Hayden Adams – Token Summit (2024)

Kathleen Breitman is the CEO of Tezos. Tezos is a blockchain-based smart contract platform with an on-chain governance mechanism to coordinate and push upgrades to its network. You can follow Tezos through their website atwww.tezos.com, or on Twitter using the handle @tez0s.

Prior to Tezos, Kathleen was a senior strategy associate for R3, a blockchain consortium of more than 70 financial firms. She has also worked at Accenture, Bridgewater Associates, and the Wall Street Journal. She holds a degree from Cornell University.

oerg Blumtritt is co-founder of the companies Datarella based in Munich, Germany, and Baltic Data Science in Gdansk, Poland. Datarella develops data-driven products and applications based on the the blockchain, BDS delivers data-science-as-a-service.

Before that, Joerg had worked for media companies and publishers in Europe and the US. After graduating in statistics and political sciences with a thesis on artificial intelligence, he had worked in behavioral sciences, focused on nonverbal communications research.

Joerg is adjunct professor at NYU and teaches courses on data science and the blockchain at various universities. He is also engaged in joint industry committees on data ethics, standardization and in research on technology impact on democracy.

Brian Kelly is an investor, author, and financial markets commentator. He is an expert in global financial markets, macro-economics and digital currencies. Brian Kelly has over twenty years experience in financial markets and is the author of the bookThe Bitcoin Big Bang– How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World.He is a CNBC contributor and can be seen regularly onFast Money.

Brian is the Founder & CEO of BK Capital a investment firm specializing in Global Macro and Digital Currency investments. He is the portfolio manager of the BK Capital Digital Asset Fund – a actively managed hedge fund of

Shawn is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for Storj Labs.

Tim Mitja Zagar is a co-founder and the CEO of ICONOMI, the first global and decentralisedplatform to manage digital assets, based on the Ethereum technology. He started working on blockchain projects in 2013 with the goal to connect the digital assets field and the existing banking world. Prior to ICONOMI, Tim was a co-founder of Cashila, the first bitcoin company with EU regulatory approval to be registered as a financial institution. Soon herealisedthat more and more users want to invest in digital currencies and not just pay with them. For this reason, he founded ICONOMI, digital assets management platform that enables access to a variety of digital assets with a possibility of combining and trading them.

Daniel is co-founder and Head of Evaluations and Mentoring at Cofound.it, a platform that is combining the most innovative elements of the token crowdsale model with best practices of the venture capital ecosystem to create the ultimate startup platform – a Silicon Valley for the Distributed Age. He’s an entrepreneur and technologist and over the last 10 years he held positions bridging advanced software development and business development in startups and growing companies, positioned as both CTO and CEO. He has an academic background with degrees in both engineering (biotech and bioinformatics) and business economics.

Sarah Hody focuses her practice on advising entrepreneurs, technology businesses, financial services companies, and innovators in the blockchain space. She has experience counseling on corporate structure matters such as entity formation and dissolution, state and federal regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and consumer-facing licensing and use agreements. She is also familiar with banking laws, bank services agreements, and financial services litigation.

Sarah’s background includes serving as in-house counsel at Coinbase, a digital currency exchange company, where she negotiated and drafted agreements on global payment services integrations, evaluated risks and advised business teams on commercial partnerships, and managed the company’s state money transmission licensing programs.

Andy Milenius is the COO of DappHub, a blockchain R&D Firm with a special focus on developer tools and formal verification. He is also a lead developer for the Dai Credit System (MakerDAO), a unique cryptocurrency that maintains price stability over short and medium term time increments. He is especially interested in the mechanism design of decentralized governance and bootstrapping online communities.

