Beth Kramer has extensive experience in advising investment advisers on the formation and ongoing management of funds and on the regulatory and compliance aspects of their businesses. She counsels investment companies, private funds and separately managed accounts on structuring, organization, distribution, and SEC regulatory and compliance issues, including responses to SEC examinations.

Beth’s experience includes the creation of new advisory businesses, along with registration and formation with appropriate regulatory authorities, development of compliance policies and procedures, performing compliance reviews, and counseling clients on compliance with the Dodd-Frank Act, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and the Investment Company Act of 1940. She also regularly advises on the creation of disclosure documents for private funds, drafting of investment management products, and evaluating fund documents for institutional investors and family offices seeking alternative investments.

Additionally, Beth counsels clients on transactions involving digital assets, blockchain, and token offerings. She also advises clients on applicable securities laws and regulatory matters. She serves on the firm’s Disruptive Technology Taskforce advising on all aspects of the industry.

Jack Tatar is Editor of ‘Forbes’ Cryptoasset & Blockchain Advisor’ newsletter and managing partner of Doyle Capital, a venture fund that invests in “transformative technology” companies with a focus on those that are creating the new financial services industry. He’s the coauthor of “Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond” (McGraw Hill , 2017). Jack has more than three decades of direct experience in financial services, including as a financial advisor, field marketing director with Merrill Lynch and CEO of a leading market research firm for the financial services industry. Jack is chair of the Cryptoasset Working Group for the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, coauthor of the first book published on bitcoin, “What's the Deal with Bitcoins?” (2013) and has written for Marketwatch.com, About.com and other publications. Jack has a BA from Stony Brook University and MBA from Pepperdine University.

Todd co-founded R3 in 2015 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of blockchain technology for the financial services industry and beyond.

In his current role, Todd is responsible for R3’s product and marketing strategy, aligning key markets and customers to drive the longer term strategic roadmap for Corda. He also served on the Hyperledger Governing Board where he oversaw all project business and marketing matters. Todd, alongside fellow leaders in the crypto assets sector, founded The Global Digital Finance (GDF) industry body to release an industry code of conduct to drive sustainable crypto assets innovation.

Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their financial markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University, NY.

Robert Palatnick is Managing Director and Chief Technology
Architect at DTCC, where he has responsibility for the global IT strategy, architecture, standards and engineering design of the systems and applications that support the firm’s broad range of products and services. In addition, he leads DTCC’s technology innovation initiatives, including cloud, automation, big data analytics and distributed ledger technologies and co-sponsors DTCC’s Office of Fintech Strategy.

Before this role, Rob held a number of senior technology positions at DTCC including Application Development Domain Lead, Chief Administrative Officer of IT and CIO of FICC. Prior to joining DTCC, Mr. Palatnick was Vice President, Development and Systems, at Security Pacific Corporation Sequor Software Services. An active technology voice in the industry, Rob has been a featured guest speaker at key conferences worldwide and is often quoted in the press. He also serves as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort to establish, build and sustain an open, distributed ledger platform across industries.

Rob received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo, and is an alumnus of the David Rockefeller fellowship.

Donna Redel is a businesswoman, a professor of blockchain-digital assets, an angel investor and a philanthropist. She was the managing director of The World Economic Forum, the foremost global organization combining business, political, academic, and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. Ms. Redel was the first woman to chair a USA exchange , The Commodity Exchange. Following her work in global organizations, Ms. Redel began a second career as a New York City based advisor and investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain and emerging technologies. She is an active participant in the startup community with New York Angels, serving as a board member , the co-founder of the Blockchain Committee and co-chair of the Israeli Investment Committee and chair of the Education Committee. Ms . Redel developed and is teaching at Fordham Law school and Fordham Gabelli Business a course on Blockchain-Crypto-Digital Assets. The focus of her public service efforts are the environment, the arts, heath and promoting women’s leadership. She has a J.D. from Fordham Law School, an MBA from Columbia and a BA from Barnard College (Columbia).

Jeff Bandman is Founder and CEO of BlockAgent Inc., an independent SEC-registered transfer agent focused on blockchain-based digital securities. BlockAgent is the new regulated market infrastructure bringing trust and compliance to digital securities. He is also Founder and Principal of Bandman Advisors, an advisory practice helping clients ranging from start-ups to global firms meet strategic innovation and regulatory challenges to find new business opportunities. Bandman Advisors bridges the gap between business and regulation.

