Kimberly McDonough is a Criminal Analyst with Homeland Security Investigations in Milwaukee, WI. Kimberly primarily supports Human Trafficking, Child Exploitation, and Financial investigations. She is a Task Force Analyst with the FBI Milwaukee’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and a member of HSI Chicago’s Cryptocurrency Analysis Cell. Prior to joining Homeland Security Investigations, Kimberly was a Criminal Intelligence Analyst with North Central HIDTA in Milwaukee, WI. She provided analytical support to narcotics and gang investigations, specializing in communications, open source, and financial analysis.

Kevin O’Connor is the Chief of the Virtual Assets and Emerging Technology Section of the Enforcement and Compliance Division within the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). He manages a dynamic team of technical experts and oversees numerous complex investigations of financial institutions to ensure their compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing laws and regulations. Kevin has played a critical role in the development of regulations, standards, and best practices for the supervision of virtual assets and virtual asset service providers domestically and internationally.

In over 14 years of public service, his work has earned the Secretary of the Treasury’s Honor Award, an award from Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) for his collaborative work on virtual assets, and TFI’s Outstanding Service Award. FinCEN named Kevin its 2018 Distinguished Employee of the Year.

Kevin earned his B.A. in Political Science from Providence College, and his M.A. in Government from the American University.

Tony Moore is a detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. With over 30 years of investigative experience, he’s amassed expertise in forgery-fraud, social media, internet investigations, dark web, crypto-currencies and human trafficking investigations. In that time he’s investigated 100’s of complex cryptocurrency related crimes and has assisted with numerous local, state and federal cybercrime investigations.

In 2011, Tony discovered the Bitcoin ecosystem and immediately became an avid student. In 2013 he was a student in the inaugural class of the world’s first accredited online Digital Currency course where he earned a Certificate of Completion through the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Shortly thereafter he was recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blockchain Insiders, for his work in the cryptocurrency field according to Richtopia.com. Tony’s been a guest speaker at over 50 internationally recognized Law Enforcement conferences including, the International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference, California District Attorneys Association, 2nd and 5th Annual FBI Victual Currency Symposium and the National Black Peace Officer Association.

In 2011, Tony discovered the Bitcoin ecosystem and immediately became an avid student. In 2013 he was a student in the inaugural class of the world’s first accredited online Digital Currency course where he earned a Certificate of Completion through the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Shortly thereafter he was recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blockchain Insiders, for his work in the cryptocurrency field according to Richtopia.com. Tony’s been a guest speaker at over 50 internationally recognized Law Enforcement conferences including, the International Association Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference, California District Attorneys Association, 2nd and 5th Annual FBI Victual Currency Symposium and the National Black Peace Officer Association.

Tony instructs detailed courses on policing cryptocurrencies, dark web, internet investigations and computer forensics via the California Department of Justice (CADOJ) and University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he is an adjunct professor. Throughout his career he’s trained over 4500 law enforcement and civilian personnel, from 150 agencies, and 5 different countries.

Tony’s received numerous awards for his law enforcement contributions including; “Instructor of the Year” for Individual Excellence in Law Enforcement Training by the California Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission (POST), “Distinguished Instructor Award” from the University of California, Irvine, and a recipient of the United States Attorney General’s, Law Enforcement Award and the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Partnership Award.

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.”

Stéphane Sirard is currently the Assistant Director of Program Delivery and Modernization within the Compliance Sector at the Financial Transaction and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). He joined the organization in December 2012 and has held various management positions in the Compliance and Intelligence Sectors. Over the years he led the last mutual evaluation report submission to the FATF and was responsible for implementing legislative and regulatory changes to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing. He also managed the Terrorist Financing / Threats Unit as well as the Anti-Money Laundering Unit responsible for the Eastern & Western Regions within the Intelligence Sector. Stéphane also has 10 years’ experience with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) where he managed the Financial Crime Intelligence Analysis Section at headquarters. He began his career in the banking sector and has also held various positions at the Canada Revenue Agency. Stéphane holds a bachelors’ degree from l’École des hautes études commerciales in Montreal.

Miles Faggert is a Special Agent with the Alabama Securities Commission (ASC). Miles investigates cases involving securities fraud, financial exploitation of vulnerable adults, and cryptocurrency. Over the past two years, he has primarily investigated cases involving cryptocurrency. He has investigated numerous cryptocurrency cases involving pig butchering, romance scams, and NFT sales offerings made in the metaverse. Prior to joining the ASC, Miles worked for the Montgomery Police Department where he was assigned full time to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. Miles is currently appointed to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) Enforcement Commodities & Derivatives Enforcement Project Group. Miles received his undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Mississippi and his Master’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati.

