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Tim helps Bermuda-focused firms navigate how blockchain, digital assets, AI and quantum computing are reshaping governance, risk and stakeholder value. A veteran of Wall Street and Madison Avenue, he led global marketing at NYSE Euronext and UBS Equities, and as CMO of Trumid helped build a $2B bond trading platform co-invested by Peter Thiel and George Soros.

In 2018 he produced “Crypto Evolved”, convening State Street, Fidelity and others to debate crypto’s institutional future. In 2020 he co-founded Y Partners, guiding fintech leaders such as Coinbase, AvenirX and Agora Finance through Bermuda’s Digital Asset Business Act. His conviction: smart regulation turns disruptive technology into enterprise opportunity.

Jerome Wilson is a Partner and leads Appleby’s Technology & Innovation practice in Bermuda. He advises on complex and first-of-their-kind FinTech matters, with particular expertise in digital asset businesses and Bermuda’s regulatory landscape. Jerome leads a dedicated FinTech team with extensive experience across the digital asset sector, including advising on a significant number of DABA licences. His wider corporate practice includes cross-border financings, shipping, public companies and telecommunications.

Jerome is recognised by Chambers Global, Chambers Offshore FinTech, Legal 500 and IFLR1000. Clients praise him as “extraordinarily responsive and well versed in Bermuda law”, “really exceptional and excellent in complicated issues” and “user friendly, and readily available to attend calls and address urgent issues”.

Richard Lau serves as Chief Information Officer for the Government of Bermuda, leading digital transformation, technology governance, cybersecurity and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.

He is a statutory member of Bermuda’s Cybersecurity Advisory Board and serves as a director of a Bermuda Monetary Authority-regulated digital asset business licensed under the Digital Asset Business Act (DABA).

Richard combines government technology leadership with deep knowledge of Bermuda’s critical telecommunications and utilities infrastructure and experience in regulated financial services.

George E. Thomas, Jr. is Chairman of the Bermuda Business Development Agency and an experienced independent director. A global financial services executive with more than 30 years in investment management, capital markets and corporate governance, he has spent over a decade focused on cybersecurity and data privacy as core elements of board oversight and enterprise risk.

George has guest-lectured at Harvard Law School on cyber governance since 2016, holds MIT’s Cybersecurity: Technology, Application and Policy certificate, and has delivered board-level cyber and data privacy training for regulated entities. He serves on the boards of the Kryger Event Strategy funds and Cushing Academy, and founded and chaired JapanCross Securities in Tokyo.

Kim Perdikou is Chair of Atsign Company, a cybersecurity company based in Silicon Valley. She served as a non-executive director of CyberArk Software from 2014 to 2025, until its exit to Palo Alto Networks for $25B, and joined the board of Nasuni Corporation in 2022, continuing after its exit to Vista Equity Partners in 2024. She also served on the board of Alter Domus for three years until it was acquired by Cinven Equity Partners for $5.4B.

Kim served as EVP and GM of Juniper Networks’ Infrastructure business, doubling revenue in three years to $3.2 billion, and also served as Juniper’s CIO. Previously, she held technology leadership positions across diverse verticals at Women.com, Reader’s Digest, Knight Ridder and Dun & Bradstreet.

Kim is an advocate for women, including through the Fortune–State Department MPW mentoring programme and the partnership of TechWomen and the US Department of State. She holds a master’s in Information Systems from Pace University, a postgraduate degree in education from Jordanhill College, Scotland, and a bachelor’s degree in computing science and operational research from Paisley Tech, Scotland.

Stafford brings more than 25 years across capital markets and regulated fintech, with C-suite, board and regulatory experience in Bermuda. He has engaged extensively with the BMA as a Senior Representative, chaired executive and audit committees as an independent non-executive director, and served as CCO/MLRO for a Bermuda regulated financial institution.

Hannes works with founders, boards and investors on the governance, licensing, risk and compliance, and capital-planning foundations that regulated financial institutions depend on, drawn from a decade of taking financial-services businesses from concept to early commercial growth.