Entrepreneurs Week booklet digital - Catalog - Page 23
Entrepreneurs Week
2019
Speakers
Akshaya Bhargava
Founder of Bridgeweave
Akshaya is the founder of Bridgeweave, a B2B
FinTech firm that creates AI powered next
generation products for Wealth and Asset
Management industries. From 2014–2017, he
was the global CEO of Wealth and Investment
Management, Barclays plc, a business with
£200 billion in client AUM. Prior to that, he
founded InfraHedge, a hedge fund managed
account platform, which was acquired by
State Street Corporation in 2013. He has been
CEO of Butterfield Fulcrum Group (acquired
by MUFJ Group) and the founding CEO of
Progeon (acquired by Infosys and renamed
Infosys BPO in 2006).
Hazem Nakib
Managing Partner of Sentinel Capital Group
Hazem is a regulatory and FinTech expert. He is a
partner at venture capital firm 7BC, the managing
partner at Sentinel Capital Group, and sits on the
advisory boards of multiple companies leveraging
blockchain, distributed ledger technologies
(DLT), and AI – including Coinfirm, Securrency,
Humaniq, iov42, and TodaQ. Hazem is also the
founder of the Cambridge Blockchain Forum
and the Cambridge Blockchain Hub, ranked by
Entrepreneur.com as a leading global thinktank with the aim of implementing technology
solutions and supporting early-stage ventures.
Bob Wigley
Chairman of UK Finance
Bob is Chairman of UK Finance, Secure
Broadcast Ltd, Vesta Global Holdings Limited,
Bink Ltd and Accloud Ltd. He is a Founder
Commissioner of the Blockchain Commission for
Sustainable Development at the UN. He is a
Non-Executive Director of the Qatar Financial
Centre Authority and Chairman of its Audit
Committee and of Symphony Environmental plc.
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