Blockchain Summit

Patrick Byrne

Patrick is an American entrepreneur, e-commerce pioneer and CEO of Overstock.com. In 1999, Patrick launched Overstock, after leading two smaller companies, including one owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

In 2002, he took Overstock.com public. Since its initial public offering, Overstock.com has increased revenue to almost $1.8 billion, while achieving profitability in 2009.

Annemarie Tierney

Annemarie Tierney is Templum, Inc.’s Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel. Annemarie is a seasoned financial services lawyer/strategist with substantial SEC, law firm and in-house legal experience, as well as significant experience in broker dealer regulation, blockchain/cryptocurrency legal and regulatory issues, securities transactional work, SEC rules and regulations, corporate governance, and international expansion. Annemarie has led a broad range of regulatory and legislative thought leadership initiatives in the private issuer space and is a frequent speaker on a range of private market topics. Annemarie most recently served as Head of Strategy at Nasdaq Private Market. Prior to that, Annemarie was the General Counsel of SecondMarket, Inc. (now Digital Currency Group). Annemarie has also worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, the NYSE and NYFIX. She is a former member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies.

Carlos Domingo

Carlos is co-founder and managing partner of SPiCE VC, a truly liquid, transparent and inclusive VC thanks to advances in blockchain technologies. SPiCE VC invests in startups via shares and ICOs and focuses on the post-seed, pre-Series A/pre-ICO companies in hot and disruptive technologies (blockchain, AR/VR, AI/ML, etc.).

Carlos was President and CEO of Telefonica R&D and Director of Product Development and Innovation at Telefonica Digital; he joined the company in 2006 as Director of Internet & Multimedia and Director of the Barcelona Center. Since then, he has implemented a new way of working and a new understanding of the R&D in a big Telco. Carlos served on the board of directors of Jajah, Tuenti, Tokbox, Telefonica Digital and Telefonica Ventures.

Andrew Keys 

Andrew comes to ConsenSys with capital markets, technology, and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, Andrew worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum.

Andrew drives strategic technological partnerships, business development, and communications for ConsenSys and co-founded ConsenSys Enterprise, to create Ethereum blockchain solutions for Fortune 500 clientele.

Trevor Koverko

Trevor is a prominent blockchain founder and investor. Trevor became a very early leader in the blockchain community - financing projects like Ethereum, EOS, Hashgraph and Shapeshift. In 2017, after predicting the mega-trend of financial securities migrating to the blockchain, Trevor founded his 3rd company: Polymath - the world's first security token platform.

Prior to Polymath, Trevor’s Oculus Rift-based project became one of the world's first VR exits. Trevor is also the co founder of Digital Assets International, a private equity fund that acquires high margin/cashflow online businesses. Polymath was founded after Trevor attempted to 'tokenize' his PE fund and experienced first hand how painful it was to launch a compliant security token.

Tom Shaughnessy

Tom Shaughnessy is the founder and lead crypto analyst at 51percent Crypto Research. Tom focuses on providing institutional crypto research spanning extensive reports on specific projects to unbiased thought pieces on the industry for analysts, hedge funds, family offices asset managers and investors. Tom also hosts the company’s research podcast which features top founders of major projects. Prior to 51percent, Tom was on the cloud and communications equity research team at Oppenheimer.

Josh Stein

As founding CEO, Josh is leading Harbor’s efforts to tokenize private securities and solve the compliance challenges of trading private securities on blockchains.

He was previously general counsel and chief compliance officer at Zenefits, served as general counsel at OptumRx (a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group), was an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a federal judicial clerk and an Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Army.