Shailee Adinolfi

Director of Government Solutions, ConsenSys

Shailee Adinolfi is Director of Government Solutions for ConsenSys. Prior to joining ConsenSys, she was Vice President at BanQu Inc., an ethereum based identity platform, and spent 11 years on USAID funded projects in economic growth, trade, financial services and technology in Africa, Asia and the Middle East with Chemonics Intl. Inc. and FHI 360. She started her career in Accenture’s federal practice. She holds a BA in Business Administration and MA in International Affairs from American University.

Henry R. Aguda

Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Operations Officer and Chief Transformation Officer, UnionBank of the Philippines, and Chairman of the Board, UBX Philippines

Henry Rhoel R. Aguda, holds the position of Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Operations Officer and Chief Transformation Officer of UnionBank of the Philippines. He is also the Chairman of UBX Philippines Corporation, a subsidiary of the bank. He was a former Chief Information Officer of Globe Telecom, Inc. He served as the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President for the IT Group of the Government System Insurance Services (GSIS) and the Group Chief Information Technology Officer of Digitel Telecommunications Philippines. He was also the Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Nextel Communications Philippines. In addition to this, he has also worked with Fujitsu Philippines, Bayantel, and Computer Information Systems Inc. He was awarded ASEAN CIO of the Year in 2010 in the Government Sector by the International Data Group. Mr. Aguda obtained his degrees in Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Juris Doctor in Law, both from the University of the Philippines. He is the author of the book, Data Privacy & Cybercrime Prevention in the Philippine Digital Age.

Mark Beylin

Co-Founder, CEO, Bounties Network

Mark Beylin is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Bounties Network, a platform that lets people incentivize people to do whatever they want— from freelancing work to social impact tasks like cleaning up the oceans. He was named one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 Developers in 2018, and studied Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Waterloo.

Mark Blick

Head of Government Affairs, Diginex

Mark Blick is Head of Government at Diginex, a global blockchain solutions and financial services company headquartered in Hong Kong. Along with digital asset management and infrastructure support for blockchain transactions, Diginex partners with the public and private sectors globally to help design and implement complex blockchain solutions across a wide range of applications. Mark focuses on regulatory and policy frameworks and how blockchain then enables private sector implementation particularly in pre-competitive collaboration around corporate and social governance. Most recently, Mark has been heavily involved in projects focused on combating slavery, child labour & unfair working practices via distributed ledger technology.

Jake Brukhman

Managing Director & CEO, CoinFund

Jake is Managing Director & CEO at CoinFund, a blockchain-focused cryptofund founded three years ago as one of the world’s very first diversified portfolios of cryptoassets, regarding cryptocurrencies and tokens as a radically new asset class. CoinFund invests and works with companies of all stages in accelerating cryptoeconomic business models. In 2018, CoinFund announced a strategic partnership with Venrock to help evaluate, invest, and accelerate companies in the blockchain space. Jake has worked as an advisor to companies like Kik Interactive and YouNow, the first major VC-backed technology companies to take on blockchain-based business models, as well as decentralization-focused projects like Decentraland, Aragon, and Cent. Previously, Jake was Partner & CTO at Triton Research, a technical product manager and engineer at Amazon.com, and spent five years as a financial technologist at Highbridge Capital Management and as a quantitative researcher at Kohera. Jake has nine years of experience in pure and financial technology, a background in computer science and mathematics, and an avid interest in blockchain and financial technology.

Cecilia Chapiro

Investment Advisor, UNICEF Innovation Fund

Cecilia Chapiro is the investment adviser for the UNICEF Innovation Fund where she leads the sourcing and selection process of open source and frontier tech start-ups in developing and emerging countries. She also manages the blockchain portfolio of investments and developed the measurement model to track the progress of all companies in our portfolio (including extended reality, IoT, drones, blockchain, data science and AI). Before UNICEF, she founded Yunus&Youth (Y&Y) with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus where she accelerated the growth of social businesses in +40 countries. Cecilia holds a Licentiate in Business Administration from ‘Universidad de San Andres’ and a Master’s in Public Administration from NYU where she attended as a Fulbright Scholar.

Charlie Chesney

Conservation Innovator, WWF Panda Labs

Conservation Innovator, associated with WWF Panda Labs

Christa Foster Crawford

J.D., Principal Consultant & Founding Partner, Freedom Resource International

Christa Foster Crawford, J.D., is Principal Consultant & Founding Partner of Freedom Resource International, an international consultancy providing training, resources, and expert advice on human trafficking and modern slavery to non-profits, governments, and businesses. For more than 25 years, Christa has worked within a variety of sectors to end exploitation, including business, law, social enterprise, non-profit/NGOs, and the United Nations. She continues to wear many hats, including Associate Director of Payap Center on Human Rights Law and teaches courses on trafficking and exploitation at the university and graduate level.

Passionate about innovating new ways to combat old problems, Christa helped found the Payap Center for Social Impact, serves on the Asia Leadership Team for the Freedom Business Alliance which combats exploitation through market-based solutions, and co-chairs the Joint Learning Initiative Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Hub which fosters evidence-based practice.

The author/editor of numerous books, articles, and curricula to equip organizations to better understand and address exploitation, Christa speaks and trains in Thailand (where she has been based since 2001), throughout Asia, and on multiple continents (including her home country, the US). Christa is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Claremont McKenna College.

