Speakers
Join us for the first Digital Assets Investment Forum, co-organized by FinTech4Good, Alternative Assets, Asia Finance Association, and Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. Come and explore use cases, meet investors, start-up founders, and industry leaders. Dive into the possibilities that digital assets bring us. Be part of the shift into the future.
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Joshua Ashley Klayman Kuzar
Chair of Legal Working Group @
Wall Street Blockchain Alliance
Compliance and standardization
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance and Corporate Law Pro with Over a Decade of Experience.
Focus on ICOs/Token Offerings. Deep Expertise in the Blockchain Space. Super Lawyers® New York Metro Area Rising Star for 2015 and 2016 and New York Metro Women 2017
David Drake
Founder and Chairman@
LDJ Capital
Investing in Digital Assets
David Drake is Founder and Chairman at LDJ Capital, a multi-family office which deals in various funds worldwide with over $1.5 trillion in assets, and maintains over 50+ global directors and family office partners.
More recently, Mr. Drake is also seen as a leader in cryptocurrency. Mr. Drake saw the value of digital assets when everyone was avoiding it. It all started in 2011 when Mr. Drake collaborated on the JOBS Act to create new laws underlying all fundraising in the U.S. for all ICOs. His crypto hedge funds hold crypto, ICOs and fintech equity as seed investments to help new coin to be made via ICOs. His company also offers bridge financing to seed upcoming ICO’s.
Alex Mashinsky
Founder&CEO @
Celsius Network
Blockchain for the underserved global population
7X Founder +120 VC investments, 30+ patents, +$1B in raised funds and +$3B in exits. Managing Partner of www.GoverningDynamics.com , interested in investing and advising Crypto and marketplace startups. looking to scale blockchain and cryptocurrency companies.
Huining Cao
Professor of Finance @
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
A New Paradigm of Blockchain
Dr. Cao Huining (Henry) is a Professor of Finance, Chair of the Finance Department and the Academic Director of the Finance MBA at CKGSB. He earned a PhD in Finance in 1995 from UCLA and a PhD in Pathology in 1991 from Yale University.
Before joining CKGSB, he taught at UC Berkeley, UCSD, Ohio State University, Carnegie Mellon and UNC Chapel Hill.
Andrew Keys
Co-Founder @
ConsenSys Capital
Investing in Digital Assets
Andrew is a co-founder of ConsenSys Capital. Previously, Andrew ran ConsenSys’ global business development from inception of the company, co-founded ConsenSys Enterprise, co-created the first Ethereum Blockchain-as-a-Service offering with Microsoft , and began the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Previously, Andrew worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was involved within multiple hedge funds and broker dealers in alternative asset investing. Andrew graduated from Loyola University in Maryland and University of Auckland with degrees in economics and international finance.
Xiaochen Zhang
President @ FinTech4Good
Founder @ Global Digital Economy Council
Why Digital Asset Investment Matter?
Xiaochen leads the design and implementation of FinTech4Goods’s strategy which aims to introduce impactful fintech and blockchain solutions to frontier markets through incubation, acceleration and investment. Prior to FinTech4Good, Xiaochen advised government agencies and multinational organizations on innovation, emerging technologies, and investment in positions at the World Bank, United Nations, and other international partnership platforms.
Lewis Cohen
Partner @
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Compliance and standardization for blockchain based fund raising
Leading corporate attorney experienced in all aspects of blockchain and distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, cryptocurrencies and other new capital raising techniques and structures for businesses, from venture capital all the way through all aspects of capital markets transactions.
Liliana Reasor
Chief Investment Officer @ Company NameNovus Ordo Capital
Blockchain for financial innovation
Liliana is an Executive Director with deep and global expertise in the FinTech and Finance industries. She is an ex-investment banker and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in FinTech and investment banking at tier-one financial institutions in the US and the UK.Liliana’s vision of the future digital transformation of the finance industry led her to recently become a FinTech entrepreneur as CEO, founder and director of two companies in FinTech.
