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Akshay Naheta

Title: CEO Company: Bakkt

A former SoftBank executive with a background in electrical engineering and algorithmic trading, Akshay focuses on constructing institutional infrastructure for digital assets. Under his leadership, Bakkt continues to expand its programmable finance offerings, helping traditional financial institutions seamlessly bridge the gap into decentralised markets.

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Samuel Falmagne

Title: Co-Founder and CEO Company: Akur8

Samuel spent 17 years at IBM before joining insurtech Shift Technology. He later Co-Founded Akur8 with Guillaume Beraud-Sudreau to automate insurance pricing with transparent machine learning. He has since led the company’ s acquisition of reserving software Arius, broadening Akur8’ s offerings to insurers worldwide.

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