Anthony Di Iorio is a serial entrepreneur, VC, community organizer, and thought leader in the field of decentralized technologies. Born and raised in Toronto, Di Iorio is the former Chief Digital Officer of the TMX Group and Toronto Stock Exchange, founder and CEO of Decentral, a software development company focused on blockchain technologies, and founder and CEO of Jaxx, a multi-token, blockchain interface that provides a unified experience across 9 platforms and devices. In 2013, Di Iorio funded, and along with Vitalik Buterin and 3 others founded the smart contract platform Ethereum.

Anthony has been investing in cryptocurrencies and blockchain companies since 2012. In 2014, his project Ethereum raised $18 million, becoming the largest, completed crowdfunded project of its time. The market cap of Ethereum was recently valued at $30 billion. Over a 4-year span, Anthony’s blockchain and cryptocurrencies investments have yielded 2000x returns.

Mr. Rolle was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of The Bahamas, in January, 2016 returning to the starting point of his career in central banking. From 1990 to 2012, he was employed in various capacities at the Bank, progressing to the position of chief economist and Manager of the Research Department.

From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Rolle was seconded to the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a Senior Advisor to the Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean Constituency, before serving as the Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance as well as Acting VAT Controller.

Mr. Rolle holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics, he has published scholarly articles in a number of professional journals and he has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

The Governor has also contributed as an Adjunct Lecturer, in Economics, at the American University (2008) in Washington, DC, and, for many years, as a Part-Time Lecturer in Economics and Statistics at The College of The Bahamas.

Manie Eagar is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman Quantex Ltd.: Quantum Exchange and Banq - a venture to create the world's first licensed fiat and cryptocurrency bank and exchange with a full suite liquidity enablement and tokenization factory.

He is also the CEO of DigitalFutures, a consultancy focusing on innovations in fintech, cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies; alternative financing, ICOs, and TAOs (Tokenized Asset Offerings). He has an international track record in banking (Barclays), telecommunications (Vodafone & Dimension Data), and investment management (J&J Group/Old Mutual). He is founder and Chair of the Blockchain Association of Canada and the BC Blockchain Forum, and is a Director BC Blockchain Ecosystem Consortium.

After 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, Casey is now chairman of CoinDesk’s advisor​y ​board and a senior advisor to MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative. He also consults for businesses on the challenges and opportunities in blockchain and digital asset technologies. He has authored five books, including The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Order (2015) and its follow​-​up, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, released February 2018. Both were co-authored with Paul Vigna of the Wall Street Journal​. ​

He received his Master's degree from Cornell University.

Ms. Christina R. Rolle is the Executive Director of the Securities Commission of The Bahamas, having been appointed effective 26 January 2015.

Ms. Rolle has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry.  Over the course of her career, Ms. Rolle has acted as Director and Deputy CEO for a prominent international private bank and held various senior managerial positions with local and other international institutions including Head of Trust and Fiduciary, Head of Risk, Compliance and Corporate Governance and Manager of Banking Services. She is highly skilled in quantitative and statistical analysis, marketing, operations and business strategy.

Ms. Rolle holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Russel Drew is one of Canada’s leading blockchain and crypto lawyers. Russel has advised clients on token and coin offerings, the implementation of blockchain into an existing business, the development of blockchain-driven businesses, investing in the blockchain and crypto space and investments in blockchain platforms and exchanges, among other blockchain-related matters.

Russel has a corporate commercial practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities, private equity and venture capital matters, and both private and public company representation.

Marie-Noel enjoys over 15 years’ experience in the Banking and Financial industry with focus on BSA/AML.

She has managed regulatory compliance engagements related to Fraud and AML, identifying areas of Fraud/AML risk and implementing solutions that improve and strengthen organizational internal controls. She is also a Blockchain & Cryptocurrency investor.

Marie-Noel received a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Economy and Finance from Paris X and Lille II (France), a Master’s in Computer and Information Systems from Eastern Michigan University.

Marie-Noel is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Bitcoin Professional (C4).

Joel Telpner is a corporate and finance partner in the New York office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP and is the head of the Firm’s Fintech and Blockchain Practice Group. He is a seasoned advisor, strategist and problem solver. Mr. Telpner brings more than 30 years of legal experience in a career that includes time as an AmLaw 100 partner, the former U.S. general counsel of a global financial institution, and a venture capitalist. He is a highly sought after legal advisor in the blockchain space.

He is working on policy initiatives on global regulatory issues for blockchain on behalf of the Global Blockchain Business Council, the Blockchain Research Institute and Wharton Reg@Tech. 

Kristie Powell is CEO and Co-Founder of Coral, a software development startup transforming the way businesses leverage technology in the Caribbean. Before the startup Kristie was a Senior Technical Solutions Consultant at Google Inc in New York City. Kristie joined Google in 2014 and was responsible for providing technical solutions to Google's top partners in the advertising online arena. Kristie began her career at Goldman Sachs in 2008 as an Analyst in the Technology Division, and spent her time developing technology infrastructure solutions for the firm.

Kristie is passionate about reinvesting in the community. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the University of the Bahamas, and is currently Vice Chairman of the Technology Steering Committee for the Bahamas Government. Kristie also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Ionic 6, Inc., a technology educational nonprofit based in New York and she was appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Jersey City Free Public Library.

Kristie enjoys sharing her experience with others. She was a keynote speaker at the United Nations and several Business Outlooks in the Bahamas on the future of technology. She also led a Digital Marketing Workshop on behalf of Google at the first ever Haiti Tech Summit and Bahamas Technology Summit.

Kristie earned a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from Florida Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor’s of Science in a Electrical Engineering in 2007 from Florida Institute of Technology.

Kenneth A. Goodwin Jr. is the Senior Managing Principal and President of Jeanensis Capital Markets (Jeanensis, LLC), an independent capital markets and risk management advisory firm partnering with global Blockchain and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) projects, government service entities (GSE), multi-national corporates, cross border mature small and medium enterprises (SME) and investment capitalists. 

He serves as an Advisor to over 10 global Blockchain projects and participated in several successful Initial Coin Offering raises ranging from $25 million to $100 million USD.  Ken’s regulatory and capital markets experiences spans over 20 years.

Mr. Keith Davies is Chief Executive Officer of The Bahamas International Securities Exchange.  Mr. Davies has worked at the forefront of the capital markets in The Bahamas over the last 20 years and has worked within the industry and has held a senior position with the Securities Commission of The Bahamas.   Mr. Davies is an Attorney and Counsel-at-Law.  He is a Member of the New York State Bar and has a Legal Education Certificate from the Eugene Dupuch Law School, he holds a Juris Doctor from the University Of Connecticut School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Hartford, Connecticut. 

Daniel G. Viola is the Head of the Regulatory Defense and Compliance Group. He 
structures and organizes broker-dealers and investment advisers and regularly 
counsels investment professionals in connection with regulatory matters. Mr. Viola 
served as a Senior Compliance Examiner for the Northeast Regional Office of the SEC,
where he worked from 1992 through 1996. During his tenure at the SEC, Mr. Viola 
worked on several compliance inspection projects and enforcement actions involving 
examinations of registered investment advisers, ensuring compliance with 
federal and state securities laws.

Rhonda Eldridge has over 25 years of finance experience at leading global firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers, ABN Amro (Fortis) and UBS. She has held country and regional Managing Director positions, at ABN Amro (Fortis), in the Bahamas and the Americas, building and managing global relationships in the alternative investment space.

Over the past 7 years she has worked with turnaround companies, asset management, fintech, blockchain (business use cases)and regtech startup firms. She is currently Head of Strategy, Americas, for Gecko Governance, a RegTech Blockchain firm building a transparent end to end compliance and governance enterprise for the Initial Token Offering process. She is also Founder and Impactioneer of Harness All Possibilities (HAP), a US 501(c)3 non-profit social enterprise focused on the Future of Work, providing the network and tools for displaced professionals to reboot and embrace a growth mindset for 21st century work engagement -early stage entrepreneurship.

