Leila was an early enthusiast of Bitcoin and since then, has been exploring, advising and investing in systems built on blockchain technology. Day to day, she supports the onboarding of institutional platforms onto the use of blockchain and digital asset technologies to create new business models, access new communities and respond to the demand for digital-first identities and experiences. 

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She is a believer in the power of ‘blockchain for good’, working on developing programmes for blockchain-based Philanthropy with the UN and other organisations. 

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She is also an avid collector of art and artists deploying the technological tools that correspond to our time, in particular generative and AI tech. She supports a number of artists and platforms in the digital art space, and is a frequent speaker at art fairs highlighting on-chain art. 

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Leila is a graduate of Georgetown Law and sits on its European Advisory Board. She started her career at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York then moved in-house, at JPMorgan Asset Management in London, where she was appointed GC for Europe. She subsequently joined start-up Jabre Capital Partners as Partner & GC, supporting rapid growth of Swiss-based global investment platform. She is often consulted for advice on navigating uncertain and overlapping regulatory frameworks.

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Focus: International regulatory frameworks, digital assets and NFTs, Philanthropy in a digital world

Liat Shetret is Director of Global Policy and Regulation at Elliptic. For more than 15 years, she has led global capacity-building and technical assistance programs on anti–money laundering (AML), countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), financial inclusion, and countering violent extremism. She has formerly worked as the Director of Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Policy at Solidus Labs, at the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, Citigroup Bank, the Global Center on Cooperative Security, and the US House of Representatives Committee for Homeland Security. Liat has extensive experience implementing technical assistance programs, particularly in emerging markets and developing countries across Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. She is an Adjunct Instructor at New York University and holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a BA in political science and psychology from the University of Illinois. Liat is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

Lili Infante is the CEO of CAT Labs - a tech startup building digital asset recovery and cyber defense tools to fight crypto crime. In her previous life, she was a DEA Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Justice Special who pioneered an early federal task force focusing exclusively on crypto and dark web crimes.  Lili has led numerous major crypto-related investigations to include the takedown of Hydra - the largest crypto-powered dark web criminal organization and money laundering platform in the world. She has spoken at countless conferences including Offshore Alert, ETH Denver, Parliamentary Intelligence Security Forum and others.

Lindsay is the General Counsel of Nillion Labs, an infrastructure tech company providingaugmented privacy and security for decentralized data transmission and computation in web3.  She is coming off an exciting journey as Associate General Counsel for Product at Coinbase, where she focused her efforts overseeing retail products including staking and wrapped tokens. Prior to joining Coinbase, Lindsay served as General Counsel for fintech companies Orchard Platform and Velocity Markets.  Under her oversight, both Orchard and Velocity were acquired in complex regulatory-heavy transactions.  At Velocity, she facilitated the licensure of a US-based spot exchange, and oversaw the process of obtaining Broker-Dealer and ATS licenses to facilitate the secondary sale of digital asset securities. Lindsay's additional prior experience includes serving as in-house legal counsel at Bloomberg and Assistant General Counsel at Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Elizabeth N. Pendleton (Liz) is a Chief Trial Attorney in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Enforcement. Based in the CFTC’s Chicago office, Liz supervises teams of trial attorneys, investigators and economists, and has represented the Commission in a broad range of matters including those involving cryptocurrency fraud and manipulation, failure to register, false reporting, trade practice violations, and Ponzi schemes. Liz recently concluded a three year tenure as a co-chair of the Division’s Digital Asset Task Force and currently serves on the Commission’s Digital Commodities Working Group where she advises on legal and policy issues in the digital asset space.

