Petri Basson
Chairman, Hash Consulting
Petri has a background in both finance and IT having obtained his chartered accountant (CA) qualification as well as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He has worked with a wide range of clients across traditional industries and recently focussed his career on digital assets. He helped develop the audit methodology and internal tools used in audits at one of the Big 4 audit firms and has worked with some of the largest funds and other service providers in the digital assets industry. He is the chairman of the Blockchain Association of the Cayman Islands and also sits on the steering committee of the Crypto Currency Security Standard (CCSS). He recently started his own consulting company focus on the digital asset industry and also provides director services to digital asset funds and companies.
Fennie Wang
Founder and CEO, Humanity Cash
Fennie Wang is the founder and CEO of Humanity Cash, which is building community stablecoins for enhancement of Universal Basic Income (UBI), with a focus on cash assistance for local economies and small businesses. Humanity Cash's first project is digitizing the local currency BerkShares in Berkshires County, Massachusetts. Fennie is a lawyer turned entrepreneur in the blockchain field, where she's worked on a diverse portfolio of projects ranging from decentralized stablecoins to educating legislators and regulators on blockchain. She was Associate General Counsel at MakerDAO. Previously, she ran strategy at Bancor, a decentralized liquidity network. She is also a cofounder of ixo, a blockchain for tokenizing social impact outcomes. Fennie is a US-qualified securities lawyer, who practiced securities enforcement and international capital markets in New York and London with WilmerHale and Latham & Watkins. She is involved in legal advocacy for the emergent token economy, as a blockchain advisor to New York State Assemblyman Ron Kim and as a contributing author to the United Nations Development Programme initiative “Migrant Nation.” She is a published author on digital identity in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Frontiers in Blockchain, as well as a contributing author to the book “Financial Services Revolution” (2020). She received her Juris Doctor from Columbia University and her bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Legal Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Josephine Fay
Head of Distribution, Professional Services, Brewin Dolphin
Josephine heads up professional services’ distribution at Brewin Dolphin. Prior to that, she was a Client Director at Close Brothers Asset Management. Josephine trained and qualified as a matrimonial solicitor and practised latterly at Farrer & Co LLP, where she worked on a wide range of family law matters, both contentious and non-contentious. Josephine sits on the London committee of the 100 Women in Finance MidCareer Bridge group and is a Trustee of the Rahere Association, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, a charitable, grant-making organisation.
