Crypto Digital Space Conference by Storm-7

New York 2019

ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCY Cryptocurrency has been in existence since Bitcoin was established in 2009. However, the technology goes back even further, and the theoretical construct goes back to the 1980s. In simple terms, cryptocurrencies are digital assets and exist as alternative digital currencies (there are over 1,800 incirculation). They use decentralised control processes in contrast to traditional central banking systems and currencies that use centralised control processes. Cryptocurrencies rely upon highly complex cryptographic principles, and utilise strong ryptography to secure financial ransactions, control creation of units, distribution, and verification of asset transfer. The validity of each cryptocurrency coin is provided by blockchain, blocks (growing records within data) which are linked together and secured through cryptography. The validation of transactions within cryptocurrency networks is known as mining. Most cryptocurrencies are characterised by a finite supply, a precise number of units that can and will ever exist, providing them with an inherent value.

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The popularity of cryptocurrency has steadily increased the rivalry on the altcoin market and has given rise to Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). It has also produced significant market altering incidents such as crashes, market thefts and global scams. For example, in January 2014, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox went offline, and 850,000 Bitcoins vanished to never be seen again, valued at the time at $450 million. At today’s price, the value would be $4.4 billion. Top cryptocurrencies are viewed to be good investments, especially stable currencies like Bitcoin (for example, if you had invested $1000 in Bitcoin when first publicly available, you would now be £36.7 million richer). Today, there is growing concern around regulation and the ability for cryptocurrency to facilitate illegal activities. For example, the infamous dark web marketplace ‘Silk Road’ utilised Bitcoin to facilitate drug purchases before being shut down in 2014. Cryptocurrencies also have a high potential for tax evasion, high price volatility and manipulation, and there is often a potential for financial loss through data loss or cybercrime.

ABOUT THE EVENT

“Unique and unprecedented insight into one of the most searing and controversial digital Fintech areas today.”

At the event, our premier speaker lineup of renowned cryptocurrency and technology experts will cover many innovative and exploratoy topics, as well as the surging questions pulsing throughout the cryptomarkets today. There will include analysis of efficiencies within the global digital currency markets; discussion on capturing opportunities of dislocated markets; the challenges and solutions of maintaining consistent liquidity within turbulant digital markets; examination of

long-term growth within state-of-the-art digital execution strategies; technology solutions review for delivering and managing digital assets and navigating the digital asset marketplace; the future of AI, machine learning and the cryptocurrency markets; scrutiiny of the opportunities and advantages within volatile Bitcoin markets; insight into the impact of blockchain technology and the capital markets infrastructure; and focused review into unlocking the hidden value of next generation investment products.

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EVENT SCHEDULE

Networking Breakfast Introduction Sol Steinberg – Founder, OTC Partners Introduction to event and landscape. Modern Capital markets, bubbles, anomalies, and exploring drivers of Crypto’s evolution.

SESSION 1 Robert Savage – CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC Crypto Market Dynamics and Currents, Crypto coin offers, volume.

SESSION 2 4 Zura Kakushadze – Ph.D., CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies” KEYNOTE: Crypto Factor Models & Statistical ARBITRAGE: Factor models for crypto-asset returns. Cross-sectional statistical arbitrage trading of crypto-assets.

Lunch Break and Networking Leadership Discussion Panel 1: Rocky Road to Institutional Crypto: Challenges and Opportunities

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Vladimir Danishevsky – Head of Corporate Bonds Flow eTrading IT, Citi Michael Petersohn – Sales and Business Development, ARC Financial Technologies

Exploring trading across the eco-system spanning markets , exchanges, derivatives, and regions.

Garrett Nenner – Global Head of Trading Product, Linedata

Networking Coffee Break

Biser Dimitrov – Technology Director, BlockEx

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Leadership Discussion Panel 2: ETH and BTC: a call option on future technology?

Robert Griffitts – Partner, Masur Griffiths & Co LLP

Eugene Lee – CFA, Co-Founder and Partner, Digital Mosaic Capital Jim Kyung-Soo Liew – Co-Founder, SoKat.co

Brian Koralewski – Partner, Austere Capital Mark Goldman – Founding Principal, Zash Bryan Feinberg – CEO and Founder, Etheralabs / Plato Technologies Inc. and Plato Search Inc.

