The Future of Money

The Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo served as 13th Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014 to 2019. Considered one of “the most influential individuals in financial regulation,” Mr. Giancarlo also served as a member of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Committee, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. Based on his celebrated call on the U.S. Congress to respect a new generation’s interest in cryptocurrency, Mr. Giancarlo authored the book “CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money,” an account of his oversight of the world’s first regulated market for bitcoin derivatives and the coming transformation of financial services, including the most valuable thing of all: money.

In addition to serving as Senior Counsel to the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Mr. Giancarlo is also a board director, advisor, and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. He is also a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a U.S. Central Bank digital currency.

Maureen O’Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; she also holds a professorship at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor O’Hara’s research focuses on issues in market microstructure, recently examining how ETFs affect market stability, liquidity issues in corporate bond markets, and transaction costs in bitcoin. She publishes widely on a broad range of topics, including banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, experimental economics, and finance and ethics (her book “Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street” was published by Norton in 2016). Professor O’Hara is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the text “Market Microstructure Theory” (Blackwell: 1995).

For almost 30 years, Rob Krugman has been focused on creating new companies, innovating new solutions, and defining business models that enable organizations to get the most out of emerging digital technologies. Today, as Chief Digital Officer for Broadridge, Mr. Krugman leads digital strategy and innovation. 

Mr. Krugman and his team work to define and iterate transformative digital strategies, research and incubate new products, and create disruptive client experiences on behalf of their clients. By leveraging new technologies and supplementing traditional channels with new and emerging digital approaches toward execution and engagement, they help businesses disrupt business models, reduce costs, improve customer relationships, and make every touchpoint a meaningful interaction.

Mr. Krugman enjoys speaking about what’s happening in digital assets, digital transformation, the API economy, identity management, omnichannel communications, and the digitization of the customer experience.