The Leading Alternative Investment Management Summit 2023 – Dubai | Aim Summit | 29 October 2023 | Emirates Towers, Sheikh Zayed Rd, Trade Centre, Trade Centre 2, Dubai, UAE

This event is the Leading Alternative Investment Management Summit gathering and connecting investors and managers in the world of alternatives (Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Private Debt, Digital Assets, FinTech) with global industry leaders. This summit is a platform for discussions on investment developments, global market conditions, latest trends and acts as a networking forum for future business opportunities. The only conference of its nature and magnitude organized and orchestrated by the industry in an intimate setup to induce real discussions on the best practices and know-how.

2023 Speakers

Dr. Mohamed El-Erian
Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz, President of Queens College, Cambridge

Lord O'Neill of Gatley
Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Former Commercial Secretary, UK Treasury

H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri
UAE Minister of Economy

Staci Warden
CEO, Algorand Foundation

Badr Jafar
Special Representative for Business & Philanthropy, COP28, CEO, Crescent Enterprises

Dan Murphy
Anchor and Correspondent, CNBC

Stephen Roach
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center of the Yale Law School, Former Chief Economist and Asia Chairman, Morgan Stanley

Fred Thiel
Chief Executive Officer, Marathon Digital Holdings

Jad Ellawn
Managing Partner, Regional Head of the Middle East, Brookfield

Zach Bradford
CEO & President, CleanSpark

Brendon Wong
Deputy Global Head - Family Office, Invest Hong Kong

Henny Sender
Former Journalist, FT & WSJ, Former Managing Director, BlackRock

Jaime Leverton
Chief Executive Officer, Hut 8

Fiona Treble
Managing Director, Global Head of Membership, AIMA

Frank Holmes
Executive Chairman, HIVE Digital Technologies, CEO & CIO, U.S. Global Investors

Bill Papanastasiou
Research Analyst, Stifel

David Gibson-Moore
Chairman, Dalma Capital, President & CEO, Gulf Analytica

Herry Han
Founding Partner, Soul Capital

Daniel Roberts
Co-Founder, Co-CEO and Director, Iris Energy

Ziad Daoud
Chief Emerging Markets Economist, Bloomberg Economics

Charles Myers
Chairman, Signum Global Advisors

Gabriella Kindert
Board Member & Non-Executive Director, Neptune Maritime Leasing

Andy Tang
Partner, Draper Associates

Taras Kulyk
Founder / CEO, SunnySide Digital, Inc.

Joseph Zeng
Founder & CIO, Arcadia Asia Fund

Harry Yeh
Managing Director, Quantum Fintech Group

Ahmad Alanani
CEO, Sancta Capital

Kokila Alagh
Founder & Managing Partner, KARM Legal Consultants

Sebastian Widmann
Head of Strategy, Komainu

Geoff Morphy
President & CEO, Bitfarms Ltd.

Elizabeth Di Cioccio
Managing Director & Head of Middle East, KKR

Dr Sanjit Singh Dang
Chairman and Co-Founder, U First Capital

Jordan Fudge
General Partner, Sinai Ventures

Zachary Cefaratti
Founder, AIM Summit, Dalma Capital, Venture Partner, Draper Associates

Rachel Pether
TV Anchor, Digital Asset Report, FintechTV

Jamie Burrows
Founder & CEO, Vertical Future

May Nasrallah
Founder & Executive Chairman, deNovo Partners

Gary Dugan
CIO & SEO, Dalma Capital

Brendan Carroll
Senior Partner & Co-Founder, Victory Park Capital

John D'Agostino
Senior Strategist, Coinbase Institutional, Coinbase

James Reeve
Chief Economist, Jadwa Investment

Esteban Buljevich
Vice Chairman, Rothschild & Co

Tone Vays
Founder, Unconfiscatable

James Burron
Co-Founder & Partner, Canadian Association of Alternative Strategies & Assets

Anne Walsh
Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners Investment Management

Jamil Asfour
Subject Matter Expert in AI, Investments, and Policies

Tania Reif
Founder & CIO, Senda Digital Assets

Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais
Founder & CEO, Annex Investments

Dr. Jörg Goschin
Co-CEO, Senior Managing Director, KfW Capital

Yalda Aoukar
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Bracket Capital

Kamil Dimmich
Partner & Fund Manager, North of South Capital

Taimoor Labib
Founding Partner, Head of MENA & Chairman of Africa, Affirma Capital

Mohammed Alzubi
Founder & Managing Partner, Nama Ventures

The Hon. Steven Ciobo
Former Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism, and Investment, Managing Director, Head of Global Affairs, Stonepeak

Ziad Makkawi
Founder & CEO, EQUIAM

Naveen Sabharwal
Managing Director, DavidsonKempner European Partners

Tom Kehoe
Managing Director, Global Head of Research and Communications, AIMA

Miriam Kiwan
Vice President, MENA, Circle

Alexandre Schmidt
Index Fund Manager, CoinShares

Carl Neethling
Founder, ACN Capital

Alex Murray
VP, Head of Real Assets, Research Insights, PREQIN

Anjali Bansal
Founding Partner, Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund

Badar Al Shanfari
Deputy CEO, Jabreen Capital

Salim Essaid
Gulf and Business correspondent, Al-Monitor

Nathalie Large-Odier
Head of EMEA Enterprise, Ledger Enterprise

William Bao Bean
Managing General Partner, Orbit Startups

Farah Elbahrawy
EMEA Equities Reporter and Deputy Team Leader, Bloomberg

Julian Schickel
Founding Partner, Avellinia Capital

Bundeep Singh Rangar
CEO, Fineqia

Benjamin Yi
Executive Chairman, Riot Platforms

Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer, OKX

Artem Bespaloff
Founder/CEO, Asic Jungle/AJX GROUP

JT Law
Partner, IVC

Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund

Laurenz Apiarius
Founding Partner, Curiosity Capital

Ken Zheng
Co-Founder & CEO, Panda Remit

Jacky Lim
CEO, Worldwide Logistics Group

Ryan Taylor
Group Head of Compliance and CAO Digital, Brevan Howard

Yousef Hammad
Managing Partner, BECO Capital

Navin Gupta
Managing Director, South Asia & MENA, Ripple

Manoj Narender Madnani
Chairman & CEO, Beacon Media MESMR

Ketan Patel
Co-Founder & CEO, Greater Pacific Capital
Chairman, Force for Good

Shawn Douglass
Co-Founder and CEO, Amberdata

Anla Cheng
Founder/Chair, The China Project

Alex Fazel
Chief Partnerships Officer / Founding Partner, SwissBorg

Dr. Jez Mohideen
CEO, Laser Digital

Adriano Bertini
Head of Strategy, Ledger Enterprise

Reza Bundy
CEO, Atlas Capital Team

Dr. Anish Shivdasani
Managing Director, Geosemantic Solutions

Julian Banks
Founder, Univox

Sardar Ahmed Durrani
General Partner, Osiris Group

CK Zheng
CIO & Co-Founder, ZX Squared Capital

Lisandro Bril
Founder & Managing Partner, Oikos Venture Capital

Luca Barbi
COO & General Partner, STV

Hervé Larren
Senior Advisor, Horizen Labs

Tarik Serri
Senior Director, Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments, Trans-Canada Capital

Raihan Shaikh-Khaleel
Founder, Swinton Advisors

Jonathan Schmidt
Co-Founder & CEO, Adtingo Agritech

Pierre Garnier
Investment Director, 17Capital

Naeem Aslam
Columnist, Nasdaq
CIO, Zaye Capital Markets

Anthony Bontrager
Managing Director, WestRiver Group

Mohammed Wassim Khayata
CEO, Al Maryah Community Bank

David Beckett
Partner, SC Lowy

Michael Lints
Partner, Golden Gate Ventures

Thierry Adant
CIO, Newmarket Capital / Battery Finance

V Shankar
CEO & Co-founder, Gateway Partners

Sean Low
CEO and CIO, GoldenVisionCapital Singapore

Usman Ahmad
CEO & Co-Founder, Zodia Markets

Valerie Hawley
General Partner, True Global Ventures

Tushar Sial
Legal & Compliance, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors

Dr. Lawrence H. Summers
Former United States Secretary of the Treasury

Dr. Mohamed El-Erian
Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz, President of Queens College, Cambridge

Bill Browder
CEO, Hermitage Capital Management, Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and Author of Red Notice

Nouriel Roubini
Chairman, Roubini Macro Associates, Chief Economist, Atlas Capital Team L.P.

Stephen Roach
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center of the Yale Law School, Former Chief Economist and Asia Chairman, Morgan Stanley

Tim Draper
Founding Partner, DFJ, Draper Associates

Dr. Deepak Chopra
Founder of The Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global, Co-Founder, Beacon Media

Tyler Winklevoss
Co-Founder & CEO, Gemini

Dan Morehead
CEO, Pantera Capital

Mike Novogratz
Founder & CEO, Galaxy Digital

Mark Mobius
Founding Partner, Mobius Capital Partners

Mark Stoleson
CEO and Partner, Legatum

Mike Levitt
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, & CEO, Core Scientific

H.E. Helal Saeed Al Marri
Director General, Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism

Sam Englebardt
Co-Founder & Partner, Galaxy Digital, Founding General Partner, Galaxy Interactive

Colm Lanigan
CIO of Direct Private Equity and Head of LTPC Americas, BlackRock

H.S.H. Prince Michael of Liechtenstein
Executive Chairman, Industrie- und Finanzkontor Ets.

Charles Goodhart
Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics

Fanglu Wang
Senior Managing Director, CITIC CAPITAL

Frank Holmes
Executive Chairman, HIVE Digital Technologies
CEO & CIO, U.S. Global Investors

Zach Bradford
CEO & President, CleanSpark

Jaime Leverton
Chief Executive Officer, Hut 8

Fred Thiel
Chief Executive Officer, Marathon Digital Holdings

Mishal Kanoo
Chairman, The Kanoo Group

Taras Kulyk
Founder / CEO, SunnySide Digital, Inc.