Danielle David

Co-Founder, Jane Strategy

Danielle is the Co-Founder of Jane Strategy, a company focused on helping tech companies build out foundational aspects of their talent and operations functions. After her work at Google, Danielle served as the Director of Operations for Spoon University (acquired by Scripps Networks) and most recently as the Director of People Operations and Talent at Amino Apps. Danielle holds an M.S. in Management Studies from Kellogg and a B.S. in Learning & Organizational Change from Northwestern University.

Patrick Duffy

Founding Partner, The Giving Block

Patrick began as a federal consultant for pharmaceutical companies, focused on collaboration with nonprofits. He then shifted to the nonprofit sector, focusing on operations and fundraising. Merging his nonprofit experience and passion for crypto trading, he now designs and implements initiatives focused on elevating nonprofit outcomes and cryptocurrency adoption.

Nithin Eapen

Co-Initiator, Electis

Nithin Eapen is a well-known Crypto-Evangelist, Speaker, Investor, Trader and the Founder/CEO of Chance River.

Besides taking care of the family office crypto portfolio, he is an advisory board member to multiple ICOs, startups, and a mentor/educator.

He is the creator of the Belpointe Crypto Index (Bloomberg Ticker: CRYPTO) and holds a degree in Engineering from The Wright State University in Ohio as well as a Masters in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Prior to ChanceRiver, Nithin was the Chief Investment Officer for a Crypto Venture Fund, Founder of a software services firm, Investment Banker/Trader and a Technologist.

Besides completing an MS in Financial Mathematics Degree from the University of Chicago while doing a full-time job his life stories go beyond an interesting path to entrepreneurship from being a market-maker on wall street, a poker player, a trivia-of-all-kinds fan and an avid squash player.
Originally from Kerala, he now lives in Connecticut with his wife and five children.

John Egan

Founder, Editional

Cofounder and CEO at Editional, John is a serial entrepreneur and passionate product leader. John believes that blockchain technology enables a new class of utility and media that will allow people to craft more meaningful relationships through authentic ownership and creation. Prior to Editional, John helped to lead enterprise and infrastructure products at Facebook, shipping experiences that touched the lives of billions of users and was also previously co-founder and CEO of YCombinator-backed Caffeinated Mind (acquired by Facebook).

Fereshteh Forough

Founder and CEO, Code to Inspire

Fereshteh’s family left Afghanistan early 80s because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Fereshteh was born in a small town at the border of Iran and Afghanistan. She grew up in a family of eight kids. One year after the Taliban regime collapsed, Fereshteh and her family moved back to Herat, Afghanistan. After returning to Herat, she earned her Bachelor in Computer Science and later her Master’s from Technical University of Berlin in Germany. She taught as a professor at the Computer Science faculty of Herat University for almost three years. In January 2015 she founded the first coding school for girls in Herat, Afghanistan teaching around 150 girls learn to code.

Paul Gambill

Co-Founder, CEO, Nori

Paul Gambill is the co-founder and CEO of Nori, the world’s only carbon removal marketplace. In 2015, Paul founded the first community dedicated to carbon removal called Carbon Removal Seattle. While working at various consultancies like Deloitte Digital, Paul spent more than six years as a software product manager building mobile and web apps for clients including Nike, Showtime, Target, and Starbucks, and has shipped well over a dozen different apps to the public. Paul earned his computer engineering degree from Arizona State University, and his Master of Engineering Management degree from Duke University.

Rhett Godfrey

Founding Member, BSIC & Senior Programs Director, Boma Investments LLC

Rhett Godfrey is a founding member of the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition and is the Senior Programs Director for the collaborative social impact firm, Boma Investments LLC.

 Rhett specializes in multi-stakeholder social impact initiatives and has founded and/or led coalitions in supply chains, ethical fashion, and tech platforms for global youth engagement in the SDGs.

Mr. Godfrey is celebrated public speaker, published author, educator, and thought leader for collaborative social impact.

Rhett holds a BA in Philosophy & Comparative Religion and studied the Environmental Science of Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

Mauricio Tovar Gutiérrez

Co-director, InITColombia Research Group

Mauricio Tovar is an Electronic Engineer from the National University of Colombia with a Master’s Degree in Creation and Management of Innovative and Technological Base Companies from the University of Barcelona. He has been Director of the Bogota Branch of the National University of Colombia. He is currently Co-director of the InTIColombia research group of the National University of Colombia. He has spent three years researching Blockchain technology and its applications in ViveLab Bogotá, a digital innovation lab, where he leads the development of projects for land registration, voting, academic certifications and document security using Blockchain Technology. Mauricio is a member of the Blockchain Colombia Foundation and leader of the Colombia node for the Blockchain Alliance Ibero-America

Houman Haddad

CFA, United Nations World Food Programme

Houman Haddad, CFA, is the Head of Emerging Technologies at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Houman is the founder of the “Building Blocks” project, which seeks to harness the power of blockchain to enhance humanitarian aid. Building Blocks is the world’s largest implementation of blockchain technology for humanitarian assistance, currently serving 106,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan. Building Blocks also has the potential to empower the vulnerable through financial inclusion and digital identities.

