Meet the MERGE Madrid 2026 Speakers

Gonzalo Pradas

General Manager at Openbank

Carlos Jiménez

Director of BD & Partnerships at Rain

Natasha Deloge

Head of Innovation Division at CSSF - Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier

Victor Rodriguez

General Director of Policy and International Affairs at CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores)

Alexandra Soroko

Crypto Partnerships & GTM at VISA

Tania Griffith

Commercial Director, UK & Europe at Ripple

Carlos António

Regulatory Policy Expert, Financial Stability Department at Banco de Portugal

George Theocharides

Ex-Chairman at CySEC - Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission

Irene Tagliamonte

Head of Regulatory Impact Analysis Office at Consob

Christoph Sulyok

Vice President - Global Partnerships Digital Assets & Blockchain at Mastercard

João Vieira dos Santos

Coordinator at CMVM - Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários

Malcolm Clarke

Global Head Digital Assets at Western Union

Ioannis Roussos

Head of Deposits & Investment Sector at Eurobank

Coty de Monteverde

Global Head Crypto & Digital Assets at Banco Santander

Artur Callau

Corporate Innovation - Digital Assets at CaixaBank

Javier Pineda

Crypto Fund Manager at renta4

António Henriques

CEO at Bison Bank

Selin Rena Çetinkaya

Head of Digital Assets Custody at BBVA Garanti

Vid Hribar

Institutional Partnerships at Qivalis

Riccardo Donega

Head of DLT and Digital Assets Products at Banca Sella

Benoît Courtois

Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Unicaja

Mónica T. Ramirez de Arellano

Managing Director, Stablecoins at Anchorage Digital

Francesco Fabracci

Head of Tokenization Expansion at Tether

Daniel Lynch

Partnerships at AAVE Labs

Aurora Cuadros

Directora Corporativa del Área de Securities Services at Cecabank

Luis Ayala

Managing Director Latin America at BitGo

Angel Niño

Concejal at Ayuntamiento de Madrid

Francisco del Olmo

Subdirector responsable Fintech y Ciberseguridad at CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores)

Niccolò Bardoscia

Head of Digital Asset Trading & Investments, IMI CIB at Intesa Sanpaolo

Luis Nacarino

Executive Director - Crypto & Digital Assets Unit, SCIB at Banco Santander

Joaquin Sastre Ibañez

VP, Head of European Business Development at Bullish

Stijn Vander Straeten

CEO at Crypto Finance Group | Deutsche Börse

Wayne Hughes

Digital Assets Market & Client Engagement Lead at BNP Paribas - Securities Services

Alberto Valero

Tech Expansion Manager at Tether

Pablo López Gil-Albarellos

Regional Manager Spain, Portugal & Greece at Trade Republic

Konstantinos Ayfantopoulos

Head of Digital Assets at Piraeus Bank

Francisco Maroto

Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at BBVA

Tali Salomon

Director for Iberia & Latam at etoro

Daniel Heyman

VP of GTM at Starknet Foundation

Ricardo Martins

Chief Crypto Officer at Bison Bank

Simona Pasero

Head of Innovation & COO Strategy at Generali Investments

Shrutisagar Chandrasekaran

VP, Global Business Solutions at Fireblocks

Carmen Arjona García

Corporate & Digital Assets Lawyer at Asensi Abogados

Guillaume Rodenas

Sales Account Director France at TRM Labs

Julian La Picque

CFO at Chilliz

Andrew Forson

President of DeFi Technologies, Chief Growth Officer of Valour at DeFi Technologies/ Valour

Nicolas Marxer

Head of Blockchain Banking Solutions at Bank Frick

Pablo Gil

Economista | Experto en Bolsa | Comunicador at https://pablogiltrader.com/

Elma Saric

Stablecoin Strategic Area Lead at Raiffeisen Bank

Sandro Knoepfel

Global Lead, Market Structure & Strategic Partnerships at Cardano Foundation

Alejandra Dito

Global Partnerships Digital Assets & Blockchain Director at Mastercard

Catarina Veloso

Director, Regulatory and Compliance at Notabene

Carlos Salinas

Head of Digital Platforms Business. MD at Estating Digital

Hector Torres

CEO at TR Capital

Jonathan Levin

CEO & Co-founder at Chainalysis

Ignacio Azorín

Digital Strategy Director at Comunidad de Madrid

Abel Peña

CSO at Bit2Me

Luis Pastor

CEO & Founder at Tritemius

Jacob Cohen

Director, Public sector partnerships at TRM Labs

José Ángel Fernandez Freire

CEO at Prosegur Crypto

Fernando Rodriguez Ferrer

Deputy Managing Director of International Expansion at Bizum

Alfredo Muñoz

Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

David Calabaza

Digital Assets Specialist at BNP Paribas - Securities Services

Desislava Petrova

Senior Supervision Officer | MiCA at European Banking Authority

Alberto Carlos Alonso Temprado

Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Iberpay

Jose Antonio Hernández Solano

CEO & Co-founder at Stakely

Jason Jiang

CBO at CertiK

Carol Lago

Founder at DeCaroland - Strategy & Advisory

Maria Isabel Gomez Rodriguez

Dirección de Transformación e Innovación at Kutxabank

Marina Villalonga

Partner at Asensi Abogados

Eric Sanchez

CEO & Cofounder at Reental

Alfredo Oballos Diaz

Chief of Staff, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) at Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Jorge Jenkins

