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David Carlisle
Head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at EllipticDavid Carlisle is the Head of Policy and Regulatory Affairs at Elliptic, the leading global provider of blockchain analytics solutions for cryptoasset businesses and financial institutions, where he leads engagement with regulators and other public sector stakeholders. David previously worked as a Policy Advisor at the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, where he advised senior US officials on policy matters related to money laundering, sanctions, and terrorist financing. He is an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a UK think tank, where he has authored reports on terrorist and criminal use of cryptocurrencies, and appropriate policy responses.
Dr. Oriol Caudevilla
Chief Strategy Officer at ScallopX- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
Oriol works as a Management Consultant at AirHelp, Advisor for a Hong Kong-based FinTech company, ixFintech, Strategic Advisor at a Hong Kong-based WealthTech company, ETFCool, Strategic Advisor at ScallopX and FinTech Mentor at F10 Incubator & Accelerator, Singapore.
Oriol is member of the Blockchain, Digital Banking and Greater Bay Area Committees at the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK), as well as the Singapore Fintech Association (SFA).
He is Fellow at the Digital Euro Association (D€A) and at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), and Member of the Advisory Council at the Blockchain Council.
Furthermore, he publishes articles in several media, including China Daily (both the Global and Hong Kong Edition) and Macau Business.
He has given talks and seminars on the Chinese Financial System, Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Digital Yuan in several universities in Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in international conferences, like the recent Israel/UAE Fintech Week and the Future of Fintech Saudi Arabia event.
Joshua Foo
Regional Director ASEAN of ChainalysisJoshua Foo is the Regional Director of the ASEAN Region at Chainalysis, addressing customer needs, building long-term relationships and driving business growth across South Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Prior to joining Chainalysis, he spent 18 years in the IT and Cybersecurity space, managing infrastructure and security teams in the Singapore government before moving to the private sector as the Sales Director for FireEye, RSA and Carbon Black/VMware. He lives in Singapore.
Michal Gromek
Chief Operating Officer at SafelloSince entering the Fintech space 10+ years ago, Michal's key passion has continued to be on developing cutting-edge solutions on the intersection between Digital Assets, Blockchain, P2P lending, Equity, Insurtech and Regtech. That has been materialized it in different forms: being a COO in leading Cryptocurrency Broker in the Nordics that aims to be listed at Nasdaq at Q1 2021, covering the stories as a Contributor on Forbes.com and blending it up with academic Insights. Collected information has been transformed into knowledge while teaching and speaking to executives as well as releasing reports and books. Knowledge has been transformed into the utility in different Fintech products and regulatory frameworks to ensure that we stay on both the innovative as well as secure side of the Fintech world. Every day.
Nizam Ismail
CEO of Ethikom Consultancy- Part 3: Building a Crypto Compliance Framework
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
Nizam draws upon his previous regulatory experience as Head of the Market Conduct Policy Division of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, his compliance background as Head of Compliance for Southeast Asia at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, and his legal background as Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel at the Commercial Affairs Department and Senior Legal Counsel at Citigroup, to assist global financial institutions, FinTech firms and corporate clients with various legal and regulatory compliance issues.
Nizam is the founding Chairman of the Regulatory and Compliance Sub-Committee of the Blockchain Association of Singapore. He is also a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Studies, where he focuses on compliance, FinTech and cryptocurrency regulations.
Scott Johnston
Public Sector Operations in EMEA at ChainalysisScott manages Public Sector Operations in EMEA, where he works with users in law enforcement and intelligence. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Scott served with HM Royal Marines for 5 years before transitioning to UK Policing. He spent 18 years in the Metropolitan Police investigating all aspects of Serious Organised Crime. He finished as a Detective Sergeant - leading their Proactive Money Laundering Taskforce and implemented their strategy for dealing with the emerging threat of Crypto currency as a vehicle to launder the proceeds of crime. He has participated in several communities of interest and workshops throughout Europe covering Crypto currency within the economic crime landscape.
Alexandre Kech
CEO & Co-Founder of Onchain Custodian- Part 5: Usage and Implementation of Technology
- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 1: What is Crypto?
Alexandre Kech has 20+ years of experience in the capital market industry. From global custody and asset servicing at the Bank of New York Mellon to data standardisation and Head of Securities & FX APAC at SWIFT, Alex has developed a strong post-trade industry leadership experience, extended in recent years to digital assets and blockchain.
Alexandre transitioned to a new challenge in November 2018 when he joined Onchain Custodian as the CEO of the company in charge of building and launching, with Da Hongfei (Chair of the Board), Raymond Cheong (CSO) and El Lee (COO), an institutional digital custody service in Singapore. The solution is live since April 2019.