Steven Haft

Head of Global Partnerships, ConsenSys

Since 2018 Steven Haft is Head of Global Partnerships at Consensys, largest blockchain company in the world. Until 2017 Haft was SVP Innovation at Time Inc, and partner in its digital transformation. In the years prior, Haft built Indyworks, a consultancy, and joined Vaudeville Ventures. His digital career began when 2001 when Steven joined AOL, rising to the role of VP/Chief Strategy Officer of AOL’s $1.2 billion Interactive Marketing Group. Haft returned to AOL in 2012-13 as Senior Strat Advisor. A veteran story-teller, Steven Haft produced films and tv which garnered 8 Academy Award nominations, and Caesar, Donatello, and BAFTAS, 8 Emmy nominations and a Peabody. Highlights of this work include: “Dead Poets Society”, “Emma”, “Pirates of Silicon Valley” and “MADtv”. Haft is an elected Member of the US & British Motion Picture Academies and Trustee (Emeritus) of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. Steven Haft was named a Fellow of the Disruptor Foundation by Prof. Clay Christensen of the Harvard Business School, where he completed the Executive Education Program on Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. Outside of professional activities, Steven Haft has also been a civic leader around Environmental issues, Human Rights and Arts . His years of civic engagement began as a co-founder of EARTH DAY and National Program Director of the ACLU Foundation.

Nicole Hamilton

Managing Director, TechHub, Springboard Enterprises

Nicole Hamilton is an innovator whose career has spanned several technologies, from medical devices to financial software. Most recently, she joined Springboard Enterprises in 2018 to lead their new Tech Innovation Hub. In 2012, Nicole started a company called Tactile Finance that developed the first software that let banks communicate all of their loan options to consumers with no fine print. Throughout her career she has led both tactical and strategic work on large-scale software development product companies from idea to scaling, and now helps women-led companies in emerging technologies scale their revenue and achieve their funding goals.

Sandra Hart

Pacific Cash & Livelihoods Lead, Oxfam

Sandra is the Pacific Cash & Livelihoods Lead for Oxfam, a global NGO with a presence in over 90 countries worldwide. She leads a portfolio of humanitarian cash transfer response and preparedness projects, including leading the largest NGO-led cash transfer response in the Pacific region. Sandra has extensive experience in natural disaster response and coordination: she worked on microfinance in post-earthquake Haiti, and has worked with the United Nations in emergency and recovery programs in the Pacific, Asia, the Caribbean, and West Africa. She holds a BA from Princeton University (USA) and an MA from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement in Geneva.

Robert J. Hawkins

Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education, World Bank

Robert Hawkins works in the Education Global Practice of the World Bank as the Global Lead for Technology, ICT and Innovation in Education. Bob coordinates Bank strategy and partnerships to support Bank clients to develop and implement innovative solutions to education challenges. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Hawkins worked at the White House on NAFTA legislation and worked for the United States Information Agency in Seville, Spain. He also taught in Madrid, Spain. He received his MA from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), with a concentration in economics and Latin American studies and his BA from the University of Notre Dame.

Jalak Jobanputra

Founding Partner, FuturePerfect Ventures

Jalak Jobanputra is Founding Partner of FuturePerfect Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund in NYC focused on next generation technology. Jalak has been awarded Institutional Investor’s Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers from 2016-2018. FPV’s incubator FPV Labs was selected by the NYC Economic Development Corporation in January 2019 to operate the NYC Blockchain Center, a unique private-public partnership formed to serve as an access point to the growing blockchain ecosystem and collaborate with elected officials on policy initiatives.

Jalak, born in Nairobi, has been a venture capitalist since 1999, when she invested through the dotcom boom and bust in Silicon Valley. She was the Director of Emerging Market Mobile Investments at Omidyar Network, a philanthro-capitalist fund started by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. She worked at Intel Capital investing in enterprise software in Silicon Valley, as well as New Venture Partners and the NYC Investment Fund. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received her MBA from Kellogg in 1999.

Christine Kim

Tech Reporter, Coindesk

Christine Kim is a tech reporter for CoinDesk. She graduated in May 2018 from the University of British Columbia with a dual degree in Economics and International Relations. Christine enjoys covering topics on blockchain governance, DAOs and on-chain monetary policy. In her free time, you’ll find her listening to the latest about Canadian state of affairs from her favorite podcast show, Canadaland.

Ayan Kishore

Director, Digital Development, Creative Development Lab, Creative Associates International

Ayan Kishore directs the Creative Development Lab at Creative Associates International, an international development organization, where he guides the application of technology and media in development, education and peace promoting programs. Ayan Kishore is a social entrepreneur who has successfully built, grown and sold technology companies, such as Professional Diversity Network and Resunate that have helped millions of minorities find careers and secure jobs. Ayan also serves as the Chairman of a volunteer-driven non-profit international development consultancy, Development Solutions Organization. He is an advocate for human-centered design, local innovation, public-private collaboration, and learning in development. Ayan has degrees in Computer Engineering and Human- Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology and Carnegie Mellon University.

Alex Kostura

Director Government and Impact, ConsenSys

Alex Kostura is a Strategy & Business Development Manager at ConsenSys, the world’s leading blockchain technology company, where he is focused on enhancing government performance and social sector outcomes through blockchain-based solutions. Alex is the Product Lead for MuniBLX, an enterprise public finance platform with a mission to reduce costs and improve access for communities and investors. As a former Partnerships Advisor at the US Department of State, Alex led the [email protected] initiative to explore the foreign policy implications and applications of distributed ledger technology for diplomacy and development. He was previously the 2016 Google Public Policy Fellow at the Center for Data Innovation where he led research at the intersection of data, technology, and public policy. He holds an M.A. in public policy and economic development from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, a B.S. from Georgetown University, and a Certificate in Sustainable City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. Alex is a founding board member of Out In Tech DC and a Fellow with the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.

