Audrey Chaing, Founder Blockchaing Audrey is a cryptocurrency trader and blockchain analyst, and runs the news site blockchaing.org. She has been trading Bitcoin since 2013 and is a member of Oakland Blockchain Developers and SF Ethereum Developers. Through her consulting work at Blockchaing, she is CTO at a new blockchain protocol called Infinium and launching a crypto investment fund with Precursor Ventures. Previously, she co-founded 2 companies, through which she participated in Start-Up Chile and Singularity University Global Solutions Program. She has a decade of experience on Wall Street as an investor, trader, and research analyst at companies like Credit Suisse, Wells Fargo, and BlackRock. Audrey has a degree in Computer Science from MIT with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, and earned her MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a frequent speaker at events like Google International Women’s Day, Global Blockchain Forum, Crypto@Dropbox, LendIt/BlockFin, and OneWorld Blockchain at Davos. She created the MIT Applied Blockchain Series, helping founders get from idea to demo-able product.
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Jamie Finn, CoFounder Securitize
Jamie Finn, CoFounder Securitize Jamie is a well traveled executive who has worked in 6 countries with startups & corporates. He is currently the co-founder and President of Securitize, the leading platform for Security Token Issuances. During his more than 18 years of experience he has participated in over $500m worth of transactions including Kontera, Sansa Security, Jajah, Tokbox, RingRing Media and Zingy and has seen his share of meeting rooms across the globe. His previous employers include Ericsson, Telefònica o2 and AT&T and he has worked at numerous startups including Zingy, RingRing Media, Thumbplay, Kontera and Sansa Security and Aki Technologies. He has been in San Francisco for the past 5 years after spending 6 years in London and becoming a Chelsea supporter. Jamie grew up in Puerto Rico and is a native English and Spanish speaker.
Michal Pospieszalski President/CoFounder Rune Wallet
Michal Pospieszalski President/CoFounder Rune Wallet Michal passed 70+ certification exams resulting in 20+ IT and programming certifications from Sun, Novell, Microsoft, Oracle, and Cisco. He’s proficient ins C, C++, assembly, Java, Python, and everything web and network. Mehow has been programming since age 15. Initially focusing on network infrastructure creation he then moved on to network security and software security and performed some of the most pioneering early security work on gambling devices,electronic voting machines, military and intelligence systems as senior technical staff positions at Cigital and LECG Corporation. Additionally, he served as CTO of Intellibridge, an open source intelligence company from 1999 to 2001. At Intellibridge he worked with former national security advisor Anthony Lake and political scientist David Rothkopf. Intellibridge was acquired by Eurasia Group in 2005. Mehow is the inventor of the Rune Wallet and Rune ASIC.
Benedict Chan CTO BitGo
Benedict Chan CTO BitGo Ben has vast experience developing blockchain and wallet platforms. He founded EtherLi, the world’s first multisignature web wallet for Ethereum. Ben’s interests in the decentralized space include practical scalability, identity, and security.