Jeff is widely recognized as a thought leader, speaker and educator on blockchain and cryptoasset law, regulation and policy. He is co-Founder and Board Member of the Global Digital Finance policy initiative and leads its regulatory engagement globally. As Lecturer in Global Affairs at Yale, he taught the seminar on blockchain, cryptoassets and public policy in the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs in the 2018-2019 academic year. He is a member of the RegTech Council and acts as FinTech regulation mentor for the Techstars Barclays FinTech
Accelerator. Jeff is an Industry Fellow of the University of Nicosia Blockchain Initiative and Research Fellow of the Blockchain for Algorithmic Regulation and Compliance (BARAC) initiative
at University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies.

Previously, Jeff was a senior official at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017. As FinTech Advisor to Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, he was Founding Director and architect of LabCFTC, the CFTC's hub for engagement with FinTech innovation (the first
launched by a U.S. market regulator). He established and chaired the CFTC blockchain, virtual currencies and FinTech working group from inception in 2015. Jeff led FinTech and RegTech
coordination with domestic and international regulators, and led work by international regulators on post-trade digital innovation. Jeff previously led the CFTC's Division of Clearing and Risk, which oversees many of the world’s largest clearinghouses. He led the negotiations resulting in “Clearinghouse Equivalence” with the European Commission. He joined the CFTC as Special Counsel to Chairman Timothy G. Massad, and also led the CFTC’s Office of International Affairs. Jeff worked for many years in the financial industry in New York and London. As Head of
Partnerships & Alliances of LCH’s SwapClear, he helped design and launch the SwapClear "FCM service" for clearing interest rate swaps through US intermediaries. He also devised the
innovative CCP2 partnership program and led the award-winning SMART margin simulator. Jeff earlier worked on a variety of new market structure and FinTech initiatives, including LiquidityHub and the Project Rainbow consortium. Before that he rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald’s market data business after the events of September 11. Mr. Bandman started his career as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York, and was Americas General Counsel for Prebon Yamane, now part of the ICAP group.

He graduated from Yale magna cum laude, with honors in History and English. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School, with honors as a member of the “Order of the Coif." He is a five-time Jeopardy! Champion and spent his winnings backpacking around Africa, Asia and Europe.

David is the founder of Weild & Co., which is working to revolutionize investment banking by harnessing the power of the cloud. One of the fastest growing investment banks (and investment banking networks) in the United States, Weild & Co. attracts and supports proven and independent investment bankers in seventeen (17) states and the District of Columbia. David is a former Vice Chairman of Nasdaq where he worked with luminaries including Steve Jobs (Founder of Apple and Pixar) and Tom Stemberg (Founder of Staples). He ran corporate finance and equity capital markets at a top 10 Wall Street firm, pricing over 1,000 public equity offerings and was directly involved in early deals for Celgene (biotechnology company that has greatly extended lives for patients with multiple myeloma and helped kids with ADHD), NVIDEA (semiconductor company that sparked the growth in the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, parallel computing and helped ignite modern Artificial Intelligence including driverless cars), BlackRock (now the largest asset manager in the world), Chesapeake Energy (now a Fortune 500 company in land-based energy that was an early pioneer in horizontal drilling), Patterson-UTI Energy (largest land based drilling company in the US), and many others. He is more recently recognized for thought leadership that led him to be called the “Father of the JOBS Act.” The JOBS Act laid the foundation for forms of crowdfunding, private placements, Reg. A+ public offerings and the basis under which most securities token offerings (STOs) are now done in the U.S. He serves on the board of directors of two (2) companies that are establishing exchanges to trade crypto and tokens (55.com and INX) and is an advisor to Templum, the first ATS that was approved by the SEC to trade tokens as securities in private markets. His investment bank made a decision to treat coin offerings as securities offerings well before SEC Chair Jay Clayton observed that he had not seen an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) that he did not believe was a securities offering. David’s thought leadership has been frequently cited by legislators, regulators, academics, politicians and stock exchanges. He has spoken or testified on stock exchange structure in the US Congress and at the SEC. He has addressed the G-20, OECD (Europe and Asia), the European Federation of Securities Exchanges (Switzerland and Norway) and the Arab Federation of Exchanges in Jordan. Mr. Weild received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business. He also studied at the Sorbonne and on exchange at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and the Stockholm School of Economics (Stockholm, Sweden). Mr. Weild is married and the father of three teenagers.