Kalin Metodiev, CFA is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of leading digital assets institution Nexo. His professional focus has always been directed towards investor wealth maximization and company growth, allowing him to take on the responsibility of managing the Sales, Trading, and Corporate Finance departments at Nexo. Kalin boasts 20+ years of experience in investment
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LL.B., MBA, PhD. FinTech Advisor, Management & Strategy Consultant and Researcher (Digital Banking and Finance, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Blockchain, Crypto and M&A). Oriol works as a Management Consultant at AirHelp, Advisor for a Hong Kong-based FinTech company, ixFintech, Strategic Advisor at a Hong Kong-based WealthTech company, ETFCool, Strategic Advisor at ScallopX and FinTech Mentor
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Chris Light is a seasoned executive, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and Program Manager with 25 years of experience. He has a global reach and a global result set. He has undertaken Information Communication and Technology (ICT) activities worldwide. He is well known in the International Development community. He has worked with major donors with a particular
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Wale Onawunmi is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Zone, where he leads the charge in product architecture, research and development, technology strategy, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and cognitive computing. His expertise in these areas is a cornerstone of Zone’s cutting-edge solutions, driving innovation in the payments and blockchain industry. A graduate of Computer Science
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Cyrine is an Investment Associate at Global Ventures, where she joined in early 2021. Prior to this, Cyrine has left her full time position at Deloitte as a strategy consultant to join the VC industry with Lateral Capital, an African focused fund where she supported on deal sourcing and screening as well as portfolio management.
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Arushi Goel is a specialist for data policy and blockchain at World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India. She works on strategic and governance issues relating to data sharing through data exchanges, blockchain and digital assets, in collaboration with government and industry stakeholders. She is also leading a workstream on regulation of
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Elisha (GhCryptoGuy) has been preaching the good news of cryptocurrencies in Africa since 2016. He is a former business development manager at Binance and currently a Social Media Specialist at the crypto media giant, Cointelegraph.
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Kamran Shahin is the Vice President of Product Development – Blockchain and Digital Currencies for the EEMEA region at Mastercard. In his role, Kamran is responsible for defining and driving the regional blockchain and digital currency strategy and key initiatives. Prior to this role at Mastercard, Kamran worked for 10 years at IBM as a
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Gavin is the Founder of Hippytech – a consultancy for decentralised technology. He is a well-known speaker on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in South Africa. Gavin has built his own bitcoin and blockchain crowd funding platform, called ShareBit. He has worked as the Head of Innovation at the mobile social network Mxit and as Product
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Uche Chude-Okonkwo is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and has over eighty (80) publications in reputable journals and conferences. He serves as a technical program committee member for the prestigious IEEE GLOBECOM, and associate editors for Frontier in Communications and Networks and the SAIEE Africa
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