Blockchain Use Cases: Banking and Beyond

Speakers
Colleen Sullivan
Managing Member, Sullivan Wolf Kailus LLC
Partner, CMT Digital Holdings, LLC

Colleen Sullivan is a Partner at CMT Digital Holdings, an internationally respected proprietary trading and financial services firm, that invests in the digital assets and blockchain technology space, including venture capital investments and investments in underlying hedge / VC funds. CMT Digital Holdings also manages CMT's proprietary cryptocurrency trading operation.

Co-Founder and Managing Member of Sullivan Wolf Kailus LLC, a boutique law firm based in Chicago, that specializes in hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, digital assets, and other alternative investment products. Ms. Sullivan advises hedge fund, proprietary trading, private equity, broker-dealer, venture capital, FinTech, and financial trading technology clients on a broad range of domestic and international transactions and regulatory matters. Ms. Sullivan previously practiced in the Investment Funds and Derivatives group at Sidley Austin LLP and co-founded a company called iOptions Group LLC, which advised individuals with employee stock options how to hedge them with listed options.

Alexandra Prodromos
Executive Director, Chicago Blockchain Center
Business Development Manager, Bloq

Alexandra Prodromos received her bachelor's degree with honors in Political Science from Pepperdine University. She also holds a certificate in conflict management from Pepperdine Law School's number one ranked Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution. She is currently a Master of Science in Information Systems candidate at Northwestern University.

Alexadra was one of the primary organizers of the Illinois Blockchain Initiative, a state of Illinois consortium dedicated to furthering blockchain development in Illinois, and worked as the only non-government affiliated member of the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology's Blockchain Working Group. In 2016, she joined Bloq, Inc., a leading enterprise grade blockchain software and services provider, as a Business Development Manager.

She was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the new Chicago Blockchain Center, a public-private non-profit partnership that serves as a leading educational resource and startup incubator of blockchain focused companies in the Chicago/Illinois tech ecosystem. She is a regularly invited speaker in Chicago and internationally on the subject of blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

John Mirkovic
Deputy Recorder - Communications, Cook County Recorder of Deeds
Co-Founder, Illinois Blockchain Initiative
Co-Founder IL General Assembly Blockchain Task Force

John Mirkovic is the Deputy Recorder, Communications and IT, Cook County Recorder of Deeds. Mr. Mirkovic ensures that the Office communicates to the public, both through its enterprise land records software system and its public messaging. He serves as offices spokesperson and pitches stories to media outlets.

Named the Top 40 Blockchain Thought Leaders in Chicago by FinTank in 2017, Mr. Mirkovic is a consensus-driven leader and communications expert with over ten years of experience implementing creative solutions and marketing strategies for complex issues, with accomplishments in public and government relations, including:

Launching the first County-level blockchain proof of concept in the United States
Co-Founding the Illinois Blockchain Initiative and the IL General Assembly Blockchain Task Force

Matthew Chapdelaine
Founder and CEO, CartoFront

Matthew Chapdelaine is the Founder and CEO of CartoFront, an industry-changing search engine for residential and commercial real estate opportunities. Using property factors, financial events, life events, and other proprietary predictive technology, CartoFront users can forecast future transactions down to the parcel & ownership level. CartoFront, Inc's predictive capabilities are currently used in the brokerage industry to get ahead of sales. Banks & Insurers are also finding value.

For over 15 years, Matthew has forged his expertise in expertise in Finance with Commercial Real Estate to drive innovative solutions through technological breakthroughs, customer-defined marketing/solutions, as well as strategic top line growth performance within the real estate industry. Matthew maximizes key partnerships, profitability initiatives, and predictive analysis to generate millions in revenue gains and sustained sales margins for corporations.

Hosts

Kimberly H. Wolfson

Chairwoman, WIFI, A Women in FinTech Initiative powered by FinTank

Lead CRM Analyst, Hook Strategies

Kimberly H. Wolfson, Founder and Lead CRM Analyst of Hook Strategies, enables businesses to alleviate erroneous business processes that hinder them from cultivating valuable customer relationships and introduces organizations to effective tools and proven processes that empower them to create scalable customer relationships. Ms. Wolfson inspires her clients to not only think about CRM software simply as a home for information, but rather a multifaceted solution that can provide teams with cross-functional transparency and accountability, automatic access to actionable customer data, and measurable strategic efficiency, that ultimately generates revenue and increased customer lifetime value.

Trudie Kanter

Tax Senior Manager, Crowe LLP

Trudie Kanter is a trusted tax advisor and blockchain enthusiast, with over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. She is a frequent contributor to industry publications, trade groups and conferences including Accounting Blockchain Coalition and Bank & Capital Markets Tax Institute. Trudie was honored as one of the Women to Watch by the Illinois CPA Society and AICPA in 2008.

Areas of specialization:

• Income tax provision

• Merger and acquisition tax consulting

• Federal and State income tax audit

• SOX 404 income tax control

• FDIC assisted transactions

• Taxation of cryptocurrency