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Leading the Legal and Policy teams at Nexum, an ecosystem of interlinked financial services products, facilitating the integration of blockchain technology in everyday financial transactions in a user friendly and regulatory compliant manner.

Merkle Science is the next generation predictive cryptocurrency risk and intelligence platform that helps crypto companies, financial institutions, and government entities detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. Merkle Science’s proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine enables our tools to go beyond blacklists, so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and can stay ahead of bad actors attempting to utilize their platforms for illicit activities. Merkle Science is creating the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe and healthy growth of the cryptocurrency industry as it becomes a key pillar of the $22 trillion financial services ecosystem. We enable businesses to scale and mature so that a full range of individuals, entities, and services may transact in cryptocurrency safely.

Menai Financial Group is bridging established and digital finance to build the investment bank of the future. Through the development of market and investment infrastructure in the digital asset space, Menai is unlocking the full potential of this emerging asset class.

Mary Beth Buchanan was the Chief Legal Officer at Bitstamp, the EU's first fully licensed digital currency exchange. Mary Beth was responsible for leading all legal, regulatory and government affairs efforts as well as certain compliance functions.

Mary Beth Buchanan was the General Counsel at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, where she was responsible for leading all legal, regulatory and government affairs efforts.

Mary Beth Buchanan was a partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Client Service Group. She was also the Chair of the firm's Digital Currency Team, where she concentrated her practice on internal investigations, corporate compliance, white collar criminal defense, corporate fraud, SEC enforcement matters, Congressional investigations, digital currency related matters, and complex civil litigation.

Mary Beth Buchanan was responsible for conducting the first Ethics and Reputational Risk Assessment for United Nations Peacekeeping and Special Political Operations.