Sophia Joyce Managing Director - Content Strategy & Engagement Moody's Ratings

Sophia Joyce is MD - Content Strategy & Engagement, Head of MIS Research, based in London. Sophia is responsible for leading the global MIS Research team to enable our strategic priority to serve customers with thought-leading research and engagement through multiple channels. She leads the definition and delivery of MIS’ content vision and strategy, ensuring that published content and data evolves to meet rapidly changing customer needs, driving research quality initiatives, consistency standards, risk appetite and controls. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2022, Sophia spent her career in scholarly and scientific publishing, spanning roles in editorial, product management and strategy; most recently heading up content strategy for Wiley’s $1bn scholarly and scientific journals business. She brings first-hand knowledge of content strategy, business transformation, agile product development, operational implementation and is a certified lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Sophia holds a BA in Classics from Oxford University.

Wendy Cheong Managing Director – Regional Head of Asia Pacific Moody's Ratings

Wendy Cheong is a senior management and strategy professional with over 22 years of experience in leading and transforming international business operations.

She is currently Managing Director-Regional Head of Asia Pacific for Moody’s Ratings, based in Hong Kong. In this role, Wendy develops and leads Moody’s growth strategy in both developed and emerging markets in the region. Wendy is the senior representative for Moody’s in Asia Pacific and is responsible for managing regional operations, overseeing policy and regulatory outreach, coordinating Moody’s global initiatives, and providing oversight of affiliates, joint ventures and MIS domestic market strategies in the region.

Wendy joined Moody's in 2010 as an Assistant Director at Content Strategy in Moody’s Analytics, and has since held senior positions in strategy and management roles across business lines in Hong Kong and New York to build strategic vision, drive business growth and enhance market impact. She has served as Chief of Staff to the President of Moody’s Investors Service; Representative Director for MIS in Hong Kong, while also serving as Senior Vice President – Head of APAC Strategy & Business Management; and Director and Senior Product Strategist at Moody’s Analytics. Wendy sits as a Director on the boards of a majority of Moody’s Asia entities and affiliates in the region.

Wendy is a member of Moody’s Global Diversity Council and founded the Moody’s Women’s Employee Resource Group in Asia Pacific. She held leadership roles in several external women in finance organizations, including 100 Women in Finance and the Women in Finance Association of the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA). She is currently a member of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), a leading network of over 600 organizations across 34 countries that mobilizes capital for impact investing.

Before joining Moody’s, Wendy held senior strategy, sales and marketing positions at Prudential PLC, as well as at Singapore Telecoms in Hong Kong and Singapore.

She holds a BA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore.

Fabian Astic Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Economy Moody's Ratings

Fabian Astic serves on Moody’s Ratings Senior Leadership Team as Managing

Director and Global Head of Decentralized Finance & Digital Assets, Cyber Credit Risk,

and AI Analytics. He leads the group responsible for the rating agency’s preparedness

for the digitalization of the global economy, driven by transformative technologies

like AI and blockchain. Specific areas of focus for the group include analytics and

research, market and policy development, and process, data, and technology.

Fabian is widely recognized for his expertise in both traditional finance and digital

finance, often speaking at high-profile industry conferences and contributing to

leading trade association events and podcasts. He serves on the Digital Asset Markets

Subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets

Advisory Committee, which focuses on digital finance and asset tokenization, and on

the board of QuantCube Technology, an AI company providing predictive analytics

and economic forecasts from alternative data. Additionally, he is the Secretary of the

board of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a Moody’s partner, which supports LGBTQ

youth. In 2018, Fabian was named as one of Business Equality Magazine’s “40 LGBTQ

Leaders Under 40.”

Prior to his current role, Fabian established and led the group responsible for

developing quantitative models and analytical tools used in Moody’s rating process, as

well as innovation activities, including advanced capabilities in machine learning and

artificial intelligence.

Since joining Moody’s in 2006, Fabian has held roles in Credit Policy Research and the

Structured Finance Group, analyzing various structured credit products and

contributing to rating methodologies.

