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Michael Abbott founded Composite Software in 2001 and drives the technical vision of the company at the CTO. Prior to founding Composite, he was CTO and EVP of Electron Economy, a supply chain software company named to Upside's list of Top 100 companies of 2001. He has published widely and speaks regularly on database and XML topics and participates in a JSR Expert Group, is on the XML Query Working Group at the W3C, has served the President of the Silicon Valley BEA Users Group and was the founder/chair of the XML Sig for the Software Development Forum for the past three years.

William Lacy Clay Jr. is a senior policy advisor at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He represented Missouri's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2021. He served as the ranking member on the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit in the 115th Congress.

Edwin Mata is the CEO and co-founder, Brickken.

Brian Beck is a founding partner, president and chief financial officer of WMGNA LLC.

Cagatay Zor is a fintech strategist and the head of the fintech and blockchain business line at Trumore.

Ciao-Wei Chen is aCiao-Wei Chen is an associate professor of accountancy at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Max Perkins is head of insurance solutions and COO for Spektrum Labs, an AI-first cyber resilience company that provides agents and tools to reduce the time, cost, and complexity of maintaining provable and effective security and insurability. Spektrum unifies the disconnected domains of cybersecurity, backup, and insurance into one continuous, automated system. By fusing these traditionally disconnected areas, Spektrum enables businesses to prove and maintain continuous resilience—from preventing cyber threats, to instant recovery, to securing financial coverage—all in one place. Spektrum unlocks resilience, automating and verifying the connection between security and insurance, so businesses can recover faster and protect their future.