Geraint Jones

Geraint Jones

Geraint Jones is Head of Private Client at BKL’s London office. He provides tailored advice to high net worth individuals about their income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax. Geraint is adept at improving tax efficiency for people with multiple assets and sources of income. His specialisms include the UK tax implications of cryptocurrencies: buying and selling, mining, arbitraging exchanges and margin trading as well as transferring back into fiat currencies and making accurate disclosures to HMRC. Geraint’s clients range from entrepreneurs and angel investors (including UK investors based overseas) to LLP partners and sports professionals.

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Patrick Lowry

Patrick Lowry

CEO & Founder // Iconiq Lab

Patrick is the CEO and a Managing Partner of Iconiq Lab. He was a member of the Deutsche Börse Venture Capital team, DB1 Ventures, where he developed a strong passion for blockchain technology and alternative financing methods. He has a decade of financial industry experience, including as an associate at Graham Partners, a Philadelphia private equity fund, and PwC as an auditor of private equity, hedge and mutual funds in the asset management assurance service practice. Patrick was a co-founder and the CFO of Voltaic Coatings, a Delaware-based BioTech company, and holds an MBA degree, a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license and a Bache-lor of Science in Finance and Accounting from the University of Delaware. Patrick currently ad-vises multiple ICO projects and is an avid crypto-investor.

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Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson

Founder & CEO // Bitstocks

Michael has enjoyed a successful career spanning both the technological and financial fields. This - combined with his deep passion for crypto currencies, politics, modern money mechanics and an inherent entrepreneurial spirit - culminated in the formation of Bitstocks. He’s been featured in Thomson Reuters' Framework, The Yacht Investor, SquareMile as well as on The London Square’s Shareviews, IG-TV and The Financial Fox. As a prolific speaker, Michael regularly attends investor events and conferences to share his extensive knowledge on bitcoin. On a personal note, Michael is a devoted father of two and a self-confessed petrol head.

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Chris Georgen

Chris Georgen

President & Founder // Topl LLC

As Founder and Chief Architect, Chris leads the design of Topl's protocol and directs its business operations. A graduate of Rice University, he obtained degrees in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy. During his time in college, Chris performed interdisciplinary research focused on emergent phenomena in complex systems and developed the core ideas that inspired Topl's development. He has a deep interest in the application of new technologies to economic and financial problems and is motivated by the potential for new economic systems to improve standards of living around the world.

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Andreas Schemm

Andreas Schemm

CEO // Vreo

Thanks to his many years of working in executive positions in a few companies placed in the high- tech and entertainment scene, Andreas has gathered a substantial amount of experience founding and establishing startups as well as running multiple subsidiaries and overseeing a franchising chain. Through the years this accumulated into a huge business network through all branches – for example marketing, game developers, food and beverage and sciences. After establishing LaserTag into the German market, where he oversaw the PR, HR and marketing efforts for up to 14 sites, Andreas founded Project: Gateway, where he worked on the development of tech demos and other solutions for VR. One development was part of the public reveal of the Razer OSVR at E3 and another VR exhibit for electromobility, commissioned by the German ministry of innovation, is currently touring trade shows. After being funded by Hessen Kapital, he switched his focus to Vreo.

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