Chainalysis CEO and leadership

Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.

Amanda Wick is a Chief of Legal Affairs at Chainalysis and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. She has worked as Associate at Strom Law Firm, Associate at Epstein Becker Green, and Assistant U.S. Attorney at Department of Justice. Amanda works or has worked as Active Non-Resident Member at Junior League Of Atlanta. She studied at Vanderbilt University Law School between 2003 and 2006 and Cornell University between 1999 and 2003.

Before joining Chainalysis in 2016, Gerd left a promising academic career in formal computer science (boring) to work for 10 years on large scale geographically distributed storage for science related projects (CERN). Gerd is passionate about code quality, performance, and protocols.

Jacob has chased bugs in distributed systems in academia and business for many years, and enjoys throwing that experience at the ever-growing pile of challenging, never-before-solved problems in the fast-evolving field of blockchain.

Experienced Technology Transactions Lawyer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology industry (infrastructure, XaaS, and licensing). Skilled in Technology Law, Real Estate, and Data Privacy. CIPP/US certified; CIPP/E pending

Jason Bonds is Chief Revenue Officer @ Chainalysis - providing transparency for a global economy built on blockchains

Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.