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Digital Asset Summit 2020

10 December 2020 at 7 PM ET

Event link and registration:https://members.respada.com/events/digital-asset-summit-2020

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About the eventThe 2020 Respada Digital Asset Summit is hosting an exclusive delegation of senior executivesfrom market makers, fintech startups, consulting firms, as well as policymakers. The summit willtake a comprehensive look at the current trends in cryptocurrency and how digital assets arerevolutionizing different industries such as real estate, music and banking, among others.Attendees will get close-up access to witness some of the largest players in the world talk aboutcryptocurrency's current and future state.

For further information about the 2020 Respada Digital Asset Summit and to register, pleasevisit: https://members.respada.com/events/digital-asset-summit-2020


Panelists

Enzo VillaniCEO & CIO

Alpha Sigma Capital

Thomas StrombergPartner

Perkins Coie LLP

Paul VeradittakitPartner

Pantera Capital

Moderator


Simon LapscherCo-Founder

Liquality

Marius DomokosPartner

DLA Piper

Kyle SamaniCo-Founder & Managing Partner

Multicoin Capital


Paul Veradittakit

Partner, Pantera Capital

Paul Veradittakit is a Partner at Pantera Capital and focuses on the firm’s venture capital and hedge fund investments.Pantera Capital is the earliest and largest institutional investor in digital currencies and blockchain technologies,formerly managing over $1B. Since joining in 2014, Paul has helped to launch the firm’s second venture fund andcurrency funds, executing over 60 investments. Paul also sits on the board of OpenToken, Blockfolio, and BitOasis, is amentor at The House Fund, Boost VC, and Alchemist, and is an advisor to Orchid, Origin, and Icon. Prior to joiningPantera, Paul worked at Strive Capital as an associate focusing on investments in the mobile space, including an earlystage investment in App Annie. Previously, Paul was at Hatch Consulting and LECG and performed partnerships andgrowth for Urban Spoils, an early stage startup in the daily deal space. Paul graduated from the University of California,Berkeley.

Moderator – Detailed Profile


Panelists - Detailed Profiles

Enzo VillaniCEO & CIO, Alpha Sigma Capital

Enzo Villani is a serial entrepreneur with 20 years of expertise as chief strategist to Fortune 500 companies, privateequity firms, and venture capital. He was the co-founder of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions, co-founder and chiefstrategy officer of two strategic M&A consolidations in the areas of investor relations, proxy solicitation, corporategovernance and financial technology. Enzo was key in consolidating over ten service companies across 4 continentsrepresenting over 5000 public companies and raising in excess of $500 million. In the blockchain industry, he wasChief Strategy Officer of Transform Group. Transform Group represented the launch of over 37% of the alt-coinmarket capitalization by 2019. He is also the co-founder of Blockchain Wire and was the head of internationalstrategy and innovation at OKEx. Enzo holds an MBA from Cornell University Johnson School.


Thomas StrombergPartner, Perkins Coie LLP

Thomas Stromberg has decades of experience counseling clients on significant transactions including mergers andacquisitions, joint ventures, financings, major contracts and corporate structuring projects. Tom regularly advisescorporations, boards of directors, private equity funds, hedge funds, family offices and private investors and offshoreentities in a variety of transformative transactional matters in a wide range of industries, including media andentertainment, information technology, aerospace and defense, food and beverage, software, automotive, lifesciences, energy, agribusiness, telecommunications, manufacturing and business services. He regularly advisesclients on regulatory, corporate, fiduciary and commercial issues related to blockchain technology and its use bycommercial entities, and closely follows securities law developments related to issuing and trading crypto assets.


Kyle SamaniVice Chairman, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Multicoin Capital

Kyle Samani is the co-founder and managing partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm that investsin cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies. Prior to Multicoin Capital, Samani co-founded Pristine, anenterprise software company that enables deskless workers with solutions for smart glasses. Under his leadership asCEO, Pristine grew to millions in revenue before being acquired by Upskill in May, 2017. Based in Austin, Texas,Samani is widely recognized as a thought leader on blockchain and cryptoeconomics. He holds degrees in financeand management from NYU Stern and has been programming since he was 10 years old.


Simon LapscherCo-Founder, Liquality

Simon is the Co-Founder of Liquality, a cross-blockchain unintermediated exchange network and wallet project.Hailing from Venezuela, Simon had the experience of living under a currency-controlled dictatorship and hence cameto understand the need for censorship-resistant protocols. He holds a degree in engineering from Georgia Tech. Hegot into Bitcoin in 2013, which led him to create Deloitte's Blockchain Practice in 2014 which he co-ran until joiningConsenSys in 2017.


Marius DomokosPartner, DLA Piper

Marius’ legal practice covers fintech and advanced technologies, including electronic commerce, banking, blockchainand cryptocurrencies, data monetization, AI and advanced computing, semiconductors, cloud and mobile applications,and biotechnology. With an EE background and experience working inside both large public technology corporationsand fast-growing startups, Marius acts as a trusted advisor to corporate boards, executive management, investors, andentrepreneurs. Marius' practice covers a full range of commercial, regulatory, intellectual property and corporate issues,including complex commercial transactions, deployment of B2B and B2C cloud and mobile platforms, blockchainbusiness models and tokenization, financial and regulatory compliance, privacy, high-stakes litigation, strategic patentportfolio development, M&A and IPOs, and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and SEC compliance. Marius has worked withmany leading enterprises (e.g., most large US banks, most payment processors, Google, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce,Facebook, IBM, Intel, etc.), and has guided many fast-growing startups from early funding to successful M&A or IPOexits.


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