Liz Steininger is the CEO/Managing Director of Least Authority, a leading Web3 security consulting company and builder of privacy enhancing technology products, including Private.Storage and Winden.App. Least Authority specializes in securing Web3 products, capability-based security and implementing advanced cryptography, especially zero-knowledge proofs and multi-party computations. Beyond security audits for new technologies, Least Authority has also released the MoonMath Manual, a practical guide for developers to understand zero-knowledge proofs. The company focuses on cutting-edge security and empowering users to control their right to privacy.Liz is an experienced entrepreneur, growing Least Authority over the last 7 years. Prior, Liz was a Senior Program Manager at the Open Technology Fund, where she utilized public funds to support internet freedom projects and the community structures that support them. Liz has worked for local and federal US governments to adopt digital systems and foster innovation from within, including open source software implementations and local community partnerships. Liz has over 22 years of experience in the tech industry working on numerous projects at the edge of innovation. She holds an M.S. in Management & Technology and B.S. in Digital Media.

Liz Sweigart, PhD, MBA is a business leader with over 20 years of expertise in strategy, operations, and people management. Her career ranges from startups to Fortune 500 companies, with deep expertise in decentralized web technology, blockchain, SaaS, consumer goods, energy, and more. As CFO of Versatus Labs, Inc., she leads the financial strategy of an innovative blockchain technology startup redefining Web3 through full-stack decentralization.Previously, Liz served as Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Safe Kids AI and as a partner at PwC's Global Structuring practice, where she optimized global systems to improve cash flows. As co-founder of Verse Consulting and a former investment banker at Houlihan Lokey, she has demonstrated an aptitude for navigating complex business challenges. Her foundational roles at Arthur Andersen and The Episcopal Diocese of Texas reinforced her fiscal management skills and commitment to ethical business practices.Passionate about social impact, Liz is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Mental Health America of Greater Houston and mentors veterans through American Corporate Partners. She served on the board of Genesys Works Houston for six years.Academically, Liz is an adjunct professor at The Chicago School, teaching social and organizational psychology, and a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University's Computer Science department in the STIR Lab. Her work has appeared in leading journals, and she has presented globally on strategic planning, risk management, leadership development, and mental wellness. Her award-winning blog, recognized by InsideOut, reflects her advocacy for mental health, and she shares her journey through writing and speaking engagements.She holds a BA from Rice University, an MBA in Operations and Supply Chain Management from the University of St. Thomas (Houston), and a PhD in Organizational Leadership from The Chicago School. Liz is an active member of the American Psychological Association, International Coaching Federation, and Society of Consulting Psychology. As a credentialed coach, she empowers emerging and established leaders to unlock their potential.Liz is adept at addressing various topics, including Blockchain for Good, DAOs and Governance, ESG, Financial Inclusion, Leadership, Mentorship, Product, Strategy, Risk Management, Startup operations, Entrepreneurship, Taxation, Web3, Web2.5, and Work/Life balance.

Maggje Sklar is the Principal and Founder of Sklar Strategies LLC and Managing Director at SEDA Experts.  Her work includes advising on a range of financial regulatory, compliance, enforcement, and policy matters involving financial markets, financial institutions, regulated entities, investment firms, and fintech and start-up companies, involving derivatives, commodities, securities, cryptocurrency, DeFi, and digital assets.  Ms. Sklar is also the Chair of the Global Digital Asset and Cryptocurrency Association’s (Global DCA) Public Policy and Regulation Committee, and a founding member of the Association of Women in Cryptocurrency.  

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Ms. Sklar was previously a Banking and Financial Services Partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.  Before that, she was the Senior Policy Advisor and Director of International Engagement, Financial Markets Group, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.  Before joining the Federal Reserve, Ms. Sklar served in various roles at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, DC, including as the Senior Counsel to the Chairman, Senior Counsel to a Commissioner, Deputy to the Financial Stability Oversight Council, an Associate Director in the Office of International Affairs, the Senior Counsel to LabCFTC, and a Special Counsel in the Division of Market Oversight.  Ms. Sklar was previously a complex civil litigator and government enforcement defense attorney at international law firms for financial services institutions, banks, payment processors, hedge funds, energy companies, and their executives.

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She is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University.

Malka Levitin is an associate in the Financial Services practice group at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Her practice focuses on advising banks, fintechs, and other financial services companies on regulatory and transactional matters. This includes providing counsel on the Bank Holding Company Act, money transmission, lending, ACH processing, card processing, and other money movement models.Her financial services expertise includes a multi-year review of a bank's sanctions compliance program, counseling foreign banks on branch, agency, and representative office activity, and obtaining a trust company charter for a cryptocurrency company. She has advised generally on the regulation of crypto-assets, ACH and deposit account agreements, and Banking as a Service models and the use of an FBO account. On behalf of clients, Malka has also managed inquiries, investigations, and audits from financial services regulators.Malka further has significant experience with anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism issues under the Bank Secrecy Act. In addition to providing general regulatory advice in this area, she has assisted clients with drafting BSA/AML policies and procedures, including for clients in the crypto-asset and cannabis spaces.

Margaret Rosenfeld is the Chief Legal Officer of Cube Group, Inc., the global holding company for Cube Exchange, a hybrid DEX/CEX crypto exchange. Prior to joining Cube, Margaret was the Chief Strategy and Legal Officer of Deltec International Group, a global financial platform serving innovative and disruptive businesses and private individuals for their fiat banking, digital asset and insurance needs. She also served on the board of directors of Gryphon Digital Mining, a Bitcoin mining operation with a net carbon-negative footprint and board of advisors of Caturiant, a DLT-based carbon credit registry and validator. 

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Prior to Deltec, Margaret was a partner of K&L Gates, where she co-founded and chaired its global Digital Assets, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency practice. Margaret has more than 26 years of corporate, financing, strategic and securities experience focused on large private and public technology companies both in the United States and internationally, having practiced law with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Tokyo, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Frankfurt and Smith Anderson in the Research Triangle Park region. Margaret has been actively involved in the cryptocurrency industry since 2015, advising FinTechs, exchanges, OTC Desks, crypto mining and hosting companies, DeFi platforms, banks, DAOs, NFT issuers and platforms, stable coin companies and many others. Margaret has engaged in service activities including serving on the NY Bar’s Committee on Securities Regulation, the NC Board of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the advisory board of the North Carolina Technology Association. Margaret served as the Honorary German Consul for North Carolina (while maintaining her law practice) from January 2014 to December 2021, which was a joint diplomatic appointment by the U.S. State Department and the German government. She is a 1997 graduate of the George Washington University law school and received a B.A. from Rutgers University in 1992.

Sol Cinosi is a distinguished lawyer and an honored graduate of both the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and the International University of La Rioja (Spain). Currently, she holds the role of Judicial Secretary at a Public Prosecutor's Office in the Province of Buenos Aires and serves as a Specialized Investigator for the Virtual Assets Task Force within the Cybercrime Department at the Criminal Policy Secretariat of the Attorney General's Office of Buenos Aires.In addition to her primary roles, Sol provides consultancy to the Secretariat for Legal Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS) and is an active member of the Argentine Association of Women Judges (AMJA).Her academic background includes the Ibero-American Postgraduate Diploma in Cybercrime and Digital Innovation from Hartmann University, the International Diploma in Cybercrime and Technologies Applied to Investigation from Austral and Abat Oliba universities, and the Postgraduate Program in Cryptoassets in Criminal Investigations from the University of Buenos Aires. Sol also holds a range of certifications, including TRM Certified Investigator (TRM-CI), TRM Advanced Crypto Investigator (TRM-ACI), TRM Crypto Compliance Specialist (TRM-CCS), Chainalysis Cryptocurrency Fundamentals (CCF), Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), and Chainalysis Investigation Specialist Certification (CISC). She is currently furthering her expertise with a Master of Science in Blockchain and Digital Currency from the University of Nicosia.In 2024, Sol authored the chapter "Fraud and its Relationship with Virtual Assets: Investigation, Seizure, and Forfeiture of Cryptoassets" in the book "Cyberfraud, Cryptoassets and Blockchain" published by Hammurabi in Buenos Aires.A recognized voice in her field, her presentations frequently cover topics such as distributed ledger technology (DLT)/blockchain, blockchain analytics, cybersecurity and asset recovery. In recent years, she has spoken at prominent national and international conferences, including:- The Cybercrimes in the Fintech Ecosystem Conference (May 2024), organized by the Cybercrime Department of the Criminal Policy Secretariat of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Fintech Chamber.- The Webinar on Crypto Assets in Transnational Organized Crime (March 2024), hosted by the OAS and the U.S. Department of State.- The Training Course on Tracing and Seizure of Cryptocurrencies Webinar (December 2023), organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with support from the U.S. International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).- The First International Conference on Cryptocrime Prevention (October 2023), presented by the Argentine Federal Police.- The 55th GELAVEX Meeting (May 2023), held by the OAS in Washington, D.C., focusing on international cooperation and anti-money laundering controls.- The TRM Labs Law Enforcement Task Force Working Group Webinar (April 2023), featuring a special session on LeoLabs regarding cryptoassets investigation and seizure.

