Steering Committee
By alphabetical order
Chris Carlin
Head of Alliances, Redistribution Solutions and Data Products, Asia
Morningstar
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Chris Carlin is Head of Alliances, Redistribution Solutions, and Data Products, Asia for Morningstar, overseeing the business in North Asia, Japan, and ASEAN markets. Carlin spent 16 years at Thomson Reuters where he held many roles, and most recently served as Director of Investment & Advisory products for Asia Pacific. In his career he has worked in the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong. In addition, Carlin was a key member of Irish Funds, an industry body, which promotes Ireland as a domicile for funds and asset servicing.
Carlin holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from Arizona State University, and earned his MBA from the Manchester Business School.
Nitin Gaur
Director, IBM Financial Sciences and Digital Assets
IBM
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Nitin Gaur, Director of IBM WW Digital Asset Labs is renowned for his ability to analyse opportunities, anticipate trends, and create technologies that align with operational needs, catapult profitability, and dramatically improve the end-customer experience.
Since taking this role in 2015, Nitin has designed “blockchain for enterprise” solutions for large customers in regulated industries by working with various entities such as IBM research, large financial services industry clients, regulators and startup community addressing the fragmented blockchain landscape with existing application and transaction infrastructure.
Daniel Haudenschild
President of the Board of Directors
Crypto Valley Association
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Samson Lee
Founder & CEO
Coinstreet Partners
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Mr. Samson Lee (or Sam), is a prominent entrepreneur and FinTech executive. He is also a board advisor, independent/non-executive director, public speaker, lecturer, corporate trainer and private investor. He has been a keynote speaker and expert panelist at over 50 international conferences, regional meetings and corporate events. His vision is to bring wealth inclusion and improve economic inequality in the world by diminishing the boundaries among nations and connecting isolated economies through financial technology and innovation.
Currently, Mr. Lee is the Founder & CEO of Coinstreet Partners, Honorary Guest Lecturer & Fintech and Blockchain Committee of Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (EDC), Independent Director of DSS (NYSE:DSS), Vice President of Blockchain Applications & Investment Alliance, Founding Chairman of Belt & Road TechFin Association, Chief Crypto-Economic Advisor of Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange as well as Co-Founder of The STO Lab, BMI-Coinstreet Digital (BC Digital), STO Global-X, Ethereum South China Community, and the Asia Pacific Digital Economy Institute.
Mr. Lee graduated with an MBA and a Master of Science degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.
Robert Lui
Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader
Deloitte
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Robert is Partner of Audit & Assurance, Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader, Government Affairs Leader, and Capital Market Group Leader of Deloitte China. Robert has assisted more than 50 entities in their initial public offerings in Hong Kong over the past years, and he is the lead client service partner of a number of listed companies.
Sachiko Ohshige
Managing Director
Accenture
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Martin Sabine
Chairman
Somerley Capital
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Mr. Sabine is responsible for overseeing our business development, cultivating long-term client relationship, introducing new clients and projects, monitoring industry developments and liaising with team heads and members on specific transactions. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oxford in July 1969. He was awarded a Thouron Scholarship to attend the Wharton Graduate School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania in that year. He received a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma honour society in April 1971.
After graduation, Mr. Sabine worked in the financial field in London before coming to Hong Kong in 1977. After working in the corporate finance department of Wardley Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited until 1983, latterly as a director, he set up Somerley International Limited in 1983. Since that time, Somerley International Limited and now Somerley Capital Limited have developed into one of the most active firms in the corporate finance advisory field in Hong Kong. Mr. Sabine is chairman of the Board of Directors of Somerley Capital Holdings Limited and Somerley Capital Limited and is their ultimate controlling shareholder.
Mr. Sabine has written a book on corporate finance (which is called Corporate Finance: Flotations, Equity Issues and Acquisitions), which has been translated into Chinese, Italian and Spanish. Mr. Sabine is a member of the Takeovers Panel and a fellow of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.
