Adrian W. J. Fritz is a Research Associate at 21.co (parent company of 21Shares & Amun), creating data-driven analysis of the cryptoasset industry. In his role he meets with clients across EMEA to provide insight on macroeconomic trends as well as the entire crypto ecosystem. In addition, he is a lecturer for various crypto-related courses at the CCFE (Certified Crypto Finance Expert) and HWZ (University of Applied Sciences Zurich). Previously, Mr. Fritz worked as a financial analyst at Cellnex in Zurich and at Signature Management Consultants in Barcelona. After his master's degree in international business, which he completed at the HULT International Business School in San Francisco in 2015, Mr. Fritz began his career as a stock broker on Wall Street - further career stations led him to investment banking and management consulting.

Alain is a builder and proven domain expert on the national and international crypto and blockchain scene. After studying business at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), he worked for the investment banks UBS and Société Générale, the financial service providers Leonteq Securities as well as Source ETF. Later he founded various ventures, including TokenSuisse, PolarLab, Lantha Capital and SP-Lab (ACP). Alain consults and advises public and private institutions as well as political exponents and private individuals, focusing on the intersection of innovation, business & finance, technology and society. He is a speaker, involved with Universities as a guest lecturer, and has been invited by the OECD for it's Blockchain Forum in Paris, among others. He likes sharing his expertise and thoughts as a columnist for Finanz und Wirtschaft (FuW) and contributing in various media (including Financial Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ am Sonntag, NZZ The Market, SonntagsZeitung, Finanz and Wirtschaft, Handelszeitung) across a broad range of topics.

Alex Casimo co-founded Portofino Technologies, a crypto native start up building financial infrastructure technology to further enable digital asset adoption. Portofino has raised over $50M from leading venture capital firms, Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Coatue. Prior to co-founding Portofino, Alex worked at Citadel Securities and the Boston Consulting Group in various leadership positions.

Alex is a professional with a background in traditional IT he wears it like a badge of Honor. He sees it as his responsibility to challenge his team and to ensure they build bridges between generations and mindsets for the Brands and Creators with work with and their Communities. After meeting Daniel van der Waals and Jorrit Velzeboer, Alex became inspired by the potential of the Metaverse and Web3.0 and took on the job of Managing Director to help them build this incredible business.

Alexandre Kech is Director, Blockchain & Digital Asset at Citi Ventures. Alex‘s team researches, engages and experiments on emerging use cases for blockchain technologies and digital assets.Over the past 25 years, Alex has constructed a unique career combining finance at BNY Mellon, payments/securities infrastructure and standards (ISO 15022/20222) at SWIFT, and blockchain and digital assets at Onchain Custodian. As CEO of the Singapore-based company he co-founded, he led the building from scratch of a custody and prime brokerage service for crypto and other digital assets. Fun Fact: Music lover who sings as well as plays drums and bass guitar

Andrea Abrams is a fashion and retail industry veteran and global executive. She is a retail technology and blockchain investor, participating in pre-seed rounds of notable startups for physical and digital commerce. Andrea is the founder and Chief Metaverse Officer of PHYGICODE, a consortium of industry founders and leaders looking to create a phygital approach to Web3 adoption. Andrea is also Chief of Strategy at Faith Tribe , a Web3 platform and ecosystem devoted to open-sourcing fashion talent and unlocking opportunities for fashion creators and independent fashion businesses, using a Web2 ecosystem enabled by Web3 technology for on-chain activities using its dual chain token $FTRB. Andrea is a Board Advisor to prominent blockchain protocols and Web3 businesses and a Strategic Advisor to blockchain investment fund Scytale Ventures, among others. She is an Ambassador at AllStar Women NFT Club and a featured female leader in Women of The Future.

Arnab is founder of SICOS, a Luxembourg based company facilitating innovation and designing Blockchain based businesses. SICOS developed a European, peer-to-peer investment platform, connecting investors and business founders to finance forward-thinking ideas and share in the future profits- STOKR. Before founding SICOS, Arnab worked as a lawyer with various international law firms in India, Germany. Arnab worked with various departments and Ministries of Government of India and has participated in various policy-related works.

