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Meet Our Advisors
Founder, The Bigger Pie
Bridget Greenwood
Inspired by blockchain's potential to fundamentally change the way we do business and the pioneering women working in this nascent space, Bridget is determined to see more #womeninblockchain succeed. Bridget has worked in financial services since 2000, originally an IFA, then running her own company following the birth of her son. She became interested in Bitcoin and blockchain in 2017. She's worked with start-ups in the sector, both retail facing and servicing institutional clients, gaining an insight into the marketplace, challenges, pitfalls, regulation, and breadth of projects and businesses in this rapidly evolving space.
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Principal Founder and CEO, AgriLedger
Genevieve Leveille
Genevieve is the Principal Founder of AgriLedger, a FinTech venture aiming to empower agricultural producers by democratising their access to financial services and improving the transparency of the supply chain. She is leading the collaboration of AgriLedger with the Haiti Ministry of Commerce and Industry and other local partners ESIH for the delivery of a DLT Pilot sponsored by the World Bank. The solution is addressing the Haitian fruit farmers, their customers, and families who can look forward to this year’s harvest and to reaping the benefits of market inclusion and improved food security.
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Policy Lead, SteerCo Chair, Originating Member,
Digital Pound Foundation
Jannah Patchay
Jannah Patchay is an experienced and industry-recognised subject matter expert and consultant in the financial markets sector, specialising in financial markets innovation, and in helping firms to define, develop and execute their commercial strategies in a highly regulated environment. Her particular passion is for market structure - the participants in financial markets, how they interact, and the consequences of the ways in which they interact - and for finding creative solutions to the challenges around access to markets and liquidity. This encompasses both traditional financial markets and asset classes, and the emerging field of digital asset market structure and regulation.
Director, The Realization Group
Helen Disney
Helen Disney is listed as a Top 100 Regtech Influencer, one of the Financial Technologist's inaugural Fintech Founders 50, and one of Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech 2016 Powerlist. She founded Unblocked Events in 2017, is a co-founder of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technologies Association, and a member of TechUK's DLT working group. She is a regular conference speaker and commentator on Bitcoin, Blockchain, and innovation policy for organisations including The Economist, The Times, The Evening Standard, Dagens Industrie and The Fintech Times, and has given evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain.
Emerging Technology Consultant and Blockchain Specialist, Galia Digital
Kate Baucherel
Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA is a business development and emerging technology consultant with a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Over the last 30 years, she has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including software, leisure, manufacturing, construction, and utilities, and in organisations from FTSE100 to startups. She is an experienced speaker and chair of virtual and real-life events. Her writing includes Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (2020) and the SimCavalier science fiction series.
Editorial Board Member, Citywealth Crypto Magazine
Ash Costello
Ash Costello is a privacy lawyer, author & speaker. She is a member of the Blockchain Chamber of Commerce and Executive Board of the Global Blockchain Organisation, and co-founded the Blockchain Lawyers Network. Formerly Global Head of Legal at MUFG Investor Services, a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (“MUFG”), and spent ten years working in law firms in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Guernsey. Author of ‘GDPR for American Corporations – a toolkit for easy compliance’ (Spring 2020). Co-author of ‘CryptoHog: conversations about blockchain and crypto‘ (Summer 2020).
CEO & Founder, TiiQu
Laura DeGiovanni
Laura Degiovanni was a young entrepreneur in the fashion sector before taking charge of reorganising the retail multi-channel business for multinational group Mioglio in the EMEA markets, and developing Asian markets for selected French brands. In 2016 Laura founded a startup adopting emerging technologies to tackle the problem of trust in assessing an individual's professional background. Her passion is people empowerment, helping companies redesign the employer/employee paradigm and facilitate the integration of internal staff and independent freelancers in a unique liquid workforce.
Founder, Addressing The SME Digital Divide Sustainably - Contribution not Consumption
Sorcha Mulligan
Sorcha Mulligan supports FinTech & Blockchain Platforms that are seeking to achieve sustainable growth through Investment, Joint Venture Partnerships & direct Client Acquisition. Essentially, matching leaders with other leaders who can work together to achieve a combined, aligned objective in their field. EQ with IQ is the winning formula.