After 20+ years driving changes in Fixed Income markets through a variety of client facing roles, Marina joined 21Shares, the world’s largest Crypto ETP issuer 100% collateralised in 2022. Through her career, Marina has always been driven by providing clients best in-class solutions that combine finance and technology to successfully embrace financial innovation. She held multiple speaking engagements over the years and more recently at NFT Paris 2024 on Tokenisation and on Crypto investments in upcoming European flagship events.

As Senior Counsel for Blockchain Association, Marisa helps develop and advocate for policy positions on behalf of the crypto industry as well as manages long-term legal projects and strategic litigation. Prior to joining the Association, Marisa represented corporate clients in regulatory enforcement actions, internal investigations, and civil litigation matters at Covington & Burling LLP and at O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Marisa earned her B.A. from Brandeis University, her J.D. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and completed a federal clerkship in the Central District of California.

Mark Dempsey is a Principal Consultant at Aspect Advisors bringing more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry, holding various leadership roles in compliance. As a compliance professional and former regulator, Mark has a deep understanding of issues facing investment advisors and those in the digital assets space. Mark has specifically focused on private fund adviser compliance at Aspect Advisors.

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Prior to joining Aspect, Mark was the Director, Investment Adviser Compliance at MissionSquare Retirement, where he oversaw the compliance program for its robo-advisor ($6B in AUM). Additionally, Mark previously served as the Chief Compliance Officer at Navy Federal Brokerage Services (over 2B in AUM), where he focused on developing and implementing a compliance program for its retail broker-dealer and registered investment adviser that included oversight of financial advisors and a digital fractional share investing program. Prior to this, Mark was a regulatory analyst at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) where he focused on reviews of fixed income trading.

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Mark earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University of Delaware and a Masters of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management at Creighton University. Mark holds or has held various securities licenses including Series 4, 6, 7, 24, 27, 31, 52, 53, and 66 as well as a DC insurance license. Mark also holds or has held the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Regulatory Compliance Professional (CRCP) and Investment Adviser Certified Compliance Professional (IACCP) certifications. Mark served in the United States Marine Corps, including a deployment overseas. Mark lives in Washington DC with his wife and two children.

Mary Hall is a seasoned marketing executive with a focus on blockchain technology and Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC.)  As an independent consultant,  Mary works closely with partners and customers to develop case studies, videos, blogs & more for blockchain projects CBDCs and Stablecoins. Mary has been voted one of the “Top Women in Blockchain. “ Her work experience includes marketing positions at IBM, Oracle, Accenture and most recently Ripple. She has won many awards for marketing hardware & software products, as well as social media and digital marketing.   Mary holds a JD from the Univ. of Toledo College of Law and a BA in English from Miami Univ. Oxford, Ohio.  She has spoken at industry conferences such as the Hyperledger Global Forum, One World Identity and Internet World.