Joseph Lubin
Co-Founder, Founder & CEO, Ethereum, ConsenSys

Charles Myers
Chairman, Signum Global Advisors

Daniel Masters
Executive Chairman, CoinShares

Dr. Nannette Hechler-Fayd'herbe
Head of Global Economics & Research & Chief Investment Officer of International Wealth Management, Credit Suisse

Simon Clark
Pulitzer Prize-nominated Journalist "The Key Man", Former Writer, The Wall Street Journal & Bloomberg News

Anthony Scaramucci
Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital

Dr. Ryan Lemand
Ex-SEO, ADS Investment Solutions

Peter Rockefeller
Board Member & Vice Chairman, Managing Director, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Brock Capital Group

Navin Gupta
Managing Director, South Asia & MENA, Ripple

Dame Sheila B. Driscoll
CEO, Driscoll Ventures

Dr. Sabah al-Binali
CEO, Universal Strategy

Jack Inglis
Chief Executive Officer, AIMA

Gary Dugan
CIO & SEO, Dalma Capital

Jad Ellawn
Managing Partner, Regional Head of the Middle East, Brookfield

Harry Yeh
Managing Director, Quantum Fintech Group

Kristen Weldon
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Investing, BlackRock Alternative Investors

Dr. Fahad M. Alturki
Vice President & Head of Research, KAPSARC

Joseph Zeng
Founder & CIO, Arcadia Asia Fund

Sean de Cleene
Head of Food System Initiative, Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum

President José María Aznar
Former Prime Minister, Spanish Government

Dr. John Rutledge
Chief Investment Strategist, Safanad

Matt Schultz
Executive Chairman, CleanSpark

Salmaan Jaffery
Chief Business Development Officer, DIFC

Dr. h.c. Hannes Schmid
Vice President & Founder, Smiling Gecko

Tariq Bin Hendi
Director General, Abu Dhabi Investment Office

Sir Christopher Pissarides
2010 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, Chairman of the Advisory Board, Corinth Capital Investment Fund

Katherine Brown
Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing, World Economic Forum

Lee C. Tashjian
Managing Director, Special Assistant to the Chairman & CEO, Transformation LLC, Fluor Corporation

Andrea Marmolejo
Managing Partner, Blue Topaz Capital

Angela De Wolff
Managing Partner, Conser Invest SA

Richard Byworth
CEO, Diginex

Jim Barry
Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, BlackRock Alternative Investors

Mustafa Kheriba
Member Board of Directors, Mirabank

Zin Bekkali
CEO, Silk Invest

Saeed Hareb Al Darmaki
Managing Director MENA, CasperLabs

Deniz Erkus CFA
Managing Partner, SiDeMi Business Consulting GmbH

Zoe Cruz
Founder & CEO, Menai Financial Group

Patrick Vosgimorukian
Managing Partner, Digital Spring Ventures

Sushil Wadhwani
Chief Investment Officer, PGIM Wadhwani

Samson Williams
Partner, Axes and Eggs

Maureen L. Murat
Owner & Attorney, Crowdie Advisors

David Gibson-Moore
Chairman, Dalma Capital
President & CEO, Gulf Analytica

David Atterbury
Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners

Noel El Khoury
Portfolio Manager, ADS Investment Solutions

Jonathan Medved
Founder & CEO, OurCrowd

Ben Melkman
Founder, CEO & CIO, Light Sky Macro LP

Dani Burger
TV Anchor, Bloomberg

James Munce
CEO, Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners

Taimoor Labib
Founding Partner, Head of MENA & Chairman of Africa, Affirma Capital

Markus Federle
Senior Managing Director, Samena Capital

James Fierro
CEO, ECO Capacity Exchange Ltd.

E.J. Yerzak
Director of Cyber IT Services, Compliance Solutions Strategies

Basil Al Askari
Co-founder & CEO, MidChains

Dr. Erich Becker
Managing Partner, Exergy

Alicia Ogawa
Director of the Project on Japanese Corporate Governance & Stewardship, Columbia Business School

Jack Liao
Founder, CEO, BitcoinGold, LightningASIC

Lucy Chow
Senator, Director, World Business Angels Investment Forum, Women's Angel Business Network (WAIN)

Karim Moussa
Co-CEO Investment Bank and Head of Private Equity & Asset Management, EFG Hermes; Vortex Energy

Pascale Wazen-Palpied
Vice President, Regional Director for MENA, FactSet

Tone Vays
Founder, Unconfiscatable

Mohammad Alhajeri
Director, KISP Ventures

Christophe de Courson
Co-Founder and CEO, Olymp Capital

Rodrigue Afota
MD, BlockTrust

Edward Knight
Partner, Antler

Yagub Rahimov
CEO and Founding Partner, 7marketz Inc.

