Michael Novogratz, Founder & CEO, Galaxy Digital Capital Management

Michael E. Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital Capital Management based in New York City. He was formerly a Principal and Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund; he was also a member of the Board of Directors of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Mr. Novogratz joined Fortress in 2002 after spending 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. Mr. Novogratz founded and serves as the Chairman of the Board for Beat the Streets, a non-profit organization which builds wrestling programs in New York City public schools, and is also the Honorary Chairman of USA Wrestling Foundation. Mr. Novogratz also serves as Chairman of the Board of The Bail Project and Hudson River Park Friends. He is also on the Board of Directors of NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club, The Jazz Foundation of America and Artists for Peace and Justice. Mr. Novogratz received an AB in Economics from Princeton University, and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.
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Jason Han, CEO, Ground X

Jason Han is the CEO of Ground X, a subsidiary of Korean Internet giant KAKAO, one of the hottest players in blockchain industry. Ground X aims to industrialize blockchain technology by developing and applying it in the real world. Ground X believes in the potential of blockchain technology and the future of decentralization. Yet the current lack of real-life blockchain applications does little justice to the huge potential and poses a challenge to the industrialization of blockchain technology. Ground X takes on this challenge by developing a scalable blockchain platform and Decentralized Applications (dApps) that match the scale of Kakao.
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Simon Kim, CEO & Partner, Hashed
Simon Seojoon Kim is the CEO and Partner of Hashed, Korea’s most influential blockchain accelerator. He has majored in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor. As a leading blockchain evangelist in Korea, he is an organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier blockchain meetup community, and holds various development events. He also works as a venture partner at Softbank Ventures.
김서준은 한국의 영향력 있는 블록체인 엑셀러레이터인 해시드(Hashed)의 CEO 및 설립 파트너입니다. 김서준은 포스텍(POSTECH)에서 컴퓨터 공학을 전공하였으며, 연쇄 창업가이자 엔젤 투자자입니다. 그는 블록체인 사상가로서 다양한 강연과 함께 블록체인 밋업인 Hashed Lounge 외 다양한 개발 이벤트를 개최하고 있으며, 현재 소프트뱅크벤처스의 벤처파트너직을 함께 역임하고 있습니다.
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Michael Arrington, Partner, Arrington XRP Capital
마이클은 2005년에 설립된 TechCrunch에서 에디터로 일하며 성공적으로 이끈 후 CrunchFund를 공동으로 설립하였습니다. 2008년에는 타임지 선정 올해 세계에서 가장 영향력있는 사람들 중 한 명으로 이름을 올리기도 했습니다. 증권법 관련해서 O'Melveny & Myers와 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich에서 근무하였으며 스탠퍼드로스쿨과 클레어몬트 매케나 칼리지를 졸업했습니다. BUY TICKETS NOW

Dominic Williams, President & Chief Scientist, Dfinity Foundation
Dominic is a technology entrepreneur and a long-standing distributing computing enthusiast. In recent years he has proposed numerous novel blockchain schemes including Threshold Relay, Probablistic Slot Consensus, Validation Towers, Puzzle Towers and other techniques now gaining recognition. Before switching to the crypto industry in 2013, he created an innovative venture-backed MMO game that he scaled to millions of users, having first devised many of the supporting distributing computing systems himself. He founded the DFINITY project in January 2015, which now has a token cap in excess of $2B. BUY TICKETS NOW

Michael Maloney, Managing Director, Galaxy Digital Advisory
Michael Maloney is the Managing Director of Galaxy Digital Advisory group, which focuses on consulting and incubating early-stage blockchain projects. Mike is an Experienced Blockchain Solution Architect and Advisor, working with global companies to adopt distributed ledger technology. Michael brings 10 years of experience in data analysis, 7 years in technology consulting, and has been actively involved in blockchain technology since late 2011.
At Galaxy, Michael leads his team in developing technical solutions for customers across the blockchain space, as well as building the internal trade and compliance tools for Galaxy. The Galaxy Outer Ring Blockchain Investigation Tool (ORBIT) was developed to create a full-featured transaction compliance tool that meets and exceeds all current standards. In addition, Michael also serves as an expert adviser on regulatory requirements for blockchain trading within the firm.
Prior to joining Galaxy Digital LP in December 2017, Michael was the technology lead of Ernst & Young’s Blockchain practice where he oversaw development of multiple blockchain applications for clients across industries, and services clients around the world.
Michael is an ACAMS member and has spoken in numerous forums on the unique challenges facing cryptocurrency and AML compliance. He is a graduate of Fordham University in New York where he studied Sociology and Statistics
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Nikola Pavesic, Head of Special Operations, Nikkei
Nikola is running Special Projects for Nikkei in Tokyo which includes anything from setting up new ops, running tech & innovation projects, partnerships and major startup events. He was born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland and the UK, matured in Tanzania and Japan. Nikola's career went from an international lawyer across the United Nations, to running startups and consulting for corporates and the public sector. He is particularly passionate about AI and blockchain technologies as well as creating and boosting startup/innovation ecosystems in the most varied places, from Japan to Cuba. Also a devoted rugby player and part-time journalist. BUY TICKETS NOW

Roland Yau, Managing Partner, CoCoon Ignite Ventures
Roland worked in one of the top international law firms prior to joining CoCoon Ignite Ventures. As a lawyer, Roland focused on fundraising for large conglomerates and worked on the largest mergers and acquisitions in Hong Kong including Cheung Kong, Hutchison, HKT and HKBN. One of his key focuses at CoCoon Ignite Ventures is to oversee deal execution and growth opportunities for Hong Kong.
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