Bertrand Perez has been involved in the software and telecom industry since 1993 and became interested in blockchain in 2014 while working as Senior Director at Paypal. With a background in Computer Software Engineering and Computer Applications, he has decades of experience in managing and guiding large technical teams, specializing in architecture and services with 24/7 constraints. Prior to moving to Web3 Foundation in 2021, Bertrand was COO of Diem, a blockchain-based payment system to enable universal access to financial services (formerly Libra). He also set up and was managing director of the Libra/Diem Association. Web3 Foundation’s mission to deliver an internet where users control their own data, identity, and destiny is in line with his long-standing professional goal to offer the best services using the technologies and networks of the present and future.

Prior to co-founding Partisia Blockchain, Brian co-founded UndergroundCellar.com, a leading e-commerce wine marketplace in the United States, and Insights Network, a blockchain technology software development company. In his 7 years as a Co-Founder in the blockchain technology space, Brian has raised over $75 million in funding for his organizations, has invented, and been granted several blockchain technology patents from the United States Patent Office. At Partisia Blockchain, Brian is a pioneer in architecting and incorporating MPC into blockchain use cases. First demonstration of such as Co-Founder of instars.com, one of the largest blockchain powered social networks in the world with over 250,000 verified users and the first to merge MPC with blockchain to return ownership and control over data to the users.

Carlos encountered bitcoin early 2010 while researching the e-money topic, in order to play poker with friends and has a trustless digital mean of exchange. Paypal didn't worked because he was 14 years old and cash games were forbidden at school. After the initial encounter, Carlos pursued a science academic path followed by a professional finance path, while always being active with numerous crypto communities as a member and investor. Now he is head at the digital asset product strategy at Swissquote, the first bank to offer cryptocurrencies, with an ambitious plan for the future.

Daniel loves how technology changes our everyday lives, ever faster. It is even better to be a part of that change and help customers transform their business models.

Danny acts as a Venture Partner with CV VC, building long-term portfolio management strategies with the CV VC senior management board. He is an expert in start-up acceleration, Web3 applications, and alternative asset investments. Danny is a strong advocate of digital transformation, having delivered dozens of keynote speeches on fintech applications and blockchain technology to professionals worldwide. Before blockchain, Danny enjoyed a stellar career in international finance, facilitating landmark investment deals between Chinese financial institutions and their western counterparts.

David Bundi is the Metaverse Strategy and Regulatory Leader and Head of Compliance at PwC Switzerland. Additionally, he is also the Chairman of the Swiss non-profit association MetaverseTalks which serves as a leading space where Metaverse & NFT thought leaders and interested people connect, foster and promote ideas globally. Before joining PwC, he held a position as Chief Compliance Officer at an innovative Swiss bank following various senior roles as Legal & Compliance expert at banks in Zurich and New York. He has studied Swiss, EU, UK and US law, likes digital assets, gaming and technology in general, and is a guest lecturer at universities respectively business schools in Zurich, Lausanne, Miami and Guatemala.

David has 20 years of hedge funds investment experience. He is a successful portfolio manager of multi-strategy and strategy-focused FoHFs and bespoke institutional mandates. He has significant number of investment due diligence across strategies and geographies, as well as expertise in Macro related and Quantitative strategies. David also has a deep industry network and long-standing relationships with institutional investors.

David is a Swedish American citizen with in depth tech and asset management experience. Prior to joining CV VC, he served as Managing Partner & Investment Manager at an ESG Asset Management Firm [Progressive Investors Network] and served as an Advisor to multiple tech companies. He currently still serves on the Board of Directors at LaunchSource, an HR SaaS platform headquartered in Boston.

