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About the Event
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Blockchain
TOKEN2049 is the premier crypto event, organised annually in Singapore and London, where founders and executives of the leading crypto and blockchain companies share their view on the market. We shine a light on the global developments, while taking a unique and widening perspective on the ecosystem and its vast opportunities.
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Featured Speakers
Alex Mashinsky
CEO at Celsius Network
Alex Mashinsky is an entrepreneur who has founded several notable technology firms in the United States. He founded Arbinet in 1996 as a commodity exchange for telecommunication companies to trade unused long-distance minutes. Mashinsky's other company, VoiceSmart, was one of the first firms to offer telecommunications switches to handle ordinary voice as well as Voice over IP call routing.
Mashinsky later founded GroundLink in 2004 as a service to book an on-demand limousine and car services from a computer or smartphone. He was also the founder of Q-Wireless, which later became part of Transit Wireless. From 2014 to 2015, Mashinsky served as CEO of Novatel. He currently serves as CEO of the Celsius Network which is a CeFi lending platform operated by use of blockchain technologies. Mashinsky lives in New York City with his wife Krissy Mashinsky and 6 children.
Mashinsky later founded GroundLink in 2004 as a service to book an on-demand limousine and car services from a computer or smartphone. He was also the founder of Q-Wireless, which later became part of Transit Wireless. From 2014 to 2015, Mashinsky served as CEO of Novatel. He currently serves as CEO of the Celsius Network which is a CeFi lending platform operated by use of blockchain technologies. Mashinsky lives in New York City with his wife Krissy Mashinsky and 6 children.
William Peets
CIO at 100 Acre Ventures
Will Peets is the Chief Investment Officer of Passport Digital Holdings LLC and portfolio manager for the digital asset strategies at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment firm dedicated to investing in secular change.
Prior to his focus on digital currency strategies, Will was the Chief Risk Officer for the firm’s long/short equity hedge funds where he and his team informed the portfolio construction process and provided guidance on position sizing, hedging, and the alignment of risk taking with the firm’s investment views. Preceding Passport, Will spent 7.5yrs at MSCI consulting hedge funds on their use of Barra and Risk Metrics in their portfolio construction process.
Will is also an active venture investor, with investments spanning geospatial analytics, real time data discovery, and digital asset storage infrastructure and investment platforms. He's an early investor in Orbital Insight, Dataminr, Starcity, Survata, Anchorage, and Bitwise among others.
He is an advisor to Bitwise and works closely along with many companies in the crypto currency and decentralized finance space.
Will graduated from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, where he earned his B.S. in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance and currently sits on the Deans Advisory Council for Orfalea College of Business.
Prior to his focus on digital currency strategies, Will was the Chief Risk Officer for the firm’s long/short equity hedge funds where he and his team informed the portfolio construction process and provided guidance on position sizing, hedging, and the alignment of risk taking with the firm’s investment views. Preceding Passport, Will spent 7.5yrs at MSCI consulting hedge funds on their use of Barra and Risk Metrics in their portfolio construction process.
Will is also an active venture investor, with investments spanning geospatial analytics, real time data discovery, and digital asset storage infrastructure and investment platforms. He's an early investor in Orbital Insight, Dataminr, Starcity, Survata, Anchorage, and Bitwise among others.
He is an advisor to Bitwise and works closely along with many companies in the crypto currency and decentralized finance space.
Will graduated from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, where he earned his B.S. in Business Administration with concentrations in Accounting and Finance and currently sits on the Deans Advisory Council for Orfalea College of Business.
George Harrap
Co-Founder at Step Finance
A Blockchain pioneer, Author, one of the early users of Bitcoin since 2011, I co-founded Bitspark (Hong Kong) in 2014 with the mission of bringing low cost fast cryptocurrency based settlement to cross border transactions. Often an international speaker around the world, I discuss the realities of cryptocurrency payments on the ground from my experience- this culminated in a book I launched in 2019: http://bit.ly/compendium-of-cryptocurrency-remittances
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TOKEN2049 draws the most influential figures, projects and companies, spawning dozens of meetups, workshops, hackathons, and networking opportunities all around the two-day main event.
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Eric Wall
Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets
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Ross Bates
Community & Event Management at PARSIQ
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Cyrus Fazel
Founder at SwissBorg
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Simon Yu
CEO & Co-Founder at StormX
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