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JB Graftieaux
JB Graftieaux is the CEO of Bitstamp. Before that he was an executive director at eBay. He was also previously an executive officer and chief compliance officer for the EMEA region at PayPal. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College.
Ali Aghareza
Ali Aghareza is the co-founder and CTO of Meso.
Ron Bodkin
Ron Bodkin is the Founder & CEO of ChainML. He was previously the VP of AI Engineering and CIO at Vector Institute, where he applied AI to industry, health and safety, and provided computing infrastructure and engineering for AI research. He was also the Leader for Applied AI collaborative innovation, working with strategic customers and Google AI research and engineering teams. Ron is the Founder and CEO of Think Big Analytics, an enterprise AI and engineering software and services company, which was acquired by Teradata. After the acquisition, Ron led Think Big's global expansion and created an AI product group at Teradata. He was also the VP of Engineering at Quantcast, where he led AI and engineering teams for the real-time advertising and audience insights business. Additionally, Ron is the Co-Founder and CTO of C-Bridge Internet Solutions, which had a successful IPO.
Mandeep Walia
Mandeep is the Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Circle. He previously held the role of Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Facebook. Mandeep is responsible for leading Circle's compliance and risk management globally. He has held senior leadership roles in global compliance and enterprise risk management at financial services/fintech companies such as PayPal, LendUp, and State Street. Most recently, Mandeep was the Chief Compliance Officer/Head of Enterprise Risk at Novi, Facebook's digital wallet business.
Arnaud Flament
Arnaud Flament is the CTO at ChainML. He used to be the Vice President of Engineering at Ripcord, where he led engineering and machine learning teams to build a highly scalable platform supporting digitization, content management and document understanding. He was also a Senior Director of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Teradata, where he led the software engineering team to incubate AI technology. Additionally, he was the Director and Principal Engineer at EMC/Captiva/OpenText, leading the software engineering team to build an intelligent document extraction platform. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer at CapGemini, where he was the technical lead of the software engineering team, building a platform to compute aircraft performance for Airbus.
Geoffrey Dedye
Geoffrey Dedye is chief compliance officer for Europe at Bitstamp and previously was chief compliance officer at eBay. He was also previously PayPal's EU compliance manager. Geoffrey Dedye is a seasoned Chief Compliance Officer and anti-money laundering and CTF professional with over 20 years of experience in the global finance sector.
Ethan Jackson
Ethan Jackson is the co-founder and research lead at Theori. Ethan was formerly at Vector Institute, where he met and worked with Ron Bodkin, the now-CEO of ChainML, as technical lead with focuses on privacy in machine learning, deep learning-based forecasting, and reinforcement learning to advance the adoption of emergent AI technologies. Ethan focused on computer science, deep learning, and time series models, which led him to get a post-doctorate in AI technology.
David Müller
David M¨¹ller is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at ChainML. Previously, he was Data Science Director at Coupang, leading teams to use data science to reduce operational costs and improve fulfilment efficiency. He was also Product Management Director at Teradata, overseeing the integration of AI into Teradata's products. Furthermore, he was Data Science Practice Lead at Teradata, managing the South East Asia data science team. Additionally, he was Head of Data Science at intelliAd, a German adtech startup, specialising in advanced statistical attribution modelling and customer journey analytics
Aly Madhavji
Aly Madhavji is the co-founder and managing partner of Blockchain Founders Fund, and has worked for PayPal and Microsoft.
Aniket Jindal
Aniket is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Biconomy. He is a core member of Binance’s marketing team in 2017 and founder of Fudan University’s Blockchain Association.