COO, Digital Assets
Hunter Merghart is COO, Digital Assets at Millennium, a position he has held since May 2022. In this role, he leads the firm's digital asset infrastructure strategy and is responsible for building out crypto infrastructure and making key hires.
Prior to joining Millennium, Merghart served as Executive in Residence and then Venture Partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on public blockchains, from June 2021. Before that, he was Head of US at Bitstamp from April 2019 to June 2021, where he was responsible for retail and institutional go-to-market strategy, operations, legal, compliance, marketing, and business development. In 2018, he started the Coinbase Trading Desk as Head of Trading and was a founding team member of Coinbase's institutional business and New York City office. Earlier in his career, he was an equities trader at Barclays, RBC, and Credit Suisse.
MD - Fixed income, Credit and Digital assets trading platform owner
Johann Stalars is Team Lead - Murex Midas Development at Millennium, a position he has held since February 2019 and is based in New York. In this role he leads development work on the Murex Midas platform within the firm's front-office technology function. His LinkedIn headline describes him as an MD-level Front-Office Technology Leader focused on cross-asset capital markets platforms, platform ownership, architecture strategy, and trading systems modernization.
Stalars brings over 26 years of experience in capital markets technology, with a consistent focus on Murex implementations across asset classes. Prior to Millennium, he held two roles at Mizuho in Tokyo: BA Lead for a Murex implementation at Mizuho Securities from June 2017 to September 2018, followed by a four-month stint as Murex Front-Office Support Team Lead through February 2019. Before that, he spent ten months as a Senior Business Analyst at Regions Bank, working on a Murex MX.3 front-to-back cross-asset implementation. From September 2013 to June 2016, he served as Director and Senior System Analyst at Caxton Associates in New York, where he was a hands-on delivery manager for a Murex 3.1 SaaS cross-asset front-to-back implementation. He also founded XMile Consulting LLC in June 2016, where he remains owner. His academic background includes studies at Ecole Centrale de Lille.
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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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