François d'Hautefeuille - Vogüé is the managing Director of Evariste Quant Research, an independant financial analysis firm specialized in quantitative portfolio construction and member of Cercle des Analystes Indépendants.

François d'Hautefeuille - Vogüé focuses on developping artificial intelligence algorithms applied to equity fund management and asset allocation.

François d'Hautefeuille - Vogüé worked at Deutsche Bank London from 2006 to 2008. François was part of the quantitative team. He first worked with Pascal Constantini on the CROCI equity indices. He then joined the Hedge Fund team headed by Stéphane Farouze. He originated a deal with Goldman Sachs Asset Management Quantitative Team headed by Bob Litterman. He worked on the DB ARB hedge fund replication index.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank London, he was responsible for the structured fund team at Crédit Agricole Asset Management (Amundi). He was responsible for a team of 7 fund managers with 15 bln EUR AUM. He raised 5 bln EUR in Japan and 10 bln EUR in France. He achieved a leader position in structured products in France and Japan (in partnership with Resona Bank).

Prior to that, he worked for 5 years at Deutsche Bank Paris office and 2 years in Frankfurt at Deutsche Bank fund management subsidiary (DWS). He managed the future positions of Interrenta and Eurorenta, the largest bond funds in Germany at this time.

François graduated from ESSEC Graduate School of Business Administration. He won a 2nd price in Philosophy for the Concours Général de l’Enseignement Libre. He is fluent in English and German.

Tech Entrepreneur,
Samsung, PayPal, Nokia, Way Systems, Gemalto, Orange
GM Gemplus card Latin America
Sales Director Gemplus East Europe
France Telecom Mexico (Orange)

General Partner at Conexo Ventures
Board & strategic advisor at Mobeewave

Cofounded LoopPay company with Will Graylin. Sold to Samsung for $250M. Damien Balsan helped launch Samsung Pay with LoopPay's patented MST technology embedded in hundreds of millions of smartphones.

Specialties: Mobile Payment, card payments, smart cards, mobile phones

4Y+ of fintech & blockchain experience in Paris, London, New York and the Crypto Valley in Switzerland.

7Y+ of professional IT experience as full-stack developer, deputy CTO, CTO.

Gaspard Boudoux d'Hautefeuille graduated in Digital Project Management from EEMI, Paris.

Previously CTO at Globcoin where he built from scratch the card payments technology for the fintech. He raised £2M+ in 2018 on one of the first KYC/AML compliant ICOs and the initial seed round. He launched in 2018 the GLX: the only stablecoin backed by a basket of fiat currencies.

Co-Founder and CTO at Halgo. He is now leading the full stack development: blockchain, systems engineering, security, monitoring, database management, backend, APIs, mobile & web apps development.

Gaspard is leading the design of the suite of Halgo digital securities backed by Mega ETFs and linked to an actively-managed investment strategy. He is now focused on its cornerstone: the Halgo 20 digital security and its Security Token Offering.

He is an open-source advocate. He is a devout cypherpunk, an Ethereum advocate, a chess player and fond of inline skating marathons.

Gaspard is based in London and Paris.

Specialties: blockchain, digital fundraising, compliance, growth hacking, systems engineering, card payments

Investment specialist with a strong background in highly structured deals and in transactions advisory including credit and equity–linked.

Founder of Fintech investment solution "9.30AM". Bringing professional and ethical investment advice, with great market knowledge, using cost-efficient platforms and products, to achieve the leanest path to preserving and increasing wealth for retail and institutional clients.

Co-Founder at OrfiCapital Limited, an asset management company specialized in Asian and emerging credit, and Partner at 360 Advisory that provides investment advice to high net worth individuals, businesses, and investment companies.

Robert Krause is a leader and recognized financial products innovator. An expert in the areas of futures, options, volatility, derivatives, equity research, risk control, hedge funds, due diligence, and private equity. Key experiences include: board directorships, director of $1b fund of funds, portfolio manager of $200m commodity pool and private equity fund, engineered novel tradable derivative instruments, designed volatility indices, managed several teams, built successful businesses, negotiated agreements and licenses, developed client accounts, performed extensive due diligence reviews on 1,000 hedge funds, built quantitative, qualitative, and artificial intelligence trading models, authored numerous written works, and an accomplished speaker.

Experience / Years
Listed Derivatives 10+
Marketing 10+
Proprietary Trading 10+
Public Speaking 10+
Quant Modelling 10+
Product Development 10+
Business Development 10+
Alternative Investments 10+
Risk Management 10+
Deal Negotiations 10
Intellectual Property 10
Due Diligence 10
Financial Technology 10
Board of Directors 9
Private Equity 8
Volatility (primary focus) 8
Index Design 7
Asset Management 5
Quantitative Research 4
Institutional Equity 4
Structured Products 2
Commodity Trading
Advisor 2
Editor of Monthly
Quantitative Report 2

8 years of professional experience in the automotive industry working with some of the largest global players from China to the UK: For the love of cars. Deep technical, operational and strategic experience from luxury retailing to program planning.

Executive MBA graduate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, looking to be graduated by December 2020, learning continuously through classroom teachings and engaging in projects such as an entrepreneurial project to deploy AgriTech in Africa.

Paul Ledoux is advising Halgo on business operations and strategy. He took a keen interest in finance following fintech modules in his MBA and has been a crypto investor since 2016.

Paul Ledoux is an active member of the Oxford Blockchain Society and the Oxford Entrepreneurs Network.

Paul Ledoux was awarded the Investment Foundations certificate by the CFA Institute.

After a degree in Economic and Social Sciences in Geneva (1991), a preparation HEC in Paris, he is graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Gestion (Management Business School) in Financial Markets.

A year of trading for own account on the futures markets (french MATIF). He then worked for two years at APTimum Conseil, a consulting company specializing in risk analysis of financial markets based on proprietary software, developed from the econometric model of Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT -by Steve Ross-USA) and is particularly involved in the deployment of chart analysis of the Green Eye software (United Kingdom). During the same period, he developed his method of quantitative and chartist analysis. With this experience, he joined a portfolio management company in 1997 where he created and co-managed the "FR Networld" Mutual Fund, the first European investment fund entirely invested in listed securities deriving the majority of their income from the Internet. The success, motivated him to create in the United States, the "Monument Euronet Fund", the first US investment fund investing in European " Internet " companies whose turnover comes mainly also from the Internet sector.

In 2002, he turned to patronage and more particularly in the field of Innovation in various innovative projects (aeronautics, search engine, new materials) within Sponsors & Co, while continuing his consultancy activity on the financial markets for a Swiss wealth management company, Vernes & Associés SA.

From 2007, still in the field of innovation, he focused on "green technologies" linked to the production of "clean" energy from biomasses ressources. It focuses on a breakthrough technology in the field of drying, roasting, pyrolysis and gasification of biomasses and wastes, using CO2 as heat transfer gas. Multinational corporations showed lots of interest in developing the process at an industrial level. He spent several years focused on the development of this new technology, with applications in many industrial fields. Today he owns the patent named « Method and system for producing integrated hydrogen from organic matter ».

His passion for the financial markets is still lively and strong, he remains involved in the development of several thematic investment funds.

His deep interest for innovation in the broad sense and having understood since 1994 (when he tried to create the first french online brokerage firm) that the Internet would change our methods of communications and medium of access to the markets of goods and services. He quickly understands that the Blockchain technology will become THE next Revolution in the way of contracting, and of exchanging goods and services.

He joined the Halgo business in order to bring his knowledge in innovation, IA, deep data analytics, behavioral Finance and his investment ideas in companies involved in the emerging sectors as IoT and Blockchain and to contribute to the construction of this new medium in the making.

