25 years of experience in Traditional Equity Sales/Sales Trading, Revenue, Business Development, and Strategic Leadership. 3+ years leading the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Research Sales effort, catering specifically to Institutional Investors. Falcon X Institutional Sales in Digital Assets, Derivatives, and Prime Brokerage. Advisor to a Aori, a Defi Institutional Marketplace for spot and options trading. Uphold Head of Institutional.

10+ Years in Blockchain Research and Consulting - Various governmental bodies and NGO. University Lecturer in data science, marketing & economics, blockchain & complexity theory. 13+ years with Austrian foreign service international consulting network. Responsible for European technology promotion including DLT and blockchain. Geber Technology marketing founder. Degrees in economics, computational linguistics, data science and machine learning.

Founder, CTO, CFO, Head of Desk and/or major participant in the algorithmic trading business for over 17+ years at DRW, GLT (Jump), Grace Hall (Simplex). Active member in centralized and decentralized crypto since 2017 and 2019, respectively. Computer Science at University of Michigan.

20 years’ experience in institutional equity research sales and equity execution sales. Sales and trading roles in the global equity markets divisions at Deutsche Bank, Jefferies and Bank of America. Servicing institutional clients worldwide for more than 17 years. Focused on building out Uphold’s institutional digital execution platform and driving institutional adoption through research and execution consulting. MSc Investment Management - CASS Business. School, City University, London.

Ashley has 10+ years in institutional financial services. He spent over 8 years at Goldman Sachs, starting in the asset management division before moving to the broker-dealer entity where he traded listed derivatives with a focus on fixed income and interest rate options. Ashley joined crypto-native liquidity provider Genesis in September 2021, before joining Uphold in September 2023.

10 years at DRW Trading, LLC working on front office, back office and crypto trading apps. 7+ years in crypto with a focus on extremely deep technical knowledge. Built secure yet functional in-house crypto-custody solutions for cold, warm and hot storage. Led a team in building DeFi trading applications both on and off-chain, as well as APIs for internal services to interact with the blockchain.