Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He studied analytic number theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure. His professional experience includes founding three cryptocurrency-related start-ups, including Ethereum and IOHK, and he has held a variety of posts in both the public and private sectors. His current projects focus on educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that launched in September 2017.

Niklas Nikolajsen founded Bitcoin Suisse AG in mid-2013. Today he serves as Chairman of the Board and co-CEO. Niklas has a background of more than 15 years as a professional software architect & software developer, primarily in the financial , manufacturing and public sectors. In 2010 after discovering Bitcoin, he became one of the early adaptors, investors and proponents of crypto assets. In 2011 he moved from Denmark to Switzerland and worked for a major Swiss financial institution, as a consultant – until he founded Bitcoin Suisse AG in 2013, together with partners. He served as CEO of the company until the end of 2017.

John Watkinson is a Canadian computer scientist and digital artist. He holds an Electrical Engineering PhD from Columbia University. Together with Matt Hall, John created the Cryptopunks, the very first non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, awaking the art world to blockchain's potential to create scarcity for digital works. He continues to work on art and tech projects involving blockchain, including the music streaming service Choon.

Hester Maria Peirce is an American lawyer specializing in financial market regulation. Peirce currently serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She previously served as the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Peirce was confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2017 to fill a Republican vacancy on the SEC. She was sworn in on January 11, 2018, and her term expires in 2020. Peirce is a former staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and of the SEC. In 2016, she was nominated by President Barack Obama for Commissioner on the SEC, but the United States Senate did not act on her nomination.

Henri Arslanian is the PwC Global Crypto Leader and Asia FinTech Leader, the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia. Henri leads PwC’s crypto efforts and advises many of the world’s leading crypto firms on a broad range of crypto matters from regulatory and tax to governance and capital raising. He also advises many of the world’s leading financial institutions on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters.

Ryan Jesperson is a dedicated member of the Tezos community. Most recently he was the Chief Operating Officer at Divvy, a FinTech company. Prior to his work at Divvy, he helped launch the global Self-Reliance Services initiative of the LDS Church to alleviate poverty. Previous to that he was an executive, turnaround specialist and tech entrepreneur in the healthcare industry. He received a BS degree, cum laude, from Brigham Young University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Federal Councillor Johann Schneider-Ammann was born in 1952 and has a degree in electrical engineering from the ETH Zurich. In the Swiss government, he is at the head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. Before he became a member of the Swiss Federal Council in 2010, he was president and delegate of the Ammann Group, a worldwide operating mechanical engineering company specialised on machines for the building industry and road construction based in Langenthal. Schneider-Ammann was a member of the National Council in Swiss Parliament. He is married and has two adult children.