Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Is Crypto Custody One-Size-Fits-All?“

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Is Crypto Custody One-Size-Fits-All?“

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Is Crypto Custody One-Size-Fits-All?”

The custody of digital assets is much more complex than safekeeping traditional assets. For anyone working in the digital assets space the question of how the custody industry can evolve to support digital assets is still unresolved, so how should asset servicers approach this? In this panel, Benjamin Schaub (INTAS.tech), Seamus Donoghue (Metaco), Martin Kreitmair (Tangany), Tim Bruenjes (Fireblocks), Chris Haslwanter (RIDDLE&CODE) and Lior Lamesh (GK8) discuss custody solutions.

Watch this video on YouTube (ca. 29 min.).

About the lecturers

Benjamin Schaub did his Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Gießen. Later on, he worked as a project manager at the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center and is now a senior consultant at INTAS.tech. Apart from that, he is the Head of Digital Hub at Plutoneo. He is keen on Blockchain regulatory and governance, such as the development of Blockchain-Use-Cases.

LinkedIn profile of Benjamin Schaub

Seamus Donoghue is the Vice President of Sales & Business Development at METACO. Seamus has deep domain expertise in financial markets, commodities, wealth management, and the crypto & blockchain market structure, regulation, and technology.

LinkedIn profile of Seamus Donoghue

Martin Kreitmair is Co-Founder and CEO of Tangany GmbH, a regulated third-label crypto custodian based in Munich. Tangany enables companies from various sectors to leverage blockchain technology. From 2007 to 2011 he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degree in business informatics at Hochschule München. After that, he worked for more than 7 years at Catbird Seat GmbH, last as the Head of Advertising, until he started founding Tangany GmbH.

LinkedIn profile of Martin Kreitmair

Christian Haslwanter is the Chief Operating Officer of RIDDLE & CODE, Europe's leading company for blockchain interface solutions. As a Director, he launched Europe's first broadband Internet product and developed the first broadband and video streaming content portal in various European countries. As a founder of the media and tech consulting company Diamond Age, he also played a significant role in the introduction of a 3G network in Germany for O2.

LinkedIn profile of Christian Haslwanter

Tim Bruenjes gained a lot of experience in the financial sector with various senior positions at DWS Investments and also as Head of Asia Equity at Pimco or Managing Director at Smartkarma. Last he started as the Head of Sales & Strategic Business Development of Fireblocks, a platform for financial institutions that need to streamline digital asset operations.

LinkedIn profile of Tim Bruenjes

Lior Lamesh is Co-Founder & CEO at GK8, a cybersecurity fintech that offers financial institutions an end-to-end platform for managing blockchain-based assets on their own. Furthermore, Lior holds a Bachelor's in computer science and an MBA in information systems, both degrees 'Magna Cum Laude'.

LinkedIn profile of Lior Lamesh

 

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