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Portfolio Manager
Coralie Billmann, CFA, is President and Managing Director of Circle Internet Financial Europe and member of the Supervisory Committee. She joined Circle in December 2023 to lead the application for an Electronic Money Institution license under MiCA with the ACPR and the Digital Asset Service Provider registration with the AMF. In July 2024, Circle became the first global stablecoin issuer to achieve compliance with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulatory framework, following the company's receipt of an EMI license from the ACPR. Billmann credited this outcome to close collaboration between the ACPR regulatory teams and the Circle France team.
Her prior roles include COO and Authorized Director of 3S Money Club, a licensed Electronic Money Institution, where she contributed to launching its payments activity in Europe, and EMEA Treasurer at PayPal, a position she held for nine years. She also led High Growth Tech Sales expansion for JP Morgan in Paris and has previously held board directorships at both PayPal and 3S Money. Earlier in her career she held a role at Flagstone. Billmann holds a degree from Audencia Business School, is a CFA charterholder, and studied at Ohio State University.
Chief Strategy Officer
Dante Disparte is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, the company that issues the USDC stablecoin. In his role, he leads Circle's strategic and policy positioning, including the company's expansion into European markets. He has been central to Circle's decision to establish its European headquarters in Paris, citing the French regulatory environment and political engagement with digital assets as determining factors. Circle has submitted applications to the AMF to obtain PSAN (service provider for digital assets) status and to become an electronic money institution in France, with an stated objective of issuing a digital euro in Europe.
Disparte has publicly positioned USDC as distinct from algorithmic stablecoins such as Terra Luna's UST, framing it instead as a competitor to Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum.
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Pawan Shivhare is a Data Science Leader with over 13 years of experience in data exploration, cleansing, statistical analysis, and machine learning.
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