Bloomberg Cryptocurrency Seminar

Hilary is the Director of Research at the Blockchain Research Institute, a Canadian-based global think-tank. Hilary has built a team of more than 40 thought leaders in blockchain technology to conduct the definitive investigation into blockchain applications, use cases, and strategy world-wide. She is an advisor to two leading Canadian blockchain startups: TokenFunder and Dubtokens.

Hilary’s career began in financial services where she worked in a number of divisions including Retail Brokerage, Corporate Finance, Research and Analysis, and ultimately as an Officer at UBS in Global Private Banking. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics and one of the few women to earn the Certified Bitcoin Professional designation.

Shaun Cumby has traded and managed illiquid assets for 20 years starting with ABS, MBS, real return bonds, CDS, ABCP and now digital assets. In addition to trading and portfolio management he had a short tenure as the Chief Risk Officer of a Canadian Schedule I bank.  He is currently an executive with 3iQ Corp who are bringing digital assets to the the Canadian market in the form of a private placement and soon, we hope, exchange listed closed end funds.

After launching his career at the convergence of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Trevor became a very early leader in the blockchain community – financing foundational projects like Ethereum, EOS and Shapeshift.

In 2017, after predicting the mega-trend of financial securities migrating to the blockchain, Trevor cofounded Polymath – the worlds largest security token platform. Prior to Polymath, Trevor’s Oculus Rift-based project became one of the world’s first VR exits. Trevor graduated from Canada’s leading business school, Ivey, and was an NHL draft pick of the New York Rangers.

Russell Verbeeten joined the nascent Ethereum project in 2014 after completing a Masters in Social Science of the Internet at Oxford University. With an undergraduate degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, and successful exits at startups where he played the roles of CTO and founder, Russell joined ConsenSys in June of 2015 as a principal operations and product lead. He is currently the Managing Director for ConsenSys Canada.

Matt McFarland heads up Cboe’s futures business, primarily responsible for developing and executing strategic initiatives to increase volume in both existing and new products. Prior to managing the Exchange’s futures business, Matt worked within Cboe’s Global Client Services Group in London, where he led the European business development effort for derivatives products.

He has worked at Cboe since 2007. Prior to working at Cboe, Matt spent 10 years at JP Morgan in equity derivative sales.  He started his career on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1993.  McFarland earned an MBA in Finance in 2001 from DePaul University and a BA from Marquette University in 1992.

Lewis Bateman is Chief Business Officer of Coinsquare, and CEO of CoinCapital Investment Mangement Inc.  where he is focusing on business development, corporate strategy and asset management. Prior to joining Coinsquare, he was a founder and CEO of Sphere Investments. He holds over two decades direct financial services experience with executive positions at First Asset Capital Corp. and Horizon ETFs Management Inc. Prior he held senior roles with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX) where he was responsible for introducing new global participants to the Canadian marketplace, as well as providing coverage to large domestic and international accounts and Structured Products Providers. Prior to that he also served as a sales equity trader for Merrill Lynch (Midland Walwyn) in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto and New York. Coinsquare is Canada’s most secure digital asset trading platform for trading Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other digital currencies. Since our founding in 2014, we’ve never lost a coin. We remain steadfastly focused on transparency, risk mitigation, and building an open-minded culture, Coinsquare is on a mission to grow into a multi-faceted financial services company anchored in blockchain technology.

Francesco Tonin is an FX and Economics market specialist at Bloomberg L.P. based in New York. Most recently, he was the North America head of FX Structuring at Citigroup. He was initially recruited at Morgan Stanley for a sales position in interest rates derivatives. He then worked at Deutsche Bank in FX exotic derivatives trading, and at Credit Suisse he held an FX structuring role.

He has presented extensively around the country, together with corporate speakers such as Pfizer, General Motors, Fluor Corporation, Dell Computers, Knowles Corporation, at the national Association for Financial Professionals conference, Texpo, Windy City Summit, Minnesota AFP, New York Cash Exchange, the IMF, the New York Fed, Princeton University and Columbia University.

Francesco held a tenured research position in mathematics at the University of Padua. He has a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Padua, a Ph.D. from the University of Turin and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. His mathematical research activity focused on the Cauchy problem for partial differential equations with holomorphic coefficients, and for those efforts he received research grants from the European Union, the French Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres, the University of Padua and the University of Pisa, in addition to the Italian National Research Council and a Fulbright Scholarship offer.

Mike McGlone is a senior commodity strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence, a unique research platform that provides context on industries, companies, and government policy, available on the Bloomberg Professional service at BI <GO>. Mr. McGlone specializes in the broad investible commodity markets.

Mr. McGlone joined Bloomberg in 2016 with over 25 years of futures and commodity trading and investing experience, beginning at the Chicago Board of Trade. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was a head of US research at ETF Securities. Prior to ETF Securities, Mr. McGlone headed the commodity business at S&P Indices. His previous roles included head of futures research at ABN Amro and VP research, analyst, trader, sales at Aubrey G. Lanston / IBJ Futures.

Mr. McGlone has an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago and bachelor’s of science and arts degrees from Illinois State University. He is a CFA Charter holder and has earned a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation.

Lananh Nguyen is a foreign exchange reporter at Bloomberg in New York who covers market trends, economic fundamentals and monetary policy. She provides commentary on TV, radio and Bloomberg’s Global Macro Squawk. Lananh previously reported on energy markets for Bloomberg and Dow Jones Newswires in London, interviewing CEOs and oil ministers during crude’s rally to record highs in 2008 and its subsequent collapse in 2014. She holds a BA in Political Science from Tufts University and also studied at the London School of Economics. She’s a board member of the New York Financial Writers’ Association.