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Wesley Kayne is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pawnfi. Formerly, Business Analyst at DBS Bank.

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Wesley Kayne

Philippe Bekhazi leads the XBTO Group. Mr. Bekhazi began investing in cryptocurrencies in 2011 and created XBTO in 2015. The XBTO companies are portfolio companies of the Derivee Capital group, which Mr. Bekhazi founded in 2009.

Previously, Mr. Bekhazi created financial trading, portfolio management, and risk management solutions for leading companies around the world, including Calypso Technology and Citibank. Prior to that, he spent four years trading derivatives at SAC Capital Advisors, where he helped build the fund’s global macro desk.

Mr. Bekhazi has a dual BS in Finance and Communications from Syracuse University where he graduated with Honors.

He leads the management team as the interim CEO of Stablehouse.io.

Philippe Bekhazi

Chris Tyrer is head of Fidelity Digital Assets in Europe, which offers European institutional investors access to a full-service, enterprise-grade platform for securing, trading and supporting digital assets. Fidelity Digital Assts is a business of Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 26 million individuals, institutions and financial intermediaries.

Mr. Tyrer assumed his current position in December 2019 and manages Fidelity Digital Assets’ European business development and client service activity in the region.

Prior to joining Fidelity Digital Assets, Mr. Tyrer served as a managing director at Barclays Investment Bank, leading its digital assets project, which examined the market opportunities for the firm. He also served as global head of commodities trading for Barclays.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Tyrer was a founding member and non-executive director of SAGAT Capital, a short-term, systematic managed futures firm, where he advised management on all aspects of the business from trading and risk-management to operations and business development. Prior to that, he held a variety of leadership roles in trading.

Mr. Tyrer earned his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics.

Chris Tyrer

Andrew Benson is Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at River Financial, where we're building a challenger financial institution focused on the long-term investor.

Previously, I founded or co-founded a handful of B2B technology services companies specializing in information management, software development, digital marketing, media streaming, and cyber security.

A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, I graduated from The Ohio State University with a BSBA in Management Information Systems.

Andrew Benson

Christopher May is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Finoa, Founder of Mayfair Investments. Formerly, Senior Consultant at McKinsey & Company. He passionate about finance and tech.

Christopher May

Michael Wu is Founder & CEO at Amber Group. Formerly, Portfolio Manager at Arete Capital Partners, FX & Rates trader at Morgan Stanley.

Michael Wu

Michael Sonnenshein is Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset manager. In this role, Michael oversees the daily operations and growth of the business and its $1 billion in assets under management. Michael is responsible for maintaining many of the firm’s key client relationships including family offices, hedge funds, and other institutions as well as managing the development of Grayscale’s single-asset and diversified digital currency products. Prior to joining Grayscale, Michael was a financial advisor at JP Morgan Securities, covering HNW individuals and institutions, and an analyst at Barclays Wealth, providing coverage to middle‐market hedge funds and institutions. Michael earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and his Master of Business Administration from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Michael was honored in 2018 as one of Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street and serves as a member of the CME Group Bitcoin Futures Council and NYU Blockchain Association.

Michael Sonnenshein

Jonathan M. Padilla, Blockchain Strategy at PayPal. He is a native of the Great State of California. He is currently Head of Blockchain Strategy at PayPal and an Associate Director at Stanford’s Future of Digital Currency Initiative.

He has served in a number of diverse positions ranging from time in the White House during the first term of President Obama to time at Google where he worked on clean energy at Google.org to working in venture capital outfits in California and in East Africa. He has additionally run political campaigns and operations at the U.S. federal, state, and local levels. He formerly served as a member of the Democratic National Committee.

Jonathan graduated from Harvard College with a degree in government and from Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government with a Masters of Public Policy. He was a 2018 Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University where he studied economics and business.

Jonathan Padilla

Aaron Gong is Director at Binance Futures. A beautiful mind borns to futures and options industry. Previously was working for a major Global prop trading firm and a US based CTA. Interests lie at APAC futures market, prime brokerage sales, fund business development.

Aaron Gong

Co-Founder of AirSwap, a decentralized, peer-to-peer token trading platform for erc20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. He is passionate about a future where people fearlessly trade digital value without third-party intervention.

He is also Mathematician, trader, technologist. Prior to AirSwap, he spent his career as an algo trader at Virtu Financial.

Wesley Kayne

CEO at Pawnfi.

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