AmCham Tech Week : Cryptocurrency [Virtual]

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The second episode of AmCham Tech Week is dedicated to cryptocurrency.

Back in 2013, there were only a handful of digital coins. But according to Fortune, the cryptocurrency market value stood at $2.04 trillion as of March 2022.

What are the latest cryptocurrency developments in 2022 that businesses need to know about? How should we interpret the market's reaction to cryptocurrencies? As an institutional investor, what is the best approach when considering including crypto assets to your portfolio? How is Hong Kong's new crypto regulatory framework facilitating greater institutional participation for crypto investment? How do you manage 'cross-border' transactions for cryptocurrency?

Come join our expert panel to discover opportunities in the crypto asset world.

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Speakers

Luc Froehlich

Global Head of Digital Assets Solutions at Fidelity International

Lucy Gazmararian

Founder and Managing Partner of Token Bay Capital

Max Song

Founder, CEO of Carbonbase

Johnny Wijaya

Head of APAC Innovation Center at BNY Mellon

Michael Wong

Head of Business Operations at Bullish

Melissa Gecolea (Moderator)

News Anchor

Lucy is the Founder and Managing Partner of Token Bay Capital, a Hong Kong based early-stage venture fund that invests in digital assets and blockchain companies. She is also a Board Member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and Founder of Women in Crypto, Hong Kong.

Prior to founding Token Bay Capital, Lucy was a senior leader of PwC’s Global Crypto team where she advised entrepreneurs, start-ups and financial institutions on their crypto and blockchain projects. She also worked with many central banks and other regulatory bodies around the world to help formulate their crypto asset policies. Lucy was named a Top 10 Rising Women in Crypto in 2020 (FinTech Times and Wirex) and #22 Top 100 Women in FinTech in 2021 (FinTech Magazine).

Prior to working in FinTech, Lucy spent 16 years in banking with Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Schroders and Kleinwort Benson. She holds a Type 9 (asset management) license with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and became a Chartered Wealth Manager in the UK in 2015. Born and raised in Hong Kong and educated in the UK, she graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Modern History.

Max Song is cofounder of the world’s largest sustainability standard for Bitcoin: www.sustainablebtc.org/ to drive institutional adoption, and Carbonbase (carbonbase.co), a HK based climate tech startup leveraging data science and blockchain for enterprise solutions for measuring, managing and reducing carbon emissions. Previously, he worked in investments for HK family offices, where he invested in TMT, AI, blockchain, and healthcare. He worked as a data scientist in Silicon Valley for Ayasdi, where he helped with data analysis applications for finance, biotech and healthcare. He received a Masters degree from Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and Bachelor of Science from Brown University, where he majored in Applied Math. He is passionate about mobilizing the capabilities of technology and finance to realize the promises of UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is a recipient of the 2021 Generation T Tatler List, and a 2021 Forbes 30U30 recipient.

Johnny Wijaya is Director and Head of BNY Mellon APAC Innovation Center. The BNY Mellon Innovation Center Network is an integral pillar of the organization’s digital transformation providing an environment to rapidly experiment with emerging technologies and capabilities such as AI and DLT, incubate new capabilities, products and services, change the way the organization works. The center collaborates closely with our APAC based clients and partners and is the digital window into our capabilities and thought leadership.

He has more than 18 years of international experience in digital transformation within financial services, consulting, telecommunications industry as well as the public sector, delivering digital transformation through the adoption of new technologies, capabilities that have resulted in revenue growth, operational efficiency, and risk reduction. Within his tenure at BNY Mellon, he has held multiple senior roles in Digital and Technology delivering services in APAC, Latin America and North America.

Michael Wong is Bullish’s Head of Business Operations where he oversees the operational flows among custody, finance, compliance and client facing teams.

Mike previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Commercial Officer of Atom Asset Exchange (AAX), a crypto exchange offering spot, futures and savings products across a variety of digital assets. He also held the role of Vice President of Technology at the time of AAX’s founding.

Prior to AAX, Mike served as IBM’s Blockchain Business Development Lead and was the Global Director of Engineering at Integration Systems.

A strong advocate of technology as a solution for real world problems, Mike serves as an advisor for NGOs in micro-finance and anti-human trafficking.

Mike earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth as a sponsored IBM student.

Melissa Gecolea has over 20 years experience as a broadcast journalist. She’s worked in the Philippines, Hong Kong and London covering politics, technology, and business. She currently works in Hong Kong as an anchor for the evening news and hosts 2 weekly current affairs shows where she is also supervising producer.

She started as a TV presenter and daily news reporter covering defense at GMA-7 in the Philippines and later as a producer for the award winning investigative show ‘Assignment’ on the Philippines’ top network ABS-CBN. Since then Melissa has worked as producer and host for various shows in London and Hong Kong covering the telecoms industry, politics, technology and business. From 2011 she worked on several shows at ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) including the science and technology show ‘Future Perfect’ as executive producer, as well as co-host and producer of the award-winning personal finance show ‘On the Money’ before moving to Hong Kong to take a job with a major local network.

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