SPEAKER’S PROFILE

Charlie Meraud is the co-founder of Woorton, the Paris Blockchain Week and the French Digital Asset Association and has been active in the field since 2016. Woorton is an EU licensed cryptocurrency liquidity provider for professional investors. As a proprietary trading house, Woorton trades as a principal, making markets on exchanges and providing hundreds of counterparties world wide. They provide liquidity to funds, brokers, exchanges, private banks, payment providers and UHNI through chats, UI and API.Before that, Charlie worked on a Credit and Forex Solutions Sales desk where he traded about €750M per year mainly in repo, forex and interest rates with CEEMEA clients ranging from banks to assets managers and insurers.After that, he was part of the launch team of Blackfin Capital Partners venture fund which raised €180M to invest in European fintech startups from early stage seed to Series B. He left a management position at the one of the fastest growing startups in Singapore to dedicate himself to cryptocurrencies in France.