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​Motivational speaker and business growth expert Meridith Elliott Powell is the author of several books, including "Winning in the Trust and Value Economy."

Nick Williamson is the CEO & Founder of Pythia, the company behind Credits. Nick started his career working in a Hedge Fund Administration while attending Illinois Institute of Technology on a Cross Country & Track scholarship. Eventually Nick realized his first true calling and became an online professional poker player. Through his unique skillset and leadership qualities, Nick caught the eye of Pokerstars and was hired to manage the Product & Operations of Ring Games; the largest real-money online poker product in the world. It was during 2010 when Nick was first introduced to Blockchain technology via Bitcoin and quickly became a leader in the space, contributing to numerous open source projects. This work would eventually lead to conceptualizing and building Credits, a hybrid framework providing interoperable, built-to-purpose blockchains.

Robin Hanson is Assoc. Prof. of economics at George Mason University, & research associate at Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a Caltech social science Ph.D., University of Chicago physics M.S & philosophy M.A., 9 years experience as A.I. researcher, at Lockheed & NASA, 3100 citations, h-index of 25, 60 academic publications, 400 media mentions, 200 invited talks, & 8 million visits to his blog OvercomingBias.com.Oxford Press publishes his The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth in June 2016, & The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Kevin Simler co-author, in spring 2017. A prediction market pioneer since 1988, he was architect of first internal corporate markets, at Xanadu in 1990, of the Foresight Exchange since 1994, of DARPA's Policy Analysis Market, from 2001 to 2003, and of IARPA’s DAGGRE and SCICAST from 2010 to 2015.

Robert Schiff is a vice president and general manager at Medallia.

Brian McEvoy is the Director of Retail Branch Strategy for Synovus Financial Corp, which he joined in October 2015.� Brian resides with his wife, Rene, and their 3 children in Columbus, GA, but spends many of his days traveling Synovus’ five-state Southeastern footprint.� A 20-year industry veteran and graduate of the Boston University School of Management, Brian spent the beginning of his career in retail banking, leading branch and regional sales teams.� For the past several years, Brian has held a number of leadership roles in sales strategy and branch transformation.� At Synovus, Brian’s team is responsible for distribution strategy, retail design, staffing models, and transaction automation.

Thomas Michaud is President and CEO of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a Stifel Company.

MK Fiorille is the Head of the Unsecured Personal Lending Division for Citizens Financial Group. She has end to end responsibility for all aspects of the personal loan product line including strategic partnerships with large retail merchants within the US.� MK has a unwavering commitment to deliver a frictionless and “un-bank” like experience to every customer and has made it a top priority to simplify and automate all aspects of the personal lending process.� Prior to joining Citizens in 2008, MK was the Chief Marketing Officer for Citibank Student Loan Corporation.

George Sutton is an attorney at Jones Waldo Holbrook & McDonough. He served as the Utah commissioner of financial institutions from 1987 to 1993.

Steven Kemmerling is the founder & CEO of MRB Monitor.