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With nearly 20 years of international tech business experience, Adrien Henni is the founder of Blockchain-Connectors, a Paris-based business service agency. He is also co-founder and chief editor at East-West Digital News, an international news and research agency covering Eastern Europe; leads research studies various tech topics; and advises startups, funds and other organizations.

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Visioner who founded out new Start Up - HiDone.com - Localized Assistance.
During ICO process at this moment. 
HiDone is the marketplace and multiservice platform for individuals from your neighborhood. Main values are: Time, Security, Flexibility, Costs, Reliability
Main Purpose of HiDone is connecting people, who want to get incremental income and are able to offer their skills in supporting others: caretakers, hairdressers, mechanics, IT-specialists, gardeners, teachers, doctors and many more, with their neighbours who are in need of particular services.
Open for contribution.
Before
CEO ensuring business growth and leading positions in changing ownership structures & 
non-favorable market conditions.
- guaranteed sustainable growth of Wincor Nixdorf Poland, Russia, Ukraine and CIS
- achieved dynamic business growth and expansion vs. market fall in 2008 in Poland 
- executed several M&As in Poland and Russia – standardized and integrated processes: finance, compliance, legal, procurement, information security, technology, HR, etc.
Leader with deep understanding of business drivers | Business designer
- launched Polish, Russian and Ukrainian Legal Entity & CEE region 
- created 4 SSCs in Poland and Ukraine (functions: Global Customer Care, R&D, Regional Administration and Software Development dedicated to a project for gasoline stations); Built SSC Russia (Customer Care)
- shaped pioneering business offers to market requirements – developed managed services for banking and retail industry 
Pioneer in implementing innovations corresponding to future market trends | R&D
- introduced biometric solutions integrated with mobile offer in Poland
- started SSC idea in Poland (2005 – 2006), implemented expert pull (employees exchange between countries / projects) 
- launched software for ATM cash management optimizing clients’ capital involvement in Poland (2008)

Gabriel is a seasoned sales and marketing expert with over twenty years of experience in senior level positions at companies such as Motorola, VeriSign (part of Symantec), and SecureWorks (part of Dell). His strengths lie in international business development and strategic partnerships, as well as the unique ability to translate complex ideas and technologies into language that decision makers can easily understand. Gabriel has a degree in Engineering Physics from McMaster University in Canada and possesses expert knowledge in cloud computing, IT security, and video streaming technologies (Over the Top Content, OTT). Gabriel also runs his own company, Euro Tech Startups, and manages two blogs: dusil.com/ and gabrieldusil.com/

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Deputy at the department of Loire.
Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Laws where he particularly works with issues related to cyber security, economy, and digital sovereignty. Co-reporting chairman at the information group for blockchain.
He holds a position of a secretary at the French group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
Having worked as a Parliamentary Attaché at several institutions, including the European Parliament and the National Assembly, Mr. Mis served as a Financial Advisor and a Cash Management Advisor at Allianz Group.
Within 2012-2017, he was a General Secretary at the Loire section of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA).
He obtains a Master's degree in private law and a preparatory diploma in accounting and financial studies.

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Alice began her career at the Corporate Finance Division of Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF – French financial regulation Authority).After working as a Buy-Side Financial Analyst at Richelieu Finance, Alice joined La Financière Meeschaert in 2005 as a Private Portfolio Manager for French high-net-worth individuals and families. She founded Trecento Asset Management, an asset management company specialized in thematic open-end funds (Robotics and Healthcare).Under her leadership, Trecento has strongly expanded its AuM (c.68% CAGR), and currently manages more than €200 million. Trecento Asset Management has been recognized as one of the 500 best companies in terms of revenues’ growth (2 years in a row: 2017, 2018) in France and among all sectors (12th on Financial Services category).

