Sandra Ro is CEO of the Global Blockchain Business Council, where she serves the GBBC and blockchain community to foster education and build bridges across enterprises, governments, and start-ups to help fulfill the potential of blockchain technology to solve real world problems and help society.

As a fintech entrepreneur, blockchain / crypto keynote speaker, hackathon judge, crypto trader, angel investor and advisor, Sandra is focused on delivering financial access and products to people and communities using technology to enable next generation market infrastructure and financial products. Sandra was named to the Innovate Finance, Women in Fintech 2016 Power List and holds directorships / founding memberships on several industry boards as well as advises several emerging tech start-ups. Previously, she served as a former Treasurer and founding board director of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) and founding member of the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL), founding member of Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger...

Mark Hugh Sam has over 30 years experience in the financial services industry with extensive experience in equity research and a background in proxy battles, management buyouts, public and private financings. He joined Maison Placements in November 2013, where he is focused on investment banking transactions internationally in technology, agriculture, real estate and infrastructure and has worked on deals in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, South America, Africa and the Caribbean.

Prior, Mark was at Capital Canada Limited as a Partner. Prior to joining Capital Canada, Mr. Hugh Sam was a partner and Director of Research at $300 million Chicago-based hedge fund. Mr. Hugh Sam was instrumental in developing a U.S. hedge fund’s growth which started from $16M in 2005 to $300M, including raising $30M from Canadian institutions. He also conducted a successful proxy fight and gained control of a NASDAQ publicly traded company, and served as a director. Mark has a history of identifying small growing companies and major technological trends...

Ayanna Samuels is a Rocket Scientist and dedicated International Development Professional with over 14 years of progressively responsible global experience in leveraging ICTs as fulcra for human development. She also works at the intersection of Gender, Policy and ICTs towards closing the gender gap in Tech. Ayanna has steeped experience working with leading multilaterals on development projects, which have involved project management and fiduciary responsibilities.

As a Technology Policy specialist, Ayanna has worked with a gamut of issues related to the regulatory and institutional frameworks of the Caribbean ICT sector. In addition to governments and industry leading private sector entities, Ayanna’s clients have comprised the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Caribbean Association of National Telecommunications Organisations, the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC), CARICOM, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, the Caribbean Development Bank, the International Telecommunications Union, the St. Lucia Coalition of Services Industries and the International Institute for Communications and Development...

Emily Landis Walker is a senior financial services executive acknowledged globally for her strategic contributions to business development and fundraising, emergency preparedness, and corporate responsibility initiatives in global markets. Emily Landis Walker has developed a strong reputation for devising and realising innovative strategies that deliver market performance, and for maintaining strong global relationships through an on-going network of board memberships and professional organisations.
She also provided advisory work in Private Sector Preparedness including Information Security Policy for a major Central Bank based on ISO 27001 and, pent over 15 years as a Managing Director at Citigroup in the Emerging Markets Corporate Bank, Asset Management, Global Wealth, and Traveler’s Live and Annuity. In addition, she was head of Corporate Affairs at Barclays. Prior to this career in the private sector, Emily Landis Walker was US Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Executive Secretary to the US Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady, and Assistant to the U.S. Director at the International Monetary Fund...

Marc is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Jamaica, Belize and Barbados. He has a keen interest and experience in public international law including Caribbean Community Law, and international trade and development and diverse international work and training experience in various jurisdictions, in the private and public sectors. He has appeared before international tribunals, including the Inter American Commission on Human Rights and the Caribbean Court of Justice, and co-drafted the successful pleadings in the landmark decision of the CCJ in Shanique Myrie v Barbados, which clarified important laws and rights concerning the functioning of the Caribbean Community. Currently, Marc's practice focuses on corporate and commercial law and international consultancy work in Jamaica, along with serving as Chairman of Aeronautical Telecommunications Limited and Director of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority.