Chief Compliance Officer
Lulu Financial Holdings
Designation: Chief Compliance Officer
Company: Lulu Financial Holdings
A professional Chief Compliance Officer with 30+ years in banking and non-banking financial services. A degree holder in Banking and Finance, an MBA from University of Liverpool, and CAMS, CGSS, and CCAS certifications from ACAMS. An executive management record of directing a diversified team of Compliance/RegTech/FinTech professionals and a Board member within Lulu Financial Group, chairing the Compliance, Audit and Risk Committees in all Lulu Financial Group companies in GCC and APAC regions.
A specialist in Payment Services, Crypto Assets, Regulatory and AML/CFT Compliance, Sanctions, Advanced Analytics and Forensics. A great career also as an adjunct lecturer for the Chartered Bankers Institute, Professional Academies, and Universities/Colleges in Europe and Middle East. An active member of the Public-Private Partnership Committee (ACPF) of the UAE, and member of the ACAMS Task Force as a subject matter expert for certifications and conferences.
Co-Founder
RedStone
Designation: Co-Founder
Company: RedStone
Marcin leads strategy and go-to-market at RedStone, the fastest-growing blockchain Oracle, and at Credora, the largest DeFi Ratings platform. RedStone holds the top 3 position globally by the number of clients (200+ B2B clients) and Total Value of Assets Secured ($10+ billion). RedStone is the official oracle for Securitize, BlackRock BUIDL, Apollo ACRED, VanEck VBILL, Hamilton Lane SCOPE and other tokenized funds, backed by veterans like Mike Arrington, co-founder of TechCrunch.
Marcin has been in the blockchain industry since 2018, ex-Google Cloud PM with a background in quantitative methods in economics. Co-founder of ETHWarsaw, the largest technical crypto conference in the CEE region. Laureate of Forbes 30 under 30 Poland. Speaker at global crypto events including Consensus, Token2049, ETHcc, ETHDenver, Ethereum Zurich and more.
Founder
Re7 Capital
Designation: Founder
Company: Re7 Capital
Evgeny Gokhberg is the founder of Re7 Capital and brings over 14 years of investment-management experience, including seven years focused on crypto markets. He started investing in digital assets back in 2016, spotting early the potential of DeFi to reshape traditional finance. In 2021, he founded Re7 Capital and in only four and a half years, he has grown the firm to $1 billion in assets under management.
Deputy Chief Strategy Officer
Banque Misr
Designation: Deputy Chief Strategy Officer
Company: Banque Misr
Mahmoud Hamouda is a visionary and dynamic leader who drives strategic initiatives at Banque Misr, Egypt’s second-largest bank, as the head of strategic initiatives. With over 19 years of experience in the technology industry, he combines his technical and business acumen to identify new market and growth opportunities, craft go-to-market strategies, and lead transformational projects. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts and Management from Harvard University.
Mahmoud is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship and has been instrumental in introducing the start-up community to cutting-edge technology through the Dell for Entrepreneurs program in Egypt, which he has led since 2014. As a Harvard Business Review Advisory Council member, he also contributes to the global discourse on management and leadership. He has received multiple awards and patents for his creative and impactful ideas, such as a centralized employee data analytics IoT platform and a machine learning technique for detecting physical anomalies in a computing environment.
Chief Advisor
Hilbert Group
Designation: Chief Advisor
Company: Hilbert Group
John Lilic is a long time blockchain and cryptocurrency community member whose exposure to the sector started in 2014 at the NYC Bitcoin Center locaed at 40 Broad Street next to the NYSE in the heart of Wall Street, where he volunteered.
John is also an early Ethereum contributor and one of the first team members of ConsenSys. During his 6 years at ConsenSys, John participated in driving core infrastructure, enterprise adoption and global growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. He later became a founding contributor to Polygon, supporting its rise as Ethereum’s leading scaling solution. John is also an active venture capital investor focusing on Ethereum and Web3 projects (cryptographic infrastructure and decentralized finance), quantum cryptography and AI ventures.
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