Fabian holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Mathematical Finance,

as well as a Master’s Degree in Mathematics Applied to Economic Sciences and a

Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences from Université Paris

Dauphine. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering from

the Ecole des Mines de Paris, where he specialized in Quantitative Finance

Daniel Coheur Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Tokeny

Daniel Coheur is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Tokeny. In this role he can lever the experience of his corporate background, which centered around the global growth of transactional based enterprises. In capital markets (Clearstream Banking owned by Deutsche Boerse), and telecommunication (Syniverse owned by The Carlyle Group). He is a genuine entrepreneur who mentored and funded several start-ups before creating his own investment boutique. Today, Daniel is working with investment banks, funds, assets managers and distributors to educate these actors on the digital era of finance and accelerate their adoption of distributed ledger technology.

Sandra Ro Chief Executive Officer Global Blockchain Business Council

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early angel investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She currently serves as the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leading Swiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 301 ambassadors, across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines.

In 2023, she was appointed onto the CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), Digital Asset Market Subcommittee (DAMS) and cochairs the Taxonomy and Tokenization Infrastructure workstreams within the subcommittee. She was previously appointed as the Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, International Securities Services Association’s DLT & ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board, Salesforce’s AI Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council, and several government Convergence AI working groups and councils as well as Board director of several fintech start-ups.

Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including Hyperledger Foundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

She is a frequent guest lecturer and hackathon judge at universities discussing topics from fintech to data privacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified and presented in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, South Korea’s National Assembly, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions.

She and her team filed the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of this technology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.

Tengfu Li Vice President – Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions Moody's Ratings

Tengfu Li is an Assistant Vice President – Analyst with Moody’s Financial Institutions Group.

Based in Singapore, he is responsible for the credit ratings of financial institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia. Prior to Moody’s, Tengfu worked at OCBC Bank, where he developed credit risk models.

Tengfu holds a MSc in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Anthony Woolley Head of Business Development Ownera

Anthony is the Head of Business Development for Ownera and co-Chair of the GDF Private Markets Digitization Steering Group. Ownera and GDF brought the financial industry together to digitize the private markets. The group developed the FinP2P Open-Source protocol which enables peer-to-peer issuance, trading, collateralization and real-time settlement of digital securities across any asset class and underlying ledger technology. Prior to joining Ownera, Anthony was the UK Chief Innovation Officer and UK Chief Information Officer for Société Générale Group. In these roles he collaborated with a multitude of FinTechs and high growth companies on the transformation of the wholesale banking industry and drove many of the banks blockchain initiatives. Prior to joining Société Générale, Anthony held senior technology leadership positions in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities businesses of HSBC, Citigroup and Salomon Smith Barney.

Galo Tocagni Chief Operating Officer OpenZeppelin

Galo Tocagni is the Chief Operating Officer at OpenZeppelin, where he focuses on helping financial institutions build, secure, and operate onchain applications at scale. OpenZeppelin enables clients to ship smart contract applications quickly and transact securely across multiple networks, supporting over a thousand trusted web3 projects and enterprises, including Coinbase, ANZ Bank, NAB Bank, Mercado Libre, Wenia, the Ethereum Foundation, and Uniswap.

Before joining OpenZeppelin, Galo worked at McKinsey. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Amine Lahrichi Head of Financial Markets OpenZeppelin

Amine is the Head of Financial Markets at OpenZeppelin, where he is responsible for driving go-to-market strategy and execution in the banking and government sectors.

His mission is to secure blockchain projects for financial institutions, including stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized bonds, and tokenization platforms, as showcased with ANZ Bank, BIS, and NAB Bank. He has played a crucial role in educating institutions on blockchain adoption as a transformative technology.

Before joining OpenZeppelin, Amine worked in leading corporate innovation labs, including AXA and Amazon, where he focused on developing new products and go-to-market from scratch. He has been actively involved in the blockchain space for the past four years, primarily focused on infrastructure and security.

Amine holds a Master’s degree in Business Innovation Management from both Paris-Dauphine University and Mines ParisTech.

Daniel Coheur Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Tokeny

Daniel Coheur is the co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Tokeny. In this role he can lever the experience of his corporate background, which centered around the global growth of transactional based enterprises. In capital markets (Clearstream Banking owned by Deutsche Boerse), and telecommunication (Syniverse owned by The Carlyle Group). He is a genuine entrepreneur who mentored and funded several start-ups before creating his own investment boutique. Today, Daniel is working with investment banks, funds, assets managers and distributors to educate these actors on the digital era of finance and accelerate their adoption of distributed ledger technology.