Dr. Christian Diller
Partner, Montana Capital Partners

Bert van der Vaart
CEO & Co-Founder, SEAF

Dr. Michael Kianicka
Co-CIO, Kimura Capital

Joseph Morris
Executive Managing Director - Capital Markets, Real Assets, Cantor Fitzgerald

Bakr Abdel-Wahab
Head of Energy, CIO, EFG Hermes Private Equity, Vortex Energy

Kevin Dougherty
Director of Trading and Operations, Decentral Park Capital

Daniel Schwartzkopff
CEO, Invictus Capital

Rishi Ramchandani
Director of Business Development, Asia, BlockFi

Carol Pepper
CEO & Founder, Pepper International

Erich Sieber
Founder & Managing Partner, PeakBridge Partners

Sonia Gokhale
General Partner, VentureSouq

Zachary Cefaratti
Founder, AIM Summit, Dalma Capital, Venture Partner, Draper Associates

Osama Alowedi
Co-Founder & CEO, Value Capital Partners

Dr. Tobias Reichmuth
Founder & CEO, Susi Partners

Jan Grabski
Director of Enterprise Scaling, ConsenSys

Christina Qi
Co-Founder & Partner, Domeyard

Majed Kabbara
Founder & Managing Director, Quencia Capital

Ashish Marwah
Chief Investment Officer, ADS Investment Solutions

Michele Ferrario
Co-Founder & CEO, StashAway

Jack Tatar
Managing Partner, Doyle Capital Management

Mitesh Parikh
Founder & CEO, Matador Investment Management Limited

Avaneesh Acquilla
Chief Investment Officer, Arrano Capital

Bruce Powers
Head of Trading Systems Development, Relentless 13 Capital

Philip Bahoshy
Founder and CEO, MAGNiTT

Mark Cachia
Founder, Scytale Ventures

Steen Jakobsen
Chief Investment Officer, Saxo Bank

Katie Martin
Markets Editor, Financial Times

Rami Maalouf
Solutions Practice Lead, MENA, ConsenSys

Bader Al Sayer
CEO, Al Dhow Holding

Alon Goren
Founding Partner, Draper Goren Holm

Erwin Roex
Managing Partner, BEX Capital

Iskandar Najjar
CEO, Equiti Group

Amy Bensted
Head of Data Products, Preqin

Christof H. Rühl
Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

Mrinal Manohar
CEO, CasperLabs

Frederic de Melker
Managing Director - Personal Banking, Rakbank

Peter Balint
Managing Partner & CIO, Infinity Capital Group

Frank Gessner
Chairman & Co-Founder, Invao

Essam Albakr
CEO, Ejada Capital

Anthem Hayek Blanchard
Co-Founder & CEO, Hera Software Development

Swen Werner
Global Product Manager, Digital Product Development, State Street

Bobby Cho
Global Head of Trading, Cumberland

Thomas Schornstein
Member of the Executive Board, additiv AG

John Hensel
COO/CRO, Securrency, Inc

Brian Muench
President, Allianz Investment Management LLC & Allianz Investment Management U.S.

Michael Schwartz
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Cassandre Vandeputte
Blockchain Solution Architect, SettleMint

Heather Henyon
Founding General Partner, Mindshift Capital

Mark Chahwan
CEO, Sarwa

Mehdi Fichtali
Founder & CEO, FinaMaze

Shira Rubinoff
Chief Strategy Officer, Hera Software Development

Racha Alkhawaja
Group Chief Distribution & Development Officer, Equitativa

Animesh Saxena
Chief Investment Officer, Growmore Group

Deepak Mehra
Head of Investments, Commercial Bank of Dubai

Henny Sender
Former Journalist, FT & WSJ
Former Managing Director, BlackRock

Chi-Won Yoon
Chairman, Diginex

Matthew Liepert
Managing Director, Antares Capital

Philippe Germain
Director, ROI Securitisation

Deen Cadi
Head, Client Solutions, MEA, SettleMint

Walid Hanna
CEO, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)

Daniel Page
Head of Asset Management Advisory, KPMG Ireland (London)

Sean Daykin
Principal, Mercer

Robert Cohen
Managing Director, NKB Group

Fred Pye
Chairman & CEO, 3iQ

Marc de Kloe
Partner, Theta capital

Manoj Narender Madnani
Chairman & CEO, Beacon Media MESMR

Henry Azzam
Director, MS Finance Program, American University of Beirut

Stanislav Kostyukhin
Commercial Owner - Trader Segment, Saxo Bank

Walter Schindler
Founder & CEO, Transformation LLC & SAIL Capital Partners LLC

William Reichert
Head of Corporate in the Middle East, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Kunal Lahori
Director, Manrre REIT

Matthew Van Niekerk
Co-Founder & CEO, SettleMint

David Russell
Barrister, Outer Temple Chambers

Luciano Jannelli, PhD, CFA
Head Investment Strategy, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Nicholas Wright
Regional head of SAS, Saxo Bank

Jorge Sebastiao
Co-Founder & CEO, GBO

Tony Hchaime
Chief Executive Officer, ADIB Capital Limited

Justin d'Anethan
Head of Exchange Sales, EQONEX

Craig Roberts
Regional Managing Director - MENA, Apex Group Ltd.