An experienced, innovative leader who is passionate about building and leading customer focussed businesses. From driving ETF adoption at iShares / BlackRock to applying advanced technology in wealth management at UBS and Barclays to support better client outcomes, Dirk acts as an architect of transformational processes. This has been exemplified through a diverse career in world leading asset and wealth management organisations backed by a unique combination of client-, market-, product-, technology- process- and regulatory knowhow. Leadership responsibilities have spanned to several 1000 FTEs and exceeding a billion USD annual budget and revenues.

Erick de Moura is an entrepreneur, technical leader, and nonconformist. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has a rich background in the software industry.Erick has lived in different countries, accessing different perspectives and connecting to global talents from academia and the tech industry.He is devoted to creating a technology aiming to bring blockchain tech to its full potential. As founder and CEO, Erick leads Cartesi from its inception in 2018.

Gideon has worked in numerous high impact leadership roles in the tech sector. While looking for venture capital to fund his own startup he fell in love with the early-stage investment space. Since then, he has successfully exited many ventures and worked relentlessly with various global tech enterprises He now acts as Managing Director to CV VC Africa managing their blockchain & web3 African fund and ecosystem business CV Labs.

Dr. Gökçe Phillips is the CEO and Co-founder of Crypto Index Series, a UK company providing institutional-grade, AI-driven data, trading and portfolio analytics for Crypto Markets. With an MSc and a PhD from University of York, she has worked in the IT and Finance industry as a Software Engineer, Project Manager and Team leader in Switzerland, the UK, Turkey and Dubai. She is a technology-enthusiast and has a passion for ever-evolving Crypto Assets and Token Economics. Having worked for and inspired by Thomson Reuters (now known as Refinitiv), she co-founded Crypto Index Series in 2019 to address the standardisation & aggregation need across data, trading & portfolio space for wealth managers, asset managers and technology providers in Crypto Markets. Fun fact: During the first years of motherhood, owned a mum-children blog with 18K followers. A good swimmer and an ambitious volleyball player.

Finance and legal professional, father of five, husband of one, passionate advocate of the economic emancipation of humanity. Rugby, history and engineering geek, with two decades of experience in the deep tech end of ‘FinTech’. Extensive commercial experience in capital markets, physical commodities and emerging markets.Envisioned and founded QPQ, creator of the ‘internet of economics’ and enabler of the programmable economy. Financial & legal professional, big C creative visionary, strategist, leader of leaders, futurist, conceptual architect and veteran entrepreneur.

Ivan has over 9 years of startup experience in the FinTech, SaaS and Blockchain space. His Blockchain career started in one of the top IT consulting companies helping financial institutions to implement their first Blockchain use cases. Furthermore he was involved in the establishment of an Ethereum Mining Farm in Bulgaria and was an early-stage core member in one of the leading European Crypto-Exchanges as Head of Business Development.

Yaxin (Jason) Cao has held various senior leadership roles in IoT, semiconductor, and wireless technology companies in both U.S. and China. He was formerly the CEO of Shenzhen Biomedical Instruments, Vice President of Tsinghua Unigroup, and Director of Broadcom. He had close to 20 years of industry experience across multiple functions, including engineering, production management, strategic business development, and operations. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and B.S. from Tsinghua University.

Joe Petrowski leads the Common Good Parachains team at Web3 Foundation, where he works on delivering the core Polkadot protocol in parachains. Previously Joe has worked on protocol integrations and tooling development. Earlier Joe worked in aerospace for Lockheed Martin and Boeing, where he developed techniques to simulate shock and vibration during satellite launches. Joe was a semi-professional cyclist from 2014-2017, competing with teams based in the U.S., U.K., and France.

Joel Curado is a Managing Director of Business Development at CasperLabs. Joel has over 15years experience in the technology industry and Smart Cities vertical having previously worked atCisco Systems, in multiple roles, from Product Management to Corporate Strategy and lastly inBusiness Development, as part of Cisco’s Country Digital Acceleration initiative for Switzerland, aInvestment and Innovation fund for new solution development.Joel is an IE Business School Executive MBA Graduate, an Economist, specialised in Public Policyby the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is an IE Business School Board Member forthe Advisory Board of the Tech MBA as well as a lecturer in the topics of Digital Transformationand Technology.