Networking Coffee Break

SESSION 3 Jonathan Nelson – Managing Director, HACK Fund: Fixing Venture Capital Blockchain, emerging markets and the future of venture capital. Blockchain is opening up massive new markets to investment, and solving the liquidity problems of investing in technology companies.

Leadership Discussion Panel 3: Key Questions the CFTC Wants Answered About Ether

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US Regulators and Cryptocurrency: It’s Complicated

Gabe Frank – Institutional Custody and Cryptocurrency Security, BitGo

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Haim Bodek – Managing Principal, Decimus Capital Markets LLC Wilfred Daye – Head of Financial Markets, OK Coin Richard Rothenberg – Executive Director, Global A.I. Corp

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Ron Quaranta – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance

Final Discussion and Review Sol Steinberg – Founding Partner, OTC Partners

Drinks Reception and Post-Conference Networking

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ACADEMICS. BANKING PROFESSIONALS. COMPLIANCE ANALYSTS. COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONALS. CRYPTOCURRENCY ENTHUSIASTS. CRYPTOCURRENCY INVESTORS. FINANCIAL SERVICES PROFESSIONALS. FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY (FINTECH) PROFESSIONALS. FRONT OFFICE PROFESSIONALS. INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS. PROFESSIONAL INVESTORS. REGULATORY ANALYSTS. REGULATORY TECHNOLOGY (REGTECH) PROFESSIONALS.

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WHO IS THE COURSE SUITABLE FOR?

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RON QUARANTA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Wall Street Blockchain Alliance Ron Quaranta is currently CEO of Digital Currency Labs, a financial technology and strategic advisory firm which focuses on bridging the gap between the emerging world of digital currencies and Wall Street. He possesses over 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors. He is co-creator of the Bitcoin Volatility Index (xBVIX), and previously served as director at Falcon Global Capital, one of the first bitcoin investment funds. Prior to Digital Currency Labs, Ron served as CEO of DerivaTrust Technologies, a pioneering software and communications provider of secure transaction and information platforms for financial market participants. Before this he held a variety of roles at Thomson Reuters, the global mass media, information and technology firm, culminating as Global Head of Trading Analytics and Head of Exchange Trading for the Americas. Ron is the editor and contributing author of the recently published book “Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond: Challenges and Applications”, published Risk Books. In addition, he was recently named to the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list by Accounting Today in 2018. He is a frequent guest of major media outlets, including Bloomberg Radio, and is a sought after speaker and writer regarding financial technology and innovation. Ron also serves as an advisor to multiple start-ups and corporations focused on fintech innovation and blockchain technology. Ron holds a Bachelor’s Degree Major in Finance, a Bachelor’s Degree Minor in Government and Politics as well as an MBA in International Finance from the St. John’s University. Ron gathered also an Executive Certificate in Information Systems and Technology Project Management from the Villanova University.

WILFRED DAYE Head of Financial Markets, OK Coin

VLADIMIR DANISHEVSKI Head of Corporate Bonds Flow eTrading IT, Citi

Wilfred Dayne, previous President and Senior Portfolio Manager for Noble Capital International, with experience in structured credit trader and desk quant for UBS, Deutsche Bank, D.B. Wilfred is a leading expert in capital markets, focusing on various structured credit products, both cash and synthetics, and is now Head of Financial Markets at OKCoin, one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading digital asset exchanges, with the aim to provide a fast and secure trading environment for global customers.

Vladimir Danishevsky, Head of Corporate Bonds Flow eTrading IT at Citi, is a goal oriented and productive IT professional with broad spectrum of knowledge and experience. From the Saint Petersburg Institute Institute of Chemical Technology, where he attended a Masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Course in Mathematics and Computer Science, and the MBA and Finance at the Rutgers University, he moved in the Financial Industry and he has applied his quantitative skills at both boutique consulting companies and leading bulge bracket firms.