Gus Chehayeb
Co-Founder and CIO, Sancta Capital Management

Alex Gemici
CEO, Greenstone Equity Partners

Nabil Issa
Partner, King & Spalding LLP

Ebrahim K Ebrahim
Board Member, Takaud Savings & Pensions

Fabio Scacciavillani
Chief Economist, Nuverse

Maral Sivzattian
Investment Director, Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners

Saber Farooqi
Chief Operating Officer, Dalma Capital

Gary Sheynkman
Partner, Leyden Ventures

Luciano Acosta
Regional Director - EMEA, Flex Funds

Emilio Escartin
Professor of Islamic Finance Asset Management & Private Equity, IE Business School

Amine Bentaleb
Senior Portfolio Manager, Kimera Corp

Paul Shea
Managing Partner, Beechbrook Capital

Reza Bundy
CEO, Atlas Capital Team

Andrew Hoffmann
Founder & CEO, Rock Island LLC

Andy Zynga
CEO, EIT Food

John Hardy
Head of FX Strategy, Saxo Bank

Chatura Randeniya
Partner, Afridi & Angell

Cherine Ghali
Executive Director, Paraiba

Christian Speckhardt
Impact Investment Advisor, Independent Director, simpAct

Robert E. Kiernan III
Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Portfolio Management LLC

Gaurav Kashyap
Head of Futures Trading, Equiti Group

Christopher Weafer
CEO, Macro-Advisory Limited

Jason Barsema
Co-Founder & President, Halo Investing

Benjamin Fanger
Managing Partner, Shorevest Partners

Deborah Webster
Founder & CEO, AMANI Circle

Christopher Matta
President, 3iQ Digital Assets (US)

Dilip Massand
Managing Director, Phoenix Advisors

Farouk Jivraj
Head of Investment Strategies (QIS) Research, Barclays

Mirza Beg
Founding Partner, Ruya Partners

Fadwa Mohanna
CEO, micity fz co

Dmitry Nazarov
CEO, Genesis Vision

Dominic Longman
CEO, Digital Asset Advisory

Dominique Lecocq
Managing Partner, lecocqassociate

Dominique Habegger
Head of Cadmos Funds & Sustainable Investment Advisor, de Pury Pictet Turrettini & Cie

Ben Gulliver
Senior Portfolio Manager, Pemberton Asset Management

Giang Bui
Head of US Exchange Traded Products, Nasdaq

Dr. Farah Spencer
Managing Partner, GADG, Inc

Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi
President, Future Trends Group

Erik Sebusch
Global Strategy Leader Venture Capital, Mercer Investment Consulting

Ertharin Cousin
Distinguished Lecturer and Distinguished Fellow, Stanford University

Fiorenzo Manganiello
First Vice President, Professor, Banque Profil De Gestion, Geneva Business School

Francois Guibert
Chief Executive Officer, Economic Development Board, Mauritius

Hassan Jeraj
Investor Relations, Serone Capital Management

Frank Wagner
CEO & Co-Founder, Invao

Ian Lim Teck Soon
Co-Founder, Bamboo Wellness Holdings

James McCormack
Managing Director, Fitch Ratings

Javier Espinoza
Private Capital Correspondent, Financial Times

Kanes Naidu Athinaidu
Group CTO, Global Business & Underwriting, The Archipelago Group

Eric Pollackov
Global Head of ETF Capital Markets, Invesco ETFs

Klas Tikkanen
COO, Nordic Capital

Krish Bissoonauthsing
Chief Executive Officer, AfDex - Africa Digital Exchange

Matthew Finlayson
Co-Founder, Invictus Capital

Laura Merlini
Managing Director, EMEA, CAIA Association

Mais Haddadin
Strategic Advisor, Board Member, Topan AG, Anglo Jordanian Society

Mario Marconi
Partner, Africa Wealth Partners

Maaz Sheikh
CEO & Co-Founder, STARZPLAY

Martin Cornish
Principal, U.K. Director, M.W. Cornish, The Hedge Funds Association

Dr. Richard Norris
Director, Fellow, Pandreco Energy Advisors, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

May Ben Khadra
Business Anchor, CNBC Arabia

Gregory Friedman
Head of ETF Management & Strategy, Fidelity Investments

Michel Dominicé
Founder & Senior Partner, Dominicé & Co - Asset Management

Nikola Stojanow
CBDO, aeternity

Oliver Prock
CEO and CIO, Salus Alpha

Orhan Osmansoy
Operating Partner, TVM Capital Healthcare Partners

Patrick Low
Adjunct Professor, University of Hong Kong

James Stull
Partner, King & Spalding LLP

Patrick Oerer
CEO, Emirates Wealth

Macky O'Sullivan
Senior Associate, King & Spalding

Patrick Lowry
CEO & Managing Partner, Iconiq Holding

Rachel Pether
TV Anchor, Digital Asset Report, FintechTV

Pascal van Knijff
Founder & CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Future of Trust BV, Crypto Daily

