Superintendent (Supt.) Ryan Ayliffe has been a member of the Calgary Police Service (CPS) for 23 years and has held various positions throughout the organization.

Currently, Supt. Ayliffe oversees the Major Crimes Section (Homicide, Child Abuse Unit, Sexual Assault Investigative Unit, and the Domestic Conflict Unit), the Technical Investigations Section (Cyber/Forensics Unit, Technical Support Unit and Economic Crimes Unit) and the Investigative Support Section (Forensic Crime Scene Unit, Firearms Investigative Unit, and Criminal Identification and Records Unit).

Supt. Ayliffe was responsible for leading the revisioning of the Calgary Police Service’s Real Time Operations Centre, which saw local and regional partners co-locating to provide first responders with access to cutting-edge technological, investigative, and leadership support.

In his role as the Superintendent of the Technical Investigations Section, Supt. Ayliffe leads a team of highly skilled officers who specialize in using technology to solve complex crimes.
Supt. Ayliffe’s passion for, and understanding of, technology has allowed him to re-envision policing in the cyberspace. By uniting academia, the private sector and law enforcement through innovation and partnership, he is committed to improving public safety.
Supt. Ayliffe is a nationally certified Critical Incident Commander and has a Master of Arts Degree in Leadership from Royal Roads University. Supt. Ayliffe is currently a member of the Canadian Association Chief’s of Police (CACP) Law Amendment Committee, he is the Chair of the Alberta Chief’s of Police (AACP) Law Amendment Committee and a director on the board of the Alpha House Society in Calgary.

In his spare time, Ryan enjoys camping with his family. He is a passionate sports fan and enjoys watching and coaching his kids in basketball and has been a member of the CPS men’s basketball team for over 20 years.

Larry has 20+ years’ experience in the technology and cyber security industries. He is the Chief Information Security Officer at the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) and an OSINT Investigator / Team Lead for the Blockchain Forensic Team at the National Child Protection Task Force (NCPTF). He is a certified Digital Evidence Investigator (DEI), Mobile Device Investigator (MDI), Triage Investigator (TINV), Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator (CCI), Cryptocurrency Tracing Certified Examiner (CTCE) and holds a total of 61 Industry, IT & Security certifications. He is also a trainer for Interpol, Computer Forensics Professor at St. Lawrence College and Head of Cyber Security for the Cyber Rights Organization. He manages technology in multiple disciplines and works with local, state, federal and international Law Enforcement, along with military organizations on Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation investigations.

Reba Beeson is the General Counsel at AlphaPoint, a white label exchange software provider powering crypto exchanges worldwide and the technology behind El Salvador’s bitcoin wallet, Chivo. She is a member of 100 Women in Finance and Digital Asset Regulatory and Legal Alliance and a member of the New York State bar. Reba has also held numerous FINRA licenses.

Prior to joining AlphaPoint, Reba worked as an attorney and capital markets banker, having served as Deputy General Counsel – US for World Gold Council and its US affiliated sponsors of the largest global gold-backed ETF product suite. Reba formerly held roles as lead counsel for UBS Alternative Investment Group and SVP/Head of Complex Financing for BNP/Paribas.

Guy Ficco is the Deputy Chief of IRS Criminal Investigation.
He is responsible for overseeing a worldwide staff of 3,000 CI
employees, including approximately 2,100 special agents in 20
Field Offices and 11 foreign countries, who investigate crimes
involving tax, money laundering, public corruption, cyber, ID
theft, narcotics and terrorist-financing.

Prior to his selection as Deputy Chief, Guy was the Executive
Director of Global Operations, Policy and Support where he
oversaw the agency’s international footprint as well as much of
IRS CI’s policies as they relate to investigations. Guy previously served as the
Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Office from April 2018 to March
2020 where he led investigative activities and employees in the states of
Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Prior to these assignments, Guy has served in a
number of CI leadership roles including Supervisory Special Agent in the
Washington Field Office, Senior Analyst in both Financial Crimes and
International Operations sections, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the
Washington Field Office, Director of Special Investigative Techniques and acting
Deputy Director of CI’s Strategy section. Guy was also a Congressional Fellow
through the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University, assigned to
the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) in the Senate Homeland
Security Committee.

Guy has a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree with a concentration in
Accounting from Dominican College in New York. He is a Certified Fraud
Examiner and joined IRS Criminal Investigation in 1995.

Julie Foerster serves as the Project Director for IRS Digital Assets position in the office of the Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement. In this role, she will oversee development, implementation and execution of the new IRS Enterprise Digital Assets Strategy and work with a team of leaders across business units on executing efforts involving enhancing compliance and enforcement, improving customer service, and establishing data/technology protocols.

Prior to this position, Julie served as Director, Examination, Headquarters in the SB/SE Division, where she oversaw policy, quality/technical support and workload selection operations for Examination – Field and Campus Policy, Specialty Policy and Quality areas. She has a diverse background and an array of experience in SB/SE Field Examination and Headquarters Examination.

Julie is a native of Washington state and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in Accounting from Gonzaga University, and is a graduate of the 2017 Candidate Development Program. Julie lives in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys outdoor activities and spending time with family and friends.

Todd Bratz is a Supervisory Special Agent in the U.S. Secret Service. He is a supervisor in the Global Investigative Operations Center that coordinates the largest investigations and investigative programs of the Secret Service where he focuses on illicit use of digital assets. Todd has 18 years of experience in the Secret Service having completed assignments in the New York Field Office, Counter Assault Team, FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, and as the Assistant Attaché in Madrid, Spain. The majority of his experience is in coordinating investigations combatting transnational organized crime.

