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# | Name | Association | Contact | Details & Interests |
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1 | Vipin Bharathan | DLT LLC | vip@dlt.nyc | Vipin has many years of experience in Capital Markets implementing front-to-back systems concentrating on Risk and P&L systems, and structuring. Have been working on applied DLT since early 2015. |
| 2 | Jonathan Levi | HACERA, The Unbounded Network | jonathan@hacera.com | Founder of HACERA and the Unbounded Network. Jonathan transitioned his career in the Financial Services sector (City of London, Hong-Kong and Wall St.) to focus on decentralized and distributed systems, also in highly regulated markets. |
| 3 | Kelly Mathieson | Digital Asset | kelly.mathieson@digitalasset.com | Head of Enterprise Solutions at Digital Asset. Over 30 years of financial services and capital markets experience, predominantly at J.P.Morgan (Corporate & Investment Bank, Asset Management and Treasury & Securities Services). |
| 4 | Dixing Xu | Nanyang Technological University | dixingxu@gmail.com | Dixing is one of the maintainers of fabric-sdk-py and has two years of experience developing blockchain related applications, currently a research assistant at NTU, Singapore. |
| 5 | Stanislav Liberman | CME Group, Inc | lirm604@gmail.com | Stan has 15 years of hands-on experience in Capital Markets technology and spent last 4 years researching and exploring the applications of blockchain and DLT to the domain. |
| 6 | Bobbi Muscara | Ledger Academy | Bobbi@LedgerAcademy.com | Working with the Learning and Materials Working Group to assist in documentation and training support for the Special Interest Groups. |
| 7 | Al Brandt | BlocLedger | al.brandt@blocledger.com | Working with Financial Services companies on proof of concepts using Hyperledger Fabric. |
| 8 | Edmund To | ConsenSys | edmund.to@consensys.net | Solutions architect and software engineer with commercial experience across a number of blockchain technologies. Prior to working in tech, experience in investment banking industry with equity and equity derivatives trading and structuring with UBS, Barclays Capital and BBVA. |
| 9 | Jane Kenyon | janekenyon@me.com | Extensive experience as Product Manager in Securities Services, Global Custody. Work with clients and technology teams to analyze needs, to define products and strategy and to deliver solutions to market. Most recently at R3 managing projects and proofs-of-concept. | |
| 10 | Kirthi K | Civitas Fintech | kirthi@civitasgroup.co.ukkirthi@civitasfintech.com | Transitioned from Management Consulting to Blockchain Solutions Architecture. Kirthi has 15 year of Business Transformation & IT Change experience in Asset Management and Insurance. Data buff with special interstes in ML, Digital Sovereign Identity and Asset backed securities digitisation. |
| 11 | James Koss | United Capital Financial Advisers | james.koss@unitedcp.com | Financial audit experience in financial services, banking, and insurance. Successful digital asset analyst and investor. Operate crypto-currency mining operation running 30 Bitmain ASIC processors and two 10 unit GPU rigs on 5 different blockchain networks. Transitioned to enterprise blockchain consulting in 2017. Currently hodling Ether. |
| 12 | John Deeter | Bond.One | jde@bond.one | |
| 13 | Teana Baker-Taylor | Global Digital Finance | Teana@gdf.io | GDF is an industry membership body that promotes the adoption of best practices for digital and crypto assets and digital finance technologies, through the development of conduct standards, in a shared engagement forum with market participants, policymakers and regulators. |
| 14 | Araby Patch | Securitize Inc. | araby@securitize.io | Director of marketing for Securitize, a primary issuance and lifecycle management platform and protocol for digital securities (security tokens) on public and permission blockchains. Securitize is working with IBM on a Hyperledger based projected to tokenize commercial paper. |
| 15 | Ron Quaranta | Wall Street Blockchain Alliance | ron@wsba.co | |
| 16 | Chris Painter | Omnitude | chris@omnitude.tech | CEO of Omnitude. |
| 17 | Rashad Kurbanov | iownit capital and markets, Inc. | rashad_kurbanov@iownit.us | CEO |
| 18 | Alex Medana | Finfabrik | alex@finfabrik.com | Co-Founder & CEO |
| 19 | Srinivasan (Murali) Muralidharan | State Street Corp | srinivasan.muralidharan99@gmail.com | Interests - Finance, post-trade, crypto-currency, tokens. DLT for finance, smart contracts for finance. |
| 20 | Milena Kohlhofer | Citi | milena.kohlhofer@citi.com | Product Manager |
| 21 | Kelly Cooper | KellyCooper.2ds@gmail.com | ||
| 22 | Elena Treshcheva | Exactpro Systems LLC | elena.treshcheva@exactpro.com | Business Development Manager, Researcher. Software testing services for financial market infrastructures. Test automation framework for testing DLT-based applications in post trade. |
| 23 | Oleg Abdrashitov | Sberbank | Abdrashitov.O.V@sberbank.ru | Blockchain Laboratory Director |
| 24 | Ben Taylor | LedgerDomain | ben.taylor@ledgerdomain.com | CEO. 25 years on Wall Street; 3 years member Hyperledger. Shipping DocuSeal, a GDPR & CCPA compliant framework and Selvedge, a hybrid cloud app server for Hyperledger Fabric. |