Andrew Pitts-Tucker
Managing Director, Apex ESG Ratings

Ro Charlz
Vice President, Vickers Venture Partners

Simon Hopkins
CEO, Milltrust International

Bart Cornelissen
Partner – Middle East Energy, Resources & Industrials Leader, Deloitte

Sona Blessing
Research Specialist, Moderator, Alternative Alternatives, Insights

Stergios Voskopoulos
CEO, Kanoo Capital

Sylvain Vieujot
Executive Deputy Chairman, Emirates REIT

Vicky Hudson
Senior Investment Manager, Aberdeen Standard Investments

Vin Menon
Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor, CGCX.io

Chaim Hack
Director of EMEA Business, Enfusion

Najla Al Shirawi
Chief Executive Officer, SICO

Razvan Remsing
Director of Investment Solutions, Aspect Capital

Wael Aburida
Managing Partner, Halo Investment Management

William Tohmé, CFA
Senior Regional Head - MENA, CFA Institute

Paula Petkova
Senator, World Business Angels Forum

Yuri Lobyntsev
Co-Founder & CTO, Cindicator

Michael Langton
Head of Outsourced Services Sales - APAC, Enfusion

Ramy Echo
Managing Director, Echo Capital

Arshad Mohammad Khan
Co-Founder & CEO, Arabian Bourse

Michael Gord
CEO, GDA Group

Nishit Lakhotia
Head of Research, SICO

Mark Irwin
Managing Director, Sentinel Commodities

Peter Cirenza
Chairman of Private Equity & Tactical Strategies, Tikehau Capital

Han Verstraete
Founder & CEO, Senior Advisor, Otonomos, Bitfolio

Dino Verbrugge
Founder, DV Trading

Talal Tabbaa
COO, Jibrel AG

Irina Heaver
Director - Legal & Strategy, Genero Capital

Stephan Kind
Partner, LGT Capital Partners Ltd.

Ahmed Ismail
Co-Founder, HAYVN

Andreas Matsas
CEO & Portfolio Manager, Corinth Capital Investment Fund

John Trammell
Managing Director, Head of Global Strategic Initiatives, Symphony Financial Partners

Richard Barkham
Global Chief Economist, CBRE

Chengsen Yeh
Founder & Managing partner, ZiAsset Consulting

Dr. Ruchi Dana
Partner, Dana Group

Esty Dwek
Chief Investment Officer, FlowBank

Rami M. Alnajjar
Founder & CEO, Black Bull Options

Jae Hwang
Chief Maverick, Tectonic Ideas Lab

Suneel Gokhale
Partner, VentureSouq

Dana Novakovic
Managing Director, LBC Energy Advisory

Leon Thursfield Smith
CEO, DEX

Kjetil Pettersen
CEO & Chairman, KryptoVault

David MOSCATO
Managing Partner, Quarantia Capital Advisory

Mervyn Tang
Senior Director & Global Head of ESG Research, Fitch Ratings

Anton Gans
Founder & Managing Partner, Zenith Family Office

H.E. Gabriel Abed
Barbados Ambassador to the UAE, Government of Barbados, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade

Christine Kampinga
Managing Director, Quantum Impact Investing

Ian Russ
Managing Principal, Delta Rhino Capital

Stephane Farouze
Founder & Chairman, 8F Asset Management

Paritosh Gambhir
Partner, KPMG Lower Gulf

Nitan Pathak
Senior Head of Unit - Institutional Client Relationship, European investment fund

Ram Gopalakrishnan
Director, Affirma Capital

Shaun Lim
Co-Head & Managing Director, Hopu-Arm Innovation Fund

Matthias Knab
Founder & CEO, Opalesque

James Burron
Co-Founder & Partner, Canadian Association of Alternative Strategies & Assets

Terry Culver
Executive Director, Digital Finance Group

H.E. Mohamed Juma Al Musharrkh
CEO, Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah)

Hubertus Thonhauser
Chairman of the Board, Tezos Foundation

John D'Agostino
Senior Strategist, Coinbase Institutional, Coinbase

Salim Omar Salim
Director, Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone

Austin Reid
Chief of Staff, FalconX

Tim Fox
Founder & Managing Director, Tim Fox Advisory

Srinu Chowhan
VP Marketing & Growth, BitOasis

H.E. Hussain Mohammed Al Mahmoudi
CEO, Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP)

Amanda Fabiano
Head of Mining, Galaxy Digital

Haydn Hammond
Chief Executive Officer, Invictus Capital

Ken Coghill
Director – Innovation & Technology Risk Supervision, Dubai Financial Services Authority

Aurora Wong
Founding Partner, DEX Ventures

Rabih Khoury
CXO, MEVP

Mark Hill
Partner and Head of Commercial, IP & TMT in the Middle East, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP

Les Male
CEO, Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX)

Amrita Sethi
NFT Artist, Art by Amrita

Lim Say Cheong
Chief Executive Officer, Lootah Capital

Michael Terpin
CEO, Transform Group

Simon O'Brien
Executive Director - Markets, Abu Dhabi Global Market

Gurraj Singh Sangha
Chief Quantitative Investment Officer, Token Metrics Ventures

