LONDON BLOCKCHAIN - Key Persons

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• Legal Director
• Accenture Director of Legal Services

Legal Director: Accenture Blockchain, Finance and BPO Global Regulatory Lead, Accenture Daniel is Accenture Director of Legal Services, Global Regulatory Lead for Blockchain, Finance and BPO Services. Daniel began his legal career in Sydney and has lived and worked in the Chicago, Paris, Amsterdam, Moscow and London. He is an integral part of Accenture's Blockchain leadership team as the company creates and sells enterprise blockchain based deals to the global market.

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• Researcher With the Cloud Legal Project
• Researcher, Queen Mary University of London

Johan David Michels is a researcher with the Cloud Legal Project and Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre at Queen Mary University of London. His current research covers blockchain, cybersecurity, and data protection. He previously worked at Ofcom and the United Nations in telecoms policy and international criminal law.

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• CEO, Copper Financial

Dmitry has over ten years experience in software and financial engineering. Prior to starting Copper, he was CTO and Partner at Dolfin Financial, a Mayfair-based asset manager. He is a graduate of Imperial College London, and a passionate believer in the decentralising role of cryptocurrencies and the opportunities they present to family offices and institutional investors alike.

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• Founder & CEO, Futuryng INC

Founder, Board Member and CTO at Decisyon, a true success case in business and fund-raising the world over. Executive, serial entrepreneur, global business leader and investor. One of the recognized leaders in the Internet of Things space. Significant hands-on international operations experience in USA and Europe.

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• Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management
• Managing Director, Wealth Management, Rockefeller

Guy Dietrich is a Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management. He has over 35 years of investment experience and is responsible for advising ultra high net worth clients, family offices, foundations, and endowments. Prior to joining Rockefeller, Mr. Dietrich lead the largest private wealth management practice for Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in the Silicon Valley. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and was a fellow at the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, and was on Advisory Board of the the Stanford University Institute for Economic Policy Research.

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• Chief Revenue Officer, Bitfury Group

Henry is a recognized executive in the technology industry and has worked with leading Fortune 500 companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola and Siemens. While at Qualcomm, he led early re-designs of Qualcomm CDMA phones; was the Product Director managing large cross-functional teams to commercialize OmniVision, a flagship satellite-terrestrial communications system; and was the Executive Market Maker responsible for creating the global ecosystem for Qualcomm's Snapdragon portfolio. As a sought-after advisor and investor in the technology and blockchain space, Henry is actively engaged with disruptive companies at the board level in the fields of business and artificial intelligence, machine learning and mobile technologies. Under his strategic direction, these companies experienced rapid growth and successfully completed seed and Series-A funding rounds. He received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and completed Executive Education at Stanford University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Chairman, Wentworth Hall Consultancy Ltd
• Economist at LSE

Ian Morley is a successful business Angel and Entrepreneur. He is the Chairman of Wentworth Hall Family Office and Consultancy , Chairman of Salutem Healthcare Group, Chairman of Regenerative Medical Group , NED at Conister Bank, Director of Condor Trade and also holds various Directorships with a range of other companies covering Property, Asian lending, Blockchain and Crypto currencies. He is the author of Morley's Laws of Business and Fund Management and one of the leading global figures and pioneers in the development of the Hedge Fund Industry. He ran one of Europe's first and oldest Fund of Funds and subsequently helped build one of Europe's largest privately owned Fund of Funds. He has helped build manage, own, buy, sell and mentor start up businesses over the last twenty years. He founded and was elected the first Chairman of what is today known as The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the world's only truly global trade association for the Hedge Fund Industry. He has advised Central Banks, International Regulators and other International Organisations, such as the EU and OECD on matters related to Economics, Markets and Regulation. He is actively involved in Family Office conferences and networks. His articles have been published in such papers as the The London Times, FT, International Herald Tribune and various trade publications. He has appeared frequently on BBC, radio and TV, Sky, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and various international TV and radio stations. Ian trained as an Economist at LSE where he was Vice President of the Students Union. He is a member of Gray's Inn and one of the few fund managers to be accredited as a journalist. Ian served as a battle medic with a MASH unit and has completed sixteen International Marathons, one hundred and fifty Half Marathons and competed in weight lifting and dancing competitions. He was the London Theater Correspondent for the Irish Stage and Screen. He has also written about Running and Building a house in Italy for Italy Magazine. His other interests include boating football, politics and philanthropy. He lives in London with his dog, cat and sometimes his children.

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• Editor - in - Chief, ICOCROWD and Founder & CEO, Blockchain Lab

Ismail Malik, a self-styled ‘social engineer and PR Renegade', is the Editor in Chief of the world's foremost publication on Initial Coin Offerings - ICOcrowd, has over 20 years experience in technology related startups and entrepreneurship, and is among the leading experts in the blockchain field. In fact, Ismail has been recognized as part of the top-100 most influential people in blockchain by rise.global. Ismail is also the founder and CEO of Blockchain Lab, ‘supplychain on blockchains consultant' for Chainx, crafts smart contracts on the blockchain for SmartLedger. He is a man of many talents, including a professional mastery of 5 languages, has a wide range of skills & expertise relating to blockchain & crypto, and regularly speaks at blockchain events.

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• Advisor & Digital Fellow to CEO, IPsoft, Sr Fellow of US Council on Competitiveness

Mark Minevich, author and world-renowned visionary in the fields of digitization and artificial intelligence, is the principle founder of Going Global Ventures in New York and Venture Partner of GVA Capital in Silicon Valley. He is a Senior Fellow of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils and Senior Advisor of the Council of Competitiveness in Washington DC and charter member of the B20/G20's Digitization Task Force as an expert in digitization, advanced autonomous systems, and the future of AI. Mark's track record speaks for itself and he's always in demand. The combination of his unique experience and background in business strategy, technology, and innovation, his global orientation and expertise, and his exposure to working in the corporate, private, tech and investment sectors makes Mark an invaluable contributor.

