Blake Richman Head Trader/Portfolio Manager NovaBlock Capital NovaBlock Capital is a blockchain and digital asset focused investment fund. Prior to his role at NovaBlock, Blake advised formation-stage funds on investment strategy, market dynamics, and custodianship. Before diving into the blockchain space, he held positions in venture capital and debt capital markets. Blake lives in Palo Alto, California, where he is involved in the blockchain investment and entrepreneur communities.
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Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Venture Partner BitBull Capital
Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin/Partner Gumi Cryptos/Venture Partner BitBull Capital BitBull is a cryptocurrency fund-of-funds. He is also an advisor to Arrington XRP Capital. He is a token holder in FileCoin, Brave, CIVIC, Propy, Polymath and an investor in Lyft. As chief Evangelist for the Java Language and Platform he participated in the first wave of the Internet, and is now fully engaged in Internet of value. As a 25 year operating exec in Silicon Valley, he has raised over $50 million in venture capital for Open Source startups and over $250M in ICO capital. He currently advises cryptocurrency startups like Naga Group ($50M ICO Stock Trading), Playkey ($10.5M Streaming Gaming), Bee Token ($15M, Decentralized AirBnB), Celsius ($50M Ether Lending), Wala (African Cryptobanking), Lottery.com (Online Lottery), Millenium ESports (ESport Gaming), Refereum ($30M Gamer Affiliate Marketing), Pundi X ($35M Payments), WiFiCoin, Guardian Circle (Decentralized Global 911 Emergency Services), Blockchain Terminal ($30M Bloomberg for Crypto) and Hub (Decentralizing Professional Social Networking). He is also an LP with Focus Ventures, a firm with over $800M under management, 9 IPOs and 44 exits. He holds an Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Yale University where he worked on abstract computational neural networks. He’s leads the Crypto Underground meetup in San Francisco and is a well known speaker at many cryptocurrency and blockchain events.
Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil #bankinnovations
Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil, a Fortune Top 150 company. Labbs is the digital innovation initiative of Banco do Brasil. In less than two years, Labbs grew into an internationally-recognized benchmark for their award-winning innovation and entrepreneurship program. During his 17+year career in financial services, Vilmar was also Head of Digital Strategy, Head of Product for Agribusiness Finance and led initiatives in Strategy, IT and Controlling. His educational background includes a BS and an MSc in Engineering, and also the Stanford GSB Executive Program.
Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan #bankinnovations
Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan, Life Sciences & Emerging Growth Middle Market Treasury Services. Kimberly is currently responsible for managing the national Treasury Management team focused on Technology, Life Sciences and Emerging Growth Middle Market companies. Kimberly has spent the past 5 years of her career focusing on domestic and international treasury for technology companies throughout all stages of their life cycles. Prior to this, she held various domestic and international treasury sales roles both at BNP Paribas and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Kimberly is International Treasury Management Certified and is fluent in English and Spanish. She has a Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of International Business from Florida International University in Miami, Florida.