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Stuart Alderoty is Chief Legal Officer at Ripple. Stuart brings more than 30 years of legal experience to the role with expertise in financial services and regulatory affairs. He’s been General Counsel and part of the executive leadership teams at CIT Group and HSBC North America Holdings. Stuart also was Managing Counsel at American Express where he served on the leadership team of the President and CEO of American Express’ Consumer Card Business. Stuart began his career in private practice and was a partner with the international law firm of LeBouef, Lamb, Greene and MacRae where he specialized in litigation.
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Navin Gupta
Navin Gupta is Crystal's chief executive officer. Gupta joins Crystal from Ripple, where he successfully drove growth for the firm in the MEA and South Asian markets. Gupta has worked at HSBC and Citibank and has entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder of a commercial transportation technology platform.

Stefan Thomas
Open-source developer and distributed systems advocate. Co-creator of Interledger Protocol. Currently working to improve interoperability and competitiveness in the financial system.

Irfan Shaik
Irfan Shaik is the founder of Interstate and previously worked at Snap and AWS. He graduated from Rutgers University.

Jocelyn Chang
Jocelyn Chang is the former APAC Growth Lead at MakerDAO. Jocelyn started her career at HSBC as a banker. She also co-founded a social networking app in Singapore. As part of her entrepreneurial journey, she also led the role to pioneer the implementation of a public warning system in Singapore with MHA. Her mantra is to embrace new technologies that make the world a better place.

Ignacio Palomera
Ignacio Palomera is the co-founder and CEO of Bondex. He graduated from the University of Georgia.

Francesco Adiliberti
Francesco Adiliberti is Chief Operating Officer of Keyrock and co-founder of BaseDEX. He previously worked at Amber Group, HSBC, Nomisma and Goldman Sachs. He graduated from the University of Zurich.

Niraj Pant
Niraj Pant is the Co-Founder at Ritual. Presively he was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he invests in early-stage cryptocurrency projects. Prior to this role, he researched privacy in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Niraj has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for CoinDCX, an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital, and Co-Founder and CTO of Source Networks. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Amir Mehrbakhsh
Amir Mehrbakhsh is Head of Marketing at Walrus and previously worked at Sui, Celo, and Ripple.

Jed McCaleb
Jed McCaleb is the founder of Stellar, Mt. Gox and Ripple, and he has been involved in and witnessed many of the major events in the history of Bitcoin. He also founded Vast, an aerospace startup. In addition, he is also the founder of the world's first P2P sharing software eDonkey.

Graham Rodford
Graham Rodford is the founder and CEO of Archax and previously worked at HSBC.