Alberto Bacó-Bagué

FOUNDING PARTNER | PARTNERSHIP FOR MODERN PUERTO RICO

ABB is the Advisor and Sounding Board of Choice for Owners and Senior Management when tackling Challenging Special Situations; Dealmaker and Negotiator; Expertise as Advisor-Coach, in Turnarounds, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Placement Debt or Equity, Corporate Governance, Strategic Development and Growth, Government Affairs, Board of Directors and Family Business, Market Entry Partner and Advisor. Master minded Law 20-22 movement, Parallel 18 Start Up project, Lufthansa Technic MRO Aeronautical Ecosystem, CEAL PR Chapter, among many creative innovation initiatives. ABB encourages his clients and colleagues to be socially conscious impact investors with a proactive vision of prosperity and modernization for Puerto Rico.

Alex McDougall

GENERAL PARTNER | BICAMERAL VENTURES

Alex McDougall, Bicameral Ventures Co-Founder is an integrative financial expert specializing in investing and advising across the full lifecycle of companies from early stage blockchain to some of the largest financial institutions globally. During a career with Bank of Montreal Capital Markets spanning the Fintech, M&A, and Financial Institutions Investment Banking teams, Alex helped lead the charge on several of Capital Market’s early blockchain initiatives and was recognized as a leader within the Investment Bank. Alex left BMO in early 2018 to co-found Bicameral Ventures, an innovative Venture Capital Fund focused on taking positions in exceptional early stage projects developing real-world business models on top of the Aion platform. Alex earned his CFA designation in 2013 and was awarded multiple scholarships towards earning his MBA from the Rotman School of Management where he was a Bregman Scholar and mediocre, but enthusiastic, member of the Rotman Hockey Team.

BRUCE FENTON

BOARD MEMBER | THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION

Bruce Fenton became involved with Bitcoin in 2012 and has been involved full time in Bitcoin and the blockchain industry since 2013. Roles: Founder/ President of Atlantic Financial / Atlantic Financial Blockchain Labs Founder, CEO, Chainstone Labs Board Member, Medici Ventures (a subsidiary of Overstock) Board Member, tZero Board Member and former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation Founder of the Bitcoin Association Fenton is also the host and founder of the Satoshi Roundtable retreat, an exclusive, invitation-only retreat for leaders in the blockchain industry and organizer of the first Dubai Bitcoin Conference. Bruce is the founder of Atlantic Financial which, in 1994, became the first full-service investment firm on the internet. Prior to Atlantic Financial, Bruce was with Morgan Stanley and specialized in emerging technologies and emerging markets. Bruce has completed several significant transactions and served as a consultant to large investment funds, ultra high net worth individuals and families. Bruce served as an advisor to one of the world’s largest charitable organizations for Gulf engagement and a top ten global private equity firm. Bruce travels extensively and has lived in the US and Asia as well as Riyadh and Dubai. He has spoken at numerous blockchain conferences, the MIT Enterprise Forum, Tony Robbins Wealth Mastery, DevCore, the Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) Saudi Arabia and other major events and has been interviewed by the Wall St. Journal, CNN, CNBC, Investor’s Business Daily and others.

MANNY ALICANDRO

ATTORNEY

LAW OFFICES OF MANNY ALICANDRO

OLGA FELDMEIER

CEO & CO-FOUNDER | SMART VALOR

Olga Feldmeier is CEO and co-founder of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain start-up building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in the banking and financial services sector for global brands such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on strategy projects at financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Unicredit and Commerzbank. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at prominent Silicon Valley Bitcoin startup Xapo. Olga is a prominent founding member of the Crypto Valley community, and is the producer of the ICO Summit, the first global conference focusing on blockchain crowdfunding in Switzerland. She is also a mentor at the largest European accelerator program, Kickstart Accelerator, and regularly delivers talks at conferences and universities on the regulation of Blockchain industry, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry.

SIMON BOGDANOWICZ

CO-FOUNDER & MANAGING PARTNER | BLOCKTEAM VENTURES

Simon Bogdanowicz is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of BlockTeam Ventures, a strategic investment and advisory firm dedicated to supporting the world's most promising blockchain-enabled companies. He has a history of success working across multiple fields over his career, including enterprise technology, international marketing, and traditional finance. Simon started his career on Wall Street at the RBC Capital Markets, one of the top 10 largest investment banks in the world.

ARIFA KHAN

CEO of HCX

Arifa Khan is India Partner of the Ethereum Foundation. She has been researching the blockchain space since 2015 and is a distributed ledger technology evangelist. She is currently leading efforts to build a ground-breaking decentralised solution for capital markets (DGCAMP) as Founder & CEO of Himalaya Labs, which she considers her most inspired and important work to date. (https://medium.com/@misskhan/what-is-dgcamp-2a6fae4cf699) She is a celebrated investment banker with experience in Leveraged Finance/ Financial Sponsors Coverage/ Debt Products/Capital Markets & Credit. She has worked with two Swiss banks Credit Suisse & UBS, which honed her ability in deal origination, and confident execution. She has deep sector expertise in Banking & Financial services, Fintech and Blockchain. She currently advises Govt. of India on infrastructure financing and the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State on blockchain adoption. Arifa has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, USA where she majored in Finance and specialised in advanced financial concepts, modelling and speculative markets. She is mathematically gifted, and earned early accolades as a Gold Medalist in Mathematics. She ranked 14th in Andhra Pradesh State Engineering Entrance EAMCET when she was just 14 years old, which earned her an admission in Computer Science Engg. Having hailed from a small town in Andhra Pradesh with no engineers, and from a family of non-mathematicians, she created waves as a teenage prodigy. However, she did not return to pure mathematics until a fascination for blockchain took hold of her in 2015. She has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras - an inflection point in shaping her ambition. Arifa is Member Wharton UK Club Committee, Founder Europe-India Conclave Series, speaker at several international conferences. She is known for her versatile talents and is a poet and an acclaimed painter. She is inspired by genius polymaths such as Tagore, Steve Jobs, Vitalik.