Lydia is Vice President of Business Development at Ava Labs. Prior to Ava Labs, she was VP of Business Development and Product at Investery Inc., a private capital markets platform that empowers investors to manage alternative investments, which was acquired by Ava Labs in February 2020. Prior to Investery, she served as Director of Digital Assets at SharesPost and Senior Analyst at Sureview Capital. Lydia began her investment career at Credit Suisse and brings a wealth of traditional finance experience to Ava Labs.

Emily came to The Giving Block from the nonprofit sector, having spent almost 10 years in fundraising development including leading Capital Campaigns, Major Gifts Programs, Grant Writing, Marketing and Communications, Galas, and Corporate Partnerships. Through her passion for ensuring organizations have adequate financial support to fulfill their mission, she seeks innovative and cutting edge approaches to meet the needs of nonprofits. Crypto Philanthropy is one of these approaches. As a Fundraising Strategist on the Client Success Team at The Giving Block, she ensures clients have the resources, tools and best practices they need to be effective and successful in the new and exciting Crypto Philanthropy sector.

Kristen Spaeth is a Senior Investigator on the Global Intelligence team at Coinbase, where she works on investigations in coordination with law enforcement to keep criminal activity off the Coinbase platform. Prior to joining Coinbase, she was a Senior Cybercrime Analyst in the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She has been the investigative lead on numerous complex long-term investigations involving bank fraud, computer crimes, enterprise corruption, money laundering, network intrusions and terrorist financing.

Seth Sattler is the Chief Compliance Officer at DigitalMint, a cryptocurrency point-of-sale operator and ransomware liquidity provider. He received his Anti-Money Laundering Specialist Certification in 2016. Prior to joining DigitalMint, he worked as an AML Investigator at Huntington National Bank for its AML Model Management and Optimization Team.

Seth co-founded the Cryptocurrency Compliance Cooperative, a collaborative association that advocates for universally accepted compliance standards within the cryptocurrency industry. The organization brings industry experts together to assist in developing AML, anti-fraud, and anti-terrorist financing controls for the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Seth is a member of the Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiatives Cryptocurrency Consortium, where he assists with developing its red flag typology guide. He also serves on multiple committees and international working groups related to elder abuse, child exploitation, ransomware intelligence, and fraud victimization.

Jane Khodarkovsky is General Counsel at Celo Foundation, where she helps the Foundation and Celo ecosystem achieve its mission of building conditions of prosperity and financial inclusion for all. Prior to Celo, Jane was a Trial Attorney and Human Trafficking Finance Specialist with the U.S. Department of Justice where she investigated and prosecuted multi-jurisdictional and international money laundering and financial crimes, including those involving virtual currency and exchanges, focused on human rights, human trafficking, corporate supply chains, and child exploitation. She provided subject matter expertise, guidance and training to DOJ litigating components, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, and international, federal, state, and local law enforcement on issues relating to money laundering, financial crimes, forfeiture and restitution.

Alessio Evangelista advises global financial services companies on compliance, enforcement and internal investigations involving anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions and related issues. His clients range from global banks and investment management companies to fintech firms and companies managing and investing in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.

Mr. Evangelista draws upon his extensive experience to skillfully handle all types of government enforcement and white collar crime matters on behalf of clients. His leadership roles at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of the Treasury allow him to draw upon expansive regulatory knowledge to effectively counsel clients on a range of financial services enforcement matters. Mr. Evangelista also has a strong understanding of the new technologies impacting the financial services markets, including blockchain-based digital assets, decentralized finance and Web3.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Evangelista most recently served as head of the Enforcement and Compliance Division at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In this role, he was the senior executive in charge of the Office of Enforcement, Office of Compliance and Office of the Whistleblower. Accordingly, he oversaw the enforcement of AML laws and regulations as applied to traditional financial institutions and emerging fintech companies. He also supervised and approved all civil enforcement actions, including a $100 million civil penalty against one of the oldest and largest convertible virtual currency derivatives exchanges in the world for failing to implement and maintain effective and reasonably designed AML and customer identification programs, in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act. He also supervised and approved a $390 million civil penalty against one of the nation’s largest banks for failing to implement and maintain an effective and reasonably designed AML program and other violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. During his time at FinCEN, Mr. Evangelista led the implementation of several new regulatory and enforcement authorities granted to the agency through the passage of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, including the creation of a new Office of the Whistleblower and anew enforcement section focused on cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.

Jeremy Glickman is the Bureau Chief of the Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Jeremy joined the Office in 2002 and was assigned to Trial Bureau 30, where he prosecuted and tried numerous cases, including those involving domestic violence, assault, drug sales, burglary, robbery and murder. Jeremy was an original member of the Identity Theft Unit when it was first formed in 2006, and in 2010 was appointed as Deputy Bureau Chief of the newly formed Cybercrime and Identity Theft Bureau. In 2018, Jeremy was also appointed as Counsel to the Investigation Division and named Bureau Chief in July 2022. During his tenure at the Office, Jeremy has investigated, prosecuted and supervised hundreds of identity theft and fraud-related cases, including those involving credit card skimming, forgery, cyber-stalking, bank fraud, money-laundering, and computer crimes. Prior to joining the Office, Jeremy was a private investigator with Kroll Associates, working in New York and Mexico City. Jeremy received his undergraduate degree from Earlham College and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.

