dr naseem naqvi profile
Dr. Naseem Naqvi is the President and Principal Fellow of the British Blockchain Association. He is also the Interim Chair, Centre for Evidence-Based Blockchain, named the “Think Tank” and listed in the “Top 40 Blockchain Influencers in the UK” by the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group in July 2018. He was the first person in the world to coin the term “Evidence-Based Blockchain” (EBB) and is the Editor-in-Chief and Founder of the Journal of the British Blockchain Association (JBBA), World’s first Open Access Scientific Blockchain journal available both in print, and online. MSc in Cryptocurrency (Awarded the prestigious ‘Genesis Block Scholarship for ‘Exceptional & Notable contributions to Blockchain Technology & Cryptocurrencies) Naseem is also a certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) from Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium. Honorary Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Chair of Research & Education SIG at Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. Chaired the World’s First ‘Scholars in Blockchain’, International Scientific Conference in London on 12 March 2019. |
piper moretti profile
Piper Moretti is the CEO of The Crypto Realty Group, a Los Angeles-based firm specializing in conducting real estate transactions with cryptocurrency and the only REALTOR® in California who has completed 5 bitcoin transactions to date. Piper is a licensed international luxury REALTOR® at eXp Realty, as well as a Certified International Property Specialist, the only international designation recognized by the National Association of REALTORS®. She is Chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Blockchain Real Estate Association, a trusted advisor to Ubitquity.io, and member of the Real Estate Crypto Alliance for Propy.com. Piper is an instructor for the California Association of Realtors and teaches her Crypto x Real Estate course to brokerages and real estate professionals. Her speaking engagements include Inman Connect New York 2018 & 2019, IBM Blockchain Bash, National Settlement Services Summit, Realtor.com's Results Summit, BlockShow, Blockchain Expo North Americas, International Blockchain Real Estate Association’s 2nd Annual Conference and UCLA Cyber Days. Piper has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Realtor.com, Mansion Global, Luxury Real Estate Magazine, Commercial Observer, Business Insider, Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph and was ranked #1 in Entrepreneur Magazine’s 8 Influential Women Making Headlines in Blockchain |
baxter hines profile
Baxter Hines, CFA, is managing partner with Honeycomb Digital Investments. He co-founded the firm in 2020 to provide income producing solutions for clients. Baxter has spent over 20 years in the financial services industry with previous roles at NFJ Investment Group/Allianz Global Investors, Teacher Retirement Systems of Texas, and Thomson Reuters. Expert in blockchain space and author of “Digital Finance: Security Tokens and Unlocking the Real Potential of Blockchain” (Released November 2020) |
nishith desai profile
Nishith M. Desai, lawyer, specializing in the field of International Finance, International Taxation, International Business Strategy, Structuring of Joint Ventures, Institutional Investment, Offshore Funds, Infrastructure, International Construction Law. Founder of Nishith Desai Associates. Principal Contributor: to chapter titled "India"s Laws and Policies on Foreign Investments" in Butterworths" "Current Developments in International Investment Law," 1992, Principal Contributor to chapter on "Mauritius" for International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Netherlands, 1994. Study Group, United Kingdom on International Construction Contract. Currently practising as a International Lawyer, Researcher and Lecturer and is on the Advisory Board, New York State Bar Association"s International Law Review. Chairperson of Taxation Committee of LAWASIA. Senior Country Correspondent for Tax Notes International, United States. Lectures: Institutions such as ZFU (Switzerland), Kellogg Business School (United States), National University of Singapore, Fabrimetal (Belgium), Basata (United Kingdom), Citibank, Coopers and Lybrand, various Chambers of Commerce. "A Practical Guide to Portfolio Investment in India," at International Bar Association"s Globalisation of Mutual Funds Conference, Bermuda, 1996. |
farook mahmood profile
