Zurich 2021

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs

Simon Kofe was appointed in 2019 as the Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs for the South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, and is a member of the cabinet of Prime Minister Kausea Natano. Minister Kofe is a key leader of Tuvalu’s project to create a National Digital Ledger on the BSV blockchain, as part of initiatives for the country to become a leading Pacific nation in information and communications technology.

Previously, Mr. Kofe was a member of the Tuvalu parliament and was also the senior magistrate of Tuvalu, a position to which he was appointed in September 2014. Mr. Kofe earned a Master’s degree in International Maritime Law from the University of Malta in 2014, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of the South Pacific in 2004.

Founder, Elas Digital

Brendan Lee is a professional Computer Systems engineer. Since graduating from Engineering his career has seen him working in circuit design and manufacturing for factory automation, automating explosives deployment for mine tunnelling, designing software to automate gold mine processing plants and machinery, building distributed control systems for methane compression systems and designing lithium-ion battery packs for microvehicles across Asia.

He thinks that the most interesting thing he’s ever worked on by far is Bitcoin and has spent the last 2 years fully dedicated to the mission of implementing the Satoshi Vision of scaled Bitcoin.

Director of Commercial & Strategy, nChain

Simit hails from a career in financial services and consulting, holding senior positions across analysis, strategy and product in organisations such as Visa, NHS, Experian and Logica. With a background in payments and finance, Simit has a good understanding of what it takes to make Bitcoin SV a ubiquitous payment system. At nChain, he established the Business Services division and works with enterprise clients across some of our key markets to take advantage of blockchain technology, particularly in helping central banks and financial institutions understand the benefits of building payments systems on Bitcoin SV.

Founder, Honā

George is the Managing Director of community-tech consultancy, Faiā, and founder of a blockchain-based accountability platform called Honā. Featured by the likes of Tech In Asia, Rest of World, Slack, and Adobe, he's passionate about bridging gaps between communities and technology. He was awarded an "Excellence in Finance Leaders" award at FiNext Conference Dubai 2020. Recently, he helped facilitate a deal resulting in the Government of Tuvalu adopting blockchain technology as part of its national digital transformation efforts, moving towards electronic cash and paper-less operations. With mixed cultural heritage, and a "third-cultured" upbringing, he's also had a diverse career spanning sales, marketing, business development, community management, programming, and even animation. When not building businesses or communities, he enjoys trying out new teas, playing strategy games like Weiqi (Go), and spending time with loved ones.

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Chief Mate, InvoiceMate | Head of BSV Hub for Middle East & South Asia

Salman has been named a “Top 100 Blockchain Leader in World.” As a Founder and Chief Mate of InvoiceMate he is co-creating the future of invoice processing with blockchain enabled trusted process and enhanced efficiency. The business aims to solve the real world business issue of inefficient invoice processing and would result in saving professionals much effort, time and resources. As Managing Director of Avantas Technology Accelerator, he has expanded blockchain technology solutions for government entities, international bodies & large-scale enterprises thus imparted his passion for societal impact through digital transformation initiatives. MedsLOCK (medslock.com) has been a highlight project supporting government authorities, healthcare officials & businesses countering COVID-19 outbreak.

A key influencer in the space of Enterprise Blockchain adaption, Salman has moderated events & presented keynotes at stages around the world including a talk at esteemed TEDx platform. He’s a Blockchain & FinTech specialist in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Faculty. A results-driven professional with over 20 years in corporate & entrepreneurial roles aligning People, Performance and Profit. He has been featured as success story in “Soul Beats @ UAE” the book published by Dubai Government. Pursuing his Doctorate degree, he is a CIPD Member and one of the pioneer Lead Auditors of ISO 29990:2010 for L&D operations.

Salman lives, plays and works in Dubai and on stages around the world committed to empower the human potential.

