Crypto Lead
Charles Aubert-Couturier is Senior Manager Blockchain Cryptoactifs at Blockchain Partner by KPMG, a position he has held since April 2021. In this role, he leads the blockchain and cryptoasset team, with responsibilities spanning strategic studies, scoping, training, and technical and functional recommendations. He operates within the General Management department at senior level.
Alongside his KPMG role, Aubert-Couturier holds several concurrent positions in the French digital assets space. Since September 2023, he has served as Co-Administrator at Adan, the association representing web3 actors in France and Europe. He has also been involved with Bitstack, a Bitcoin savings application, since December 2021; with Swaap Labs, a Paris-based decentralised finance company, since February 2022; and with Tilvest, a cryptocurrency platform targeting wealth management intermediaries, since August 2022. His total professional experience spans eight years. The existing biography references a degree from ESCP Europe and fluency in French, Italian, and English, but these details do not appear in the retrieved source content and are therefore excluded here.
Managing Director
Josh Rubin is a Managing Director specializing in client portfolio management and investment strategies at Thornburg Investment Management, with extensive experience in finance and asset management.
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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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