Thinkers
We are honoured to have the support of these important thought leaders and Canadian captains of industry representing a wide cross-section of the financial services ecosystem. These “thinkers” are participating in a morning roundtable discussion at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto that will help inform the policy recommendations that come out of this event as well as the discussion themes for the keynote panel. The recommendations will be published as an addendum to the whitepaper. Many of the participating organizations will be available for discussion in the networking reception after the keynote panel.

Peter Loewen
Director, Munk School

Neil McLaughlin
Group Head, Personal & Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Canada

Jaime Leverton
CEO, Hut 8

Max Bardon
Head of Worldwide Payments, Amazon

Edward Kholodenko
CEO & Founder, Questrade

Tamara Haasen
President, Input Output Global (Cardano)

Anthony Di Iorio
Founder & CEO, Decentral Inc. & Jaxx / Co-Founder Ethereum

Jay Rajarathinam
Chief Operating Officer, TMX Group

John Nicola
CEO & Founder, Nicola Wealth

Timothy Lane
Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Andrew Chau
CEO and Co-Founder, Neo Financial

Emma Todd
Founder & CEO, MMH Technology Group

Eric Gales
Country Manager, Amazon Web Services Canada

Matt Goulet
CEO, Sturdy Exchange (NFT)

Tammy Chiasson
President, Connected

Rizwan Khalfan
EVP, Chief Digital & Payments Officer, TD Bank

Mike Katchen
CEO & Founder, Wealthsimple

Bilal Khan
Canadian Managing Director, Snowflake

Neil Parmenter
Chief Counsel, Global Public Affairs

Lawrence Truong
CEO, Binance Canada

Kevin Strain
President & CEO, Sun Life

Patricia Nielsen
Sales Leader, Startups AWS

COZMIC CAT
House Music Producer, DJ

Dan Breznitz
Munk Chair in Innovation Studies and Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, Munk School

Daniel Munro
Fellow & Whitepaper Author, Munk School

Erica Salinas
Blockchain Technical Leader, Amazon

Mat Mehrotra
Chief Digital Officer, P&BB and Wealth, BMO

Sully Malaeb Proulx
Contemporary Dancer, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre

Mark O’Connell
President & CEO, Interac

Jeff Adamson
Chief Merchant Officer and Co-Founder, Neo Financial

Larissa De Lima
Senior Fellow, Oliver Wyman Forum

Dan Rees
Group Head, Canadian Banking, Scotiabank

Alex Tapscott
Co-Founder BRI & Ninepoint Digital Asset Group, Blockchain Research Institute

Harold Spencer Jr.
Staff Platform Engineer, Brave Software Inc.

Carlos Acevedo
Senior Director of Sales, Regional Lead Latam, Brave Software Inc.

Michael Abbott
Head of Global Banking, Accenture

Brian Hayes
Financial Services Industry Leader, VMware

Lynn Gummow
Vice President, Legal, Strategy & Operations, Cardano (ADA)

Chris Sweetland
Senior Vice-President, Payments Strategy & Transformation, CIBC

Cyrielle Chiron
Chief Strategy Officer, Payments Canada

Miklós Dietz
Senior Partner and Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company Canada

Guy Vigeant
President, Canada, CGI

Connie Ryan
Regional Vice President, Global Banking, Tanium

William Keliehor
Chief Commercial Officer, Interac Corp

Tom Ross
Country Manager, Checkmarx

Alex Ma
Senior Counsel, Binance Canada

Sandro Knöpfel
Head of Financial & Regulated Institutions, Cardano (ADA)