Founder and CEO, Domineum Blockchain Solutions

Geoffrey is the founder and CEO of Domineum Blockchain Solutions. Domineum is a Distributed Ledger Technology Company providing Blockchain-as-a-service solution. It was established to assist Governments and Companies integrate Blockchain into their operations.
Geoffrey has over a decade experience building companies and providing mentorship to start-ups. He has provided support and operational support to companies in financial services, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and agrictech.

Some of the companies he has co-founded and built include Pacer Ventures and Voguepay

Geoffrey holds certifications in Law, Politics and Business from University of Bolton, Cambridge University, and London School of Economics & Political Science in the United Kingdom. Additional professional courses and training has included Oxford Entrepreneurship: Venture Finance Programme at the University of Oxford; Digital Disruption / Digital Transformation Strategies at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School; Blockchain in Business: Beyond the Hype with Columbia Business School; and Business Analytics via Wharton Executive Education.

Geoffrey was bestowed with Africa's Tech Personality of the Year 2019 from Jet Age, in Rwanda. And he was endorsed by the UK government as a "Global Leading Exceptional Talent in The Digital Technology Industry" for his impact and work in the Digital Tech field.

Digital Transformation Leader & Strategic Head, Holy Makkah Municipality (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

Mr Yousif has two decades of experience working in the ICT industry, most of which has been on Digital Transformation products and services for public sector governance and e-Government innovation. After 15 years working in the U.S. Government in a leadership role, he joined the Makkah Municipality in 2015 in Saudi Arabia as a Digital Transformation and Strategic Head.

As a Digital Transformation Leader, he has led many data-driven projects in the area of Blockchain, BI, AI, and ML where he delivers substantial strategic results. His strong operational focus based on data and customer digital experience is used to inform, plan, and enable digital strategies.

He is a proven cross-cultural, multi-national executive with exceptional influencing skills and is an innovator with a deep grasp of G2C and G2G technologies, data, and services both in the U.S. and abroad.

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Co-Founder & CEO, Centbee

Lorien Gamaroff is the founder/CEO of Bankymoon, a blockchain and cryptocurrency consultancy and co-founder/CEO of Centbee, a cryptocurrency payments and remittance company. He also serves as a Bitcoin Association ambassador.

As Africa's foremost blockchain expert, Lorien has been invited around the world to speak on digital/cryptocurrencies and decentralised/distributed ledgers and their benefits for emerging economies. He has addressed and advised the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, FBI and Commonwealth Secretariat, the South African Reserve Bank, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, TEDx and a host of professionals in multiple industries and attorneys general throughout the world. He offers insight and guidance to universities, business executives and advises governments on blockchain technologies and their implications.

He pioneered blockchain payments for utility smart metering and was the co-founder of the Blockchain Academy which educates professionals on all aspects of blockchains from regulations to software development.

Co-Founder, Domineum Blockchain Solutions

Mohammed is a serial tech entrepreneur, startup mentor, fintech expert, blockchain enthusiast and startup community volunteer. He is Co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Domineum Blockchain Solutions, as well as a Director at Vogue Pay and Founder at StartUp Arewa. He is an Official Member of Forbes Business Council, a Director at Silicon Valley-based Founder Institute and International Partner at World Business Angel Investment Forum. Mohammed is based in Nigeria.

Independent Consultant; Technical Advisor to the Sesiu Fund

Dr. Catherine Lephoto received her doctoral degree in Molecular Biology & Microbial Genetics from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002 at the age of 28. Further to her PhD, she has received qualifications in other disciplines including Brewing Science and Business Management. Her education has straddled prestigious institutions across the USA, the UK and South Africa. Her professional career and experience include managerial and leadership roles in a multitude of academic institutions and prestigious companies from South Africa, USA and Europe.