Lucius Gregory Meredith
Founder, President & CEO, RChain Cooperative

Gulpreet Kohli
CEO, Mullen Investements

Meher Mirchandani
Director, Manrre Logistics Fund

Hany Choueiri
Vice-Chair, Chief Data Officer, GLEIF, Aldermore Bank

Vladimir Maslyakov
Co-Founder & CTO, TheKey

David Gan
Founder & General Partner, OP Crypto

Eleni Giokos
Anchor & Correspondent, CNN

Sharif Farha
Portfolio Manager, Safehouse Capital

Joel Dietz
Founder, ArtWallet

George Triplow
Head Of Client Development, Northern Trust

Suresh Withana
Investment Manager, Jade Road Investments

Anshul Rai
Founder, Earthwise Investors

Phillip Gillespie
Co-CEO, B2C2

Aman Merchant
Chief Provocateur, Radicle

Pranav Sharma
General Partner, Woodstock Fund

Shameer Thaha
CEO (EMEA) & Global Chief Strategy Officer, Accubits

Miloud Boudjemai
Investment Director - Private Equity, PROPARCO

Sohail Lalani
Founder & CEO, Eglinton Capital Partners Inc.

Manus Cranny
Co-anchor - Daybreak Middle East & Daybreak Europe, Bloomberg

Dan Murphy
Anchor and Correspondent, CNBC

Scott Armstrong
CEO and Founder, mentl

Thomas Nägele
Attorney at Law, Mag. iur., LL.M. Managing Partner and Founder, NÄGELE Attorneys at Law LLC

Vadim Krekotin
Founding Partner, Cryptomeria Capital

Radha Bhandari
Founder & Managing Director, R&B Strategic Management

Basim Habib
Head of Middle East Research, Preqin

Kelly Pettersen
Manager, Institutional Sales and Trading, Coinbase Institutional

Sarah Cocker
Managing Director, Amplify Project Management Services

Lincoln Ellis
Senior Investment Strategist, Global Family Office, Northern Trust

Samia Bayou
Vice President, Global Head of Private Client, BlockFi

Marissa Kim
General Partner, Abra Capital Management

Blair Halliday
Head of UK, Gemini

Ro Shirole
Chief Growth Officer, Compass Mining

Marina Petroleka
Global Head of ESG Research, Sustainable Fitch

Steve Kurz
Global Head of Asset Management, Galaxy Digital

Russell Starr
Executive Chairman and CEO, Valour

Michael Silberberg
Head of Investor Relations, AltTab.Capital

Laurent Perello
Blockchain Advisor, TRON DAO

Ben Gagnon
Chief Mining Officer, Bitfarms

Alex Zinder
Head of Ledger Enterprise Solutions, Ledger

Yaniv Bertele
CEO, Vesttoo

Romain Nouzareth
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, SATO Technologies Corp.

Philip Borgia
Portfolio Manager; Executive Director, LGT ILS Partners Ltd.

Adriana Kohlhofer
Relationship Manager, EMEA, Blockdaemon

Ana Barjasic
CEO, Connectology, Board Member, European Innovation Council

Elizabeth Rossiello
CEO & Founder, AZA Finance

Nikos Latsos
Investment Director, LFO S.A.

Yael Tamar
CEO & Co-Founder, SolidBlock

Emi Lorincz
President, Crypto Valley Association

Karl Tlais
Strategic Advisor, Founder, iAdvisory

Sophia Shluger
Managing Director, Europe, Amber Group

Sean Salloux
Co-Founder & CRO, Baanx

Patricia Webber
CEO, Nevo Capital

Cameron Joyce
SVP, Deputy Head of Research Insights, Preqin

Francesco Filia
CEO & CIO, Fasanara Capital

Tony Dong
Head of Capital Formation, OP Crypto

Quynh Ho
VP, M&A and Investments, GSR

Akshay Krishnan
Head of Macro & Relative Value Strategies, Stenham Asset Management

Ali Al Alaf
Principal, The Riverside Company

Ioana Surpateanu
Web3 Investor, Advisor & Executive Board Member, Multichain Asset Managers Association, Swash, Cryptowalkers, Poolz Finance

Sachee Trivedi
Founder & Director, Trident Capital Investments

Michael Casey
Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk

Alastair Sewell
Regional Head of Fitch Ratings' Fund & Asset Manager Group, EMEA & APAC, Fitch Ratings

James Delaney
Director, Government Affairs, AIMA

Christopher Bendiksen
Bitcoin Research Lead, CoinShares

Cyrus Mewawalla
Head of Thematic Research, GlobalData Plc

Sasha Qadri
Host/Moderator

Abdulmohsin Al Omran
Founder and CEO, The Family Office

Sharif El-Badawi
CEO, Dubai Future District Fund

Elizabeth Di Cioccio
Managing Director & Head of Middle East, KKR

Zia ul Rab Siddiqui
Director - Investments & Partnerships, Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP)