An attorney in Paris and Brussels since 1993, Thibault Verbiest founded Ulys, a law firm dedicated to new technologies. He was notably able to develop a renowned expertise in legislation pertaining to data protection, payments and e-money, gaming and other regulated online activities.Between 2000 and 2004, he was the chairman of I’Observatoire des droits de I’intemet, an organisation tasked with advising the Belgian federal government on its policymaking approach towards the internet.  In 2013, he founded two fintechs, including Payservices. Until 2015, he was also partner of investment bank Largillière Finance, which specializes in Fintech M&A.ln 2015,  he joined the law firm de Gaulle Fleurance as a partner to create the fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency practice, which has, since then earned a solid reputation before moving to DS Avocats in September 2017 to create the first Pole entirely dedicated to Fintech, Digital Banking and Crypto-finance.He is also the co-author of several books, including the first book on blockchain in French and the seminal piece ‘Fintech et Droit”. He regularly contributes to the public debate on blockchain, and is a speaker at fintech-blockchain focused events. He is a legal advisor for a number of ICO’s, exchanges and crypto funds in Europe. He also acts as advisor with the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum (set up by the EU Commission).

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Gilbert REVEILLON

CEO Mobile LOOV, CCE

Président ICT & Digital Economy at CNCCEF

MBA graduated from HEC Montreal and as Associate Professor at the prestigious French Institut Mines Telecom he dealt with Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management within an ecosystem of 350 startups, 30 incubators & accelerators. He has occupied international commercial & marketing management positions in Canada (Royal Bank of Canada & Danone Group dealing with USA & Canadian Corporate Accounts) and in London (UK) with the most disruptive launch of Eurostar TGV High Speed train. Following then as Managing Director of OSS & Virgin Group for executive aviation before returning back to France for Europcar International. Enhancing his great “industrial” expertise in CRM, Social CRM, and mode or payments for 10 year at LaSer (part of BNP Paribas) he is now active dealing with ICT & Digital Economy startups (International Business Development, M&A and Investment funds).CEO of Mobile LOOV he specialises in Digital Transformation, IoT, Big Data, Wearable Tech, Cyber Security, M2M, Virtual Social Networks, Virtual Assets & Crypto currencies, blockchain and ICOs.His expertise covers USA-Canada, UK-Europe and China-Asia where he coaches several startups dealing with international business development where he has gained two « innovation awards » at the CES Las Vegas (2014 & 2015). CCEF and President of ICT & Digital Economy at CNCCEF (a network of 4000 CEOs in 140 countries). Administrator & General Secretary of the French ANDESE (Association of PhDs in Economic Sciences and Management Sciences) awarding the yearly price of the PhD Thesis and along with Les Echos Group nominating the “Finance Personne” of the Year in France.He bridges best practices from Asia (Hong Kong, Singapour, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tokyo), EUROPE where he lives and North America with international blockchain projects & ICOs. He is also a CEO at Mobile LOOV company which is dealing with wearable technologies and alternative mobile payment solutions.

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General experience Nicolas Duboille has over 16 years’ experience in all aspects of legal tax advice with a particular focus in investments funds, merger and acquisitions, structured finance and equity compensation. He represents domestic and foreign corporations involved in mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, financial products, restructurings of financially-troubled corporations, structuring and management of investment funds. 

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Experience General experience includes Advising an investment fund in relation to the creation of a structure for a photovoltaic energy operation; Advising the reorganisation of the tax structures of a French new-technology group in France and the United States;  Advising an asset management company in relation to the creation and management of a real estate fund (SCPI Pinel);  Advising a real estate asset management firm regarding the acquisition of a group of French real estate companies (fiscal audit, SPA negotiation);  Advising the fiscal structuring of a pan-European real-estate investment fund; Advising an American management firm regarding the preliminary reorganization, and eventual realisation of an OPCI transfer; Advising an American investment fund regarding the structuring of the acquisition of a French industrial company.

Other experience includes Advising the fiscal structuring of a FPCI invested in hotel assets and operating SMEs,  Assisting on tax issues regarding an investment vehicle structuring as unit-linked life insurance policies.

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Stefano Tempesta is a Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and MVP, as well as Chapter Leader for CRMUG in Switzerland, the largest community of Dynamics 365/CRM experts in the world.

Stefano is an instructor of courses about Dynamics 365, Blockchain and Machine Learning, and a regular speaker at international IT conferences, including Microsoft Ignite and Tech Summit.

He founded “Blogchain Space” , a blog about Blockchain technologies, writes for MSDN Magazine and MS Dynamics World, and publishes Machine Learning experiments on the “Azure AI Gallery”.

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Marc Durand is founder and CEO of “Blockchain & Transformation”, a newly created consultancy firm dedicated to support Blockchain-based initiatives for all types of organizations from start-up to large global company. The goal is to help them to identify, assess the functional, technical, financial aspects of these projects and to develop them with the capacity to put them in production in a short-term perspective. He participates, as an advisor, to several start-ups boards. Providing a specific industrial approach and keeping in mind the global business transformation roadmap are the key success factors.This end-to-end capacity, in terms of skills and potential partnerships, is built on the prior experience of Marc Durand as Blockchain leader for IBM Cloud in France for the last 2 years. As such he was in charge of the development of  the IBM Blockchain ecosystem in France (start-ups, business partners, alliances, etc.) and was operational in working with all-size customers to move from a bold idea to a “real-word” production mode. He was directly involved in international projects based on Hyperledger for Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing and Electronics sectors. The main topics covered are cross-border money transfer, supply chain transparency, IOT and ecosystem transformation.Previously, Marc has been for more than 25 years a business consultant on a worldwide basis for leading global companies (AXA, Generali, AIG, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Aviva, Groupama, Airbus Group, Renault, etc.). He has a particular expertise in advising customers on alignment between Strategy and IT, design of business applications and processes, digital transformation and management of transformation programs, development of global capabilities and international strategy with engagements and projects in EMEA, China, Japan, USA & Brazil. Since 2012, Marc is a visiting lecturer at University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) teaching Management courses and coaching projects of graduate students in Masters Degree in Engineering.

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Yoann started his career at GFI Group in Paris as an equity derivatives broker. He then left the financial market to found Mobypark, which may be described as an “Aribnb for parking spots”. He joined the Startup Bootcamp accelerator in Amsterdam and developed the business in 8 countries, with two teams based in Paris and Amsterdam. After the acquisition of Mobypark in May 2017, Yoann founded Upscalers, a Blockchain and ICO advisory boutique that provides an end-to-end service for companies willing to realize an ICO. Simultaneously, he acts as the Managing Director of Startup Bootcamp in France, with plans to help the accelerator take a prominent place in the booming parisian ecosystem. He is now involved with Investig.io as Co-founder to bring credibility and knowledge into the crypto market.

Yoann holds a MA of International Economics and Finance from Brandeis International Business School in Boston, MA, and a BSc of Finance and Accounting from Paris Dauphine University

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Florence G'sell is a full professor of private law at the University of Lorraine and a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. She also works as a consultant at the Parisian-based law firm Lysias Partners. 

She publishes and provides consultancy on blockchain development matters and crypto-assets as well as on the impact of new technologies and business law in general.

She works on comparative law and studies specially French law, European law and US law.

Florence graduated from Sciences Po Paris and holds both a PhD in private law and the "agrégation". She has been admitted to the Paris Bar. 

Venture Developer and blockchain enthusiast with years of experience in Consulting, Company Building, Venture Capital, FinTech and Private Equity. BA in controlling, MBA and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Sourcing Director of Iconiq Lab, an ICO accelerator program for blockchain and crypto startups. Currently advising several blockchain projects for their upcoming ICO.

Sébastien Choukroun, Manager at PwC France Blockchain Lab, has 6 years of professional experience mostly in the finance industry. He has followed closely the Blockchain ecosystem for 4 years. He holds a PhD of mathematical finance and the aggregation of mathematics.

Focus

Assessment concerning cybersecurity and legal issues to hold cryptocurrencies for a hedge fund

Consulting on ICOs for startups and VC funds (review of white paper, coordination with cybersecurity and legal teams)

Daily technological intelligence for 4 years, with a close look at the evolutions of the Blockchain ecosystem

Redaction of 3 PwC Blockchain articles

Animation of the Blockchain/Fintech class for Master El Karoui (University Paris 6)

R&D project focused on Blockchain audit and an adapted database to handle Blockchain data

Educational background

PhD of mathematical finance (Université Paris Diderot)

With a background in fundamental physics, Gregoire founded his first company in 2005 that developed and commercialized a Unified Communication solution for Telcos. Company was sold to a European telco software company in 2015. He then spent two years as CMO & ExCom member. Since 2017, he has then been advising digital companies on their brand-strategy and go-to-market. Early 2018 Gregoire joined the Experty team as CSO (Chief Strategy Officer). Gregoire is a strong believer in how impactful crypto / blockchain will be on our world in the coming years.