Managing Partner
Lamine Brahimi is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Taurus SA, which he co-founded in 2018. In that capacity, he has been involved in building Taurus's position as a regulated digital assets infrastructure provider, covering custody, tokenisation, and exchange technology. Taurus has been shortlisted at the Future of Finance 2026 Awards across five categories, including Best Digital Asset Custody Technology Provider, Best Tokenisation Platform, and Best Digital Asset Exchange Technology Vendor.
Prior to co-founding Taurus, Brahimi served as Deputy-COO and Chief Digital Officer at Lombard Odier, where he led the design and development of the firm's wealth management digital strategy and pushed the first blockchain prototype tested at a private bank, covering clearing and settlement of structured products with the Swiss Stock Exchange. Between 2016 and 2018, he represented Swiss private banks at the Fintech Commission of the Swiss Bankers Association and was a founding member and board member of Swiss Fintech Innovations. He began his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked across financial services, energy, materials, and government. He also held a Non-Executive Board Member role at Instimatch Global from May 2018 to March 2019. Brahimi holds an MSc in Communication Systems Engineering from EPFL, an MBA with distinction from INSEAD, and is a CFA charterholder.
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Strategic Partnerships & Private Events
Noé Giglio leads Strategic Partnerships and Private Events at The Big Whale, a market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. He is based in London and has been active in the digital assets sector since 2019, building expertise across onchain finance and investment strategies and a network spanning financial institutions, corporates, and digital asset companies across Europe.
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Head of Institutional Research
Max Coniglio is Head of Institutional Research at The Big Whale, an independent market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. In this role he sits within the firm's research and analyst team, which produces editorial coverage, briefings, and research serving the platform's institutional client base.
MD, Head of EMEA Fintech at J.P. Morgan
Manuel Costescu is a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan, where he co-heads the EMEA Innovation Economy team and serves as a Global Fintech Champion. In this role he advises the region's fastest-growing fintech, SaaS and e-commerce companies across a range of corporate and investment banking solutions.
Costescu began his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York, and earlier worked as a banker at J.P. Morgan covering European public sector clients before returning to the firm. He is a regular speaker at industry events on innovation, fintech and digital finance.
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