From functional perspective, he has devoted his career in research, trading, and risk management, with previous responsibilities of portfolio construction and risk management of securitized product collateral during his role as Executive Director at UBS. Prior to UBS, he was a senior counterparty risk quant at Deutsche Bank. Other positions include Senior Portfolio Market Risk Manager (D.B. Zwirn, LLC), Head of Client Valuation (Lehman Brothers) and Risk Finance (Barclays Capital).

He is now mentor of developers with the aim of facilitating the delivery of models that optimize trading functionality and systems for corporate bond trading for US, EMEA, and APAC regions. With his culture of commitment and focus on excellence, Vladimir became a respected leader and presenter in multiple occasions, including Global Financial Markets Intelligence 2015, A-Team Intelligent Trading Summit 2016, New York Association of Software Engineers Machine Learning and Electronic Trading 2015, New York Trading Show 2016 and Terrapin Automated Trading 2016.

Before joining the financial industry, with an educational background in biochemistry, University of California at Riverside, and financial engineering, Claremont Graduate University, Wilfred joined a PhD coursework in molecular pathology, University of Southern California Medical School, and he was a NSF translational research scientist specializing in breast cancer gene therapy.

With his extensive experience he mastered a unique set of skills, which includes leading the development of ultra-low latency trading systems for various asset classes, including equities, FX, futures, options, commodities, and fixed income. At Citi Vladimir is now routinely pursuing ways to use technology to deliver profitable growth, building profitable trading businesses and state-of-the-art execution platforms that are at the forefront of the financial industry.

GABE FRANK

ZURA KAKUSHADZE

Institutional Custody and Cryptocurrency Security at BitGo

Ph.D. CEO, Quantigic® Solutions. Author, “151 Trading Strategies”

Coming from a Bachelor of Business Administration and Finance, Gabe Frank is in charge of the business development of BitGo, a market leader in institutional cryptocurrency financial services, providing clients with security, compliance, and custodial solutions. Currently working with funds, broker-dealers, family offices, exchanges, ICOs, OTC / liquidity providers, and payment processors with the aim of delivering trust in digital assets and focusing on helping Institutions navigate the digital asset marketplace with the highest security standards in the world. Gabe, Institutional Custody and Cryptocurrency Security expert at BitGo, is now a fundamental resource for the world’s largest processor of on-chain Bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies. BitGo supports over 100 coins and tokens, and with over $2 billion in assets in wallet. Our customer base includes the world’slargest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, BitGo introduced Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. Backed by Craft Ventures, DRW, Galaxy Digital Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Redpoint Ventures, and Valor Equity Partners, BitGo has invested the time and energy to bring the best financial tools from mainstream treasury management to digital currency, and it shows in the quality of their products and services.

Zura Kakushadze is the President and CEO of Quantigic® Solutions and a Full Professor at Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia. He has over 17 years of hands-on experience in quantitative trading and finance, 130+ publications in physics, finance, cancer research and other fields, including 3,400+ citations and h-index 30+, 140,000+ downloads on SSRN, the book “151 Trading Strategies”. The latest provides a detailed descriptions for 150+ trading strategies across a host of asset classes and trading styles such as stocks, options, fixed income, futures, ETFs, indexes, commodities, foreign exchange, real estate, distressed assets, cryptocurrencies and many more, with some strategies are based on machine learning. Zura received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University at 23, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, and an Assistant Professor at C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2001. After expanding into quantitative finance, he was a Director at RBC Capital Markets, Managing Director at WorldQuant, Executive Vice President and substantial shareholder at Revere Data (now part of FactSet), and Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut. Zura is now specialised in structuring complex deals, contract negotiation, drafting and closing and quantitative analyses, and his great successes brought him to gather more than a quarter of a million followers on LinkedIn.

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ROBERT SAVAGE

JIM KYUNG-SOO LIEW

CEO, CCTrack Solutions, LLC

Co-Founder, SoKat.co

Robert Savage co-founded and runs a start-up fund, CCTrack Solutions, an FX overlay advisor with $4 billion which is backed by CITIC Capital. The focus of the fund is FX trading systematically, and Robert’s entire career has been focused on FX space starting with his work as a Quant strategist at Goldman. He is also the Chief Executive Officer, Editor-in-Chief and Head of Research of Track.com, an online platform for investment research and market ideas that publishes daily global macro analysis and weekly crypto market analysis Robert joined FX Concepts as COO and Chief Strategist when Track. com was acquired by FX Concepts in 2012. He also founded and runs Savage Markets consultancy providing bespoke trading advisory, marketing and research for those in FX and crypto.

