Meet Forum Speakers. Ilya Churakov - Global Digital Club

Meet Forum Speakers. Ilya Churakov

May 12, 2022

We continue Global Digital Forum marathon. Now turning to Speakers.

All of them are TOP investors, entrepreneurs, founders and co-founders, CEO, COO and advisors in different segments of the Digital World.

Meet Ilya Churakov, Founder, Global Digital Club. Guinness Record holder in entrepreneurship, attracted $55 mln in crypto bank ICO.

Ilya started as a financial markets expert in 2003. Later headed the Banking Management Fund department, where the amount of clients’ investments started from $1 mln.

In 2011 found the company Expert System – united webinar platform, that a year later became the Guinness Record holder for the biggest webinar in the World with 12k one-time participants. The total number of the students if the educational platform exceeded 5 mln people.

In 2017 together with the team attracted $55 mln in ICO Crypterium Bank. In 2019 the number of Crypterium users reached 50k worldwide.

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Shiti Rastogi Manghani

Chief Marketing Offiicer, STEPN

Managed multi-million-dollar projects to founding AI start-up across US, UK, Europe and India

Shiti is an award-winning business leader with 14 years of experience across 11 countries managing multi-million-dollar projects to founding AI start-up across US, UK, Europe and India.

Based in the UK, Shiti is an Electronics Engineer and holds an MBA in Marketing. Having launched multiple products successfully in international markets, her skills lie at the cross-section of technology and business.

Shiti strongly believes in harnessing the power of technology for social impact. She founded her own computer vision-based AI start-up to be amongst Top 50 wellbeing start-ups in the UK (At no. 14) and in the Top 100 health companies in the UK. Previously, she has worked towards launching Wall Street Journal’s digital arm in India and building power brands at PepsiCo US.

Shiti won UK govt’s Exceptional Talent 2021, was nominated in the Women Tech Network Global Awards in the category “Women-Led Tech-Startup of the Year 2020”, finalist in the “Entrepreneur of the Year 2021” category by Microsoft’s Diversity in Tech awards and been a panelist at the prestigious LSX World Congress for Longevity and been published across major technology, healthcare and startup-focused media.

She is an active member of female founders and technology forums in the UK and worldwide, and has been profiled on Women Of Wearable, She Can Code and other industry-leading platforms. She has been named as a “Woman to Watch” in HealthTech, a “Trailblazer” in the Digital Longevity space, and a “Fem Foundry Leader” in digital-technology.

Shiti presently serves STEPN as their Chief Marketing Officer. STEPN is a web3 lifestyle and fitness app that is taking move-to-earn sector by storm. Shiti has firsthand seen the power of democratizing healthcare into hands of common people. She therefore passionately shares STEPN’s mission to bring millions of people to web3.

Farzam Kalamabaidi

Investor

The Most Influential Foreign Figure in Modern China History

Farzam Kamalabadi, Persian-American, is a world-renowned influential personality specially in China, Middle East, Africa, and the West.

On strategy level globally Kamalabadi is in high relations with national leaders of some 100 countries at the level of Presidents & Prime Ministers, or Sultans & Kings, and/or Royal Families, including USA, China, all GCC, Africa, Europe, among others.

In particular he is slated as “The Most Influential Foreign Figure in Modern China History” by Chinese state media, United Nations’ Pictorial magazine, Arabian Business Arabic weekly, and other media in the United States and Europe.

Kamalabadi is Senior Economic Advisor to over 20 municipal and regional governments in China. He is the only foreigner who has masterminded and created several rounds of national policy of China, which have been signed, sealed, and endorsed in writing by China’s state leaders including the President, the Premier, and several other key national leaders collectively.

Kamalabadi is the person who guided and directed Africa’s first ever bloodless and zero- bullet power transition — Zimbabwe November 2017.

A well-known figure in the oil & gas and energy sector on the global stage, Kamalabadi has been the chairman or first keynote speaker at major petroleum & energy summits. He served in various capacities for economic development of nations as Senior Advisor to a number of countries’ national oil systems, including Oman, Kuwait, and China. He has successfully handled various oil and petrochemical trading deals and projects such as securing exploration rights and concessions. He is the only foreign personality in both the two national and several provincial private oil and gas associations of China in the first decade of their formation.

As the originating founder of the New Silk Road policy and China-GCC/MENA/Central Asia cooperation corridor, Kamalabadi was instrumental in China-Tajkistan boarder opening; China-Oman trade volume hyper jump from $600mm to $11Bn between 2001 to 2007; Gulf Cooperation Council’s series of Sovereign Wealth Funds’ investments into Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the first ever in world history.

Ángel J. Ortega

Financial advisor in cryptocurrencies

Achieved sales over $20M

Born and raised in Granada, southern Spain, Angel has always stood out for his interest in learning, growing as a person and trying to make the world a better place. He holds a degree in Human Resources and an MBA from the University of Granada.

From a very young age he proved to be an entrepreneur, inspired by the figure of his father, a great businessman who Angel wanted to become.

When he was 14 years old, he became interested in the world of computers, building his first computers with parts. Traveling through Spain and Europe playing paintball, one of his sports, where he played in the National Team for 2 years.

At the age of 18 he founded his first company with small savings, which 12 years later is the largest in his city in its sector. In 2016 he discovered cryptocurrencies and since then his life changed.

He bought his first computer to mine Ethererum and thus started to get more and more involved with the crypto world.

In 2020 he reached the 13th position in the world in a major investment company thanks to his social skills and contacts, achieving more than 20,000 clients and sales over $20M.

Since the inception of Binance Smart Chain Angel has been studying the interesting DeFi world, surfing the waves of some of the fastest growing coins since its first weeks of inception, such as SafeMoon, realizing millions of dollars worth of gains.

Currently working as a financial advisor specialized in cryptocurrencies, he has several offices in Spain where he provides legal and financial support to his clients. Based in Dubai, he has specialized in the blockchain and DeFi world, where he brings his expertise to startups and companies.