About the Speakers

Aidan Larkin

Aidan Larkin is the CEO and Co-Founder of fintech startup Asset Reality. Asset Reality investigates, manages and realises seized crypto assets for public and private sector clients. A former criminal tax inspector for HM Revenue & Customs and experienced Seized Asset Manager, Aidan was the world's first seized crypto auctioneer. He also acts as a consultant for the UNODC, government agencies, and NGOs to increase effectiveness in Asset Recovery building infrastructure around crypto asset enforcement.

Mathew Mcdermott

Mathew is global head of Digital Assets. He serves as a member of the Goldman Sachs International Asset and Liability Committee and the Goldman Sachs International Bank Management Committee. Previously, Mathew was global head of Cross Asset Financing. He joined the firm as a vice president in 2005 in the European Special Situations Group in London and was named managing director in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Mathew worked at Morgan Stanley in the Securitized Products Group, focusing on structuring, financing and risk management. Mathew is a board member of the International Securities Lending Association. Mathew earned a BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance at Nottingham. He has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants since 1999.

Carmel King

Carmel King is a Director in Grant Thornton’s Insolvency and asset recovery team. She has over 15 years’ experience in asset tracing and recovering funds for clients who have suffered a financial loss as a result of fraud. She has a particular interest in cryptoasset fraud investigation and asset recovery strategies and leads this practice area for the Insolvency and Asset Recovery Team. She is also Co-Chair of INSOL Europe’s Anti-Fraud Forum, an organisation of over 70 solicitors, accountants and insolvency practitioners specialising in fraud, asset tracing and recovery.

Katey Neate

Katey Neate is a Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer for Asset Servicing & Digital at BNY Mellon. In this capacity, she is responsible for the oversight and challenge of the Bank’s biggest business, from strategy to product development and change management. Additionally, she leads all risk and compliance activities for the enterprise in the digital assets space, including the design and implementation of an enterprise risk framework, and global regulatory engagement. Leveraging her extensive risk management expertise, Katey collaborates across all regions and functions, including operations, product and relationship management, to support BNY Mellon’s development of market-leading digital asset capabilities.

Jim Lee

James (Jim) Lee serves as the Chief, Criminal Investigation. In this position, he oversees a worldwide staff of approximately 3,000 employees, including 2,100 special agents in 20 Field Offices and 11 foreign countries. He leads and oversees some of the most significant investigations of financial crimes involving tax, money laundering, public corruption, cyber, ID theft, narcotics, and terrorist financing. Prior to this assignment, Jim’s executive positions included serving as the Deputy Chief of CI, Director of Field Operations-North, Director of Field Operations-South, Director of Strategy, and Executive Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office. Jim has a Bachelor’s degree from Tiffin University.

Reinier Bredenoord

Reinier is responsible for setting up and developing an effective approach against digital criminal money flows at the Dutch Public Prosecution Service. Over the last years he was involved in several crypto related investigations and is responsible for the further development of stategy, policy and collaboration (public, public-private and international) in this field.

David Fein

David Fein has senior-level government, in-house, and private practice experience, and a track record of forming and supporting public-private partnerships to fight financial crime. He served as group general counsel at Standard Chartered Bank from 2013 to 2021, where he was a member of the bank’s senior most executive leadership team and oversaw the legal, company secretary, and investigation functions. Upon his retirement as Group General Counsel, David was appointed Special Advisor to the Group CEO, and he continues to represent Standard Chartered in public-private partnerships in his new role.

David is Special Counsel at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and is Chair of the United for Wildlife Financial Taskforce, a global network of financial institutions and public and civil society partners working together to reveal, disrupt and prevent illegal wildlife trafficking.

Simon York

Simon has worked in tax for his whole career. Beginning as a tax professional, he then worked as a caseworker/investigator, before managing increasingly large groups of compliance and enforcement professionals. Over the last decade, he has worked mostly in the law enforcement and intelligence end of HMRC.

Simon is currently Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Chief Investigation Officer and Director of HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS). FIS deploys a wide range of techniques, capabilities, and powers (including criminal investigations) to tackle serious tax fraud and money laundering. Simon works closely with different areas of HMRC, the UK Government, and other law enforcement agencies, both in the UK and internationally.

