Speakers

Co-Founder & CEO, Centbee

Angus is the founder and CEO of Centbee.com, a leading global Bitcoin SV payments business. This is the culmination of a career founding and leading innovative payments businesses in South Africa.

Angus was part of the founding team in 2000, and later CEO of eBucks.com. As the world’s first bank-backed digital currency, this business made a lasting mark on the South African eCommerce, banking, and loyalty landscape. He served FirstRand for 11 years in various senior roles, including leading the Vodacom Financial Services partnership. Following that, he was the Head of Alliance Banking and CIO at Mercantile Bank Limited for four years. He introduced payment capabilities to Blue Label Telecoms and then MMI Holdings, serving at an executive level with these listed companies.

He has helped create several ‘challenger’ FinTech ventures in the past few years, including BETTR Bank, a neobank serving Gen-Z; Intergreatme, a self-sovereign digital identity app; and Centbee.

Angus was educated at Wits (BSc Hons) and the University of Oxford (AMP). He is a member of the Institute of Directors and serves on the Technical Standards Committee of the Bitcoin Association (Switzerland).

Reporter, Producer and Host, CoinGeek

After four and a half years of iGaming industry experience with Casino City, Becky Liggero Fontana joined entrepreneur and CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre to serve as the Head On-site Reporter for Calvin’s media brands. Since August 2009, Becky has exclusively conducted interviews with senior level executives and enthusiasts for CoinGeek.com while continuing to travel the world and document her adventures for all to watch and read.

Head of MSS IT Strategy, Digital Assets Technology (MD) & CIO Securities Services, HSBC Investment Bank

Chris is responsible for MSS's Digital Assets technology projects including tokenisation use-cases, CBDC experiments, and custody of crypto-currencies.  The projects involve the use of various distributed ledger technologies and in some cases DvP involving title transfer and access to payment rails.

CEO & Co-Founder, Britevue

CEO, Tokenized

James is an engineer, entrepreneur, and ardent supporter of Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision for Bitcoin.

He is the co-founder and CEO of Tokenized and the creator of the award-winning Tokenized Protocol, an open-source token and smart contract system for the Bitcoin SV network.

James is also a founding member of the BSV Blockchain Association's Technical Standards Committee, an organization committed to building universal and easy-to-use tools that help make Bitcoin's value accessible to society at large.

Co-Founder & CMO, Haste Arcade

Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner. The company has since grown to become a leader in the mobile ordering and payment space for in-venue dining at bars, restaurants, and hotels, as well as digital menus, with more than 10,000 accounts throughout the United States.

In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world's first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. DePinto's vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.

Author and Technical Editor, CoinGeek

Joshua Henslee is a consultant, developer, writer and educator within the Bitcoin space. After completing degrees both in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Georgia in just 4 years, he worked for 7 years as a Technical ERP consultant, helping to deliver full lifecycle software implementations for middle market companies.

Specializing in Retail and credit card implementations, he became fascinated with how Bitcoin can solve the problems his clients often faced with legacy payment systems and decided to leave his position and work full-time in the Bitcoin space in late 2019. He has developed several applications on Bitcoin, including an real-time classifieds advertising bidding platform, a bookmarking and RSS reader, a retro-themed social media client and an open-sourced Bitcoin wallet. He has also written many articles, and maintains a YouTube channel where he has published over 200 videos discussing Bitcoin as well as web development tutorials.

Founder & CEO, Intrasettle

Kumaraguru is a computer science engineer with over 15 years of experience in managing businesses driven by technology with vast experience in product development and sales. He has held leadership roles in UAE, Singapore, Qatar, Saudi & Indian companies, including advising government agencies on the impact of new technologies. He has a passion for bringing efficiencies to technology-driven solutions. He is the BSV Blockchain Ambassador for India, helping to build a developer network for the advancement of blockchain.

Chief Bitcoin Historian, CoinGeek

Kurt Wuckert Jr is CoinGeek’s Chief Bitcoin Historian and the founder of GorillaPool with over a decade of experience in bitcoin infrastructure, tech entrepreneurship and education. Kurt is an expert communicator on all things bitcoin, and has been at the forefront of testing computer science theories and breaking bitcoin scaling records as an honest node operator on the BSV blockchain.

Chief of Staff, nChain | Executive Committee, Bitcoin Association

Marcin is an Executive Committee Member at the global industry organization that supports the BSV blockchain. He is an attorney-at-law in Poland specializing in IP law, IT law, data protection (CIPP/E), with a profound knowledge of various legal aspects of blockchain technology and crypto-assets. He is also a certified Swiss startup board member and EMBA candidate at he University of Cambridge.
 
Marcin is the former co-chair of the Privacy Working Group of INATBA, and a member of the Expert Panel of EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum. He previously worked as legal counsel at another blockchain project – Lisk Foundation in Zug, Switzerland. 
 
Marcin is a member of ThinkBLOCKtank and the Swiss-Polish Blockchain Association. He is a frequent speaker and panelist at blockchain-related events, courses, and training.

COO Investment Division, nChain | Partner, Monetix

Managing Director, Private Equity - Ayre Ventures

Paul is the Managing Director of Ayre Ventures, working on investments into companies building on the BSV blockchain. Prior to that, he was a technology investment banker for tech companies on private financing, IPOs, and M&A transactions.

Senior Technology Lead for Digital Currencies & Assets, MSS IT, HSBC Investment Bank

Prashant looks after a number of Digital Assets technology initiatives in Markets and Securities Services, HSBC. This includes build out of asset tokenisation platform, and delivering and experimenting other use cases leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Managing Director, Velitor Law

CEO & Co-Founder, Unisot AS

Stephan Nilsson is the co-founder and CEO of UNISOT, an “Enterprise Blockchain Service Provider” providing enterprise turnkey solutions that solves the Top 10 problems in global supply chains. He has over 20 years’ experience working with ERP systems integrations. He is also engaged with Ernst & Young Skye, building an Industry Solution in SAP for the seafood industry that provides Global Traceability, Provenance and BDI through the use of Bitcoin SV Blockchain.

Stephan is the founder and President of Norway Bitcoin and Blockchain Association, co-founder of BITaccel, a Nordic blockchain startup accelerator and MOB in Oslo Blockchain Cluster. He has been involved in the crypto/blockchain space since 2012 and started integrating SAP with blockchain in 2014.