Current Occupation : Founding Partner of Draper Goren Holm.
Education: University of Maryland , Bachelor’s degree , computer information system.
GRAZ communication Engineer.
Background/Experience: Josef is a global serial entrepreneur and investor with 25 years of startup growth hacking, business development, and digital marketing experience.
He has a passion for disruptive ideas, unconventional thinking, and a “screw it, let’s do it” attitude.
Born and raised in Austria , Josef worked and lived in Vienna , Sydney , Berlin, Zurich and Panama before immigrating to the US in 2012 where he shortly after joined the booming fintech industry in Los Angeles and since has launched three startups in the space.
Josef was named a “Top 100 FinTech Influencer” by LTP , He has been very involved in the crowdfunding ecosystem . Josef frequently speaks at public events such as SXSW V”V , Social Media Week LA , Fundit USA , Metropole , #CFGE Crowdfund Global EXPO, #Crowdfunding USA and Kickercon.
Draper Goren Holm is a blockchain venture studio and fund created by Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm with a focus on incubating and accelerating the best early-stage startups from around the world.
Josef and Alon are the same team that has built some of the top blockchain conferences such as LA Blockchain Summit (FKA Crypto Invest Summit), Global DeFi Summit, Security Token Summit, and other events. In 2019 they partnered with billionaire investor Tim Draper to build the next-generation blockchain venture studio and fund with a global focus.
Participation in Previous Summits of SIGMA, AIBC, AGS, or MED-TECH: AIBC Dubai.
Draper Goren Holm is a partnership between venture capitalist Tim Draper also the world’s largest bitcoin holder, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm. Draper Goren Holm the early-stage venture fund has made Cointelegraph’s list of the most active blockchain funds in 2020. Hear from Josef Holm himself on the benefits of investing in a blockchain fund to maximize one’s returns
Josef shared his opinion of Dubai as one of the most vibrant and progressive blockchain communities in the world, his passion for investing in early startups. Josef gives an important exposure to blockchain, supporting enterprises through a blockchain fund, a passion for entrepreneurship, and ideas.
Alexander, as a visionary, has more than 15 years of investment and venture capital experience. He is a unique Russian composer who successfully combines creative work with business. He effectively manages his own portfolio, which specializes in investment and venture capital in blockchain, fintech, AI, media, new media, publishing, tourism, and entertainment sectors( BitFury Group, Minery.io, , Clickky, SoundVault Ticketland, Verifi. media, TradingVeiw, AviaSales, QIWI post, SeoPult Group, Garpun, MFM Solution, RealWeb, ECWID, and others.) His personal investments are in sectors: Blockchain infrastructure, e-Sport, Mixed Reality. Adviser and Board member of leading global companies in the digital economy. Alexander is the founding Partner of the Bitcoin Association Speaker at MWC, Future Investment Initiatives, Horasis, MIPCOM, DLD, WKF, and other many global conferenciers and contributor to Diplomatic World Magazine, Forklog, Hackernoon, VC.ru, et
Jean Michel is a tech entrepreneur & infosec enthusiast with a passion for blockchain.
He’s been obsessed with bitcoin philosophy since 2011, and successfully made it out alive from both Big Blue & World of Warcraft. When he’s not building web3, he spends most of his time pwning and getting pwnd by noobs in MOBA’s, FPS’s and Echo VR
Irina S. Litchfield is a globally recognized public speaker, innovation visionary and strategic leader.
She is a founder of Lumeria, holding company and Investor Relations firm.
With 20 years in financial technology, a decade in crypto industry and half a decade in New Space, Irina serves executive roles across private, public and non for profit organizations.
She is proud participant of Thunderbird Executive Master of Global Management with specialization in Space Leadership, Business and Policy.
Irina is a partner at Space Venture Studio, focused on creating global space economy. She serves as Chair Woman to Space Interactions, central operations platform for Space Traffic Management.
She is a board director of F4F, a non-profit focused on advancing the space finance.
She is also BoD at Space Force Association, Texas chapter.