Julien is a node collector, gamer at heart and avid alpinist! Curious by nature with a hands-on personality, Julien loves to learn, experiment, and build new exciting products in the web3 space!

Klaus leads the sales expansion of “Visa Direct” services in Central Europe and focusses on high growth opportunities in the Fintech/Financial industry. Prior to Visa, Klaus was working on digital business models for Content industries and E-Commerce before moving into the Fintech space and leading the European expansion of a payment Fintech. He connects the dots between Start-ups and Corporates as well as UX and business.

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr currently works as the Editor-in-Chief of Cointelegraph, building an editorial strategy and ensuring content-quality for a leading media outlet dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and fintech. With an M.A. in political science and classical philology, she has been working in communication and journalism for over 10 years, covering energy, urban, green, information, financial technologies and other innovations aimed at a sustainable future.

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr currently works as the Editor-in-Chief of Cointelegraph, building an editorial strategy and ensuring content-quality for a leading media outlet dedicated to cryptocurrencies, blockchain and fintech. With an M.A. in political science and classical philology, she has been working in communication and journalism for over 10 years, covering energy, urban, green, information, financial technologies and other innovations aimed at a sustainable future. A speaker and moderator at international events, she is a passionate advocate of environmental consciousness, diversity and humanistic management. She has received several awards as journalist, media leader and business facilitator. When offline, Kristina is a contemporary dancer, cat lover, melomaniac singer and polyglot reader.

Leeor is an impact-driven entrepreneur and investor committed to shaping the future of society, finance and the environment. Over the past 10+ years between Europe and Asia he has developed an extensive track record backing high growth technology companies, leading industry defining M&A transactions and dealmaking globally. Since starting his first company at 21, he has been an active angel investor and board member supporting other entrepreneurs grow sustainable companies. As a member of the WEF Global Shapers community, he focus' on bridging the East and West and draw on a wealth of international experience having lived in the UK, Switzerland, Singapore, Scandinavia and Australia.

Leo Lancia co-founded Portofino Technologies, a crypto native start up building financial infrastructure technology to further enable digital asset adoption. Portofino has raised over $50M from leading venture capital firms, Valar Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Coatue. Prior to co-founding Portofino, Leo worked as Head of Europe for Systematic Options Market Making at Citadel Securities.

Manu grew up in a small town in India with very little exposure to technology. After earning a degree in computer science, he worked in India for 7 years before moving to Germany. In the past, he has worked in companies where he has contributed to the education, ecommerce, and ride-sharing domains. Currently, at Lightcurve he is working on the blockchain domain as Head of the Platform department. He has a background in system design, programming, and team management. In his opinion, blockchain as a technology enables trust, transparency, and innovation in building more decentralized, secure, and privacy-enabled systems in the coming decades.

Marco Grossi has 20 years in treasury and investment banking. He has worked at PWC, Deloitte and Lehman Brothers and for the past decade has been focusing on crypto currencies, tokenization and blockchain.

Mark Banner is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Covario. Prior to that, he was a Director overseeing the Asian operations for private equity fund Capsquare-Asia Partners. For over a decade, Mark built and advised companies in corporate finance and financial technology as entrepreneurial investor in South East Asia. He started his career in Goldman Sachs as Quantitative Analyst. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Philosophy from Dartmouth College.Mark is a reformed active rock climber and coffee fanatic.

Martin is the Chief Clients Officer at Sygnum, the world's first digital asset bank. During the Sygnum licensing process, he held the Chief Risk Officer role. Before Sygnum, he worked for KPMG and Deloitte as a qualified auditor and advisor for the Financial Services industry. He started his career in sales at the investment bank UBS.

