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Elizabeth Rossiello is the Founder and CEO of BitPesa, a Foreign Exchange and Payment platform for Frontier Markets. She is a feminist and a Carmen Sandiego addict. In 2013, BitPesa became the first company in the world to connect bitcoin to mobile money and to trade bitcoin into African currencies. In 2015, it was the first blockchain company to receive a license from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. BitPesa is now a market-maker in every major African currency and facilitates payments into G20 currencies directly. Elizabeth has expanded the company from its origins in Nairobi, Kenya to operations in 8 markets across Africa and Europe, with offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Dakar, London and Luxembourg. Before building BitPesa, Elizabeth was a Rating Analyst for Microfinance Institutions across sub-Saharan Africa. She worked with regulators and policy-makers across the region on legislation for financial innovations. Elizabeth started her career at Credit Suisse in Zurich in Investment Banking and is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is a member of the Investment Committee for Bamboo Capital and the World Economic Forum’s Future Council on Blockchain.
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Jason
Jason is the Chief Financial Officer at Nakamoto Finance. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. He previously served as the Finance Director at a leading startup technology company.
Emily Hsia
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Charles Cheng
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Zeyu Liu
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Dan Roberts
Dan is the Editor in Chief at Variant. He has been writing about crypto since 2011. Prior to joining Variant, Dan was Editor in Chief at crypto news site Decrypt, where he recruited a team of writers and editors, led the site’s news strategy, created and hosted the gm podcast, planned and emceed live events, and moderated panels at conferences around the world. Before that, he spent five years at Yahoo Finance and five years at Fortune. He has written about tech, sports business, and books for a broad range of publications including Sports Illustrated, TIME, Vice, Air Mail, The Guardian, The Paris Review, NPR, Deadspin, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Morning News, and many more. He is the primary author of the 2013 book “Zoom: How to Supercharge Your Career.” He graduated from Middlebury College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Kevin Zhang
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Gina Moon
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Srini Dhulipala
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Rob Hadick
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