Derek S. Boirun

Derek is an entrepreneur with institutional experience in commercial real estate development, EB-5 capital investments and blockchain-based investing. He previously founded and currently acts as managing member of American Economic Growth Fund, an EB-5 investment platform focused on sourcing overseas capital for U.S. based real estate projects which, to-date, owns 2 regional centers, hosts over 100 investors, and sponsors over $1.2 billion in total project cost. Derek was previously involved with the development of major urban real estate projects while at Tishman Speyer, a leading owner, developer, operator and fund manager of first-class real estate worldwide with a property portfolio in excess of $70 billion in total value in the United States, Europe, Latin America, India and China. Prior to this, Derek was a member of the Manhattanville Development Group at Columbia University where he managed design, development and construction efforts for Columbia’s ongoing $6 billion plus academic mixed-use expansion, including the new Columbia Business School, a $600 million project.
Derek received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in 2006, and subsequently received a dual Master’s, including a Master of Science in Real Estate Development, from Columbia University in 2010. Derek has been an active member of the Urban Land Institute in addition to other real estate industry groups

David Lubin

David previously co-founded and currently acts as a managing partner at the Clairmont Group. He has closed over 50 transactions valued in excess of $2.0 billion in his career and has acquired over $600 million in commercial real estate over the past 5 years . Prior to joining Clairmont, Mr. Lubin has worked at large institutional investment companies such as MetLife, Allianz, AREA Property Partners (formerly Apollo Management) and C-III Capital Partners. His experience includes investments in core, value-add, opportunistic, distressed real estate, note purchases, development, fund investments, and co-investments across all major asset classes including: multifamily, hospitality, office, industrial, retail, senior living and real estate operating companies.
Additionally, Mr. Lubin has worked as a real estate investment banker at BMO Capital Markets. At BMO, he was involved in over $3.6 billion in capital raising and advisory engagements. Mr. Lubin started his career at Accenture in the Corporate Strategy and M&A group.
David Lubin holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s Degree from Cornell University. David also has a New York state real estate broker license and series 7 & 63.

Marcelo Moyano

Marcelo is an entrepreneur and a technology ninja at the highest level. He is a person who stands at the intersection of creativity, technology and business. Marcelo loves interacting with teams of people and helping startups evolve from a basic idea to getting funding through execution of the concept.
He is a true leader, having successfully managed an award winning tech business since 1999 (MindSmack) specializing in multimedia production and interactive content. Marcelo is known as an expert designer and animator and is recognized around the world in the media industry. Marcelo possesses masterful skills in visual design, animation sequences, application development and has led full-scale projects for clients such as DreamWorks, America Online, Citibank, Doritos, MTV and countless others.
Marcelo works with interface designs for different platforms, interactive applications, conceptual branded animations, solutions for online/offline interactive marketing and social media. Marcelo is the winner of many international accolades including Adobe Site of the Day for his work with DreamWorks SKG. He is also the recipient of 5 Favorite Website Awards (www.thefwa.com).

Aaron Gooch

In addition to having spent the last 2 years building the tech for various blockchain start-ups, Aaron has over 10 years of software and mechanical engineering expertise. He is a decorated US Air Force Veteran with a Medal of Valor, responsible for disarming IED’s during his tour in Iraq. He since served as a software engineer at iRobot and government think-tank Mitre Corporation.
Aaron was responsible for designing, building and managing a collection of distributed systems across multiple cloud providers that powers the global Red Bull TV application. In 2017 he founded the LA Blockchain Meet-Up, a group of over 600 blockchain enthusiasts and holds monthly meet-ups. Aaron began his adventure in the crypto world by building Ethereum miners and selling bootstrapped hard drives.

Enzo Villani

Enzo is a Managing Partner of Transform Strategies and leads corporate development, focused on business development, corporate strategy, stakeholder communications and aftermarket support. Enzo is active in building the security token infrastructure through his investments and advisory that include: Velocity Ledger, Delaware Board of Trade, Aurora IDEX and Alt5Sigma. He is an advisor to over 20 ICOs in 2018 including Monarch Blockchain, Kind Heaven, Big Data Block, Swarm Fund, Fluid.Capital, Vaultbank, and ZED Network.