Marc Mathieu, SVP Web3 Studio & Strategic Customer Transformation & Innovation, is a storied marketer known for humanizing Fortune 500 global brands, such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Danone and Samsung. He is an industry visionary who partners with Salesforce’s C-suite Customers and the Global Advisory Board to implement successful digital transformations and Web3 strategies.

Ethan Noblesala is the current Chief Financial officer for Community Gaming since 2021. He has over 8+ years working in traditional finance. Prior to joining Community Gaming, Ethan has served at companies such as Zeta Global (NYSE:ZETA) where he managed the companies $300M+ Treasury assets as well as handled controls and compliance during Zeta’s S-1 Filing and IPO process. In Ethan’s role as CFO, he continues to implement best financial practices in the continuing emerging market of esports and blockchain technology. Recently Ethan has co-founded 3XP, a web3 gaming conference that is taking place in LA later this June 8 & 9. 3XP’s goal is to showcase the pipeline of quality web3-enabled games coming to market to apprehensive traditional gamers.

Georgia Quinn is the general counsel of Anchorage Digital, the premier digital asset platform for institutions and first federally chartered digital asset bank. Prior to that she was the general counsel of CoinList, a cryptocurrency exchange and platform that provides services to top token developers including compliant offering, distribution, and liquidity services.

She is also the co-founder of iDisclose (now LawCloud), a legal technology company focused on the disclosure and legal document needs of small business and startup entrepreneurs.

Ms. Quinn began her practice in capital markets at Weil, Gotshal and Manges and later moved to Seyfarth Shaw before founding iDisclose. Ms. Quinn received a JD from Columbia Law School, and received a BFA from New York University.

Chris Outram is the Head of Blockchain at Publicis Media where he serves as a technical guide on the marketplace of cryptographic solutions for brands and Publicis. Chris has 15 years’ experience in the marketing technology ecosystem. Previously, he worked at the Publicis-aquired RUN, where he created an original cross-device algorithm and ensuing line of media products, which eventually became the PeopleCloud (Publicis’s agency marketing cloud). In his spare time, Chris consults for the crypto bot trading firm, Quadency.

Dana Cantwell is the Head, Financial Crime Intelligence Unit at Standard Chartered Bank New York. Dana leads a team of intelligence officers and cyber financial crime experts responsible for anticipating, identifying, investigating, and reporting emerging and exigent financial crime by coordinating with internal and external partners. Her team is responsible for law enforcement engagement and the primary contacts for peer institution, strategic reviews, and collaboration with non-governmental organizations. Her team generates intelligence reports, bulletins, threat assessments, training decks, and programmatic presentations on emerging financial crime threats, geographies, products, or industries presenting complex financial crime risks to SC and the US financial network.

Dana joined Standard Chartered Bank in April 2015 as an Intelligence Officer as a part of the broader Financial Crime Compliance Team in the Americas. Before joining the Bank, Dana held intelligence roles in the U.S. Department of State, focusing on counterterrorism and othersecurity threats.

Dana holds a MA in International Administration with a focus on National Security Studies from the University of Miami and a BA in International Business from Dickinson College.

Raakhee Miller is the current CEO of Mojito, a leading NFT platform solution that enables companies to create new, valuable business verticals and has generated more than $100 million in sales. Mojito launched in 2021 with a $20 million raise and $100 million valuation from strategic investors like Sotheby’s, CAA (Creative Artists Agency), NEA, and Moore Capital. Over the last 20+ years, Raakhee has held multiple successful leadership positions around product and tech at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Macquarie. She also served as Chief Product Officer at Drivewealth, a B2B tech unicorn powering embedded investing experiences on 100+ brands, globally.

Guy Gino is a Special Agent (SA) with Homeland Security Investigations(HSI) based out of Portland, Oregon. SA Gino began his career in law enforcement in 1996 with the United States Border Patrol. In 2003, he transferred as a criminal investigator to the former US Customs Service (now HSI). Throughout his tenure at HSI, SA Gino has been assigned to a narcotics investigations task force where he conducts money laundering investigations stemming from narcotics trafficking.

SA Gino is self-taught in the field of cryptocurrency investigations. He first used the blockchain as tool in a 2013 investigation where he manually traced bitcoin using the blockchain from wallets belonging to one of the largest methamphetamine vendors operating on Silk Road. In January 2014, he used the same methods to identify the U.S. individuals responsible for the Sheep Market Place 5400 BTC theft which occurred in November 2013.

Since 2015, on behalf of HSI, SA Gino has provided instruction on cryptocurrency and de-anonymizing investigative techniques to HSI, partner federal and state agencies. SA Gino has also provided this specialized training to foreign partner agencies from over 24 countries.

As a result of his investigative work, Special Agent Gino has been identified as a globally recognized Subject Matter Expert in the illicit use of cryptocurrency and dark net marketplaces. He has received multiple honors and awards for his work and since 2018 has testified in several U.S. federal court districts as an expert witness.

In March 2019, SA Gino was part of the U.S. delegation to FATF/Moneyval Joint Experts Meeting in Tel Aviv Israel and participated in discussions concerning Virtual Assets: Detection, Investigation and Confiscation.

