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Ivan Bakrac currently serves as the Head of Treasury at ConsenSys | Strategist. With a career spanning two decades, Ivan has held diverse positions, including senior finance roles in a high growth blockchain technology start-up, head of portfolio management, fixed income portfolio manager, quantitative fixed income researcher, risk manager, digital assets strategist, and data analytics expert. His current focus centers on emerging technologies, which encompass digital assets, blockchain, financial machine learning, AI, and predictive analytics. He is proficient in financial data science and machine learning, with a notable focus on integrating these disciplines into the asset management and finance for enhanced alpha generation and optimized investment strategies. His previous positions include Head of Multi-Sector Fixed Income Portfolio Management at Invesco, Lead Fixed Income Portfolio Manager, and Co-Head of Quantitative Strategies at Franklin Templeton Investments. Ivan holds a Master of Science in Financial Analytics & Data Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In addition to his industry roles, he contributes to academia as an Adjunct Professor at several prestigious institutions. At Berkeley College Business School, he teaches courses on Global FinTech, AI, and Business Data Science. He also holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Practice for Emerging Technologies at Wake Forest University, Adjunct Faculty for Financial Technology & Analytics at Stevens Institute of Technology, Affiliated Faculty at CRAFT - Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies, and Adjunct Faculty Lecturer for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) at Columbia University.