Leigh is Vice Chairman of the Australian Digital Commerce Association (ADCA) and Chair of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) Industry Working Group. Leigh worked for seven years at a boutique Wealth Management firm as an Investment Advisor and Designated Trading Representative (DTR). Leigh holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Communications from the University of Western Australia and Fintech Certification from MIT.

Neel has extensive experience within capital markets and in designing and creating trading and analytics software. He worked as a researcher on capital markets and financial intermediation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under Bank president Tim Geithner. Neel then moved to the hedge fund industry, developing risk analytics platforms and algorithmic trading solutions focused on commodities and equities. Neel has co-authored widely cited academic papers on systemic risk and the Treasury market, and holds degrees in economics and political science from Columbia University and MIT. 

Mike is an expert in cryptography and machine learning and has worked on a diverse set of problems including weather prediction, consensus protocols, and mesh networking at several Boston and San Francisco-based companies. Mike became interested in distributed consensus systems in 2010 and was a member of the first weekly Bitcoin discussion group in the world, which still meets today in New Hampshire. Mike studied math and physics at the University of Florida.

Scott oversees all compliance and operations functions for DigitalX. Scott is a highly seasoned operations professional and Regulatory Compliance Specialist, with extensive experience in building, managing, and maintaining compliance programs for regulated financial services companies. Scott has over 20 years of financial services industry experience, with a concentration in BSA/AML, OFAC and Corporate Compliance for 15 of those years. Prior to joining DigitalX, Scott’s roles included Director of Regulatory Compliance for Bitnet Technologies, a bitcoin startup and Senior Manager with Citigroup AML Operations. Scott has also served in various senior compliance roles at Merrill Lynch, RBC Wealth Management and MetLife, and has spent time as a regulator with FINRA. 

David most recently worked and consulted in corporate innovation roles for companies in the energy and insurance sectors. Prior to this, he worked in stockbroking and wealth management with a focus on wholesale and retail capital raisings. He went on to start two digital financial services businesses and is co-organiser of Fintech Perth – a community of finance industry startups in WA. His introduction to cryptocurrencies was in 2015, in a hackathon team that built a remittence prototype using Ripple. He holds a Bachelor  of Commerce (B.Com.), Finance & Economics from the University of Western Australia

Steven is an experienced corporate advisor, specialising in deal structuring, due diligence, M&A transactions, restructuring and recapitalisations of ASX listed companies. Steven has advised on both domestic and cross border transactions in the technology sector.

Steven holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in accounting, from Latrobe University and he is also RG146 certified to provide general financial advice.

Jennifer is the HR Officer at DigitalX.