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Matthew Dawson is Enterprise Acceleration, Ecosystem Development at the Ethereum Foundation, a position he has held since July 2025. He appeared as Enterprise Lead at the Ethereum Foundation at a May 2026 event in London hosted by The Big Whale, where he joined Franklin Templeton and 21x for a panel discussion on rebuilding the infrastructure of global finance using public blockchain rails. The conversation centred on replacing fragmented reconciliation-heavy ledgers with a single publicly verifiable ledger, and on the conditions under which institutional adoption of tokenised assets becomes viable.

Before joining the Ethereum Foundation, Dawson was an Associate at Outlier Ventures, a Web3 accelerator, from May 2024 to July 2025. Prior to that, he worked at Illumina Capital's blockchain accelerator in a research capacity from January 2022 to March 2023. His earlier career was in financial services consulting: he spent approximately a year and a half as a Consultant in Accenture's Financial Services Strategy and Consulting division, and before that worked as a Graduate Consultant at Atos in London focused on financial services technology, from October 2019 to December 2020. No educational background is included in the available source material.

Julie Bader is a specialist in legal and regulatory strategy within the FinTech and tech sectors. She joined De Gaulle Fleurance in April 2023 to help develop the firm’s on-chain finance practice.
Julie Bader’s expertise enables her clients to comply with the regulatory framework applicable to their activities. In particular, she advises companies on matters related to digital finance (investment platforms, crowdfunding, crypto-assets, etc.) and digital technologies applied in the banking and financial sector (blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc.).
She assists companies and financial entities in complying with the recent MiCA Regulations, Pilot Regime, and DORA.
Julie Bader has also developed expertise in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts in the digital and IT fields and assists companies with GDPR compliance.

Matthew Dawson is Enterprise Acceleration, Ecosystem Development at the Ethereum Foundation, a position he has held since July 2025. He appeared as Enterprise Lead at the Ethereum Foundation at a May 2026 event in London hosted by The Big Whale, where he joined Franklin Templeton and 21x for a panel discussion on rebuilding the infrastructure of global finance using public blockchain rails. The conversation centred on replacing fragmented reconciliation-heavy ledgers with a single publicly verifiable ledger, and on the conditions under which institutional adoption of tokenised assets becomes viable.

Before joining the Ethereum Foundation, Dawson was an Associate at Outlier Ventures, a Web3 accelerator, from May 2024 to July 2025. Prior to that, he worked at Illumina Capital's blockchain accelerator in a research capacity from January 2022 to March 2023. His earlier career was in financial services consulting: he spent approximately a year and a half as a Consultant in Accenture's Financial Services Strategy and Consulting division, and before that worked as a Graduate Consultant at Atos in London focused on financial services technology, from October 2019 to December 2020. No educational background is included in the available source material.