Fintech Week 2018 Speakers

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Fintech Week 2018 Program (PDF)

  • Alex Acree, Managing Director & General Counsel, Fenway Summer Ventures
  • Maria Adamjee, Chief Executive Officer, Megalodon Capital
  • Priya R. Aiyar, Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher & former Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Douglas Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in  Law, The University of Hong Kong
  • Martina F. Aufiero, PE/VC Investor, formerly with Goldman Sachs & Safeguard Scientifics
  • Conrad G. Bahlke, Counsel, Asset Management Group, Willkie Farr & Gallagher 
  • Sheila C. Bair, former Chairman, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation  
  • Jeff Bandman, Founder & Principal, Bandman Advisors 
  • Pradeep Belur, Chief of Staff & Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Small Business Administration
  • Robert Bench, Head Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Circle Internet Financial Ltd
  • Kristin Boggiano, Chief Legal Officer, AlphaPoint
  • Perianne Boring, Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce
  • Peter F. Borish, Chief Strategist, Quad Group & Trustee, Institute for Financial Markets
  • Brian Brooks, Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase 
  • Chris Brummer, Research Professor & Faculty Director, Georgetown University, Institute of International Economic Law and founder, Fintech Week 
  • Blake Carpenter, Co-Founder, Blockchain Accounting
  • Nic Carter, Founder, Coinmetrics 
  • Andrew Cavazos, Co-Founder, Blockchain Accounting 
  • Isabelle Corbett, Head of Regulatory Affairs and Partnerships, R3 
  • Jonah Crane, Executive Director, RegTech Lab and former Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Mohammad Davoodalhosseini, Senior Economist, Bank of Canada
  • Paul DeSaulniers, Senior Director, Alternative Data, Scoring & Collections Consumer Information Services, Experian
  • Gary DeWaal, Special Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP & IFM Vice Chairman 
  • Desiree Dickerson, Head of Operations, Lightning Labs
  • William Eisenbeis, Managing Director, SARORAS Private Capital
  • Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile, Professor, School of Law, University of Arkansas 
  • Moad Fahmi, Senior Advisor - Fintech, Bermuda Monetary Authority 
  • Sabrina Freire, Co-Founder, Blockchain Accounting 
  • Bruce Fekrat, Executive Director & Associate General Counsel, CME Group 
  • Gilles Gade, Chief Executive Officer, Cross River Bank
  • Alfonso García Mora, Director, Director - Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, The World Bank Group 
  • J. Christopher Giancarlo, Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission 
  • Daniel Gorfine, LabCFTC Director and Chief Innovation Officer, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Sophia Grami, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Synswap
  • Itai Grinberg, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law, Institute of International Economic Law
  • Vikram Haksar, Assistant Director, Strategy Policy & Review Dept., International Monetary Fund
  • Arthur W. Hahn, Counsel and Global Co-chair, Financial Services Practice, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP & Trustee, Institute for Financial Markets
  • Dong He, Deputy Director, Capital Markets, International Monetary Fund 
  • Gerardo Hernández Correa, Member of the Board of Directors, Banco de la República – Colombia 
  • Gabriel I. Hidalgo, Managing Director, K2 Intelligence
  • William H. Hinman, Director, Division of Corporate Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Hon. Albert Isola, Minister of Commerce, Gibraltar
  • Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Kavita Jain, Director in the Office of Emerging Regulatory Issues, FINRA
  • Linda Jeng, Chief of Staff, Risk, Surveillance & Data, Federal Reserve Board and Basel Committee Fintech Group
  • Rich Kerschner, Co-Chair, Advisory Board, Georgetown University, Institute of International Economic Law & Senior Advisor, Elixirr
  • Peter Kerstens,  Advisor on Financial Technology and Cybersecurity to the Director General FISMA and Co-Chair of European Commission Fintech Taskforce, European Commission
  • W. Moses Kim, Director, Office of Financial Institutions Policy, U.S. Department of the  Treasury
  • Trevor I. Kiviat, Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 
  • Brian Knight, Director, Innovation and Governance Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
  • Robert Le, Senior Technology Analyst, Emerging Technology, Pitchbook
  • Ross B. Leckow, Deputy General Counsel, Legal Department, International Monetary Fund
  • Sean Lippel, Director, Fintech Collective 
  • Alexander Lipton, Chief Technical Officer, SilaMoney
  • David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund 
  • Margaret C. Liu, Senior Vice President, Regulatory and Deputy General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors
  • Jameson Lopp, Infrastructure Engineer, Casa and Creator, Statoshi 
  • Clay Lowery,Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors
  • Maria Soledad (Sole) Martinez Peria, Division Chief, Macro-Financial Division, Research Department, 
    International Monetary Fund 
  • Jai R. Massari, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 
  • Patrick Murck, Special Counsel, Cooley LLP 
  • Aditya Narain, Deputy Director, Monetary & Capital Market Dept., International Monetary Fund 
  • Makada Henry-Nickie, Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Gabriel I. Hidalgo, Managing Director, K2 Intelligence
  • Joseph Noss, Secondee, Financial Stability Board 
  • Joseph M. Otting, Comptroller, U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency 
  • Rob Palatnick, Managing Director & Chief Technology Architect, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation 
  • Craig S. Phillips, Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury 
  • Gina C. Pieters, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, University of Cambridge & Lecturer, Economics Department, University of Chicago
  • Rahul Prabhakar, Head of Regulatory Compliance for Financial Services, Security Assurance, Amazon Web Services
  • Nirup Ramalingam, Chief Operating Officer, NEX SEF
  • Nydia Remolina León, Legal Advisor for Innovation, Digital Transformation and Policy Affairs, Grupo Bancolombia
  • Francisco Rivadeneyra, Research Advisor, Bank of Canada
  • Nat Robinson, Chief Executive Officer, Leaf Global Fintech 
  • Michelle Santuoso, Co-Founder, Blockchain Accounting
  • Juan Suarez, Vice President, Legal, Coinbase 
  • Abebe Aemro Selassie, Director, African Dept., International Monetary Fund  
  • Alessandra Shultz, Business Development, Gemini 
  • Tony Sio, Head of Marketplace and Regulator Surveillance Technology, Nasdaq
  • Bryan Stirewalt, Chief Executive, Dubai Financial Services Authority
  • Tim Swanson, Director of Research, Post Oak Labs 
  • Josh Swihart, Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, Zcash Company 
  • Harco van den Oever, Founder and CEO, Overstone Art Services
  • Peter Van Valkenburgh, Research Director, Coin Center 
  • Angela C. Walch, Associate Professor, St. Mary’s University School of Law 
  • Petal P. Walker, Special Counsel, Wilmer Hale
  • John Walsh, Innovation Manager, Thomson Reuters
  • Yvonne Wang, Head of Technology Strategy, Stealth Fintech
  • Chris White, Chief Executive Officer, ViableMkts
  • Sharon Yang, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Financial Markets, U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Ryan Zagone, Chief Business Development Officer, Ripple
  • Diego Zuluaga, Policy Analyst, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternative, Cato Institute