Previously, Enzo was Managing Director, Strategy, for the NASDAQ, where he co-founded NASDAQ Global Corporate Solutions Group. After spending six years at NASDAQ, he co-founded and became Chief Strategy Officer for the corporate communications investment fund SAGE Holdings, where he completed a $200 million strategic M&A roll-up of five Tier-1 communications firms, including DF King & Co.

Enzo was most recently CEO of Equities.com, the world’s largest middle-market, and emerging growth company content publisher, growing the business 300% over three years. Enzo has spoken on financial communications, marketing and the capital markets. He holds an MBA from Cornell University.

Tron Black

Tron is the lead developer of Ravencoin and Principal Developer at Medici Ventures. He is an entrepreneur and founder of two startups which both sold to publicly traded companies. Since 2013, Tron has been working in the crypto-currency space as a miner, developer, investor, and trader. He was one of the first four employees of t0 (tzero), and helped issue the first publicly traded SEC acknowledged parallel crypto-equity for Overstock.com and the world’s first crypto bond offering. He worked for ANX International, a Fintech company located in Hong Kong which runs a Bitcoin exchange, and offers Bitcoin Debit cards. Tron is currently a Principal Developer for Medici Ventures which invests in a portfolio of companies including Factom, Bitt, Ripio, SettleMint, and Spera. Tron has given crypto-currencies to hundreds of people to help increase awareness of how value now moves as easily as e-mail. He’s written articles about Bitcoin, Monero, Dash and Ravencoin, and been featured on several crypto-currency podcasts. He has been a panelist at an international blockchain conference and regularly gives talks on crypto-currency topics. Tron is currently an advisor to TZero, and the lead developer for Ravencoin which is both a crypto-currency, and a crypto-asset platform.

André Salem

André is CEO and co-founder of Blockforce. He holds a degree in Business Administration from FGV and is currently studying Data, Economy, and Policy Development at MIT. André has worked for the main companies within the blockchain industry, being in charge of their business, research and blockchain innovation departments. Inspired by technology's great potential to promote exponential social change, he is a renowned blockchain mentor for Social Impact and a Professor at Blockchain Academy. At Moeda, André is Head of Blockchain, being responsible for providing strategic and architecture solutions in the technology field.

Taynaah Reis

Taynaah Reis is a self-taught software engineer known for her vast professional experience and work in projects that seek to meet UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and is a consistent participant in global discussions regarding future steps in social and economic affairs. Taynaah is visionary and driven by her true purpose of changing the reality of communities that are economically excluded. She is currently the CEO of Moeda.

Steven Santiago

Carlos Rodrigues, Jr.

Chief Operating Officer, Driftwood Acquisitions and Development. Received degrees in Economics and International Business along with a certificate in markets and management from Duke University in 2009. After graduating, he was accepted as part of the Rotational Analyst program at LNR Property, the largest CMBS (Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities) special servicer, investor, and originator worldwide. This two-year program focused on the three main divisions of the company: Investment Management, Asset Management, and REO. After successfully completing the program, Rodriguez was promoted to an Associate overseeing a newly formed branch of the company dedicated to high volume transactions, special resolutions, and direct equity investments. Rodriguez then left LNR to pursue ground-up development with Driftwood Hospitality.

Charles Kaufman

Charles Kaufman practices corporate, securities, and business transactional law in Los Angeles. He has over 23 years of experience representing public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including medical devices, healthcare, software, nanotechnology, film and music production, garment manufacturing, retailing, real estate investment, and semiconductors. He has extensive experience advising public companies on securities regulation and compliance and advising both new and established companies on public and private offerings of equity securities, security tokens and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank regulation, global compliance, conflicts and special committee concerns, internal investigations, listing and delisting, crisis management, and insolvency. His practice also includes international joint venturing and development agreements in addition to supply and distribution agreements, licensing agreements, and general corporate transactions. Charles has attended over two hundred public company board and committee meetings as board counsel.

Tyrone Siren

Founded Pearl Bay Consulting, which has offices in Hong Kong, South China, Beijing, and Vietnam. Pearl Bay has put together EB-5 deals that have resulted in more than 1 Billion USD invested in different asset classes, including student housing, in New York, Chicago, Florida, Montana, and Texas.

Pedro Paulo Albuquerque