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Matthew Ekroth

EMEA Corporate Data Strategy

Bloomberg

Matthew Ekroth leads the EMEA Data Strategy effort for Corporate clients. Matt specialises in helping clients solve supply chain problems with Bloomberg's Supply Chain, ESG and Sanctions products. Matt spent over 15 years as a quantitative equities Portfolio Manager at firms including Goldman Sachs and Engineers Gate in both London and New York. More recently he headed data strategy for equities trading at Morgan Stanley in London. Matt holds an MSc in Finance from London Business School.

Jinal Surti

Co-Founder & CEO

Epoch

Jinal is the co-founder and CEO of Epoch, a venture-backed technology company that leverages global payments and environmental monitoring to enable sustainable supply chains in the agriculture and forestry sector. Prior to Epoch, Jinal spent most of his career enabling global payments in emerging markets. He joined Ripple in 2015 and developed the go-to-market strategy for the first enterprise blockchain-based payments product in the market and in 2020, joined as a founding executive, Menai, a global market making and asset management company supporting payment flows in emerging markets. Jinal began his career in management consulting with Booz & Company. Jinal has an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

William Ouellette

Co-Founder & CTO

Epoch

William is the co-founder and CTO of Epoch, a venture-backed technology company that leverages global payments and environmental monitoring to enable sustainable supply chains in the agriculture and forestry sector. William has dedicated his career to developing environmental monitoring data applications to better understand and manage the world’s natural and agricultural landscapes. Before Epoch, he co-founded Soilwatch, a company supporting voluntary carbon market project developers design projects with scientific rigour and integrity. He took his experience from voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) to soft commodities supply chains with Epoch, where he sees the opportunity to reduce global land use emissions in a more scalable and credible way than VCMs. William has also worked for the mapmaking entity of TomTom, introducing Machine Learning workflows applied to satellite data to automate the production of map features, and consulted for the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN and the World Bank on the topics of land degradation and nature-based solutions interventions. William has a BSc in Environmental & Earth Sciences from the University College Utrecht (UCU) and a MSc degree in Environmental Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).