banking Association’s Expert Commission, Sustainable Finance.

Michael joined UBS in November 2016 as Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at Asset Management (UBS AM) with the mandate to establish UBS AM as a leader in sustainable and impact investing.

During this time, he established an industry leading Sustainable Investing (SI) platform, hired a dedicated SI Specialist team and elevated SI as a critical business driver for the Asset Management division.

Before joining UBS, Michael Baldinger was the CEO of RobecoSAM. In addition, he was responsible for driving the Robeco Group sustainable investing agenda. He was appointed CEO of RobecoSAM in 2011 having joined as Head of Global Clients & Marketing in 2009.

Michael joined RobecoSAM from Credit Suisse Asset Management where, as a Managing Director, he was Head of Distribution for the Americas in New York. Prior to Credit Suisse, he was a Managing Director Principal with Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York, responsible for Institutional Equity Sales for Swiss clients from 1999-2005.

Michael Egorov

Michael Egorov

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Curve Finance

Michael Egorov

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Michael is the founder of Curve Finance, the largest decentralized exchange (by TVL). He also co-founded NuCypher beforehand. Holds a PhD degree in Physics

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Dr Michael Gloor

Chief Executive Officer

Correntics AG

Dr Michael Gloor

Chief Executive Officer

Michael Gloor is the CEO and co-founder of the climate-risk startup Correntics. Before starting Correntics, he was the Climate Change Lead at the global reinsurer Swiss Re. Michael holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and is also a lecturer at the University of Zurich where he teaches modules on Fintech and Sustainability.

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Dr Mirjam Staub-Bisang

Country Head, Switzerland

BlackRock

Dr Mirjam Staub-Bisang

Country Head, Switzerland

 Mirjam Staub-Bisang is Head of BlackRock Switzerland and a member of the EMEA Executive Committee as well as a Senior Advisor to BlackRock Sustainable Investing. 

Prior to BlackRock, Mirjam led an investment management firm focusing on sustainable investing based in Zurich. Mirjam also served as a non-executive director on the boards of public and private companies and as chair the investment committees of several asset owners such as pension funds and endowments. Prior to these roles she held senior positions in asset management and private equity investing at Commerzbank and Swiss Life and worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in London and Zurich. Today she also serves on the board of the global shoe retailer Bata as a non-executive director and the board of directors of the Asset Management Association Switzerland (AMAS) as well as Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF).

Mirjam holds a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich and an MBA from INSEAD. She authored the standard work ‘Sustainable Investing for Institutional Investors: Risks, Regulations, Strategies’ and co-authored the second edition of ‘Infrastructure as an Asset Class’. 

In 2009 she was elected a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and is a member of the WEF Global Future Council.

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Naveen Mallela

Global Head of Coin Systems

Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Naveen Mallela

Global Head of Coin Systems

Naveen Mallela is the global head of the Coin Systems team at Onyx by J.P. Morgan, which focuses on building innovative payment products and infrastructure based on digital currencies and blockchain technology. Most recently Naveen led the pilot launch of Tokenized Deposits for J.P. Morgan as part of Project Guardian – a flagship industry initiative anchored by Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He was previously the chief designer and product lead for JPM Coin, which is a cornerstone product offering of Coin Systems.

Prior to his current role, Naveen was the Digital Payments lead for JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank in the Asia Pacific region and as part of his role he spearheaded the co-founding of Partior, a Singapore based technology company seeking to provide a first of its kind multibank ledger solution for payments clearing and settlement.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Naveen was a technology strategy and transformation consultant for a global consulting firm, providing advisory and transformation services to global banks across Japan, U.K. and Singapore.

Naveen is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, and holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB).

Nicolas Bruegger

Nicolas Brügger

Deputy Head of Capital Markets & Infrastructure

State Secretariat for International Finance

Nicolas Brügger

Deputy Head of Capital Markets & Infrastructure

Nicolas Brügger is Deputy Head of Capital Markets & Infrastructure at the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). He leads the Swiss government’s work on several topics in the area of digital finance such as AI, Open Finance, stablecoins and other Fintech matters. He also represents Switzerland's interest in multilateral bodies.

Nicolette Bartlett

Nicolette Bartlett

Chief Impact Officer

CDP

Nicolette Bartlett

Chief Impact Officer

Nicolette Bartlett is the Chief Impact Officer at CDP - CDP is an international not-for-profit organization providing the global environmental disclosure-based tracking system. In her role, Nicolette is responsible for leading on strategy development for the organization as part of CDP’s Executive Leadership Team and manages the Impact Department, responsible for Environmental Impact, Disclosure content and Thought Leadership, Policy, Development, and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.