Dr. David Wen
Chairman
Asia Pacific Digital Economy Institute
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David Wen is a Professor at Zhejiang University International Business School and a senior research professor at People’s Bank of China Fintech Research Center (Zhejiang University). He was the co-founder of eCurrency Mint Ltd (a US company funded by Ray Dalio, Pierre Omidyar, and Tom Steyer, all leading silicon valley financier). He was the chief scientist and was responsible for the architecting and design of the world first Central Bank Digital Currency product and solution, even before central banks around the world was thinking about it. eCurrency has been deployed as pilot project in India, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda, South Africa, Canada, Sweden etc. Prior to eCurrency, he has served as the Chief Security Architect, Chief Scientist and Manager at federal government contractors at NASA and DoD for the creation, piloting and productization of US federal government identity system called the Personal Identification and Verification (PIV) project. He was also instrumental in the development of the various PIV related technology into federal standard called FIPS 201.
In 2017, he was elected unanimously as the first Chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s focus group on Digital Currency due to his leadership in promoting Digital Currency around the world, especially in developing world. He also worked with the Institute of Digital Money of People’s Bank of China, who produced a special research report describing his work. He co-authored the first book on Central Bank Digital Currency called “Legal Digital Currency” with Professor Chen Baoshan and was published by the People’s Financial Publishing Company in 2018.
Peter Yan
Chief Executive Officer
Hong Kong Cyberport
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Mr Peter Yan is a leading member of the information technology sector with over three decades of experience. He is now the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and leads the digital technology flagship to carry out its public missions to foster industry development, enterprise transformation and talent cultivation to realise Cyberport’s vision to create new impetus for Hong Kong’s new economy through digital technology.
Organizing Committee
By alphabetical order
Eva Chan
Chairman
Hong Kong Investor Relations Association
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Tan Chong Huat
Deputy Chairman Disciplinary Committee
Singapore Exchange Limited
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Edward Lai
CEO
BOA Global Asset Management Ltd
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Stephan Law
Managing Director
ANS Capital Limited
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Stephen Law is currently the Managing Director of ANS Capital Limited, with a focus on investment and corporate finance. He was previously the CFO of MTR Corporation Ltd (HK: 0066) responsible for finance, investment control, treasury, investor relations, information technology and materials & stores.
Prior to MTR, Stephen was a managing director of TPG, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. He was responsible for private equity investments in Asia. He was a founding member of the TPG Growth Asia team, leading key deals across different industries including consumer /retail, energy, healthcare. He also executed many successful IPOs in HK, US and Vietnam, and led the exits from his investment portfolio.
Prior to joining TPG in July 2006, Stephen Law was a director of Morningside, where he was responsible for a portfolio of venture capital investments. Under his management and directorships, these investee companies became leaders in their respective industries in the region. Stephen served as a director of the top three online game operator in China. He was the Chief Financial Officer of the second biggest outdoor advertising operator in China and he led its later sale to JC Decaux. Stephen was a founding director of an advertising agency which was subsequently merged with WPP Group. Stephen also founded and consolidated the Communication Central Group, the largest independent interactive marketing agency in China, which was sold to Publicis.
Prior to Morningside, Stephen focused on corporate finance and development for the Wheelock and Wharf Groups. He developed brewery business in China together with Foster’s. He initiated the launch of broadband business resulting in a multi-revenue model, and led the dual listing of i-Cable Communications Limited in Hong Kong and the United States. Prior to working for Wheelock, Stephen served as regional financial controller for multinationals.
Stephen started his career with Arthur Andersen in the United Kingdom. Stephen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong. He is currently a board member of the Hong Kong Business Accountants Association and was a Council member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was an Adjunct Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has also been appointed by the Ministry of Finance in China as an expert consultant to provide advice on finance and management accounting. He is a board member of SOW Asia, a charitable foundation which supports social enterprises through financial investments and accelerator program.
Stephen is an independent director of China Everbright Limited (HK: 165), China Galaxy Securities Co., Ltd. (HK: 6881), Bank of Guizhou Co., Ltd. (HK: 6199), and Somerley Capital Holdings Limited (HK: 8439). He was previously a non executive director of China NT Pharma Group Company Limited (HK : 1011) which is a comprehensive pharmaceutical group, engaging in investment, R&D, production, marketing and promotion of medicines and new medicinal technologies. He was also an independent director of US listed Stealth Biotherapeutics Corp (Nasdaq : MITO), which is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focusing on the discovery, development and commercialisation of novel therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction. He is also a council member of the Hong Kong Independent Non-Executive Director Association.