Before joining these two teams, he worked as a Software Engineer in the Developer & Productivity Tools organization of Amazon Web Services. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. His hometown is Detroit, USA and he currently lives in Seattle, USA. You can keep up with Andy via any of the profiles listed at www.keybase.io/apm

Alex Sunnarborg is a research analyst at CoinDesk. Previously, Alex was a founder and the CFO of Lawnmower, a blockchain investment and market research firm acquired by CoinDesk in January 2017, and prior, Alex was a debt investment banking analyst at Raymond James. Alex’s research and writing on the blockchain space has been featured in publications including VentureBeat, Yahoo! Finance, CoinDesk, MarketWatch, Fortune, and Bloomberg.

Thomas Linder joined MME in 2015. Due to his long-standing role at a Big-Four advisory firm, including temporary employment in the US, he has broad experience in advising Swiss and foreign companies in international tax matters. He is particularly specialized in leading inter-disciplinary projects in the context of acquisitions, corporate restructurings and migrations and has in-depth knowledge in cross-border transactions and tax accounting.

Thomas has a strong personal national and international network among consultants, enterprises and administrations which, in combination with his comprehensive technical skills, allows him to develop creative, tailor-made and efficient tax structuring solutions. He is regularly publishing and lecturing on current tax topics and is the co-author of several textbooks.

Hadrien is the founder of StabL that aims at operating derivatives markets and bringing stable tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Hadrien has a Physics and Mathematics background and a Financial Engineering degree from France. He also studied Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley. In 2013, he became passionate about Blockchain technology and the positive social impacts that it could bring to the world. He experimented with smart contracts and joined the Ethereum ecosystem before the first live release of Ethereum (Frontier) was launched. He is now working to build decentralized applications, and the tools that will bring their benefits to everyone.

Peter is Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. He is a graduate of NYU Law, as well as a self-taught designer and coder.

He drafts the Center’s public regulatory comments, and helps shape its research agenda. He has briefed policymakers and regulatory staff around the world on the subject of Bitcoin regulation. Previously, he was a Google Policy Fellow and collaborated with various digital rights organizations on projects related to privacy, surveillance, and digital copyright law.

Brock Pierce is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur with an extensive track record of founding, advising and investing in disruptive businesses. He is the Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital.

Blockchain Capital is the first sector-focused venture fund that invests solely in Blockchain

technology companies and the Bitcoin ecosystem. The firm has made more than 70

investments in the sector. Blockchain Capital was recently named the most active FinTech

Venture Fund by Pitchbook.

Stephan is digital strategist at disrupt consulting and has more than 20 years experience in IT businesses. He advises finance and telecom enterprises on digital strategy.

In 2015 he was part of the of the UBS crypto 2.0 innovation lab at Level39 in London. Stephan has been working on digital currencies since 2008 and holds a PhD from ETH Zürich.

Ned is the CEO and founder of Steemit.com, the first social media website based purely on blockchain. Ned is also an advisor to startups, including the cryptocurrency project for dating and matchmaking, MatchPool. Ned has been immersed in cryptocurrencies since 2013 when he discovered Bitcoin in a Yahoo! Finance article. His drive for building the future comes from his passion for understanding motivation and incentives, which he first discovered studying psychology and economics at Bates.

Tezos co-founder and technical lead Arthur Breitman has over ten years of experience in quantitative finance, including roles at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Originally from France, Arthur holds a Diplome d’Ingenieur de l’Ecole Polytechnique in applied math, computer science, and physics. He has a M.S. in financial mathematics from New York University. Arthur is also a technical advisor to the ZCash project.

Erik Voorhees, CEO of leading digital asset exchange ShapeShift.io, is among the top-recognized serial Bitcoin advocates and entrepreneurs, understanding Bitcoin as one of the most important inventions ever created by humanity. Erik’s former project, the groundbreaking gaming phenomenon SatoshiDICE, was, at its peak, responsible for more than half of all Bitcoin transactions on Earth and popularized the concept of “provable fairness.” Having been a featured guest on Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, BBC Radio, The Peter Schiff Show, and numerous Bitcoin and industry conferences, Erik humbly suggests that there is no such thing as a “free market” when the institution of money itself is centrally planned and controlled.