Fanny Lakoubay

Head of Public Relations, RadicalxChange

Fanny is a New-York-based communication and marketing specialist with 12+ years of experience in art and tech. She currently advise various digital art and blockchain companies supporting living artists (Editional NFT creation app, Nifty Supply, CADAF digital art fair, New Art Academy, Rare Art Festival, Snark.art). She is also in charge of public relations for RadicalxChange foundation. She regularly speaks at conferences and guest teaches at NYU, FIT and Christie’s Education. Prior to this, Fanny worked with larger organizations like Christie’s, Artnet, and Societe Generale. She holds an MBA from HEC Paris business school and a BA in Art History.

Christine Leong

Managing Director Security, Digital Identity, Access Management, Accenture

Christine leads Accenture’s Digital Identity Innovations group globally which biometrics and blockchain in identity. She has over 18 years of experience in Biometrics and Information Technology focused on security. Prior to her experience in IT, Christine worked for 9+ years in financial services. She has been supporting Accenture’s thought leadership and efforts in investments in blockchain since 2014.

Christine has worked in several industries including Financial Services, Retail and more recently international development. Her security relevant knowledge spans: Biometrics, Payments & Fraud, Digital identity, Blockchain and Authentication. She is a regular speaker at various conferences globally and has published articles on identity & blockchain. She led the efforts for the ID2020 solution and the continued blockchain identity offering & capability development.

Learn more about the blockchain-based identity work that Christine is involved in:
ID2020 Story video: Establishing a trusted identity with blockchain
Blockchain and ID2020 video transcript

Marcos Allende Lopez

Technology Coordinator, LACChain

Marcos Allende Lopez is the Technical Coordinator at LACChain, a global alliance to promote the use of blockchain in Latin America and the Caribbean. This program aims to develop the blockchain ecosystem in the region in a way that maximizes the social impact and the gender inclusion. LACChain is already providing a free public-permissioned test-net. Marcos is also the Lead Researcher at the IT TechLab of the Inter-American Development Bank, where he is focused on blockchain and quantum technologies, leveraging his areas of expertise as a physicist. He has published several articles and papers in this two topics.

Alex Mashinsky

CEO, Celsius

Alex is one of the inventors of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) with a foundational patent dating back to 1994 and is now working on MOIP (Money Over Internet Protocol) technology. Over 35 patents have been issued to Alex, relating to exchanges, VOIP protocols, messaging and communication. As a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, Alex has raised more than $1 billion and exited over $3 billion. Alex founded two of New York City’s top 10 venture-backed exits since 2000: one of his first companies, Arbinet, IPO’d in 2004 with a market capitalization of over $750 million; and another venture, Transit Wireless, was valued at $1.2 billion at the time of exit.Alex has received numerous awards for innovation, including being nominated twice by E&Y as entrepreneur of the year in 2002 & 2011; Crain’s 2010 Top Entrepreneur; the prestigious 2000 Albert Einstein Technology medal; and the Technology Foresight Award for Innovation (presented in Geneva at Telecom 99).As one of the pioneers of web-based exchanges, Alex authored patents that cover aspects of the Smart Grid, ad exchanges, Twitter, Skype, App Store, Netflix streaming concept and many other popular web companies. Additionally, Arbinet’s fundraising story was featured as a case study in 2001 by Harvard Busines

Raphael Mazet

CEO, Alice

Raphaël Mazet is the CEO of Alice (www.alice.si), a blockchain platform that brings together philanthropists, impact investors and nonprofits to deliver transparent social impact. Prior to Alice, Raphaël was the COO and co-founder of CliqStart, a digital advocacy startup. Before becoming a social tech entrepreneur, he spent ten years working as a lobbyist and corporate communications consultant in Europe and Latin America. Raphaël is Franco-British and trained as a political scientist at Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics. Twitter: @raph_alice

Susan Mcpherson

Founder and CEO, McPherson Strategies

Susan McPherson is a serial connector, angel investor, and corporate responsibility expert. She is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies, a communications consultancy focusing on the intersection between brands and social impact, providing storytelling, partnership creation and visibility to corporations, NGOs and social enterprises. She’s a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Forbes and has 25+ years experience in marketing, public relations, and sustainability communications. She is a featured speaker at industry events including Net Impact, Inspirefest/Dublin, Center for Corporate Citizenship’s Annual Summit, DLD, TOA Berlin, and Techonomy. Susan is a regular guest on a variety of business and leadership podcasts and has appeared on NPR, CNN and CBC (Canada) as well as been quoted in major media outlets including USA Today, The New Yorker, New York Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.

Currently, Susan invests in, and advises women-led technology start-ups, including iFundWomen, Inc., Messy.fm, The Riveter, News Deeply, Hint Water, Apolitical, Arlo Skye, GoldBean and The Muse.

Thessy Mehrain

Director of Global Product & Innovation, ConsenSys, Founder, Women in Blockchain

Creating innovative digital solutions for more than 15 years across several domains Thessy’s focus at Consensys is on increasing social and economic inclusion through blockchain solutions.

She is the Co-Founder of Liquality @Consensys, a project to enable decentralized value exchange for financial inclusion, and frictionless global interactions across blockchains.
In 2016 Thessy founded ‘Women in Blockchain’, a decentralized global community and a catalyst for women defining the blockchain space.
She also worked on self-sovereign identity and a supply chain solution and with the Social Impact team.

Previously, Thessy was Vice President of Product Strategy at JPMorgan’s investment bank, worked with Occupy’s Alternative Banking Group, was a partner in a consultancy for digital solutions and transformation, and co-founded a scientific peer reviews system.
She is a multi-national who embraces the global vibe of New York City.