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Senior Blockchain Engineer, Boson Protocol
Heather Swope
Originally from Indianapolis, but has lived in Amsterdam for over 19 years and worked globally.. Heather has many years experience in the IT sector, 14 of which I spent working as an integration specialist. She is an experienced developer, developer team lead, scrum master, and architect. Her interest in blockchain started in 2018 and decided to learn Ethereum development through the B9Lab Academy Ethereum Development course and the Blockchain Training Alliance Blockchain Solution Architect certification. She's worked on contract as a solidity developer for a DeFi startup for three months, and I is now a Blockchain Engineer at Boson Protocol.
Founding Partner & Head of Investor Relations, Bloomwater Capital
Veronica Mihai
Angel investor in tech, DEfi, NFT, and blockchain, former hedge fund co-founder, and enterprise-grade cryptocurrency mining farm entrepreneur. Extensive experience in management consulting for enterprise programmes. Business growth advisor across industries. Mentor for individuals interested in starting/growing their career in blockchain, crypto, and fintech. Public speaker supporting the narrative for BTC adoption and financial services decentralisation and inclusion.
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Meet Some of Our Trainers & Mentors
Full Stack Web3 Builder
Krati Jain
Karti has 11 years of experience in full stack software development including web3 skills like Solidity, golang, Node, React, flutter, native iOS, and android; also worked in PHP, react native and big data. Evolved as an engineer, a tech lead, manager, engineering head, and now a founder.
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Senior Blockchain Engineer, Boson Protocol
Heather Swope
Heather has many years of experience in the IT sector. She has now made a move to the blockchain world and started by completing the B9lab Academy Ethereum Developer course. After passing the exam with high marks, she is now a certified Ethereum Developer.
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Coding Black Females
Amma Manso
Amma is an award-winning, certified Business Intelligence and Cyber Security Professional. She has strong commercial awareness gained over 20 years, in world-leading multinational corporations across industry sectors including Financial Services, Retail, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, Supply Chain, and Consultancy.
Senior Blockchain Engineer, Arabs in Blockchain
Eman Haraway
Eman Herawy is a Blockchain geek, Techwomen Fellow 2022, Devcon scholar Alumni at Ethereum Foundation, and founder of ( العرب × Ø¨Ù„ÙˆÙƒØªØ´ÙŠÙ† Arabs in blockchain) which aspires to strengthen & empower the Arab blockchain community by facilitating the knowhow transfer, eliminating the language barrier, and connecting the global and the local community in Blockchain. As a geek, she has a hands-on experience in many blockchain domains in multiple blockchain networks and DSNs.
CMO, SWASH
Chloe Diamond
Chloe's role is to define, showcase, and market Swash - the world's first and largest Data Union - to the world, having grown the app from 10 thousand to a quarter of a million users in mere months. Her expertise lies at the intersection of data, digital art, and blockchain.
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CEO, Zebu Digital
Harry Horsfall
Harry is a serial entrepreneur with a long track record of founding, scaling and directing cutting edge firms at the forefront of the Web 3.0 and FinTech revolution. With over a decades’ experience in the blockchain space, Harry is an established thought leader and one of the industry’s most vocal proponents.
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Developer Relations Advocate, Reedeum
Rhian Lewis
Rhian is an experienced Ruby on Rails developer and am also a Certified AWS Solutions Architect (Associate). She is happiest in an Agile/SCRUM team where she can be an advocate for Agile working practices, and she is a motivated self-starter with excellent people skills.
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Chief Solutions Officer, ChromaWay
Zara Zamani
Zara Zamani is Chief Solutions Officer at ChomaWay, the leading blockchain company in Sweden. She is a blockchain solution architect. She is also a lecturer and doctoral researcher in the adoption of blockchain in small and medium enterprises at Halmstad university.
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CMO, Polygen
Emily Rose Dallara
Emily Rose Dallara is CMO at SL2 Capital, where she leads NFT & IDO marketing strategy, content strategy, go-to-market, channel partner marketing and product marketing across their portfolio companies including Nitro League and Polygen. She also coaches, consults and empowers businesses to implement and improve their Web3 marketing strategy.