Over the years Massimo has worked for investment banks, prop trading firms, market makers and exchanges with roles in trading product and market development, cooperating closely with buy-side and sell-side traders, analysts and portfolio managers and helping creating markets and strategies to support them. At SDX he leads the equity team and he is dedicated to enhancing the funding process for private companies and improving the issuance, custody, and transfer of digital securities in SDX’s regulated CSD. He is responsible for reinforcing the interaction and collaboration between equity investors and companies in the digital age.Prior to his current role, Massimo was seven years at the London Stock Exchange where he was head of equity derivatives markets and global account director developing the group key strategic accounts.

Founder and CEO at CV VC, Mathias is an inspirational entrepreneur and investor in the digital startup scene for over 20 years. Before turning his focus to blockchain, he built and exited several successful online and media companies such as FaroTV and Europe’s crowdsourcing pioneer Atizo. Mathias has co-founded the Swiss Blockchain Federation, where he serves as a Board Member and Chairman of the Expert Council. He is a driving force behind the development of the global blockchain startup ecosystem. Mathias is also a Member of the Management Board.

Matthijs has managed the product development of one of the largest Dutch companies: PostNL. There, he was responsible for several software development departments and related departments in order to lead an entire software development chain before switching companies to lead the development of several unique AI products amongst which a ground-breaking chatbot. He has an extensive and varied background as a software developer himself. He has developed a full blown workflow management suite and analytical algorithm in the field of veterinary diagnostics, among various other projects, before growing into a managerial role. He knows what is important for a developer to be able to thrive and deliver high end products. Besides hands-on software development experience and management, Matthijs has founded and managed three other companies, thereby gaining plenty of entrepreneurial experience in the process.

Mattia is a seasoned manager, combining an advanced exposure to blockchain technology, deep expertise in incubating start-ups in digital finance, with 25-year experience in the financial industry, in senior risk, compliance, audit, treasury, regulatory and governance positions. He is a leader in fintech business development and financial services regulatory affairs. Mattia has strong analytical / subject matter, organizational and leadership skills. He is multi-lingual, -cultural, background. He has had working experiences in small, medium and global financial organizations, and associations.

A software engineer by training, Micha has spent most of his 25 years career building software for financial services companies in Switzerland. He started writing smart-contracts on Ethereum in 2015 and never stopped. His latest role as the CTO of the Energy Web Foundation gave him the opportunity to architect the EW-DOS and design the tokenomics in collaboration with Michal. A decentralization maximalist, Micha is convinced that blockchains and DApps are the future and he’s excited by the opportunityto create one of the currencies of this future.

Michael is an IoT, Smart City global industry thought leader who believes the solution to the root of our problems is to decentralize networks to ensure the individual is in control of their data and their destiny. He formed PraSaga to empower individuals across the globe through the power of blockchain. Michael has been involved in telecom, networking, and software development for decades.

Mohamed is a passionate Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience as a software engineer. He is the Founder and CEO of Pravica which is considered the leading and talented Blockchain startup in the MENA region. Mohamed believes that proof of work is everything when it comes down to success or failure.

CEO and Founder at LCX.com - the Liechtenstein Cryptoassets Exchange. Monty is an internet veteran and acclaimed thought leader on the future of digital. Monty found his first Internet company back in 1998, since then he co-founded several tech companies. Before starting LCX he was general partner at a venture capital fund investing in disruptive tech companies worldwide. LCX is a new category leader in crypto. LCX gained 8 blockchain related approvals by the Liechtenstein regulator - more than any other company in the country. Follow Monty at Twitter.com/montymetzger Fun fact: Monty ate a scorpion in China.

Naureen has done PhD focused on data analytics and algorithms. She is currently working as a Head of Exchange Development for Lightcurve/ Lisk. She have previously worked as a "Head of Business Intelligence" for a blockchain based Game-Fi company and has done business development for them. Naureen loves the startup environment and believes in delivering products on time while helping her team to navigate throughout the new challenges.

