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Dara Albright is a fintech pundit with distinct expertise in digital and decentralized finance. She possesses a distinguished 31-year career in financial services encompassing IPO execution, investment banking, trading, corporate communications, financial conference production as well as institutional and retail sales. She is the host of the Decent Millionaire podcast, an episodic podcast series that helps people discover the unprecedented wealth-creating potential of decentralization, web3 & Participate2Earn Economics, and is the co-founder of DWealth Education, a learn-2-earn EdTech platform designed to bridge digital asset literacy gaps in corporate, government and academic sectors. Albright serves on multiple boards including Worthy Financial, a fintech company that helps small investors save for retirement, and Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN), a nonprofit public interest litigation organization dedicated to breaking down barriers to entry to capital markets and pushing back against SEC overreach.

Ken Chapman is a finance executive with over 20 years of experience in both traditional finance as well as digital assets. His experience in traditional finance includes working on both the buy-side and the sell-side of capital markets with firms including JP Morgan, Bank of America and Bridgewater Associates. His experience in digital assets includes leading tokenization and cryptocurrency initiatives firmwide at Wells Fargo and being the Head of Banking & Capital Markets at Anchorage Digital, the first nationally chartered crypto bank. Ken previously served as an active duty US Army officer before working in finance. He has a consulting practice, T10 Ventures, advising companies on strategy for digital assets and blockchain. Ken is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point with an MBA from Columbia University.

In addition to being a professor of Finance, Sudheer Chava leads the Financial Services Innovation Lab. He also serves as Finance Area Coordinator and as the director of the top 10 ranked Masters in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) program (a joint program involving the Mathematics, Engineering, and Business schools). Sudheer received his Ph.D. from Cornell, an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering. He worked as a fixed income analyst at a leading investment bank. He has published extensively in the top journals in Finance and has won several prestigious research awards and grants. He has presented his work at numerous finance conferences and at the Federal Reserve.

For more than two decades Greg Johnson has been a CEO and senior executive at Fortune 500 and start-up enterprises in the financial services, insurance and digital asset industries including at American Express, Ameriprise Financial, Crawford & Co. and Rubicon Crypto. After becoming one of the youngest Certified Financial Planners in the United States, Greg assumed a progression of financial planning, wealth management and insurance leadership roles that included serving on the board of directors for RiverSource Life of New York. He earned his undergraduate degree from The American University and an MBA from Emory University where he is a frequent panelist and guest lecturer. Recently he joined the faculty of New York University. Greg is a serial mentor and advises multiple start-up ventures. He is an active member of the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center and was recently appointed to the prestigious Bretton Woods Committee in Washington, D.C. where he helps to lead their efforts on the future of finance. Since co-founding Rubicon Crypto in 2021, he has quickly become one of the leading voices in the digital asset industry and a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from digital assets, Metaverse, Web3, technology innovation, cryptocurrency regulation, financial services governance and leadership development.

Donie Lochan is responsible for global strategy and execution at Invesco Technology. With a passion for innovation and digital transformation, he is leading the company into a new era of data-driven investment. Since joining Invesco, Donnie has been instrumental in transforming the firm’s technology into a modern, agile accelerator for the business. His strategic vision embraces emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and blockchain, which are revolutionizing the financial and asset management industries. Prior to joining Invesco, he served as head of corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions for LPL Financial, and was a partner with Bain and Company, a global strategy consulting firm. He was named Georgia CIO of the Year in 2020 and National CIO of the Year in 2021 by the ORBIE awards.