Stephen holds a bachelor degree in science from the University of Birmingham, the United Kingdom and also received a master degree in business administration from the University of Hull, the United Kingdom.
Juwan Lee
CEO
NexChange
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Albert Yip
Chairman
Syndicate Capital Group
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Awards Committee –
Best of Class TADS
By alphabetical order
Chris Carlin
Head of Alliances, Redistribution Solutions and Data Products, Asia
Morningstar
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Chris Carlin is Head of Alliances, Redistribution Solutions, and Data Products, Asia for Morningstar, overseeing the business in North Asia, Japan, and ASEAN markets. Carlin spent 16 years at Thomson Reuters where he held many roles, and most recently served as Director of Investment & Advisory products for Asia Pacific. In his career he has worked in the United States, Australia, and Hong Kong. In addition, Carlin was a key member of Irish Funds, an industry body, which promotes Ireland as a domicile for funds and asset servicing.
Carlin holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Finance from Arizona State University, and earned his MBA from the Manchester Business School.
Simon Chan
COO
Heyokha Brothers
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Pietro Doran
Managing Principal
First Rock Associates (Asia) Ltd.
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Eva Law
Chairman
Association of Family Offices in Asia
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Dr. Eva Law is a seasoned professional in asset management, private equity and wealth management, having diversified knowledge and experience in running multi-lines of business. She specialized in serving ultra affluence and entrepreneurs, carried proven track records in creating new business and generating profits.
Eva is the CEO of Flex Group Private Office Ltd, a US single family office, active in North America and has a new set up in Singapore. She is also the chairman of the investment management company that serves the family office. Besides, Eva is the owner of CAG International running various lines of business. CAG International received the Best Investment Manager Serving Family Offices & the Best Advisor to Family Offices Awards in 2019. She manages her group for venturing direct investment and family office solutions business. The investment focus of her group is about ESG & impact investment as well as disruptive technology contributing to a better future. She owns a superb business relationship with family principals and extensive industry stakeholders. Her recent endeavour is advising UNDP to craft the UN Future Capital Leaders Platform for achieving sustainability goals.
Ken Lo
Chief Strategy Officer
HKbitEx
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David Ogilvy
Senior Product Manager
SBI
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Awards Committee –
Eco-System Excellence
By alphabetical order
Barry Chan
Partner, Financial Services Sector, Global Business Services
IBM
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Mr. Barry Chan has 20+ years of experience in consultation and information technology in Hong Kong. He expertises in leading digital transformation strategy formulation incorporating innovations in open banking, AI and blockchain etc. Barry has strong proven industry track record leading complex systems projects, bringing sustainable business value to banks and financial institutes.
Brian Tang
Executive Director
LITE Lab@HKU
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Mr. Barry Chan has 20+ years of experience in consultation and information technology in Hong Kong. He expertises in leading digital transformation strategy formulation incorporating innovations in open banking, AI and blockchain etc. Barry has strong proven industry track record leading complex systems projects, bringing sustainable business value to banks and financial institutes.
Peter Koo
APAC Leader of IT & Specialized Assurance
Deloitte
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Emi Lorincz
Board Member
Crypto Valley Association
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Fred Sheu
National Technology Officer
Microsoft
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As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant and scalable solutions into Hong Kong market. His main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.
Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong. Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF).Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.
Dr. Tsai Wei-Tek
Professor of China Beihang University
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His current research focuses on blockchains, smart contracts, and computational law. He has authored 6 books and more than 600 papers in software engineering, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing with 12K citations and h-index > 57. He has supervised 80 Ph.D. and numerous master students. He travels widely and has held various honorable professorships in Asia and Europe.