Onchain Custodian believes in solving non-competitive industry issues through collaboration. Alexandre is the co-chair of the Global Digital Finance (GDF) Custody working group and is the convenor of the ISO TC68 / SC8 / WG3 building an international standard for Digital Token Identification.
About Onchain Custodian
Headquartered in Singapore, backed by Sequoia Capital, Fosun & DHVC, Onchain Custodian offers a secure, compliant and convenient platform to institutional and sophisticated players for the buying, safekeeping & investing of digital assets.
Ave King
Head of Compliance and MLRO at Coinbase
Ian Lee
VP Business Development at Merkle Science- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 3: Building a Crypto Compliance Framework
Ian Lee is part of the founding team at Merkle Science and led its investigations team before taking over as VP of Business Development where he also heads up Merkle Science SEA operations. A Singapore qualified lawyer, Ian had previously worked in the capital markets industry where he actively advised corporates for listings and corporate actions. Ian also serves as VP of Institute of Blockchain, a skillsfuture accredited not-for-profit blockchain academy focusing on Blockchain education and certification, sits on the ISO TC307 - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Standards Technical Committee and is part of the founding team of the Compliance Association and Network of Singapore.
As part of his role at Merkle Science and Institute of Blockchain, Ian regularly conducts training on the topic of crypto-compliance and crypto-forensics for regulators, law enforcement and corporate enterprises.
Sagar Malhotra
Director of Regulatory Compliance and Law Enforcement at ChainalysisSagar is Director of Regulatory Compliance and Law Enforcement at Chainalysis.
He was Head of Compliance with 10+ years of progressive experience in realizing strict and continuous compliance for industry leaders like the Standard Chartered Bank and OCBC Bank.
Headed, AML Compliance for Liquid, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, and implemented a robust compliance framework for the APAC, EMEA and America Region (using Blockchain Technology). Serving as a primary point of contact to C-Level Executives and Management for compliance matters as well as for various Regulators across the globe including MAS in Singapore. Hosted several events and talks focusing on compliance and regulatory requirements for fiat as well as cryptocurrency.
He has a decade over AML Compliance and Regulatory experience with various segments of banks covering Retail, SME, Wholesale and Commercial Banking as well as with the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem.
Paul Marrinan
Head of Investigations at Inca Digital- Part 6: Creating the right compliance culture and governance
- Part 5: Usage and Implementation of Technology
- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
Paul Marrinan is the Head of Investigations at Inca Digital, and Managing Director of Túath Consulting. He has over 16 years of experience in International Law Enforcement, where he worked with INTERPOL, EUROPOL, and SIRENE. During his time in INTERPOL he worked across a broad range of crime areas, including financial crime, fugitives, anti-money laundering, intellectual property crime, and counter-terrorism investigation.
Before moving to the US he was responsible for GDPR and e-Learning on an EU large IT infrastructure project. Over the course of his career, Paul has worked across the globe and collaborated with over 100 countries in the field of transnational law enforcement, crypto compliance, and cybercrime capacity building.
Paul's current focus is on financial crime and cybercrime in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. He is passionate about developing better methods to identify illicit activity where cryptocurrency may be an element of the layering process within money laundering groups that may have no apparent direct link to criminal activity using traditional blockchain forensic methods.
Viktor Mirovic
Co-Founder & CEO of KeencorpWith 20 years of experience in “hands-on” venture capital and corporate finance Viktor Mirovic leads KeenCorp with his experience in structuring, strategy design and business development as the company’s CEO. Previously Viktor was CFO of AND Publishers, a listed software company on EURONEXT, which he restructured back into profitability.
James Nicholls
Founder & Risk and Compliance Advisory of Braithwate- Part 3: Building a Crypto Compliance Framework
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
James is a risk management and regulatory strategy consultant who specializes in helping global financial services businesses to analyze and respond to changing markets and regulatory requirements.
Following 16 years’ experience leading advisory practices in both London and New York, James founded Braithwate to bring a new level of applied risk management and regulatory compliance expertise to the financial services sector.
Benedicte Nolens
Head of Innovation at BIS
Dev Odedra
Director- Independent AML Expert of Minerva Stratagem Consulting
Mriganka Pattnaik
Co-Founder & CEO of Merkle scienceMriganka Pattnaik is the Co-Founder and CEO of Merkle Science. Merkle Science is a Singapore-based regtech company that provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for digital asset service providers, financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, and other criminal activities.
Mriganka has prior experience across investment banking and technology. He has worked in investment banking at Bank of America and then subsequently at Luno, a Naspers backed cryptocurrency exchange. At Luno, he helped the company scale across three continents. He led business expansion and operations in SEA where he navigated diverse regulatory requirements and built their relationships with banks. Mriganka has also previously built his own medical technology startup in the past.
