Bri­an Elders, Part­ner at Black Man­ta Cap­i­tal Part­ners, has a long track record as a leader in inter­na­tion­al finan­cial ser­vices & pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices based in Ire­land, Poland, Hun­gary, Sin­ga­pore and Hong Kong. Bri­an has a degree in Busi­ness and Law and has qual­i­fi­ca­tions in account­ing, trea­sury & quant finance. Bri­an is a great believ­er in inno­va­tion & is pas­sion­ate about the impact that blockchain / dig­i­tal assets can have in glob­al finance.

Cory Pugh is CEO of BridgeTow­er Cap­i­tal and has a suc­cess­ful back­ground of grow­ing and turn­ing orga­ni­za­tions. He grew Scentsy Inc, with mul­ti­ple brands and inter­na­tion­al mar­kets to $580m in rev­enue. Scentsy was named Inc 500’s fastest grow­ing con­sumer com­pa­ny dur­ing that growth phase. He served as Divi­sion­al Pres­i­dent for TSI, Inc., a pub­licly held NASDAQ com­pa­ny, the com­pa­ny grew to $600m in rev­enue through acqui­si­tions and organ­ic growth. Pugh was also Pres­i­dent of IEC, devel­op­ing com­pa­nies from star­tups to For­tune 500 busi­ness­es.

Over 20 years in equi­ty trad­ing, risk, man­age­ment & blockchain tech­nol­o­gy. Gray left Invest­ment Bank­ing in 2018 to focus on dig­i­tal assets full-time, after dis­cov­er­ing and trad­ing cryp­to in 2014. He’s a co-founder and CTO of Liquib­it: a quan­ti­ta­tive-dri­ven invest­ment man­age­ment & tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny focussed on pro­duc­ing con­sis­tent, risk-adjust­ed returns.

Joachim has over 17 years of expe­ri­ence in M&A, Cap­i­tal Mar­kets, and Prin­ci­pal Invest­ing at Sau­di Aram­co, HSBC, Lazard, Mac­quar­ie, and Gold­man Sachs. Joachim holds an MSc from Stock­holm School of Eco­nom­ics and a BSc from Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty. He is cur­rent­ly the CEO of 01 Cap­i­tal which has advised on numer­ous strate­gic trans­ac­tions in the dig­i­tal asset sec­tor.

John Patrick Mullin is a Fin­Tech entre­pre­neur, investor, and edu­ca­tor liv­ing in Hong Kong. He’s a Co-founder of MANTRA DAO, a pop­u­lar Decen­tral­ized Finance (DeFi) sav­ings and lend­ing plat­form. Pri­or to this he served as the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Tri­tau­ri­an Cap­i­tal, a FIN­RA-reg­u­lat­ed bou­tique invest­ment bank focus­ing on pro­vid­ing finan­cial ser­vices and cap­i­tal rais­ing solu­tions for star­tups and SMEs. He also has a tra­di­tion­al invest­ment bank­ing back­ground hav­ing worked at Guo­tai Junan Secu­ri­ties in Shang­hai, Chi­na. As an edu­ca­tor, he has spo­ken at lead­ing uni­ver­si­ties across the world, includ­ing Har­vard, Lon­don Busi­ness School, and Peking Uni­ver­si­ty. Addi­tion­al­ly, John is an active angel investor in blockchain and Fin­Tech star­tups hav­ing invest­ed in over 25+ com­pa­nies across both equi­ty & tokens.

Mar­cus Maute is a thought-leader in the emerg­ing dig­i­tal secu­ri­ty space and leads the cryp­to assets prac­tice as Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at BridgeTow­er Cap­i­tal, Switzer­land. He part­ners his net­work with Gov­ern­ments, Pri­vate Equi­ty Funds, and Ven­ture Cap­i­tal­ists to help dri­ve the glob­al com­mer­cial­iza­tion and inte­gra­tion of blockchain tech­nol­o­gy and espe­cial­ly the glob­al secu­ri­ty token mar­ket.