Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes is an Expert Advisor to the EU Blockchain Observatory Forum, serves as a Board Member of UN Legal and Economic Empowerment Network. Founder and CEO of The Science, Entrepreneurship and Investments Institute. Country Director for WBAF USA, Senator of WBAF, Faculty Member of the WBAF Business School-Division of Entrepreneurship, and teaching the Executive MBA Business Technology Course at the UM Business School. Chief Innovation Officer and past Chief Ethics Officer for GBA Global, Senator and as the Chief Quality and Safety Officer at MEDNAX and provides leadership to the MEDNAX Center for Research, Education, Quality and Safety. During her academic tenure she taught 50 + courses and served Chief of Compliance and Director of Research. Member of numerous prestigious professional organizations. She holds several certifications, such as Bioethics from Harvard, AI and Business Strategy from MIT Sloan, Blockchain Technology and Business Innovation from MIT Sloan, Finance from Harvard Business School, Negotiation from Harvard Law School, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Master Black Belt in Lean and Six Sigma Management.
Jane Thomason is a pioneer for Blockchain & digital technologies for social impact, education and empowerment of women. She is focused on emerging economies and how Frontier Technologies can accelerate poverty reduction and improve service delivery. In 2018 she was awarded Top 10 Digital Frontier Women and UN Decade Of Women Quantum Impact Champion.
She has held Board and CEO roles in tertiary hospitals and health care sector in Australia and globally. She founded an international development company in 1999, built it to $50 m revenue, merged with Abt Associates and led to achieve a tripling of revenue and diversification to $250m with 650 staff. She resigned as CEO in March 2018 to commit full time to a global digital transformation agenda.
She has 30 years’ experience in emerging economies in public health, poverty and inequality. She holds multiple appointments including Global Adviser on Digital Transformation Abt Associates, Digital Transformation Adviser to the Partnership for Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health, Digital Transformation Sub-Committee Chair, Kina Bank Papua New Guinea, Founding Member, British Frontier Technology Industry Association, Fellow of the Australian Digital Commerce Association and Section Chief Co-Editor Blockchain for Good: for Frontiers in Blockchain. Jane is adviser to Blockchain start-ups with social impact applications and is currently working with start-ups to develop Blockchain use cases in emerging economies. She is a regular hackathon judge and mentor including London Blockchain Week, London Fintech Week, Consensys and EOS Global Hackathons. She believes that the next wave of transformational innovation will be from emerging economies and has potential to reduce inequality and improve services to the poor.