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J. Christopher Giancarlo

General Counsel, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Former Chairman of U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Comission (CFTC)

The Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo served as the thirteenth Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Considered one of “the most influential individuals in financial regulation,” he also was 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. 

Giancarlo is author of “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 digital network transformation of financial services. 

Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the international law firm, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Digital Dollar Project (https://digitaldollarproject.org), and also board director, advisor and angel investor in numerous public and private technology and financial services companies. 

Among other recent recognitions, Giancarlo was appointed to the rank of Chevalier in the National Order of Merit by French President Macron in recognition of his expertise in “cryptofinance.”

Sulolit "Raj" Mukherjee

Executive Director, Compliance & Implementation, IRS

Sulolit “Raj” Mukherjee currently serves the Internal Revenue Service as the Executive Director, Compliance & Implementation, for the Office of Digital Asset Initiative (DAI). The DAI operates as a Program Office helping IRS set consistent, global digital asset strategy, including internal procedure and policy. He brings significant industry expertise in building global tax programs and executing pragmatic strategies that meet regulatory muster and budget parameters.

Formerly, he led the global tax function at ConsenSys and its foreign subsidiaries where he managed all the firm’s tax functions including tax policy, corporate tax, compliance, international tax, M&A and customer reporting. He also served as ConsenSys’ tax policy representative in Washington DC because of his extensive know-how in liaising with governing agencies and industry to help clarify tax regulations in the digital asset space. Previously, he was the Head of Tax & Tax Information Reporting at two digital asset currency exchanges including Coinbase where he oversaw creation of end-to-end tax compliance functions and served as the lead executive focused on emerging US and global tax & regulatory obligations for digital assets.

Raj came to the digital assets world after leading tax advisory functions for investment banks in NYC for over a decade focusing on U.S. and global tax information reporting, FATCA, NRA, 871(m) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS). Raj has a J.D from University of Kansas School of Law, and B.A. degrees in International Relations and English Literature from Washington College in the state of Maryland.

Michael Mosier

Former Acting Director, FinCEN,
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Michael Mosier is a partner in ex/ante, an early-stage venture 

fund investing in technology that advances democratic resilience and human agency. He co-founded Arktouros legal boutique of former federal prosecutors dedicated to civil society and emergent technology. He has twice been the first in-house counsel at tech companies: Chainalysis blockchain analytics and Espresso Systems building configurable private computation. 

In public service, Michael served as Acting Director, Deputy Director, and the first Digital Innovation Officer of the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), driving initiatives on privacy and digital identity to advance personal sovereignty within the financial system.  Previously, he served as Associate Director of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).  Before Treasury, Michael was a Deputy Chief in the Department of Justice’s Money Laundering & Asset Recovery Section and served at the White House National Security Council as a Director.  He has been an adjunct professor (Advanced Evidence for Trial) at Georgetown University Law Center and began his public service as a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.