Nicolette previously held the positions of Global Director of Climate Change at CDP and Carbon Pricing Director and has been the lead author of many CDP publications.

Before joining CDP Nicolette was a Senior Program Manager at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, leading on international climate policy projects; including the international engagement of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, developing a Green Growth Platform in Pacific Alliance countries, supporting the development of business groups on climate change and research analyzing the role that non-state actors play in driving down emissions.

Nicolette sits on various boards and advisory bodies, including the Science-Based Targets Initiative and We Mean Business boards, the Voluntary Carbon Markets Initiative Expert Advisory Group, and is a Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Oliver Bussmann

Oliver Bussmann

Chief Executive Officer

Bussmann Advisory

Oliver Bussmann

Chief Executive Officer

Oliver Bussmann is a globally recognized technology thought leader and driver of large-scale transformation at multi-national organizations and portfolio companies of private equity firms. The Founder and CEO of Bussmann Advisory AG, he advises enterprises and private equity companies looking to stay ahead of the digital disruption curve in the financial services and high-tech industry.

He is a Non-Executive Board Director at Bank of America Europe, BSI Software, AD Ports Group Digital Cluster, Board Chairman at xSuite Group and Advisory Board member of the largest European Asset Manager Amundi and Advisor to the Board of Nationwide and Royal London.

In addition, he also holds important mandates in industry associations, including Board Member at Elevandi as part of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and at ID2020 Digital Identity Alliance. Oliver was Co-founder and former President of the Swiss Crypto Valley Association which is the largest blockchain ecosystem with over 1’000 startups in Switzerland.

From 2013 to 2016 Bussmann was Group Chief Information Officer of UBS, where he successfully led a major Business and IT transformation effort, instituted a new group-wide innovation framework and established UBS as a pioneer in the development of blockchain for use in financial services. Prior to joining UBS Bussmann was Global Chief Information Officer at SAP, where he also spearheaded significant technology transformation and integration of company acquisitions, and before that CIO for North America & Mexico at Allianz. Previous roles have included executive positions at Deutsche Bank and IBM.

Bussmann's achievements and thought leadership have been widely recognized. He was named COO/CTO of the year by Financial News/The Wall Street Journal, European CIO of the Year by INSEAD/CIONET, Top FinTech Influencer to follow by Onalytica, Swiss FinTech Award, received the Elite 8 Award, which is given to the most innovative leaders in technology working in capital markets by Wall Street & Technology Magazine, and has twice been included on the Financial News ""FinTech 40"" list of innovators shaping the future of finance.

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Oliver Marchand

Global Head of ESG Research and Product Development – Climate Risk Center

MSCI

Oliver Marchand

Global Head of ESG Research and Product Development – Climate Risk Center

Dr. Oliver Marchand is Global Head of ESG Research & Development at the MSCI Climate Risk Center, where he is responsible for all research activities in the field of climate risks analysis.

Dr. Oliver Marchand founded the Zurich-based fintech startup Carbon Delta AG and was the CEO until 2019, when the company was acquired by MSCI Barra SA. Prior to founding Carbon Delta and joining MSCI, Dr. Oliver Marchand gained extensive experience in IT management, financial portfolio management and IT systems development at Fisch Asset Management.

Dr. Oliver Marchand holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zürich.

Ondrej Kovarik

Ondrej Kovarik

Member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

Ondrej Kovarik

Member of the European Parliament

Ondřej is a Czech MEP, member of the Renew Europe political group. He is a member of the Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee, and in that capacity is the Chairman of the Working Group for Access to Finance for SMEs. He also sits on two further committees, Transport and Tourism, and Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

In the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, his portfolio extends from SME financing to the research and the practical use of new technologies, for example those based on artificial intelligence, as well as broader access and use of digital finance, including digital assets for businesses and consumers. He held the role of negotiator and spokesperson for his political group on the EU's Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation

His career to date has been dedicated to public service, primarily in various roles within the Czech civil service, but also in European public administration specifically, at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Office of the Government, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ottawa, the Czech Ministry of Defence and the European Parliament.

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Dr Oriol Caudevilla

Board Director & Secretary General, GIFT and Founder, “A Digital Tomorrow” Podcast

Global Impact FinTech Forum (GIFT)

Dr Oriol Caudevilla

Board Director & Secretary General, GIFT and Founder, “A Digital Tomorrow” Podcast

A highly regarded voice on all things fintech and CBDC, Dr.Oriol Caudevilla  Founded and Hosts the “A Digital Tomorrow” podcast, with over 10k followers on YouTube and whose video views reach an average audience of 1.5k viewers.

He also acts as a Board Director and Secretary General at the Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum, Member of the Board of Advisors at Blockchain for Europe (BC4EU), Research Contributor at the Blockchain Research Institute (BRI), Mentor at R3 (Singapore), Mentor at Cyberport (Hong Kong), Mentor at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park (HKSTP), FinTech Mentor at F10 Incubator & Accelerator (Singapore), FinTech Mentor at Rise by Barclays (London and Mumbai) and former chairman of the Private Digital Euro Working Group at the Digital Euro Association (D€A).

Oriol is also an Honorary Fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL).

Furthermore, he has published articles and been cited by international media outlets such as Reuters, Forbes Middle East, the South China Morning Post (SCMP), Outlook India, China Daily, Asian Investor, Forkast News, and Cointelegraph.

Oriol is also a well-known international speaker: he was named Asian FinTech Speaker of the Year (2021) by FASTER Community and has participated in over 150 international conferences since 2020, talking about CBDCs, DeFi, the Metaverse, AI and the use of Blockchain in several industries, such as banking in general and also Islamic banking and finance.

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Paisal Kiattananan

Managing Director of Technology and Innovation

Digital Ventures

Paisal Kiattananan

Managing Director of Technology and Innovation

CTO of Digital Ventures and InnovestX - both companies are subsidiaries of Siam Commercial Bank. Interested in DLT, Blockchain and Digital Currency. Involved in CBDC pilot with the Bank of Thailand.

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Patrick Odier

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Lombard Odier Group

Patrick Odier

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Patrick Odier is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Lombard Odier Group since January 1st 2023 . He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd. since January 1st, 2014 until April 1st 2023. He was also Senior Managing Partner of the Lombard Odier Group from 2008 until 2022.

Patrick Odier joined the Lombard Odier Group in 1982 and completed his training in Zurich, New York, and Montreal, before becoming a Managing Partner in 1986. He holds an economics degree from the University of Geneva and an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago.

Patrick Odier is President of Swiss Sustainable Finance (SSF). He is also Chairman of Building Bridges. He is member of the Board of economiesuisse (Swiss Business Federation). He was Chairman of the Swiss Bankers Association from 2009 to 2016. He is also a board member of several Swiss and international academic institutions and philanthropic organisations.

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Philip Berntsen

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Frigg

Philip Berntsen

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Infrastructure finance specialist that is passionate about end-to-end digitalization of sustainable infrastructure finance to help solve the climate funding gap.

Founder and CEO of Frigg, a Swiss-based start-up focusing on making sustainable finance accessible, efficient, and composable by tokenizing renewable energy projects.

Philipp Aeby

Philipp Aeby

Chief Executive Officer

RepRisk

Philipp Aeby

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Philipp Aeby is the CEO and co-founder of RepRisk. He is an expert in business conduct risk management, with a special interest in machine learning.

Before joining RepRisk in 2006, Philipp served in various managerial positions across Europe at Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical firm, and worked on a broad range of international assignments with the Boston Consulting Group. He started his career as a visiting scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia.

Philipp holds a PhD in Environmental Physics and a Master’s degree in Climatology and Hydrology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, where he earned the ETH Medal for outstanding research that involved applying neural networks to pattern recognition.

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Pier Luigi Culazzo

Chief Data Officer

OECStandard Chartered Bank

Pier Luigi Culazzo

Chief Data Officer

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Pier Luigi Culazzo is the Group Chief Data Officer at Standard Chartered Bank and a member of the bank’s Group Operations Management Team.

 

Pier is responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing the Group Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategies supporting the business innovation plans and to capture new opportunities, especially related to the bank sustainability agenda in helping consumer and partners to reduce their C02 emissions.

 

In terms of governance, he is responsible to make sure the bank organise, use and treat its data correctly and in adherence with the current regulations, facilitating a consistent adoption and implementation of standards and policies and constantly working to improve the overall Data Quality across the organization.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, Pier was at Visa where he was the Head of Digital Identity, Data Products and Data Science and the Executive Sponsor for the company’s Diversity & Inclusion employee group. Prior to Visa, he held several leadership roles in Operations and Finance for General Electric in different countries around the world.

