Technical Advisory Board

• Prior to Deloitte, Dr. Paul served as CEO of Fintech, CIO for bank, brokerage firm, and global conglomerate, as well as practice leader for EY, PwC, and IBM, specialized in emerging technologies and advanced analytics.
• His thoughts on Blockchain: View Here

• Hayden is the author of #1 best selling ML book “Python Machine Learning By Example”, and author of two deep learning books.
• He earned his degree from the University of Toronto, and published five first-authored IEEE transaction and conference papers during his research.
• He is also a machine learning education enthusiast.

• Hayk is a business expert and advisor in topics related to innovation, strategy, AI and blockchain to MNCs and startups globally.
• He is also a APAC partner at Prysm Group, top blockchain economics and governance agency in North America and Europe.
• Hayk held senior roles of digital transformation and business turn-around around the world.
• He worked with and consulted SMEs and MNCs across Europe, Africa, and Asia.
• He is a regular speaker and previously spoke at TEDx (Egypt), Chaos Asia (Singapore) and Blockchain Economic Forum (Singapore and San Francisco).
• As he regularly speaks on topics of innovation, product, AI and strategy, some of his recent talks include:
  • Interview at Blockchain Economic Forum in Singapore. Click Here
  • Recent talk on Blockchain and AI. Click Here
• Additionally, Prysm Group has organized an exclusive event in Harvard Club (View) which has resulted in Oliver Hart, Nobel laureate in Economics to become a Senior Advisor to Prysm - due to be announced via a Forbes exclusive article.

• Anthony started his career in UK and moved to Asia afterwards, to focus on investment banking, M&A and private equities. He has held regional roles and led teams at Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays Capital.
• He graduated from The University of Warwick, UK and is a Fellow Certified Chartered Accountant. He also completed a strategic leadership executive program administered by Cornell University.

• Some of Tal's international lectures are sponsored by Israel Foreign Affairs and Economy Ministers, others are by special invitations of leading international conferences.
• He was the CEO of Optimum Group since 2001-2012. Optimum Group is a premier global provider of information visualization, IT products and services for documenting all facets of engineering, production, maintenance and technical training.

• Rahul is actively involved in various Blockchain forums, events, and conferences.
• He also works on spreading awareness on how Blockchain can solve the many unsolved problems across various sectors.

• Shameer believes that AI & Blockchain has the capability to augment our abilities to innovate & push the world forward for good.
• He is a speaker at various conferences and is a published author. His areas of expertise are in Blockchain, IoT and AI.

• Gustavo has over 25 years of experience in international banking with senior roles at Standard Chartered Bank, Cramer Bank, global audit positions for International Organizations and substantial Global Project Management experience.
• More recently, Gustavo has taken a role as Blockchain Pubic speaker and also advised some of the world's largest family offices on their investment activities.
• Gustavo also holds a MBA and a MSc degree. He is fluent in five languages and has lived and worked in 3 continents.
• He currently resides in Dubai, UAE.

• Harinder has over 10 years of consultancy experience working in different industries (Education, Insurance, Government, IT, Telecommunication, Retail, and Finance). He provides advisory services to local and international organizations, developing strategies around performance testing applications, blockchain & big data for clients, managing teams and capacity planning & analysis.
• He is a speaker at various conferences and meet-ups, contributor to various publications and an author too. He is actively involved in various Blockchain forums and writes regular blog posts on his personal website.
• He provides his strategic & testing expertise to an open-source crypto currency as well as crypto currency exchanges around the globe.

• Give Bytes is the first crowdfunding platform where users can support any fundraising campaigns of their choice by donating their computing power.

• Jim leads strategy and implementation of emerging technologies-including: blockchain, open APIs, real-time data services and machine learning-to improve patient outcome and transform life sciences.
• Jim led a number of initiatives around modernization of CDC's public health systems, through design and implementation of interoperable software (based on microservices and modern DevOps), data as a service, blockchain and open source software.
• Prior to joining Synchrogenix, Jim was the Chief Software Architect at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
• Prior to CDC, Jim was the CEO and co-founder of Armedia, a technology firm focused on building enterprise solutions for managing unstructured data.
• Jim has more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry, with over a decade as a founder/entrepreneur profitably growing Armedia from inception to over 100 employees, and a 5-time Inc. 5000 awardee.
• Jim has co-authored several technology books, guest lectured for a number of universities and spoken globally at numerous industry events, including many in recent months on blockchain and open technologies.
• Jim is a Technical Fellow at pioneering digital identity, non-profit EP3 Foundation, on the Industry Advisory Board of the College of Computer Engineering at Kennesaw State University, a mentor for the machine learning accelerator Cyberlaunch, and on advisory for a number of blockchain startups.
• He has an MBA from the University of Connecticut, a BS in Computer Science and Statistics from Coventry University and resides in Atlanta, GA.

