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