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Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, Head of Strategic Partnerships at MPCH, is Founder and former CEO of BCB Group, Europe’s leading platform combining transaction banking and OTC trading services for the cryptocurrency industry. Oliver is also the Founder and CEO of VLS Capital, which focuses on investment in early stage green tech startups. With over twenty years in investment banking, Oliver formerly served in roles at Barclays Capital and Lloyds Banking Group.

Haden Patrick is Director of Business Operations of Cordial Systems, a provider of institutional-grade self custody software using a Zero Trust security model. Haden has executive experience in team leadership, engineering and education originating from his 24 year career as a Naval Officer. After co-founding SoloKeys, the first open-source security key company, he went on to manage projects connecting web3 to traditional finance at a cryptocurrency trading firm before joining Cordial Systems.

Alex Pruden is the Executive Director at the Aleo Network Foundation. Prior to Aleo, he was an investing partner on the Andreessen Horowitz team where he specialized in cryptocurrencies and blockchain. He also served 9 years in the U.S. Army as an Infantry and Special Forces officer. 

Lucas Fulks is the CPO at Helika, the leading data analytics, marketing, and game management platform in gaming. Lucas is a seasoned executive and data specialist with nine combined years in gaming analytics including critical roles at Zynga, Sciplay, Artie, and now Helika. In addition to his experience working at AAA gaming companies, he's had 4x exits as a startup founder and core team member.

Annelise Osborne is Chief Business Officer at Kadena, a Layer 1, POW blockchain where she is focused on upgrading finance. Annelise has over 20 years of experience in finance, credit, real estate, family office, risk, structuring, governance, and digital assets. She was previously Head of Institutional for Arca Labs, working with companies to drive blockchain innovation through strategic partnerships and advisory services as well as COO of Propellr, a broker dealer in digital assets. Annelise spent 12 years at Moody's Investor Service in structured finance. She is a board advisor and university lecturer. Her book, From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets in Traditional Finance, hits shelves in June. Annelise holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in Economics from The College of William and Mary. www.hoodiestosuits.com Book available for Preorder now

Norman Wooding is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at SCRYPT. He has been involved in the Blockchain and Digital Asset space since 2014. He holds a Master's from the London School of Economics, where he acted as a Tutor on the topic of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.

Chris Waters is a 20-year veteran of animation and television development and production for kids/family and adult audiences.  He currently serves as CPO of Playground Productions, an independent studio focused on development, finance and distribution of kids' and family content and co-founder of NounsFest, which funds and distributes independent animation globally. Prior to that, he served as head of development for nine-time Emmy® Award-winning Stoopid Buddy Stoodios (Robot Chicken, Crossing Swords, MODOK, Ultra City Smiths) and was co-founder of Oktobor Animation (Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness, Penguins of Madagascar, Robot and Monster). Chris lives in Los Angeles and wakes up early every New Year's Day to attend the Rose Parade, so making the “Shark Pickle Cone” documentary was a dream come true.   Neil Berkeley is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker. His third feature film, GILBERT, follows the life and career of beloved and intensely private comedian, Gilbert Gottfried. The film had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 and was distributed by Gravitas Ventures with exclusive SVOD on Hulu. His first feature film, BEAUTY IS EMBARASSING, premiered at SXSW in 2012 and chronicles inspiring artist Wayne White. The film won several Best Documentary Awards and was featured in PBS’ Independent Lens in January of 2013. His second feature, HARMONTOWN, premiered at SXSW in 2014 and follows self-destructive TV writer Dan Harmon on an emotional, cross- country journey of self-discovery. Berkeley most recently served as showrunner for Amazon’s standup comedy doc series, INSIDE JOKES.  He is also a founding partner at Decential Media.  Decential is a web3 media company focusing on telling the stories about the human side of emerging technology.

Dan Kaizer is a decentralized application architect, and Solidity expert. He is an early blockchain enthusiast, frequent public speaker and hackathon judge. Well known in international Solidity developers community, one of the leading persons in the Russian blockchain community, Dan participated in developing smart-contracts and token economy concepts for a wide range of an international blockchain projects. He is also the author of scientific work "Decentralized Reputation Assessment System in Oracles Networks". Notable hackathons experience includes: ETHWaterloo Canada 2017 by Ethereum Foundation Overall Winner; BlockchainHack Russia 2017​ awarded by Qtum. WINNER of the SICTIC Blockchain Challenge and Crypto Valley Association Blockchain Awards 2018, Early Stage Category, with project Forseti. His Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanKaizer

Nikhil Raghuveera is Co-Founder and CEO of Aethos, a programmable policy layer that powers pre-transaction rules and conditions. Leveraging the agility of offchain computation and cryptoeconomic security through EigenLayer, the network powers pre-transaction rules and conditions in which transactions are only executed if they adhere to the defined rules. Policies are modifiable and fully owned by the developer or their community. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's GeoEconomics Center, a leading think tank focused on global economic policy. Prior to Aethos, Nikhil was Head of Strategy & Innovation at the Celo Foundation where he led major web3 partnerships and launches.

Luke Barwikowski is the founder and CEO of Pixels, the largest web3 game by DAU. With over 2.5M total players, Pixels is a social, casual web3 game powered by the Ronin Network, focusing on farming, exploration, and creation in an open world.  As CEO, Luke's mission is to build the biggest Web3 casual games company. Luke's background in software engineering started at 12, and he built and sold his first app at 18. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Michigan. Luke X: x.com/whatslukedoingPixels X: x.com/pixels_onlinePixels Website: Pixels - A New Type of Game