Peter Yan
Chief Executive Officer
Hong Kong Cyberport
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Mr Peter Yan is a leading member of the information technology sector with over three decades of experience. He is now the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and leads the digital technology flagship to carry out its public missions to foster industry development, enterprise transformation and talent cultivation to realise Cyberport’s vision to create new impetus for Hong Kong’s new economy through digital technology.
Audit & Vetting Committee –
Best of Class TADS
By alphabetical order
Nick Cowan
Group Chief Executive Officer
Gibraltar Stock Exchange
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Joy Lam
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
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JOY LAM is a Partner of Sidley Austin LLP based in Hong Kong and leads the development of Sidley’s Hong Kong practice focused on the intersection of FinTech and Blockchain with investment funds and asset management.
Joy’s practice focuses on advising clients within the virtual assets ecosystem in Hong Kong. This includes (i) advising on the structuring and offer of tokenized funds and non-fund tokenized offerings; (ii) advising on the complex and rapidly evolving regulatory requirements for issuing, and managing investments in, virtual assets; and (iii) advising on the regulatory requirements for operating exchanges for the secondary trading of virtual assets.
Joy acted on the first open-ended and closed-ended tokenised fund launches in Asia. She was named the May 2020 Lawyer of the month by IFLR1000 for her work on the first tokenised fund in Asia to feature cryptocurrencies as an asset class. She has also advised a leading virtual assets client on securing the first approval from the SFC of an actively managed virtual assets fund that permits subscriptions and redemptions to be effected in kind.
Joy is recognized in Chambers Global 2021 and Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021 as “Up and Coming” in investment funds. Joy has also been featured among the “Rising Stars – Investment Funds” by Expert Guides in 2020 and was previously named a “Rising Star” by Law360 in its 2018 annual report that recognizes the “top legal talent under 40” who are practicing at a level “usually seen from veteran attorneys.” Joy was also recognized by IFLR1000 2019 and 2020 as a notable practitioner in the Hong Kong investment funds area. Joy is part of Sidley’s Investment Funds Group which has been ranked Band 1 for Investment Funds: Private Equity and Band 1 for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds by Chambers Asia-Pacific.
Lowell Lo
Director
BM Intelligence
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Emmanuelle Pecenicic
Co-Chair Blockchain Committee
FTAHK
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Audit & Vetting Committee –
Eco-System Excellence
By alphabetical order
Frankie Tam
Counsel
Eversheds Sutherland
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Frankie is an international technology lawyer qualified in Hong Kong, New York, and England & Wales. Her practice covers a wide array of commercial and tech-related matters, including significant technology outsourcing transactions, Fintech, Regtech and blockchain services agreements and data privacy matters.
Frankie is a member of the Vetting Committee of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission’s General Support Programme, where she advises the Government on merits of technology projects. She is on the advisory board of the Stanford University’s Responsible Digital Leadership project. She teaches Regtech and Fintech programmes at postgraduate degrees, and has extensive experience sharing at professional bodies’ CPD programmes and industry conferences. Frankie has mentored distributed ledger technology companies at accelerator programmes.
Kokila Alagh
Founder and CEO
KARM Legal Consultant
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Kokila is a Corporate/Commercial and technology lawyer with over 17 years of experience in the middle east. She has worked with major corporations, government and semi government bodies, high net worth individuals and start-ups over the years. In addition to this, she has Masters in Law, in Digital Economy from the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, certification of Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme from Oxford University and Fintech Programme from Harvard Business School has helped her develop an expertise in the area of newer technologies.
Sally Lin
Chairman
ZCapital
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Sally has about 30 years of experience in electronics, communications, broadcast and new media industry, especially in the field of technology, marketing and business management with an intensive industry insights and leadership. Sally was awarded the National Science and Technology Award for IT research and development achievements in China. Previously she was Company executives of several listed companies and former Vice secretary of WECC, World Electronic Circuits Council and Vice Chairman of China Radio and Television Industry Association.
Sally is Chairman of Zcapital and holds various important roles at some good Hi-tech firms now.