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• Digital Economist
• Executive Director of the UCL CBT
• Executive Director, University College London

Paolo Tasca is a Digital Economist specialising in P2P financial systems. An advisor on blockchain technologies for different international organisations including the EU Parliament and the United Nations, Paolo is founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College London (UCL CBT). Recently, he has also been appointed Dean of Research of the Jiangsu Huaxin Blockchain Research Institute (JBI) in Nanjing and Honorary Research Professor of Sogang Univ. Blockchain Research Center in Seoul. Previously, he was Lead Economist on digital currencies and P2P financial systems at the German Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. Paolo is the co-author of the bestseller "FINTECH Book" and the co-editor of the book "Banking Beyond Banks and Money". He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk Finance since 2016 and Guest Editor of the Journal of Digital Banking since 2017. In addition, he is author of various scientific papers about blockchain, which have been published by prestigious international scientific journals, such as the Harvard Business Review. As Executive Director of the UCL CBT, Paolo is also directly involved in various research projects concerning different application fields of blockchain technologies. Among them, the BARAC Project (Blockchain technology for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance) supported by EPSRC, and the P2P-IoET Project (The Internet of Energy Things: Supporting peer-to-peer energy trading and demand side management through blockchains) supported by Lloyds Register Foundation. Dr Tasca holds an M.A in Politics and Economics (summa cum laude) from the University of Padua and a M.Sc. in Economics and Finance from Ca' Foscari, Venice. He did his PhD studies in Business between Ca' Foscari Venice and ETH, Zürich. His doctoral dissertation on Systemic Risk in financial markets was subsidized by the Swiss National Science Foundation with more than 500.000 Euros.

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• Head of Blockchain - UK & Ireland, IBM
• Head of Blockchain for IBM UKI

Richard Stockley is the Head of Blockchain for IBM UKI. He has sales responsibility for all blockchain services and software in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Richard has extensive experience in Management, Marketing and Business Process. Prior to IBM he owned and operated a digital publisher in Vietnam. He has an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

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• Board Member, SFO

Rodrigo Jesus holds a degree in Engineering Mechatronics and has complemented his executive education at Harvard Business School. Serial entrepreneur in the Tech space and private equity investor in sectors such as financial services, insurance and healthcare. Experience in launching start-up's in M-health, Internet businesses and co-founded IT businesses. Transactional experience covers Mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, Growth capital, JVs, distribution arrangements and exit strategies. International experience through exposure to Emerging markets and executive positions in Europe. Board member at single FO responsible for PE and direct investments.

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• Partner at Ott Capital Ventures

Mr. Stephan Ott is partner at Ott Capital Ventures, a NY-based single family office prioritizing blockchain technology and cryptocurrency investments. Stephan is also CEO of Ott Immobilien, a German real estate services and portfolio holding company established in 1959. He holds an M.B.A. from Baruch College and a B.S. in Communications from Boston

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• COO, Fast Future Publishing Ltd

Steve is a global futurist and keynote speaker. He advises global corporations on the transformative potential of disruptive technologies and how brands can leverage them to create distinctive identities in a fast changing world and drive exponential growth and improvement. He has a particular focus on the new models of leadership, collaboration, and innovation required to sustain and differentiate brands in a rapidly changing reality. Steve delivers fully researched and customised client presentations for each keynote. As COO of Fast Future Publishing Steve is working on delivering a series of multi-contributor books exploring the emerging future. He is a co-editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business, the recently published Beyond Genuine Stupidity - Ensuring AI Serves Humanity, and The Future Reinvented - Reimagining Life, Society, and Business. He is also working on two forthcoming books - Unleashing Human Potential - The Future of AI in Business, and 50:50 - Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

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• President, EMusic.Com, Inc

A serial entrepreneur, Koch co-created Orca Interactive in 1995 with Haggai Barel. Orca Interactive went on to become the leader in Internet Protocol TV content management and was named one of Oracles "top 50 solutions worldwide". Orca was later sold to Emblaze Systems and then acquired by France Telecom. Dotomi, Koch's next venture, provided a single source for direct marketing solutions, including online targeting, analytics and data/media management. Dotomi was acquired by ValueClick. Koch's latest venture, TriPlay, is a consumer cloud services company that enables users to seamlessly sync, access and store their media anywhere, on any device. TriPlay recently acquired eMusic.com, the original download-to-own digital music store, and is now focused on fixing a broken music industry by building a fair, simple and transparent music distribution platform for independent artists and service providers.

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• Co - Founder and Head of Partnerships for R3

Todd McDonald is Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2013 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of distributed ledger technology for financial services. In his current role, Todd focuses on building the partner application ecosystem for R3's Corda platform. Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their Financial Markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University.

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• Partner
• Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
• Partner, Baker McKenzie

Sue McLean is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Technology practice. Sue advises clients on technology, sourcing and digital media business models and deals, as well as the legal issues relating to the implementation of new technologies. Sue advises on a wide range of technology matters including outsourcing, digital transformation, technology procurement, development and licensing, m/e-commerce, cloud computing, AI, FinTech, blockchain, social media, data privacy and cybersecurity. Sue has been included in the Women In FinTech Power List for three successive years and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital Banking. Sue founded and leads Baker McKenzie's blockchain group, is a member of techUK's DLT working group, supports the UCL Blockchain Technology for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance (BARAC) research project and is a member of the BSI committee for Smart Contracts. Sue also represents Baker McKenzie in R3's Corda Blockchain Legal Centre of Excellence and Accord's legal working group.