Gilles Mentre

Founder, Electis

Gilles is the founder of Electis  a not-for-profit, non-partisan and non-commercial organization that supports tech for democracy around the world. Giles is also a Managing Director at Lazard Frères and prior to that was a civil servant working for various French governmnets (including Deputy chief of staff of Minister François Baroin’s office, Ministry of Finance, Economy and Industry and General Finance Inspectorate, financial expert for the International Monetary Fund, technical assistance to Greece,  Deputy chief of staff of Minister Jean-Louis Borloo’s office,Ministry of Energy, Ecology and Sustainable development)

Tyler Mulvihill

Co-Founder, Viant

Tyler is the co-founder of Viant.io, a blockchain-based platform for modeling business processes, tracking assets and building the supply chains of the future. Tyler initiated, and is the Chair of, the Supply Chain Working Group within the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). At ConsenSys, he advises Fortune 500 companies on their supply chain strategy and use case development. Prior to joining ConsenSys Tyler help stand up the development of a fintech market offering focused on delivering exponential growth and operational improvement solutions to his clients. He is a registered CPA in the state of New York.

Billy Nauman

Producer, Financial Times

Billy Nauman is a reporter and producer for Moral Money, the new digital platform and newsletter from the FT featuring news and analysis about the fast-expanding world of socially responsible business, sustainable finance, impact investing, environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends. Before joining Moral Money, Billy worked in the FT’s Specialist division for nine years as a reporter and editor. Most recently, he was the managing editor of FundFire, the FT’s daily publication covering the U.S. institutional investment industry.

Jill Ni

Director, Blockchain Charity Foundation

Blockchain Charity Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving global sustainable development by unlocking the power of blockchain. The foundation has encouraged over 10 blockchain industry players and raised more than $5 million to join the charity projects in less than a year, hoping to lead the industry towards creating social goods. Prior to BCF, Jill had over five years of experience in retail banking and wealth management and managed the mortgage product at HSBC in China. She has also worked at prominent impact investing organizations in the US and China. Jill earned a BA degree from Fudan University and an MBA degree from Yale School of Management where she led the Responsible Investing Club and started Impact Investing Workshop. She is also a CFA charter holder and an active member of the CFA community in China.

Stephan Nicoleau

Cofounder, Managing Director, Fullcycle

Stephan Nicoleau is a co-founder and Managing Director at FullCycle, an investment firm focused on accelerating the adoption of climate-critical technologies at scale. Stephan has had a 15 year career investing in infrastructure, venture capital and social enterprises. In a shift from Wall Street towards impact investing, he founded an investment practice to provide institutional-level insights to investors seeking to achieve social and environmental impact whilst accessing new investment opportunities. Over the course of this 10 year career, Mr. Nicoleau successfully structured and led the effort to bring diverse co-investment capital to the public-private partnership to redevelop LaGuardia Airport – a $4.5 billion project. This effort improved the impact of this important infrastructure project by bringing in local, women-led and minority-owned businesses at an unprecedented scale to build

Stephan’s body of work and experience, investing in technology and infrastructure with impact, has come to fruition at FullCycle, pushing the firm forward in its mission to source and scale technology that will meaningfully reverse climate change. Stephan lives in New York where the firm is headquartered, spends his time as a mentor to young entrepreneurs and professionals, is an avid traveler, reader and soccer player.

Lindsay Nuon

Women of Color in Blockchain

Lindsay began her career in STEM in the US military over 15 years ago and has since worked in the US Intelligence Community with government agencies including NCIS, the FBI, and HHS; Fortune 500 companies, and one of the hottest Cybersecurity start-ups in the industry topping best-of-lists from Dark Reading to WSJ. She is the Founder and CEO of EmpirEqual, an early stage venture reengineering the future of work; an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Hampshire School of Law in the Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Law Certificate Program, a trusted Startup Advisor & Mentor, and the Founder of a the global non-profit, Women of Color in Blockchain (WCB).

Brennan O’Rear

Consultant, QryptoQueers

A fintech consultant and entrepreneur, Brennan O’Rear is a longtime advocate of technology’s potential to advance inclusivity along the spectra of gender, class, race, sexuality, and immigration status. He is the founder of QryptoQueers, an LGBTQ forum for blockchain-related community organization, and was an invited judge at last years One World Award, which recognizes access and inclusion in blockchain technology. Brennan regularly advises groups championing the underrepresented, many of them members of the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition. A UChicago-trained social scientist, Brennan’s scholarly work focuses around behavioral data and surveillance capitalism.

Tal Oron

Executive Director, GoodDollar

Tal Oron, Interim Executive Director at GoodDollar, has great experience of building start-ups. For over 20 years, Tal has been building software-driven businesses and operations. The Imperial College London graduate was Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Wonderbly.com, a children’s book publishing company. Within five years the organisation had grown to achieve annual revenues of £24 million. Tal, who is an ex-developer and has a BSc in Computer Science and a Masters degree in Business Innovation, has been involved with GoodDollar.org from the beginning, since July 2018, and is in charge of distilling the project’s purpose, leading design, managing the budget and tasked with launching it to the public. He is able to discuss the importance of user experience in a blockchain powered world, and more.

Kevin Owocki

CEO, Gitcoin

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co — An Ethereum-based network for growing open source software with incentivization mechanics. He has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene.

Kevin believes strongly that Open Source Software Developement should be sustainably funded. Gitcoin a one-stop shop that gives Software Developers the skills & connections to survive and thrive in this new blockchain ecosystem.

You can find out more about Gitcoin at https://gitcoin.co and Kevin at https://owocki.com

Gitcoin’s mission is to Grow & Sustain Open Source. We believe that OSS devs create billions of dollars in value, but don’t get to capture that value. We believe that blockchain will fundamentally change the way that Open Source is monetized. Our suite of products connect coders to funders, the blockchain-based tools they need to craete value for one another, so they can monetize their work in Open Source.

Gitcoin One liners:

1. Gitcoin a one-stop shop that gives Software Developers the skills & connections to survive and thrive in the emerging blockchain ecosystem.
2. Gitcoin grows Open Source Software by leveraging incentivization mechanics.
3. Gitcoin leverages blockchain technology to steward Sustainability in Open Source Software.

Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, a platform that gives Open Source software developers the opportunity to build, collaborate, and thrive in the emerging blockchain ecosystem. Kevin has a BS in Computer Science, 10 years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, and is a community organizer in the Boulder Colorado Tech Scene.

You can find out more about Gitcoin at https://gitcoin.co and Kevin on his personal website : https://owocki.com

Yuliya Panfil

Senior Fellow and Director, Future of Property Rights

Yuliya Panfil is a senior fellow and director of New America’s Future of Property Rights program. Prior to joining New America, Panfil worked at Omidyar Network, where she sourced and managed property rights investments. Prior to joining Omidyar, Panfil was a land governance and legal advisor at USAID, where she oversaw USAID’s responsible land-based investment practice and led USAID’s private sector and donor engagement on land and property rights issues. She previously worked as a corporate lawyer at White & Case, LLP where she focused on capital markets transactions as well as several land rights and indigenous rights projects for the United Nations and other organizations.

Panfil began her career as a journalist for Miami Herald and has also written for the Washington Post, Miami Herald, USA Today, New York Daily News, Newsday and the South Florida Business Journal. Panfil holds a law degree from Columbia Law School and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University.

Beatriz Helena Ramos

Founder, DADA.nyc

Beatriz Helena Ramos is an artist and an entrepreneur. She is the founder of DADA.nyc the world’s only visual conversation network where people speak to each other through drawings and create collaborative art. Before founding DADA, Beatriz made illustrations for the New York Times, worked in animated TV shows for MTV, Disney and Cartoon Network. She opened her own digital content shop, Dancing Diablo, where she directed over a hundred videos for companies like Coca-Cola, Jet Blue, Macy’s, Chips Ahoy, and Hasbro among others.

Donna Redel

The Earth Institute

Yorke E. Rhodes |||

Co-Founder of Blockchain, Microsoft

Yorke E. Rhodes III is Cofounder of Blockchain @Microsoft and Principal Program Manager Azure Blockchain Engineering. He is a passionate technologist with broad interests, always drawn to the next shiny object. He earned a BS in Computer Science from NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has worked in industry for over 20 years, in enterprises such as Microsoft & IBM and startups in wireless, mobile, digital marketing & ecommerce. At Goldman Sachs Investment Bank he built their first wireless internet ingress and advised bankers in wireless, telecom and media. As a young developer he saw the beginnings of client server databases, obscure languages like ada, lisp & paradox and the birth of the internet. Blockchain piqued his interest in the summer of 2015 with the launch of Ethereum. An Adjunct Professor at NYU, he has taught Digital Marketing, Ecommerce and Intrapreneurship and is currently developing a course on the user centric economy called #OurNextEconomy.

Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer, Global Blockchain Business Council

Sandra’s mission is to help those most vulnerable and financially excluded, by harnessing technology for social and economic good. She holds directorships on several industry boards and companies as well as advises and angel invests in emerging tech start-ups across blockchain, robotics, digital assets, IoT, VR/AR. She has cofounded two tech startups, one focusing on helping rural farmers with asset registry and trading, and the other, removing business frictions for independent artists. Initially a founding Board member, Sandra was appointed to CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) March 2018, a Swiss non-profit focusing on education, advocacy & partnership across over 40 countries. She also serves on the US Department of State Speakers’ Bureau for blockchain / security, the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum: Use Cases & Transition Scenarios Working Group, the NYC
Blockchain Center, and the Global Blockchain Policy Council (GBPC), founded by bipartisan South Korean Congress.

She served as a former Treasurer and founding board director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and founding member of the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL), founding member of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger. Sandra was also the former Executive Director, Digitization, CME Group, where she was responsible for the company’s digital asset and blockchain/distributed ledger technology (DLT) initiatives, including Bitcoin futures & index pricing products and post trade solutions. Previously, she served as Head of Foreign Exchange (FX) & Metals Research and Product Development.

Ro led the EMEA M&A FX and interest rates derivatives advisory group at Morgan Stanley London and worked at Deutsche Bank London as a FX structurer. Ro holds a M.B.A. in Finance from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. Degree in History and Studies in the Environment from Yale University.

Silvana Rodriguez

Director of Strategic Partnerships, ConsenSys

Silvana Rodriguez is the Director for Strategic Partnerships in the Americas  at ConsenSys, a blockchain-based venture production studio.  A former U.S. diplomat with the State Department from 2006 to 2018, Silvana most recently served as the Senior Partnerships Advisor in the Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships, where she focused on public-private partnerships exploring blockchain use for international development.   Her diplomatic career also included assignments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia covering peace process issues and overseeing landmine removal programs, in Washington D.C. covering Russia’s foreign policy and political-military affairs, at the U.S. Embassy in Madagascar working on political and human rights issues, and at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina.  Prior to joining the State Department, Silvana spent several years in consulting as an Associate at AALC (formerly Armitage Associates), where she assisted defense and energy clients with projects in East Asia, Afghanistan, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the United States in identifying joint venture partners, assessing market entry feasibility and mitigating political risk.   She holds a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University and an M.A. in Public Policy from Princeton University.

