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Dennis Hui

Head of Product Development & Fixed Income

NOVUM ALPHA

Dennis has over 6 years of institutional trading experience across a variety of assets, including fixed income products, equities, derivatives, interest rates and digital assets. As well as holding leadership roles at major digital asset exchanges, he is also a 2-time international wrestling champion and the co-founder of his own wrestling academy.

Ivars Zukovskis

Director of Compliance

BitPay

Magnus Jones

Lead of EY

Nordic Blockchain

Magnus Jones is the Nordic Blockchain Lead at EY Tax & Law. Within this area he works close together with key stakeholders such as authorities, banks and academia, and assist clients with everything from regulatory challenges to technical implementations. He is very experienced within the world of DeFi, and has among others assisted Norwegian Tax Authorities on creating the World’s first guidance on how to tax DeFi protocols. Magnus also serves as the Nordic Innovation Lead at EY, and is an experienced international speaker within digital trends and technology. Covering many different areas through some of his roles as co-founder of the Norwegian Computer Society Group for Blockchain, co-founder and board member of Oslo Blockchain Cluster, Head of Oslo Chapter at Disruption Disciples, and a lecturer at EMBA classes at BI Norwegian Business School, and the University of Oslo.

Miko Matsumura

General Partner

Gumi Cryptos Capital

Miko is a General Partner with Gumi Ventures, a US $30M investment fund focused early stage blockchain startups and a cofounder of crypto exchange Evercoin, Miko fell in love with open source software 25 years ago as chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform at Sun Microsystems. Since then he has been building open source software startups in Silicon Valley including raising over $50 million in venture capital for developer platform companies such as Gradle and financial infrastructure companies like Hazelcast and has participated in multiple exits including INFRAVIO, webMethods, and Db4O. He is an advisor in successful startups like Celsius (CeFi Lending), Idle Finance (DeFi Yield Aggregator), Pundi X (Payments), and KEYLESS (ID infrastructure). He has been an investor with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits and blockchain firm Pantera Capital. He holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks.

Patrick Tan

CEO & General Counsel

Novum Alpha

Patrick is the CEO & General Counsel of Novum Alpha, a quantitative digital asset trading firm, as well as the Deputy Chairman for the Novum Group. Appointed as an Advocate & Solicitor in 2005, Patrick specializes in blockchain technology law and was previously practicing with one of Singapore’s top blockchain technology law firms. He oversees trading teams in the United Kingdom and Singapore, analyzing and managing risks related to cryptocurrency trading for Novum Alpha and his writing is regularly featured in leading publications.

Ronald Le

CEO

Bholdus

Jen Buakaew

Founder - Consulting Director

To the Moon Lab, Probe Group

Kevin Tseng

Founder

NAOS Finance