Simon is proud to have helped establish the ‘J5’, the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement, which is an operational alliance to tackle those who support international tax crime. He is a leading voice in the OECD’s Task Force on Tax Crimes and Other Crimes, as well as playing a key role to build a partnership between the UK and the UAE. All of this contributes to protecting billions of pounds to help fund UK public services and, more widely, to maintain justice and fairness.

Philip McInerney

Phil McInerney is the National Cybercrime Coordinator at the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), with responsibility for national cybercrime strategy across police forces in England and Wales, including the investigative response to ransomware and collaboration with the private sector. Prior to his role with the NPCC, Phil was a Detective Inspector within the MPS Cyber Crime Unit, where he led a number of operations to target organised cyber criminals involved in high-level criminality, operating across the UK and internationally. Phil has previous experience in a number of detective roles across Serious and Organised Crime, Anti-Corruption, and Counter Terrorism.

Oleg Pobereyko

Senior Analyst Oleg Pobereyko began working for IRS Criminal Investigation in 2010 and is currently leading Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) Cyber Group which consist of IRS Criminal Investigation, Australian Tax Office (ATO), Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD). Prior to that he was leading the Western Cyber Crime Unit. Oleg Pobereyko’s formal education includes a master’s degree in Business Administration from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

Sir Alex Younger

Sir Alex Younger was for 30 years a career intelligence officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. He served in Europe, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. He was appointed as Director of Counter-Terrorism from 2009 to 2012, Head of Operations from 2012 to 2014, and then Chief of the Service from 2014 to 2020. Prior to SIS, Alex served in the British Army as an infantry officer. He attended St Andrews University, where he read computer science, among other things. Alex led MI6 during a period of unprecedented technological change when both digital threats and opportunities intensified. He now works as a founding partner at Vega Cyber Associates.

Nabil Manji

Nabil Manji is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Crypto & Emerging Business at Worldpay from FIS (NYSE: FIS). Based in the UK, Nabil is responsible for Worldpay’s business with clients in the Cryptocurrency space and other emerging sectors. He is also responsible for Worldpay’s blockchain and digital asset strategy including partnerships, marketing, product roadmap, policy, and other related topics.

Previously, Nabil led Worldpay’s international expansion in EMEA as VP, Global Expansion and was a leader on Worldpay’s strategy team for its market-leading Global Enterprise eCommerce business unit. Prior to joining Worldpay in early 2019, Nabil was a member of the investment team at Sorenson Capital where he was actively involved in evaluating and executing private transactions totaling approximately ~$1B in aggregate value. Prior to Sorenson Capital, Nabil started his career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in the USA.

Lex Sokolin

Lex is a futurist and entrepreneur working on the next generation of financial services. He is the Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralized world. Lex focuses on emerging digital assets, public and private enterprise blockchain solutions, and decentralized finance and autonomous organizations.

Previously, Lex was the Global Director of Fintech Strategy at Autonomous Research (acquired by AllianceBernstein), an equity research firm serving institutional investors, where he covered artificial intelligence, blockchain, neobanks, digital lenders, roboadvisors, payments, insurtech, and mixed reality.

Sarah Meyohas

Sarah Meyohas is a conceptual artist and pioneer in the field of crypto art. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, and her forthcoming solo exhibition will open in March at Nahmad Projects, London. Meyohas is also a venture partner at Spark Capital. In 2015, Meyohas created Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by her physical artwork. Predating the launch of Ethereum, Bitchcoin is the first tokenization of art on a blockchain, effectively a “proto-NFT.” Today, Meyohas continues to investigate emerging technologies with familiar emblems of biological life: soaring birds, created using augmented-reality software, flock in unison with the frenetic variations of the stock market; rose petals, aggregately identical but individually unique, comprise the dataset for their AI-created equivalents. Meyohas’s practice provides an intelligible visual language to articulate the systems and complex operations that increasingly govern our world.

Blair Halliday

Blair Halliday is Managing Director for the UK at Gemini. Previously, he was Gemini’s Chief Compliance Officer for Europe. Prior to joining Gemini, Blair was Head of Compliance, EMEA at Circle. Before that, he was Executive Director of Financial Crime and Compliance at fintech startup CashFlows, Chief Compliance Officer at International Currency Exchange, and Director of Compliance at Paysafe. He began his career at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Blair is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association, and a Certified Fraud Examiner with the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He is also Chair of the National Crime Agency's UK Financial Intelligence Unit Crypto Sector Working Group.