April Rudin

Founder and President, The Rudin Group

Founder and President of The Rudin Group, April J. Rudin is widely acknowledged as a top marketing strategist for the financial-services and wealth-management sectors. Distinguished by her ability to forecast and leverage critical trends, and by her expertise in digital and traditional media, she leads a firm that designs bespoke marketing campaigns for some of the world’s leading wealth-management firms, fintechs, and family offices; campaigns that strengthen brand value and drive client acquisition. The Rudin Group was founded in 2008.

April is recognized by Onalytica as the #1 “Influencer” in wealth management, and  regularly-featured source of expert commentary to international news and business outlets, trade publications, and broadcast media. She is an annual contributor to the Capgemini World Wealth Report; produces the CFA Institute’s Annual Outlook for U.S. Wealth Management; and speaks about wealth, next-gen, and fintech at conferences in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Africa. April is also a contributor to the Wealthtech book.

April has created an extensive repertoire of thought leadership that has appeared in Huffington Post, American Banker, CFA Enterprising Investor, Family Wealth Report, Fundfire, Wealthmanagement.Com, and heads the editorial board for NexChange, a global fintech start-up based in Hong Kong and serves on the Board of MiradorLLC, a wealthtech firm providing concierge reporting for U/HNW. A member of the Private Asset Management advisory board, she also serves as a judge for the FT Wealthtech awards, Family Wealth Report’s Annual Wealth Management Industry Awards, and Canada’s Wealth Professional Awards.

April is the mother of two sons who are quick to point out that they considered her an “influencer” well before Onalytica did.

Dr. Jolyne Sanjak

Senior Associate, Tetra Tech

Dr. Jolyne Sanjak currently is a senior associate on Tetra Tech’s land tenure and property rights team. She is an experienced executive and technical expert dedicated to international development. Her passion is to see a world with secure land rights for women and men. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, rural and urban land governance, monitoring and evaluation, and other areas of international development. She has a Ph.D. focused on agricultural economics and international development from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Nimit Sawhney

Co-Founder and CEO, Voatz

Nimit Sawhney is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz, Inc, a mobile-focused elections platform that uses biometrics, cryptography and blockchain technology to enable voting via smartphones and tablets. Since 2016, Voatz has run 39 elections with towns, cities, states, both major state political parties, colleges and universities, and unions. More recently, Voatz ran the first mobile blockchain vote in US Federal Election history. Specifically, Voatz partnered with West Virginia to empower deployed military and overseas citizens to vote in the 2018 Primary Elections (2 counties) and the 2018 Mid-Term Elections (24 counties). In March 2019, Voatz was selected by the City/County of Denver CO for its 2019 Municipal General Election. Nimit’s background is in mobile security and development, previously serving as Director of R&D at Oberthur Technologies, and prior to that, as Director of R&D at MoreMagic Solutions. Nimit holds a Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Business Management.

Ric Shreves

Director, Emerging Technology, Mercy Corps

Ric Shreeves  is a senior advisor on Mercy Corps’ Technology for Development team. In that role, he manages the field technology testing program through which Mercy Corps explores new technologies and innovations for humanitarian aid and development. Ric is also the subject matter lead for blockchain tech at Mercy Corps and the author of a white paper on distributed ledger technology, “A Revolution in Trust,” published by Mercy Corps in May 2017

Aaron Stanley

Consensus & Live Journalism Editor, CoinDesk

Aaron handles content development – including agenda planning, speaker recruitment and selection – for CoinDesk’s Consensus events, the blockchain industry’s premier conference brand. His portfolio includes the annual flagship event each May in New York, as well as Consensus: Asia in Singapore and Consensus: Invest, both held in the fall. Additionally, he oversees all multimedia products around the Consensus brand, including the CoinDesk Live show and the Road to Consensus podcast. He previously covered the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry as a reporter for CoinDesk and Forbes.com. Prior to that, he spent four years with the Financial Times’ Washington Bureau, where he focused on covering U.S. business and politics and building out interactive and multimedia products.

Alicia Syrett

Founder and CEO, Pantegrion Capital

Alicia Syrett is the Founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. She is a recurring panelist on CNBC and MSNBC, a Contributor for Inc., a 2019 Fellow at the Economic Club of New York, and an Instructor at Columbia University. She is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Women’s Forum of NY, and WomenCorporateDirectors. She currently serves on the Board of the NY Tech Alliance, several company and advisory boards. Her TED talk on “Why VCs and Angel Investors Say ‘No’ to Entrepreneurs” has been viewed over 75,000 times. She tweets @AliciaSyrett.

Ms. Syrett was named as one of LinkedIn’s 2018 “Top Voices in Startups and Entrepreneurship,” one of the “30 Women in Venture Capital to Watch in 2018” by Business Insider, one of the “25 Angel Investors in New York You Need to Know” by AlleyWatch, one of Wharton’s “40 Under 40” by Wharton Magazine, and one of Virgin’s “Five Next Generation Leaders Emerging from Tech.” She has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc., The Huffington Post, Mashable, Entrepreneur, NPR’s Marketplace, and USA Today.  She has also appeared on CNBC’s Make Me a Millionaire Inventor and Cash Crowd, Nightly Business Report (NBR) on PBS, and Fox Business’s Risk & Reward. She founded The Point 25 Initiative and also wrote a Guide for Entrepreneurs for #MentHERnyc, an event she co-founded.