Michael Mosier is a co-founder of Arktouros pllc, a niche law firm dedicated to emergent technology, civil society, and risk management. He is also a partner in ex/ante, an early-stage venture fund investing in technology that advances democracy and resilience. He has twice been the first in-house counsel at web3 companies: one developing a decentralized block sequencer and configurable privacy/auditability and, previously, at Chainalysis.

In public service, Michael served as Acting Director (Deputy Director and first Digital Innovation Officer) of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). He also was Counselor (Cybersecurity & Emerging Technology) to the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; an Associate Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); a Deputy Chief at the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering Section; a Director at the White House National Security Council; and a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Jonathan Scharf is the Deputy Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau and Cryptocurrency Investigations Coordinator in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office where he oversees the investigation and prosecution of financial crimes, cybercrimes, cryptocurrency, and major narcotics trafficking.

Previously, Mr. Scharf served as a Trial Attorney in the United States Department of Justice’s Criminal Division in the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section (MLARS). While at MLARS, Mr. Scharf served as the Legal Counsel for the International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center (IOC2) and the Financial Litigation Counsel for Special Operations Division (SOD) — law enforcement fusion centers that coordinate and exploit intelligence collection, communications, and financial data to attack the command and control of transnational organized criminal networks.

Mr. Scharf is a frequent lecturer on financial investigations, money laundering, and asset forfeiture matters to domestic and international law enforcement. He has received numerous commendations for his service, including the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Director’s Award, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director’s Award, Homeland Security Investigations Case of the Year, and Prosecutor of the Year by the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI).

Mr. Scharf received his bachelor’s degree in political science with honors from Tufts University in 1998, a master’s degree in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and his J.D. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 2005, where he was a Faculty Merit Scholar and a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Team.

Deputy Special Agent in Charge Matt O’Neill is a Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division (CID). He received his B.S. from James Madison University in 1997. Agent O’Neill started his career with the USSS in 1998 in New Haven, CT. He transferred to the Vice President’s Detail in 2003 until 2007 when he transferred to the Manchester Resident Office. In 2017, Agent O’Neill transferred to the CID and created the agency’s Global Investigative Operations Center (GIOC) as a centralized fusion center for agency investigative operations.

From 2020-2022, Agent O’Neill directed the agency’s Asset Forfeiture Branch, which seized nearly $2B in illicit proceeds during his tenure. Agent O’Neill currently leads the Secret Service’s global cyber investigative operations, digital forensics, mobile wireless tracking, and critical systems protection portfolio. Agent O’Neill was the recipient of the U.S. Secret Service’s Special Agent of the Year Award, the Department of Homeland Security’s Gold and Silver Medals, and numerous other awards for his investigative and leadership efforts.

Mr. Scholz currently is on Task Force ZERO & UNAD Teams within CNMF (Cyber National Mission Force), a subcommand under USCC (United States Cyber Command) with a focus on Blockchain analytics. He has assisted in analyzing and tracing Advance Persistent Threat 37 Group’s and Lazarus Group’s (APT 38) involvement in the Blockchain technology space and APT 29’s (Cozy Bear) usage of crypto. In addition to his work within CNMF, he is also an adjunct instructor for NCU (National Cryptologic University). Prior to his military background, Ross worked as a Director of Revenue Management in the hospitality industry and for some of the original Internet Service Providers. When he is not learning Blockchain technologies he is enjoying spending time with his wife and two kids.

Matthew has been with the CT State Police since 2012, with four years prior law enforcement experience in Atlanta, GA. Currently, he is a detective with the Eastern District Major Crime Squad, also assigned to the USSS Financial Crime Task Force – New Haven, a member of the SAR review team through the Dept. Treasury/DOJ – New Haven, and a Financial Services Sector Chief with the FBI’s InfraGard National.

Jeffrey graduated with a Bachelor in Science degree from the University of Vermont in 2001 and earned his Juris Doctorate Degree from Quinnipiac University, School of Law in 2007. He is barred in to practice law in the Superior Courts of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts as well as the Federal District Court. In private practice, he worked in areas of foreclosures, consumer collections, real estate transactions, employment discrimination matters and personal injury. Jeffrey joined the Consumer Credit Division in the Department of Banking for the State of Connecticut in 2018 as a Staff Attorney 2 and has been promoted to Staff Attorney 3 in 2021. In this role, Jeffrey leads enforcement matters involving entities engaged in business in the State of Connecticut. One of his primary roles is the investigation and enforcement of companies engaged in money transmission activities within the state and the application of Connecticut statutes and regulations to the money transmission activities. In furtherance of these duties, Jeffrey investigates claims and consumer complaints, examines the company activities, researches and applies the law as needed, negotiates directly with the companies, drafts settlement agreements and, in cases where no resolution can be made, drafts administrative notices against the company with specific allegations according to Connecticut law.