Nicola Plain worked for five years as a business engineer and project leader in the automotive industry with his small consulting company. Disillusioned by large companies' resistance to change, he decided to work only in very reactive and flexible environments in the future. That's why he moved to Aktionariat, a company that takes advantage of the new Swiss DLT law to allow companies to create a marketplace for their shares on their own website. Fun fact: Nicola's hobby is building dry stone walls.

Co-founder and CIO of CV VC, Olaf is an astute and motivational investor with a 20-year career spanning international corporate banking, finance, and industrial advisory. Before transferring his acumen to blockchain, he was a banker at JPMorgan Chase in Switzerland, the UK, and Germany. Prior, he was an M&A and corporate finance advisor to the chemical industry across EMEA. Olaf has solid start-up experience across multiple sectors. Founder of nourishme GmbH and INTABA-Finance AG. MBA from ECU and BA in International Business from Accadis Hochschule. Olaf is also a Member of the Management Board in CVVC.

Oliver Sigrist is an Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH). He is working on the use of novel technologies in central banking and is an expert on CBDC. Oliver was involved in projects Helvetia and Jura, which were realised in cooperation with the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and additional partners. Before joining the BISIH, Oliver was a senior economist at the SNB and a visiting fellow at the Sveriges Riksbank. Oliver holds a PhD in economics from the University of Basel.

Philippe is business leader and active investor with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and avid experience in investment and merchant banking, general management, and corporate governance. He is a seasoned investment banker, Philippe has worked in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. over the course of three decades, establishing an international network of financial institutions and investment funds that operated under his direct leadership. He brings valuable knowledge, expertise, and insight in trading, structuring, and creating investment strategies and product development.

Rachid is a serial entrepreneur with an obsession for modelling, analytics development, quantitative analysis and data science. For the last decade, he has been developing and implementing models and methodologies to help top organisations with forecasting and risk management. In 2017, he completed the building and deployment of a highly scalable deep learning models in artificial intelligence applied to computer vision for VINCI, which commissioned him orchestrating the ambitious “smart highways and smart cities” project, combining AI and Blockchain.

Roger's background is in traditional fine art. In 2005 Roger founded Haas & Fischer Gallery in Zurich. The gallery participated in the world’s leading art fairs: The Armory Show New York, FIAC Paris, Artissima Milano, and MACO Mexico. In 2020, Roger was also the acting director of the Art Stations Foundation in Switzerland.

Ronald specializes in tech/fintech law, contract law, VC-financing and financial market law with a focus on disruptive technologies, in particular DLT (blockchain technology) and cloud solutions.

Sabine is founder of IMPACTFULNESS Ventures, an Ecosystem for impact, sustainability and purpose-driven ventures. She is head of Sustainability and Partnerships at PlanetIX/Nibiru the largest NFT and P2E gaming platform with sustainability at it's core. Sabine is also the TV Host of her own global talk show 'It's TIME', as well as being voted TV Host of the Year 2022.

Salama Belghali is Head of Business Development & Partnerships at BitMEX, one of the leading crypto trading platforms and the inventor of the famous perpetual swap. With a MSc in Financial Mathematics and Computer Science, she found her footing in Derivatives Structuring and Sales at various Swiss TradFi institutions. Her enthusiasm for crypto was ignited in 2016 when she was part of structuring the first certificate on Bitcoin to be launched by a Swiss Bank. Since then, she has been a true believer in the power of crypto/blockchain to bring a positive impact. Salama is happiest outdoors and traveling back/bike-packing.

Sandi Bitenc is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of 3air, working on bringing blockchain and DeFi to the next billion. A true computer geek at heart, his professional career in tech began when he was part of a hosting and domain registrar startup in his teens that went on to become the biggest in the Adriatic area. He has leading experience in the gaming, health and crypto industry. He is part of many blockchain communities and devotes most of his time to the industry.Fun fact: he holds a world record in 24-hour apnea diving!

Sandi Bitenc is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO of 3air, working on bringing blockchain and DeFi to the next billion. A true computer geek at heart, his professional career in tech began when he was part of a hosting and domain registrar startup in his teens that went on to become the biggest in the Adriatic area. He has leading experience in the gaming, health and crypto industry. He is part of many blockchain communities and devotes most of his time to the industry.Fun fact: he holds a world record in 24-hour apnea diving!

