Naomi Halioua

Ambre Soubiran is CEO and Chairman of Kaiko, the leading independent provider of cryptocurrency market data and analytics, a position she has held since the company's founding in 2014. Under her leadership, Kaiko has raised over $80 million in venture funding and expanded to offices in Paris, New York, London, and Singapore. She has led Kaiko to become the only global, independent, and regulated provider administering crypto benchmarks and indices, serving both major Web3 projects and international banks. She is a member of the Scientific Committee and Board of the Fondation Concorde, a French think-tank, where she leads a working group on blockchain-based transformations of European capital markets. She has been personally involved in digital assets since 2012. Kaiko has been awarded "Web3 Ambassador of the Year" by The Big Whale and Soubiran herself received the Waters Technology Women in Technology and Data "Startup Professional of the Year" award.

Prior to Kaiko, Soubiran spent approximately eight years at HSBC Global Banking and Markets in Paris and London, where she worked in sales and structuring of Strategic Equity Derivatives and Financing Solutions for large listed corporates across Europe, Latin America, and North America, and earlier in Wealth Solutions covering equity derivatives and FX solutions for retail banking and wealth management clients. She holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Université Paris Dauphine and completed coursework in Financial Accounting, Economics, and Data Analytics through Harvard Business School Online. Originally from Chicago, she is based in New York.

Anastasia Melachrinos is Head of Growth at Kaiko, based in Paris, a position she has held since June 2024, leading growth, marketing, and research. She also serves as Director of Research at Kaiko Research, where her focus areas are market structure and stablecoins. Her research has been cited in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and Reuters, and she has described her editorial role as selecting and prioritising the most relevant and timely market stories from a continuous pipeline of analyst work.

Melachrinos has been at Kaiko since September 2019. She joined as a Research Data Analyst, moved into the role of Senior Product Manager with a specialisation in blockchain and DeFi data from June 2021, and transitioned to Head of Growth in June 2024. Prior to Kaiko, she spent six months at Banque de France as a FinTechs and Crypto-Assets Analyst, where she developed tools to track risk in relation to crypto markets, bigtechs, and fintechs, and contributed to research and development initiatives on central bank digital currencies. Alongside her role at Kaiko, she teaches Blockchain Technology and DeFi in the Master Year 2 Probability and Finance programme at École Polytechnique, a position she has held since September 2023, and has been a Guest Lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne since March 2024, teaching crypto, blockchain, and regulation in the Master in Banking Risk Control and Compliance.