Research Contributors
Our research contributors represent a wide range of expertise and backgrounds—from public and private sectors, large enterprise and technology start-ups, academic research centers, and the professional services industry around the world. They are practitioners, innovators, researchers, managers, and leaders in the blockchain ecosystem.
Chami Akmeemana
CEO at Blockscale Solutions Inc., Advisor at Blockchain Learning Group Inc.
Louisa Bai
Senior Manager, National Blockchain Market Lead, Deloitte Canada
Nolan Bauerle
Researcher, Director of Research at CoinDesk
Tom Baumann
Founder and Co-Chair at Climate Chain Coalition, Co-founder at Collaborase
Neha Bhasin
Consultant, Deloitte Canada
Oliver Bussmann
CEO at Bussmann Advisory AG, Former Group CIO at UBS and SAP
Dave Carter
Principal, DK Consultancy Inc.
Hilary Carter
VP Research at The Linux Foundation
Michael Casey
Co-author, The Age of Cryptocurrency
Dr. Oriol Caudevilla
FinTech and Blockchain Advisor, Influencer, Speaker, and Host of “A Digital Tomorrow” Podcast
Deepa Chatterjee
Technical Researcher
Soumak Chatterjee
Partner at Deloitte Canada
Alan Cohn
Co-Chair of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Practice at Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Principal at ADC/Strategy Works LLC
Mike Dover
Author of Wikibrands and Dante’s Infinite Monkeys, Professor at Humber College
Mohamed El-Masri
Founder and CEO of PermianChain Technologies; Director and CEO of Brox Equity
Jeremy Epstein
CEO of Never Stop Marketing, Fmr VP of Marketing at Sprinklr
Bill Gillies
Author and Communications Consultant
Dominique Guinard
Founder and CTO at EVRYTHNG and webofthings.org, IoT author and Pioneer
Anna Hermansen
Digital Media Producer, Blockchain Research Institute
Stefan Hopf
Strategy & Corporate Development Electronics and Automated Driving, BMW Group
Thomas Isaacson
Shareholder at Polsinelli, PC
Gabriel Jaccard
CEO, Arbitri
Reshma Kamath
Juris Doctor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Christian Keil
Founder and CEO at d.rect, Former Telecom Consultant at Deloitte; Member of Blockchain at Berkeley
Henry M. Kim
Associate Professor and Co-Director of BlockchainLab Schulich School of Business, York University
Rob Klein
Managing Partner, RSK Strategic Inc.
Marek Laskowski
Blockchain Lab Co-Founder, Professor of Information and Computing Technologies at York University
Alan Majer
Founder, Good Robot
Alastair Marke
Director General at Blockchain Climate Institute, Emissions Trading Law Specialist
Izhar Mehar
Analytics Manager, Loblaw Companies Limited; Founder, CyberSpace Canada; Director, Transformation International
Jenessa Mellen
Business Analyst, Dimitra Inc.
Massimo Morini
Head of Interest Rate and Credit models at Banca IMI
Charlie Morris
Co-founder of CMCC Global
Michele Mosca
Founder at Institute for Quantum Computing, Co-founder and CEO at evolutionQ Inc.
Vineet Narula
MIT Sloan Fellow; Ridesharing and Healthcare Strategy Leader
Marcus O'Dair
Associate Dean, Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts University of the Arts London
Lawrence Orsini
CEO and Founder at LO3 Energy
Andreas Park
Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Toronto, FinTech Researcher
Michael Peshkam
Executive In Residence INSEAD
Abhishek Punia
Investor at Draper Associates, Developer at Blockchain at Berkeley, Blockchain Advisor
Rachel Robinson
Juris Doctor, MPA, Blockchain & Smart Contracts author
Jill Rundle
Blockchain industry author and editor, Executive Editor and Content Curator at Global Solution Networks
Alyze Sam
Founder and community director, Women in Blockchain International; Co-author, Stablecoin Economy
Axel Schumacher
Co-Founder & CEO at Shivom.io, Blockchain Researcher
Michael Scott
Freelance Blockchain Technology & Digital Economy Writer
Tony Scott
Managing Partner at RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners, Former Federal CIO of the United States
Tom Serres
Co-founder at Animal Ventures, Host of Tech on Politics
Usman Sheikh
Partner, National Head of Blockchain, and National Litigation Lead at Gowling WLG
Aryan Sheikhalian
Head of Research, CMT Digital
Prema Shrikrishna
IT Officer at the World Bank, MIT Research Assistant, Sustainability Champion
Mayank Singhal
Fintech & Blockchain Co-author at WEF, MBA Candidate at London Business School
Vikas Singla
Senior Manager, Blockchain Consulting Lead, Deloitte Canada
Andrew Spence
HR & Workforce Advisor, Founder, Glass Bead Consulting
Bob Tapscott
Strategy Consultant and CIO of Tapscott Group.
Joel Telpner
Chair of Fintech and Blockchain Practice, Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Horst Treiblmaier
Professor and Head of the School of International Management, Modul University Vienna
Iliana Oris Valiente
Managing Director at Accenture, Founder at Collider-X, Fmr. Co-Founder at Rubix by Deloitte
Mark van Rijmenam
Founder at Datafloq, Author, Researcher and Speaker on AI, Blockchain and Big Data
Anjan Vinod
University of California, Berkeley
Bettina Warburg
Co-founder at Animal Ventures, Host of Tech on Politics
Anthony Williams
President and Co-founder DEEP Centre Inc.
Irving Wladawsky- Berger
MIT Lecturer, WSJ Columnist, Technology and Blockchain Industry Advisor
Alan Wunsche
CEO at TokenFunder Inc., Co-founder and Chair at Blockchain Canada
Andrew F. Young
CEO at Layer2 Blockchain, Co-founder of SX Network