Experts

Austin Virts is Director of Ecosystem at Aptos Labs. Formerly, Advisor at Orca, Head of Crypto/ Marketing at Audius, Head Of Marketing at Solana Labs, Head of Growth at Origin Protocol.

Aptos

Orca

SOLANA

Austin Virts

David Wachsman is a world-renowned blockchain expert and thought leader. He is a regular speaker at the most highly recognized technology conferences around the world and his commentary is regularly featured by mainstream media outlets globally.

In late 2015, David founded Wachsman to provide professional public relations services to the rapidlygrowing financial technology industry with cryptocurrency and blockchain at its foundation. Wachsman has since become a global organization with more than 70 employees based in offices in New York City and Dublin.

David and his team have represented and acted as communications advisors to many of the most indispensible organizations in blockchain, including Dash, Crypto Valley Association, Bitcoin Suisse AG, CoinDesk, IOHK, Lisk, Steemit, tZERO, Jaxx, and Coinsource.

Before founding Wachsman, David led the day-to-day operations for a boutique public relations agency in Manhattan and held roles in advertising, political affairs, and biotechnology.

David Wachsman

Avery Ching is Co-Founder & CTO at Aptos, building a Layer 1 for everyone. Formerly, VP of Apache GIraph at The Apache Software Foundation, Principal Software Engineer at Novi Financial.

Avery Ching

Jordan Fish aka CryptoCobain, internet entertainer, i say stuff to make people laugh, pls don't take it seriously. supercycle customer support manager. Solving problems, causing problems. Previously led product/growth at Monzo. Sometimes known as Cobie on UpOnly.

CryptoCobain (also known as Cobie) is an investor and cryptocurrency expert active on Twitter. Together with Ledger (Brian Krogsgard), he is also a co-host of the UpOnly crypto podcast.

Jordan Fish

Josh Fried is BD & Partnerships at Solana Labs. Formerly, VP of GrowthVP of Growth at OpenMind Platform.

He is an experienced general manager who builds digital businesses from start-up to multifaceted brand while driving revenue growth. A results-oriented business development executive with marketing chops; thrives on entrepreneurial challenges and product evangelism; excels at building successful teams and mentorship.

Josh Fried

Diana Chen is Content Marketing at Unstoppable Domains. Podcast Host at Startup Happy Hour & The Unstoppable Podcast.

Diana Chen

Emi Lorincz is bitcoiner, devoted to drive understanding & adoption of crypto, seeking a less centralized world.

Following various roles and functions in corporate finance, Emi’s professional background has ranged from aircraft financing to commodity trading. Since 2017 her focus has been directed towards the ever evolving world of digital assets & its global start-up scene.

Bringing a wealth of work experience from the traditional markets and the field of cryptocurrencies, Emi enjoys combining these two worlds to help companies benefit from both.

While being dedicated to increasing the usage and understanding of crypto, - Emi is developing strategies for products targeting retail and institutional clients. She excels in identifying and evolving business opportunities, acquiring customers whilst maintaining sustainable results.

Emi Lorincz

Thomas Klocanas was ex Business Development Lead at Meridio, Director Strategic Initiatives at ConsenSys, Co-President at Columbia FinTech.

Interested in all things venture capital, blockchain, crypto, fintech, data and digital media. Previously equity research at Barclays and M&A at BAML, Credit Agricole and Nomura.

Columbia MBA, Columbia FinTech former co-president, HEC Paris MiM / Grande Ecole and Bocconi BSc.

Thomas Klocanas

Public Relations, Communications, Community & Events Consultant - Blockchain and Decentralized Technologies.

A passionate PR, marketing and communications consultant with both in-house and agency experience in the blockchain, consumer tech, financial, property, consumer, luxury, education, and sport industries. 

My most recent role was in-house Public Relations and Community Management for Parity Technologies, a blockchain company, where we offer the fastest and most secure way of interacting with the Ethereum blockchain. The Parity client powers much of the infrastructure of the public Ethereum network and is used by companies and users alike.

Furthermore I also managed the PR for Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and Parity Technologies. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.

Specialties: 

- reactive PR and crisis management
- proactive PR campaigns, 
- media relations
- social Media management
- project management
- public affairs and policy
- event organisation and management

Helena Flack

Batuhan Dasgin is Investor & JPEG collector. Formerly Head of Business Development at CoinMarketCap, the world's most trusted cryptocurrency data authority. Before joining CoinMarketCap, he co-led Binance's venture investments arm, Binance Labs, as well as Binance Launchpad.