MIND THE GAP - BUILDING THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE CRYPTO WORLD TO THE FINANCIAL WORLD 10th of April 2015
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Adam Vaziri
Director Diacle
Adam Vaziri is a qualified lawyer and director of Diacle, a legal/regulatory consultancy for digital currency businesses. He also acts as a consultant for Neopay; leading the market in delivering compliance solutions to e-money institutions, payment institutions and related industries. He is a director of the UK Digital Currency Association and the founder of Coinstructors - a full service consultancy for the development of new digital tokens/assets/currencies. He organised the first digital currency hackathon in London, HackCo.in, next one scheduled in India for March 2015.
Jared Marx
Partner with the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP
Jared Marx is a partner with the law firm of Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP, where he practices as a litigator and regulatory attorney. His areas of specialization include: Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Marx worked as a litigator at another major national law firm, and clerked for United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt in the Eastern District of New York.
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly is an investor, author, and financial markets commentator.
He is an expert in global financial markets, macro-economics and digital currencies. Brian Kelly has over twenty years experience in financial markets and is the author of the book The Bitcoin Big Bang - How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World. He is a CNBC contributor and can be seen regularly on Fast Money. Brian is a graduate of the University of Vermont where he received a BS in Finance. He also holds an MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business with a concentration in finance and econometrics.
Dale White
Development Manager for Manx Telecom's
Dale White has over 16 years experience in the field of business development, collaborative partnerships and joint ventures across telecoms, virtualization, IT cost reduction and secure communications. In his role as Business Development Manager for Manx Telecom's UK and Channel Islands interests, Dale also leads Manx Telecom's focus on the emerging sector of Blockchain Technologies & Crypto Currencies.
Ron Quaranta
CEO of Digital Currency Labs LLC
"Ron is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur, with 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors, currently as Chief Executive Officer of Digital Currency Labs (
www.DigitalCurrencyLabs.com), a financial technology and strategic advisory firm which focuses on bridging the gap between the emerging world of digital currencies and Wall Street. He is co-creator of the Bitcoin Volatility Index (xBVIX), and previously served as director at Falcon Global Capital, one of the first bitcoin investment funds. In addition, he is co-founder of the Wall Street Bitcoin
Gareth Jenkins
Founder & Lead Developer of DeckBound
Gareth is the founder and architect at EVA Plexus, where he and his team are building the Deckbound suite of technologies and games, as well as the supporting bitbind.io platform. The Deckbound systems allow for the creation of digital collectible trading cards that are directly owned by players. Deckbound also solves the problem of guaranteed unique and provable card distribution by leveraging the cryptographic properties of the blockchain. In addition, it uses these properties to provide for the procedural generation of card abilities, art and other attributes. Owners of Deckbound cards can play those cards in any supporting game, the first of which will be Deckbound Heroes, launching in 2015. The bitbind.io platform allows digital assets to be attached to the Bitcoin blockchain using a namespace-based hierarchical tagging mechanism.
Robert Schwentker
Founder of Blockchain University
Robert Schwentker is a technologist with a passion for inspiring software developers with new tools, platforms and paradigms. Along with several other startups, he founded Blockchain University which educates developers on blockchain technologies. Previously he lead startup and developer relations programs at PayPal and American Express.
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Aaron L. Kaplan
Associate at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC
Aaron L. Kaplan is a founder of Coincross LLC and an associate at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum PLLC, a Wall Street based securities law firm. Aaron focuses his practice on crowdfunding (accredited, and non-accredited) as well as virtual currency regulation. Aaron�s desire to integrate the new regulations proposed by the JOBS Act prompted him to be a creator of automated securities platforms for distribution and participation purposes. Using his background in financial services and securities law, Aaron and Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum have focused on facilitating the ability to respond and integrate new regulations and financial technologies.
Lorien Gamaroff
CEO and founder of Bankymoon
I am the CEO and founder of Bankymoon, a company specialising in developing crypto-currency integrations. I have been developing software for the last 20 years working in Media, Energy and Financial Services. I recently received global attention for developing the world�s first Blockchain enabled smart metering system.
Peter Kirby
Peter Kirby - President at Factom
"Peter is a seasoned executive with over twenty years of sales experience in the computer software, pharmaceuticals and real estate investment sectors. Prior to joining CoinTerra, Peter founded four companies: AlphaWave Labs, Inc., Ogden Commercial Development, LLC, Rocket Mortgage, Inc. and Rocket Real Estate, LLC. Peter has a degree in Biochemistry from Lehigh University, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Acton School of Business."
Andrew Beal
Attorney at Crowley Strategy
Andrew is a corporate attorney in Los Angeles. In addition to providing general corporate counsel to emerging technology companies, Andrew advises virtual currency companies in the areas of federal and state regulation, Bank Secrecy Act compliance, and securities law issues related to the sale and issuance of digital assets. Andrew is a frequent speaker on virtual currency related topics and a mentor at Plug and Play�s bitcoin accelerator program in Silicon Valley
Philip Agyei Asare
Founder of Dream Foundation Ghana
Philip is the founder of Dream Foundation Ghana, a non-profit created to empower young entrepreneurs, whom he says are the intellectual, social and cultural lifeblood of a country. The foundation brings together young entrepreneurs and helps them establish their various businesses online to serve an international market, with Bitcoin as the means of payment.
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Igor Telyatnikov, Vice President of Operations
What it Takes to Launch a Bitcoin Exchange
Igor was previously VP of Operations and Business Development for EasyCopay, a pharmacy payment platform. Prior to EasyCopay, Igor led West Coast Business Development for LiftDNA, a digital ad exchange platform focused on managing online publisher ad revenue by making real time pricing predictions for over 10 Billions Ads Per Month. Before that, he held multiple roles over 5 years in the Security Technologies and Systems Integration divisions of Ingersoll Rand (TICKER: IR) / Allegion (TICKER: ALLE), where he drove adoption of new security technologies. With a vested interest in entrepreneurism, he also serves as managing partner at Cvetlo (a tech incubator and seed investment firm focused on fintech, online media, and adtech).
Sian Jones
Founder, EDCAB @COINSULT
Sian is a regulatory compliance consultant at COINsult, focused on digital currencies and consensus-based technologies. She advises fintech startups on regulatory, tax and jurisdictional strategy and helps established businesses evaluate cryptocurrencies and blockchain, decentralised and distributed technologies. Si�n is co-founder of EDCAB - European Digital Currency and Blockchain Technology Forum, a Brussels-based public policy platform, and also a founder member of the UK Digital Currency Association and co-lead of its Regulation and Banking Group. She convened the first roundtable meeting of European digital currency associations. Si�n contributes regularly to Europe�s leading cryptocurrency podcast, EpicenterBitcoin; briefs Members of the European and UK Parliaments about virtual currencies; and frequently speaks and sits on regulatory panels at conferences and meet-up groups. Si�n currently divides her time between London, Brussels and the Isle of Man.