For the last ten years, in addition to his traditional cases, SA Gino has participated in hundreds of investigations involving the illicit use of cryptocurrency, some of these were overdose deaths investigations where the victims were sourced from the dark web or encrypted communications platforms.  He has developed an investigative methodology which has de-anonymized several dozen criminal offenders throughout the United States and abroad resulting in successful prosecutions.

Hannah Curtis is a director on Chainalysis’ Global Intelligence Team. They ensure Chainalysis is the leader in uncovering the real world activity happening on the blockchain. Before joining Chainalysis Hannah built data analytics applications for Health Care, Financial Institutions, Retailers, Utilities, and Geospatial Intelligence. Hannah is passionate about democratizing data and using it for good.

Kaitlin is an Intelligence Analyst and Russian linguist on the Global Intelligence Team, where she supports and leads data collections related to cryptocurrency use by sanctioned entities and jurisdictions, terrorist and extremist groups, and nation-state threat actors. In this role, she additionally supports technical and research teams to expand product coverage of some of the riskiest entities in the crypto space. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Kaitlin held senior intelligence analyst roles at the NCFTA and Sayari.

Orangutans are critically endangered in their native Borneo and Sumatra. Richard Zimmerman founded the 501(c)(3) non-profit Orangutan Outreach in 2007 to bring attention to the crisis facing orangutans and to raise funds for orangutan conservation projects. Orangutan Outreach works closely with partners in the field to rescue and care for orphaned and displaced orangutans, release them back into safe areas of forest, provide long-term sanctuary care for orangutans who cannot be released back in the wild and to regrow forest for future orangutan habitat. Learn more at www.redapes.org.

Jessica Raybeck is the Chief Operating Officer at Polytope Research, a quantitative investment firm for Digital Assets that specializes in systemically trading DeFi & CeFi. Polytope Research’s highly technical approach utilizes on-chain data for research, strategy development, and risk mitigation seeking to deliver high risk adjusted returns. Prior, Jessica was a foundational member of the Institutional Financing and Execution business at BlockFi. She has a strong background in strategy and regulatory compliance from her time leading Client Facilitation at Citigroup and Nomura.

Juan Pablo Ramírez is Blockchain and Crypto Lead at Bancolombia and supports the blockchain strategy for Grupo Bancolombia in the countries where it has a presence.

He has more than 15 years of professional experience, 12 of them in the financial sector and, specifically, 7+ years in the blockchain and crypto world. He is curious, experimental and results oriented.

Juan Pablo holds a bachelor degree in Information Systems Administrator from the National University of Colombia, an advanced certificate in Distributed Networks from EAFIT University, and a Master’s in Management of Technology from New York University (NYU).

Sam is a managing director at State Street Digital in the Product organization focused on Governance and Controls. Sam joined State Street Digital from Promontory Financial Group, where he most recently held the title of Senior Principal.

As Senior Principal, Sam partnered with financial services executives to promote positive state and federal regulatory outcomes. Sam specializes in digital assets (including custody, crypto currencies, tokenization, and DeFi), FinTech, and RegTech, and has broad experience working with crypto native firms, banks, non-banks, fintechs, and U.S. State and Federal regulators including the Fed, OCC, SEC, CFPB, and NYDFS.

Sam spent nearly a decade at Promontory working across practice groups partnering with financial services executives in the areas of non-financial risk, compliance, financial crimes, and technology and information risk, including the past two years focused exclusively on the designing, adapting, and right-sizing risk management programs for digital assets products and services.

Rahsan has over 20 years of experience as a corporate attorney specializing in financial services, technology, artificial intelligence/machine learning and blockchain. He previously served as a Senior Counsel and manager of Google Cloud’s AI & ML legal team and is currently the General Counsel of Hashflow, a decentralized finance exchange. Prior to joining Google, Rahsan was an inhouse counsel for several top financial services institutions including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and GE Capital.

As Vice President and Head of Sales for Latin America, Javier Carrión, leverages years of experience in leadership positions and management, and opening and developing markets for tech companies.
In his role at Chainalysis, Carrión heads-up all go-to-market strategy for the Latin America market.

He initiated his career in I.T. at Oracle Corporation in their Advance Consulting Organization. Over the last 20 years he has held leadership positions in sales and sales management for companies like Netscape, Red Hat, VMware, ServiceNow and OutSystems before joining Chainalysis.

Carrión has considerable experience starting, developing and managing new markets, sales and operations in the U.S, EMEA and Latin America.

He earned his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts. Carrión was born in Madrid, Spain and now resides with his family in McLean, VA.

Andy Granowitz is Director of Product Manager at Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company. In his role at Chainalysis, Andy leads product development for risk & compliance products, including Chainalysis Know Your Transaction (KYT), the industry leading cryptocurrency transaction monitoring solution. Prior to Chainalysis, Andy was a Product Manager on search and data products at Box, led product and operations for Wagon (acquired by Box), and led product outreach, education, and partnerships for the Google Analytics platform.

The current Head of Regulatory Compliance at Notabene, Lana Schwartzman has more than 17 years of compliance and regulatory experience in Web3, digital assets, fintech, and TradFi, with a proven track record of successfully designing and implementing BSA/AML/Sanctions Compliance programs, leading MSB/MTL licensure strategy and process, internal audits, independent compliance program reviews, and consent order validation for NFT and cryptocurrency companies, financial institutions, and foreign banking organizations.

