Blockchain Pensions Infrastructure

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Ana is an experienced special situations investment professional with a strong interest in decentralization and blockchain. She currently sits on the advisory board for the Web3 Foundation, and she has analyzed and transacted over USD3.5bn and advised on over USD300mn of private equity and debt transactions. Ana is a business-builder, team-builder, technology and data obsessive, with particular strength in forensic analysis, seeing efficiencies and optimising processes. She’s passionate about individual empowerment and helping others fulfill their potential.

FCA-regulated fund management professional and a board member of a regulated private equity fund

Advisor to Dr Gavin Wood’s Web3 Foundation

Member of the Blockchain Ecosystem Network

Board Advisor and Investment Committee member of the EU industrial IoT incubator (OpenMaker Project)

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Sandra has over 10 years of legal experience in M&A, corporate & securities law, and private equity fund formation. She was previously the Head of Legal and Chief Compliance Officer for a global asset management company managing US$23B+ under advisement in the Asia Pacific region. Sandra also advises ICO issuers and FinTech startups on corporate structuring, governance, legal, and regulatory compliance. She currently serves on the Executive Board of the Association of Corporate Counsels as a Director and the Treasurer. Sandra is passionate about encouraging women to “have a seat at the table” and empowering women to take on senior management leadership roles in the workplace. She volunteers her time to be a mentor to The Women’s Foundation Mentoring Program for rising young female professionals.

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Peter is a fellow of the UK actuarial profession with a track record spanning over 30 years in DC pensions, life assurance, and asset management in developed and emerging economies.

He was involved in setting up new businesses in Germany, China and India where he also spent some time as a non-executive director of IDFC (the Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation). He then helped start up Vanguard Investments UK, arguably the most disruptive new venture in European asset management in many years.

Peter has been involved in the pension industry in Europe, Asia, and the USA in various capacities, including designing innovative and low cost solutions for UK DC pension investors, as an administrator of corporate and individual pension plans, and as a pension scheme trustee in the Eurozone and Asia.

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Aylon is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with expertise at board level, investment management, business development, team building, and start up due diligence. He is an active member in the Blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem, having worked extensively with Fintech and Blockchain start-ups globally. For the last 7 years, he has served as the Tech Investment Director for Wentworth Hall, a London-based family office that specialises in private equity ventures and startup investing. With more than 16 years of experience in the capital markets, Aylon previously worked as a financial journalist for Reuters and as Business Development Director for Granite Alphen Capital, an algorithmic hedge fund. Since 2015, Aylon has been invited to speak at international conferences on the transformative technology of the decentralised ledger and its disruptive implications for the financial world.

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Abhimanyu is a Finance graduate who has been heavily involved in the blockchain space since 2013. He recently founded blockchain and real estate research company Estatechain, which addressed the ongoing issue of liquidity in real estate investment markets. He has extensive experience in working with companies in the Blockchain sector. Abhimanyu has also been passionate about managing client investment portfolios and has served as an Investment Advisor for Interfacemax which is one of the largest crypto funds based out of India. In addition, he has worked with Bitnation as Decentralised Application Fund manager and cryptoeconomic advisor in creating a decentralised blockchain application governance protocol. Abhimanyu has previously held positions such as Director of European Operations for Bitcoin ATM machine company Coinoutlet and a Technical advisor for various other blockchain companies. He continues to seek opportunities to innovate modern financial markets. (edited)

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Adrian completed his PhD in theoretical particle physics at the University of Sydney, where he leveraged his long-term interests in applied mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence to analyse and solve complex problems. Specialising in blockchain technologies, cryptography and information security, Adrian’s expertise in physics and mathematics now supports his work at Sigma Prime. Adrian is driven to understand and design complex systems and pursues a deep understanding of the core technologies that underpin them.

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Paul is a multi-disciplined software engineer with extensive experience as a lead developer for critical systems in the corporate, military and health sectors. As a freelance software developer and technology consultant, Paul implemented systems for a diverse range of institutions, including major banks and a government cybersecurity operations centre.

Paul was an early adopter of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and has experience in all phases of blockchain service implementation. Possessing particular expertise on the Ethereum network, Paul is experienced in smart contract development, testing and implementation.

