From 1995 to Onchain: How Finance Gets Better
Ethereum Foundation
Nicolas Consigny is a Privacy Researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, where he focuses on integrating privacy-preserving technologies into the Ethereum base layer. He leads the development of Project Kohaku, an on-chain privacy framework. Prior to this research role, he served as Developer Coordinator at the Ethereum Foundation, a position he took up in March 2024.
Before joining the Ethereum Foundation, Consigny worked at Ledger as Developer Relations Manager from February 2022 to March 2024. He was also a core contributor and coordinator at Railgun DAO, a privacy protocol built on Ethereum that uses zk-SNARKs to allow users to conduct private transactions and interact with DeFi applications without exposing sender, receiver, or transaction amounts. In that capacity, he organised development efforts, communicated the protocol's strategic direction, and liaised with the broader Ethereum community. Consigny graduated from ESSEC Business School.
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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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