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Dr Prag Sharma

Global Head of Artificial Intelligence

Citigroup

Dr Prag Sharma

Global Head of Artificial Intelligence

Appointed to the role in February 2021. Prag leads Citi’s Global Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (“AI CoE”). The AI CoE enables Citi to use Artificial Intelligence in a way that supports Citi to innovate responsibly by ensuring appropriate levels of governance and risk management across the entire organization. The purpose of the AI CoE is to set standards and policies for AI and develop best practices, support infrastructure and tooling and enable state-of-the-art AI design, development and use at Citi across all its businesses.

Prior to this role, Prag led Citi’s Innovation Lab's Emerging Technologies Group. The focus of the group was on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain-related thought-leadership and strategy, internal and client-facing partnerships, business development & lead-generation, information dissemination, R&D and engineering activities.

Prag has enjoyed a 15-year career which includes hands-on management experience in R&D and experimental design & development with emerging technologies in both business and academic environments with start-ups and multinationals.

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Puneet Singhvi

Managing Director Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Client Group

Citigroup

Puneet Singhvi

Managing Director Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Client Group

Puneet is Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets for Citi Institutional Client Group.

As part of his responsibilities, he is leading Blockchain and Digital Asset initiatives across the business. He is leading the efforts in assessing and driving engagement in the Digital Asset space. His team provides subject matter expertise, drives product development and defines distinct strategy on digital asset opportunities including new products, new clients, and new investments. Puneet also leads the ICG’s engagement with stakeholders such as clients, fintechs and central banks, on digital asset opportunities.

Puneet has worked at Citi across the developed and emerging markets in various management roles within Markets & Securities Services and Trade & Transaction Services businesses. His roles have included leading Citi Financial Markets Infrastructure Team, Citi Global Clearing Payments Product, Citi Foreign Exchange Prime & Derivative Clearing Product Management, Trade Finance and Asset Backed Finance.

Puneet Singhvi has been serving on the boards of LCH ForexClear and DTCC DerivServ.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Jai Narain Vyas University. He completed his Master’s in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Raffael Maio

Chief Strategy Officer

NetGuardians

Raffael Maio

Chief Strategy Officer

 NetGuardians CSO & Co-Founder, Raffael Maio is primarily responsible for securement of financing as well as business development in Asia. In 2020, he played a key role in securing CHF 17 million in the company’s third round of financing. He is a keen entrepreneur who, along with Joël Winteregg, is the co-founder of NetGuardians. On the technology side, Raffael brings several years’ experience in security software engineering, in environments ranging from a Silicon Valley start-up to a multinational product security company. In terms of business development, he is adept at both innovative and traditional models. He has a degree in Software Engineering as well as an EMBA.

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Rehan Ahmed

General Manager & Chief Product Officer

Marketnode

Rehan Ahmed

General Manager & Chief Product Officer

Rehan Ahmed is General Manager and founding team member at Marketnode, an SGX Group and Temasek backed digital markets infrastructure operator. Within this role, he focuses on product development and the digitalization of capital markets products including bonds, funds infrastructure and sustainable finance.

As Head of Fixed Income Products & Digital Assets at SGX, Rehan oversaw the launch of a digital bond issuance platform that culminated in the Marketnode partnership. Rehan began his career at Bear Stearns (London) fixed income trading desk in 2005 and subsequently held positions within credit structuring & trading (UBS AG, London) and portfolio management at CDC Group UK (now British International Investment), a UK development finance institution.

He has been based in Asia since 2010, where he joined Bloomberg L.P.’s FICC trading team and oversaw a number of regional market trading initiatives such as the launch of Pakistan’s first online debt auction system and Sri Lanka’s interdealer debt trading platform. He joined SGX from IDFC Securities (Singapore) where he was responsible for overseeing India access products for global investors.

Rehan was involved in the launch of new platforms including SGX’s institutional bond trading platform (2016) and led its General Counterparty service (2018) rollout before focusing on digital assets. He was one of key SGX representatives on industry bodies such as ICMA, FIX Trading Community and Singapore National Markets Practice Group (NMPG).

Rehan attended Ecole Sciences-Po (Paris) before attaining his Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University and subsequently a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).