Catherine is extremely passionate about pan-Africanism and the need to develop the African continent through progressive government policies, fair and transparent business, as well as collaborative efforts of professionals based both in Africa and in the diaspora. She has an entrepreneurial spirit and has enjoyed great success in strategic leadership and technical roles through leveraging her extensive and impressive networks within the sub-Saharan African region. Recently, she led the Covid-19 response program of the Government of Lesotho in the role of Deputy CEO of the National Covid-19 Response Secretariat (NACOSEC). Her experience in this project cemented her strong belief that the African continent needs to embrace transformative technologies so as to optimally and credibly address current problems confronting the continent, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.

Catherine believes in lifelong learning, loves reading and is currently educating herself about the blockchain technology. She is a mother of two young boys and lives in Johannesburg.

Legal Counsel & Public Policy Manager, Bitcoin Association

Attorney-at-law (Poland) specializing in IP law, IT law, data protection (CIPP/E), and AML/KYC with a profound knowledge of various legal aspects of blockchain technology and crypto-assets. Certified Swiss startup board member. Legal Counsel and Public Policy Manager at Bitcoin Association (www.bitcoinassociation.net), co-chair of the Privacy Working Group of INATBA (www.inatba.org) and member of the Expert Panel of EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum (www.eublockchainforum.eu). Member of ThinkBLOCKtank(www.thinkblocktank.org) and Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association (www.swisspolishblockchain.org). Speaker and panelist at blockchain-related events, courses, and trainings.

Attorney-at-law, LL.M. (NYU), LL.M. (NUS)
Legal Fintech & Blockchain Expert

Tina Balzli is a renowned and trusted legal Fintech & Blockchain expert and Attorney-at-law. With more than +15 years of consultancy experience, she brings an extensive and holistic experience in the financial services industry and sees Fintech & Blockchain as its natural development, which ultimately promotes financial inclusion and empowerment. Currently, Tina Balzli is a Partner at PwC Switzerland, heading the Legal Banking, Fintech & Blockchain Department. Previously, she was amongst others working with major Swiss law firms, a financial institution in Hong Kong and as graduate research and teaching assistant at the University of Fribourg. Tina Balzli holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in U.S. and Asian Business and Trade Law from the New York University, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporate & Financial Services Law from the National University of Singapore as well as a Master of Law (J.D. equivalent) from the University of Fribourg. Apart from this, she is a certified Swiss Fund & Asset Management Officer and long-standing Member of the Regulatory & Policy Working Group of the Crypto Valley Association. She frequently publishes and speaks at conferences in her areas of specialization.

Director of the Office for Financial Centre Innovation (SFI)
Government of Liechtenstein

Thomas Dünser is Director of the Office for Financial Centre Innovation for the government of Liechtenstein. This government agency provides support for financial companies requiring advice and assistance on the issues arising from innovation and also monitors the implementation of the government’s innovation policies to shape the legislative structures to support innovative businesses.

Thomas Dünser had previously worked as a senior advisor for the Prime Minister in the field of innovation and digitalisation at the Ministry for General Government Affairs and Finance, where he was responsible for the development of the Blockchain Act in Liechtenstein, among other things. Prior to his position at the Ministry for General Government Affairs and Finance he was in leading positions in the banking, the industry and consulting.

Head Capital Markets & Infrastructure, State Secretariat for International Finance SIF

Nino Landerer heads the Capital Markets and Infrastructure unit in the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) in the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) since April 2021. Among the responsibilities of his team are monitoring developments, providing advice, and preparing the FDF’s affairs in the areas of capital markets, financial market infrastructures, payment systems, and asset management, including FinTech-related issues. His team also manages the FDF’s membership in the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and he represents Switzerland in various international work streams. Before joining SIF in 2021, he was Deputy Head of the Banking Operations Analysis team at the Swiss National Bank (SNB). He is an expert on payments and financial market infrastructure, with a particular focus on technological innovations. He has worked on CBDC, DLT and other innovation-related topics in national and inter-national working groups. In 2020, he led Project Helvetia, a joint experiment with the BIS Innovation Hub and SIX.

Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain for European Commission | Co-Chair, FinTech Task Force for European Commission

Pēteris Zilgalvis is the Head of Unit for Digital Innovation and Blockchain in the Digital Single Market Directorate in DG CONNECT and is the Co-Chair of the European Commission FinTech Task Force. He was the Visiting EU Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford for 2013-14, where was an Associate of the Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme. From 1997 to 2005, he was Deputy Head of the Bioethics Department of the Council of Europe, in its Directorate General of Legal Affairs.  In addition, he has held various positions in the Latvian civil service (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment). He was Senior Environmental Law Advisor to the World Bank/Russian Federation Environmental Management Project and was Regional Environmental Specialist for the Baltic Countries at the World Bank. He has been a member of the California State Bar since 1991, completed his J.D. at the University of Southern California, his B.A. in Political Science Cum Laude at UCLA, the High Potentials Leadership Program at Harvard Business School, and Computer Science for Lawyers at Harvard Law School. A recent publication of his is “The Need for an Innovation Principle in Regulatory Impact Assessment: The Case of Finance and Innovation in Europe” in Policy & Internet. An upcoming publication is “The Law and Political Economy of Decentralised Digital Ecosystems”.

Southeast Asia Manager, Bitcoin Association

Ella Qiang is the Southeast Asia manager at Bitcoin Association. She works to advance the Bitcoin SV adoption in Southeast Asia, and supports the growth of Bitcoin SV ecosystem building across the digital assets and blockchain industry globally. Ella has been actively involved in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem from the very beginning as the founding member at CambrianSV developer bootcamp, RelayX wallet, and FloatSV digital asset exchange. Prior to Bitcoin SV, Ella was Director of Partnerships at Stellar Development Foundation, leading enterprise adoption and ecosystem development in APAC. She has a background in banking and corporate finance, and holds an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Co-Founder, Amleh

Eli has been a long time advocate of Bitcoin technology and its potential for revolutionary positive change. A postgraduate programmer, analyst, and writer, with a keen interest in cryptography and economics, Eli believes in the vision of an uncapped, unrestricted Bitcoin which is now fulfilled in Bitcoin SV. He now works with LAYER2 Technologies – a holding company for 4 businesses facilitating the usage and growth of BSV. Amleh, one of the businesses in the holding company, has announced plans for the first tokenization of gold on the BSV blockchain.

Co-Founder & CEO, Tokenized

James is an engineer, entrepreneur, and ardent supporter of Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision for Bitcoin. He is a Co-founder and CEO of Tokenized. He is also the creator of the award-winning Tokenized Protocol, an open-source token and smart contract system for the Bitcoin SV network. He is committed to building universal and easy-to-use tools that help make Bitcoin's value accessible to society at large. James is also a founding member of the Bitcoin Association's Technical Standards Committee.

Founder, RelayX

Jack is a creative artist passionate about realising a real-time economy for people around the world.

Writer, producer & podcast host, CoinGeek


Charles Miller is technology journalist who writes and makes films for CoinGeek as well as hosting the weekly CoinGeek Conversations podcast. He is a former BBC television producer whose work on business and technology included series about the dot com boom and documentaries about Facebook, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Donald Trump. He is currently studying for a PhD in History at the University of Roehampton.

Chief Visionary, Fabriik & The Bayesian Group

Roy Bernhard is the Chief Visionary of The Bayesian Group, a multi-disciplinary, global group of organizations focused on “Modern Finance”. The Group includes a Crypto-Focused AI / Quantitative Hedge Fund - Bayesian Fund SPC; Bayesian Markets - a digital asset services business offering OTC Trading, Liquidity Provision, and Market Making Services, as well as fabriik, the worlds first end to end BSV Tokenization Platform. Mr. Bernhard attended the University of Western Ontario for Computer Science, and Harvard University for Business. He is currently the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Hummingbird Lawyers LLP. He has held executive positions at Workopolis, Spin Master Toys, and other large public companies. His experience brings stability and concrete direction in growing multi-million and billion-dollar organizations. Mr. Bernhard also served as a consultant at Deloitte, TD/Canada Trust, and Bell. He is an accomplished speaker and was featured on the cover of CIO Magazine.

