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Aleksandar Bukovski is Lead Analyst at The Big Whale, where he specializes in decentralized finance and crypto-assets. His published work at The Big Whale covers topics including stablecoins, tokenized finance, DeFi protocols, Bitcoin mining, and institutional adoption of digital assets. He also hosts the Market Call, a recurring market analysis format produced by The Big Whale.

Prior to joining The Big Whale in February 2025, Bukovski spent five months as a Research Analyst at The Block, a crypto-focused information services firm, where his stated focus was tokenization. He holds an Engineer's degree in Finance and Financial Management Services and a Master's degree in Investment Management, both from the Faculty of Technical Sciences at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Alexandre Hermand is an Analyst at The Big Whale, where he has been based in Paris since January 2025. His work focuses on crypto ETFs and ETPs, and he has published analyses covering topics including the state of crypto ETFs/ETPs, DeFi protocol income redistribution systems, stablecoins, Morpho's lending protocol, Raydium, and the Ethereum Foundation. He delivers weekly research reports to The Big Whale's client community and leads Web3 research to identify market trends.

Prior to The Big Whale, Hermand worked in the Investment Division at Kryptosphere, where he conducted weekly market research reports and managed a diversified portfolio, and held a position in the Investment Unit at NEOMA Financial Club, using Bloomberg for data and analytics. He also completed a two-month Junior Finance Analyst role at BSI Accounting in Sydney, covering management accounts and bank reconciliations. Hermand is enrolled in the MSc in Financial Markets and Risk Management at NEOMA Business School, where he has studied economics and risk management. He previously studied at The Glen High School in South Africa and holds a TOEIC certification.

Alexia Jordan is a Manager at Alliance to Save Energy, specializing in UX design and stakeholder management. A Springboard graduate, she has expertise in psychology and user-centered design.

Arthur Weis is Head of Product at The Big Whale, based in Paris. In this role, he supports the execution of the product vision and manages delivery of data-driven tools including dashboards and analytics. He coordinates cross-functional teams and external partners, gathers user feedback, defines functional specifications for product improvements, and tracks product performance while handling technical support and documentation.

Alongside his role at The Big Whale, Weis serves as a Technical Jury member at Alyra, l'école blockchain & IA, where he conducts practical technical tests for students, leads live technical Q&A sessions to assess knowledge, and contributes to the selection and validation of blockchain professionals. Since November 2019, he has been an active contributor to DeFi France, a francophone community specialising in decentralised finance, participating in community governance and co-organising meetups in Paris. He has been active in the digital assets sector since 2019, including early participation in private sales of crypto projects such as Avalanche, EtherFi, MegaETH, Resolv, LayerZero, and Aligned. He is a graduate of ISTOM.

Beatriz Ferreira is a Crypto Research Analyst at The Big Whale, where she focuses on stablecoins and the tokenization of real assets. Her published work at The Big Whale covers stablecoins and AI agents, crypto IPOs, derivatives regulation, the regulatory divergence between the US and Europe on stablecoins, blockchain analytics tools used in compliance, and the Travel Rule. She also contributes to research on institutional dynamics in both tokenization and stablecoins markets.

Alongside her role at The Big Whale, Ferreira holds a position in Digital Products at Repsol, based in Madrid, where she joined in September 2025. She also writes freelance articles for Stablecoin Insider and is the founder and CEO of 3C Trix, a research services company she established in 2025. She is a member of the Youth Economic Circle (YEC). Ferreira holds a Master's degree in Accounting and Finance and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics, both from ISEG, and has received several academic awards. She is based in Lisbon.

Benoit de Jessey is Head of Sales at The Big Whale, a crypto media and market intelligence platform based in Paris. In this role, his stated mandate is to structure, scale, and monetize the B2B business arm by building strategic partnerships with traditional finance and crypto industry players. The Big Whale serves financial institutions, asset managers, corporates, and public decision-makers.

He brings approximately 15 years of professional experience in commercial growth and B2B strategy within the crypto and digital asset space. Prior to joining The Big Whale in March 2025, he served as Sales Director at Meria, a regulated crypto investment platform in France with $350M AUM, where he helped structure, manage, and scale the B2B sales department. He also co-founded Cryptech, a French VASP (PSAN) offering B2B cash investment solutions using DeFi strategies for corporate treasuries, a role he has held since October 2021. Since March 2024, he has also been a Partner at White Loop Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm. He is a graduate of Novancia Business School.