| 25 | Saptarshi Choudhury | Paramount Software Solutions | saptarshi@paramountsoft.net | Interest - Post Trade Settlement |
| 26 | Natalia Garcia | natalia.garciagonzalez@gmail.com | Associate Director in Debt Capital Markets with 10 years of work experience (6 of them at J.P. Morgan London). Interested in the deployment of Blockchain for the origination/syndication and settlement processes. | |
| 27 | Randy Amiel | Black Cloud Technologies | randy.amiel@blackcloudtech.com | Founder. Worked and developed financial software in the private equity hedge fund businesses for 3 years. Interested in high speed trading using Hyperledger for faster settlements. |
| 28 | Ofer Avineri | NYSTX | ofer@nystx.com | The New York Security Exchange - (The Security Token Company) is a world leader in the Security Token market. We provide solutions for Security Token Offerings (STO) as well as the world's most advanced Security Token exchange. All Security Tokens on our platform are asset backed and must comply with SEC regulations. |
| 29 | Baptiste Cota | LeadBlock Partners | baptiste.cota@leadblockpartners.com | Partner of LeadBlock Partners. We are a venture capital fund investing in entreprise blockchain start-ups which typically use Hyperledger. Fintech is key area for us. 5 years Capital Markets experience including GS & Rothschild |
| 30 | Mani Pillai | SwapsHub | mani@swapshub.com | President. At SwapsHub, we are building a digital assets trading & life cycle platform integrating ISDA CDM data standard for smart contracts, permissioned ledgers and institutional custody using Multi-Party Computation (MPC). Separately, ISDA CDM working group members are using our Corda based OTC derivatives ledger services platform for CDM trade life cycle testing covering rates and credit. On the regulatory front, SwapsHub is engaged with SEC and CFTC staff on addressing their digital assets' concerns listed on their joint statements covering SEC 15c3-3, SIPA 1970 rules etc. |
| 31 | Neo Wei Cheong | PhillipCapital Phillip Futures | neo.distributedledger@gmail.com | Software engineer and solutions architect with many years of experience working on capital market solutions for Equity/OTC derivatives from front-to-back-end systems and in last two years transitioned to full-stack blockchain solutions based on Hyperledger Fabric and its tools. Interested to further expand its use cases to other financial products and market infrastructure. Have experiences on OTC exchange, market making, commodities, FX, machine learning and IoT systems. |
| 32 | Junji Katto | Itau Unibanco | junji.katto@itau.us | 10+ years in technology for Finserv. Currently working as Innovation Lead, based out of NYC. Working to change the bank's culture to be more client focus, digital and sustainable. Interested in blockchain / DLT, both public and private, cognitive technologies (augmented intelligence), machine learning, IoT / telematics, open banking, P2P, innovative UX solutions and others. Very much interested in social impact initiatives. |
| 33 | Jim Mason | Paramount Software / Sky Web Team | jim.mason@skywebteam.com |
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| 34 | Sanu Satyadarshi | sanusatyadarshi@gmail.com | Blockchain Developer and DevOps Engineer. | |
| 35 | Sivacoumar Tendayoudabany | Gazprombank (Switzerland) Ltd Crypto Solvency | coumar.tendayoudabany@gmail.com | Coumar is currently the lead architect for the crypto initiative at Gazprombank (Switzerland). After a decade in FinTech across Europe and Asia, as tech lead, solution architect, business analyst, and project manager, he is maximizing his expertise in Blockchain technology by bridging the gap between traditional and crypto finance. He has been recognized as a subject matter expert in the Blockchain area and was recently invited to speak on the topic ‘Capturing the Crypto Asset Opportunity’ at the Singapore Avaloq Community Conference. He was also included in a list of European blockchain experts and is the Blockchain vertical lead at the Swiss Fintech Association. |
36 | Tareq Assi | McMaster University | assitareq@outlook.com/assit@mcmaster.ca | Finance student at McMaster University. Self-taught in python, C, C++ and various hardware development tools. Has a plethora of experience that ranges from research analysis in the biotech space to strategy consulting and software development. Wants to know more about the blockchain space and has a need to contribute to projects related to blockchain. |
| 37 | Eugenio Reggianini | Konosko Group | reggianinire@gmail.com | Corporate advisor with a past as a corporate lawyer, based in Shanghai. Passionate for DLT permissioned networks in order to empower and support investment operations inbound and outbound China. |
| 38 | Akshaya Ravi | KrypC | akshaya@krypc.com | Vice President at KrypC, a domain-agnostic, low-code, lifecycle management solution for any Hyperledger based blockchain program. It addresses all aspects of the lifecycle – Build, Deploy, Manage and Scale. |
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