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Career as a penetration tester at Ernst & Young’s advisory arm, he performed hundreds of penetration tests of corporate networks and applications across a range of industries including financial services, telecommunications, and the public sector. Mehdi’s professionalism and expertise caused him to rapidly ascend to management in EY’s Advanced Security Centre where he nurtured the firm’s next generation of ethical hackers.

Since joining Sigma Prime, Mehdi has returned to his love of hacking with a new focus on blockchain technology, especially the Ethereum platform. His years of hands-on experience in identifying security vulnerabilities helps Sigma Prime to offer an exceptional level of security services.

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Jay is a Project & Media Manager and a Designer with over 10 years of experience in managing design firms and creating quality content for companies such as Microsoft, Sega & Sony.

He has founded a video game design & development company, and an eSports graphics agency, both of which have had a long list of top rated clients.

Given to his nature of seeking new opportunities and investments in the Blockchain industry, Jay has served as a Community Manager and a Social Media Expert for many a projects such as Blackmoon, Polybius etc.

He is also an avid researcher and a due diligence personnel. A technology enthusiast at heart, he is in a constant search for the next big techno-giants that will steer the future of blockchain.

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Victor is an accomplished software engineer, product owner and scrum master with over 5 years experience delivering mobile app and web products. His past roles have included contracts for Intel, ESPN, and Columbia University. At Trimble Inc., he developed bulletproof compliance and emergency response apps for connected vehicles. As a scrum master, he is dedicated to the highest standard of software development cycles. Victor loves .NET, Android and iOS development and is now dedicated entirely to Solidity based smart contracts. He holds a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada.

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Ian is a noted financial cryptographer, having entered the space in 1995. He invented the Ricardian Contract as a process to capture all of the prose in a legal contract of issuance, and permit unique identification among many competing issues without the need for a centralised registry.

He is co-inventor of triple entry accounting, which has been termed by some as the most significant change to accounting in 500 years. As well as doing seminal work in digital payment and issuance or registry systems, he has created models for identity and community which have been trialled successfully in low trust environments.

Ian has worked for R3, a $100mn+ blockchain constorium of the largest financial services firms and technology companies in the world. Leading investors included SBI Group, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Intel and Temasek. At R3, Ian developed early architecture Ian continues to consult with leading firms in the blockchain space and he is currently a partner at a $200mn post-ICO venture Block One.

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Bokky is a world-renowned blockchain and smart contract security expert, who rescues trapped ETH on a regular basis. Also an active Ethereum community leader, Bokky has been working on the ETH Blockchain since it’s platform launch in 2015. The prospect of transacting monetary value over a trusted Ethereum platform by means of smart a contract is what excites him the most. Bokky is also a respect smart contract security auditor, having developed and audited smart contracts for over 20 companies, including Status, Cindicator, Stox and many more.

Bokky is an Actuary and Quantitative Software Developer with over 28 years of industry experience with expertise in fixed interest & derivatives in risk management and trading systems, and other blockchain technologies. He is keenly working to bring decentralised trustless exchanges and traditional fiat financial instruments to the Ethereum platform and is currently editing "Mastering Ethereum" with Andreas M. Antonopolous and Gavin Wood.

Mastering Ethereum

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Former UK Minister of State for Pensions 2015-16, currently Expert on Pensions to the House of Lords, Baroness Altmann is an experienced Investment Professional and Economist, driven by the desire to improve policy for ordinary people and ensuring good value for customers.

Ros started her career as an academic at University College London, London School of Economics and at Harvard University, researching and publishing on UK pension policy, occupational pensions and retirement.

After this, Ros managed institutional investment portfolios for 15 years, including pension funds, insurance funds and mutual funds, as well as advising central banks and private client fund managers. She was Head of International Equities at Chase Manhattan’s International Investment Operation in London, and a Director at Rothschild Asset Management and at NatWest Investment Management.

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Marcus is an English Barrister, a member of the New York State Bar, a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, a member of the Chartered Management Institute (Diploma in Management and Leadership), and a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Marcus was awarded the OBE in the 2014 New Years Honours List. Marcus was also Chairman of the Gibraltar Investors Compensation Scheme and the Gibraltar Deposit Guarantee Board as well as the Group of International Insurance Centre Supervisors. Marcus is also a director of Kalphe Advisory Ltd, Kalphe Properties Ltd and Callaghan Insurance Brokers Ltd. Prior roles include Deputy Chief Executive of the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission, Head of Banking and Investments at the Cayman Island Monetary Authority and Director in KPMG’s Financial International Regulatory Services Team. Marcus was one of the founding directors of the United Kingdom Association of Compliance Officers (Subsequently renamed the Compliance Institute). He was also principle author of two Transparency International’s reports on Money Laundering.

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Saber Aria is a strategist with over 10 years of experience in marketing strategies and building businesses. He is an early blockchain enthusiast, with a passion for blockchain technology and decentralization after investing in bitcoin in 2012.

Saber is the founder of a prominent digital marketing agency and an advertising software company, each with a diverse portfolio of clients including several fortune 500 companies. He is the co-founder of Beyond Blocks, a global conference for blockchain enthusiasts, investors, and developers.

Saber has a passion for seeking out and assisting emerging start-ups both as an advisor and investor through his accelerator program. He focuses his council not only on brilliant business ideas, but just as importantly, the teams behind each project.

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Roderik has been involved in the crypto assets market since 2014, both as an investor and advisor. He has advised Beetoken, DML, NapoleonX, and Svandis. He also advises pioneering Korean blockchain company Blocko and is a member of the Argo Foundation council (which oversees Blocko’s Argo protocol) . At the end of 2017 he founded Lemniscap, an advisory/investment firm in the blockchain space.

Roderik has 20 years of experience in finance. He started his career at Paribas in 1997 as an analyst/developer for bond trading applications and then moved to Deutsche Bank in 1998 to embark on his equity derivatives trading career. Over the next 10 years he traded stock and index options on European, US and Asian markets at HSBC, Rabobank and Bear Stearns. In his various roles, he was responsible for both client and proprietary trading. In 2008 he joined LIM Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund in Hong Kong, as Portfolio Manager to setup and manage a pan-Asia volatility arbitrage strategy. In 2010, he became Head of Trading at major market-making firm All Options.

In the last few years he moved to the private markets sphere. In 2011, he was involved in setting up a single country private equity fund focusing on Mongolia. In 2013, he joined merchant banking firm KCP Capital, leading its Asian operations. In 2016 he joined Caldera Pacific, an investment firm active in venture capital and growth capital where he held the position of Managing Director and was a member of the Investment Committee.

Roderik holds a B.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering (University of Hertfordshire), a MSc. in Information Technology (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London). He is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst charter holder.

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Kate is Head of Analytics at Cindicator. Together with her team, she is reinventing the approach to financial analysis, creating the world’s first ecosystem run by Hybrid Intelligence. Kate knows that crypto traders, investors and analysts today face an unprecedented challenge in researching and processing the vast range of information sources that inhabit the crypto space.

She was one of the main drivers of Cindicator token sale in September 2017 and she continues to be a deep analyst of current token sales’ changes as her team analyses all ICOs worth to notice daily. She is also a token sale advisor in a number of crypto projects.

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Prabhakar is a Seed/Early stage investor at Accel. Prabhakar has been a Serial Entrepreneur all his professional life, with over 9 years of experience running successful digital-media and online video platforms. He sold his first startup in 2008 while still in Undergrad, and scaled his second startup to the Top 100 websites in the world, having bootstrapped it into a $5M ARR venture in under 3 years. More recently, Prabhakar co-founded Dramatize, a Bollywood content streaming platform, which he excited to BookMyShow – India’s largest ticket booking platform.

Prabhakar has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and also holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics & Instrumentation. At the age of 20, he won the “Dubai Software Development Trade Show 2008” in Dubai. In 2012, he was nominated for the BITS Alumni Top 25 under the age of 25.

He is fluent in 4 languages and has basic proficiency in 3 more, and spends most of his spare time researching blockchain technologies or advising startups. Besides being an avid globe-trotter, he has a strong passion for adventure sports, loves playing squash and enjoys strategy-games, karting and archery.

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Steven brings his extensive leadership experience from the military and financial services sectors to bear on the unique challenges surrounding the digital asset space. Steve has extensive experience in business development, communications, public relations, and crisis management. His steady hand helped to guide Binance through a period of explosive growth and uncertainty all while managing their customer facing communications and media channels. His online presence during US hours facilitated Binance’s rapid rise to the #1 exchange in the world.