Dr. Mahmoud Hamada is a financial and commodity trading expert with 15 years of experience in quantitative analysis, structuring and consulting. He has innovated and implemented trading and risk management strategies, generating top and bottom line growth for clients in power, oil, gas, insurance and banking sectors.

Mahmoud holds a Ph.D. in mathematical finance from UNSW, Sydney, Executive MBA from Macquarie Graduate School of Management, and a Master of Science in financial engineering from ENSIMAG, Grenoble, France

Scott MacDonald is a software engineer with over ten years of experience in a variety of industries including finance and biotechnology. He specializes in scientific programming and making sense of complex data with novel visualizations. He was awarded an US patent in 2015 [US20150051889 A1] for his work on molecular visualization software.

Scott earned his Bachelor of Science (with honors) in physics from the University of Calgary, Canada, where he designed and implemented a signal processing software to study the aurora.

Kai Wulff has over 20 years of experience in advisory services in Europe as well as in South Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group, followed by 14 years at Oliver Wyman Financial Services where he was a partner in the Finance and Risk practice. He is co-founder and CEO of Liquid Equity and In2Experience.

Kai holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany