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Amar Amlani is Managing Director, Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, a position he has held since August 2020. His role sits within the firm's digital assets function. He also serves as a Board Member at Fnality International, a position he has held since November 2023, and as Board Observer at both HQLAx, since March 2024, and Anchorage Digital, since August 2024.

Earlier in his career, Amlani served as Executive Director and Head of EMEA Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, based in the United Kingdom. He has spoken publicly on digital assets, including at Paris Blockchain Week Summit 2023. He holds a Certificate in International Cash Management.

Amaury Perez is Vice President, Digital Assets Engineering at Goldman Sachs, a position he has held since January 2022. In this role, he works within Goldman Sachs's Engineering and Technical department at the Vice President level, focused on digital assets engineering. He recently reposted Goldman Sachs content on digital asset M&A activity in 2025, indicating continued engagement with developments in that space.

Prior to moving into digital assets, Perez spent over eight years at Goldman Sachs as Vice President of Global Currencies and Emerging Markets Technology, a role he held from October 2013 to December 2021, supporting fixed income trading technology. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he worked as a Software Engineer at HP from April 2011 to September 2013. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, both from The University of Texas at El Paso, completed in 2013 and 2009 respectively. His total professional experience spans approximately fifteen years.

Amy Hong is Head of Strategy, Investments and Partnerships, Global Banking & Markets at Goldman Sachs, a role she has held since January 2024. In this capacity, she leads strategic initiatives focused on market structure, systemic and operational risks, and industry digitization, and manages an investment portfolio of 40+ investments in global capital markets and financial technology companies. She drives market structure outcomes through relationships with clients, market infrastructures, and other market participants. Hong has led Goldman Sachs's involvement in developing electronic trading platforms and has promoted attributes-based bond trading strategies to improve liquidity and efficiency for institutional clients. Her work encompasses digitization and automation in fixed income markets and cross-asset platforms.

Prior to her current role, Hong served as Head of Market Structure & Strategic Partnerships in Global Banking & Markets from January 2012 to January 2024. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 as an analyst in the investment banking division, focusing on public sector and infrastructure financing, before moving into municipal bond trading. She became managing director in 2017. Before Goldman Sachs, she was a GTP Associate at UBS in Zurich. Hong sits on the boards of ICE Clear Credit, Axoni, Symphony Communications, and Droit. She serves as co-chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Global Market Advisory Committee and also sits on its Market Risk Advisory Committee. She was appointed Chair of the Board of ISDA in July 2025. She was named to Fortune's "40 Under 40" in finance in 2020 and is involved with the TEAK Fellowship in New York City. Hong holds a bachelor's degree in political science and international relations from Bucknell University and an MBA from Columbia University, where she received the George E. Doty Global Master's Degree Fellowship.

Bruce Dakin is currently working in Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, a position he moved into in November 2025. Prior to this, he spent over a year at Goldman Sachs as an Agency Lending Trader within Fixed Income, based in Paris, from August 2024 to November 2025.

Before joining Goldman Sachs, Dakin worked as a Securities Lending Trader at Amundi from February 2023 to July 2024, focused on European Equities. Earlier, he completed a five-month stint as a FICC Trader Assistant at AXA Investment Managers in London, working in high-yield fixed income trading from April to September 2022. He holds a Master of Engineering in Financial Engineering and Quantitative Finance from ESILV - Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci, where coursework included market risk, investment management, equity derivatives, and machine learning.

Christian Mendez is Vice President, Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, based in New York, a position he has held since August 2025. Concurrently, he holds a Specialist-level role within Goldman Sachs's Digital Assets and Crypto function in the Marketing department, which he began in September 2025.

Mendez joined Goldman Sachs in June 2017 as a Summer Analyst in London. He returned full-time in July 2018 as an Analyst in FX Sales, also based in London. He was promoted to Associate in FX and EM Sales in December 2020, a role he held across London and New York until January 2024, when he was promoted to Vice President within the same FX and EM Sales coverage. He held that Vice President position until September 2025, when he transitioned to his current digital assets mandate. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he completed a summer internship at BNY Mellon in London in 2016 and a brief industry internship at ICAP in London in the same year. His total tenure at Goldman Sachs spans approximately eight years. The source content references the University of Nottingham in connection with his background, though no specific degree or graduation date is stated.

Jennifer Gold is an ESG and philanthropy leader with extensive experience in strategy development and global team building. She currently leads ESG initiatives at ZS.

Kimberly Johns is Managing Director & Senior Counsel, Global Head of Digital Assets Legal at Goldman Sachs, a position she has held since January 2022. In this role, she leads the legal function for digital assets globally. Previously at Goldman Sachs, she served as Managing Director & Associate General Counsel from February 2006, advising the Derivatives Clearing Services and Prime Clearing businesses.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Johns was a litigation associate at Sidley Austin LLP from September 1998 to February 2006. Earlier in her career, she served as chief administrative law clerk to The Honorable Peter Paul Olszewski, Superior Court of Pennsylvania. She also served for five years as President of the FIA Law and Compliance Division. Johns holds a B.A. in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University and a J.D. summa cum laude from St. John's University School of Law.

