Orly Grinfeld
Mrs. Orly Grinfeld spent the last 5 years as an Executive Vice President and Head of Clearing of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. She also serves as the CEO of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Clearing House (TASECH), Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Derivative Clearing House (MAOF) and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Nominee Company (TASENC) – a fully owned subsidiaries that deals with registration, Clearing, Settlement, Custody and operation of securities and derivatives traded on Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. Mrs. Grinfeld also holds 15 years of experience in business and financial risk management, serving as the Chief Risk Officer of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, Chief Risk Officer of Israel Railways, and the Head of Business Risks Department of Ernst & Young Israel. She holds Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Ben-Gurion University and Bachelor of Administration (BA) from Tel Aviv University.
Mary Maller
Cryptography Researcher, Ethereum Foundation
Mary Maller is a cryptography researcher at the Ethereum Foundation. She is generally interested in public key cryptography, with a focus on the design of trusted setup ceremonies. Much of her research has looked into the design of ceremonies for zero-knowledge proofs. More recently she has been looking into distributed key generation. Her PhD was obtained while studying at University College London and was on practical zero-knowledge arguments from structured reference strings.
Justin Thaler
Research Partner, a16z
Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Justin Thaler is a Research Partner at a16z and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His research interests include verifiable computing, complexity theory, and algorithms for massive data sets. In 2011, he produced the first implementation of a general-purpose interactive proof system. He is the author of a comprehensive survey on SNARKs titled Proofs, Arguments, and Zero-Knowledge, and a co-creator of Apache DataSketches, an open-source library of production-quality streaming algorithms. Before joining a16z Crypto and Georgetown, Justin was a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs. Before that, he completed her PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University.
Jonathan Rouach
Executive Director, ZKProof.org
CEO and co-Founder, QEDIT
Jonathan S. Rouach is the co-founder and CEO of QEDIT, helping enterprises leverage their data using Privacy Enhancing Techniques such as Zero-Knowledge Proofs. Before that, he co-founded a blockchain security company (sold to Digital Asset Holding), co-founded the Israeli Bitcoin Association , and co-founded Bits of Gold LTD, the leading Bitcoin exchange in Israel. Jonathan is an Electrical-Engineer from the Technion, served as an analyst in the Israeli Intelligence.
