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.
Co-Founder & CSO
Tria
Designation: Co-Founder & CSO
Company: Tria
Co-Founder
Messiah Network
Designation: Co-Founder
Company: Messiah Network
Chris Williams is an accomplished entrepreneur and co-founder of Messiah Network, a Node-as-a-Service platform designed to make decentralized infrastructure accessible to everyone. Messiah empowers both individuals and enterprises to deploy, manage, and scale blockchain nodes with ease, driving true decentralisation and accelerating mass adoption of Web3 technology.Before entering the crypto space in 2017, Chris built his career at the intersection of technology, business development, and marketing within the defence and security sector, where he specialised in bringing bleeding-edge innovations to market.Since transitioning into blockchain, he has led marketing and growth strategies for several top-100 crypto projects, including the fastest-growing token project in history, which reached a $1 billion market cap in just three weeks.Chris is passionate about decentralisation, infrastructure sovereignty, and building systems that empower people everywhere to take part in a more open, secure, and censorship-resistant internet.
Managing Partner
Fabric Ventures
Designation: Managing Partner
Company: Fabric Ventures
CEO & Managing Partner
Sigma Capital
Designation: CEO & Managing Partner
Company: Sigma Capital
Vineet Budki is CEO and Managing Partner of Sigma Capital and has been a known face in the Web3 Venture Investment Space. Prior to Sigma, he headed Cypher Capital, one of the Biggest Web3 Fund’s Globally with 300+ Investments across 2 funds and having half a billion in AUM.
Vineet has been named in the Top 100 Indians in the Middle East multiple times and was recognized in the Top 10 Crypto Personalities Globally in 2024 by Arabian Business.
Founder
Capriole Investments
Designation: Founder
Company: Capriole Investments
A systematic absolute return macro hedge fund, and Capriole Charts, premium suite of alpha signals for navigating markets. Charles has been investing for over 20 years and coding trading algorithms for a decade. He is the creator of renowned on-chain models like “Hash Ribbons” and “Macro Index” and has built proprietary investment models using over 200 macro and crypto data signals. He is one of the leading publishers of on-chain Bitcoin and macro models globally, with his indicators and models featured in the top 10 on TradingView, and also available on Glassnode, CryptoQuant and more. He has created 100+ open-source metrics, authored 10+ research pieces, and regularly shares market insights with his 123,000+ followers on X.com. Charles has been featured in 200+ media articles (including CNBC, Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine), has appeared on 20+ podcasts (including “We Study Billionaires” in 2021, the world’s largest stock investing podcast) and spoken at major conferences such as TOKEN2049 in 2025 (the world’s largest crypto conference). He holds two Dean’s Awards and three scholarships from studies in Australia, London, and Denmark.
Co-Founder & CEO
Wingbits
Designation: Co-Founder & CEO
Company: Wingbits
Robin Wingardh is a former professional golfer on the DP world tour. After his professional golf career, Robin has founded and scaled several companies in multiple industries with multiple exits prior to co-founding Wingbits in late 2023.
Managing Partner
Frictionless Capital
Designation: Managing Partner
Company: Frictionless Capital
Logan Jastremski is Managing Partner at Frictionless Capital, a thesis-driven venture firm backing technical founders who build with precision and fundamentals. Before Frictionless, he led Product for Tesla’s Supercharging Digital Experience. He also hosts the Frictionless Podcast with technical and investing leaders across crypto and AI.
President and CEO
Hyperliquid Strategies INC
Designation: President and CEO
Company: Hyperliquid Strategies INC
Mr. Schamis is Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital LLC. Previously, Mr. Schamis worked at J.C. Flowers from 2000 to 2014, most recently as a Managing Director and member of the management committee. Mr. Schamis joined J.C. Flowers at its inception and has significant experience investing in financial services and related businesses globally.
Prior to J.C. Flowers, Mr. Schamis worked in the financial institutions investment banking group at Salomon Brothers from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Schamis is currently a member of the Board of Directors of South Street Securities Holdings, Inc., Panmure Liberum Limited, Kepler Cheuvreux SA, Marsh, Berry & Company, LLC, Cascadia Capital and Proformex.
Mr. Schamis received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. Mr. Schamis also is a member of the Board of Trustees of the village of Sands Point, NY.
Partner
Ceras Ventures
Designation: Partner
Company: Ceras Ventures
Founder and Managing Partner
Grover Impact Ventures
Designation: Founder and Managing Partner
Company: Grover Impact Ventures
Amit Grover is the Founder and Managing Partner of Grover & Company and CEO at Grover Impact Ventures, he actively backs intangible asset classes, particularly intellectual property (IP), with over 27 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience spanning marketing, management consulting, and venture capital, including senior
positions at ITC Ltd, Lavazza Coffee, and Pernod Ricard. Amit offers deep industry expertise and holds a full-time MBA from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Amit’s leadership extends to serving as a former board member for C3 Companies Creating Change, a former steering committee member for in5 Tech in the UAE, a mentor at the Founder Institute in the UAE, and as the former Chairman of ANZIBC (Australia, New Zealand, India Business Chambers) in New Zealand.
Chief Information Officer
Zenith Bank (UK) Limited
Designation: Chief Information Officer
Company: Zenith Bank (UK) Limited
Henry Amadiegwu is a senior technology and cybersecurity leader with over 20 years’ experience driving technology transformation, digital innovation, cyber resilience and regulatory change within financial services.
He is the Chief Information Officer of Zenith Bank (UK) Limited, where he leads technology strategy, infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital platforms, and operational resilience. His work spans major regulatory and industry frameworks including DORA, ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR, as well as emerging areas such as AI governance, digital assets, and distributed ledger technology.
Henry is passionate about the intersection of technology, business, cybersecurity, and leadership, particularly how organisations can innovate at speed while maintaining the resilience, security and trust required to operate in an increasingly digital world.
He is a recognised technology leader and speaker, having been featured in industry forums and recognised through initiatives including the CIO 100 UK Awards and Black technology leadership programmes.
Henry speaks regularly on AI, cybersecurity, digital transformation, operational resilience, technology leadership, and the future of financial services.
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