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Adam Bilmes is Executive Director, Head of Digital Asset and Tokenization Sales at S&P Global, a position he has held since December 2025 and is based in New York. He holds the CFP® and CIMA® certifications and has approximately 21 years of experience in financial services sales and relationship management.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Bilmes spent three years at Franklin Templeton across two roles. From June 2024 to September 2025, he served as VP, Business Development Lead for the Americas within Franklin's Innovation Research, Strategies and Technology group, where he led business development and partnerships across NeoBanks, brokers, fintechs, wealthtech platforms, and payment platforms in the Americas, with a focus on digital assets and blockchain. He led the go-to-market strategy for Franklin's first tokenized money market fund, BENJI, targeting institutions, crypto firms, and direct-to-consumer platforms, and managed multi-billion dollar opportunities through non-traditional distribution channels. From April 2022 to May 2024, he held the role of VP, Digital Strategy and Wealth Management, focusing on distribution of Franklin's Goals Optimization Engine—an AI and dynamic programming-based managed account solution offered via APIs to 401k record keepers, broker-dealers, and RIAs—alongside sales of mutual funds, ETFs, model portfolios, and alternatives in fintech and neobank channels.

Andrew O'Neill is Managing Director, Analytical Lead on Digital Assets at S&P Global Ratings, based in London. He has held the Analytical Lead on Digital Assets designation since April 2024, having been promoted to Managing Director in October 2023. Prior to assuming the digital assets mandate, he served as Senior Director at S&P Global from August 2015 to October 2023. His earlier analytical work at the firm focused on covered bonds, with lead analyst responsibilities across France, Belgium, the UK, and Ireland.

Before joining S&P Global, O'Neill was an analyst at J.P. Morgan from January 2008 to January 2009. Earlier in his career, he completed a one-year internship at Rolls-Royce in Dahlewitz, Germany. He holds a First Class Honours Master's degree in Engineering from the University of Bath, where he studied from 2003 to 2008. His total professional experience spans approximately 19 years.

Charles Jansen is Managing Director, Digital Assets, DeFi & Tokenization at S&P Global, currently serving as Head of DeFi Transformation within S&P Global Ratings, a position he has held since June 2024. In March 2026, he represented S&P Global at a breakfast event during EthCC in Cannes, organised by The Big Whale in partnership with DFNS, Bitwise, Zama, Apollo, and Native, focused on how institutions are approaching on-chain finance.

Jansen has been at S&P Global since April 2012, accumulating over 14 years at the firm across a series of progressively senior roles. Prior to his current position, he served as Senior Director and Head of DeFi Transformation from April 2022 to June 2024. Before moving into DeFi, he led Cognitive Automation within S&P Global's Chief Data Office and later within S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he built and managed a global team of 58 automation specialists, data scientists, machine learning engineers, cloud engineers, and project managers across India, the Philippines, Pakistan, the US, and Latin America. That team delivered automation of the Ownership, Estimates, Financial, Transaction, and Translation groups at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He also evaluated and selected data extraction machine learning vendors for partnerships and acquisitions during that period. Earlier roles at the firm focused on research and automation within Capital IQ. Before joining S&P Global, he worked independently as a developer from 2009 to 2012, working in C, PHP, Python, SQL, and HTML5/CSS3.

Chuck Mounts is Chief DeFi Officer at S&P Global Ratings, a position he has held since March 2022. In this role he leads the DeFi strategy team, advancing S&P Global Ratings' approach and capabilities in the decentralized finance environment. The team focuses on bringing S&P Global's analytic and risk assessment capabilities to both traditional institutional clients and crypto-native DeFi clients.

Mounts has over 30 years of experience in global financial markets. He began his career as a multi-national bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1990 to 1993, then moved into credit research roles at Merrill Lynch, UBS, and Goldman Sachs. At UBS Investment Bank he served as Global Head of Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity Research. He subsequently joined Knight Capital Group as Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income Research and Global Financials Analyst. From 2013 to 2015, he was CEO and founding partner of Bija Capital Management LLC. He rejoined S&P Global in 2015, serving as Global Head of Research and Design and Index Investment Strategy, then as Chief Index Officer at S&P Dow Jones Indices until 2020, before moving into a Senior Research Fellow role focused on DeFi Ratings prior to his current appointment. He also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Algomi from 2017 to 2020. He has served as Chairman of the Bond Market Association's Committee on Research Conflicts. Mounts holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a master's in public policy from Harvard University.

Jesus Palacios is the Programmable Assets Enablement Lead at S&P Global, specializing in integrating technology with financial services to advance programmable asset solutions.

Michael Orzano, CFA, is Head of Exchange Products and Digital Assets at S&P Dow Jones Indices, responsible for product strategy and development for S&P DJI exchange-partnered indices, including the S&P/ASX Indices, S&P/TSX Indices, and the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), along with exchange-traded derivative solutions based on S&P DJI indices. His team works with exchange partners to ensure product offerings meet market needs and to cultivate liquidity around S&P DJI benchmarks. His team also oversees S&P DJI's digital asset products, including the S&P Cryptocurrency Indices and the firm's tokenization initiatives.

Prior to his current role, Orzano held several positions within S&P DJI's product group, most recently as Head of Global Equity Indices, where he led product management of S&P DJI's global equity and real estate indices. Before joining S&P DJI, he was a research analyst at Endurance Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, where he evaluated investments in banks and other financial institutions. He also worked as an investment performance analyst at Cambridge Associates. Orzano holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Georgetown University and is a CFA charterholder and a member of the New York CFA Society.

Michal Selbka is Director, DeFi, Digital Assets & Tokenization North America at S&P Global Ratings, based in New York. He is scheduled to speak at the IFN Investor Americas Forum 2026, taking place at S&P Global's New York offices on 16 June 2026. His LinkedIn activity reflects active engagement with digital asset topics, including stablecoin developments and their implications for banks, as well as Visa and Mastercard's revised swipe-fee settlement and associated regulatory risk.

Selbka completed Wharton's Emerging CFO Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, earning full marks. The program, which ran from June 2025 to February 2026, covered capital structure management, team building and leadership, and AI-related research, with dedicated coursework on decentralized finance through the Wharton Blockchain and Digital Asset Project. He speaks English, German, Polish, and Spanish.

Sherifa Issifu is Associate Director, Global Exchanges, Tokenization Crypto, Digital Assets Indices, Product at S&P Global, based in London. In this role, held since February 2025, she leads S&P Dow Jones Indices' tokenization, crypto, and blockchain index innovation initiative as part of the Global Exchanges team.

Prior to this position, she served as Associate Director, U.S. Equity Indices, Product Management at S&P Dow Jones Indices from October 2024 to February 2025, promoting the U.S. equity index franchise — which includes the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average — through thought leadership, client engagement, new index concepts, and index launch coordination. Before that, she was a Senior Analyst on the same U.S. Equity Indices Product Management team from July 2022 to October 2024, providing insights on the U.S. equity index suite and working with stakeholders including ETF issuers, exchanges, financial advisors, and educational partners. She also held a brief role as Senior Associate in Index Investment Strategy from April to July 2022, conducting research and commentary across S&P Dow Jones Indices' full product set — spanning real estate, global equities, commodities, fixed income, ESG, and economic indices — and representing S&P Dow Jones Indices to global media. She also publishes the S&P DJI Weekly Index Strategy newsletter on LinkedIn. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree and a postgraduate master's degree, the latter completed part-time while working, with a graduation ceremony held at Barbican Centre.