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Notably, Robert is Senior Advisor for McKinsey & Company since 2012 and Vice President for the Hellenic American Bankers Association. Moreover, he is a well known speaker at various events such as TradeTech US 2019 and TradeTech FX 2019. Previously, he was the COO at FX Concepts and he served as Managing Director of FX Sales at Goldman Sachs, where he published widely read and insightful research focused on the foreign exchange markets and the macroeconomic environment. As well as twenty-three years at Goldman Sachs, Robert worked as the Head of New York Foreign Exchange trading for Lehman Brothers and as a Director of Proprietary Trading at Bank of America Securities. Whilst at Goldman, he has been defined as a must-listen-to individual with well over 10,000 subscribers to his daily emails. Robert holds a BA in Political Philosophy from the Yale University.

Dr. Jim Kyung-Soo Liew is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and revels in pushing the boundaries of financial knowledge and product development both as an academic and FinTech Entrepreneur. He currently teaches “Big Data Machine Learning,” “Blockchain,” “Advanced Hedge Fund Strategies,” and “Leading Entrepreneurship and Innovation” at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Additionally, he serves as the Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Innovation Factory and has received the Dean’s Award for Faculty Excellence 2015-2018. He serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of the British Blockchain Association, Journal of Alternative Investments and the Journal of Portfolio Management where he co-authored the most read Invited Editorial “iGDP?”. Dr. Liew co-founded SoKat Consulting, LLC, that now he owns and operates. SoKat creates world-class Machine Learning / AI and Blockchain products and services primarily servicing institutional investors, government agencies, academic institutions and select-startups. SoKat unlocks the hidden value of data through thoughtful and creative solutions, comprising of actionable business intelligence, transparent data analytics, bold predictive models, and next-generation investment products.

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Previously, Jim has been with the Carlyle Asset Management Group, Campbell and Company, and Morgan Stanley. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Finance from Columbia University. He has published pioneering research in the intersection of social media big data, crypto-currencies, and financial markets. Publications include “Twitter Sentiment and IPO Performance: A Cross-Sectional Examination”, “The ‘Sixth’ Factor -- Social Media Factor Derived Directly from Tweet Sentiments”, “Forecasting ETFs with Machine Learning Algorithm”, “Do Tweet Sentiments Still Predict the Stock Market?”, “Tweet Sentiments and Crowd-Sourced Earnings Estimates as Valuable Sources of Information around Earnings Releases”, “The Case for Bitcoin for Institutional Investors: Bubble Investing or Fundamentally Sound?” and “Crypto-Currency Investing Examined”.

EUGENE LEE

MICHAEL PETERSOHN

CFA, Co-Founder and Partner, Digital Mosaic Capital

Sales and Business Development, ARC Financial Technologies

Eugene Lee is an experienced professional with ten years of experience in Portfolio Management and Trading, and seven years of experience in Quantitative Credit as well as in Emerging Market Trading. After completing his BA Economics and his MS in Financial Engineering, he started his professional development as Database/Management Analyst at the United States Department of Defence, to then move on with various positions in companies such as Moody’s Analytics, American International Group and Bank of America.

Michael Petersohn is Co-Founder of ARC Financial Technologies, which is currently automating workflows in Foreign Exchange and Crypto Currency trading. Arc FinTech is an ISV providing aggregation, execution, risk management and reporting services with capabilities in Crypto currencies, FX and Futures. ARCFinTech is a marriage of computer science, financial engineering, connectivity and market practitioners providing solutions for the financial community. Michael started to follow developments in the blockchain and crypto currency markets since 2012 when he was at CME Group. As Director of Intermediaries he was in a unique position to work on the internal Bitcoin committee and help to facilitate making the rounds to see a number of the early players and push for the acceptance of a futures product. Previously to CME Group Michael Co-Founded Carolina Rustica, a home furnishings and art gallery featuring NC manufacturers and artisans. He has also been Senior Director at Brookview Capital, Vice President in Institutional Sales for Tullett Prebon and Foreign Exchange Manager for Canton Fitzgerald. Michael started his career in the Banking and Financial Services Sectors as Equity Sales and Relationship Manager at Lehman Brothers, and other past experiences include FX Sales for UBS and FX Forward Broker at ICAP. Michael holds a BSBA in International Business from the American University Kogod School of Business and a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from the American University.

