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Arthur Breitman is an early architect of the Tezos protocol. Prior to becoming involved in Tezos full time, he worked at X and Waymo on self-driving cars. In his earlier career, he worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École polytechnique and holds a MS in financial mathematics from the Courant Institute at NYU.
Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.
Dr. George LAM is Non-Executive Chairman – Hong Kong and ASEAN Region and Chief Adviser to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Asia. He has served in leadership roles (including Chairman, Vice Chairman, Managing Director, CEO, COO and General Manager) with several leading multinational corporations including Hong Kong Telecom, A.T. Kearney, Singapore Technologies Telemedia (Temasek Holdings), BOC International Holdings (the Bank of China group), Chia Tai Enterprises International Limited (CP Group) and Macquarie Capital. He has extensive experience and connections in the innovation and technology spheres and in general management, strategy consulting, corporate governance, direct investment, investment banking and fund management.
Dr. Lam has also been actively participating in community service and international affairs. Currently, he is a member of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Committee on Innovation, Technology and Re-Industrialization, the Belt and Road Committee of the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council (and Convenor of its Digital Silk Road Working Group), the Board of the Belt and Road General Chamber of Commerce (and Chairman of its Innovation and Technology Committee), the Court of the City University of Hong Kong and the Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Investor Relations Association, Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong, Honorary Advisor to the Hong Kong Business Angel Network (HKBAN), President of Hong Kong-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Foundation, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) Sustainable Business Network (ESBN) Executive Council (and Chairman of its Task Force on Banking and Finance), and Vice Chairman of Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC). Dr. Lam has also taught at Tsinghua University, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University and the City University of Hong Kong. He is committed to nurturing youth and next-generation SMEs, and fostering the further development of Hong Kong’s digital economy and innovation and technology sector.
Dr. Lam holds a BSc in Sciences and Mathematics, an MSc in Systems Science and an MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, a LLM in Law from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK, an MPA and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. He is also a Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong (and formerly a member of the Hong Kong Bar), an Accredited Mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution, a Fellow of Certified Management Accountants (CMA) Australia, the Institute of Public Accountants, the Institute of Financial Accountants, the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators, and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, and an Honorary Fellow of Certified Public Accountants (CPA) Australia, the Hong Kong Institute of Facility Management, and the University of Hong Kong School of Professional and Continuing Education.
Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger. Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum. Most recently, Behlendorf was a managing director at Mithril Capital Management LLC, a global technology investment firm. He was recognized by The New York Times as one of the Top 10 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2018.
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & Crypto Leader for Asia, the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.
Henri leads PwC’s FinTech efforts in Asia and is very active across the FinTech ecosystem working not only with FinTech start-ups but also traditional financial institutions. Henri also leads PwC’s crypto efforts and advises numerous crypto exchanges, crypto funds, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) / Security Token Offerings (STOs), stable coins as well as traditional financial institutions and regulators in relations to their crypto initiatives and policies.
With over 500,000 followers on LinkedIn, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being regularly named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence.
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & Crypto Leader for Asia, the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.
Henri leads PwC’s FinTech efforts in Asia and is very active across the FinTech ecosystem working not only with FinTech start-ups but also traditional financial institutions. Henri also leads PwC’s crypto efforts and advises numerous crypto exchanges, crypto funds, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) / Security Token Offerings (STOs), stable coins as well as traditional financial institutions and regulators in relations to their crypto initiatives and policies.
With over 500,000 followers on LinkedIn, Henri has been awarded many industry and academic awards over the years from being regularly named one of the Most Influential Individuals in FinTech in Asia to being awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence.
Richard is one of the world’s leading authorities on distributed ledger systems and architectures. As CTO at R3, Richard manages the construction of Corda, the blockchain for business. He has led the design and construction of the platform over the past four years, creating a product that brings the benefits of blockchain technology to the world of regulated business and enterprise deployment.
Previously, Richard was the Executive Architect for Banking and Financial Markets industry innovation at IBM UK. His previous roles with the company, for which he worked for almost fifteen years, included Lead Account Architect for a global Investment Banking client and a consultant for IBM software products.
Richard is a Chartered Engineer, holds an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and a first-class degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Martin is an international technology and markets expert with a strong track record of leading teams with deep client and strategic focus to implement transformational growth strategies. This has been driven by his exceptional leadership skills, strategic insights, applying technology to business situations in order to generate real value and drive market efficiencies as well as building a unique global network of business relationships.
He is recognised as a global champion of intelligent regulation and good corporate governance an area which he has integrated into all aspects of his advisory and board work.
He has played a key role in attracting international business to London. As Director of Markets and Chairman of AIM at LSE PLC he personally led the establishment of London as the major source of capital for international companies.
Martin is passionate about creating a global economy which works in the interests of all mankind and ensures a truly sustainable future. He spends a considerable amount of time fundraising for charities which support less advantaged people.
Martin is an international technology and markets expert with a strong track record of leading teams with deep client and strategic focus to implement transformational growth strategies. This has been driven by his exceptional leadership skills, strategic insights, applying technology to business situations in order to generate real value and drive market efficiencies as well as building a unique global network of business relationships.
He is recognised as a global champion of intelligent regulation and good corporate governance an area which he has integrated into all aspects of his advisory and board work.
He has played a key role in attracting international business to London. As Director of Markets and Chairman of AIM at LSE PLC he personally led the establishment of London as the major source of capital for international companies.
Martin is passionate about creating a global economy which works in the interests of all mankind and ensures a truly sustainable future. He spends a considerable amount of time fundraising for charities which support less advantaged people.
Yat Siu is a technology entrepreneur/investor based in Hong Kong. He is co-founder and chairman of Animoca Brands, a company focusing on leveraging popular brands, gamification, AI, blockchain, and mobile technology to make engaging apps ranging from games to fitness solutions.
Yat began his career at Atari Germany in 1990. In 1995 he moved to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong Cybercity/Freenation, the first Asian free web page and email provider. In 1998, Yat set up Outblaze, an award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services. He sold Outblaze’s services business to IBM in 2009, and pivoted Outblaze to become a conglomerate specializing on cloud, AI, blockchain, and mobile software.
Yat is a director for TurnOut Ventures, a partnership between Outblaze and Turner Entertainment that brought to prominence the hugely popular emoticon character Tuzki. In 2017 he set up the Dalton Learning Lab, an afterschool lab environment that supplements Hong Kong students with skills not emphasized by the local education system, including divergent thinking and design thinking. He is the founder of ThinkBlaze, the research arm of Outblaze investigating socially meaningful issues in technology.
Yat has earned numerous accolades including Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards.
A classically trained musician, Yat is a member of the advisory board of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.
