Sameer Shalaby is the Founder, President and Co-CEO of VersiFi, a New York digital-asset trading and lending firm that brings a TradFi-inspired, regulated approach to institutional crypto. A serial software entrepreneur with 25-plus years in financial technology, he has built and exited multiple companies - Paladyne Systems (acquired by Broadridge in 2011), Cogency Systems, and the publicly listed TenFold Corporation - and ran HazelTree Fund Services as President and CEO before launching VersiFi in 2022.
Arjun Jayaram is the Founder and CEO of Baton Systems, a San Francisco-based fintech company rebuilding post-trade infrastructure for the world's largest financial institutions. A serial technologist who previously co-founded Compass Labs (acquired by Yahoo) and held roles at Twitter and Dwolla, Jayaram identified a stubborn problem in the financial plumbing - that moving digital assets across different ledgers was the real bottleneck, not the digitization of assets themselves. Under his leadership, Baton's platform now processes nearly $30 billion in daily transaction value for seven of the nine largest western banks, enabling real-time settlement and intraday liquidity management without requiring institutions to replace their core systems.