Eugene has also been member of Foodshed Investors NY, a group of angel investors focused on local food and sustainable agricultural businesses, and Co-Founder of Euthenia Capital is an angel group that supports early stage companies that aspire to the goals of Sustainable Capitalism. After an extensive eight-year experience at Neuberger Berman, where he raised his profile from Quant Trader to EM Debt Associate Portfolio Manager and finally Senior Quant Analyst in the Multi-Asset Class (MAC) Team, he Co-Founded Digital Mosaic Capital in 2016.

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Digital Mosaic is a Fintech company that allows investors to participate in today’s rapid tech-enabled origination and disintermediation for the globally underbanked. In the modern world where Fintech innovation and regulatory changes have allowed experienced Sponsors to significantly reduce underwriting costs while making these returns available to investor, Digital Mosaic has the mission of providing access to these deals with simple products meeting different client needs and risk appetites.

JONATHAN NELSON

RICHARD ROTHENBERG

Managing Director, HACK Fund: Fixing Venture Capital

Executive Director, Global A.I. Corp

Managing Director of HACK Fund, a liquid venture fund on the blockchain, Jonathan Nelson, former member of SEC Advisory Committee and board member of Wilson Center for Public Policy, Latin America, is now CEO at Hackers/Founders, a global tech founders co-operative. This venture-capital fund on the blockchain uses digital share certificates to get funding to early-stage startups, with the final aim of growing economies and reduce poverty by making life suck 34% less for tech founders in Silicon Valley and around the world. Since its foundation, Jonathan helped achieve $600M portfolio market cap in the first 5 years with the vision of moving economies, reducing poverty, and improving life for tech founders around the world. Jonathan worked with the White House and Mayor Bloomberg’s administration to promote Startup Visa, and comprehensive immigration reform, and aims to change how the world invests in global startups via blockchain stock certificates. In the spirit of H/F’s community roots, founders literally have a stake in each other’s success, since they receive a piece of equity from each of their fellow companies. This high-risk investment idea reflect the braveness of Jonathan that disrupted the market creating an alternative intriguing way to get seed funding to startups.

Richard Rothenberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Global A.I. Corporation, a Fintech company comprised of former quant traders and Phd scientists which uses AI and Big Data to enable actionable insights for governments and investors. Between 2015 and 2017 he was quantitative trader and portfolio manager at Walleye Trading Advisors, a $10 Billion quant hedge fund. Previously he has also been a quantitative trader and researcher in the algorithmic trading group at Deutsche Bank, dealing with Global Multi-Asset Systematic Trading. Before that he worked for leading financial companies including Man Investments, Goldman Sachs and Prudential Financial in a variety of quantitative and analytical positions. Richard is a Research Affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory CIFT, one of the world’s largest supercomputing laboratories and part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, where he used big data and statistical machine learning techniques for research aimed to contribute to the stability of global financial markets. He is also an advisor for the U.S. Financial Vulnerabilities Project at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an division of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Young Jewish Professionals (YJP) group. Richard is an extremely knowledgeable person, with full professional proficiency in both English and Spanish, that received the Certificate of Quantitative Finance (CQF) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Computational Finance from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia Business School. Richard works now for the non-profit Think Tank dedicated to developing advanced algorithms that serve the international public good, with a focus on promoting global financial stability and sustainable finance through the implementation of big data and dynamic algorithms.

