Maksim Balashevich 

Founder and CEO of Santiment. Previously working at IBM, Maksim went to study yoga and meditation for 7 years before transitioning into crypto full time. He founded Santiment in 2016.

Market behavior platform where users can easily visualize the coins’ on-chain, social media and development activity information. Over the past 3 years, Santiment has developed a growing number of predictive market indicators and newalpha, to help bring added context to the crypto market and the behavior of its main stakeholders.

Chris Thomas

Chris has 20 years of experience in financial markets, entrepreneurship and investing. He has combined his financial expertise with his passion for entrepreneurship as Head of European Innovation at Fidelity Investments before successfully founding an institutional crypto-asset custodian. Given the expanding institutional interest in crypto-assets, Chris joined Swissquote Bank to head the digital assets proposition. A serial entrepreneur, his start-up experience includes founding three ventures and consulting on several more in the fields of Digital Currencies, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence & Big Data. 

Swissquote Bank

Swissquote Bank specialises in online financial and trading services. The first FINMA-regulated Swiss bank to offer crypto trading, custody and ‘crypto-asset’ equity certificates for retail clients and global institutions, Swissquote is continuously innovating to stay the number one Swiss bank for crypto. Swissquote also has a particularly interesting portfolio of Themes Trading, ETF’s, stocks, FX and derivative products.

Arnaud Salomon

Arnaud is the founder and CEO of Mt Pelerin, a project that he began working on in 2014. After graduating from EPFL in communication systems and IT security in 2008, he began his career in Geneva as a trader, first in commodities then in forex. Arnaud became a Bitcoin adopter in 2012, a discovery that led him to think about how the blockchain could be used for the progress of finance. The idea that would become Mt Pelerin was born.

Mt Pelerin

Mt Pelerin is a Swiss FinTech company specialized in asset tokenization and digital compliance. It develops solutions to bridge the token economy with traditional finance, and has the ambition to establish a full-reserve institution to democratize tokenized funding and investment products

Thomas Linder

Thomas Linder is the tax & VAT brain in MME’ leading crypto and blockchain practice. He was involved in numerous ICOs and blockchain projects and has greatly influenced the accounting and tax practice for token-related projects. He is the co-head of the Tax & Accounting Working Group of the CVA and of the Legal, Tax & Regulatory Working Group of the ITSA.

MME

MME is an innovative and fast-growing Swiss firm that offers integrated professional consultancy and litigation services in all legal, tax and compliance matters. MME supports and represents both companies and individuals in business and economic-related private matters. One of the firm’s widely recognized strengths lies in focusing on a strong partner/client-relationship. The firm offers well-coordinated, interdisciplinary solutions in three economic key areas; legal, tax and compliance.

Cyrus Fazel

Cyrus is the founder and CEO of SwissBorg, a unique crypto wealth management ecosystem. A multicultural fintech professional with more than a decade of experience in asset management and algorithmic trading, he has applied his analytical skills towards building his blockchain-based platform that has successfully raised 52M CHF during its last ICO. Today SwissBorg has created an Education app with and has released their flagship Wealth app.

SwissBorg

SwissBorg is a crypto-wealth management ecosystem driven by its community. Its mission is to bring Swiss Wealth Management to the world. With a team of finance and technology experts, it is dedicated to improving the crypto industry by making it fun, fair and meaningful for all.

Laurent Jankowiak

Laurent Jankowiak is a Partner and Head of Audit & Advisory for Banking and Asset Management at Mazars. He has over 22 years of experience in project management and is an expert in risk management, prudential regulation and financial performance management. Before joining Mazars, Laurent worked for Cap Gemini group and then Accenture.  He then became a banker at Société Générale as Head of the risk projects department and risks and finance program director in charge of the delivery of regulatory needs for the group.

Mazars

Mazars is an international, integrated and independent organisation, specialising in audit, accountancy, tax, legal and advisory services. Established in 1945. The firm quickly grew to a highly reputable practice, rapidly acquiring new clients and becoming well-known for its focus on technical excellence and quality of service. Now operating via its integrated partnership in 91  countries and territories across the globe, with over 24,400  professionals, Mazars has become a fully-fledged global player!

As Ledger’s Vice President of Global Sales, Alexandre Lemarchand is responsible for driving revenue and execute Ledger’s worldwide business strategy, for both consumer and enterprise segments. Alexandre brings to the position a successful track record of more than 20 years’ experience that includes high-profile leadership positions and recognized sales achievements from start-up companies to midsized and multi billion-dollar global organizations. He joined Ledger in 2018, after twelve years at Microsoft, where he held various leadership positions. He also consults on tech start up and scale up acceleration, at various investment funds.

Ledger is the global leader in security and infrastructure solutions for safeguarding critical digital assets from cryptocurrencies and DApps to CBDCs and STOs. With a team of over 200 professionals around the world, Ledger offers a variety of products and services that protect critical digital assets for individuals (Nano), companies  (Ledger Vault) and connected devices (Ledger Origin)

Hubert is a Senior Manager, and leads the Smart Contract Assurance practice of PwC Switzerland. He is specialized in code audits of blockchain-based systems. He earned his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2018, working on the security of cloud and blockchain services for 5+ years. During his research he proposed novel protocols and analyzed existing ones. Afterwards, Hubert co-founded ChainSecurity, a globally recognized brand in smart contract assurance. He has audited the smart contracts of over 50 clients.

PWC is a network of firms in 157 countries with over 276,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. PwC Switzerland has over 3,300 employees and partners in 14 locations in Switzerland and one in the Principality of Liechtenstein. PWC Assurance provides credibility for management and board members, and serves as a purposeful indicator for the capital market.

Mr. Lance Morginn is the President of Blockchain Intelligence Group, and has over 25 years of industry experience in technology-based startups, growing and developing multi- million-dollar businesses from the ground-up. He was the Founder/CEO/Director of several publicly and privately traded companies. In 2015, he co-founded Blockchain Intelligence Group (BIG). He is a Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator and a Certified Bitcoin Professional.

Bringing security and accountability to the new era of cryptocurrency, BIG has developed from the ground up a Blockchain-agnostic search and analytics engine, QLUE TM , enabling Law Enforcement, RegTech, Regulators and Government Agencies to visually trace, track and monitor cryptocurrency transactions at a forensic level.