Rhonda holds a business degree from Queen's University, Canada and is a Canadian qualified chartered accountant.

Stuart Hoegner is General Counsel at Bitfinex, one of the largest digital token exchanges in the world by volume and a leading source of price discovery. Stu is an accountant and a lawyer called to the bar in Canada (Ontario) and the United States (Nevada). Stu has worked with securities commissions and regulators, legislative bodies, and law enforcement agencies worldwide to increase their knowledge and understanding of digital tokens. He is the editor and co-author of ‘The Law of Bitcoin,’ a collection of essays on international private and public law affecting cryptocurrency.

Brian has held the title of Managing Director of Deltec Fund Services Limited since January 2015.  Previously, he served as the Director and Manager of Private Label Fund Services at UBS Trustees (Bahamas) Ltd.  He has been involved in the successful launch, development and management of several successful fund administration firms in The Bahamas over the course of the past 14 years.  Brian has also served as past President of the Bahamas Investments & Securities Business Association (BISBA, formerly BASD), in addition to currently serving as Director and Secretary of the Bahamas Financial Services Board since 2012.  Brian is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota.  Brian has received multiple awards in recognition of his contributions to the Bahamian investment funds sector, particularly for the promotion and development of the SMART Fund 007 (2012) and the ICON Fund (2014).  Over the years, Brian attained fluency in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, and has gained extensive experience in doing business in several Latin American countries, with a focus on Brazil, having lived and worked in São Paulo, Brazil for a period of time.  Brian currently serves as the Co-chair of the Funds Working Group and Co-Chair of the FinTech Working Group of the Bahamas Financial Services Board. 

Matthew is the CEO and co-founder of PO8, a responsible marine archaeology blockchain ecosystem democratizing and decentralizing the $100B Bahamas underwater historical artifact salvage industry. Under his leadership, PO8 has become the first company to bring back full transparency to marine salvaging of artifacts in Bahamian waters by introducing blockchain technology. It is also the first Bahamian initial coin offering (ICO) to go to market. Matthew has also successfully secured multi-million dollar investments from private investors and family offices in Asia and Europe, and has amassed a 100,000 strong global community of followers, resulting press coverage from local and international news outlets. Matthew is a graduate of the Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA program.

Carol completed her undergraduate studies at the University of The West Indies, Cavehill, Barbados, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Her post graduate studies were completed at Pace University, New York City, USA, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Internet Technology for e-Commerce; she received an award from The School of Computer Science and Information Systems for most outstanding student. She is a Certified Project Management Professional. Her Public Service career has been in Project Management, Business Analysis, Training, Process Development, and IT Implementations and Deployments. Ms. Roach is currently the Acting Director of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Finance; the central Information and Technology agency of Government.

Software development team lead turned entrepreneur. Elena Sinelnikova founded CryptoChicks.ca in July 2017 with the vision to empower and inspire women interested in learning about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. She managed to involve hundreds of women who became blockchain evangelists, blockchain developers, blockchain entrepreneurs themselves. Elena developed CryptoChicks into an international hub for women talent in blockchain technology with programs in Canada, US, Russia, Pakistan and Bahamas and major hackathon events that are supported by Royal Bank of Canada, Deloitte, Microsoft, IBM. Elena holds a Master of Computer Science and her specialties are in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, application architecture, software design and development."

Monica Goyal is a lawyer, and engineer. Monica has a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, as well as a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She began her career working for major telecommunications companies such as Toshiba, Nokia, and Nortel, before earning her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Monica is currently a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she teaches law and technology. She is regularly asked to speak on a variety of topics and most recently on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Monica has been featured on several television programs including CBC, Sun TV, and the Newman Show, and has written extensively on law and technology for national and international press. She has been named by the Journal of the American Bar Association as a top female technology and law leader and has won the 2017 Fastcase 50 Award.

