Name: WFF US: Crypto Panel
Start: 2022-08-10T12:00:00Z
End: 2022-08-10T13:00:00Z

Women in Fund Finance Event

WFF US: Crypto Panel

August 10, 2022

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT

Virtual

Join us on Wednesday, August 10th 2022 for our second event in our Crypto Series, where Bob Diamond and Cristina Dolan will discuss a variety of topics related to crypto.

Topics for discussion:

Impacts of cryptocurrencies and blockchain on the economy and the financial markets
Regulatory issues surrounding crypto
Stablecoins and why they matter
Fall out/lessons from Terra, Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, etc.
Recent 70% decline in Bitcoin from its all-time high
Causes of recent market contagion and capitulation
Network security
Impact on crypto with pending recession and continuation of Fed tightening to curb inflation

Speakers

Bob Diamond

Atlas Merchant Capital

Bob Diamond

Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer | Atlas Merchant Capital

Bob Diamond is Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital, a global investment firm. Until 2012, Mr. Diamond was Chief Executive of Barclays, having previously held the position of President of Barclays and was responsible for Barclays Capital and Barclays Global Investors (“BGI”). He became an executive director of Barclays in 2005 and was a member of the Barclays Executive Committee since 1997.

Prior to Barclays, Mr. Diamond held senior executive positions at Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Diamond worked at Credit Suisse First Boston from 1992 to 1996, where his roles included Vice Chairman and Head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange in New York, as well as Chairman, President and CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston Pacific. Mr. Diamond worked at Morgan Stanley from 1979 to 1992, including as the Head of European and Asian Fixed Income Trading.

Mr. Diamond is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Concord Acquisition Corp (NYSE:CND), Concord Acquisition Corp II (NYSE:CNDA), Concord Acquisition Corp III (NYSE:CNDB) and a member of the Board of Directors of South Street Securities Holdings, Inc., and Crux Informatics. Mr. Diamond is also serves on the Yale SOM Council of Global Advisors.

A native of Concord, Massachusetts, Mr. Diamond holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine and an MBA from the University of Connecticut. He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut and Doctor of Laws from Colby College.

Cristina Dolan

InsideChains

Cristina Dolan

CEO | InsideChains

Cristina Dolan is an engineer, author and entrepreneur, focused on building and growing businesses utilizing data, blockchain, cyber security, AI, IoT, telematics and serverless cloud architectures for new digitally transformative fintech, insurtech and mobility offerings. She is a Co-Founder of Additum, an award winning European ‘Value Based Healthcare’ utilizing reward tokens to improve patient outcomes. iXLedger, was an early blockchain enabled insurance marketplace, which she co-founded, that initially offered blockchain insurance. In addition to being an MIT Media Lab alumna, engineer and Internet pioneer, she has over two decades of experience building transformational businesses and products form FinTech, InsurTech, Media, Telecom and Healthtech. She was a co-founder of OneMain.com, which grew to be the 10th largest ISP after a successful IPO (Acquired by Earthlink). Formerly, Ms. Dolan held executive roles Disney, Hearst, IBM and Oracle. She is a member of Forbes Technology Council and the Vice Chair and former Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum in New York, where she hosted several blockchain and fintech events with industry leaders. The award-winning student competition she founded, Dream it. Code it. Win it., was the subject of her TEDx Talk, Just Solve It. She earned a Master’s Degree from the MIT Media Lab and holds a Master of Computer Science and Bachelors of Electrical Engineering with concentrations in Computer Science, Data Communications and Business.

Michele Cito

Atlas Merchant Capital