A graduate in Real Estate Management, Farook Mahmood has always been a visionary with a keen insight into the future. Starting off with the real estate division in the Furniture House Agency, Mr Farook's understanding of the market as well as his innovative solutions to the industry’s problems makes SilverLine into what it is today. At a time when the real estate business was uncommon and did not hold much potential, the company was created and gradually transformed into a global player in consultancy, property management and services. With a Diploma in Real Estate principles and practice from University of Fullerton, Los Angeles, California, USA, Mr Farook went on to bring all the real estate agents of the city of Bangalore under one roof and set up the Bangalore Realtors Association of India in 2000. He is also responsible for the National Association of Realtors in 2007, a national body comprising agents’ associations. This was followed by the affiliation with the US-based National Association of Realtors to turn National Association of Realtors to National Association of Realtors – India, a global organization set to bridge the divide between nations in the property space. Currently this multi-faceted Director prefers to indulge in supporting various charitable trusts and arduously works towards bringing about more transparency and professionalism to the real estate business through education programmes for members of the global body. |
dr niranjan h profile
Dr Niranjan Hiranandani is a renowned Indian Industrialist, Philanthropist and Founder & MD- Hiranandani Group. A first generation entrepreneur with his sharp business acumen has led the baton of the company. He is accredited to transform Hiranandani Group into a conglomerate of a global repute with his expansion and ahead of time diversification strategies. He is a futuristic leader with a powerful vision. His professional journey embarks with his entrepreneurial role at the helm of India’s leading Real Estate Business House ‘Hiranandani Group’. With rich profound industry knowledge, domain expertise and penchant for policy drafting have enabled him to evolve from a successful entrepreneur to truly refer as ‘REAL ESTATE WIZARD’. He heads foremost positions at the prominent Industry & Government bodies, chairs various trusts & private bodies which has rightly earned him the tag of ‘Thought Leader’ for Indian Business ecosystem. |
amit puri profile
• Architect MBA with two and a half decades of relevant experience in real estate marketing, sales and business development of highly prestigious retail, commercial and residential projects with reputed investment, consulting and development firms • Currently working as Vice President- Leasing for Damac Properties where Amit is responsible for Leasing P&L of all their commercial, retail and residential properties, whilst managing a team of 20 professionals. He has a special focus on née growth markets including KSA and Iraq . In his previous stint of 6+ years in Dubai, Amit was the Director-Leasing for McARTHUR+ COMPANY to secure and service developer mandates, helping them create the perfect FED (Function, Economics & Design) for their mixed use assets • Back in India, Amit worked as VP- Sales in RMZ Corp, one of the top three commercial real estate developers, where his team of 18 talented professionals he helped drive revenues through sale of luxury residences |
jeremy barnett profile
Jeremy is a Regulatory Barrister who is an Honarary Professor of Algorithmic Regulation at the Bartlett Real Estate Insitute, UCL. He was a founder of the CBC at UCL and currently joint leader of the Real Estate Consortium 'DigitalDisruption@BREI' which is specialising in DeFi for Real Estate. He is also joint London Chair of FIBREE. Jeremy has published papers: E-Legal Services 'To Speed up Justice for B2B systems' 2006, 'Algorithmic Dispute Resolution' 2017 & 'Algorithms and the Law' 2019. |
michael flight profile
Michael Flight is a founding principal of Concordia Realty Corporation in 1990 and more recently CEO of Liberty Real Estate Fund, the World’s First Net Lease Security Token FundTM giving you Stable and Tradable Private Real Estate. Michael is a real estate entrepreneur and Blockchain Real Estate evangelist who is an expert in retail real estate (NNN-Shopping Centers-Triple Net-Net Leased) investment, redevelopment, real estate tokenization and real estate on the blockchain. He started his commercial real estate career in 1985 and has an extensive record of partnering with some of the world’s most well-known banks, insurance companies, hedge funds and institutional investors in many successful projects. Michael has been featured on CNBC Arabia, CEO Magazine and quoted in Yahoo Finance, Crowd Fund Insider, Crain’s Chicago Business and E-Crypto News. Michael is co-host of the Nothing But Net - NNN Show podcast – an educational podcast about Triple Net/Net Leased properties and the Chicago Blockchain Real Estate Collective educational meetups. He is co-founder of the Blockchain Real Estate Summit to be held September 9 & 10 in Austin, Texas. |
john d markunas profile
John Dean Markunas is a real estate industry blockchain advisor and business development consultant. He is the Principal Consultant with Power of Chain Global Consultancy LLC, a blockchain advisory firm. Mr. Markunas’ work covers several distinct real estate sectors; property title insurance, real estate transactions, real estate tokenization and crowdfunding along with a special focus on global land registry systems and land governance. He has over 30 years of commercial real estate experience including business development, marketing and sales, real estate development, brokerage, appraising, and title insurance focusing on the U.S. and Latin America markets. Outside of the U.S. he has lived and worked in Mexico and Brazil. John is an enthusiastic advocate and supporter of blockchain technologies |
todd miller profile
ChromaWay is an innovative blockchain software company with offices in Stockholm, Kiev, Tel Aviv, and Washington, DC. ChromaWay has introduced blockchain and smart contract technologies to companies and government entities in the US, Canada, Europe, South America, Australia, and India. Its public blockchain platform, Chromia, is hosting dapps across the gaming, Defi, financial services, and real estate sectors. Todd’s responsibilities include leading ChromaWay’s real estate focus which include blockchain- based land administration and tokenized real estate security offerings. ChromaWay’s projects in this area include the Swedish Lantmäteriet, New South Wales Land Services (AUS), and the Latin America Caribbean PropertyChain project in Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Miller earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and an M.P.A. from New York University. |
claus skanning profile
Claus has a PhD in Computer Science and originally a background in AI. He has founded several companies and advised many university startups. For the past 4 years he has been CEO of DigiShares and focused on blockchain and tokenization of real estate. |
vijay thomas profile
Vijay Thomas is Co-Founder at FOHO, which is a blockchain based fractional home ownership platform which he started in 2019 in Goa. He is also the Founder & CEO of Tangentia, a leading digital transformation company. He started Tangentia Ventures which invests and manages a diverse portfolio of companies globally. Born and raised in Goa, India, he now calls Toronto, Canada home. He has a B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Karnatak University and a MBA from Goa Institute of Management. He is active in multiple local and global business organizations and was the 32nd president of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC), a 44 year-old institution serving the Indo-Canadian business community, and spearheaded the ‘Oxygen for India’ movement in Canada to support India during the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic. |
roshan d'silva profile
Roshan is Co-founder of FOHO and also one of the leading experts on Vacation Properties as the founder and CEO of Tripvillas – since 2009. Roshan has direct experience with the creation, sales, marketing and management of holiday villages in multiple geographies such as India, South East Asia, Australia, parts of Europe and the United States with over 8000 Holiday homes created and sold, managed by Tripvillas and 200,000+ holiday homes rented through the Tripvillas platform. He also is the publisher of the Holiday Home Times - the leading magazine for Hospitality and Holiday home investors. Roshan is a graduate of IIT Bombay and also manages a large portfolio of commercial, residential and plantation assets in addition to the Tripvillas portfolio. |
kaizad hateria profile
Hospitality Management & Consultancy with Taj Group of Hotels Brand Custodian & Chief Customer Delight Officer at Rustomjee Developers Kaizad Hateria is a man who believes in adding ‘Value’ and making a Positive impact in the lives of all the people he meets whether customers, team members, channel partners, stakeholders and of course friends and family. From the past 28 years, he has collected rich gems of knowledge that he shares with all to enrich their lives and strives to make an impact on them in a way they have never experienced before. He believes in putting his heart & soul into each work which we do and is assured that it is the only path for greater success and fulfillment. A person who loves his customers & believes in delivering a ‘wow’ experience to each one to them so they are not only left with a beautiful product but also fond memories and a sense of pride in owning their purchase. Constant Improvement & Innovation are his key mantras for future growth. His vision is to help people realize that they can change their fortunes by changing – THEMSELVES! Faith, Love, Hope, Courage, Persistence, Self - Knowledge, Contribution and Creativity are some of the Values he cherishes in his life and encourage others to absorb these qualities and make it a permanent fabric of their LIVES! Finally the most ‘Thoughtful’ adage that has impacted his life and he eats, sleeps and breathes is that ‘Real Happiness Lies in Making others Happy’. |
axel von goldbeck profile
Axel advises real estate investors, property companies and technology companies on technology based business models for real estate. In the course of his career Axel initially rendered Corporate/M&A and Corporate Finance advice, amongst other cross-border share acquisitions and IPOs. He later focussed on structuring and restructuring of direct and indirect real estate investments. For almost 7 years Axel held the Managing Director position of the German Property Association, the largest German real estate platform. Since then he advises, amongst conventional real estate issues, German and international technology companies on financial and financial regulations issues. |
pankaj kapoor profile
Pankaj Kapoor Presently recognised as the face of the industry, Pankaj, had a penchant for research based career from his early days. He started his career with a construction company, formulating marketing and communication strategies. It was during this time he started conceptualising a mathematical model for real estate pricing rationale. Known for his sharp vision within the industry today, Pankaj, promoted Liases Foras in 1999 and started out on his journey to explore the mysterious market behaviour. |
Jared Wachtler profile
Jared Wachtler is an associate in the Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin’s New York office. He has advised his clients in varying economic situations and guided them in their needs and decisions regarding all aspects of real estate finance, development, acquisitions, sales and leasing, and land use matters. Jared has also counseled clients in connection with complicated corporate, partnership, and limited liability company transactions involving real estate companies and real estate joint ventures and debt and equity financings. Jared has advised lenders and borrowers in financing transactions including mortgage, mezzanine and preferred equity transactions. Jared also has significant experience negotiating license and access agreements between neighboring property owners in connection with construction and development. Jared is also a member of the firm’s Blockchain and FinTech team, helping clients bridge the intersection between blockchain, FinTech and Real Estate. Jared’s clients include private equity funds, investors, developers, lenders, family offices, crowdfunding vehicles and other owners with real estate transaction needs in New York as well as throughout the United States. His clients also include buyers and sellers of commercial properties, including residential, retail, industrial and office projects. |
jamil hasan profile
Hosted 50 Irish Tech News podcasts on decentralized finance, crypto, blockchain, sustainability, global regulatory issues, and mobility with thought leaders, entrepreneurs, founders, artists, and executives from over 20 countries. Advised a number of startups, institutions, and individuals. Provided professional guidance and research to them in the crypto space. written three books, available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble: Local Business Mavericks volume 16 (chapter) 12/2017 Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance (3/2018) Re-Generation X: How We (Generation X) Can Leverage Blockchain Technology to Save Ourselves and Rebuild America (9/2020) |
neeraj bansal profile
Neeraj Bansal is a senior partner with over 23 years of professional experience. He holds a strong relationship with member firms across ASEAN, HK and Taiwan with a focus on growing inbound and outbound business operations and has played the role of a market maker through collaboration with ASEAN and HK member firms. He was the national leader for the building, construction and real estate (BCRE) sector for KPMG in India from 2013 to 2019 and in this capacity, he capably led the growth of the sector, and raised the market profile both in India and overseas. His dominant experience and strengths include risk management, organisation transformation, real estate strategy, project reviews, standard operating process (SOP) documentation, process re-engineering, setting up and running the chairman/owner’s offices and project monitoring, and cost optimisation and revenue enhancement projects across the infrastructure, EPC, real estate, power, oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors. |
jo bronckers profile
Jo Bronckers is co-founder and vice-president of FIBREE, the Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise (www.fibree.org). He has an extensive background in real estate, where he held different positions at various Dutch Institutional Real Estate Investment organisations, Asset Managers and Banks, including FGH Bank, Rabobank, DLL, IVBN and Vesteda. The last years he is advisor to different startups that are developing products at the intersection of real estate and technology. |
steve harmon profile
Steve Harmon is an Internet entrepreneur and one of the original evangelists who predicted the rise of the Web and its impact across all mediums and commerce. As an investor and board member he has backed many startups over the years including Ad Sense (sold to Google) and others sold to Amazon, Microsoft and more. He has keynoted ad:tech China, Internet World, and spoken on innovation and the future to the graduating classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the UC Berkeley HAAS School of Business. His book on building Internet startups was a bestseller and published in 8 languages. Steve’s new company, homer (launching soon), seeks to re-invent real estate. His advisors include blockchain, crypto and payment leaders including those who helped launch Ethereum and PayPal. He is a member of the Governance Research Institute, focused on the use of emergent technologies such as blockchain and AI applied to make organizations and institutions more efficient. More info please see fb.com/homernetwork |