Brad is the CEO of Ripple and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL and prior to that he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President.

Earlier in his career, Brad helped to pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.

Brian Armstrong is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase. Founded in 2012, Coinbase is building the cryptoeconomy - a more fair, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system enabled by crypto. Coinbase serves over 103 million verified users, 14,500 institutions, and 245,000 ecosystem partners in over 100 countries. In April 2021, Coinbase listed publicly on NASDAQ as COIN. 

Before founding Coinbase, Brian served as a software engineer at Airbnb where he focused on fraud prevention. Before Airbnb, Brian founded and was CEO of Universitytutor.com, an online tutoring directory and a subsidiary of Johnson Educational Technologies LLC. Brian also previously served as a consultant for the enterprise risk management division at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Brian has a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University.

Huey Lin is a Venture Partner with GGV Capital where she supports and advises the fund's portfolio companies.

Huey is an experienced fintech operator. She was the founding Chief Operating Officer at Affirm (NYSE: AFRM). She was responsible for building the G&A, Business and Customer Operations teams. Huey began her career at PayPal as one of the company’s first product managers. She subsequently spent more than a decade at the firm where she led China and Asia-Pacific operations in addition to serving in key leadership roles in product, international risk, and policy strategy.

Most recently, she was the President of Asia at Flexport, a modern freight forwarder and one of the fastest-growing companies in global trade. She led all activities for Flexport across Asia, the company’s most strategic market.

Huey holds a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and an A.M. from Stanford University. Huey is currently an active angel investor, board member and advisor.

Jeremy is responsible for strategy, vision and operating execution at Circle. He brings more than two decades of experience building and leading global internet software platforms, including founder and CEO of Brightcove, technologist and entrepreneur in residence at General Catalyst, CTO of Macromedia, and co-founder and CTO of Allaire Corporation. Jeremy has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, US Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. He has also been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech.

Jonathan Larsen is Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.

He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for 31 years and brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues and spanning 19 countries. Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.
 
Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker magazine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Julian Teicke is the CEO and founder of wefox, which is a full-stack digital insurance company driven by a single purpose: to make insurance 10x better through technology. Since launching wefox in 2015, the company has doubled its revenues every year to reach US$300 million in 2021 and with 1200 employees serving more than one million customers, wefox is Europe’s leading digital insurance company. wefox is on track to double its revenues again and aims to become the first digital insurance company to reach $1bn in revenues.

Kamal Quadir, a practitioner who focuses his efforts on technology that brings about social progress by enabling people to advance economically. He is the Founder and CEO of bKash, a digital financial service that offers millions of unbanked and underbanked people access to financial services through basic cellphones or smartphones in Bangladesh.

Earlier Kamal founded CellBazaar, a communication company, that has introduced a cellphone based electronic marketplace for developing countries. Kamal is a founding member of Open World Initiatives, a Lausanne, Switzerland based organization of young thinkers. He is involved with Anwarul Quadir Foundation and Shireen Quadir Trust that recognize innovations in developing countries. He received the Tech Award in 2007 for “Applying Technology to Benefit Humanity.” He is a First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute. In 2009 the World Economic Forum and TED have respectively selected him as a Young Global Leader and a TED Fellow. He is an accomplished artist whose work is in the collection of Bangladesh National Museum. He has a BA from Oberlin College and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Ladi Delano is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur who has founded and exited several businesses in Africa and Asia. He holds a Master’s degree from Oxford University and an MPA from the London School of Economics. Ladi is a visiting lecturer at Oxford University and is a frequent speaker on the topic of Building Shared Value in Emerging Markets. He was named one of the 10 Young Africans to Watch by Forbes Africa.

Melissa C. Guzy is the Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Before founding of Arbor Ventures, Melissa was a Managing Partner and a member of the Investment Committee at VantagePoint Capital Partners, where she invested in early stage technology companies in Asia, Europe and Silicon Valley. Her current board positions include EverCompliant, Fundbox, InCountry, Tabby, Planck Re and TrueAccord. Melissa was the investor board member of Paidy which was acquired by Paypal for $2.88 billion.Melissa attended Wellesley College and earned a master’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida. She is the author of the paper “Venture Capital Returns and Public Market Performance.” Melissa is the Co-Chair ofthe Hong Kong Venture Capital Association (“HKVCA”) Venture Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of the HKVCA and the SVCA and a former member to the Hong Kong SFC on Innovation. Melissahas been recognized as a Top 100 Influencer in Fintech (NxtBnk), AlwaysOn Fintech Power Player, as well as one of the Top 13 Women in Asia of Tech Influencers.

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

Parul is co-founder and director of pinBox Solutions. She also heads the microPension Foundation, an India-based non-profit micro-pension R&D hub. Over the years, she has led the development and implementation of digital outreach and distribution platforms for micro-pension and micro-insurance targeting low income women in developing countries. Parul is working extensively in South Asia and Africa in assisting governments and pension regulators with designing retirement literacy tools and strategies for expanding voluntary pension and insurance coverage among low income, non-salaried informal sector workers. She has recently co-edited "Saving the Next Billion from Old Age Poverty: Global Lessons for Local Action" with William Price and Gautam Bhardwaj. In a previous life, Parul was a journalist in the electronic media and has worked at BBC World Trust, CNBC and NDTV.

Tan Yinglan founded Insignia Ventures Partners in late 2017 and is the Founding Managing Partner.  Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages more than US$450 million from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. See more at http://www.insignia.vc  

He also co-hosts the On Call with Insignia Ventures podcast, where he chats with portfolio founders and regional investors. An author on venture capital, startups and innovation, he recently published his fourth book, Navigating ASEANnovation (World Scientific, 2020). He also serves on the International Board of Stars – Leaders of the Next Generation, the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel and is a Board Member at Hwa Chong Institution.

Tascha Che (@taschalabs) is a macroeconomist, startup advisor, and angel investor. A prominent thought leader on the web 3.0 economy, she has helped shape the industry’s thinking on how to assess the economic values of blockchain platforms and how decentralized business models can improve income distribution in society.

Dr. Che is the founder of Tascha Labs, a web 3.0 education and consulting services firm, and Soundwise, an audio publishing software company. She holds a PhD in Macroeconomics from Georgetown University, and bachelor’s degrees in Economics, Applied Mathematics and English Literature from Peking University.