Ella Qiang
Southeast Asia Manager at Bitcoin AssociationElla Qiang is the Southeast Asia manager at Bitcoin Association. She works to advance the Bitcoin SV adoption in Southeast Asia, and supports the growth of Bitcoin SV ecosystem building across the digital assets and blockchain industry globally. Ella has been actively involved in the Bitcoin SV ecosystem from the very beginning as the founding member at CambrianSV developer bootcamp, RelayX wallet, and FloatSV digital asset exchange. Prior to Bitcoin SV, Ella was Director of Partnerships at Stellar Development Foundation, leading enterprise adoption and ecosystem development in APAC since 2016. She is passionate about working towards a future society where individuals have data sovereignty with proper recognition of value they produce. Ella has a background in banking and corporate finance, and holds an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Adebayo Tiamiyu
Financial Crime Prevention, Detection and Investigation - Cryptocurrencies- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 3: Building a Crypto Compliance Framework
- Part 1: What is Crypto?
Adebayo shares his time as a financial crimes and compliance analyst with 2 Cryptocurrency exchanges with markets within the APAC and EMEA regions. His knowledge domain includes IT Audit, blockchain, cryptocurrency compliance and cybersecurity.
Before his current role, he worked as a consultant in a GRC firm where he worked on implementing international standards – BCMS, ISMS and PCIDSS – within the governance frameworks of financial institutions.
He believes cryptocurrency compliance is the right approach to a positive narrative for mainstream adoption of the technology and as such, has developed an investigative mindset towards the crypto-space.
He is a Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS), Lead Cyber Security Manager and Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect.
Maria Tsolaki
Financial Crime SpecialistMaria Tsolaki is a financial crime specialist with over fifteen years of experience in research, financial crime investigations, and corporate governance. She is currently working in the Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University and she conducts research on corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, as well as on corporate governance.
Maria moved to Hong Kong in 2015 and since then, she has joined a wide range of regulatory compliance and investigation research projects. In the past, she worked for the Greek Ministry of Finance, and the Greek Financial and Economic Crime Unit where she specialized in financial crime investigations including a number of money laundering, fraud and corruption cases. Maria holds a Bachelor in Accounting and Finance from the University of Macedonia, Greece, an MBA from the Hellenic Open University and she is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Claire Wilson
Independent Business Consultant- Part 6: Creating the right compliance culture and governance
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
With over 12 years of experience spanning corporate, legal, academic and government roles, Claire has deep expertise and knowledge of regulatory issues. She enjoys problem-solving and is passionate about digital innovation.
Claire is based in Singapore. Currently, she spends her time as a business consultant helping business owners and entrepreneurs to understand and navigate changing environments and regulatory requirements. Claire is also appointed by the Hong Kong Government to hear cases as a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. From January 2015 to December 2020 she served as a member of the Board of Review (Inland Revenue).
Claire holds a doctorate in law with a focus on the legal basis of financial secrecy. She speaks and writes internationally on a variety of topics including cryptocurrency, money laundering, the future of finance and financial transparency.
Malcolm Wright
Chief Compliance Officer at 100x Group- Part 5: Usage and Implementation of Technology
- Part 4: Challenges in Crypto Financial Crime Compliance
- Part 2: Crypto Regulatory Requirements Across the Globe
Malcolm Wright is Chief Compliance Officer 100x Group that owns and operates the BitMEX platform. Prior to taking on this role in October 2020, Malcolm was CCO at Diginex, the first crypto exchange to be listed on Nasdaq. In his earlier career, Malcolm was CCO at Revolut in London, and also held senior several leadership roles within Thomson Reuters’ (now Refinitiv) anti-financial crime business, including overseeing the development and launch of World-Check One and sitting on the leadership that brought the world’s first KYC Managed Service to market.
Malcolm speaks internationally on a variety of topics in particular the FATF Recommendations for Virtual Asset Service Providers. He also sits on international committees including chairing the Advisory Council and AML Working Group at Global Digital Finance, an industry-led initiative in setting codes of conduct and best practices for the crypto-asset industry. In this respect, Malcolm has also led industry and regulator conversations regarding FATF Recommendation 16 for virtual asset firms as well as developing an industry AML Code of Conduct, and co-leading the development of the IVMS101 messaging standard for travel rule (FATF Recommendation 16) compliance for virtual asset services providers.
Malcolm is also an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime Studies in London.
Oonagh van den Berg
Managing Director & Founder of RAW Compliance and Virtual Risk SolutionsWith over 18 years’ experience in a range of fields and disciplines within legal and financial services non-financial risk, Oonagh has built and lead various compliance risk frameworks and teams across the industry and developed and maintained regulatory and industry body relationships.
She is an advocate for ethical compliance leadership and framework development, with increased automation, including AI and Machine learning integration. She is also passionate about empowering people with the capabilities to address risk challenges through understanding behaviours to break down barriers and create cultures of morally imperative business-sensitive decision making