Oracle Blockchain Roundtable

Joost Volker
Director, Cloud Platform Business Development & EMEA Middleware Blockchain Lead, Oracle

Joost Volker is EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) Business Development Director for Platform Cloud Services with a specialty in Blockchain, IoT, AI and leading the Go to Market , field enablement and demand generation for innovative Cloud Platform services. He has 20+ years' experience in Information Technology and joined Oracle in 2004 to build the portfolio and value propositions around Enterprise Content Management, Web Content and Portals. From 2013-2015 Joost was also leading the BPM team to grow Oracle's position in that domain, particularly in Adaptive Case Management. Prior to joining Oracle he worked with Accenture and several Telco's across Europe, leading enterprise transformation programs and implementing workflow management systems. He holds a Masters' degree in Electrical Engineering of Delft University with a major in Artificial Intelligence, executive degrees from INSEAD and Columbia Business School and is a public speaker on behalf of Oracle.

Emmanuel Fatusin
Co-Founder,Blockchain Asset Management Limited

Emmanuel has over 17 years' experience in real estate, mortgage banking, consulting, investment banking and financial services. Emmanuel was Group Head Credit Risk and Risk Analytics for a Dangote Group and also responsible for the establishment of a Mortgage Bank in West Africa.

In addition, Emmanuel has held a number of Director appointments and was involved in global portfolio management for various Tier 1 Investment Banks. He was based in the United Kingdom and worked at Citigroup, KPMG LLP, Santander, Barclays Capital and Royal Bank of Scotland where he held executive positions. He has also been involved in managing portfolios of international organisations across Europe, America and Asia. He is a co-Founder and currently Managing Partner (Financial Management & Business Re-structuring) of Blockchain Asset Management Limited (BAM), one of Africa's leading private Blockchain Solution providers. Emmanuel is currently working on projects using the 'Blockchain Technology' to solve various industry sector challenges.

Deji Soetan
Co-Founder,Blockchain Asset Management Limited

Deji is a Technologist with over 20 years' experience in the IT industry, in his early career he progressed into Enterprise computing working in the Back office at KPMG (international Headquarters) in the Netherlands. Deji has worked as an Infrastructure/ Solutions Architect, on various IT Projects across Europe working for numerous organizations such as Fujitsu, IBM, Serco, Ford, Audit Commission etc. Deji has worked in various industries and more recently has experience in the Oil and Gas sector which brought him back to Africa, where he came to head the technology function within Forte Oil Plc.

Over the last two years Deji has been researching and developing solutions within the Blockchain Technology, He co-Founded Blockchain Asset Management Limited (BAM) one of Africa's leading private Blockchain Solution providers. BAM is Oracle's first Blockchain partner in Africa, they have developed and implemented out of box Blockchain solutions. Deji holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, he is an alumnus of the Said Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.