Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Brendan O�Connor serves as the CEO of Genesis Global Trading and is responsible for executing the strategic vision for the company.� Previously, he served as Managing Director for the Trading Team at SecondMarket, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations for the team, which was focused on trading fixed income securities and digital currencies.� While serving as Managing Director for the Trading Team, Brendan was also a member of the firm�s senior management team and a member of the firm�s risk committee.� Prior to joining SecondMarket, Brendan spent almost nine years working at AllianceBernstein L.P. where he served in a variety of key management and sales positions on both the buy side and the sell side.� He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and holds FINRA Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions brings leading edge big data and linking technology to drive risk insight and action from over 13,000 data sources.� LexisNexis operates large scale databases on consumers and businesses in the US and the UK.� LexisNexis also maintains a number of large contributory databases and fabricates the largest global database of heightened risk entities to facilitate anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, and counter-terrorism financing.Brown has 25 years of experience in financial services, consumer credit policy, predictive analytics, and anti-money laundering.� He joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions in Boca Raton, Florida, following their acquisition of Seisint in 2004.�� Brown leads the global development of product and market strategy for the financial services market, which includes solutions for Anti-Money Laundering, KYC, fraud prevention, financial investigations, real estate, business risk management and first-party collections that are used by leading global companies and financial institutions.� Beyond the US banking sector, Brown leads broader product and market strategy efforts for LexisNexis in the UK.� Brown also spends significant time developing markets for LexisNexis in Europe, Asia (in particular Greater China), and Latin America.� Over his 10 year tenure, Brown has lead LexisNexis to 5x revenue growth in the financial sector. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Brown was a Principal at an NYC-area consulting firm developing profit-based analytics and strategies for the largest US credit card issuers.� Brown also has served as a Senior Vice President with First Data, managing scoring and credit risk products for First Data�s issuing clients. He began his career with First of America Bank Corporation, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, leading loan administration, loan review, and credit policy functions.�Brown graduated from Western Michigan University in 1989 with a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance.� In 1993, while working for First of America, he completed his MBA with a concentration in Financial Management, also from Western Michigan University.��

German is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Technisys, a Miami-based Banking Technology Company offering state-of�the-art omnichannel digital banking solutions. In 1995, he was part of the team of digital visionaries that saw the potential of the Internet to transform banking into a nimble, technology driven industry providing both consumers and business with fast, efficient services.Today, he is a highly sought after entrepreneur, innovator and trendsetter who has been leading the digital evolution of banks in Latin America. He has been featured in top financial publications, including Forbes, CNN, America Economia, Latin Finance as well as a guest speaker at Penn�s Wharton School of Business, Columbia University and MIT.Today, with nearly 400 employees operating in 10 countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and US$ 50 millions in sales, Technisys creates cutting-edge banking technology through its Cyberbank products platform, the only truly SOA-based Multi-channel platform completely designed and developed in the 21st Century.Among its clients Technisys has renowned names such as Banco Itau, Banco Estado de Chile,�Grupo Santander, Citibank, HSBC, ABN AMRO, Banco Original.

Barry Silbert is the Founder & CEO of Digital Currency Group, a company helping to build the foundation of the digital currency and blockchain technology industry by launching, incubating, and investing in groundbreaking companies that will transform the global financial services ecosystem and usher in the �internet of value�. DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with over 50 investments in 15 countries including BitGo, BitPay, BitPagos, BitPesa, Chain, Circle, Coinbase, Gyft, Kraken, Ripple Labs, TradeBlock, Unocoin and Xapo.�In addition, Barry also created the Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT), a private, open-ended trust sponsored by Grayscale Investments, a Digital Currency Group company. The BIT�s shares are the first publicly quoted securities (ticker: GBTC) solely invested in and deriving value from the price of bitcoin, enabling investors to gain exposure to the price movement of bitcoin without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping bitcoins.Prior to founding Digital Currency Group, Barry founded SecondMarket, a platform that enables private companies and investment funds to more efficiently raise capital and provide liquidity to their stakeholders by simplifying complex transaction workflows, streamlining investor onboarding and verifying that investors are accredited.�SecondMarket has received numerous accolades in recent years including being named by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and has received honors from Forbes, Fast Company, Deloitte and other organizations. Barry has received several individual honors including being named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young and Crain's, and being selected to Fortune's prestigious "40 Under 40" list.Prior to founding SecondMarket in 2004, Barry was an investment banker at Houlihan Lokey and graduated with honors from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and holds Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses. ���

Benjamin M. Lawsky is Chief Executive Officer of The Lawsky Group, a consulting and legal services firm that specializes in helping companies, boards, and individuals manage their most complex, emergent and dynamic challenges. The firm provides in-depth counsel and strategic advice on financial services regulation, cybersecurity and cyber-risk, new financial technologies, compliance, consumer protection, privacy, anti-money laundering controls, crisis management, and investigations.Mr. Lawsky is also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University�s Cyber Initiative, a cross-disciplinary and university-wide project aimed at addressing both the cyber vulnerabilities of today while also developing a framework that will yield effective and resilient policy solutions to emerging problems five and ten years from now.Mr. Lawsky was New York State�s Superintendent of Financial Services from 2011-2015 where he regulated all New York State-chartered banks, the majority of United States-based branches and agencies of foreign banking institutions, and all insurance companies in New York. �He also regulated all of New York State�s mortgage brokers and bankers, check cashers, money transmitters, and similar providers of financial services.� In this role, Mr. Lawsky �supervised more than 3,800 entities, with assets of more than $7 trillion and ran an agency with more than 1,400 employees and an operating budget of approximately $250 million.Mr. Lawsky also served as co-chair of Governor Andrew Cuomo�s Cyber Security Advisory Board and served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Empire State Development Corporation.�He�also served on the Joint Forum, an international body made up of banking, insurance and securities regulators from fifteen countries which focused on cross-sectoral issues among the three financial sectors and advised the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the International Organization of Securities Commission and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.�Mr. Lawsky also served on advisory committees and roundtables related to cybersecurity and insurance at the United States Treasury Department.Prior to serving as Superintendent of Financial Services, Mr. Lawsky was Governor Andrew Cuomo�s Chief of Staff.� Previously, he served in a top position in the New York State Attorney General�s office, where he helped run and manage an office of more than 500 attorneys.�Previously,�Mr. Lawsky spent more than five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted white collar crime, organized crime, and terrorism cases.� He began his career as Chief Counsel to Senator Charles Schumer on the Senate Judiciary Committee and as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice.�In recent years, Mr. Lawsky has received various honors and awards, including:����� Foreign�Policy�Magazine, Top 100 Global�Thinkers���� Bloomberg Markets Magazine, 50 Most Influential in Global Finance���� Worth Magazine, 100 Most Powerful People in Finance���� City and State Magazine, 100 Most Powerful People in New York City Politics���� American Lawyer, Litigator of the Week���� SNL Financial, 10 Most Influential Figures in the Insurance Industry���� CoinDesk, Top 10 Most Influential People in Bitcoin

John Light is a professional advisor to companies building on blockchain technology, researching and publishing work on the topics of digital identity, reputation, and trust. He has co-founded two startups, started and maintained p2p communities with hundreds of members, and been a speaker on the topics of bitcoin, digital identity, and the power of the blockchain at numerous public events. John is a writer at the okTurtles Foundation, an EIR at Brave New Cloud, the host of the P2P Connects Us podcast, and serves as a board member on the New Money Systems Advisory Board and the Futurist Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.

Toby Rush is the CEO and Founder of EyeVerify, an innovative company focused on enabling mobile users to authenticate transactions and access information by simply looking at their mobile device. EyeVerify�s Eyeprint ID� is compatible with today's existing smartphones without any additional hardware. The patented vascular solution offers a highly secure, scalable and convenient answer to the frustration of remembering pins and passwords. Toby's rich history in mobile, imaging and sensors is a perfect combination, as he now leads EyeVerify in becoming the biometrics standard for the mobile economy.�

Peter focuses on the financial wellness services of Philadelphia-based Solutions for Progress (SfP), primarily the overall management and administration of MyBudgetCoach (MyBC). In addition to focusing on financial wellness services, Peter also directs all of SfP�s sales and marketing efforts.Peter's proudest professional achievement is the creation of MyBC at Co-Opportunity Inc. in Hartford, CT, where he served as Director of Special Projects. Prior to joining Co-Opportunity, Peter worked in a variety of sales- and operations-related senior management positions spanning the fields of manufacturing, media and government.Peter has a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy from Syracuse University and a Master of Public Administration, specializing in Nonprofit Management from New York University�s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.