Nigel Smart
Smart received a BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Reading in 1989 and his PhD degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1992. Smart proceeded to work as a research fellow at the University of Kent, the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Cardiff University until 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was a lecturer at the University of Kent, and then spent three years at Hewlett-Packard from 1997 to 2000. From 2000 to 2017 he was at the University of Bristol, where he founded the cryptology research group. From 2018 he has been based in the COSIC group at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Smart held a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award (2008-2013), and two ERC Advanced Grant (2011-2016 and 2016-2021). He was a director of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2012-2014), and was elected Vice President for the period 2014-2016. In 2016 he was named as a Fellow of the IACR.
Smart carries out research on a wide variety of topics in cryptography. Smart is known for his work in elliptic curve cryptography. He has also worked on pairing-based cryptography contributing a number of algorithms such as the SK-KEM and the Ate-pairing. His work with Gentry and Halevi on performing the first large calculation using Fully Homomorphic Encryption won the IBM Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award for 2012. In the last decade he has worked on making secure multiparty computation practical.
In addition to his three years at HP Laboratories, Smart was a founder of the startup Identum, which was bought by Trend Micro in 2008. In 2013 he formed, with Yehuda Lindell, Unbound Security, a company deploying products based on multi-party computations. He is also the co-founder, along with Kenny Paterson, of the Real World Cryptography conference series.
Nick J Maxwell
Nick Maxwell leads the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) research programme, hosted within the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. The mission of the FFIS programme is to examine evidence related to the effectiveness, proportionality and efficiency of public/private and private/private information-sharing partnerships and processes, and to share good practice between existing partnership models around the world. Prior to this role, Nick’s professional career has included head of Research and Advocacy for Transparency International UK; providing anti-money laundering specialist advice to NATO; managing the International Economics Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs); and leading the public policy function at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Martin Fontanet
Martin Fontanet is working as a privacy and security expert at the Swiss Data Science Center. His role is to help in the design and development of the Swiss Data Custodian, a project addressing one of the main challenges facing data science: processing individual data without putting privacy at risk.
Before joining the SDSC, Martin obtained a BSc and a MSc in Communication Systems from EPFL, where he specialized in information security and privacy. He is currently based in Vaud, Switzerland.
Jean-Luc Marsat
Dean Glettig
Dean Glettig is Senior Director of Product Development at Finch Therapeutics. Dean has been a lead in development and scale-up of all products since he started at Finch in 2016 and was the CMC lead on the partnership program with Takeda. Prior to joining Finch, he worked in the Langer Lab at MIT, where he developed novel oral drug delivery technologies. This resulted in the filing of 4 patents and the start of a spin-off company.
Dean received his BSc & MSc in Chemistry from ETH Zurich and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Tufts University.
Aarti Kapoor
Aarti Kapoor is Chief Executive Officer of VMG Consumer Acquisition Corp., a consumer and retail focused SPAC sponsored by VMG Partners. Ms. Kapoor is a seasoned financial services executive with 14 years of experience in investment banking, spending the majority of her career covering high-growth consumer and retail companies across both M&A and capital markets transactions. Prior to joining VMG Consumer Acquisition Corp. in June 2021, Ms. Kapoor was a senior investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where she built out the firm’s coverage of leisure, lifestyle and wellness companies and led the new disruptive growth coverage effort within consumer and retail investment banking. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Ms. Kapoor was an investment banker at Moelis & Company, where she covered consumer and retail companies and built one of Wall Street’s first coverage platforms focused on the health and wellness industry. Ms. Kapoor has advised several marquee brands across the consumer and retail universe including Barry's Bootcamp, Casper, Caribou Coffee, F45 Training, Flywheel Sports, Indigo Wild, LaserAway, Vega, and various others. Ms. Kapoor has been recognized by various outlets for her work in pioneering coverage of the health and wellness industry on Wall Street, listed to "Forbes 30 Under 30" in Finance, Business Insider's "Rising Stars" of Wall Street, and featured in publications by Bloomberg, ESPN, Yahoo! Finance and more. Ms. Kapoor began her career as an investment banker at Citi covering the technology sector. Ms. Kapoor received her B.A. with Honors in Economics from Harvard College with a Citation in Spanish Language.