Rahul Kumar

Head of Digital Assets MENA

Rahul Kumar is Head of Digital Assets MENA at Capital.com, a position he has held since June 2025, based in the United Arab Emirates. His mandate is to launch a Digital Assets proposition in the Middle East for the platform. He holds a degree from The University of Edinburgh and is based in the United Kingdom.

Prior to Capital.com, Kumar served as Head of Strategy, Wealth and Trading at Liv, Emirates NBD's digital bank, from January 2023 to May 2025. In that role, he launched the first crypto retail offering by a legacy banking group in the region. Before that, he was Senior Manager, Wealth and Trading at Revolut from May 2021 to December 2022, where he led global affairs for UK Trading, covering authorisations, expansion, regulatory and public affairs, and successfully submitted a crypto licence application in Cyprus for an EU crypto hub. His total professional experience spans approximately 13 years.

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Vitaliy Kedyk

Group Head of Digital Assets

Vitaliy Kedyk is Group Head of Digital Assets at Capital.com, a position he has held since April 2025. His professional focus spans strategic management, fintech, crypto, and business strategy implementation.

Prior to joining Capital.com, Kedyk served as Head of Strategy at Currency.com from January 2021 to April 2025, where he worked within general management at the cryptocurrency trading and storage platform. Before that, he founded and served as CEO of Similarcat, an international performance marketing agency focused on lead generation for financial companies, from October 2019 to January 2021. Earlier in his career, he held the role of Executive Director at CEX.IO from March 2017 to October 2019. His total professional experience spans approximately 17 years.

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Laurence Arnold

Global Head of Innovation, AXA IM, AXA

Laurence Arnold is Global Head of Innovation at AXA Investment Managers, leading innovation strategy since 2019 including blockchain and tokenization efforts such as AXA IM's first stablecoin and blockchain-registered transactions with Société Générale. She holds a master's in Finance from Paris-Dauphine.

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Mike O'Reilly

President, Fidelity Digital Assets, Fidelity

Michael O'Reilly is President of Fidelity Digital Assets since 2023, overseeing custody, execution, technology and client services for the institutional crypto platform. Previously COO of the division, he has spent 25+ years at Fidelity and has led its Bitcoin/Ether custody and Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) stablecoin launch.

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Jonathan Hayes

Head Digital Assets Development, Julius Baer

Jonathan Hayes is Head of Digital Assets Development at Bank Julius Baer in Zurich, leading the bank's digital asset strategy and crypto/tokenization offering for private banking clients. He joined in 2014 after a strategy consulting role at BCG.

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