Emma Cui
Founding Partner & CEO, LongHash Ventures

Henri Arslanian
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Nine Blocks Capital Management

Ruslan Zinurov
CEO, Merkle Standard

Renée Leibler
Partner and Co-Founder, Harmonic Chain

Jalak Jobvanputra
Founder and Managing Partner, Future Perfect Ventures

Khalid Howladar
Partner, Acreditus, Chairman, MRHB DeFi

Chiamaka Ezenwa
Chair, Delphos Impact

Arnaud LECLERCQ
Partner and Group Managing Director, Lombard Odier Group

Shubin Jha
Head of Research & Portfolio Manager, Menai Asset Management

Bhupinder Singh
Managing Director, Global Head of Leveraged & Acquisition Finance, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Arjun Sethi
Co-Founder and Partner, Tribe Capital

Rishi Kapoor
Co-CEO, Investcorp Holdings

Alexander Bebov
Managing Partner, BAC Securities

Chase Lochmiller
CEO & Co-Founder, Crusoe Energy

Amit Bando
Chief Economist and Senior Advisor on Just and Inclusive Economics, Ceres

Fikry Younis
Partner, Lumina Capital Advisers

Hervé Francois
Partner - Private Equity, Blockchain and Digital Assets, Investcorp

Daniel Liebau
Chief Investment Officer, Modular Blockchain Fund, Modular Asset Management

Tom Kehoe
Managing Director, Global Head of Research and Communications, AIMA

Yazan Abdeen
CEO, AD Investment Management

Andreas Vogelsanger
CEO, Asia Frontier Capital

Sebastian Widmann
Head of Strategy, Komainu

Serge Lépine
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Cabot Capital Partners

Sath Ganesarajah
CEO, Lake Parime Limited

Nicolás Schmidt-Urzúa
Managing Director, Silver 8 Capital

Fanny Philip
COO, SATO Technologies Corp

Xin Song
Asia General Manager, GSR Markets Pte Ltd

Mariusz Adamski
Partner, ff Venture Capital

Mark Bruny
Head of Global Capital Markets, Lendable

Robert Willock
Director MENA and Regional General Manager EICN, Economist Intelligence Unit

Anton Mozgovoy
Co-Founder, Mover

Lin Cheung
CEO, JKL Group

Edgar Senior
CEO, CRO and Co-Founder, Tresidor Investment Management LLP

Robert Cohen
Managing Director, Benson Oak

Fiona Treble
Managing Director, Global Head of Membership, AIMA

Alex Fazel
Chief Partnerships Officer / Founding Partner, SwissBorg

Julien Pageaud
Founding Managing Partner, Sparkle Ventures

Stephen Glagola
Vice President Equity Research, Cowen

Carson Smith
CEO, SBI Crypto

Melina Heinl-Powell
VP - Growth Markets, Preqin

David Mercer
Chief Executive Officer, LMAX Group

Kokila Alagh
Founder & Managing Partner, KARM Legal Consultants

Ijeoma Okoli
Director, Digital Economy Initiative

Alberto Yepez
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Forgepoint Capital

Wes Cummins
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Applied Digital Corporation

Jeremy Hill
Managing Partner, Kidbrooke Environment Fund

Shobhit Maini
Co-head of Digital Assets, Global Markets, Citigroup

Mike Baur
Co-Founder & CEO, Swiss Ventures Group

Cathryn Chen
Founder & GP, MarketX Ventures

Dr. Douglas Greenig
Chief Executive Officer, Florin Court Capital

Matteo Dante Perruccio
President International, Wave Digital Assets

Mojiolaoluwa Seun Salisu
Founder & CEO, Real Davis Group

Nicole Downer
Managing Partner, MV Credit

Symon Drake-Brockman
Managing Partner, Pemberton

Alex Child
Head of Research, Carbon Cap Management

Mona El Isa
Founder & CEO, Avantgarde

Zaid Al-Qaimi
Managing Partner, Patrimium

Olga Feldmeier
Chairman, Smart Valor AG

S. Sriniwasan
Managing Director, Kotak Investment Advisors Limited

Justina Lee
Reporter, Bloomberg News

James Ruane
Managing Director, Capital Solutions, International, CDPQ London

Pierre Samaties
Partner, ROLAND BERGER

Abdallah Abu Sheikh
PR manager, Astra Tech

George Ralph CITP
Global Managing Director & CRO, RFA

Hartej Sawhney
Managing Partner at Toshi, Founder & CEO at Zokyo

John Kamara
Founder, Adanian Labs, Chairman, ABC

Susanne Chishti
Chief Executive Officer, FINTECH Circle

Samantha Bohbot
Investor - Chief Growth Officer, RockawayX

Steve Hoffman
Chairman & CEO, Founders Space

Steve Schlenker
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, DN Capital

Pat LaVecchia
CEO, Oasis Pro Markets

Chris Scanlan
Group Head of Corporate Development, Pyypl

Ami Ben-David
CEO & Founder, Ownera

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