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J. Christopher Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and the former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Mr. Giancarlo also served as a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Committee (FSOC), the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Mr. Giancarlo serves on the Advisory Board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce and as an independent director of the American Financial Exchange. He is also Chairman of the Board of Common Securitization Solutions, Inc. Under his leadership, the CFTC published primers on virtual currencies and smart contracts, oversaw the launch of the first bitcoin futures contracts and created LabCFTC as the agency’s stakeholder in the digital evolution of derivatives trading markets.

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Daniel Gorfine is Founder and CEO of Gattaca Horizons LLC and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center teaching FinTech Law & Policy. He previously served as the CFTC’s first Chief Innovation Officer and Director of LabCFTC. Prior to the CFTC, Gorfine was Vice President, External Affairs & Associate General Counsel at OnDeck. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), Gorfine holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

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Jennifer Lassiter, Executive Director of The Digital Dollar Project (DDP), shapes the future of money through collaboration with stakeholders. She brings together diverse groups to achieve shared outcomes and address complex regulatory and technology challenges. With former roles at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Jennifer is a trusted advisor in the financial sector. Additionally, she is actively involved in esteemed organizations such as the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium and the Progressive Policy Institute’s Mosaic Economic Project. Jennifer also holds the position of Salzburg Global Financial Forum Fellow.

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Charles (“Charlie”) H. Giancarlo is an entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG). He formerly served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Silver Lake Partners, the private equity firm. Giancarlo earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1979. He also earned master’s degrees in electrical engineering and business administration from UC Berkeley and Harvard University respectively.

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Elizabeth P. Gray is a partner at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where she practices in the Litigation Department and serves as Co-Chair of Willkie’s Securities Enforcement Practice Group. Ms. Gray is widely recognized for her excellence in representing financial institutions, public companies and their executives and Boards before financial regulators including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Department of Justice, and as a counselor on regulatory compliance. Previously, Ms. Gray served as Assistant Director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and as counselor to SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt. Ms. Gray became a member of DDP’s Advisory Group in 2020, and was a founding member of its Privacy Working Group. Prior to joining DDP’s Board of Directors, she also served on the Board of Directors of the Jane Goodall Institute and as a member of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.

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