CEO, Bitstocks

A fearless entrepreneur, with global experience from a young age, Michael is the Founder and CEO of Bitstocks. Passionate about all aspects of technology, Michael’s early business successes sparked his interest in understanding the intricacies of modern economic and financial systems, which led him to discover the power of blockchain technology and the role of Bitcoin in building the world of tomorrow.

In 2014 he founded Bitstocks, the City of London’s first Bitcoin market advisory and investment firm. Since then, Michael has evolved the company into a fin-tech scale-up; on a mission to Educate - through their media, to Empower - through their products and to Evolve - through their research.

Michael and the Bitstocks team are currently rolling out the latest features of Gravity, the Bitcoin financial ecosystem that enables users to benefit from everyday financial products and services, backed by the power and scale of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).

Adam is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of doing successful projects within the performance marketing industry. Impressed with bitcoin's dominance of 2013's headlines, he has been following the development of blockchain technologies ever since and trying to find that perfect fit of technology and market fit. Combining competitive gaming & bitcoin opens up new worlds that he intends to take on with a passion.

Founding President, Bitcoin Association

Jimmy Nguyen is one of the world’s top Bitcoin and blockchain advocates. He is a renowned public speaker, media commentator and global ambassador for Bitcoin SV. Jimmy joined nChain and then helped launch the Bitcoin Association after a 21-year career as an intellectual property and digital technology lawyer. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S. In 2008, Lawdragon named him (at only age 36) one of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America” and described him as a “dynamo talent.” He has also been recognized by the Century City Bar Association as “Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year” (2011), and by the Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel with its Industry Leader Award (2017). For his diverse leadership, Jimmy has been named a “Top 100 Under 50 Diverse Executive Leader” (2015) by Diversity MBA magazine and was inducted into California Minority Counsel Program’s Diversity Hall of Fame (2015).

Founder, WeatherSV & MetaStreme

Paul has been an I.T. professional for over 30 years. He is the founder of WeatherSV and MetaStreme, and the director of Tableland IT Pty LTD.

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Predict Ecology

Daniel is an experienced tropical ecologist, from the Wet Tropics region of Queensland, Australia. He is committed to and passionate about tropical ecosystem preservation and restoration. Daniel is also the co-founder and managing director of Predict Ecology, an environmental and ecological consulting firm with a focus on rigorous science, real-world data, and predictive modelling. Daniel has worked extensively with mining, infrastructure, rehabilitation, and conservation, for large multi-national private companies, government departments, non-government organisations, and land holders. He specialises in using innovative and multi-disciplinary approaches for environmental management, and sustainable development planning.

As an ecologist modelling and monitoring biodiversity, the single biggest problem faced is access to volumes of high-quality data, that are verified and indexed. Daniel sees blockchains as a mechanism which could provide an incentive-based system for collection, verification, indexing, and dissemination of environmental and ecological data. A blockchain-based, user pays, self-serve model of a data service, would allow environmental and ecological modelling and monitoring to proliferate beyond its current limitations and effectively address pressing global issues such as biodiversity loss and climate change.

Founder, Farmo

Nick is an agtech entrepreneur who manages an organic beef cattle property in Australia. He has patents for two IoT products including the Water Rat trough level monitor and a remote gate senso.

CTO, Smart Systems

Brett is head of technology for Smart Systems, an IoT development business focused on delivering solutions that improve people's lives.

Brett is also head of technology for Be Collective, a digital platform which mobilises every part of our community and encourages us all to contribute by doing what we can, when we can.

Brett’s 30 years in information technology have given him a breadth of technology knowledge, a savvy approach to business, and he has become a respected leader of technology teams.