Aliya Allen is a partner in the law firm of Graham Thompson, and former CEO and Executive Director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board. In that position she provided industry leadership in the development of the Investment Condominium (ICON) legislation. She similarly led the Graham Thompson team in the revision of the Investment Fund Act. A member of the firm’s Corporate and Financial Services Practice Group, her practice areas include banking law, investment funds, securities law, trusts and estate planning and structuring, securitisation and capital markets. In March 2018 she released a whitepaper, “The Bahamas’ place in a Crypto-Graphic World”.

Ryan Pinder is a partner in the law firm of Graham Thompson and member of the firm's Corporate and Financial Services Practice Group. His practice comprises banking law, corporate and commercial law, investment funds, securities law, capital markets, taxation, trusts and estate planning and structuring. He specialises in financial services solutions, planning and wealth management for high net worth (HNW) private clients. A former Minister of Financial Services and Trade in The Bahamas Government, he plays a key industry role in various policy advisory capacities. Ryan was recognised by the prestigious London-based Chambers and Partners, as a leader in the HNW, Trusts Sector.

Kelly Banks is the Head of Digital and Innovation for Ansbacher (Bahamas) Ltd. She brings over 25+ years of diverse leadership experience in Financial Services Operations and Technology. Her responsibilities have ranged from Technology and Operations to Premises, Shared Services, Infrastructure and Information Security. Kelly has previously held the position of Managing Director Technology for the Americas for a major global international bank and has held various global leadership roles. She has created transformation, product, delivery and digital capabilities in four regions around the globe. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Coe College, Iowa; FinTech Innovation: Future Commerce certificate from MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Gregory Pepin holds a Master of Science in Finance and Actuarial Mathematics from HEC Lausanne. From September 2006 through June 2008, Mr. Pepin was a Senior Consultant in Finance and Insurance for Winter and Associates located in Paris, France. He created and developed the Financial Advisory Department of Winter and Associates during that period. He also taught Finance to the Master Class of St Joseph University (Lebanon) from 2008 to 2013. In 2010, he co-founded EOS Management and co-managed multiple Private Equity and Biotech Funds. He served as a Financial Consultant for multiple companies, including FGP Capital Geneva. He is a Board Member of Tenax Therapeutics, since August 2009 and Theravectys SA, since November 2016. He helped the company fund itself and developed a strong relationship with multiples banks and law firm. He orchestrated, managed and participated in multiple reverse merger and IPOs. In April 2013, he created Cedrus Capital LLC, a consulting firm specialized in building structured deal and advice in private and public companies and turnaround strategy. Since August 2017, he is the pHead of Global Development at Deltec Bank and Trust.

Marvin is a blockchain entrepreneur, policy writer, securities lawyer and published researcher. Founder and CEO of Raise, an award-winning Bahamian company creating a mobile-based capital markets with digital assets built with blockchain technologies. Marvin previously worked as a venture technology lawyer at Dentons LLP where he advised private companies on financings from pre-seed to series D. He completed his thesis focused on cross-border securities and investment arbitration at McGill University Faculty of Law and Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Graduate Centre and is a co-founder of the African Digital Asset Framework (“ADAF”), a guideline for the use of digital assets throughout the African continent and beyond. Marvin actively has actively consulted governments, entrepreneurs and regulators on the applications of disruptive technologies like blockchain to traditional industries, participated in the creation of The Bahamas’ first National Youth Policy and previously worked with the 35th President of the United Nations Education Scientific Cultural Organization in the United Nations’ Paris headquarters.

Stefen is an economist fascinated with breakthrough technologies and is a local authority on blockchain. He is Founder of the Caribbean Blockchain Alliance (CBA), which was formed from a desire to advocate for blockchain technology and to see a true adoption of it throughout the region. CBA is supported by major Caribbean blockchain companies. Stefen has organized meetups, presented on blockchain and its applications on radio and television, represented CBA at the Inter-American Development Bank regional civil society meeting, and is a member of Bahamian working committees related to fintech regulations.