Will Lyne

Will Lyne is currently the Senior Manager for Cyber Intelligence at the National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), leading a range of intelligence teams that deliver a range of functions for the National Crime Agency (NCA), from operations against upstream cybercriminal networks to target discovery and development of subjects located in the UK. Will has worked in Law Enforcement for over 12 years. From 2011 to 2013, Will worked in Afghanistan delivering counter-narcotics investigations with local, military, and international partners, before joining the NCCU in 2013. From 2016 to 2020, Will was an International Liaison Officer assigned to the FBI’s Cyber Division in Washington D.C. Will is experienced in the field of cyber investigations, leading on a number of high-profile cyber cases covering money laundering, fraud, kidnap & extortion, and computer misuse.

Pierre-Marie Léoutre

Pierre-Marie Léoutre is the Brand Protection & Security Officer for Ledger. Pierre-Marie Léoutre worked in various cyber units from both the French Ministry of Armed Forces and the French Military Police (Gendarmerie). He has conducted several investigations related to cybercrime, particularly as part of the centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques (C3N) of the French Gendarmerie before joining Ledger as the Head of the Brand Protection & Investigation team.

Richard Fox

Rich Fox joined the then FSA in 2007 at the start of the financial crisis. He has held a wide range of roles with a focus on policy development across multiple sectors. Rich is currently the FCA’s Director of International where amongst other things he leads engagement with international partners on digital asset regulation, representing the FCA on relevant groups at the FSB and IOSCO.

Michael Gronager

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).

Pratima Arora

Pratima is a revenue-generating, product strategy, tech-loving mastermind who is delivering Chainalysis’ blockchain data platform to customers globally. A self-proclaimed geek, she loves to solve the toughest customer problems with simple and intuitive solutions. Pratima has worked with SalesForce and Atlassian and sits on the board of Digitalocean.

Jonathan Levin

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.

Gurvais Grigg

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.

Philip Gradwell

Philip Gradwell is Chief Economist at Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform. He is the product lead for Market Intel, on-chain data to inform research and investment in cryptocurrency markets, and writes a weekly Market Intel Report. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Philip led a team of economic consultants working globally on energy system analysis and climate change economics.

Janey Young

Janey Young is Head of Global Investigations at Chainalysis. Prior to joining the company, Janey undertook a wide variety of policing roles including as Head of Investigations at the UK National Cyber Crime Unit and developing the European response to illicit activity on the dark web at Europol.

Bas Lemmens

Bas Lemmens is VP of Sales, EMEA, at Chainalysis and joined in November 2021. Prior to Chainalysis Bas was VP and General Manager of VMware’s Modern Applications Business Unit in EMEA, which developed and sold the Tanzu portfolio of products and services. Bas was GM and VP of EMEA at Pivotal Software before the company was acquired by VMware in December 2019. Bas has over 23 years of experience in the IT industry and is known for his passion for combining business and software.

Roger Brown

Roger Brown has more than 29 years of tax experience as an international tax and financial institutions and products lawyer. Currently, Roger is Global Head of Tax Strategy for Chainalysis, Inc. Chainalysis is a blockchain data company that serves the needs of governments, financial institutions, and other companies for transactions involving blockchain technology and digital assets.

Among Roger’s previous roles, Roger was Global Head of Tax for Lukka, a software company that designs tax and accounting solutions for transactions involving digital assets. Roger also worked for nearly a decade in the national office of the IRS writing regulations, rulings, and other guidance, while also assisting field agents in their audits. Roger spent a similar period as a technical partner in Ernst & Young’s financial services & institutions office, while also serving FinTech and blockchain clients of EY -- globally. Prior to EY, Roger gained a deep understanding of the US tax withholding and reporting rules as partner in the leading law firm in that space: Burt, Staples & Maner (BSM).

Caroline Malcolm

Caroline Malcolm is the Head of International Policy at Chainalysis. Prior to Chainalysis, she worked as the founding Head of the OECD’s Global Blockchain Policy Centre and co-lead of the Financial Stability Board. In 2020, Caroline was named “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum and was a judge in the G20 TechSprint hackathon.

A lawyer by trade, Caroline has worked on regulatory and tax issues since starting her career. She was a founder of 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 cryptocurrencies.