BRIAN KORALEWSKI

SOL STEINBERG

Partner, Austere Capital

Founding Partner, OTC Partners

Brian Koralewski- Partner at Austere Capital Founder and Managing Member of Austere Capital, Brian was previously Staff Economist at Digital Asset Research, part of the Commercial Real Estate Investment team at Monument International, and former Chair of the Economics Department at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island.

Sol Steinberg is an expert consultant specializing in OTC derivatives markets, including practices relating to regulation, risk management, market structure, collateral, valuation, and financial technology systems. Sol is the founding partner of his firm ‘OTC Partners’, which is a boutique value add firm based in New York that specialises in research, content, and business development.

Austere Capital is a Bitcoin Volatility Hedge Fund that describes itself as an Absolute Alpha Volatility Fund. Austere Capital takes advantage of Bitcoin’s Implied Volatility (IV) using options and futures, and runs several strategies simultaneously, combining different positions with various maturities.

OTC Partners has developed a number of leading research reports covering global capital markets, has advised central banks on market dynamics in Singapore, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and Colombia , as well as helping to spearhead the evolution of Chinese OTC derivatives markets in Beijing, Jinan, Quango, and Shenzhen.

Brian competed as a D1 swimmer at SUNY Binghamton, where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics with a Finance specialization. Brian also got certifications from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) including “Series 66 Investment Advisor Representative” and “General Securities Representative (series 7)”.

Sol’s extensive professional experience encompasses a senior executive position at LCH.Clearnet and nearly a decade of OTC derivatives product development, risk management, and valuation for Citi. Prior to this, Sol has experienced the Trading and Risk Support at Fintech (Proprietary) Limited first and at The MONY Group then. Sol has completed Risk Management at the New York University Leonard N. Stern School and holds a Bachelor in Finance, Banking and Economics from the Northeastern University, where he was member of the Investment Club as well as of the Young Entrepreneurs Club. Sol has successfully commercialised data and analytics tools (e.g. SMART tool, Risk Explorer, Global Market Risk, CCP2) and has gained a number of prestigious globally recognised industry awards in the process, including “2013- Best Buy Side Risk Anaytics”, “2012- Best Risk Analytics Initiave”, “2012- Best Practices in Risk Management (Global)”, “2013- Best Buy Side Initiave over last 12 months”, “2013-Best Buy Side Risk/Portfolio Analytics product” and “2013- Best Sell Side Market Risk Product”.

Brian knows four languages including English, Polish, Italian and Russian and he is the author of Swim Fast Now - a short e-book on advanced swimming techniques, and the translator, from Polish to English, of Wojtek Spod Monte Cassino - a story of a bear in the ranks of the Polish Second Corps during the Second World War.

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GARRETT NENNER Global Head of Trading Product, Linedata

Technology Director, BlockEx

Garrett Nenner is known for his work within advanced trading strategy, related financial technology, and market structure for improved execution. Garrett is Global Head of Trading Product at Linedata and has advised broker dealers and sophisticated fund managers across the institutional trading industry on a global basis. Garrett is also a lead platform and trading consultant at Omega One, an institutional level cryptocurrency trading platform that provides a decentralized automated execution system offering singular access across the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading crypto exchanges. Previously, as Head of Trading Technologies at Evercore, he leaded the global convergence of their recent broker dealer desk and technologies acquisition of ISI Research and Trading, replaced and re-designed the electronic trading desk platform then designed the plans to replace the architecture of the proprietary execution algorithm suite among other upgrades. Earlier in his career, Garrett built the original trading desk for Millennium Partners becoming Head Trader, where he and then expanded into co-designing and managing a large high-volume low latency quantitative strategy and its underlying technology.

Biser Dimitrov is an experienced Technology Director, Enterprise Blockchain Architect and Cybersecurity expert, Microsoft Certified Developer, Technology Nut, Crossfit, 3x Marathon Finisher. Biser was Technology Director at BlockEx, a Digital Asset Platform that offers BTC, ETH, LTC trading, for sophisticated and institutional traders it will also offer Blockchain based smart bonds, following the release of the Bond programme. Biser believes that blockchain is changing how business applications and services are done in all industries. Biser has experienced Smart Contracts developement with Solidity, digital assets origination, Ethereum, Quorum, Hyperledger Fabric/Sawtooth and Explorer, Go, AngularJS, Node, Microsoft Blockchain as a Service and IBM Cloud, C#, MVC, Agile, MS SQL Server, PHP and Java Script.