Global Ambassadors
UAE
Kokila Alagh
Founder & CEO
KARM Legal Consultant
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Kokila is a Corporate/Commercial and technology lawyer with over 17 years of experience in the middle east. She has worked with major corporations, government and semi government bodies, high net worth individuals and start-ups over the years. In addition to this, she has Masters in Law, in Digital Economy from the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, certification of Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme from Oxford University and Fintech Programme from Harvard Business School has helped her develop an expertise in the area of newer technologies.
United Kingdom
Simon Barnby
CMO
Archax
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Simon has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets, having worked for trading technology and market data vendors in commercial and product-centric roles. Most recently, Simon has consulted with small and start-up companies in the FinTech space, in particular digital asset firms and those looking to ICO. Prior to this, he was Global Marketing Director at Fidessa Group for over 10 years, where he was responsible for all positioning, branding, product and corporate marketing activities globally.
Simon has experience in both digital and traditional marketing, brand development, customer acquisition, go-to-market plans, strategy, entrepreneurship, business development, project management and international commerce. He has also been actively involved in the design, launch and support of trading systems across various asset classes.
Simon has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Brunel University.
Canada
Chris Carl
President & CEO
DigiMax
Global Solutions
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Mr. Christopher D. Carl, also known as Chris, is the President & CEO at DigiMaxGlobal Solutions Inc. Mr. Carl founded Bio-Extraction Ltd. in 2003 and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2003 respectively. Mr. Carl served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of BioExx Specialty Proteins Ltd. (alternate name: Bio-Extraction Inc) from March 2006 to August 2011. Mr. Carl has over 25 years experience in project finance, plant construction and mill management focused on commercializing new technologies and transforming start-up ventures into successful publicly listed companies. This includes and 11 years (from 1991 to 2002) developing and operating The CanFibre Group Ltd. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of The CanFibre Group Ltd. Prior to this, he also spent several years (1986 to 1991) with a Canadian subsidiary of Tenneco Inc. where he was responsible for finance and administration matters both domestically and internationally and was directly involved in Greenfield, which was the construction of a new processing plant on a previously vacant piece of land and plant operations. Mr. Carl has been an Executive Director of Bio-Extraction Inc. since March 16, 2006. He has been a Director of Key Venture Capital Inc., since September 15, 2010, Kafus Industries Ltd since October 1997 and of Bio-Extraction Ltd. since January 2003. He also serves as Director of Signet Industries Ltd. He served as a Director of Luxell Technologies Inc. from June 4, 2007 to August 21, 2008. Mr. Carl also served as Director of Kingsmill Capital Ventures Inc. from October 2005 to August 21, 2008. Mr. Carl holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University
Germany
Al Ewers
Co-founder
Potrero Capital
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Japan
Eiji Kobayashi
Country Head, Japan
Securitize
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South Korea
Sonny Kwon
Founder & CEO
TokenPost
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Sonny Kwon is a serial digital entrepreneur focused on digital media and distributed ledger technology. He is the founder and CEO of PUBLISH Inc., a blockchain-based software solutions provider for newspaper businesses. He is also the founder and managing editor of two digital-native news websites including EconoTimes and TokenPost. In 2012, he started FxWirePro, a foreign exchange intelligence company, to provide intelligence newswire services to global financial institutions.
Singapore
Branson Lee
CEO
ECXX.com
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Branson Lee is an EXCO member of the Singapore FinTech Association since 2017 as well as the Token Economy Association.
He has over 10 years of experience in sales management in business information and technology companies dealing with government, statutory boards, financial Institutions, corporates in South East Asia. He has consulted for Gartner Inc, working with CIO/CEOs of some of the largest brands in Singapore. During his stint in LinkedIn, Branson engaged and advised Fortune 500 companies in Indonesia and Singapore on their social media strategy.
Having started off his career as an engineer with Sun Microsystems, he is currently the CEO of a digital asset exchange, ecxx.com. Branson is also a frequent speaker at blockchain workshops / seminars for financial institutions, government agencies and private events.
UAE
Mohammad Mahfoudh
Founder & CEO
Deca4
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China
Doer Qu
CEO
Magic Circle Tech Ltd
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Doer Qu is a senior expert in block chain industry and the founder of IDHub(a famous block chain digital identity project).He served as vice President of block chain division for the 21VIANET (NASDAQ:VNET).