Schwartzman previously served as Chief Compliance Officer for two crypto companies, the latest being Dapper Labs. Prior to that, she worked in Grant Thornton’s Regulatory and Compliance Risk Advisory Services practice for seven years, advising early crypto adopters on setting up and implementing compliance programs. She began her role in compliance with Morgan Stanley and then worked at Deutsche Bank.

She is known to be a Subject Matter Expert in Regulations and Compliance related to cryptocurrency and stays current on all AML regulations. Lana is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and obtained the ACAMS Virtual Currency Certification and various Chainalysis certifications. She achieved the recognition of “AML Professional of the Month” in 2019 and she has been a frequent panelist at various ACAMS, ACFCS, and crypto/web3/NFT conferences.

Brian Smith is an active duty military officer who serves as the U.S. Army’s lead for developing, training, incubating and employing Financial Levers and Economic Understanding to achieve military operational effects. His role emphasizes the U.S. Military’s need evolve, adapt, understand and operate within today’s emerging economic environment and to understand the impacts of the Financial and Economic domains on strategic, operational and tactical levels. He specifically emphasizes the requirements to adapt to both Digital Currencies (crypto) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC).

Brian is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Defense Financial Manager and holds Masters Degrees from both the U.S. Naval War College and the University of Maryland System. His 28-year military career covers multiple operational deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans as well as extensive time spent within the Special Operations community.

Priyanka Trivedi is a creative product marketer with nine years of experience in the tech industry. She is passionate about how technology is evolving our world and innovative solutions that are impacting markets. Priyanka is currently bringing her experience to Chainalysis, helping Risk & Compliance customers grow safely with the crypto industry.

Anastasia “Tracy” Raissis is a Global Executive and a Director of World Wide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS) where she currently leads the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform enabling international public sector financial institutions and inter-government organizations to achieve their missions through scalable, resilient and secure cloud based emerging technology enabled innovations for Digital Assets, Digital Currencies (such as CBDC), Supervisory Technology (SupTech), and Green Finance.

With a background in banking/financial services and having held executive leadership roles in compliance risk management and business development, Tracy is an innovative strategist, thoughtleader and mentor known for excellent judgment and insight. Skilled in influencing, building and leading effective teams, she has demonstrated success in building new business verticals, expanding into new industry segments, and building and scaling product and service offerings. Tracy is a global speaker, has been featured and quoted in industry media.
Specializing in governance, she has served on corporate and non-profit boards and industry advisory committees.

Experienced with Corporate and Non-profit Boards and Industry Advisory Councils, Tracy currently serves as both the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and the Chair of the Trusteeship; Governance Committee for a fine arts college in Seattle, WA and is a member on the MTRA Industry Advisory Council. She previously served as an advisory council member of CSBS and as the co-Chair of the Tomorrow @ Sea-Tac Coalition.

Tracy earned a BA from New York University where she studied Politics and Economics and an MBA from Auburn University. Her education also includes executive education programs at the Michael G Foster School of Business, University of Washington and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Tracy has also achieved various professional certifications, such as: Certified Risk Professional (CRP), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and Certificates in Blockchain Technology Fundamentals and Strategy.

HSI Criminal Analyst Alia Khan began her career as an Intelligence Analyst for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Money Laundering Investigations Unit in 2014. She later joined Homeland Security Investigations in 2016 and provided financial analysis to criminal investigators and federal/state prosecutors involving various cryptocurrency fraud schemes on the El Dorado Task Force. She later joined the Darkweb and Cryptocurrency CA Khan’s work has been recognized by Homeland Security Headquarters in Washington D.C and has been awarded the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director’s Award for seizing over 19 million dollars related to Darkweb Investigations.

Kyler Hardin is a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations, New York. SA Hardin began his career in law enforcement in 2007 with the New York City Police Department before joining Homeland Security Investigations in 2008. SA Hardin was initially assigned to the JFK Narcotics Smuggling Unit, investigating international narcotics smuggling at JFK Airport, before transferring to the Cyber division in 2017. Since that time, he has worked in the Darkweb & Cryptocurrency Task Force, focusing on cryptocurrency money laundering cases and cases targeting darknet market administrators.

As Chief Intelligence Officer, Michael DeBolt is a member of Intel 471’s executive team providing strategic and operational leadership across a globally diverse team of intelligence practitioners and client-facing collection managers. Before Intel 471, Michael developed strategy and led operations as the US representative and Head of Cybercrime Intelligence at INTERPOL. As a Special Agent at the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), he specialized in national security cyber counterintelligence investigations impacting the US Navy and Department of Defense. Michael is also a proud veteran of the US Marine Corps.

Chris Shimizu is the Senior Manager of Compliance Programs at Bittrex, Inc. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of all compliance operations of the global cryptocurrency exchange where he has developed programs and investigative techniques utilizing Chainalysis Reactor and KYT tools. Chris is CRC, KYT, CISC, and CEIC certified.

Prior to joining Bittrex, Chris attended law school at the George Mason School of Law where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, focusing on tax and business law.

Andrew Rudd leads the Cyber Crime Intelligence Team, part of Citi’s Global Financial Crime Investigation & Intelligence Unit (GFCII). His team is responsible for the collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence related to cyber-enabled financial crime, targeted cyber threat actor assessments, and the illicit use of cryptocurrency. Prior to this, he was the Head of Financial Threat Intelligence and Deputy Head of Citi’s Cyber Fraud Fusion Center. Andrew was a police officer for 12 years, focused on criminal intelligence, covert investigation, criminal finances, and proactive counterterrorism roles

Michael Patterson, Chief Compliance Officer of Genesis, is a seasoned global business leader and board member with 40 years of cross-sector experience in strategy, P&L management and international operations. Patterson previously worked as senior partner and business leader with EY, Merrill Lynch & Co., BearingPoint Inc., and Arthur Andersen. He holds a B.B.A from Pace University.