Prior to founding Pantegrion, Ms. Syrett spent over 10 years in the financial industry, which included her entrepreneurial journey as the first employee and CAO of a multi-billion dollar private equity firm.  She graduated early from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics (magna cum laude) and concentrations in Finance and Accounting. She also possesses two MBA degrees from the London Business School (with distinction) and Columbia Business School where she received Beta Gamma Sigma honors.

Alicia Syrett is the Founder/CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments, and The Point 25 Initiative which helps women-led companies build robust Advisory Boards. She was named as one of LinkedIn’s 2018 “Top Voices in Startups and Entrepreneurship,” one of the “30 Women in Venture Capital to Watch in 2018” by Business Insider, and one of the “25 Angel Investors in New York You Need to Know” by AlleyWatch. She has been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Inc., The Huffington Post, Mashable, Entrepreneur, NPR’s Marketplace, and USA Today. She has appeared on CNBC and MSNBC 100+ times, and her TED talk on “Why VCs and Angel Investors Say ‘No’ to Entrepreneurs” has been viewed over 75,000 times. She is a 2019 Fellow at the Economic Club of New York, a Board Member of the NY Tech Alliance, and a Contributor for Inc. Prior to founding Pantegrion, she was the first employee and CAO of a multi-billion dollar private equity firm. She tweets @AliciaSyrett.

Tomicah Tillemann

Founder and Director of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator and Chair of the Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative, New America

Dr. Tomicah Tillemann is the founder and Director of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator and Chair of the Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative at New America. The Accelerator works with organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, State Department, Coca-Cola, and Harvard to deploy technology platforms that address governance and social impact challenges worldwide. He is also Chairman of the Global Blockchain Business Council and an advisor to both startups and large technology companies. He previously served at the State Department as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, leading a team of experts that brought together technology, resources, and partners to build out over 20 major initiatives in 55 countries. Dr. Tillemann led the State Department’s Global Philanthropy Working Group and founded the Bretton Woods II Initiative, working with sovereign wealth and pension funds to manage social, governance, and environmental risks. Earlier in his career, he was a speechwriter for the Secretary of State, on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a reporter for Reuters New Media, a radio host, and a senior staffer on numerous U.S. Senate and congressional campaigns. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Blockchain Council, the United Nations World Food Program Innovation Advisory Council, and the Board of Trustees of the Lantos Foundation. He was educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins and is a co-holder of four patents.

Tal Viskin

Blockchain for Development Lead, Accenture

Jeff Wald

Founder, Work Market

Jeff Wald is the Founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to efficiently and compliantly, organize, manage and pay freelancers (purchased by ADP). Jeff has founded several other technology companies including Spinback (eventually sold to salesforce) He is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors.

Jeff holds an MBA from Harvard University and an MS and BS from Cornell University. Jeff is the author of “The Birthday Rules” and the upcoming book “The End of Jobs: The Rise of the Agile Company and the On-Demand Worker”.  Jeff was named “One of the 100 Most Influential People’ in Staffing” by the Staffing Industry Analysts in 2017 & 2018.

Steven Waterhouse

Orchid Labs

Alex Wilson

Founding Partner, The Giving Block

Alex’s background is in management consulting, specializing in digital transformation which led him into a career focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency. For the last few years, Alex has been investing and consulting in the blockchain space. Now he’s turned his attention to the nonprofit world.

Alissa Worley

Global Marketing Director, Blockchain | DLT, Accenture

Alissa Worley is the global marketing director for Accenture’s blockchain and distributed ledger technologies. She has over 20 years of experience in financial and professional services marketing. She began working with blockchain in 2016 and was part of the core team that created Accenture’s blockchain business which now spans the globe, engages clients across all industries, and ranges from pure R&D to full scale client business transformation. For the past few years, Alissa has led initiatives on inclusion and diversity in blockchain, leveraging Accenture’s deep commitment in the space.

She is the Vice Chairman of the Marketing Committee for Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation Project, and the co-founder and Chair of its Social Impact Special Interest Group. She also serves on the Ecosystem and Advocacy Advisory Committee for the ID2020 Alliance.

Prior to joining Accenture, Alissa led marketing and business initiatives with organizations including JPMorgan, PwC and AllianceBernstein (AB).

To learn more about Blockchain technologies, visit: Accenture.com/blockchain

Twitter: @AWorley414

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

John Zettler

CEO & CoFounder, Rareart

John Zettler is the CEO & CoFounder of R.A.R.E Art (RareArt.io) – a marketplace for digital art secured by the blockchain.  R.A.R.E Art sells certificates of authenticity on digital artworks for over 130 independent artists + a number of design-focused brands.

Diego Zuluaga

Policy Analyst, Cato Institute

Diego Zuluaga is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, where he covers financial technology and consumer credit. Before joining Cato, Zuluaga was Head of Financial Services and Tech Policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. While at the IEA, he authored papers on the social value of finance, the regulation of online platforms, and the taxation of capital income, among others. His work has been featured in print and broadcast media, such as the Times, Newsweek, and the Daily Telegraph. Zuluaga is a prolific public speaker as well as a former lecturer in economics at the University of Buckingham.

Originally from Bilbao in northern Spain, Zuluaga holds a BA in economics and history from McGill University, and an MSc in financial economics from the University of Oxford.