Sandra Ro Chief Executive Officer Global Blockchain Business Council

Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early angel investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She currently serves as the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the world’s largest leading Swiss-based non-for-profit association with more than 500 institutional members, 301 ambassadors, across 117 jurisdictions and disciplines.

In 2023, she was appointed onto the CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), Digital Asset Market Subcommittee (DAMS) and cochairs the Taxonomy and Tokenization Infrastructure workstreams within the subcommittee. She was previously appointed as the Senate representative of the New York State Digital Currency Task Force, and serves on the AIFC Fintech Council (Kazakhstan), World Economic Forum’s Digital Currencies Governance Consortium, International Securities Services Association’s DLT & ISO Standards, GI Trust FATF Travel Rule Standards Task Force (South Korea), GBBC’s Global Standards Mapping Initiative, Blockchain for Climate (BxC) Board, Salesforce’s AI Advisory Board, Filecoin Foundation Advisory Board, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator Advisory Council, and several government Convergence AI working groups and councils as well as Board director of several fintech start-ups.

Sandra was a founding member of many of the earliest blockchain associations including Hyperledger Foundation, The Linux Foundation, the Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (PTDL) and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA).

She is a frequent guest lecturer and hackathon judge at universities discussing topics from fintech to data privacy and harnessing emerging technologies to solve real world problems and has testified and presented in front of governments including the U.S. Senate Committee - Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, UK House of Lords, Economic Affairs Committee, European Parliament, South Korea’s National Assembly, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, in both closed door and public forums.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions.

She and her team filed the first set of crypto derivatives patents with the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO). Sandra was one of the corporate digital asset pioneers to recognize the potential of this technology and its many applications; she presented at one of the first CFTC Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on the potential of blockchain technology on February 23, 2016. Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange and interest rate markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment.

Anthony Woolley Head of Business Development Ownera

Anthony is the Head of Business Development for Ownera and co-Chair of the GDF Private Markets Digitization Steering Group. Ownera and GDF brought the financial industry together to digitize the private markets. The group developed the FinP2P Open-Source protocol which enables peer-to-peer issuance, trading, collateralization and real-time settlement of digital securities across any asset class and underlying ledger technology. Prior to joining Ownera, Anthony was the UK Chief Innovation Officer and UK Chief Information Officer for Société Générale Group. In these roles he collaborated with a multitude of FinTechs and high growth companies on the transformation of the wholesale banking industry and drove many of the banks blockchain initiatives. Prior to joining Société Générale, Anthony held senior technology leadership positions in the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities businesses of HSBC, Citigroup and Salomon Smith Barney.

Galo Tocagni Chief Operating Officer OpenZeppelin

Galo Tocagni is the Chief Operating Officer at OpenZeppelin, where he focuses on helping financial institutions build, secure, and operate onchain applications at scale. OpenZeppelin enables clients to ship smart contract applications quickly and transact securely across multiple networks, supporting over a thousand trusted web3 projects and enterprises, including Coinbase, ANZ Bank, NAB Bank, Mercado Libre, Wenia, the Ethereum Foundation, and Uniswap.

Before joining OpenZeppelin, Galo worked at McKinsey. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Amine Lahrichi Head of Financial Markets OpenZeppelin

Amine is the Head of Financial Markets at OpenZeppelin, where he is responsible for driving go-to-market strategy and execution in the banking and government sectors.

His mission is to secure blockchain projects for financial institutions, including stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), tokenized bonds, and tokenization platforms, as showcased with ANZ Bank, BIS, and NAB Bank. He has played a crucial role in educating institutions on blockchain adoption as a transformative technology.

Before joining OpenZeppelin, Amine worked in leading corporate innovation labs, including AXA and Amazon, where he focused on developing new products and go-to-market from scratch. He has been actively involved in the blockchain space for the past four years, primarily focused on infrastructure and security.

Amine holds a Master’s degree in Business Innovation Management from both Paris-Dauphine University and Mines ParisTech.

