Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: "Should Business Owners and Corporate Treasuries Invest in Bitcoin?"

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: "Should Business Owners and Corporate Treasuries Invest in Bitcoin?"

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: "Should Business Owners and Corporate Treasuries Invest in Bitcoin?"

Business owners and corporate treasuries are exposed to multiple risks in managing cash, and many of these risks are heightened due to the current health and economic situation. In this panel, Carsten Hahn (Capco), Maximilian von Wallenberg (Börste Stuttgart Digital Exchange), Seamus Donoghue (METACO), Max Lautenschläger (Iconic) and Sina Meier (21Shares) discuss which opportunities and advantages the investment in Bitcoin provide.

Watch this video on YouTube (ca. 54 min.).

About the lecturers

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:

LinkedIn profile of Philipp Sandner

Carsten Hahn has more than 20 years of consulting experience in the financial services industry supporting clients in their change and transformation agenda to enable business models and to adapt to changing market environments. He has extensive experience in the areas of banking, payments and capital markets and leads the RegTech and Payments practice at Capco AGS.

LinkedIn profile of Carsten Hahn


Maximilian von Wallenberg is CEO of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange. He is a FinTech expert and tech serial entrepreneur. As founder and CEO he built one of the largest social trading platforms for CFDs and digital assets in Europe. Subsequently, as Chief Product Officer he was responsible for an AI-based asset manager for cryptocurrencies. Von Wallenberg studied Economics at the London School of Economics and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. You can contact him via:

LinkedIn profile of Maximilian von Wallenberg

Seamus Donoghue is vice president of sales and business development at METACO. He has deep domain expertise in financial markets, commodities, wealth management, and crypto & blockchain market structure, regulation and technology.

Max Lautenschläger, Co-Founder, Managing Director and COO of Iconic Holding, a global crypto asset manager, started his career as a management consultant, where he advised Fortune500 companies from the steel, utility, and retail industry on topics like digitalization, project management and IT integration.

LinkedIn profile of Max Lautenschläger

Sina Meier is Director and Head of Business Development and Sales Switzerland at 21Shares, an innovative fintech company that creates financial on-ramps of Crypto assets in the form of trackers or ETPs.

LinkedIn profile of Sina Meier

 

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