CJ is Chief Compliance Officer at Kraken overseeing all aspects of global compliance. He has held many prominent roles in his career. CJ was previously Chief Compliance Officer at Blockchain.com, where he was tasked with building out global compliance frameworks and mitigating compliance risk. Prior to that, CJ had several roles at Deutsche Bank, including Head of Business Line Anti-Financial Crime – Investment Bank, as well as Chief Compliance Officer for its swap dealer and US broker dealer. CJ also worked at UBS Investment Bank in multiple roles, including as Global Head of Client Infrastructure. He also served as Manager of Counterparty Relations at Bridgewater Associates, and as Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Nik Adams was appointed as Deputy Commissioner for the City of London Police in December 2024, performing the role of National Coordinator for Economic and Cyber Crime. He transferred as a Commander to the City of London Police in March 2022 from his previous role as National Coordinator for Prevent and Safeguarding Lead within Counter Terrorism Policing. As Deputy Commissioner, Nik is focussed on overseeing national delivery of a number of functions including Report Fraud, the new national reporting service for fraud and cyber crime. He is responsible for the national Economic and Cyber Crime Academy and a diverse range of operational units within the City of London Police. These units tackle complex and specialist aspects of economic and cyber crime, and include partnership units specialising in intellectual property crime, insurance fraud and payment crime. He oversees the National Cyber Crime portfolio and is also the NPCC lead for the Financial Investigation, including money laundering asset recovery, and the NPCC lead for Electoral Malpractice.

Nik’s vision is to work with partners to disrupt the activity of criminals across the UK, and to improve the effectiveness of the policing response at a local, regional and national level, underpinned by good communication, a shared understanding of threats, risks, knowledge, information, skills and resources to develop innovative solutions. He is currently exploring some bold new approaches to our partnership response to tackling economic crime within the City of London.

Nik has been a police officer for 25 years and spent most of his service with West Yorkshire Police, working in Leeds, where he was the City Centre Commander and Neighbourhood Policing lead for South Leeds before his move into Counter Terrorism Policing.

Noah joined Binance in 2023 as its Global Chief Compliance Officer. Before Binance, he worked at Gemini, first as CCO and then as Chief Operating Officer. He also served as President and CEO of the Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a New York trust company regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Before starting in crypto, he was a Managing Director and the Global Head of Financial Crimes at Morgan Stanley, where he had legal and compliance responsibility for the Firm’s Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Anti-Boycott, Anti-Corruption and Government and Political Activities programs.

Earlier in his career he was the Division Counsel for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division. Prior to his stint with DEA he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York where he held several supervisory posts including Special Coordinator for Crimes against Children and Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section.

Anna Chenoweth has been with Coinbase as the Head of Global Sanctions Advisory since May
2021. Prior to joining Coinbase, she spent eight years at the US Department of the Treasury’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in the Office of Global Targeting, Policy, and OFAC’s
Licensing Division.

Mike Aleman is the head of the Financial Crime Innovation team within PayPal’s Global Financial Crime & Customer Protection (GFC&CP) organization. In this role, Mike serves as First Line of Defense (FLOD) AML Compliance Officer for PayPal’s cryptocurrency, Global Know-Your-Customer (KYC) Program, and Enterprise-Wide AML/Sanctions Risk Assessment programs.

Darren B. McCormack currently serves as a Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York Field Office. In this executive-level position, Mr. McCormack provides operational oversight of all investigative and administrative functions of the HSI personnel operating within the El Dorado Task Force (EDTF). The EDTF is an HSI NY led elite, multinational law enforcement coalition dedicated to combating complex financial crimes, high-value fraud, and the illicit financial networks of narcotics cartels and other transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). By harnessing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, blockchain analytics, and cyber forensic capabilities, the EDTF systematically disrupts illicit financial ecosystems and ensures justice for victims through asset recovery and repatriation. Prior to this assignment, Mr. McCormack served as Deputy Special Agent in Charge of HSI New York’s National Security Division (NSD). The NSD consists of over 240 members from more than 20 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the New York area of responsibility. In addition to the operational aspects of the NSD, Mr. McCormack oversaw the HSI New York Intelligence program as well as all operational functions of the Special Response Team (SRT) and Tactics Program. Mr. McCormack was the Assistant Attaché for HSI Attaché Vienna, Austria from 2014-2018. He was the lead diplomatic and law enforcement representative for the U.S. Government on all DHS equities related to multi-lateral international cooperation, criminal investigations, and U.S. national security in over twenty European countries. Mr. McCormack served as a Subject Matter Expert for HSI’s $800M case management modernization initiative at HSI headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he led multiple integrated project teams for software/interface design, development, and implementation. Mr. McCormack has been presented with multiple DHS Director’s Awards and has received numerous foreign and domestic awards and commendations. Additionally, Mr. McCormack sits on the advisory board for Wonder Girls USA, a not-for-profit empowerment program for middle, high school, and college girls with a mission to build confidence, leadership, community, and business skills.

Tom Ryan is an onchain security engineer at Coinbase, where he leads efforts to protect Coinbase, Base, and the broader EVM ecosystem through real-time monitoring, intelligent detection, and automated security systems. He bridges security assessment and operations, turning audit insights into intelligent defenses that strengthen transparency and resilience across the onchain stack.

Jonathan Levin is Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, where he is responsible for leading all facets of the business and its work to help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions leverage blockchain data to solve their most important problems.

Over the course of his 10 years at Chainalysis, Jonathan has led numerous functions and business units as the company has grown to have a presence in over 50 countries globally. He is regularly called upon to testify to the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies.