Gabriel Campa is the Head of Towerlab Crypto and Blockchain for Towerbank International, Inc and is leading the organization’s Crypto and Blockchain Strategy for Latam. Campa worked for 4 years as VP of Global Sales for MEC Shipyard before involved in crypto and blockchain. He is curious, experimental and not afraid to do things differently. Campa graduated from Isthmus University School of Architecture and Design where he was studying to be an Architect.

Leighton Dellinger is Associate General Counsel at Paxos, which is on a mission to modernize finance by mobilizing assets at the speed of the internet. Leighton is a results-driven attorney with experience delivering strategic legal, compliance, and business solutions that facilitate growth, protect assets, and mitigate risk. Leighton has spent her career building value at fast-growing startups and advising clients at top law firms.

Tim Molcsan-Spidel is the Senior Specialist of Investigations for Binance Canada and plays a key leadership role in building the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Investigations program for planned Canadian operations. Prior to that, he spent 16 years with the Calgary Police Service (CPS) in various prominent roles including leading the Cyber/Crypto program, technology training leader, dark web specialist and lead during various cryptocurrency and undercover projects.

Blake Cohen is a Senior Blockchain Investigator at Okcoin, where he leads complex and high profile investigations. Over the past year, he has helped recover over $150 Million in stolen funds for scam victims worldwide. For his accomplishments, Blake was given the company’s “Top Achiever” award for 2022.

Roy is the Digital Assets Financial Services leader for Deloitte Advisory. He has been a consultant in the financial services industry for over 23 years and brings deep industry experience and a background leading large scale integration programs supporting business, compliance, risk, regulatory and technology transformation initiatives.

Roy’s engagements in the digital assets space include supporting clients establish buy-hold/custody-sell and lend business models, leading digital assets regulatory applications and assisting clients enhance their risk & control frameworks to manage digital asset risks.

Roy led projects in the areas of operations, risk management and governance focusing on assessing, improving and transforming the way organizations approach risk management, compliance and technology, including evaluating and optimizing the use of data from trade ops, finance, risk and compliance as well as the related supporting processes, methodologies, and controls.

Roy has authored several papers on digital assets risks and is guest speaker/lecturer on “Digital Assets Innovation and Regulations” at Fordham Gabelli School of Business.

Sarah Kershaw is the Digital Acquisition Lead at WaterAid America. In her role, Sarah is always exploring new sources of support, whether from individuals or via new product development. Blockchain and cryptocurrency is one such opportunity. Before WaterAid, Sarah worked as a digital strategist and sourced Twentieth Century British Art in the Tri-State Area for UK-based art dealers.

Scott Kerin is an Assistant United States Attorney in Portland, Oregon where he prosecutes complex criminal cases involving organized and violent crime, drug distribution resulting in death and serious bodily injury, cybercrime, and cryptocurrency. Between 2019 and 2021, Scott served a 16-month detail with the U.S. Department of Justice in Bucharest, Romania training prosecutors and law enforcement officers throughout Eastern Europe on best practices in investigating and prosecuting cybercrime, cryptocurrency, and intellectual property crime cases.

Scott is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, and the Director’s Award for Superior Performance. Scott joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2002. Scott teaches an advanced cybercrime class at Portland State University and serves as an instructor on trial advocacy, criminal procedure, and criminal law for the U.S. Department of Justice. Scott received his law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon and his bachelor’s degree from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Andrew Chow is a correspondent for TIME Magazine who covers tech, crypto and culture.

Torstein Braaten is the Head of Regulatory Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer for Bitbuy Technologies Inc., Coinberry Ltd. and WonderFi Technologies Inc. (WNDR.TSX).  Bitbuy and Coinberry are regulated Crypto Trading Platforms with the Canadian Securities Administrators registered as Restricted Dealers with Bitbuy also being the first regulated Marketplace for crypto assets in Canada.  Torstein was previously the COO and CCO at Instinet Canada and Instinet Canada Cross.  Prior to that Torstein was the CCO at BMO Capital Markets, and CEO and CCO at TriAct Canada Marketplace.  Torstein recently was a member of the Ontario Securities Commission Fintech Advisory Committee and currently a member of IIROC’s Crypto-Asset Working Group.  Torstein has 3 decades of experience in compliance, risk management and capital markets.

Lesley Chavkin is currently Head of Policy for the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF). Prior to joining SDF, she worked at JPMorgan Chase and served in a variety of roles at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, including as an international economist in the Office of African Nations, a senior policy advisor focused on the Middle East, and as Treasury’s Financial Attaché to Qatar and Kuwait from 2017-2020. Before joining Treasury, Lesley worked as an economic analyst in the U.S. intelligence community. Lesley holds a master’s degree in Development Economics and International Security from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Affairs from the University of Washington.

Outside of her SDF responsibilities, she is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s
Geoeconomics Center. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and daughters.

Pete Brereton has been on the enterprise sales team at Chainalysis for over four years where he helps global firms solve their investigative, compliance, and data challenges. Prior to Chainalysis, Pete worked in other tech and analytics roles and served as an active duty infantry officer in the US Army for seven years.