Later, Garrett was recruited by Lehman Brothers to globalize and commercialize the recently acquired RealTick EMS/OMS and its execution algorithm products for high-volume quantitative and fundamental Buy and Sell Side clients across North America, Europe, Asia and Brazil. Garrett was later recruited to Rosenblatt Securities Inc., for his trading and Market Structure expertise, efficacy analysis of execution algorithm suites, TCA visualization, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency ecosystem and related Payments expertise. His focus is on complex trading and strategy across regulated security types and cryptocurrencies, alpha enhancement, Artificial Intelligence and alternative data sets. Garrett holds a BS in Genetics and BioChemistry from the Stony Brook University and he completed Finance and Financial Management Studies at the Columbia University in the City of New York.

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After starting as Backend Team Leader and later on Development Manager at Tradologic in Bulgaria, Biser became Operations Manager at Tradologic Hong Kong where he headed the Tradologic expansion into the Asian market and in particularly Mainland China and Hong Kong. Biser started his career as Web Developer at Magstudio Ltd. and he has also been Senior Softer Developer for Infonetica Ltd. before undertaking the role of Development Manager for NHiS Ltd. Biser holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia and he has been certificated on Blockchain Essentials by IBM as well as on Blockchain as a Service for Microsoft.

MARK GOLDMAN Founding Principal, Zash

Mark Goldman is a practical advisor helping companies of all sizes operate more efficiently, cost-effectively and competitively. He is Principal at Zash, a comprehensive consulting firm specializing in crypto currencies and blockchain technology, and he cover the role of Senior Managing Director at Nimble Maker, a crypto currency trading, institutional brokerage, OTC services and coin management services provider that facilitates large BTC order flow. His diverse experience includes advisory services, proprietary information services, trading/algo services, managed services, research, operations, sales, marketing, business development, channel/alliance development, and investment banking. Within his current roles he helps clients define business goals and strategies in order to design and implement strategies to achieve those goals. Mark was Senior Account Executive for both OneCloud Networks and Blue Star Infotech. Previously he has been Sales Manager for Granger Smith Consulting as well as Business Development Executive at Project Brokers Ltd and GlobalData. His experience, organizational skills and energetic entrepreneurial drive helped him to structure a sales and BD platform that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist prior. Other roles include Director of Business Development at Fitzgerals Analytics, Senior Equities Trader at BLM Investment Securities and Institutional Sales Trading at Baer Stearns & Co. Inc. Mark holds a BS in Marketing from the State University of New York College at Oswego.

BRYAN FEINBERG CEO and Founder, Etheralabs / Plato Technologies Inc. and Plato Search Inc. Bryan Feinberg is the CEO and Founder of Etheralabs / ChainDynamics a NYC based Blockchain Venture Accelerator. For the past several years, Bryan has been deeply involved across the Blockchain ecosystem and across multiple early stage and emerging companies. Bryan is a licensed investment banker holding his 7, 63 and 79 FINRA Licenses . Focus Areas: Banking & Regulatory Compliance, Syndication, Data Intelligence, Analytics, Wallet Security, Search, Machine Learning, Big Data and Adtech. Bryan has over 15 years of experience in venture investing. As a specialist in raising capital, Feinberg has set his sights on blockchain and ways to improve it. His company, Etheralabs, currently works with a number of companies including Vault Bank and Loci with the goal of helping its clients get the most out of blockchain, and to maximize each clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profits in doing so. During 20 years of active venture investing, he has tried to stay consistent in his approach of identifying early stage technologies and sectors ripe for disruption. Bryan believes that throwing blockchain in the mix generates a perfect storm of both complexity and opportunity. Bryan believes in staying true to the objectives and never giving up, philosophy that brought him to be also founder of Plato Technologies Inc. & Plato Search Inc. as well as Zephyr Technology Ventures. Other current roles include Advisory Board Member for Fastbase, MBAex Online Pte. Ltd. and 1World Online as well as Kinesis Money, Wandx and Augmate, ICO Certification Board at the Crypto-Financial Protection Commission, and finaly Partner At Large for Blockchain News. Bryan holds a BS in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Alfred University.

