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Gaby Hui (Director of Public Relations & Corporate Communications at Merkle Science at Merklescience)

Gaby Hui

Director of Public Relations & Corporate Communications at Merkle Science at Merklescience
https://www.merklescience.com/

Experienced strategic integrated communication professional, working closely with executive teams — from startups to corporations — to translate business priorities into integrated communication plans, implementing tactical execution, and delivering measurable results.

Managed and collaborated with PR teams across multiple countries to deliver against corporate
communication goals.

Specialized in financial verticals, including blockchain & crypto, economic & financial theory, financial markets, market structure, fintech, insurance, retirement & personal finance, investment banking and asset management.

Established media relationships with U.S. and APAC business and financial top-tier (online, print, radio, and broadcast) and trade publications. Well-versed in digital and social strategies.

Ella Qiang (VP of Ecosystem & Partnerships at Cronos)

Ella Qiang

VP of Ecosystem & Partnerships at Cronos

Ella Qiang is VP of Ecosystem & Partnerships at Cronos, an EVM compatible chain that aims to massively scale the DeFi ecosystem. Prior to Cronos, Ella was Southeast Asia manager at Bitcoin Association, and has years of experience building decentralized applications. She also worked as 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.

Malcolm Wright (Chief Compliance Officer)

Malcolm Wright

Chief Compliance Officer

Malcolm Wright is the former Chief Compliance Officer of 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 Solutions)

Oonagh van den Berg

Managing Director & Founder of RAW Compliance and Virtual Risk Solutions
https://www.rawcompliance.com

Oonagh is an industry award-winning Compliance Officer based in Hong Kong, with over 19 years of experience in law and regulation, and a mother of two.

She is recognised as a global compliance industry leader in promoting innovation, improved culture and providing access to affordable thought-provoking compliance training opportunities.

She is the founder of RAW Compliance, a global compliance social enterprise, which provides free webinars, masterclasses, training and mentoring programmes to the compliance community. She is also the Managing Director of the global compliance consultancy firm Virtual Risk Solutions VRS, which supports FinTech and Crypto firms with regulatory licensing and the development of innovative, streamlined, agile and automated compliance risk frameworks.

Passionate about improving risk typology detection on socially imperative issues such as Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery and Illegal Wildlife Trading, she also involved in various industry working groups and public-private partnerships.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oonaghvandenberg/
Email: Oonagh@virtualrisksolutions.com