R Tamara de Silva has over 25 years of experience as an independent trader beginning on the floor of the Mid-America Exchange. She has worked in the futures industry as a brokerage executive and lawyer in which capacity she has successfully represented exchange directors and officers, hedge funds, traders, trading firms and brokerage houses. She graduated with Special Honors from the University of Chicago,and Loyola University’s School of Law. She studied blockchain technology at Oxford University’s Said School

of Business, and completed courses in artifical intelligence, blockchain technologies, and machine learning at MIT’s Sloan School of Management Executive Education program.