• Antonio Grasso, as a keynote speaker, has addressed multinationals across the globe.
• Enterprise and public sector consultant.
• His expertise, outstanding communication, and great Italian accent are all used to successfully engage with his audiences while illuminating the world of digital transformation and its myriad processes and sub-genres.
• Antonio Grasso, who started out as a developer and software architect in the IT industry, has led large projects for the Italian government, businesses in the innovation sector, eGov, eBilling process automation, interprobability, and digital signing.
• He is currently managing projects for Insurtech and HealthTech.

• With many years spent as CTO for enterprise software development companies, Godwin has led development teams, product innovation, designed software architectures for very high-volume systems, cloud and mobile deployments, large-scale project planning, delivered professional training, software process re-engineering and ensured industry compliance.
• He delivered critical systems in 4 continents for some of the largest payment providers.
• He has given presentations at international conferences and technology training classes.
• Godwin holds a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Computing and an MBA in eBusiness.

• Yael is a blockchain strategist, storyteller, speaker, advisor, and mentor. Her mission this year is to raise awareness about the hurdles to blockchain adoption and to inspire companies towards blockchain implementation.

• Expert and influencer on Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Digital transformation, IoT, and Advisor and mentor to People in these Domains – Partner for each success.
• Co-Founder of GloryThink: The Source of Complete Blockchain Knowledge, Products, Services & Trading.
• Participated in many of ICO either as investor or Advisory Board member.

• Hayden is the author of #1 best selling ML book Python Machine Learning By Example€�, and author of two deep learning books.
• He earned his degree from the University of Toronto, and published five first-authored IEEE transaction and conference papers during his research.
• He is also a machine learning education enthusiast.

• This passion has led her to develop and manage the blockchain practice of a Fintech TLV law firm, and then to move on and establish her own firm, focused solely on blockchain, with a presence in TLV, Kiev and partnerships in various strategic locations worldwide.
• Aviya works with blockchain startups, investors and organizations. These include token issuers, crypto exchanges, crypto patent services providers, crypto funds, angel investors and governmental authorities. Aviya possesses a broad knowledge of financial and fintech related regulations in a wide range of jurisdictions (EU, Israel, US, Canada) and is therefore well equipped to help entrepreneurs and investors understand crypto constellations from a legal perspective. Aviya is involved in rigorously researching and actively speaking and writing on blockchain and crypto regulation issues out of genuine interest and vision to help build a brighter world for blockchain.
• She is also a machine learning education enthusiast.

• Completed 6 records of achievement certification @openSAP - 2019: Digital Transformation track: Enterprise Machine Learning, in a Nutshell, Information Security Management, in a Nutshell, SAP Leonardo IoT for Intelligent Enterprise, SAP Leonardo-Enabling the intelligent Enterprise, SAP Leonardo- an Introduction to Blockchain, Leadership in Digital transformation.
• Achieved Certified Digital transformation officer badge from EXIN by completing 5 certifications in Digital technology and service management.
• Winner of CIO500 Award 2019 by Enterprise IT world, Innovative CIO award 2018 by Bitstream Mediaworks, CIO- Cognitive & Emerging Technologies 2018 by Computer Society of India Est 1965, Top 100 CISO Award 2018, ITNEXT100 CIO award 2017.
• Contributed to Success Certification as CEO at ATOS and as an HR in SVP to achieve PCMM level5 for ATOS India.

• ACC Certified Coach from ICF; MBTI, CPI260, Watson Glaser, Korn/Ferry's Voices 360 & Learning Agility, and Gallup’s Accelerated Coach Certification. Currently pursuing Teacher Certification from Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute.
• His expertise include Developing and implementing a pan APAC-wide Learning and Development Strategy in alignment with business plans and priorities, Implementing Human Capital Strategy for the region, in the focus areas of Reskilling the workforce in the emerging and digital capabilities; Graduate Full Stack Development; & Diversity and Inclusion, Implementing a Capability Development model to deliver world-class learning methodologies and initiatives that create business value, Creating a culture of learning in the region with focus on learning agility, agile mindset and digital skill enablement, Engaging business leaders as sponsors/champions in a governance framework to co-create talent solutions, Developing agile training development methodology (content and curriculum development approach) to work with both internal and external partners, Measuring L&D metrics and publish the dashboard using the TDRp methodology, Leading a team of L&D professionals which includes learning consultants, learning operations, instructional designers, facilitators, etc, Partnering with vast network of global vendor partners to create a talent ecosystem.
• He has been recognized as the Top40HRUnder40 as an emerging HR leader in India and one of the Top 10 under 40 Training & OD professionals globally.

