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Dr. Harpreet Singh works at the intersection of Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning, developing advanced cyrptoeconomic systems, roadmaps, algorithms and data products. In the past he has served as a Chief Analytics Officer and has also led cross-functional teams in global execution of product development, business strategy, operations, and technology functions. He managed the program management initiatives for sixty technology startups from Citigroup’s e-Citi Venture Portfolio Office. Harpreet subsequently established the Project Management Office for FX Alliance, a global foreign exchange platform, where he was responsible for enabling project and risk management functions for New York, London and Tokyo locations. Harpreet earned Master's and PhD degrees from Harvard University, where he also served as a faculty member.

Sergio Lerner is an early Bitcoin security pioneer and currently in charge of the design of the RSK platform, a groundbreaking smart-contract platform that will serve as a Bitcoin side-chain. He periodically performs security audits on the changes to the Bitcoin Core source code. He co-founded Coinspect, a computer security company focused on cryptocurrencies, and CoinFabrik, a software-factory for cryptocurrency development.

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune Magazine. In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private spaceflight. Today the X PRIZE leads the world in designing and operating large-scale global competitions to solve market failures. Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges. In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and mining of asteroid for precious materials. Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think. Abundance was #1 on Amazon and #2 on New York Times. He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Joy is the CEO of Case Global Media Inc., a media company dedicated to building innovative, engaging platforms for companies to showcase their mission, vision and values and to amplify their message through strategic media marketing. Joy's background is rooted in the education and real estate sectors. As a consultant with Clark Case Consulting Corp., she takes on roles in education to assist with the strategic business of planning, buying, and selling schools and colleges. Her primary competencies are in marketing, public speaking, negotiations, conflict resolution, and consulting. All of these serve her visionary plans for Imaginit TV, an immersive communication platform delivered in mixed and virtual reality. Prior to her focus on video marketing and social media, Joy has over 13 years of experience as an educational leader in public schools and has taught K-12. She received a Masters of Education from the University of British Columbia (2002) and a Real Estate License from the Sauder School of Business (2005). Her expertise includes administration and management of schools, including accreditation and licensing.

Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has sought for two decades to study the drivers of entrepreneurship in emerging markets as a means of economic and social development. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton and Harvard, he has taught courses on strategy, corporate governance and international business to MBA and Ph.D. students and senior executives. For many years, he has served as the Faculty Chair for HBS activities in India and South Asia. In 2007, he was nominated Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum; and in 2009, elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2015, he was named by the Government of India to chair the national commission to help shape the fabric of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In 2016, the Academy of Management conferred on him its Eminent Scholar Lifetime achievement award for scholarship in International Management. Outside HBS, he serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and India, including AES, a Washington, D.C. headquartered global power company, and India-based Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (formerly SKS Microfinance), one of the world’s largest firms dedicated to financial inclusion for the poor. He is a co-founder of several entrepreneurial ventures in the developing world, spanning India, China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Recently, he co-founded Axilor, a vibrant incubator in Bangalore. In 2015, he was appointed a Trustee of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Dan Sullivan is founder and president of The Strategic Coach Inc. A visionary, an innovator, and a gifted conceptual thinker, Dan has over 35 years’ experience as a highly regarded speaker, consultant, strategic planner, and coach to entrepreneurial individuals and groups. Dan’s strong belief in and commitment to the power of the entrepreneur is evident in all areas of Strategic Coach® and its successful coaching program, which works to help entrepreneurs reach their full potential in both their business and personal lives. He is author of over 30 publications, including The Great Crossover, The 21st Century Agent, Creative Destruction, and How the Best Get Better. He is co-author of The Laws of Lifetime Growth and The Advisor Century.

Jim serves as Experfy’s Vice President of Operations. With over 30 years in the staffing industry, he has managed and operationalized talent acquisition for clients across multiple industries that include financial services, medical devices, aircraft/aerospace, bio-pharma, government, and telecommunications. Jim has developed workforce strategies for Fortune 1000 clients around the globe utilizing AI and other cutting-edge technologies to increase client and consultant satisfaction. While overseeing 26 offices as Chief Operating Officer of Entegee, he streamlined processes to increase productivity and efficiency. He brings his hands-on expertise to Experfy to help grow the organization through industry tested talent management solutions.