Erin Plante is VP of Investigations and Special Programs at Chainalysis, leading investigations and research efforts worldwide with both public and private sectors. She’s spent over 17 years in cybersecurity, building solutions to investigate cyber crimes, monitor suspicious activity and tackle risk while working with tightly regulated industries in the highest risk locations. Erin has also worked on several corruption investigations including in Africa and Hong Kong.

Outside of her role at Chainalysis, Erin is a Member of the Program Faculty for the New York Bar Association’s Cutting-Edge Technology series and a regular speaker at forensic technology conferences. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

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, Senior Counsel at JP Morgan Chase.

Roger Brown is an experienced international tax and financial institutions tax lawyer who currently focuses on the crypto ecosystem. Roger is Global Head of Tax Strategy for Chainalysis, Inc. Chainalysis is a blockchain data company that serves the needs of governments, financial institutions, and other companies for transactions involving blockchain technology and digital assets.

Among Roger’s previous roles, Roger was Global Head of Tax for Lukka, a software company that designs tax and accounting solutions for transactions involving digital assets. Roger also worked for nearly a decade in the national office of the IRS writing regulations, rulings, and other guidance, while also assisting field agents in their audits. Roger spent a similar period as a technical partner in Ernst & Young’s financial services & institutions practice, while also serving FinTech and blockchain clients of EY — globally. Prior to EY, Roger gained a deep understanding of the US tax withholding and reporting rules as a partner in a law firm that was the leader in that space: Burt, Staples & Maner (BSM).

Kim Grauer is the Head of Research at Chainalysis, where she examines trends in cryptocurrency economics and crime. She was trained in economics at the London School of Economics and in politics at Oxford University. Previously, she explored technological advancements in developing countries as an academic research associate at the London School of Economics and was an economics researcher at the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

Caroline leads the public policy team globally for Chainalysis. Drawing on Chainalysis’ unique data analytics and tools, she work with clients from the public and private sectors to understand developments in digital asset markets and their intersect with global regulatory trends and requirements. In addition, she works closely with internal teams to ensure that the right data and tools are being surfaced and built to meet the future needs of these industry stakeholders.

Caroline was previously the founding Head of the OECD’s Global Blockchain Policy Centre, from 2018 to 2021, working on a diverse range of blockchain-related policy issues, such as fintech, competition policy, data governance, and supply chain transparency. In 2019, she co-led the Financial Stability Board’s workstream on decentralised fintech, and also established the OECD’s Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board, bringing together more than 100 experts from across the world in government, industry, academia and civil society. In 2020, Caroline was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and was a judge in the G20 techsprint hackathon. In 2022, she was a finalist in the Global Australian Awards.

Caroline’s career began as a lawyer to the Australian government before she joined the OECD in 2010, to work on international tax transparency issues. She went on to set up the OECD-UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative and then became the advisor to the OECD’s Head of Tax during the OECD/G20 BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Project. During this time, Caroline became more interested in the impact of emerging technologies on policy frameworks and began the first global study of the tax treatment of crypto-currencies.

Danielle E. Davis is Head of Corporate Development at Chainalysis. In this role, Danielle focuses on strategic growth opportunities through M&A and strategic partnerships.. Prior to Chainalysis, Danielle served as Chief M&A Counsel at IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global), assisting with the firm’s global mergers and acquisitions strategy and execution. Before IHS Markit, Danielle served as M&A counsel at Nielsen and spent several years in private practice at Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

Joseph Baerenz is a senior training specialist at Chainalysis. In this role, he works with government investigators, regulators, and specialty cyber crime units teaching advanced investigation techniques, as well as with cryptocurrency businesses on the applications of the Chainalysis Know Your Transaction (KYT) product.

Prior to joining Chainalysis, Joe worked on the compliance investigations team at Gemini, a U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. Joe was introduced to the cryptocurrency industry as a legal intern at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission where he reviewed a cryptocurrency exchange traded fund proposal in the Division of Corporation Finance.

Emily Ing is an Associate Training Specialist at Chainalysis. She provides training for public and private sector customers across the core certification offerings aimed at educating on foundational concepts in cryptocurrency and the Chainalysis Reactor product.

Her background is in public policy, consulting, and international development. Prior to Chainalysis, Emily worked at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, leading a global training program focused on humanitarian negotiation funded by USAID. She also managed projects for state and local government agencies and international/domestic non-profit organizations in her various consulting capacities. She holds a Masters in International Affairs and Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Bernardo Navarro joined the Chainalysis Training Team in December 2021. He previously worked as an auditor at one of the Big Four accounting firms focusing on financial statement audits for some of the top asset and wealth managers in the world. Bernardo brings this traditional financial experience to Chainalysis, helping ensure the same accountability, transparency, and trust are achieved in the cryptocurrency industry.

Melissa Larson is the Senior Director of Global Ecosystems at Chainalysis where she oversees the partnership program and alliances teams and works to build new solutions and collaborate with technology and service providers building the crypto ecosystem. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Melissa led Global Alliances for companies like Harness and Pivotal Software.

Beth Bisbee is currently the Director of Investigation Solutions at Chainalysis Government Solutions. Prior to that, 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. As DEA’s lead SME, Beth trained hundreds of agents and analysts at DEA and other law enforcement agencies, assisted in more than 400 investigations involving cryptocurrencies and served as a testifying witness. She has been researching cryptocurrencies and their illicit use, and actively working cases in that area, since 2014 and in 2022 was designated as a blockchain expert witness.

