Will Beeson is an accomplished fintech founder and expert in financial markets and decentralized finance (DeFi) with decades of experience. Renowned for innovating financial systems, he has built a career spanning traditional investments, challenger banking, and digital assets.

Will co-founded Allica Bank, a pioneering challenger bank delivering innovative financial solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. He also co-founded BELLA in the US, contributing to its community-driven digital banking model. As Chief Product Officer at Standard Chartered’s Libeara, he led the development of institutional tokenization infrastructure.

In 2025, Will founded Uniform Labs, building a liquidity layer for DeFi to enable 24/7 digital asset conversion. Driven by a commitment to next-generation finance, he views this as a defining opportunity to advance decentralized, global markets.

Angelo D’Alessandro is a visionary fintech founder and digital banking pioneer with nearly three decades of experience in the financial sector. Renowned for transforming financial services into customer-centric lifestyle brands, he designed, founded, and led buddybank, UniCredit’s flagship digital bank, scaling it into a leading mobile banking platform.

Alongside Will Beeson, Angelo co-founded and served as CEO of BELLA, a community-driven digital bank that achieved the industry’s lowest customer acquisition costs through organic growth.

In 2025, he partnered with Beeson to build Uniform Labs, a groundbreaking venture revolutionizing digital finance by developing infrastructure for instant, 24/7 trading of tokenized real-world assets. Angelo believes this is a transformative moment for the industry, with the future of finance being onchain, global, and always accessible.