Badr Jafar is the CEO of Crescent Enterprises, a multinational business. He is also the President of its sister company Crescent Petroleum, a privately-owned oil and gas company headquartered in the United Arab Emirates. Jafar is Chairman of Pearl Petroleum, a five-member international consortium for the development of natural gas assets in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and Chair of the Executive Board of Gulftainer, a global ports company. He launched the Pearl Initiative in September 2010 at the United Nations, a private sector-led initiative to promote corporate governance, accountability and transparency as a key driver of competitiveness within the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East. In 2011, Jafar was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was one of the top 20 most influential Arabs by Arabian Business in 2016. Jafar has launched a series of projects using the arts as a means to empower youth and promote cultural diplomacy. In 2011, actor Kevin Spacey and Jafar launched the Middle East Theatre Academy (META), a non-profit theatre academy to provide a platform to nurture young actors, directors, and producers from the Middle East, and help them to showcase their talent internationally. In 2014, the Kennedy Centre honored Jafar with a Gold Medal in the Arts in recognition of his efforts with cultural diplomacy to build closer ties between nations and regions.

Ishmeet is the head of Expercoin's Cayman Islands operations and leads the company's crypto strategy. He has over a decade of global experience as a serial entrepreneur, investor and technology consultant. He is currently an Advisory Board member at DeepAero Drones, a company using the power of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to reimagine urban transportation. He is a Blockchain and Cryptocurrency specialist and a seasoned financial technology professional. He has built technology products for Fortune 500 companies like MasterCard, MetLife and Adobe. He has also built and scaled data-driven, intelligent technology platforms for hedge funds, finance, e-commerce, travel and healthcare companies.

Sedad is currently aiding in developing out Expercoin's Republics ecosystem. He works with Ethereum Solidity, Kubernetes and Docker to build out Blockchain systems that will be used by Expercoin's enterprise clients. As part of his role, he has gained expertise in the following technologies and concepts: public and private blockchains; IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings; containerization; container orchestration using Kubernetes; and decentralized design.

Enes develops blockchain solutions for Expercoin Republics using Etherum. He is writing business logic using smart contracts with Solidity. His work involves exploring different consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and cryptography concepts. He is manipulating the stored transactional data of blockchain database by writing functions in the smart contract. He has been using Truffle for compiling, testing and deploying smart contracts on Ethereum. As a part of the development team, he is working with smart contracts interacting with UI on the front end using Ember.JS.

Ismet is a Blockchain Developer with passion to push blockchain technologies to new and important places. He has interest in security, cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, machine learning, information availability and transparency. He is also an advocate for internet neutrality and enjoys building decentralized applications for Expercoin.

Helping Expercoin expand its presence by pitching Expercoin Republics to promising enterprises as well as working closely with Experfy's current clients who are looking to migrate to the blockchain. I monitor industries across multiple verticals for relevant opportunities, while creating and managing top-down funnel.

Kaiser Wahab is an experienced corporate and securities attorney based in New York. Kaiser is a founding member of a boutique law firm that represents hedge and private equity funds, investment managers, startups, creative businesses, technology companies, and other ventures. His firm also has a core competency in bitcoin strategy focused funds and ICO's. Kaiser has been practicing for 18 years, and earned his law degree from Columbia University, where he currently serves as a professor in venture financing and private offerings.

Jon Van Loo is a transactional tax attorney based in Menlo Park, CA. He has a special focus on the tax issues for cryptocurrency transactions and ICOs, while he also has broad experience in transactional tax, spanning private equity M&A, bankruptcy and debt restructuring, partnership taxation. With 10 years of experience working in two of the world's largest law firms and a small tax boutique in San Francisco, Jon recently opened his own practice in Menlo Park. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, attended graduate school in political science at Duke University and went to law school at Northwestern University.