Amir Haleem is the CEO and Co-Founder of Helium where he is building the world's first decentralized machine network. Amir is a technology veteran, formerly serving as the CTO & Co-Founder at Diversion. He was also the first to receive an athlete Visa granted to an esports gamer.

Helium was founded in 2013 by Amir, Shawn Fanning of Napster, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. The company has raised equity funding from some of the most prominent Venture Capital (VC) firms in the world including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Marc Benioff, SV Angel, Slow Ventures, and others.

Travis Scher leads venture capital and new cryptocurrency investments at Digital Currency Group (DCG), the most prolific investor in the blockchain space. To date, DCG has invested in over 100 blockchain companies in 30 different countries, including market leaders such as Coinbase, Ledger, Ripple, and ShapeShift. DCG also invests directly in cryptoassets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum Classic, Filecoin, and Zcash. 
 
Prior to joining DCG, Travis was an M&A attorney at Skadden Arps. He graduated with a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.B.A in Finance from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Dan Kozikowski is Vice President of Platform for FirstMark, and is responsible for the firm’s portfolio-facing initiatives that connect FirstMark companies with expertise, customers, and talent. He manages FirstMark’s web and mobile technology platform, Talent Network, Customer Network, 60+ private events for FirstMark companies, and is an organizer of Hardwired NYC, Data Driven NYC, and Design Driven NYC.

He previously worked in a variety of financial and operational roles at EnerNOC (NASD: ENOC), a leading cleantech company. Dan holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy from Dartmouth College.

Chi Nnadi, is a social entrepreneur dedicated to leveraging cutting edge technology to increase prosperity in the emerging world. He is the founder of Sela Technologies and Sustainability International.

Chi’s work has been featured in Vice, Knowledge@Wharton, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, and BBC Radio. He has been a speaker at Skoll World Forum at the University of Oxford, the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Conference, the Harvard Business School Africa Business Conference, the Wharton Club of Africa Family Office Forum and the Opal Impact Investing Conference.

Chi is a former management consultant from the Boston Consulting Group. He is an alum of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles’ School of Theater, Film, Television.

Lee Schneider is a financial services and technology lawyer based in New York and the General Counsel of block.one. Lee also co-founded Genesis Block, LLC, a blockchain consulting company.

He is the father of two wonderful, exhausting teenage ladies and learns about Japanese art history from his wife. Troy Paredes and Lee do a FinTech podcast called Appetite for Disruption, available on iTunes and elsewhere.