Gerente de Desarrollo de Nuevos Negocios at Banco de Crédito BCP

Will Harvey

Vice President at Bullish

Alessandro Fuser

Head Markets at Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse

Fernando Carrillo Martínez

AVP at Deutsche Bank

Amanda Martin

Chief Operating Officer at Canton Foundation

Soledad Contreras

Head of Partnerships, EMEA & APAC at CoinDesk

Peter Kersten

Advisor at EU Commission

Gabriel Ayala

Director of API - Banks & Fintechs at Bit2Me

Felipe Masa

Director at EY

Marat Faritov

VP - Senior Analyst at Moody's Ratings

Israel Rodríguez

CIO at Unicaja

Matt Ward

Executive Director, Europe at Hashgraph

Fermín Cifuentes

Head of Europe at Rain

Nadeem Ladki

Global Head at Bitpanda Enterprise

Sol Cinosi

President at Recoveris

Joaquin Precioso Sánchez

Emerging Technologies Manager at IZERTIS

Horacio Gómez Rey

Head of Legal at N26

Kasper Luyckx

Head of Financial Institutions at Ledger

Xaquin Broz

Gerente Investment Tech at ABANCA

Justine Scerri Herrera

Founder & Partner at MK Fintech Partners

Andrew Whitworth

Executive In Residence at Global Digital Finance

Aldona Żukowska-Caramés

General Manager Spain & Poland at Invity

Daniel Garcia

CEO at VirtuaBroker

Emilio Rivero Coello

Product Manager for Stablecoin Correspondent Banking at Anchorage Digital

Chris Maurice

Co-Founder & CEO at Yellow Card

Olga Arzhaeva

Payments Partnerships Manager at EcommPay

Stephan Dreyer

Managing Director at ANNA - Association of National Numbering Agencies

Tommaso Astazi

Policy Director at BC4EU (Blockchain for Europe)

Santos Andres Gutierrez Figueroa

Professor at European University of Madrid

Asaf Levi Alfaroviz

Professor at European University of Madrid

Adrián González

Responsable de Activos Digitales at Cecabank

Herbert Auinger

Head of Group CIB Business Transformation at Raiffeisen Bank International

Mariola Montoya Flores

Senior PR and Communications Manager at Chilliz

Aaron Stanley

Founder and Managing Director at Promenade Advisory / Brazil Crypto Report

Miguel Ángel Calero

Executive Director at ISBE

Donald Brouwer

Managing Director, Head of EMEA at DFNS

Jesús Lorente

Partner at ECIJA Crypto

Elizabeth McFaul

Ecosystem Marketing Lead at Solana Foundation

Mark John

Director, On-Chain Infrastructure at GALAXY

Christopher Beck

Co-CEO at Boerse Stuttgart Digital

Aleix Guillaumes

CFO & COO at Creand Wealth Management (Banco Alcalá, SA)

Dario Regattieri

CEO at beon. Worldwide

Vivek Chand

Head of Business at BSV Association

Axel Maisonneuve

Open Source Strategy, Education and Tech Development at BSV Association

Dan Maggs

Digital Assets, Innovation Manager at ABN AMRO

Pedro Corrales

CEO at The Muxic

Andriu Barreto

Co-Founder at La familia

Raúl López

CEO & Co-Founder at SYBOL

Javier Bastardo

Contributor at Forbes

Alexander Suhobokov

Senior Vice President, Fintech Solutions at Dukascopy Bank SA

Gianluca Sommariva

CEO & Co-Founder at Hodli

Tiburcio Sanz

Head of Crypto Sales at Taxbit

Patrick Hennes

Board Member at The Luxembourg House of Web3

Guillermo Barco

Senior Product Manager Digital Assets at SwissQuote

DMH

COO at Fluid

Sebastian Seifert

CEO & Co-Founder at finperks

Pedro Miranda

Head of Relations at Yellow

Dimitrios Psarrakis

CEO at ADI Predicstreet

Ilija Tomilin

Regional Sales Account Manager at Tangany

Mariona Pericas

Asociada Principal at finReg360

Juan Jimenez Zaballos

Global Head of Digital Banking Public Policy at Banco Santander

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Kike Fatás Clavero

Head of Innovation Projects for Payments & Consumer Banking at Ibercaja

Gloria Hernández Aler

Co-founder & Partner at finReg360

Roman Gonzalez Torres

Product Specialist - Quant & Crypto at A&G Banco

Eu Cabrera

Partnerships and BD Lead Web3 ecosystem - ISBE at Alastria

Paula Pascual Cortés

Founder & CEO at MERGE

Antonio Sundas

Senior Sales Manager at Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse

Miguel Salgado

Crypto & Digital Assets at Cecabank

Nicky Gomez

Senior Partner at XReg Consulting

Neil Samtani

CEO & Founder at VASPnet

Marie Christin Rinke

Partner at MÖHRLE HAPP LUTHER

Angel Pardo

Founder at Metapro Academy

Nina-Luisa Siedler

Founder & Lawyer at siedler legal

Victor Saez

Director, Expansion & Strategic Partnerships at Kraken

Laura de la Quintana

Periodista de Finanzas at El Mundo

Emi Lorincz

Board Member at Crypto Valley Association

Miguel Arias

CEO & Co-Founder at Rankia

Álvaro Durán

Head of Product at Nebeus

Tomás Pérez Quevedo

Co-Founder at MAKACHAIN

Covadonga Fernandez

CEO at Observatorio Blockchain

Samuel Gómez

Digital Assets Delivery Lead at Cecabank

Anna Zambon

Growth & Strategy Executive at Applied Blockchain

Luis De Magalhães

Latin America Team Lead at BeinCrypto

Fernando Quirós

Managing Editor at Cointelegraph en Español

Salvador Mas Casado

CEO at GPTadvisor

Carlos Fernández

Founding Partner at Tritemius

Viktor Banh

Managing Director | Digital Assets Markets at DekaBank

Stuart Jackson

Global VP, Sales Engineering at Fireblocks

Ana Elliot

Directora de Estrategia y Desarrollo de Negocio at Prosegur Crypto

Gabriel Lera Campo

Digital Assets & Blockchain Specialist at BBVA CIB

Sergi Andres

Socio at Abast Legal

Matteo Alessandro

Senior Legal Associate at MK Fintech Partners

Olga Dovgopolyi

International Growth at WiW3CH

Tomás Serrano Ramires

Founder at Datablocks

Kam Benbrik

Head of Onchain Research at Bitwise

Rubén Escudero Ariza

Redactor at EL ESPAÑOL

Beni Sánchez

Tax Lawyer at

Pablo Grueso

CEO at Shellment

Marina Markezic

Co-Founder & Executive Director at European Ethereum Institute

Juan Ignacio Ibañez

General Secretary at MiCA Crypto Alliance

Cristina Gil Hernández

Business Development Director at MadBitcoin

Marie Winter

Managing Director at OSL EU

Facundo Trotz

Legal & Policy at Kleros

Jhésica Álvarez

Chief Compliance Officer at Nebeus

Carlos Arena

Vice President of Sales at Optimism

Raúl Tébar

Cybersecurity Lead at Grupo Bit2Me

Omar Cristancho De la Rosa

Custody Business and Market Ecosystem Manager at SIX

Matteo Manzi

CEO & Co-Founder at Orion Finance

Ruben Gonzalez Ruiz

Head of Iberia & Strategic Accounts at Swift

Maxime Masuy

Director Fintech Enablement, Global Partnerships at Mastercard

Marta Luengo Garcés

Senior Policy Advisor (AML/CFT) at Secretaría General del Tesoro y Financiación Internacional (SGTFI)

Ignacio Santos

CEO at Fazil Crypto

Pablo Gómez

Founder & CEO at Metlabs

Xavi Armengol

Content Creator at MERGE

Rowan Varrall

Director of Regulatory Affairs at DTIF - Digital Token Identifier Foundation

Lucía Suárez

Head of Compliance Digital Assets at Banco Santander

Adrian Espallargas

M&A Reporter at Mergermarket

Jesus Perez Sanchez

Portfolio Manager Posidonia 21 ETP at Altarius ETI

Riley Kaminer

Founder at ClearCritical

Eneko Knorr

Co-Founder & CEO at Stabolut

José Luis Cáceres

Founder & CEO at NWC10 / SuperPioneros

Jorge Soriano

CEO at Criptan

Javier Molina

Senior Market Analyst at

Vicente Varo

Director General at Finect

Antonio Villanueva

Editor-in-Chief at Finect

Javier González Cruz

CBO at Allfunds

Mariana de la Roche

CEO at Black Vogel Consulting

Valerie von Lucke

Principle Product Owner DLT & Digital Assets at Commerzbank AG

Peter Stolcz

Director of B2B Sales at AMINA Bank

Viktor Koliba

Director of Legal at Invity