With over ten years of experience in the financial services and technology industry, Anne has a passion for innovation and creativity and has built her experience around all aspects of Product Marketing. She joined Chainalysis in 2020 to fulfill her eager interest in blockchain technology. In her current role, Anne works closely with cross-functional teams to define customer needs and deliver them value through the adoption of Chainalysis solutions.

Matt Wilson is a Group Product Manager at Chainalysis, where he is responsible for the Investigation Product Line. He has served in this role for five years, overseeing the development of Reactor, Storyline, and the Investigations API.

Prior to Chainalysis, Matt worked in Product Management at Palantir where he focused on compliance and investigations software for financial institutions. Matt holds an MBA from Columbia Business school, an Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselear Polytchnic and served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer.

Ryan Ryder is a Senior Cyber Crimes Investigator for Chainalysis ISP International Intelligence and Investigations. Prior to that, he was the lead cryptocurrency investigator for the Calgary Police Service (CPS) Cyber Crimes team. Ryan was recognized nationally for his investigations and leaned on heavily by agencies abroad, tracing the flow of illicit funds in criminal cases and identifying transactional behaviour occurring on the blockchain. As the CPS lead, Ryan developed and trained hundreds of Police Officers and analysts from law enforcement agencies across Canada on cyber crime and blockchain. Ryan has assisted on numerous International Investigations, conducted seizures and authored legal processes. He has been researching cryptocurrency and their illicit use, and actively working cases in that area since 2017.

Robert Bone joined Chainalysis in May 2021 as the Director of Global Intelligence after serving 25 years in U.S. Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies.

Mr. Bone oversees the global intelligence team at Chainalysis which develops strategy on data collection and identification of illicit actors and activities in the blockchain in relation to cryptocurrency transactions.

Mr. Bone was most recently the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI office in Los Angeles, California. He oversaw all counterintelligence and cyber investigations in southern California and had the extraterritorial oversight of FBI investigations throughout Asia.

Mr. Bone specialized in counterterrorism, counterintelligence, counterespionage, cyber investigations and technology development at the FBI. Mr. Bone was the Deputy Assistant Director of the Operational Technology Division for the FBI developing new collection tools and deriving intelligence from technical sources.

Mr. Bone served in the FBI since 2001 and was instrumental in developing collaborative tools as the Joint Terrorism Task Force Coordinator in Chicago working both international and domestic terrorism. Mr. Bone served in Afghanistan for FBI operational deployment developing intelligence to investigate kidnappings and terrorism threats to U.S. Forces and United States interests.

Mr. Bone was the Chief Inspector for the FBI, developing processes and procedures ensuring compliance and regulatory oversight for Department of Justice requirements in regards to FBI operations.

Prior to serving with the FBI, Mr. Bone was a Silverthorne Police Detective in Colorado and specialized in computer forensics in regards to Crimes Against Children.

Becca Nolan is a Cybercrimes Investigator at Chainalysis Government Solutions. Becca’s work at Chainalysis has primarily centered around ransomware, stolen funds, and mixers where she leverages advanced cryptocurrency tracing techniques to inform national security clients. She has seven years of public and private sector experience with a focus on cryptocurrency and blockchain investigations, cyber threats, warning analysis, threat finance, and fraud investigations. Becca previously served as Intelligence Analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense. She maintains her Certified Fraud Examiner credential and previously worked as a Fraud Analyst on behalf of Fortune 500 companies. Becca earned a Bachelor of Arts of Intelligence Studies from Mercyhurst University. Becca currently resides in Pennsylvania. In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors and loves finding new places to snowboard and scuba dive.

Yusuf Roso is Director of Product for Data Intelligence where he leads the development of Chainalysis’ blockchain knowledge graph and data platform. Before joining Chainalysis in 2019, Yusuf led product teams at JW Player focusing on recommendation and ad targeting products, and at Kindle focusing on content discovery models and the associated SaaS tools for Amazon Publishing. In a previous life, Yusuf worked on the trading floor at J.P. Morgan where he was a VP and assisted asset managers and multinational corporations in their investment and hedging strategies in various derivative markets.

Quynh is a product manager at Chainalysis. She has extensive experience working in the crypto industry, previously worked as Head of Product at a digital asset market data provider where she built data products that supported over $1 billion in assets under management.

Julia Hardy is a Senior Investigator at Chainalysis specializing in DeFi and web3 investigations. In the past 1.5 years, Julia has investigated over 25 hacks, tracking the movements of over $12 billion USD worth of stolen funds.

Brian Carter is currently a Senior Cybercrime Specialist at Chainalysis, Inc., collecting intelligence and supporting investigations involving malware, criminal markets, threat actor groups and fraud. Prior to Chainalysis, Brian has led teams and programs at Anthem Inc., and government contracts related to detection sensors, SIEM; threat intelligence; intrusion and security; and adversary simulations. He has been researching and actively focused on threat intelligence for over 20 years.

Liz is a Sales Director at Chainalysis leading the Mid-Market West team. She began her career at Citi where she spent nearly a decade in Sales and Trading before leaving “tradfi” to start her own education technology company. She’s been busy scaling high-growth tech startups ever since. Liz is energized by working with smart, passionate people and solving hard, important problems which is exactly what she gets to do every day at Chainalysis.