Prior to Chainalysis, he was the CEO of Coinometrics, which provided the first dashboard of blockchain intelligence. He was also a postgraduate economist at the University of Oxford, where he researched cryptocurrencies. Jonathan also holds a BSC in Economics from Bristol University. He lives in New York.

Caitlin’s legal and compliance experience encompasses both cryptocurrency and traditional finance. As Director of Regulation and Compliance at Chainalysis, she helps leading financial institutions strategize and build compliance programs in order to adopt cryptocurrencies and offer new products to their customers.

In addition, Caitlin helps facilitate dialogue with regulators and the industry on key policy issues within the cryptocurrency industry. Previously, as Chief Compliance Officer at Bitstamp USA, she supervised their BSA/AML Program and maintained
regulatory relationships with both federal and state regulators within the United States. Prior to Bitstamp, Caitlin was Deputy Chief Compliance Officer at Gemini Trust Company, LLC. She has also served as a Senior AML investigator and Assistant Vice President at Commerzbank AG and Assistant Vice President, Senior Counsel at JP Morgan Chase.

Andrew Fierman is currently the Head of National Security Intelligence for Chainalysis, where he oversees intelligence collection and complex investigations into sanctions and nation state activity on the blockchain. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Andrew spent almost a decade developing proactive sanctions investigations programs for global financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Societe Generale and most recently, as the Head of Sanctions, Americas for Barclays.

Evie Glover is a Senior Investigator at Chainalysis Government Solutions. Before joining CGS in 2022, she worked as an analyst for a U.S. federal law enforcement agency. In her current role, Evie supports cryptocurrency investigations for the U.S. government, working on cases ranging from money laundering to drug trafficking and everything in between. She is passionate about making complex crypto concepts approachable for investigators so they can make the blockchain and the world a safer place. Evie lives in Chicago, IL.

Jacob is an experienced distributed systems researcher with a rich background in designing, building, and debugging mission-critical systems across academia and business sectors. Leveraging years of expertise, he has for the past 6 years pivoted to tackle the burgeoning challenges of blockchain forensics, applying his deep knowledge to navigate and solve the complex issues that arise in this dynamic field.

Beth Bisbee is currently the Director of Product Strategy at Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS). Beth has been designated as an expert witness in cryptocurrency and blockchain analysis in multiple US district courts. Prior to that, Beth established the foremost cryptocurrency investigative program within Chainalysis in support of the public sector. Before Chainalysis, she was an Intelligence Research Specialist at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) where she served as a nationally-recognized subject matter expert (SME) on cryptocurrencies, tracing the flow of illicit funds in criminal cases, and identifying transactional behavior occurring on the blockchain. She has been researching cryptocurrencies and their illicit use, and actively working cases in that area, since 2014.

Simon Johansson is an accomplished cybercrime and cryptocurrency investigator, recognized for his deep expertise in blockchain obfuscation and privacy-enhancing technologies. With a decade of distinguished service in law enforcement, he specialized in dismantling sophisticated criminal operations that exploited the perceived anonymity of the digital economy.

He built his reputation by tackling the toughest challenges in cryptocurrency investigations: piercing through layers of on-chain anonymity to trace illicit funds. This advanced skill set proved instrumental in cracking high-stakes cases and setting new investigative standards.

Today, Simon Johansson channels this rare, frontline expertise to empower public sector partners across Europe. He is a trusted advisor to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, working to elevate their capabilities and strategic response to emerging threats. By demystifying complex obfuscation methods, Simon Johansson is not just building trust in blockchains—he is building the resilience needed to secure the future of the digital financial ecosystem.

Sarah Ward is Chief Legal and Administrative Officer at Chainalysis. In this role, Sarah has oversight of the company’s Legal, Security/IT, Compliance, People, Corporate Communications and Policy teams. Sarah also sits on the Board of Chainalysis Government Solutions and NY DFS’ Virtual Currency Advisory Board. Sarah has also previously sat on the board of the Blockchain Association, a leading industry association.

Prior to joining Chainalysis, Sarah held leadership roles at several other high-growth tech companies, including Sisense, MongoDB and Criteo. At MongoDB she advised the company through its hyper-growth phase and successful IPO and led the creation and adoption of the SSPL, a new open source license. Sarah started her legal career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York.

Craig Gillespie is a veteran investigator with deep expertise in tackling cyber crime and illicit finance. He previously had a 15 year career in law enforcement, spending the last eight years as a specialist investigator and Senior Investigating Officer within UK Law Enforcement. During this time, he focused on complex cases involving Organised Crime and Illicit Finance, building an extensive background in cryptocurrency investigations and serving as an expert witness in legal proceedings.

For the last four years, Craig has brought this frontline experience to Chainalysis. Driven by a mission to build trust in blockchains, he is responsible for working closely with public and private sector partners to support their priorities and accelerate their capability growth within the cryptocurrency arena. Craig leverages his unique blend of public service and private sector expertise to empower organisations, making the digital economy safer for everyone.

Joe is a Senior Solutions Architect with Chainalysis Government Solutions. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Joe was a Detective, and an FBI Task Force Officer in the Costa Mesa Police Department’s (CMPD) Special Investigations Unit. His assignments included investigations into Hi-Tech crimes, human trafficking, major narcotics / money-laundering, and violent crimes. In addition to his primary duties as a Detective, Joe was a firearms instructor, and a member of the CMPD’s SWAT Team. Joe still serves as a Reserve Detective with the CMPD.

Prior to joining the CMPD, Joe served as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Joe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government and Politics from St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and a Master’s Degree in Business (MBV) from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.