Clément Garcia is a graduate of ESSEC Business School and holds a certificate in technological entrepreneurship from edX. He is currently working at Stealth.

Clément Peace is an analyst at The Big Whale, specializing in digital assets and DeFi.

Dimitri Granger is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at The Big Whale, a Web3-focused media company based in Paris, where he has held his co-founder role since April 2022. He participates directly in editorial and industry events as a speaker, including a May 2026 webinar on MiCA authorizations co-hosted with Homsy Legal, where he appeared alongside The Big Whale's Head of Research to address operational compliance requirements for CASPs ahead of the July 2026 deadline.

Granger has approximately 20 years of experience across corporate communications, brand communication, and growth marketing. Prior to co-founding The Big Whale, he served as Directeur Général, Digital Influence at Publicis Consultants from 2014 to 2017, where he led the public relations department with a focus on digital and social media strategy. He also co-founded .YZ Paris, a creative digital agency, in July 2017, and Blocs, a French-language blockchain accessibility project, in April 2018. His areas of focus include blockchain applications in finance, media and journalism, content marketing, digital PR, and business development.

Florent Vallon is an Analyst at The Big Whale, a Paris-based crypto and web3 media founded in 2022, where he has held the role since February 2025. His published work at The Big Whale covers DeFi protocols and on-chain finance, including analyses of Uniswap v4, Aave, Lido, EtherFi, restaking, DEX vaults, real-world assets, and tokenised indices. He also covers broader crypto market topics such as Solana, memecoins, Cardano, and decentralised AI platforms.

Alongside his role at The Big Whale, Vallon is a partner at White Loop Capital, a Paris-based private investment firm specialised in crypto-assets, a position he has held since October 2021. He is also co-founder of SCALIVM, a business consulting firm he launched in January 2020. Prior to these roles, he spent nearly a decade in commercial and entrepreneurial functions across e-commerce, crypto, and SaaS. He is based in the Greater Paris region, holds a degree from Boston University, and a Binance certification.

Gaël Courrège is an Analyst at The Big Whale, where he focuses on decentralized finance. His work centers on DeFi research and analysis, with published pieces covering topics including decentralized stablecoins, DeFi lending markets, prediction markets, and yield-generating protocols such as Ethena, Aerodrome, Sky, and Maker. Prior to his current role, he has a background in design, marketing, and web projects.

Grégory Raymond is Head of Research and co-founder of The Big Whale. A specialist at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, he has been covering the regulatory, institutional and technological developments of the sector since 2017 for an audience of decision-makers: ,banks, asset managers and fintechs. He is also the author of Bitcoin & Cryptos: L'enjeu du siècle (Talent Éditions, 2025), a book built around interviews with key figures from the ecosystem.

Hugo Panczak is Head of Agentic AI at The Big Whale, a position he has held since September 2024, based in Paris. He previously served as Chief of Staff at the same organization from May 2023 to December 2024. In his current role, he sits within General Management and oversees both crypto and operational functions for the media company.

Panczak is also CEO of White Loop Capital, a private investment firm focused on crypto-assets, which he co-founded in November 2021 and has led since. He has additionally held a private investor position at Ledger since July 2023. Earlier in his career, he spent two months as Product Manager at DeepSquare in 2022, where he worked with a team of four to build an AI tool identifying altcoins likely to outperform Bitcoin using social sentiment and on-chain data. The Big Whale's own profile describes him as an analyst and author specializing in macroeconomics and decentralized finance, with a focus on publishing reports and analyses on blockchain and DeFi.

Lorris Beziers is a Digital Assets Research Analyst at The Big Whale, a Paris-based crypto media company, a position he has held since January 2024. His published research covers a range of digital asset topics including DeFi lending markets, layer 2 blockchain architecture, MEV mechanics, on-chain derivatives platforms, and institutional blockchain infrastructure. Alongside this role, he has been an Associate at White Loop Capital, a French private investment firm focused on crypto-assets, since October 2024.