From his early days at Toyota, Brett applies his extensive knowledge of lean principles and agile methodologies to all areas of business and technology. Brett has a proven track record of leading technology teams that have built critical business systems for some of the world’s leading technology organizations.

Technical Outreach Specialist, Bitcoin Association

Bryan joined Bitcoin Association after spending 17 years successfully helping to digitally transform businesses and organizations with technology-based solutions. This includes consulting organizations of all sizes, on implementing traditional and emerging technologies. Passionate about blockchain, Bryan participated in the first ever Bitcoin ventures Pitch-Day contest in Seoul, Korea and is a Certified Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin Investigator.

Currently, Bryan serves as Technical Outreach Specialist, Regional Director of North America.

General Manager, ReefIT

With a lifelong passion for technology, and 20+ years in the IT Industry, Aaron Jervis has pretty much seen it all when it comes to IT in the SMB space. Founding Reef IT in the early 2000’s in response to a lack of skilled IT Service Providers in the region, Reef IT have gone from strength to strength, building a reputation for quality service.

Co-Founder & Lead Developer, Bitping

With over 15 years of professional experience, Dean is a seasoned developer with many innovative ideas and the broad skillset required to make them happen. Previously working in a variety of software and hardware development roles spanning industries such as aerospace, medicine, banking and blockchain, he is now directing his efforts towards building on Bitcoin SV and developing the tools required by other developers to create more robust, interoperable apps with a more seamless user experience.

Regional Manager for China, Bitcoin Association

Lise is China Manager for Bitcoin Association. Based in Beijing, her role is to implement a comprehensive strategy for growth of BSV throughout China – a key market for the Bitcoin industry. This includes work to highlight the unique capabilities of the Bitcoin SV blockchain to developers, enterprises, miners, venture investors, and Bitcoin users. Lise brings valuable China market experience and relationships to Bitcoin Association and BSV’s growth. Previously, Lise was Chief Operating Officer of Rawpool, a Bitcoin mining pool in China. At Rawpool, her responsibilities included a digital mining project, management of the mining pool operation, expanding customer accounts, and technical research and cryptocurrency industry analysis. Lise also worked for 8 years in the e-commerce industry. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.

Founder & CEO, ShowPay

Sunny Fung is the founder and CEO of ShowPay and one of the inventors of MetaID. His Company has developed many MetaID-based applications that are very popular with users. His goal is to popularize MetaID to developers and users all over the world, so that people can have a MetaNet world with data interoperability.

Lead Developer, Sensible Contract

Jiang has 10 years of experience in server program development in the Internet and game industries, firstly engaged in CDN platform development at Sina.com, and currently work at Kingsoft as a senior backend engineer. Jiang started to learn Bitcoin technology from 2014, and is recently became dedicated to developing basic component services of Sensible Contract- a smart contract solution on BSV. He is also verifying the product applicability of using Sensible Contract in new fields, and exploring new methods using sCrypt, the high level smart contract language for BSV.

CEO, DotWallet & Mempool

Lin, Zheming leads the team of Mempool and DotWallet. With over 15 years of professional experiences in internet product designing and marketing in the booming Chinese market, Zheming want to help developers get more exposure and less cost of development with various SDKs and API.

Zheming started to learn bitcoin in 2011 and he discovered the possibility of a brighter future that the bitcoin ledger could help with. He started a bitcoin maximalist company in 2016 and that eventually led to DotWallet, a bitcoin wallet and Mempool, a transaction processor.

Co-founder, Bitcell Technology Inc.

Gu Lu was a veteran in game industry for 12 years since graduating in 2005, and participated in various AAA game titles like Splinter Cell/Ghost Recon (at UBISoft) and EVE (at CCP), and also multiple PC & Mobile games.
He didn't want to be a senior dev manager or a narrowed specialized expert so he became an indie developer in 2018 and started exploring ideas in BSV for building game products in 2019. He co-founded Bitcell and started the project SatoPlay as a game platform, utilizing the micro-payment capability as in-game incentives.