21VIANET is China’s largest telecommunications neutral Internet infrastructure service provider, aslo is torchbearer and early investor of the block chain industry in China. Mr. Qu led a series of innovation projects in the block chain during 21VIANET.
Mr.Qu is the chairman of the communications services company Pivotal Telecom Service co., with rich experience in business management and market, ever led the international team to develop telecom market of the India, Vietnam, Thailand. Mr.Qu has 17 years of experience in mobile communication technology development and operation and maintenance management. He has presided over the development of telecom network optimization and analysis system and won the second prize of national science and technology progress. Mr.Qu had established and managed Rising Tech co.(a leading mobile network optimization company in China.)
Switzerland
Jerome Schonbachler
Founder
The MFO
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Mr.Jérôme A. Schonbachler is Founder of TheMFO, an independent regulated fiduciary & family office services company with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Malta and Dubai.
He is also the founder and external director at TAAS Capital Fund, the first Luxembourg open-end investment fund with a primary focus on blockchain.
Prior, Mr. Schonbachler was heads the alternative investment activities for EFG Bank, part of global private banking group EFG International. Prior to EFG Bank, he was the global product manager for both the consumer bank and private bank, creating the third-party asset management offering in EMEA, Asia and Japan. He spent 16 months as an actuary for Sorema UK in the Lloyd’s of London reinsurance market, developing forecast reinsurance models. Before that, he worked at Paribas Capital Markets for business developments, and in capital markets division of Credit Lyonnais as a swaps trader. Mr. Schonbachler earned a degree in financial engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris.
Singapore
Tuhina Singh
CEO & Co-founder
Propine
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In a career spanning over 16 years, Tuhina has made markets for institutional investors in several asset classes, set up derivatives trading desk for a private Indian bank from scratch and successfully led the implementation of Calypso for a bank treasury before becoming an active participant in the Singapore crypto space from 2015. Having graduated as a computer engineer from the prestigious BITS Pilani and then an MBA from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Tuhina, is the CEO and co-founder of Propine, backed by well-regarded institutional investors in Singapore.
India
Neha Soni
Founder & CEO
Corum8
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Neha Soni is an Indian entrepreneur, ex- IBMer and technology evangelist by heart. She is the chief executive officer of Corum8, a global blockchain, AI development and Growth marketing firm she founded in 2018. She was featured in Fox News, ABC, NBC, the times, digital journal and other news channels for developing next-generation marketing tools using AI and extraordinary revolution which she bought in the marketing industry. She is also covered in TED and Forbes for Data – AI-based growth marketing, sales, and enterprise blockchain development.
Hong Kong
Wayne Trench
CEO
OSL
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Japan
Junya Yamamoto
CEO
Binarystar
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Yama is a blockchain business specialists invented & contributed to 10+ the world first Blockchain tech and business achievement since 2015.
I and my team becomes your project liaising partner keep producing business and lead next growth of your business.
IBLT provides business development and project management backed by our unique experience coordinated more than 300 members come from more than 10 countries for blockchain project in Asia.
Hong Kong
Albert Yip
Chief Strategy Officer
Syndicate Capital Group
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Wayne oversees all of OSL’s activities, including trading and brokerage operations, product development and governance.
He has more than 15 years of experience in digital assets, investment banking, trading and finance.
Prior to joining OSL, Wayne held senior roles in major financial institutions, including as CEO of Octagon Strategy and Asia head of electronic trading coverage for Morgan Stanley.
Wayne is also an entrepreneur, co-founding Aspir, a diversified mineral processing technology and equipment supplier in Australia, which was acquired by the Weir Group in 2013.
He holds an MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, a Bachelor’s in Business Management from the University of Queensland and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Japan
Sachiko Yoshihama
Senior Manager
FSS & Blockchain Solution
IBM
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USA
Xiaochen Zhang
Founder
Fintech4Good
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Switzerland
Emi Lorincz
Founder
Fintech4Good
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Austrailia
Angus Mackenzie
Founder
Mackenzie Co.