Irina is a Strategic Advisor at Interflight Global, Air and Space Consulting firm which celebrated its third decade anniversary this year. She is a mentor at New Chip accelerator and is an advisor at Lunargistics, space ports logistics company.
As a leading force of implementation of innovations, Irina has been braking through frontiers of several industries.
She co founded a bitcoin exchange in 2013.
Built a retail bank in Mexico a year after.
In 2019, she joined New Space industry as a SpaceFund senior advisor and later as a general partner.
Prior to that, her FinTech journey began in 2005, when she co founded a payments/gaming company in Texas. Irina is frequent guest at world’s most prestigious blockchain conferences. She is recognized and respected blockchain thought leader.
She is a founding advisor to ABE, global securities exchange. Advisor to ProChain Capital, a crypto hedge fund and founder if BlockchainCubed consulting.
Passionate about innovation technology, positive social capital, democratization of space, opportunities and right to transact. Irina often speaks and writes as a subject matter expert.
Irina is a contributor and active community member at Cointelegraph Innovation Circle, leading global platform for blockchain innovations leaders.
She is founder of ARRA , curated global innovations summit.
Christina Scicluna is an Associate within Ganado Advocates’ corporate and fintech teams. She advises a variety of multinational clients on international corporate structures, including the setting up of Maltese entities and domiciliation of entities, M&A transactions and assisting clients on corporate governance matters.
Ganado Advocates (formerly Ganado & Associates) is a leading commercial law firm with a particular focus on the corporate, financial services and maritime/aviation sectors, predominantly servicing international clients doing business through of Malta. The firm also promotes other areas such as tax, pensions, intellectual property, employment and litigation.
Since 2010 she has completed several traineeships with lawyers.
From June 2012 to July 2013 she worked as a tax assistant in KPMG in Toronto.
In 2012 she obtained Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with European Studies, Diploma in Notary Public Area of studyDoctor of laws (LLD) at the University of Malta.
For 1 year and 5 months, she was a lawyer in the company PiscoPartners in Valletta.
In 2014 she obtained a Diploma in Taxation and in 2016 a Higher Diploma in International Taxation.
She also worked as a senior associate at MAMO TCV Avocats from 2015 to March 2019.
Christina has also been involved in the fintech industry since 2017 and advises a number of clients on legal matters relating to blockchain, virtual financial assets and distributed ledger technology projects.
Spoke at AIBC conference about Regulatory and Legal Issues with Blockchain: Cross Borders (Day 2)
Pradeep Goel, CEO at Solve.Care, did us the honour of speaking at AIBC Summit this November 2021 during the main stage event for Blockchain & The Economy! Pradeep Goel moderated the panel ? Regulatory And Legal Issues With Blockchain: Cross Borders ? with fellow speakers: ? Dr. Franklin Cachia, Senior Manager Tax & Regulated Industries at CSB Group ? Hong Kyun Noh, Accounts Manager at Collective C ? Marcin Zarakowski, Director of Legal And Public Policy Management at Bitcoin Association for BSV ? Christina Scicluna, Advocate at Ganado Advocates AIBC Summit aims to be a pillar in the technological development by uniting tech-leaders, regulators, investors and entrepreneurs from across the world to discuss, share ideas, make partnerships and build the foundation for the industry of tomorrow. ? Check out what AIBC has lined up for 2022 ➡ https://aibc.world/
Kyle Chasse has always been a visionary, creating first of a kind companies out of passion and unique foresight.
He is an early adopter of Bitcoin and Ethereum since 2012 and going ALL-IN to the crypto world by 2014. His focus is on the application of cryptocurrencies and blockchain/DLT technology to create fully integrated platforms and protocols utilizing cutting edge developments.
Kyle Chasse is now consulting ICO start-ups that share his belief in a better world through decentralization. He is working on his own project now that will disrupt small to medium business killers.
Kyle has a deep network to help projects he works with to have very strong ICOs through his vast reach of funds, syndicates, influencers, launch pads, tech teams, marketing & PR agencies and economists.
Kyle an equity holder in many early stage fintech/blockchain start-ups such as: Bnkofthefuture.com, Shape Shift, Bitso, Bitmex, Tokenly, Storj, Maidsafe, Synereo, Exodus, Kraken and more.
He has also invested in many ICO’s at an early stage starting in 2016. He is always at least one step ahead of the market and has been working with regulatory compliance since early 2017.
He has invested in several new start-ups that offer equity, security tokens or utility tokens or a combination of each. See bnktothefuture.com for one of the most promising projects right now.
SiGMA World celebrated the iGaming industry’s resilience even in the most troubling of times. With this we also congratulate the efforts made to make the iGaming world ethical, fraud-free and lawful.
Affiliate Grand Slam congratulated the brilliant marketers and influencers bringing much needed attention to a massive portfolio of industries and rejuvenating the economy one click at a time.
AIBC brought together the pioneers of a bright new age of emerging technology ready, able and willing to be the vanguard of Tomorrow. Other than just the established names, we also hosted many an entrepreneur seeking to expand the frontiers of AI and the Blockchain ever forward.
Finally, Med-Tech World united the medical professionals of many disciplines to combine their keen minds and inexhaustible passion for a better tomorrow with the entrepreneurial spirit of investors who also dream of a world free from disease and cancer.
The Week also saw many a networking dinner, speaking panel, drink gatherings and other opportunities for our hard-working delegates to unwind. A few highlights include the awards that congratulated those whose dedication, skill and acumen made them a leading figure in their industry as well as the fact that the conferences where graced by titans such as John Karony, Nolan Bushnell, Djibril Cissé, Akon and Mark Blandford who was awarded an Outstanding Contribution of the Year award for his pioneering work in the iGaming industry.
Arnaud Salomon discovered Bitcoin in 2012 together with the world of the blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Quickly convinced by its vast potential, he began to think about how it could be applied to the industry he knows best: finance. The project was incorporated as Mt Pelerin Group SA on September 27th 2018.
Dr. Craig S. Wright is an Australian/Antiguan computer scientist, businessman, and inventor who challenges the world with visionary ideas. He is the alleged creator of Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto – which is widely a contested statement. Currently, Dr. Wright is Chief Scientist for nChain – the global leader in advisory, research, and development of blockchain technologies.
Miguel is a marketing executive & an image-maker in the disruptive tech space and beyond. He has been creating unique cinematic content for the world of news, branding and blockchain since 2014 both on international TV and online. Currently spearheading ‘The Future is Now Media Group’ part of TFIN DAO, which provides boutique media, PR & consulting services to its partners all over the world. The media group over the past 5 years has been creating the first ever on-going documentary film series on Bitcoin’s disruption across the world called “The Future is Now Film”, being the first visual NFT in the space before NFTs became what they are today.
Mel has had an entrepreneurial streak from a young age, setting up his first business aged 15 selling strains of algae online to biofuel researchers. He discovered cryptocurrencies at university and became known as the “bitcoin guy” to friends. He eventually dropped out and moved to Taiwan to focus on crypto full-time and set up his own business after ethereum was launched in 2014.
Eric is an investor and cryptocurrency researcher who is well-known for his in-depth critiques and exposing systemic flaws in high-profile cryptocurrency projects. He is the former head of blockchain and cryptocurrency at Nasdaq-owned Cinnober and holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Lund University where he specialized in blockchain technology.
He holds a master’s degree of Science in Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering Technologies from The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University. This Master’s programme was designed to meet the need for engineers who can apply the technologies of the communications field to construct sophisticated, yet easy-to-use information systems for data exchange. Graduates possess a holistic and specialized comprehension of networked communication, and can thereby actively participate in the development of large, complex communication systems.
Eric was Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Advisor at Nasdaq. Merged firms via Nasdaq’s acquisition of Cinnober in 2019. Worked briefly with the Nasdaq blockchain team as an advisor on architectural choices and business partners connected to the Symbiont private blockchain and their overall strategy.
Wall worked as Advisor at Human Rights Foundation, advising the Human Rights Foundation on cryptocurrencies and privacy in a project to promote global economic freedom. Funded by the Zcash Foundation.
For four months, he was an Expert Witness at Stavanger commune. Expert witness in a Norwegian cryptocurrency-related civil suit addressing deeply technical matters related to the case.
Nowdays, he is Chief Investment Officer at Arcane Assets. A scandinavian multi- strategy cryptocurrency investment firm. Part of the Arcane Crypto AS family.
He is also Advisor at Vinter Capital. Vinter is an index provider for crypto assets. It makes crypto ETFs possible and works with leading issuers in Europe. It developed the first crypto indices in the Nordics approved by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). It introduces crypto assets to the traditional financial industry and reliable pricing and trust to the blockchain community. Its multinational team consists of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experience from cryptocurrency research and trading, data engineering, corporate law, investment banking, and structured products.
He spoke at the AIBC 2021 conference about: Could Smart Contracts revolutionise Smart Money forever? ( Main Stage Day 2)
James Bowater, Founder & Editor At Large at Crypto AM, did us the honour of speaking at AIBC Summit this November 2021 during the main stage event for Blockchain & The Economy! James Bowater moderated the panel ? Could Smart Contracts Revolutionise Smart Money Forever? ? with fellow speakers: ? Eric Wall, CIO at Arcane Assets ? Luis Carbajo, Founder & CEO at Vottun AIBC Summit aims to be a pillar in the technological development by uniting tech-leaders, regulators, investors and entrepreneurs from across the world to discuss, share ideas, make partnerships and build the foundation for the industry of tomorrow. ? Check out what AIBC has lined up for 2022 ➡ https://aibc.world/
Daniele Monteleone aka Robotica | International Tech Entrepreneur | Blockchain Specialist | Applied Researcher AI & IoT | Chief Visionary Officer (CVO) | Independent Advisor on Digital Strategy, Technology and Information Policy;
“We grow up in a world that revolves around money.
But our real mission is to leave a better world for those who will come.
My personal life`s work is to create innovation.
Innovation for technology, innovation of thoughts and spirits, as necessary bases of a real change.
I like to see myself as a Libertarian activist, supporting digital rights, opensource community, e-democracy, decentralization, and financial freedom in any form. Freedom is the keyword of the world I’d like to see in the next future.
To achieve this we must stand together and be strong.
Every era has its innovators, who set the path for great changes, the rest will follow.
That’s why I am taking part in different communities of several millions supporters like GlobalLeaks (anti corruption), Pirate Party Movement (participatory democracy), Devuan – Veteran Unix Admins (systemd freedom!) – Dyne.org, Missionary Church of Kopimism (dissemination of information), Ninux.org (wireless P2P community network).
I was first involved in the bitcoin ecosystem as a hacker in 2010, trying to hack it without success, attending the First Conference on Bitcoin at Prague 2011 – with my lifetime friend Rick Falckvinge & Max Keiser.
In the last few years, I’ve focused on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Applications. A totally new concept on how to use technology, exploiting it and giving it a real value.
Moreover I’m a speaker, guest and attendant at international conferences and universities events in Information Technology. Room awareness is key to this challenge.
It’s always a pleasure for me to attend events and conferences.
We must rediscover the sense of community, remembering that working together is the key to success.
Let’s give meaning to the great results obtained!“ ”
He spoke at the AIBC conference about: Is Web 3.0 really the era of a New World? (Day 2)
AIBC Summit aims to be a pillar in the technological development by uniting tech-leaders, regulators, investors and entrepreneurs from across the world to discuss, share ideas, make partnerships and build the foundation for the industry of tomorrow. ? Check out what AIBC has lined up for 2022 ➡ https://aibc.world/
Draper Goren Holm is a blockchain venture studio and fund created by Tim Draper, Alon Goren, and Josef Holm with a focus on incubating and accelerating the best early-stage startups from around the world.
Ganado Advocates (formerly Ganado & Associates) is a leading commercial law firm with a particular focus on the corporate, financial services and maritime/aviation sectors, predominantly servicing international clients doing business through of Malta. The firm also promotes other areas such as tax, pensions, intellectual property, employment and litigation.
In 2012 she obtained Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with European Studies, Diploma in Notary Public Area of studyDoctor of laws (LLD) at the University of Malta.