Matthew Roszak is a leading blockchain investor, entrepreneur and advocate. Mr. Roszak is chairman and co-founder of Bloq, a blockchain technology company and the creators of Metronome, a next generation cryptocurrency. Mr. Roszak is also founding partner of Tally Capital, a private investment firm focused on cryptocurrencies and blockchain-enabled technology, with a portfolio of market leading companies including: Binance, Block.One, Blockstream, Civic, Genaro, Orchid, Polymath, Rivetz, Spacechain, tZERO and Qtum.

Mr. Roszak serves as chairman of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry - and the founder of the Token Alliance, an industry-led initiative developing best practices and standards for the responsible issuance of tokens. In addition, Mr. Roszak serves on the board of BitGive, a nonprofit foundation that improves philanthropic impact with blockchain technology. Mr. Roszak is also the founder of the Chicago Blockchain Center, a public-private partnership with the State of Illinois, CME Group, DRW and Lightbank. Mr. Roszak was a producer of the industry’s first ever documentary, The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.

Mr. Roszak is a sought after thought leader on blockchain technology, and has testified as an expert before U.S. Congress and spoken at the U.S. Federal Reserve. Mr. Roszak has presented at TEDx, been featured on CNBC and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Financial Times. In addition, Mr. Roszak has been a keynote speaker at fintech conferences worldwide, including Money20/20, CES and Consensus.

Mai, or more popularly known as “Miss Bitcoin” has been immersed in the crypto-space since 2011, establishing her footprint in the industry with an impressive resumé. She is the founder of Gracone, a company that helps connect businesses in the blockchain / cryptocurrency industry. Also founder of crypto donation platform KIZUNA. She’s an advisor to GMO Internet, BitPoint, LayerX, BRD, MediBloc and Zeex,etc..Providing counsel for their blockchain / cryptocurrency endeavors.

Olga Feldmeier is CEO of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain start-up building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has extensive experience working in the banking and financial services sector for global brands such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth Management and Boston Consulting Group, where she focused on strategy projects at financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Unicredit and Commerzbank. Prior to founding SMART VALOR, Olga held the position of Commercial Managing Partner at prominent Silicon Valley Bitcoin startup Xapo.

Olga is a prominent founding member of the Crypto Valley community, and is the producer of series of blockchain conference in Switzerland (ICO Summit and Crypto Summit) the first global conference in Switzerland focusing on blockchain. She is also a mentor at the largest European accelerator program, Kickstart Accelerator, and regularly delivers talks at conferences and universities on Bitcoin, the regulation in blockchain industry, the tokenization of assets and the disruption of the banking industry.
 

Ms Angelina Kwan is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX) and has responsibility over BitMEX’s operations around the world. She most recently established and ran the Regulatory Compliance Department and the HKEX Foundation Limited at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. Ms Kwan has extensive experience in Asia Pacific and the United States, in running businesses, business development, as well as investor and stakeholder relations.  She started her career at KPMG and has held senior management, committee and/or board positions with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and other multinational companies and financial institutions.  

She is currently a Hong Kong Government appointed member of the Women’s Commission, the Council for Sustainable Development, the Administrative Appeals Board, and the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of the Securities Industry Development Corporation of Malaysia, Vice Chair and Director of the The Women’s Foundation, a Director of the Hong Kong Securities Institute, a Fellow and Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, an Honorary Adjunct Professor of Finance of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and serves on a number of other Boards and Committees.  She lectures frequently for various international government and regulatory organizations as well as course providers.

Ms Kwan is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States and Hong Kong and a graduate of the University of Southern California. Her MBA is from Pepperdine University and LLB from the Hong Kong University and Manchester Metropolitan University.

Remington Ong is a partner at Fenbushi Capital, one of the earliest and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firms, where he has managed investments into over 40 leading startups around the world leveraging blockchain technology to disrupt a wide range of industries.  He is also an advisor to BlockAsset, a leading digital asset investment firm.  He has over 10 years of experience in investment banking and private equity in China, including as a senior analyst covering Asia TMT at Merrill Lynch and as a management consultant at L.E.K. Consulting.  He is also an experienced entrepreneur whose startups have attracted funding from top global VCs.  Remington graduated with an MBA from INSEAD and a BS in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

Tinku Gupta is the Head of Technology, where she is responsible for the overall planning, development and implementation of the company’s technology-related strategies and initiatives, as well as operations of SGX Technology environment. She was appointed as a member of the SGX Executive Management Committee on 1 May 2017.

Ms Gupta joined SGX in October 1996, in what was then known as SIMEX, as a software developer in the Technology team. Over the past 20 years, she has worked in a variety of roles, gaining exposure in many aspects of SGX’s business and Technology functions. Amongst her various job rotations, she successfully led the Business Integration and Programme Management function in SGX through a period of significant change and worked on implementing the current Securities and Derivatives platforms on NASDAQ applications. She also headed the Market Data and Connectivity business, successfully establishing the co-location services business and launching the index business, before returning to head the Technology unit in November 2015.

Under her Technology leadership, SGX is steadily strengthening its software development capabilities and building differentiated platforms to support its multi-asset class strategy. Steering experimentation on emerging technologies to enable transformation and innovation excites her to be a technologist in capital markets in this technology-led economy.

