Piers Ridyard

CEO at RDX Works, Piers Ridyard is a YC Alumni and successful serial entrepreneur having led several businesses, most notably, Nifty, one of the most overfunded tech startups on Kickstarter. He studied Aerospace, Finance, Mandarin and Law prior to starting a career in blockchain. You could say that Piers Ridyard grew up with entrepreneurship in

Tessy Mosindi

Tessy Mosindi is Head of Computer Science and COO and Co-founder at an Indie blockchain games company, Kingdom of Kush. She is also Founder of a non-profit that empowers disadvantaged African and Caribbean girls. With over 20 years of experience building businesses, Tessy’s main focus remains championing underrepresented communities. She has done so by founding

Dimitrios Kavvathas

As CSO of Amber Group, Dimitrios is responsible for formulating and driving the Group’s global strategy with particular emphasis on institutional client business, licensing footprint, and regulatory engagement as well as geographical expansion. Dimitrios was the founder and CEO of Nomisma, a regulated digital asset derivatives protocol, the CIO of Harmony Advisors, an SFC regulated

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Yosuke Yoshida

Yosuke Yoshida is the former CEO of EMURGO Japan, where EMURGO Group was first established and started its entire business. Yoshida brings nearly 20 years of professional experience in M&A and business development and project management as the manager of Japan’s largest investment and cross-border trading company in the power sector. He has led multiple

Kevin Imani

Kevin is the Founder and CEO of Sankore 2.0, which operates in Kenya as NEAR Regional Hub, dedicated to blockchain innovation, education and talent development throughout the African continent. He is also the Director of Open Forest Protocol Hub (Kenya), which uses blockchain to monitor forest projects end-to-end and offers carbon financing to organisations that

Robert Brine

Robert Brine is the Director, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions at Mastercard. Based in Johannesburg, Rob is responsible for driving Mastercard’s AI, Cyber, Fraud, Identity and Security solutions in Southern Africa.  Mr Brine is also responsible for Mastercard enterprise safety, security and network solutions including fraud management and prevention strategies; security, identity, scoring and decision systems;

Ciaran Adrian Ryan

Ciaran has written for most financial publications in SA. He spent time as an editor in California before returning to SA, and has been involved in several business start-ups, including a gold mining venture in Ghana. He is a long-standing writer for Moneyweb and is proud to have witnessed the phenomenal growth of Moneyweb Crypto

Tobie Van Der Spuy