• Oluwaseyi is seasoned Enterprise Security Architect, with a focus on Governance, Quality, Risk and Compliance and deep competencies in Cybersecurity Management, Business Security Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Risk Management, IT Governance, Project Management, Business Continuity Management, Threat Intelligence, Network Security, Cloud Security, Solution Architecture, Information Security and Assurance.

• Craig Peason is a Experienced and commercially project, programme and change manager from an IT management, big-4 consulting and software development background now running a specialist consultancy delivering Agile (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe) transformation, DevOps/SRE and Continuous Delivery training, coaching and implementation into commercial, high-tech and software/service/mobile-led organisations. He is also a Organiser of DevOps North East meetup group and he Spoke at various Agile and DevOps conferences.

• Daniel Oh works for Red Hat as Principal Technical Marketing Manager and is also in charge of the CNCF ambassador to encourage developers' participation in cloud-native app development at scale and speed. He specializes in cloud-native microservices & serverless development using Quakrus, JakartaEE, DevOps & Agile practices from local to Kubernetes platforms.
• He's been delivering technical seminars, workshops to elaborate new emerging technologies for developers & IT Ops teams and keep influencing them to make sure of this paradigm and technologies. He's been talking about rapidly changing emerging technologies at international conferences.

• Nadeem is the head of DevOps and Release Management at Old Mutual Limited which is a Financial services company. He has been a trainer and coach at AMARICO for almost two years and has also been an Operations Manager at BBD for more than two years. He has also worked at A1L Realizations as a Senior solutions architect. He is proficient at IT Business Strategy, IT Operations Management, IT Infrastructure Management, Kubernetes, IT Infrastructure Operations, Scaled Agile Framework, Cross-platform Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

• Feras Mohammed Abu-Hadib is a Certified Blockhain Leader and has over 20 years of experience in the industry. He is a renowned personality in the UAE and is currently heading as chairman with Silwana Global in Dubai, Silwana Brokerage in Dubai, Silwana Diamond Group in Egypt, Silwana Diamond in Jordon, Silwana Exchange in London, Silwana Diamond in Sudan and Silwana Aviation in Abu Dhabi. Also, he is a proud Honorary DBA from Cambridge international College and Honorary DBA from Newcastle college

• Dr. Sonal has 20 years of experience in I.T Services & Technology Industry.8 years of International experience. She also worked in the capacity of Training Manager, Training Head, Academic Head , Program Manager - Partnership Alliance in past employment.
• She is also technically proficient in Java/J2EE, Oracle, XML, DOT NET and experienced in technical curriculum building, training proposal writing.

• Marcela Lendvaiova is a professional Leadership & Soft skills trainer, mentor, and a certified Coach with 20 years of training over 130 nationalities globally under her belt. She gained both her master's degree and her doctorate from social sciences focused on psychological problems at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. Furthermore, she completed HR Management studies at Leicester University, England; certification in Neuro-linguistic programming, Timeline therapy â„¢, and Hypnosis in Dubai; and Coaching certification in Bratislava. She's also a registered nurse and former flight attendant and aviation trainer. Moreover, Marcela studied Acting for film in Hollywood, CA, and still performs at International theater Meteorit in Bratislava, Slovakia.
• Marcela has trained leaders in global corporations around the world (US, India, Argentina, EMEA, etc), and was voted to be the top 3 finalists 3 years in a row- as a Lecturer of the year 2017, Coach of the year 2018, and Lecturer of the year 2019 at the Learning & Development Awards in Slovakia. Furthermore, she was quoted in both American and Slovak Forbes magazine in 2020.