DANIEL STEEVES

Strategy Advisor & CEO, Steeves Solutions

Business strategy and models, whitepapers and ICOs, pitches and go to market propositions: collaborative fine-tuning of your propositions and their presentation will position you for results. Taking a tactical and pragmatic but crreative approach, I work with the Board and founders to identify opportunities, increase market share and identify new propositions within existing product sets A contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Financial Times, I have been included on worldwide Cloud Computing Thought Leader lists. I am a well-experienced speaker and presenter including TEDx, India Institute of Technology (IIT), UK-Canada Chamber of Commerce, Cloud Forum, CASS Business School and other industry events. I co-produced and presented an extensive series of cloud and business interviews at IntelligentHQ.com. I also worked with the Nigeria Rebirth Foundation as Consulting Producer and Business Advisor for the Labour Room National Development TV (2017) show in Nigeria.

DANIIL GIRDEA

Founder of Arcona Digital Land

Co-Founder and Investor of the Arcona ecosystem Daniel is a serial entrepreneur recently having been concentrated on start-ups. He came to Arcona through trial and error and ended up being desperately in love with the project. Apart from investing he is a lot into developing and promoting the extraordinary concept of Arcona’s Digital land. On being that engaged and having become a reputable expert in AR and its possibilities Daniel shares his knowledge and excitement about the ecosystem of Arcona merging together real and virtual worlds. He performs at specialized activities as a speaker all across the globe. The number of Daniel’s pitches has already exceeded 300 threshold and keeps growing with each day.

JAMES CATANIA

CEO at Intelliblock

James Catania is the CEO of Intelliblock one of the first end-to-end blockchain solution providers. James is one of the premiere consultants of blockchain systems and technologies in Malta.

JASON SOSA

Founder & CEO at Blackbox Foundation

I grew up the son of a migrant worker and went from a minimum wage factory job to raising millions of dollars in capital. Founded a Techstars/VC-backed computer vision company which sold in 2015 to Kairos, EIR/advisor to LATAM Socialatom VC fund. Emerging technology product strategist with Occipital Bridge VR mixed reality headset, InfoScout, IoT, wearables, Sentiment Analysis, and 3D Body Scanning. Speaker, writer, panelist - Singularity University, Inman, ICO CROWD, Forbes, TEDx, MIT Enterprise Forum, NYC Meetup, Detroit Regional Chamber, as just a few examples. Also featured as an entrepreneur in the New York Times, Wired, Fast Company, Techcrunch, and Business Insider. I lead a purpose-driven organization focused on the Decentralized Future of Work (AI+blockchain). https://blackboxfoundation.org

KARIM BABAY

Investor | President of Intrinsic Value Investment Partners

Mr. Babay is also the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Intrinsic Value Investment Partners, a hedge fund that is value focused. Concurrently, Mr. Babay is Chairman & CEO of HealthSapiens, a decentralized healthcare provider that delivers on-demand access to healthcare anytime, anywhere, via mobile devices, the internet, video and phone focusing on the Medicare, Individual, and Hispanic markets. Mr. Babay has over 15 years of global investing, entrepreneurial and corporate finance experience allocating capital across the capital structure (credit and equity), angel investing, liquid and illiquid investments in securities. Mr. Babay started his Wall Street career at Lehman Brothers' Mergers and Acquisition department. As a result of his stellar achievements, Mr. Babay was invited to join the Center of Excellence team of Principal Investing and, later joined the Capital Structure Arbitrage desk. A notable achievement at the global macro level was Mr. Babay's call of the Housing Market Bubble in late 2005, which was mentioned in Larry McDonald's book, "Colossal Failure of Common Sense." Mr. Babay left Lehman Brothers in 2006 and joined Foxhill Capital, a distressed/ special situation hedge fund, as a partner and member of the investment committee. Prior to his Wall Street experience, Mr. Babay implemented the global strategy for various international companies across the Middle East and Europe. Mr. Babay is proficient in three languages, English, French and Arabic, and possesses significant knowledge and understanding of global trends and their impact on current market conditions. Mr. Babay has published numerous studies and analysis while at Columbia University. Mr. Babay is member of the board of director and Chairman of the compensation committee of GLYECO, a publicly traded company, principally involved in processing of waste into high quality ethylene glycol. Mr Babay also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA), Overground Arts Alliance, and Chairman of the Board of the Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, Inc. (FAF). Mr. Babay received a B.S. in finance and economics from HEC Institute and an MBA from Columbia Graduate School of Business.

Eva Kaili

Hon. Joseph Muscat

Prime Minister & Keynote Speaker

Hon. Silvio Schembri

Parliamentary Secretary - Financial Services

John McAfee

Co-Founder - McAfee Crypto Team

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W. Scott Stornetta

PhD, Chief Scientist - Yūgen Partners