His vision is to build (in years) an unlimited virtual open world for everyone to interact, with scaling-capable infrastructure, including four pillars: immersive reality visualization (80%), big-world server-less layered synchronization (30%), resources and transactions delivery and settlement (30%), and massive in-game player incentivized content generation (10%). The percentages are the progress in each dimension and the technology is heading there in 5-10 years. Gu Lu spent years to incubate the technology sense and taste to balance the longterm goal and short-term yield.

Recently, he had a lot of new ideas including the exciting Sensible Contract which became the cornerstone of this next generation platform. This will be fascinating in 2021 to expand the things that can be done next using bitcoin script.

Southeast Asia Manager, Bitcoin Association

Ella Qiang is the Southeast Asia manager at Bitcoin Association. She works to advance the Bitcoin SV adoption in Southeast Asia, and supports the growth of Bitcoin SV ecosystem building across the digital assets and blockchain industry globally. Ella has been actively involved in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem from the very beginning as the founding member at CambrianSV developer bootcamp, RelayX wallet, and FloatSV digital asset exchange. Prior to Bitcoin SV, Ella was Director of Partnerships at Stellar Development Foundation, leading enterprise adoption and ecosystem development in APAC. She has a background in banking and corporate finance, and holds an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

COO, CYBAVO

Jordan is a Cybersecurity veteran with over a decade in the industry. With a background in economics, his early interests focused on estimating the cost of cyber (in)security & translating that into frameworks for managing risk. He joined the Cybersecurity firm Armorize Technologies during its founding year in 2006, where he developed an extensive global sales network.

At Armorize, he developed technical expertise in the field, earning the prominent Certified Ethical Hacker (CeH) qualification. This facilitated the development of successful go-to-market strategies & new applications for existing technologies, one of which led to the acquisition of Armorize by Proofpoint (Nasdaq: PFPT) in 2013.

As Sr Director of Product Management at Proofpoint, Jordan helped develop a new product line that grew from 0 to over USD 350 million annual recurring revenue in less than 5 years, servicing 9 of the top 10 US banks and 56 of the Fortune 100. Much of this work focused on managing engineering, scaling resources & ensuring compliance with data management and privacy laws, as well as extensive research into tracking malicious hacking groups.

In 2018, Jordan co-founded the blockchain & cryptocurrency focused company XREX before joining CYBAVO in 2021.

Vice President of Business Development, Simplex

Ari is the VP of Business Development at Simplex, the leading FIAT infrastructure provider for the crypto ecosystem. He has 20 years experience in international sales and business development at leading media companies and startups

VP of Business Development & Founding Team Member.
Merkle Science

Ian Lee is part of the founding team at Merkle Science and led its investigations team before taking over as Associate Director where he also heads up Merkle Science SEA operations. A Singapore qualified lawyer, Ian had previously worked in the capital markets industry where he actively advised corporates for listings and corporate actions. Ian also serves as VP of Institute of Blockchain, a skillsfuture accredited social enterprise focusing on Blockchain education and certification, sits on the ISO TC307 - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Standards Technical Committee and is part of the founding team of the Compliance Association and Network of Singapore.

As part of his role at Merkle Science and Institute of Blockchain, Ian regularly conducts training on the topic of crypto-compliance and crypto-forensics for regulators, law enforcement and corporate enterprises. Ian is a regular speaker at blockchain conferences on the topics of crypto-compliance, AML/CFT and regulation.

CTO, nChain | Technical Director, Bitcoin SV Node Project

Steve Shadders has been involved in Bitcoin infrastructure since early 2011. As one of the first authors of open-source mining pool software “PoolServerJ,” he was at the forefront of implementing new features like merged mining and local coinbase generation that are in common use today. Steve was actively involved in Mike Hearn’s BitcoinJ project as one of the earliest contributors and still uses it today as his staple Bitcoin library. Today, Steve heads up nChain’s engineering team and is the Technical Director of the Bitcoin SV Node project. He is passionate about the future role of Bitcoin in reshaping the world. In his own words, it is disruptive technology with “more potential to change the world than the printing press.” In his role, he contributes his ecosystem-wide perspective to support building the mining and UX infrastructure needed to enable Satoshi’s Vision to be realized.

Founder & General Partner, Two Hop Ventures

Founder and General Partner of Two Hop Ventures, a Dutch BitcoinSV focused venture capital fund, Alex Fauvel has a keen interest in the underlying technology of Bitcoin. Two Hop Ventures’ first investment, Pixel Wallet, highlighted the issue of technical complexity and specialities required to build the best solutions possible within the information data handling domain.

With a background in Mechanical Engineering, Alex understands the importance of the development of technical standards in the growth of an industry. He is a member of the Bitcoin SV Technical Standards Committee and know that the Committee will be able to assist parties in developing robust standards that allow companies to interoperate seamlessly across all types of industries.

Europe & Operations Manager, Bitcoin Association

Patrick joined Bitcoin Association from the financial industry where he started his career as Investment Banker at an American bulge bracket bank. He then moved on to advise leading private banks on how to incorporate regulatory requirements and adapt business models to paradigm shifts in the industry. Most recently Patrick acted as senior advisor to an international investment advisory firm. Patrick holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance, a Bachelor's in International Business Administration and is a CFA charterholder.

Head of Trading & Credit Platform, SEBA Bank AG

Urs is an expert of global Foreign Exchange Markets. He has spent more than three decades building and managing voice and electronic trading businesses out of Switzerland and the US. Throughout his career, he has held senior banking management positions at two renowned Swiss banks.

Daniel studied economics at the University of St. Gallen HSG and has a PhD in "Virtual Communities".

In 1997 he won the European Honeywell Futurist Award and his book "Virtual Triad: Cyberspace, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence" was published in 2002.

As an entrepreneur and founder, he worked in the field of internet-based early warning systems. Since 2005, he has been advising banks, corporates and regulators across Europe and the Middle East on strategy and digitisation. He also acts as the PwC Head of Blockchain EMEA and works closely on topics such as blockchain, crypto and tokenization.

Daniel is co-founder of Swiss Finance + Technology Association (SFTA), Crypto Valley Association (CVA), and fintechrockers.com. He is an early-stage angel investor and closely associated with the international fintech and blockchain community.

CEO, Bitstocks

A fearless entrepreneur, with global experience from a young age, Michael is the Founder and CEO of Bitstocks. Passionate about all aspects of technology, Michael’s early business successes sparked his interest in understanding the intricacies of modern economic and financial systems, which led him to discover the power of blockchain technology and the role of Bitcoin in building the world of tomorrow.

In 2014 he founded Bitstocks, the City of London’s first Bitcoin market advisory and investment firm. Since then, Michael has evolved the company into a fin-tech scale-up; on a mission to Educate - through their media, to Empower - through their products and to Evolve - through their research.

Michael and the Bitstocks team are currently rolling out the latest features of Gravity, the Bitcoin financial ecosystem that enables users to benefit from everyday financial products and services, backed by the power and scale of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV).

Executive Partner, IBM Global Business Services

Marc is an Executive Partner at IBM Global Business Services (GBS), the Consulting and Services division of IBM. He is responsible for the business with a wide range of banks in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Over the last more than 20 years, Marc has been conducting transformational consulting mandates at the interface between Business and IT in the Financial Services sector. At the center of his work lays end-to-end digitization, applying disruptive technologies. As an enthusiast for Customer Experience, Automation and Optimization, Marc is always eager to apply approaches such as Design Thinking and Lean Six Sigma, to put the right spin to any problem statement at hand.

Marc holds a Master of Economics and is serving as a Colonel in the Swiss Army.