ROBERT GRIFFITTS Partner, Masur Griffiths & Co LLP Robert Griffitts is Partner at Masur Griffitts, Founder and Director of the Art & Technology Committee for The National Arts Club and Co-Founder at SoulBuffalo, LLC. Robert is an attorney with over 20 years of experience advising emerging and established technology companies on critical corporate transactions, including venture financing, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property and most recently, regulations applicable to blockchain technology. He also advises clients on corporate governance matters, commercial and licensing transactions and complex strategic relationships, representing them at all stages of their life cycle, from incorporation to exit, with an emphasis on working with entrepreneurs and rapid-growth companies. His practice focuses on critical corporate transactions for emerging technology companies, including seed, angel and VC financings, and mergers and acquisitions. He advises blockchain and cryptocurrency businesses on complex regulatory matters, with an emphasis on structuring compliant token offerings (ICOs). Robert helps companies capitalize on new opportunities, navigate business challenges, and helps older businesses bridge the gap to new markets. His clients include emerging companies as well as venture capital and angel investors that fund them. Formerly, Robert has been Founding Board Member at FIGMENT as well as Board Member at Sympho. Robert holds a BS in International Marketing, a MBA in International Finance from the American University and a JD from The Catholic University of America.

HAIM BODEK Managing Principal, Decimus Capital Markets LLC Haim Bodek is currently Managing Principal, Decimus Capital Markets, LLC as well as Co-Portfolio Manager, Hyperion Decimus, LLC. His career and experiences, particularly those to do with his campaigning efforts in market structure regulatory reform, are extensively profiled in the book Dark Pools, and in the film Wall Street Code. Haim is a regular speaker for major news outlets, industry conferences and private events. His presentations cover cutting-edge topics in US equities market structure as well as the latest high frequency trading controversies. Haim always tailors his presentations to suit any audience, from industry insiders to laypeople. His signature dynamic speaking style always draws in attendees, and provides an engaging and thought-provoking experience. Haim embraces opportunities to increase market transparency by sharing his expertise and deep understanding of market structure with interested audiences. He often comments on high frequency trading and market structure reform to general audiences, including in televised appearances. Previous to Decimus Capital Markets, Haim was CEO at Trading Machines LLC just after his experience as Managing Director at UBS. Other previous experiences include roles such as CEO at Sixford Technologies LLC, Vice President at Goldman Sachs and Senior Member of Technical Staff at Magnify. Haim holds a BA in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester.

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ABOUT THE VENUE

• Attendees will be expertly trained in all the most relevant areas that govern the functioning of Cryptocurrencies around the world today. • Attendees will be provided with an examination of the latest Cryptocurrency strategic implications, trends, Investment Strategies, Investment Factors, and Cryptocurrency Usages.

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NYC Meeting Space | Downtown Conference Center At Pace University

• Attendees will benefit from a much more in-depth understanding of how Cryptocurrencies operate, he risks involved, as well as a comprehensive understanding of the regulation of Cryptocurrencies.

The Downtown Conference Center is located in Downtown Manhattan, between One World Trade Center and the South Street Seaport, conveniently near business destinations and area attractions. It represents an exceptionally well-equipped New York City conference center. The conference center features 26 conference and training room options and 17,000 square feet of dedicated meeting space, which make it the ideal location for off-site meetings and events.

• Attendees will be able to benefit from an extensive Networking Breakfast, Refreshment, and Lunch Breaks, and may also attend the post-event Drinks Reception.

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The convenient location and abundant accessibility make the Downtown Conference Center a preferred New York meeting destination. Located just few minutes away from major airports, the Downtown Conference Centre is easily accessible via subway, Path train and New Jersey transit. In addition, just few steps away from the Downtown Conference Center are located many landmarks and attractions including the Brooklyn Bridge, South Street Seaport, City Hall, and One World Trade Center that add interest for each guest that will be attending an event at this NYC conference center.

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