Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). In 2018 and in 2019, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he is member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights and digital identity. You can contact him via mail (email@philipp-sandner.de), or via:

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Michael Cyrus is the Head of Short Term Products, Equity Finance & FX at Deka Investment. He also serves as the Chairman of the Repo Board Advisory Committee for Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt and holds lectures on "Trading and Sales" at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

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Simon Censkowsky is an Entrepreneur in Residence of Cashlink. Cashlink provides an all-in-one software solution for the tokenization of securities.

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Benjamin Duve is the Head of Digital Assets and Custody at Commerzbank. He runs the highly successful Custody and DMA product with its client service-focused model and great reception in the market. Benjamin has been with Commerzbank since 2007. Before his current role, he was, among others, in relationship management and sales covering corporates in Germany, and Financial Institutions in the GCC from Dubai.

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Kurt Zeimers is the Client Line Manager for the client segment Asset Managers & Global Product Manager Private Capital at BNP Paribas Securities Services. Kurt has been with BNP Paribas for 23 years.

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Dr. Jan Rosam is Partner at EY and is leading the Financial Services Capital Markets & Investment Banking Consulting practice in Germany. Additionally, Jan is responsible for EY's Financial Services Emerging Technology Consulting offerings around Cloud, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing in Germany. Jan has more than 15 years’ experience within Capital Markets / Investment banking / Technology sector and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics & computer science.

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