As a senior HR pro­fes­sion­al, man­ag­ing direc­tor, and as a con­sul­tant, Chris­t­ian has broad expe­ri­ence from star­tups to a glob­al enter­prise (Groupon). He man­aged com­plex inter­na­tion­al teams in high growth envi­ron­ment, oper­at­ing in 30+ coun­tries. He lived and worked in Berlin, Zurich, Syd­ney, and Vien­na. Chris­t­ian is pas­sion­ate about star­tups, tal­ent man­age­ment, peo­ple oper­a­tions, and organ­i­sa­tion­al design.

Kok­i­la Alagh is the Founder of KARM Legal Con­sul­tants and has 15 years of expe­ri­ence as a Corporate/Commercial and tech­nol­o­gy lawyer in UAE. She has a sig­nif­i­cant expe­ri­ence in invest­ments, incor­po­ra­tions, joint ven­tures, project finance & pri­vate equi­ty trans­ac­tions. She has active­ly advised on acqui­si­tion finance, project finance trans­ac­tion, cor­po­rate restruc­tur­ing, real estate finance and asset finance trans­ac­tions. At KARM, she has pro­vid­ed legal advice to clients pro­vid­ing high­ly spe­cial­ized tech­nol­o­gy offer­ing includ­ing MedTech and InsureTech focused enti­ties..

Mohammed Mah­foudh has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the start­up and entre­pre­neur­ial com­mu­ni­ty devel­op­ment. Dur­ing his career, Mohammed had estab­lished and man­aged mul­ti­ple com­pa­nies, as well as pro­vid­ed men­tor­ing, advi­so­ry, and invest­ments to a wide vari­ety of star­tups.

Mohammed worked on mul­ti­ple coun­tries, with a high focus on the Euro­pean start­up land­scape, where he pro­vid­ed con­sul­tan­cy and men­tor­ing to com­pa­nies for fundrais­ing, com­mer­cial­iza­tion of tech­nolo­gies, expan­sions, and exits.

His activ­i­ties cov­er wide range of indus­tries from Tech­nol­o­gy to Healthcare/biotech, along with an avi­a­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing. Cur­rent­ly, he is focus­ing, through his new ven­ture, Deca4 Advi­so­ry, on pro­vid­ing advi­so­ry and con­sul­tan­cy to com­pa­nies on the Secu­ri­ty Tokens and Dig­i­tal Secu­ri­ties imple­men­ta­tion, enabling them to raise mon­ey using the blockchain.

Saeed is Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Alphabit Dig­i­tal Cur­ren­cy Fund and Chair­man of eGov­ern blockchain con­sul­tan­cy com­pa­ny. He was also pre­vi­ous­ly Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Bina­ry Finan­cial. He sits on boards of enti­ties such as DEX, LEAD Ven­tures, RealEx, MENA Fin­tech Asso­ci­a­tion, BeMo­bi, Jahani & Asso­ciates and Ken­zi Wealth. These roles have giv­en him tremen­dous insight into the crypto/blockchain space and enabled him to devel­op a key net­work of con­tacts which has helped him grow his knowl­edge of the mar­ket expo­nen­tial­ly. Saeed start­ed his career at ADIA in Octo­ber 2009 as an Oper­a­tions spe­cial­ist then from May 2013 became a Fixed Income & Trea­sury spe­cial­ist. In June 2018 he decid­ed to leave ADIA to focus on the crypto/blockchain indus­try.

In 2009 James became Direc­tor of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment for DMCC and now leads the busi­ness devel­op­ment unit for its Free Zone in Dubai. James has worked for sev­er­al glob­al trad­ing and invest­ment com­pa­nies pro­vid­ing him with over 20 years of exten­sive finan­cial and phys­i­cal trad­ing expe­ri­ence and indus­try knowl­edge. Pri­or to join­ing DMCC in 2006, James was Chief Exec­u­tive of Bar­ti­zan Inter­na­tion­al Trad­ing and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Won­der Inter­na­tion­al Mg-Shanxi Jin­run where he was also head of glob­al trad­ing, and risk man­age­ment. James stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of West­min­ster in Lon­don.

Juer­gen start­ed to get involved ear­ly with cryp­tocur­ren­cies back in 2014. He is a speak­er and strate­gist who thinks ahead in terms of what will come next and how it affects our soci­ety and busi­ness­es. Today, he is man­ag­ing direc­tor of Tok­eniza­tion Lim­it­ed – the world’s pre­mier busi­ness devel­op­ment and strat­e­gy con­sul­tan­cy for tok­eniza­tion.