The Future of DeFi: Enzyme, Aave & Qredo (London, UK 🇬🇧)

Please join us for an exciting conversation with Enzyme, Aave and Qredo. We'll share some exciting new protocol updates and explore what the future of DeFi has in store.

The event will take place at 67 Pall Mall in the St James Room.

Each protocol will present for 15 minutes, with time for Q&A after each session. Enzyme will reveal its most recent ecosystem developments, including its v4 Sulu launch and deployment on Polygon.

Speakers:

Avantgarde Finance (the core contributor to the Enzyme Protocol)
Mona El Isa, CEO
Mona El Isa is co-founder of Enzyme, one of the crypto industry’s leading decentralised asset management protocols, and founder and CEO at Avantgarde Finance. As a former star-trader at Goldman Sachs, Mona was promoted to Vice President by the age of 26 and made the “Top 30 under 30” list in Trader Magazine in 2008 and Forbes Magazine in 2011.

Conor Gilmore, Marketing Lead
Conor Gilmore leads the marketing efforts for Enzyme and Avantgarde Finance. During his career, Conor has worked for creative agencies and tech start-ups in London, New York and Melbourne. Conor studied Classics at the University of Edinburgh and stumbled down the crypto rabbit-hole in 2018.

Aave
Stani Kulechov, Founder & CEO
Stani Kulechov is the Founder and CEO of the Aave Companies, a group of software development companies based in Europe that create open-source and blockchain-based software. The best-known software to date is the Aave protocol, an open-source, decentralized, non-custodial liquidity protocol that allows users to supply and borrow cryptoassets and earn yield on those assets. Stani was studying law at the University of Helsinki when he first got into Ethereum, and he started exploring how smart contracts could impact the traditional financial system.

Qredo
Benjamin Whitby, Compliance
Ben Whitby grew up coding and exploring computers, and then went on to build the world's first interest rate swap trading platform in 2001. He later led regulatory teams at Accenture and PwC, playing a key role for Dodd Frank in the UK, before spending 8 years with HSBC as Regulatory Conduct and Financial Crime Specialist — a role that involved writing the bank’s first policy on Bitcoin in 2013. Eventually in 2017 he went into crypto full time, and joined the Tokencard / Monolith team before becoming a founding team member of Qredo, the decentralised MPC security network that enables financial institutions to secure cryptoassets on their own balance sheet.

After the meetup, stick around for snacks and drinks, networking, and more information on how to get involved with our respective communities.