Seasoned Strategist and CTO for Web 3.0 protocols and major global enterprises. Responsible for QPQ’s product and commercialisation pathways. Ex IBM technical leader for 15 years. Expert in IoT architecture, privacy technologies and data centric business models.Fun fact: My first Engineer in two back to back Formula 1 world championship teams.

Stephanie is an intellectually curious self-starter, she enjoys navigating uncertain environments to find innovative solutions to complex problems. She has progressed her career through various banking functions and roles including: managing strategic projects, B2B client service, business optimization and deal structuring. Stephanie has 12 years of financial services experience across group strategy (M&A and special projects), markets (business enablement), debt and equity / corporate finance advisory. She is also a passionate ultra marathon runner, occasional cyclist and an aspiring yogini!

Teana is currently focused on digital assets and financial services strategy, regulatory/ governance advocacy and policy development. She was named the Regulatory & Governance Leader of the Year within the Women in Finance Awards 2020, recognised as one of the Standout 35 of the most influential women in Fintech globally within the Innovate Finance 2019 and 2018 Women in Fintech Powerlists and won the Blockchain Leaders category in the Women In Tech Awards 2019.

Thomas is a member of the Sygnum Group Executive Board and he heads the Sygnum business units, which include all of Sygnum’s Digital Asset Banking services: Tokenization, Trading, Custody, Staking, Crypto Compliance & Regtech and Lending. He was also previously Head of Client Services at Sygnum. Prior to joining Sygnum, Thomas was a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group where he led projects for financial institutions, insurance companies and private equity funds. Thomas started his career at Roland Berger and has also worked at UBS and Credit Suisse. Thomas holds a Master of Science in Quantitative Finance from ETH Zurich and University of Zurich.

Thomas Linder is experienced in providing tax advice to companies based in Switzerland and abroad, and is considered a pioneer in the tax and legal analysis of decentralized business models, blockchain-based transactions, ICOs and digital assets. His clients from the technology and FinTech industry range from innovative start-ups from the «Crypto Valley» and renowned, internationally active companies to professional investors and DeFi enthusiasts. In his free time, he likes to relax while playing golf or to cheer for the (far too rare) successes of his favorite football club at the time-honored Brügglifeld in Aarau.

Tracy spearheads corporate and institutional engagement at CV Labs. Before joining the team, Tracy served as Head of Business Relations and Corporate Strategy for a Swiss software development and marketing firm, spearheading several digitalization and blockchain projects for clients such as Tommy Hilfiger, Coca Cola, Calvin Klein, and more. She holds an MA in Global Economy & Strategy from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea and an MA in International Affairs and Governance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

Valerio has more than 20 years of experience in risk management within the financial industry. He has worked at Man Investments, Raiffeisen Switzerland, and Swiss Life in the areas of asset management, banking, and life insurance. Valerio holds a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Bologna, Italy.

He started his career 20 years ago, in Japan’s largest investment company in the power sector. Expertise in M&A, business development, project management, strategic consulting, facing top government officials and executive of enterprises, in Korea, China, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.Joined EMURGO, which is one of the founding entities of "Cardano" in 2018. Former CEO of EMURGO Japan Co., Ltd, as well as CBO of EMURGO Group. Currently Co-CEO of EMURGO Africa, responsible for overall Middle East and Africa region.Also, major shareholder of a pre-IPO startup selected as J-Start Up 2021, by Ministry of Economics in Japan.

Yves is Managing Director at SEBA bank. He is responsible for Financial Research and SEBAversity. His professional experience has taken him from the Swiss National Bank to the world of cryptocurrencies, via major banks and asset management. Market finance and macroeconomics are the research themes that mark his career. Before joining SEBA, Yves worked at Ethenea, Pictet & Cie, UBS and the Swiss National Bank.