Managing Director, Global Markets
Marek Socha is Managing Director, Global Markets at 21X, Europe's first ESMA-regulated DLT exchange, a role he has held since March 2026. He holds overall responsibility for Business Development, Sales, Customer Success, Marketing and Communications. At 21X, he has spoken publicly on the case for public blockchains in capital markets infrastructure and atomic settlement for tokenized equities, representing the firm at industry events including The Big Whale's Future of Finance in April 2026 and a London panel with Franklin Templeton and the Ethereum Foundation in May 2026.
Prior to joining 21X, Socha spent approximately five years at SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) as Head of Corporate Development and a member of the Extended Executive Committee, where he held full responsibility for acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures and partnerships around the regulated financial market infrastructure. He also served as Chairman of a VC investment fund and as a Shareholder Representative at AsiaNext, a MAS-regulated crypto exchange in Singapore. Across his career he has worked directly with executive boards, boards of directors, shareholders, institutional clients, regulators and investors in financial market infrastructure, digital securities, and fintech, with additional earlier experience in life sciences. No educational background is stated in the available source content.
Head of Customer Success
Tom Weber is Head of Customer Success at 21X, a Frankfurt-based fintech developing a DLT-powered trading and settlement system under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. He took up this role in October 2025. 21X operates within a regulated framework for tokenized financial instruments, with a platform that covers smart contract-based issuance, order matching, trading, and atomic settlement of tokenized assets on public blockchains.
Alongside his role at 21X, Weber has operated as an independent digital finance consultant since August 2022, focusing on DeFi, CBDC, and blockchain, as well as mobile payments solutions. Prior to that, he spent three and a half years at Tietoevry as a Senior Business Consultant in Payments and Cash Management, where he served as project manager in the e-krona CBDC pilot and contributed to business development within CBDC. He also developed strategies and provided advisory services for global and Nordic banks on payments and cash management. His total professional experience spans approximately 17 years.
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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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