Focus on Crypto & Tokenisation

Emilie Allaert is the Head of the Luxembourg Blockchain Lab.

She has an in-depth knowledge of the industry challenges and is convinced technology and innovation are the paths to follow to ensure Luxembourg’s competitivity. Prior to joining the Luxembourg Blockchain Lab, she was the Head of Operations and Projects at the LHoFT, she worked for KPMG, JP Morgan AM and Alpha FMC.

Next to Fintech, she has built an expertise in DLT technology, digital assets and STO, areas where she published various reports and is part of numerous working groups. This expertise is leveraged within the Lab to help the ecosystem understands the implication of DLT on the various industries and have access to trainings.

She believes dissemination of knowledge is key to adoption and gives lectures on digital innovation and DLT technology.

Emilie holds a BSc in Economics and Management from the University of Luxembourg; a MA in Financial Management from the University of Durham Business School and a Certificate in Climate & Renewable Energy Finance from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

Emilie’s contribution to the industry has been widely recognised, including by a nomination in the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2017 and in the 50 Who’s Who in Tech in Luxembourg in 2021. She recently founded her own digital innovation strategy company, Digital Minds.

John (“Jack”) Ehlers is Bitstamp’s Chief Operating Officer.

With over thirty-years of international business experience in Asia, Europe and the United States, Mr. Ehlers has spent the last 17 years in developing alternatives to traditional financial services in electronic money, alternative payment methods and crypto-based payments. His work at PayPal, Alipay, and PPRO included successful new bank licensing and authorizations as e-money and payment institutions.

Beyond compliance and licensing, Mr. Ehlers has held responsibilities in general management, business development and product strategy.

Before Bitstamp, Mr. Ehlers was Chief Product Officer at PPRO.

Luc Falempin is CEO and Founder of Tokeny and has been immersed in enterprise grade technology for over ten years.

In this time he has successfully started and sold two technology startups. Always aware of emerging technology, Luc discovered blockchain in 2011 and founded Tokeny in 2017, a technology enabler with the vision of digitising capital markets.

Tokeny is backed by Euronext, Inveniam and APEX and is currently the leading tokenisation platform with more than $28B of tokenised assets managed by the platform.

Nicholas Garcia is the Founder & CEO of Fortunafi.

He started his career at Wells Fargo’s Tech & Venture Group before leading Finance & Strategy at Zenefits and becoming Head of Finance at Shippo.

Nick also founded Space Whale Capital in 2018.

Chris Hollifield is head of business development at Luxembourg for Finance, where his work involves advising FinTech and financial companies looking to develop cross-border activity through Luxembourg-based platforms. He also advises on the development of the ecosystem in Luxembourg and on synergy creation with other key financial centres, with a focus on East Asia.

Prior to working at Luxembourg for Finance, Chris worked in the strategy department of Clearstream Banking SA, an International Central Securities Depository that facilitates the settlement of interbank transactions in over 50 markets worldwide. Here, his work focused particularly on strategic projects concerning distributed ledger technology and other FinTech topics.

Biba Homsy is lawyer in Luxembourg and Switzerland.

She is active in the Blockchain and crypto space since 2015 and run her boutique law firm Homsy Legal with 4 associates in Geneva and Luxembourg supporting private actors with specialisation in regulatory, compliance, financial services and crypto-assets.

Before that, she was heading teams at the Swiss regulator FINMA for 5 years, and was also Chief Compliance for credit suisse where she was in charge of Luxembourg and its European branches (France, Portugal, Ireland, Austria, Netherland) with oversight of 40 people.

She has been designated one of the 30 worldwide crypto experts by the International World Economic Forum (WEF) to support the WEF in the digital expansion.

She is a lecturer for several universities in compliance, AML and Fintech. She holds two masters of Law (French & Swiss Universities) and a certification from Harvard Law School on regulation. She seats in the board of directors of 3 major Banks in Europe.

Steve Jacoby is the Regional Managing Partner for Continental Europe of the Luxembourg office of Clifford Chance and co-heads the Luxembourg Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice, handling lending, securitisation, capital markets, regulatory, derivatives, general banking law (including litigation), corporate law and insolvency matters.

His practice focuses in particular on financial regulatory matters as well as on Fintech and innovation. Steve is also an associate lecturer (Chargé de Cours Associé) at the University of Luxembourg in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets law.

Scott Lucas is the Head of Markets DLT and is responsible for the strategy and execution of new trading products built on DLT/Blockchain at J.P. Morgan. Additionally, he is responsible for representing JP Morgan on industry initiatives and wider market developments related to DLT.

Scott joined JP Morgan in 2010 and has spend most of his time in Treasury/Chief Investment Office and the Corporate and Investment Bank. He also serves on the board of HQLAx and Ownera, and is a Trustee of Global H20 (UK), a charity focused on providing clean water in Uganda.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Scott served as an Infantry Officer for 13 years in the Australian then British Army, including tours of East Timor, Northern Ireland and Iraq.

Scott holds an MBA from Cambridge University and a BA from Deakin University.

Guglielmo Manzoni holds a master’s degree in Business Administration at “L. Bocconi” University in Milan (Italy).

He joined J.P. Morgan Bank Luxembourg S.A. in 1997 where he worked in Fund Administration until 2000. He then moved to the Depositary and Fiduciary department where he covered different senior roles/range of funds and dealt with Luxembourg major clients as a depositary manager for 15 years.

In January 2016 he joined HSBC Continental Europe, Luxembourg where he currently works as Head of the Depositary and Fiduciary Services department. Guglielmo is an active member of various Depositary working groups and steering committees of bank & fund industry associations in Luxembourg.