Sophia Joyce Managing Director - Content Strategy & Engagement Moody's Ratings

Sophia Joyce is MD - Content Strategy & Engagement, Head of MIS Research, based in London. Sophia is responsible for leading the global MIS Research team to enable our strategic priority to serve customers with thought-leading research and engagement through multiple channels. She leads the definition and delivery of MIS’ content vision and strategy, ensuring that published content and data evolves to meet rapidly changing customer needs, driving research quality initiatives, consistency standards, risk appetite and controls. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2022, Sophia spent her career in scholarly and scientific publishing, spanning roles in editorial, product management and strategy; most recently heading up content strategy for Wiley’s $1bn scholarly and scientific journals business. She brings first-hand knowledge of content strategy, business transformation, agile product development, operational implementation and is a certified lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Sophia holds a BA in Classics from Oxford University.

Wendy Cheong Managing Director – Regional Head of Asia Pacific Moody's Ratings

Wendy Cheong is a senior management and strategy professional with over 22 years of experience in leading and transforming international business operations.

She is currently Managing Director-Regional Head of Asia Pacific for Moody’s Ratings, based in Hong Kong. In this role, Wendy develops and leads Moody’s growth strategy in both developed and emerging markets in the region. Wendy is the senior representative for Moody’s in Asia Pacific and is responsible for managing regional operations, overseeing policy and regulatory outreach, coordinating Moody’s global initiatives, and providing oversight of affiliates, joint ventures and MIS domestic market strategies in the region.

Wendy joined Moody's in 2010 as an Assistant Director at Content Strategy in Moody’s Analytics, and has since held senior positions in strategy and management roles across business lines in Hong Kong and New York to build strategic vision, drive business growth and enhance market impact. She has served as Chief of Staff to the President of Moody’s Investors Service; Representative Director for MIS in Hong Kong, while also serving as Senior Vice President – Head of APAC Strategy & Business Management; and Director and Senior Product Strategist at Moody’s Analytics. Wendy sits as a Director on the boards of a majority of Moody’s Asia entities and affiliates in the region.

Wendy is a member of Moody’s Global Diversity Council and founded the Moody’s Women’s Employee Resource Group in Asia Pacific. She held leadership roles in several external women in finance organizations, including 100 Women in Finance and the Women in Finance Association of the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA). She is currently a member of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN), a leading network of over 600 organizations across 34 countries that mobilizes capital for impact investing.

Before joining Moody’s, Wendy held senior strategy, sales and marketing positions at Prudential PLC, as well as at Singapore Telecoms in Hong Kong and Singapore.

She holds a BA in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore.

Fabian Astic Managing Director, Global Head of Digital Economy Moody's Ratings

Fabian Astic serves on Moody’s Ratings Senior Leadership Team as Managing

Director and Global Head of Decentralized Finance & Digital Assets, Cyber Credit Risk,

and AI Analytics. He leads the group responsible for the rating agency’s preparedness

for the digitalization of the global economy, driven by transformative technologies

like AI and blockchain. Specific areas of focus for the group include analytics and

research, market and policy development, and process, data, and technology.

Fabian is widely recognized for his expertise in both traditional finance and digital

finance, often speaking at high-profile industry conferences and contributing to

leading trade association events and podcasts. He serves on the Digital Asset Markets

Subcommittee of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets

Advisory Committee, which focuses on digital finance and asset tokenization, and on

the board of QuantCube Technology, an AI company providing predictive analytics

and economic forecasts from alternative data. Additionally, he is the Secretary of the

board of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a Moody’s partner, which supports LGBTQ

youth. In 2018, Fabian was named as one of Business Equality Magazine’s “40 LGBTQ

Leaders Under 40.”

Prior to his current role, Fabian established and led the group responsible for

developing quantitative models and analytical tools used in Moody’s rating process, as

well as innovation activities, including advanced capabilities in machine learning and

artificial intelligence.

Since joining Moody’s in 2006, Fabian has held roles in Credit Policy Research and the

Structured Finance Group, analyzing various structured credit products and

contributing to rating methodologies.

Fabian holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Mathematical Finance,

as well as a Master’s Degree in Mathematics Applied to Economic Sciences and a

Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Social Sciences from Université Paris

Dauphine. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Science and Executive Engineering from

the Ecole des Mines de Paris, where he specialized in Quantitative Finance

Tengfu Li Vice President – Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions Moody's Ratings

Tengfu Li is an Assistant Vice President – Analyst with Moody’s Financial Institutions Group.

Based in Singapore, he is responsible for the credit ratings of financial institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia. Prior to Moody’s, Tengfu worked at OCBC Bank, where he developed credit risk models.

Tengfu holds a MSc in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, and a BEng in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.