Ms Gupta holds a Masters’ degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.

Lon Wong brings with him over 30 years of experience in building businesses from engineering consultancy to network, and software applications. He is an internationally recognized veteran and thought leader in the blockchain space. He was the founder and first President of the world-class NEM.io Foundation, a billion-dollar global entity entrusted with the development and promotion of the open-source NEM blockchain technology. Lon established the first Blockchain center in Malaysia.  

Today, he heads another initiative which is set to push the envelope on the use of existing blockchain technology. This project, known as ProximaX, envisions to reimagine and evolve blockchain technology into a different paradigm.

Lon also founded and spearheads Dragonfly Fintech Pte. Ltd., a fintech company that specializes in mobile payments using Blockchain technology, which is currently operating in Cambodia.

Lon serves as advisor to several blockchain projects across the globe. He is often invited to speak in blockchain conferences and events, and regularly contributes papers and articles about the subject matter to publications, blogs and media internationally. He also invests in blockchain technology related projects and initiatives.

Previously, Lon served as Vice-President of the Association of Consulting Engineers in Malaysia and on the Board of Engineers Malaysia, the Construction Industry Development Board of Malaysia, Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia, Energy Commission of Malaysia and was a member of the Green Building Index Accreditation Panel.  

As part of his impact investing activities, Lon funded a project in providing Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and established an autism centre in Malaysia. 

Lon holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors), in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Edward Lee is Director at LINE Tech Plus and Project Manager for BITBOX, which is the digital asset exchange created by LINE. BITBOX lists a variety of digital tokens including LINE's own token LINK (LN). Formerly, he looked after strategy and partnerships for Clova, which is Naver and LINE’s AI initiatives.

Before LINE, Edward was a founding team member of VCNC (acquired by SOCAR), servicing Between, a messaging and photo sharing app for couples with more than 25M users, where he headed growth and international business. Prior to that, he was a software engineer creating Korea’s first mobile messenger, m&Talk, and also developed a number of mobile games.

Edward holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He is also a registered US Patent Agent.

Dr. Julian Hosp is the co-founder and president of the Singapore based company TenX, a leading blockchain company that makes cryptocurrencies spendable anytime anywhere in everyday life. To date TenX has received over 100M USD in funding.

Prior to TenX, Julian was a 10-year professional athlete and a medical doctor. He co-authored COMIT, an open source protocol that allows interoperability between blockchains, connecting them to an agnostic network.

He is the author of several bestsellers, such as “Cryptocurrencies simply explained” and “Blockchain 2.0 - more than just Bitcoin”, which have been translated into 15 languages and has sold over 100,000 copies.

He was named one of the world’s top Blockchain and Cryptocurrency experts and also works in blockchain groups with the European Union on topics such as regulation, social impact and economics.

As a Speaker of the Washington Speakers Bureau he is frequently invited to global tech and entrepreneur events and government summits around the world and he is also a regular commentator in the media on current blockchain trends, the future of cryptocurrency and best practices.

Genki Oda is founder and CEO of BITPoint. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor in Japan.

At university, he founded his first venture company and sold-off in 2 years. After the exit, he started the investment for the venture companies and social entrepreneurs for more than 10 years.

From 2012, he joined Remixpoint which is a listed company and appointed to the CEO. Remixpoint invest and development the business in the market of the deregulation. In 2016, Japanese government changed the law of the crypto and he founded BITPoint as a subsidiary of Remixpoint.

BITPoint is the first licensed crypto company in Japan. The motto is Safety and Security. The security level is as the same quality as the security companies in Japan, no hacked and no server down.

The BITPoint group is now operating not only in Japan, but also in Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, Singapore.

The BITPoint group have the trading system to change the crypto to Fiat and the customer can get the local Fiat. We are now planning to grow the global network and make a bridge of the crypto-Fiat network globally.
 

Justin Doebele is one of the most experienced Forbes executives in Asia. He is currently the Executive Director - Content at Forbes Asia, based in Singapore from July 2018. Before that he managed and edited Forbes Indonesia from its launch in 2010. At Forbes Indonesia, he has led the team in creating one of the most successful business publications in the country, as well as launching ForbesLife Indonesia in 2014, now one of the most successful lifestyle media brands in the country. Before relocating to Jakarta, he was with Forbes in Singapore, where he set up the Singapore bureau for Forbes Global, and launched and managed the noted Asia Rich Lists for Forbes. He also played a major role in the launching of Forbes India, and worked closely with Forbes partners in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Thailand. He has a BA from Harvard and MS in Journalism from Columbia University. He is the former president of the Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club, the former Vice President of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Singapore, and a lifetime member of both the Singapore Press Club and the N.Y.-based Council on Foreign Relations. 

Pamela covers wealth, blockchain and the crypto economy as a senior reporter across digital and print platforms. Prior to Forbes Asia, she served as on-air foreign correspondent for Thomson Reuters’ broadcast team, during which she reported on global markets, central bank policies, and breaking business news. 

Before Asia, she was a journalist at NBC Comcast, and started her career at CNBC and Bloomberg as a financial news producer in New York. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Yahoo, USA Today, Huffington Post, and Nasdaq. Pamela’s previous incarnation was on the buy side in M&A research and asset management, inspired by Michael Lewis’ book “Liar’s Poker”.