Visit https://www.willgraylin.com for more information, or to contact Will for speaking opportunities.

Mr. Graylin is an innovator and entrepreneur, having founded 6 high-tech ventures, been an executive leader and board member for Fortune 500 companies, a military officer, and is an active philanthropist. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of OV Loop, Inc., an Everywhere-Commerce platform (think WeChat for the Americas) providing 1-Tap or Handsfree messaging and payments for people and businesses to better interact, transact on virtually any device, anywhere.

Mr. Graylin is also Chief Executive Officer at Indigo Technologies, delivering ultra efficient EVs for urban mobility, with patented breakthroughs in electric propulsion, battery management, and wireless charging.

Prior to OV Loop and Indigo, Mr. Graylin was Global Co-GM of Samsung Pay after Samsung acquired his company LoopPay. He helped launch Samsung Pay with LoopPay's patented MST technology embedded in hundreds of millions of smartphones for universally accepted Tap & Pay experiences.

Mr. Graylin also founded ROAM Data, world’s largest white label supplier of Square-like mPOS solutions, which enabled millions of merchants around the world to accepted payment cards; Prior to ROAM, Mr. Graylin founded: WAY Systems, the world’s first pocket-sized mobile point-of-sale provider (acquired by Verifone); and EntitleNet, a security software company (acquired by BEA Systems/later Oracle).

Mr. Graylin us currently serving on the Board of Synchrony Financials (NYSE: SYF, largest private label credit card issuer in the world.) He is also currently an investor/director/mentor to more than a dozen high-tech startups. He also supports non-profit organizations including ROCA (serving high risk young men and women in 21 communities in the U.S.) and Global Unites (youth movement for conflict transformation, in 13 countries).

Mr. Graylin immigrated to the U.S. from China at the age of 12, he earned two Bachelors degrees from the University of Washington (Electrical Engineering Computer Science/EECS and Chinese Linguistics), and earned two Masters degrees from MIT (MS EECS and MS Business), and is currently a Connection Science Fellow with MIT Media Lab, and teaches part time at MIT on Fintech Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Mr. Graylin has numerous patents on payments, security and voice-powered communications.

His service to his country includes 6 years as a U.S. Nuclear Submarine Officer, and his family continues this tradition with one son currently in the United States Naval Academy.

Prof. Lipton is Chief Information Officer at SilaMoney, Connection Science Fellow at MIT and a Visiting Professor and Dean's Fellow at HUJI. His background is in Investment Banking, OTC tradings, electronic markets, and Risk Management. Prof. Lipton is a strong thought leader with a proven track-record of managing large quantitative organisations in challenging environments, building teams from scratch, merging existing teams, and re-aligning teams to fulfill new mandates.

His current interests include FinTech, including distributed ledger and other applications of cryptography in banking and payment systems, and holistic risk management. His scientific interests are centered on quantitative development of modern Monetary Circuit Theory, mechanisms of money creation, interlinked banking networks, etc.

Visit https://connection.mit.edu for more information.

Hirander Misra is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group, offering innovative solutions for the creation & operation of electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure in securities, FX, derivatives, commodities, crypto & digital tokenised assets. GMEX is one of the Top 10 leaders of blockchain technology in the All Party Parliamentary Group 2018 report on the UK Blockchain industry with Hirander a leading influencer. He is also in LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. He is featured in the Financial Technologist 2019 list of the 50 most game changing founders of Fintech companies for GMEX Group. He is also part of the Mauritius Financial Services Commission task force on Digital Finance.

He is a partner of Digital Partners Network (DPN) offering new age digital professional services and the world's first regulated tokenised hybrid fund - Digital Investment Fund PCC (DIF) for which he is Managing Director. He is also Chairman of SECDEX, the Seychelles based Securities, Commodities and Derivatives Exchange and Deputy Chairman of MAX Markets, a London based digital assets exchange ecosystem.