Lee Brenner is Head of Public Policy, Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, based in Washington, DC, within the firm's Office of Government Affairs. He holds the AI policy lead mandate in the United States and focuses on government affairs across digital transformation and emerging technology areas including AI, crypto, tokenization, digital money, and blockchain. He has been in the role since September 2021.

Before Goldman Sachs, Brenner was Meta's first public policy subject matter expert focused on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, leading the company's policy, regulatory, and external engagement efforts globally on digital assets and financial services projects including Diem (formerly Libra) and Novi. Prior to Meta, he served as Chief Strategy Officer at the Global Blockchain Business Council, a trade association for the blockchain technology sector. Earlier, he held the position of Market Development Lead on Microsoft's Technology and Civic Engagement team. Brenner co-founded HyperVocal, a digital media and events start-up, where he also co-hosted "Politics Powered by Twitter," a daily program on SiriusXM. Before that, he was the public policy lead at MySpace and served as Executive Producer of the 2007–2008 MySpace-MTV Presidential Dialogues. He began his career as Senior Editorial Producer at CNN. Brenner holds a Master's in International and Public Affairs from the University of Hong Kong, where he studied Chinese foreign policy and US-China relations, and completed his undergraduate studies at Tufts University.

Moritz Richter is an Associate – Digital Assets, Global Banking and Markets at Goldman Sachs, based in London. He held this role from 2022 to 2024 and previously served as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs from 2018 to 2020.

Prior to his second stint at Goldman Sachs, Richter worked as a Paralegal at Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP in 2018, having also completed an internship at the same firm in 2016. Earlier, in 2015, he completed a Mini Pupillage at Keating Chambers. He holds a Bachelor of Science from UCL (2013–2016), completed legal training at BPP Law School (2016–2017), and earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford (2020–2021).

Nina Alhadeff is an Associate at Goldman Sachs, based in Paris, where she has worked within the Digital Assets division since November 2024. Prior to this role, she spent approximately two and a half years at Goldman Sachs in New York as a Financial Analyst, where her work included involvement with Private Wealth Management and the Admissions Committee. She also completed a Summer Analyst internship at the firm in 2021, also within Private Wealth Management.

Outside Goldman Sachs, Alhadeff co-founded the Heads & Tales Podcast in November 2021, a role she continues to hold alongside her full-time position. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Social History from Barnard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia University, both completed between 2018 and 2022. At Columbia, she served as President of the Columbia University Fashion Society and as a board member of the Columbia Women's Business Society. She is enrolled in an MBA program at INSEAD, expected to run from 2026 to 2027.

Patrick B. Martinez is Vice President, Digital Assets Global Banking & Markets at Goldman Sachs, a position he has held since September 2024. In this role he sits within the firm's Global Banking & Markets division, focused on digital assets.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Martinez spent four years at Northern Trust, where he served as Vice President on the Digital Assets & Financial Markets team from April 2020 to August 2024. That team's stated mandate was to use business intelligence to identify new business opportunities, generate revenues, and advance the firm's next-generation enterprise operating model, while coordinating industry association engagements, regulatory interactions, and research into market and technology innovations. During that period, Martinez served as a subject matter expert on Distributed Ledger Technology, digital assets and lifecycles, tokenization, fractionalization, AI/ML, data and analytics, and quantum computing. He also engaged in industry conferences and publications in a speaker and SME capacity. His total financial services experience spans approximately 15 years.

Thomas Mack is an engineer, leader, team builder, and entrepreneur with experience at Pegasystems. He holds a degree from The University of Texas and is known for his leadership and innovative approach in technology and business.

Victoria Drewsen is Vice President and Chief of Staff, Digital Assets at Goldman Sachs, a position she has held since March 2024, based in Greater London. She sits within the Digital Assets division of Global Banking & Markets. Alongside this role, she has served as a Board Observer at TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence platform, since July 2024, and previously held a Board Observer seat at Coin Metrics, a crypto data provider, from February 2024 to July 2025.

Prior to moving into Digital Assets, Drewsen spent approximately three and a half years in Firmwide Strategy within Goldman Sachs's Executive Office, from July 2020 to February 2024, also based in London. Earlier in her Goldman Sachs tenure, she worked in TMT and Industrials M&A within Investment Banking from July 2017 to June 2020, having joined as a Summer Analyst in 2016. Before Goldman Sachs, she worked as an Investment Analyst at Alfvén & Didrikson from July 2014 to June 2016. Her total professional experience spans approximately ten years.