Prior to joining The Big Whale, Beziers worked as a DeFi Analyst at Mon Livret C from June to August 2023, where he analyzed Web3 projects across blockchains, stablecoins, and protocols, assessed yield opportunities on decentralized finance protocols, and designed a risk assessment framework for layer 2 blockchains. He holds a degree from NEOMA Business School and completed a classe préparatoire ECS at Lycée Masséna. He holds certifications from IBM and Bocconi and has competencies in Web3, finance, and data.

Mathilde Michels is an Analyst at The Big Whale, where she covers tokenomics and blockchain. Her published articles for the outlet include analyses of Binance listings and their impact on token prices, Ethereum's layer-2 business model, Aptos (APT), Usual (USUAL) stablecoins, the Farcaster protocol, and SocialFi.

In parallel, she is the founder of Tokenomics Data & Learning, a data infrastructure and analytics company she launched in January 2024, through which she also publishes educational content on token economics. She has been a Tokenomics Analyst Researcher at Chainforce, a tokenomics consultancy headquartered in the Netherlands, since December 2023, and has operated as a Tokenomics Designer since November 2023. Since January 2025, she has served as a jury member at Alyra, the blockchain and AI school, for the RS6675 certification in decentralized finance applications on blockchain, participating in the Hamilton, Galilée, and Berners-Lee defense sessions.

Mathis Egonneau is an Analyst at The Big Whale, with over five years of experience in decentralized finance and blockchain. He is active at Lagoon, a general-purpose vault infrastructure for institutional on-chain yield products, where he holds a Marketing Sales role focused on tokenizing corporate bonds. He is also involved in the DeFi France and Ethereum France communities.

His prior experience includes a role as Rédacteur Analyste at Cryptoast, a French cryptocurrency media outlet, which he joined in May 2023 and where he continues to contribute. Before that, he worked as Assistant Marketing at Meria (formerly Just Mining), a blockchain and cryptocurrency firm based in Metz, from September 2021 to August 2022. In that position, his responsibilities included social media management, technology and regulatory monitoring, processing staking deposit requests across multiple assets including ADA, SOL, DOT, and ETH, client support, and blog article writing.

Raphaël Bloch is CEO and co-founder of The Big Whale, an independent market intelligence platform on digital assets serving financial market participants through editorial coverage, research, a weekly briefing, and in-person events. He co-founded The Big Whale in April 2022. At the platform, he moderates and hosts institutional events bringing together banks, asset managers, custodians, and infrastructure providers on topics including staking, on-chain yield, stablecoins, DeFi lending, and tokenisation. He has moderated panels at events hosted in partnership with Bitwise, Everstake, Gemini, Morpho, Hexarq, Coinhouse, Delubac, Franklin Templeton, and the Ethereum Foundation, held in London and Paris between late 2025 and mid-2026.

Before founding The Big Whale, Bloch worked as a reporter at Les Echos from December 2016 to March 2020, then at L'Express from March 2020 to March 2022. He also previously worked at Reuters. Since September 2022, he has held a concurrent role as Business Analyst at BFM Business. He has been active in crypto journalism since 2016. He holds degrees from emlyon and the CFJ.

Richard van Rees is Executive Director of Digital Money Products, specializing in innovative financial technology solutions and digital payment systems.

Romain Millon is an Analyst at The Big Whale, where he has authored analyses on salaries in the web3 sector. He is also an expert in management and transformation of the finance function at EDF. He is a graduate of IAE Paris.

Salomon is a professional at The Big Whale. Detailed information about his role, background, and achievements is not available.

Yanis Mekhfi is a Research Analyst at The Big Whale, a European media outlet covering crypto and blockchain, a position he has held since November 2024. His published work at The Big Whale covers topics including Bitcoin treasury strategies, ICO financing models, the XRP/Ripple ecosystem, and crypto AI agents.

Prior to joining The Big Whale, Mekhfi spent nearly two years as an Investment Analyst at PyratzLabs, a Web3-focused investment fund and accelerator based in Levallois-Perret, France, where he worked within the finance and accounting function. Before that, he contributed as a Web Content Editor at Start in Blockchain, writing explainer articles on stablecoins, decentralized applications, cryptography, and Web3 social networks. He also briefly held a Founder Associate role at Kolat, a DeFi-oriented project. Mekhfi holds a degree from KEDGE Business School and a data science certification from Le Wagon.