He is also Chairman of MINDEX – The Mauritius based International Derivatives and Commodities Exchange underpinned by blockchain technology.

He is also Founder & Co-Chairman of FinComEco, a fully integrated Financial & Commodities Ecosystem providing services to help improve the livelihoods of Sub Saharan African farmers using blockchain.

He is also Vice Chairman of Arabian Bourse, a crypto exchange and custodian venture in Abu Dhabi under ADGM.

He is a Director of DAG Global, which has applied for a UK banking licence and whose mission is to bridge traditional financial services with emerging digital assets to provide the premier trusted platform to access the digital and crypto economy.

He is also a Director of USAVE Blockchain offering ethical digital tokenised physical gold and Group Board Director at Tokenise (tokenise.io).

Formerly, he was the COO and Co-Founder of Chi-X Europe Limited, being instrumental in taking the company from concept in November 2005 to reality with the launch and ongoing development with a successful exit to Bats Global Markets for $365M.

Software company founder, CEO/CTO, and student of innovation.

Andy Singleton is currently working on HumanDB, new architecture for delivering automated medical advice, and Unbundled Fund, for better agility, liquidity, and cost-effectiveness than traditional LP funds. Andy is currently under agreement to write a book on the economics of innovation, "Decoding the new economic order".

Andy Singleton recently sold Assembla, a SaaS service for software teams that returned 25X to its investors. He previously founded PowerSteering, an enterprise SaaS company went to IPO through a rollup with Upland.

Andy has written about 1M lines of code in his career and launched more than twenty software, SaaS, and online services products. In college, he was employee #1 at P&H, a banking software company which was eventually sold for $150M. After a stint at pioneering hedge fund Ivan F. Boesky and Company, Andy Singleton was employee #2 at SNL Securities, where he took responsibility for product development. SNL prospered and was recently sold for $2.2B. He also built advisory products for Bloomberg, Reuters, and Citibank, and ran machine learning and genetic algorithms for trading.

Software architect with focus on mobile and distributed system development. Experienced in leading teams in the development and deployment of successful software engineering projects. Innovative and creative with a track record of delivering high scale and robust software systems that last.

Specialties: Mobile and distributed computing, object oriented development, SOA.

Algorand Inc. built the world’s first open source, permissionless, pure proof-of-stake blockchain protocol for the next generation of financial products. This blockchain, the Algorand protocol, is the brainchild of Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali. A technology company dedicated to removing friction from financial exchange, Algorand Inc. is powering the DeFi evolution by enabling the creation and exchange of value, building new financial tools and services, bringing assets on-chain and providing responsible privacy models.

Evariste Quant Research focuses on developping artificial intelligence algorithms applied to equity fund management and asset allocation.

Evariste Quant Research is also member of Cercle des Analystes Indépendants and member of SFAF - French Financial Analysts Association

Specialties: artificial intelligence, asset allocation, VAR management, GARP, and long short equity

Digital Investment Fund PCC (“DIF”) is the world’s first fully regulated tokenised hybrid fund.

DIF is a Professional Fund registered in the Seychelles and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

DIF has been set up as a Protected Cell Company (PCC), with 3 cells initially.

Focusing on providing finance for:

• FinTech equity projects
• Green Finance equity projects
• Green Finance debt projects

DIF is a ground breaking fully hybrid fund:

• Approved and regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA)
• It offers the facets of a traditional fund structure combined with the ability to tokenise the whole fund, any individual cell or any component part
• Bridges the gap between the current world and the new world by way of its hybrid structure.

DIF is set up to allow listing on regulated traditional and digital exchanges allowing ease of entry and exit for investors.

The DIF management team is well diversified with relevant experience and a proven track record in financial services, FinTech (including blockchain), wealth management, legal, real estate, CleanTech, private equity and transaction advisory.

360 Advisory is an independent financial advisory boutique.

It provides its clients with personalized advice on investments and transaction structuring.

Specialties: fund management, credit, equity, capital markets, private transactions, and financial education

At Goodwin, they partner with their clients to practice law with integrity, ingenuity, agility and ambition. They benefit from 1,200-plus lawyers across 13 locations in the United States, Europe and Asia excel at complex transactions, high-stakes litigation and world-class advisory services in the technology, life sciences, real estate, private equity, and financial industries. Their unique combination of deep experience serving both the innovators and investors in a rapidly changing, technology-driven economy sets them apart. To learn more, visit Goodwin at www.goodwinlaw.com

Office locations - Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, London, Cambridge, Paris, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Hong Kong

Demand Derivatives Corp. is the parent company for the forthcoming innovative, vertically integrated futures exchange RealDemand Board of Trade (“RealBOT™”) and its dedicated clearing house RealDemand Clearing (“RealClear™”) (upon CFTC and SEC approval) destined to trade the world’s major assets in a creative new way. The company plans to use its four unique instrument designs, pioneering blockchain technology, instant clearing, and default-free, fully collateralized positions to create a significant competitive challenge to existing exchanges and clearing houses.

Futures contracts have not changed in over 150 years. Futures exchanges develop new assets but then list the same inefficient futures contract design on those assets. Our exchange, in contrast, redefines and reimagines the essence of the instrument itself. Our instrument designs add precision, risk control, and large cost reductions that are not possible with the contract designs of the past.

GMEX Group is a set of companies that offer sustainable and innovative solutions for a new era of global financial markets. Providing business expertise, the latest technology, connectivity & operational excellence delivered through an aligned partnership driven approach. They use their extensive market infrastructure experience and expertise to create an appropriate strategic master plan with exchanges, clearing houses, depositories, registries and warehouse receipt platforms.

Their key business solutions enable the creation and operation of cost effective electronic exchanges and post trade infrastructure in multiple asset classes including equities, debt, FX, derivatives and commodities. They operate in both developing and developed markets through the establishment of cohesive business and technology ecosystems. GMEX offers the added benefit of interconnection to multiple partner exchanges, to create global networks of liquidity.

GMEX comprises:

• GMEX Group: ensures a cohesive strategic direction is maintained
• GMEX Technologies: Provider of multi-asset exchange trading and post trade technology through a unique partnership driven approach
• GMEX Innovation: R&D of technologically advanced new product solutions for exchange trading, clearing and settlement
• GMEX Services: Strategic consultancy, implementing services & support for exchanges and market infrastructure providers
• GMEX Investments: Enables selective seed and early stage strategic investments into market infrastructure and related FinTech companies.

The Seychelles based Securities, Commodities and Derivatives Exchange (“SECDEX”) is a market infrastructure business based in the Seychelles. The SECDEX ecosystem includes an exchange, a central counterparty clearing house (CCP), a central securities depository with registry, a digital marketplace and a digital custodian.

Digital Partners Network (“DPN”) provides tailored professional services to meet the demands of disruptive businesses, which focus on automation, digitalisation, use of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology. These include specialist legal, compliance, corporate structuring, finance, strategic consulting, technology enabled digital transformation and potential investment through a digital fund.

The network includes:

• DIGITAL ASSOCIATES LTD: providing legal services.
• DIGITAL FINANCE LLP: providing accounting, finance, strategic advisory and digital transformation services.
• DIGITAL CORP. PARTNERS LTD: providing corporate structuring advice.
• DIGITAL INVESTMENT FUND PCC: providing potential equity investment into leading-edge FinTech firms and Green Finance (equity and debt) investments.

Globacap offers everything you need to manage your capital in one place, freeing up your time and resources to focus on your business. We offer the only equity management software that can support you for the entire life cycle, from private placement and cap table management to EMI Option plans and secondary transferability, taking you from day one to exit in one simple, cost-effective solution. And by embracing advanced blockchain technology, we ensure your data is always accurate and secure.

