Hervé Francois
Partner at Investcorp
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Hervé Francois is the Partner at Investcorp. He also is the Board Member at Bit2Me and Zodia Custody.
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John Izaguirre
John Izaguirre is the Head of Business Development at Censo. He previously served as the director of developer relations for BNB Chain and has also worked on projects such as Bit2Me, Ontology, and ConsenSys.
Julian Sawyer
Julian Sawyer is the CEO of Zodia Custody, the former CEO at Bitstamp and a co-founder of Starling Bank. He was formerly the Managing Director of the UK and Europe at Gemini and Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Starling, where he led it through periods of hyper growth, including scaling its app which has recently reached one million customers. Starling Bank is one of the largest mobile banks disrupting the retail banking sector in the United Kingdom (UK). Julian also oversaw Starling's business operations, including payment systems, card operations, and customer support. Prior to this, he started Bluerock Consulting, a financial management consultancy which he sold in 2012. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in high-growth financial services organizations, including as a management consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Ernst & Young, where he specialized in large-scale transformation in the cards and payments industry. Europe is the birthplace of modern financial markets and the UK has been a global financial capital of innovation for hundreds of years. The concept of thoughtful regulation was first developed from the lessons learned in these markets over centuries.
Koh Onozawa Martínez
Koh Onozawa Martinez is the co-CEO of Bit2Me. He graduated from the University of SAN Carlos.
Maxime de Guillebon
Maxime de Guillebon is the COO of OpenTrade, having previously held positions at Ripple, Zodia Custody and Bank of New York Mellon. He is a graduate of SKEMA Business School and Coventry University.
Ricardo Da Ros
Ricardo Da Ros is the CEO of Patex. He was ex-Head of Brazil at Binance & Crypto.com.
Jonathan Hugh
Jonathan is the Chief Financial Officer at Zodia Custody. He has over 25 years of experience in Finance, encompassing energy, commodity trading, and financial services, and is based in the company's London office. Before GSR, he was at ED&F Man Group Ltd, where he served as Managing Director in Agri-Industrials and Business Development. Jonathan has previously been in CFO and Finance Director roles at various energy and commodity trading companies. He holds an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Leif Ferreira
Leif Ferreira is CEO and co-founder de Bit2Me, the leading Spanish platform in Digital Assets, since 2014. Ferreira has more than 10 years of experience as a founder of startups and as a fullstack engineer. He is advisor to European Blockchain Committee in Brussels and in 2015 won the Fintech Americas Hackathon in Miami.