2018 Isle of Man Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference

Letitia is an independent consultant providing business management services to clients including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, HSBC, and BlackRock and the European Commission. Specialising in Corporate Innovation, RegTech, FinTech. Active in devising and executing programmes for corporate innovation through procurement and engagement of innovation into financial institutions and digital transformation. Working with RegTech, and FinTech firms, small-medium enterprises on scale-up programmes and strategic alliance initiatives.

Listed on the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech 2017 Powerlist, Letitia is an advocate for institutional adoption and engagement of FinTech, RegTech, emergent and disruptive innovation. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Letitia spent her career in equity research, credit risk and regulatory compliance. Letitia studied towards an MSc Finance at the London School of Economics.

Andrew Horbury is Head of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency at BPP Professional Education.

Andrew provides training & consulting to a variety of both financial and non-financial services firms on FinTech, with a core focus on Blockchain and Virtual Currency and the AML/CFT risks presented by them.

Andrew is the Founder of Blackfort Digital Currency Management, a specialist cryptocurrency and blockchain firm and is a Special Advisor on AML/CFT Risk Management for Blockchain Jersey.

Andrew has previously spent time in London, Jersey and Luxembourg working in Wealth and Investment Management for leading financial institutions such as UBS and Blackrock.

Educated at Victoria College in Jersey, Andrew obtained a diploma in law from the University of London and studied International Financial Services (BSc) at Jersey International Business School. Andrew holds an Advanced Certificate in Managing Virtual Currency Financial Crime Risks as well as a number of qualifications awarded by the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Laura, Chairperson of Qadre and Spokesperson for the British Blockchain Association, is a leading entrepreneur in the field of blockchain technology and a trailblazer for women in fintech. She has co-founded three successful blockchain ventures and is currently developing Qadre into a global technology leader – working with UK parliament, industry, and regulators alike to drive policy and cultural changes to technology. Laura is a regular speaker in domestic and international governments, regulators, and NGOs, promoting technology for good. Laura has an extensive background in finance and began her career at HSBC across a variety of areas, including Leveraged Finance, Marketing, and Corporate Banking. Laura is also on the Board of Tech UK.

Wim Schoutens (Leuven, Belgium) is a professor in financial engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics.

Further, he is a founding partner of RiskConcile, a fast growing (and profitable) fintech company focussing on machine learning, quantitative advisory and cloud-based solutions for the financial industry.

He is an independent expert advisor to the European Commission and author of several books on financial engineering.

He is Managing Editor of Quantitative Finance and of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance. Further, he is series editor of the book series "Financial Engineering Explained" for Palgrave Macmillan.

Finally, he is an expert in blockchain technology and is a crypto-currency trading and risk-management professional.

Ms. Badgerow was appointed to the position of Chief Executive of the Financial Services Authority on 1 November 2015.  Prior to this Karen served over 30 years with the Canadian government in senior roles in financial services regulation.  Most recently Ms. Badgerow was Senior Vice-President with the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation heading up their Insurance and Risk Assessment Division. Before joining CDIC, Ms. Badgerow spent over 25 years with the federal banking and insurance regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and was responsible in her last position for oversight of the federal banking sector.  Ms. Badgerow has also represented Canada on a number of international committees including the Senior Supervisors Group and the FSB's Supervisory Intensity and Effectiveness Committee.  Ms. Badgerow holds a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Lyle Wraxall is the Chief Executive of Digital Isle of Man, the Government Executive Agency responsible for nurturing growth, innovation, and excellence in the Island’s e-Gaming, Digital Economy, and Digital Media industries. Lyle is a highly experienced management and technology consultant who has worked across the whole digital and fintech space. Before joining Digital Isle of Man, Lyle was Head of New York office for Pcubed – a significant international management consultancy practice with offices around the world.

Steve leads the Advisory practice at PwC Isle of Man with specialists working in the areas of data privacy and cyber security, regulatory compliance, controls assurance, internal audit, forensic investigation, insolvency and transaction services.

With over 20 years' onshore and offshore audit and advisory experience Steve works closely with all clients to consider the impact of fast-paced changes in industry, alongside applying – and complying with – current and upcoming regulation, covering areas such as data privacy, data governance and assurance, regulatory compliance and remediation, and risk management.

A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, Steve sits on the Chamber of Commerce’s ICT sub-committee, and leads PwC’s close working relationship with the Manx ICT Association.

Steve Brennan is the Chief Executive of the Isle of Man Gambling Supervision Commission having taken up the post in June 2008. His primary responsibility within the Commission is for the development and maintenance of the regulatory framework to licence and supervise all forms of gambling in the Island.

Steve is also an active member of the Gambling Regulators European Forum (GREF), an organization comprised of gambling and gaming regulators from across Europe whose objective is to provide a forum in which regulators can meet, exchange views and information and discuss policy on gaming matters. He held different roles on the GREF Board including Chair.

Prior to his appointment to the Gambling Supervision Commission he held senior positions within Isle of Man Treasury.

Nick has a career spanning everything from Fintech for Hedge Funds, to Playing Professional Poker. He led the Product & Operations of Ring Games for PokerStars, the largest global real-money online poker product. Nick has since become a blockchain champion by contributing to numerous open-source projects, founding Credits, Qadre and becoming the spokesperson for Plug. Qadre is a blockchain development and blockchain product development firm with products across finance, energy, pharmaceuticals, supply chains and Credits built and launched the first government service in the world running on blockchain, was the first blockchain technology provider in the UK Government’s G-Cloud Marketplace, and was named Blockchain Startup of the Year in the 2016 Europas.