FCA-regulated | Part of accenture’s FinTech Innovation Lab London 2020 | Listed in the UK Disruption50 Index

HCE Service Vision & Mission

HCE deliver innovative, secure mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) card payments and HCE (host card emulation) tokenisation services to their micro-/SME retail and corporate customers enabling chip and PIN, contactless NFC, e-commerce and mobile payments at Points of Sales.

At HCEservice.com, through their innovative and state-of-the-art UK hosted software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure, HCE service retail enterprises, transport, telecom, local government, and banks and other financial card acquiring and issuing customers.

HCE's SWIM (Software Wireless Identity Module) mobile app service is the major security component in their customers’ smartphone payment and messaging infrastructures. SWIM Mobile Apps provide strong cryptographic security to a wide range of applications and services on mobile devices such as Android.

Their hosted wireless MAP (Mobile Application Platform) HCE IPOS SWIM server is the most advanced EMV card processing and token issuance payment platform!

HCE manage for their customers IPOSUP.COM SWIM Mobile Apps on consumer NFC (Near Field Communication) smartphones, which securely process card payments and store card tokens as an alternative to carrying physical cards.

HCE's unique business proposition is to provide SaaS (Software as a Service) innovative mobile payments services.

Aeturnum is a global software development firm specializing in early stage technology products and companies. They combine expertise in the latest applications and Agile product engineering methodologies with a highly modular software platform built on standardized, non-proprietary technologies. This combination enables us to accelerate go to market for new products by as much as 40-50%.

They typically work with companies that are looking to ramp up a tech team with the right skills, incorporate the right leading-edge technologies into their offering, or pivot or rebuild an existing product.

Almost all their engineering and management folks hail from startup environs and that gives them a unique perspective on the need for speed and the imperatives of delivering robust products and platforms, cost-efficiently. Unlike so many other software development firms, Aeturnum don’t believe in throwing “bodies on the job.” Instead they combine their skills with their proven software platform to accelerate timelines and improve quality.

Aeturnum's approach doesn’t take the shirt of your back. Aeturnum align their efforts with your business goals and ensure that they build your product correctly. Most of their customers have an exit strategy in mind from the start, so we design and develop with the proper technology foundation; one that does not limit options. And it works. To date, we have helped launch more than 52 different applications and helped drive successful outcomes for many of our clients.

Coinfirm’s mission is to provide technology for regulatory compliance, bringing new levels of transparency and trust to the world of digital currencies. Coinfirm's aim is to serve as a foundation for the safe adoption of blockchain by all actors in the economy, including traditional financial institutions, governments, regulators as well as ordinary citizens. They do that by applying blockchain technology to deliver solutions for various compliance challenges.

Coinfirm provides anti-money laundering (AML) for virtual currencies and blockchain actors. Their proprietary solutions streamline compliance to near-automation. Coinfirm enables traditional financial institutions and regulators to safely engage with the crypto world.

By creating their own token, the AMLT, Coinfirm is supporting the creation of a global community of like-minded organizations and individuals who want to protect the ecosystem. By offering incentives for users to report ransomware and other scams, Coinfirm helps fight online crime. Coinfirm's platform can be used to rate good and bad actors in the economy, based on data delivered by a democratic network that will provide an open, universal standard for AML in the cryptocurrency space.

Coinfirm's Trudatum product gives users the ability to register and authenticate any type of data, providing instant, secure online confirmation of the authenticity of documents and other files. Trudatum has applications beyond the crypto space, in e-commerce, online banking and insurance, and any process that requires confirmation of steps by multiple actors in dispersed locations. This allows us to fight the multibillion dollar losses caused by document fraud every year.

In 2019, they launched the new, unique service - Reclaim Crypto. Mission of this project is to offer the first and the largest crypto reclaim solution, by providing the potential for billions of dollars in misappropriated cryptocurrency to be effectively and legally reclaimed.