Henry is a global executive with extensive venture capital, cross-border advisory, corporate finance and entrepreneur experiences. He currently focuses primarily on fintech / blockchain and frontier technology ventures based on his collective experiences to date to include 10+ years as a VC in Silicon Valley and Asia. Henry is also an advisor to multiple blockchain and tech startups and also continues to serve as a mentor for accelerators & incubators worldwide. Additionally, Henry is also the co-founder of multiple organizations to include private crypto group Decema and the San Francisco Bay area chapter of the Global Chamber. He is also a lecturer at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Henry began his career as a management consultant for Fortune 500 companies. Later, he worked as an investment banker focused on sell-side M&A and other corporate finance transactions within the IT and consumer & industrial product sectors before transitioning to direct investments in early stage technology companies. Henry holds a BS in Finance from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA and an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business in Durham, NC.

Senior executive experienced in Private Equity, Venture Capital, M&A and Corporate Governance. Currently engaged as an Investment Partner of L1 Health a $3bn investment firm focused on long-term buy-and-build investments in healthcare in US and Europe. Prior to that served as Director of Corporate Development and Secretary of the Audit and Compliance Committee of the Board of LetterOne Group - an international investment company with total assets $25bn focused on private equity investments following sectors: telecom & technology, retail, health, energy and diversified PE funds. Also served as a Board member of L1 Treasury managing liquidity over $6bn of the Group. Passionate about entrepreneurship and act as an investor, board member and advisor to founders of several early stage companies in US, Europe and Russia. Alumni of Harvard Business School and a Board member and Vice-President of Harvard Club of Luxembourg. Completed International Directors Program at INSEAD focused on Board membership and corporate governance. Holds Master of Arts in Economics from New Economic School and graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.

Jeff Smith has spent over 30 years of domestic and international high technology sales, marketing, business development, corporate development and venture capital experience in multiple industry markets. Jeff was most recently with RBM Technologies, a leading cloud based retail software company that was successfully sold. Prior to RBM, Jeff was the Founding and Managing Partner of XcelR8 Partners that provided business development consulting services to accelerate revenue traction for development, marketing, and product line management at BlueCurve (acquired by Red Hat), Sybase, Technology Concepts (acquired by Bell Atlantic) and Unisys.

An entrepreneurial, Emmy award-winning Advanced TV executive consistently recognized for innovation and market execution. A successful startup veteran (six startups -> one IPO, three acquisitions) with numerous industry awards and firsts. First to launch a global connected TV advertising network with Samsung, Sony, Panasonic & Toshiba.

Leo Batalov advises on corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, private equity transactions and general corporate matters. He also has broad experience representing issuers, underwriters, trustees and servicers in public and private offerings of asset-backed securities as well as lenders and borrowers in a variety of debt finance transactions.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.