Finance Technologist & Digital Asset Strategist (Founder, Global Crypto Insights Think Tank)

UK, London

Aaron Elahi is a finance technologist and digital asset strategist with over 20 years of experience in global markets. He began his career on Lombard Street, London, delivering technology and trading expertise to Tier-1 institutions including Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Barclays Investment Bank.

An early advocate for blockchain, Aaron completed the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and has since advised hedge funds, family offices, and wealth managers overseeing more than £1.5bn in client assets.

He is the founder of the Global Crypto Insights Think Tank, and collaborates with leading experts in law, consulting, and digital finance to bridge institutional finance with the fast-evolving world of Bitcoin and blockchain.

Aaron’s academic and research contributions are verifiable across leading research platforms: Google Scholar | ORCID | ResearchGate

Barrister & UK Parliament Advisor on Blockchain Law (Independent Collaborator)

UK, London

Flavia Kenyon is the UK’s first barrister dedicated exclusively to blockchain and crypto law. Ranked Tier 1 in The Legal 500 for Crypto-assets & Blockchain, she advises institutional investors, corporate clients, and regulators on complex legal and regulatory frameworks in emerging technologies.

Flavia Kenyon — Barrister at Law, ranked in the Legal500 for Blockchain and Crypto assets, and recognised by the UK Parliament for her expertise in emerging technologies. She has submitted formal evidence to the UK Parliament on the Property (Digital Assets) Bill.

She contributes to the UK Parliament APPG on Blockchain, serves on the UK Cyber Advisory Council, and is a frequent keynote speaker at leading European blockchain and technology summits.

Aaron collaborates with Flavia on matters of regulation, compliance, and cybersecurity, ensuring that digital asset strategies align with the highest institutional and legal standards.

Partner & AD for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Global Co-Lead Digital Assets (Independent Collaborator)

Austria, Vienna

Dr. Bernhard Kronfellner is a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a recognised global strategist in digital assets, tokenization, and blockchain adoption. He advises regulators, enterprises, and financial institutions on integrating digital assets into existing frameworks.

Bernhard has co-authored influential whitepapers on crypto regulation and risk, shaping industry and policy discussions at the highest levels. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology.

Aaron collaborates with Bernhard on institutional strategy and thought leadership in blockchain and digital finance.

HeartRithm | Managing Director | Crypto-Centric Quantitative Asset Manager | Investor Relations

United States, Atlanta

HeartRithm is a crypto-centric quantitative asset manager founded in January 2020 that utilizes market neutral strategies. The strategies are designed to deliver consistent investor returns with low drawdowns across all market environments. The firm has a social and environmental impact orientation with a proportion of fees going to impact initiatives.

Greg Kaufmann has over 15 years of sales, marketing, and investor relations experience within the investment management industry. This includes two global investment banks, a Hedge Fund, a Private equity fund, and most recently a crypto fund.

Throughout his time in the industry, he has helped investment managers raise almost $1 Billion in AUM. He has been personally interested and investing in crypto since 2016. Prior to working in investment management, Greg was a business journalist in Latin America, Europe, and Russia.

His studies include Duke for business school. He is involved with the Conscious Capitalism movement, oversees a chapter of CryptoMondays as well as a chapter of the Chartered Alternative Investment Association (CAIA). He is particularly passionate about how blockchain technology affects culture and society

Strategy & Business Development at Securrency

United Arab Emirates

Manuel serves as a Strategy Director at Securrency Inc. in Dubai, focusing on industry partnerships and commercialisation of the firm's IP in the areas of Defi, tokenisation, identity management and exchange connectivity.

He has over 20 years of experience in institutional capital markets across all major asset classes on both the buy- and sell-side. Prior to Securrency, Manuel worked as a strategic advisor to the first crypto exchange in Switzerland, Head of MENA at index and analytics firm MSCI (NYSE:MSCI) in Dubai and Head of EMEA at JPMorgan spin-off Risk Metrics Group (NYSE:RMG) in London.

He is a Dutch and Belgian national and is fluent in six languages and
holds an M.A. in Political Sciences and International Relations from the
University of Ghent.

Investment Management | Digital Assets

UK, London

Waquas has nearly 20 years of experience within the Investment Management industry and has
worked with some of the largest global Investment Management firms like Blackrock, JP Morgan, Neuberger Berman and Federated Hermes.

He is currently at Wellington Management where he manages wealth client accounts that are based in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Waquas holds a degree in Computer Science and is also a Chartered Analyst for Alternative Investments.

He is active in the Blockchain and crypto-assets space with a specific focus on Bitcoin and has completed the Oxford University Blockchain Strategy Programme.

Wealth Management / Blockchain technology & digital assets

United States, Atlanta

Ellina started her career in investment banking in London in 2000, joining Salomon Smith Barney, Acquisition and Leveraged Finance team, later moving onto the trading floor, and focusing on Structured Solutions in Fixed Income and Credit. She worked in Nomura, ABN AMRO (RBS) and Merrill Lynch (London) investment banks. Since 2014 till present, Ellina has been working in private banking investment advisory and wealth management, in Citi IPB and CS UK Private bank. Currently she is a Managing Director at Marsham Investment Management LLP. Ellina holds degrees in Accounting & Finance from London School of Economics (BSc), in International Relations from MFA Russia (MGIMO) (MSc) and in Economics (PhD) Russian Academy of Foreign Trade. She is an active blockchain and crypto-assets enthusiast and has recently co-started the projects in NFTs and health-tech.

Serial Entrepreneur, Technology Communications Strategist Web3
| Realities | Blockchain Strategy
Innovator

UK/Palma

Cillian is a Serial Entrepreneur and a Founder/CEO with 30+ years of expertise. Gillian drives the success and vision of her business 29studios, a design + technology company with an impressive portfolio of world-leading Billion dollar revenue customers in the
manufacturing, technology and life sciences sectors.

She is an experienced and dynamic technology and communications strategist in the creative and
technology arena advising customers on communication strategies with a blend of design + technology and core competencies in 3D animation, making the complex simple.

Gillian has a proven model with Make Intelligent Video, a results-driven process where "Creativity is powered by Analytics." With Web 3.0 on the horizon, Gillian is passionate about all things Metaverse and the Realities (AR/VR & MR) and is currently using Blockchain technology to improve efficiency where we can provide fast, high-quality 3D animation renders on
the Blockchain on the RNDR Network.

Gillian is currently leading her own Blockchain project, EventStacks, to build a decentralised agency
workflow efficiency tool on the
Blockchain, which will create,
collaborate and stack content using
Blockchain Technology, empowering a talent pool of global artists with access to high calibre B2B creative work while building a supply chain community of artists for future metaverse companies.

Private Equity & Hedge Fund Specialist | Capital Solutions Expert | CISI Qualified

London, UK

20+ years across private equity, global asset allocation & corporate finance. Specialism in high-net-worth & institutional crypto portfolios. 

Harvard Business School’s private equity, qualified Investment Manager with CISI.

Advisor to family offices & institutional investors on blockchain strategy. Provides institutional-grade education on digital assets.

Ricky advises institutional investors and family offices combining deep institutional expertise.