Marcela has an extensive international experience in:

• Training & Development management (employee & personal development)
• Creating and leading Leadership programs (all levels of Leadership)
• Coaching by ICF principles (Individual & Group coaching)
• Mentoring and Supervision; Train the Trainer
• Reporting to Senior Leadership; Corporate strategy planning
• Performance management and Change management
• Talent recognition/ Career Coaching
• Soft skills workshops- EQ, Presentation, Art of communication, Mindfulness, etc
• Neuroleadership ; Adult learning techniques- Brain friendly learning
• Global business project lead- 250K employees
• Execution of the full training process cycle (from TNA to design, budgeting, facilitation, reporting, feedback, and vendor relationship; virtual & onsite)
• Additional experience: Crisis support, Post Traumatic Syndrome, Grief, Stress, Burn out syndrome, Emotional support, Anxiety; Work & Life balance; Relationship expert; Acting Coach; Aviation trainer; Well-being; Life transitions, Diversity &s; Inclusion; Culture transformation, Customer service, Vendor relationship, Personal branding.

• Vaclav Koranda is Vice President Human Resources and member of the Board of Directors at T-Systems Malaysia. He has got his first HR Director role at the age of 27. Since then, he has held a number of executive roles in Human Resources, namely in the ICT industry. For a significant part of his career his role also included regional responsibility, mainly for the region of Central/Eastern Europe. Before joining T-Systems Malaysia, he was the VP HR at T-Systems Czech Republic. He also served as a member of the Sector Council for IT and Telecommunications in Czech Republic.
• Vaclav holds a Master's Degree in Work & Organizational Psychology from Charle's University in Prague and is also a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, Certified Human Resource Practitioner (CHRP) and a SHRM Senior Certified Professional. He is a member of Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management as well as Organisation Development Network Malaysia. In 2018, he received a "CHRO of the Year" award from Employer Branding Institute in India. In 2019, he was named under "101 Global HR Heroes" by the World HRD Congress in Mumbai and also received the HR Leader 2019 award from Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management.

• She is a complete professional with a 360 degree strategic mindset, hands on experience for over a decade on Transformation of People, Process and Performance by engaging stakeholders alignment and supplier partnership, enhancing power of engagement, elevating values of ethics and engineering the innovative global supply chain practices.

• He is a business-focused and results-oriented executive with over More than 10 years of strategic supply chain experience to position with responsibilities covering procurement, logistics, operations, customs clearance, administration, Experienced with inviting and allotting tenders, Incoterms & L/Cs developing local and foreign vendors, reducing the cost of procurement of material, and assisting in the implementation of a computerized system (Maximo MMS).

• Kailashpathi is a technology leader with proven capabilities of executing complex Digital transformation assignments involving AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, DevOps, SRE for large Global Customers.
  • Industry Speaker on Cloud Transformation, DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE
  • Nominated for Pioneer on the Move award in Ericsson
  • Active Member of DevOps Community (DevOps.com)
  • Awarded for conducting highly effective "Learn to Lead" training by Ericsson L&CD

Expertise:

• Infrastructure As a Code(IAC): AWS Cloud Formation, Shell Script, Python, Terraform, Ansible,
• DevOps: Confluence, Github, MS teams, Jenkins, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes
• Monitoring & Ticketing: BMC Remedy, Service Now, Jira, Nagios
• Cloud Platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Could Platform(GCP)

• Dr. Sriram Rajagopalan serves as an Enterprise Agile Evangelist and Professional Trainer at Inflectra Corporation designing and delivering training curriculum for Inflectra on using its products along with business process consulting for various companies in multiple industries, serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor at Northeastern University designing and delivering courses on Leadership, Project Management, Agile, and Information Technology, and serves as the President of his own training organization, Agile Training Champions through which he strives to educate professional learners.

• Casey Ang help entrepreneurs to achieve success in business and fulfilling life without having to struggle with the stress, worried, and fatigue of tying to manage the daily operational activities of their company, without an effective operating system. He is an expert in implementing R.I.S.E. Mindset™, a training program for business excellence created by himself. he is also an expert in building the effective operating system for running a profitable business by blending business performance improvement skills with R.I.S.E. Mindset™.

• Nirmal is a Data Scientist who yearns for solving problems that impact product strategy and business outcomes. As a self-described realist, he believes that with pragmatism and high-quality data, Data Science can be a very powerful tool. He likes to reiterate - the high quality data part because most of the time, the quality of data used for training models are overlooked and ignored. Nirmal is currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at VmWare. As an ex- Microsoft, he worked as a Data Scientist in Azure Cloud + AI organization. Microsoft is undoubtedly one of the best companies in the security business leading the gartner quadrant leaderboard in multiple security products, and having an opportunity to work in their security data and product is a remarkable experience in itself. Prior to MSFT, he worked as a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo for their Enterprise Analytics team, giving him the exposure to work in Fintech data science.