Lee Papathanasiou joined Cellebrite in July 2008 as one of the first technical support reps for UFED & Physical Analyzer products. He has held various technical roles over the years which involved communicating and prioritizing customer requirements to Cellebrite’s R&D and Product Management teams while assisting law enforcement in augmenting digital forensics workflows and underlying IT infrastructure. More recently, he has focused on emerging digital investigative trends; blockchain intelligence, osint, cloud exploitation, search warrant returns, decoding automation, and multi-source data analysis.

John Schoenecker is the Government Relations and Regulatory Strategy Director for TaxBit, a leading SaaS provider to enterprise and governments, helping them manage information involving digital assets for tax and accounting purposes. He joined TaxBit in April 2022, bringing with him a background in tax policy, investigations, and litigation. Before joining TaxBit, John was a senior investigative counsel for Sen. Charles Grassley on the Senate Finance Committee where he led the committee’s 2020 bipartisan investigation into syndicated conservation-easement transactions and was the primary author of that investigation’s report. Prior to that, he was counsel to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady during the 2017 tax-reform effort. From 2007 through 2015, John was a trial attorney for the Department of Justice’s Tax Division where he litigated high-profile shelter cases, most notably the STARS foreign tax-credit generator cases. He graduated from Northwestern University’s law school and Medill School of Journalism as an undergraduate.

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.

Michael Gronager is Co-founder and CEO of Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company. As CEO, Michael is responsible for running all facets of the business in order to provide leading anti-money laundering and investigative services for government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions. Prior to founding Chainalysis, Michael was the Co-founder and COO of Kraken, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Michael also holds a PhD in Quantum Mechanics from the Technical University of Denmark. Michael serves on the Board of a Top500 Supercomputer Center and is a founding member of the Working Group for the 5th European AML Directive (5MLD).

Valerie Kennedy is the Director of International Intel Investigations at Chainalysis, where she leads a team of best-in-class cryptocurrency investigators. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Valerie worked in international organizations and academic institutions, serving as an expert in disinformation and the post-Soviet space. Valerie began her career in cryptocurrency in 2019 in investigations at a US-based cryptocurrency exchange.

Jonathan Levin is Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company. In his role as CSO, he is responsible for designing long-term strategic initiatives that help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions investigate illicit activity, comply with regulations, and mitigate risk through anti-money laundering technology and education. Jonathan is regularly called upon to testify for the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies. He is also a mentor for the Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator.

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 holds a BSC in Economics from Bristol University and Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford. He lives in New York.

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.

Having been a part of high-growth disruptive companies like Salesforce, VMware, and OutSystems for more than 20 years, Sean has passionate perspectives on technology that shakes and shapes the world. He is currently pouring his energy into leading product marketing at Chainalysis and the company’s mission of bringing trust to the future of global finance.

Thomas Stanley is the President and Chief Revenue Officer at Chainalysis. In his role, he is responsible for driving the company’s overall revenue performance, go-to-market strategy, strategic partnerships, and international expansion. Thomas has held several leadership sales roles over the last two decades, which has built his reputation as a highly engaged senior leader with the expertise to build high-performing, cross-functional global teams. He is a results-driven global sales leader, with experience selling to many of the largest and most sophisticated companies and government agencies in the world.

Thomas is a passionate advocate for education, science and technology, youth advancement, leadership development, and diversity and inclusion. As a result, he is a sought-after speaker on technology and philanthropic topics. Outside of Chainalysis, Thomas currently serves on the boards of the Omega Uplift Foundation and Industry Advisory Board at North Carolina A&T State University and as an active member in the Executive Leadership Council.

Gurvais C. Grigg is a recognized technology executive with 26 years of public and private sector investigative and financial experience working to connect government and industry partners to the cryptocurrency industry. Grigg, Global Public Sector Chief Technology Officer for Chainalysis, is responsible for connecting global governments with the cryptocurrency industry to create a more reliable, fair, and open market for the world to transact.

Grigg served 23 years as a Special Agent and executive for the FBI conducting and leading criminal and national security investigations. Grigg has designed and built state-of-the-art operational and technical capabilities to help identify and track suspected terrorists, spies, and criminals and their finances.

Eitan Danon is a team lead for international investigations and special programs at Chainalysis. Eitan’s work focuses on research, analysis, capacity building, and advisory at the intersection of national security and the blockchain. He also helps lead the company’s efforts to highlight the strategic geopolitical implications of how a range of threat actors abuse the financial system using digital assets and blockchain technology.

Eitan brings 15 years of national security experience. Before Chainalysis, he was a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he focused on a range of AML/CFT policy issues, with an emphasis on illicit finance and sanctions evasion. Eitan also represented Treasury across the U.S. interagency and with foreign interlocutors. Before Treasury, he worked in the intelligence community in various analytic and operational roles, and at several companies supporting projects at the Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security. Eitan holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.