Elena Sinelnikova

Founder and CEO

Software development team lead turned entrepreneur. Elena Sinelnikova founded CryptoChicks.ca in July 2017 with the vision to empower and inspire women interested in learning about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. She managed to involve hundreds of women who became blockchain evangelists, blockchain developers, blockchain entrepreneurs themselves. Elena developed CryptoChicks into an international hub for women talent in blockchain technology with programs in Canada, US, Russia, Pakistan and Bahamas and major hackathon events that are supported by Royal Bank of Canada, Deloitte, Microsoft, IBM. Elena holds a Master of Computer Science and her specialties are in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, application architecture, software design and development.

Natalia Ameline

Co-Founder

Natalia is a Senior Finance Executive with multi-industry experience. Her expertise is in strategic financial planning, decision support, operations management and change management. She holds Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Business Administration as well as CPA/CMA accounting designation. She is a co-founder of CryptoChicks and is inspired by its mission – to grow the industry and its adoption by engaging women. After attending multiple crypto events, she believes that “we have this incredible opportunity to gain further insight and innovation by tapping into the immense talent of women”. Natalia was introduced to Blockchain technology in 2014 and has been passionate about the industry since.

Nataliya Hearn

Nataliya Hearn (Ph.D. Materials Engineering University of Cambridge) Professor turned serial entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of Element 21 (ranked as the fastest growing company in Canada run by a woman W100 2009) that brought Scandium technology from the former Soviet Union to sports (baseball, golf, lacrosse), electronics, and aviation industries. Organized the launch of the golf drive from the International Space Station (2006).
Featured in Forbes (June 2010) for developing space age material for Mount Everest team with the warmest and thinnest jackets using ZeroLoft insulation material. Designed and marketed one of the most popular professional fishing rod lines — Carrot Stix.
Director of numerous public and private companies including ICOs: Chain of Points (loyalty program ICO 2017) and PNIK (asset – colour diamond – based crypto).

Olga Plokhuta

Olga is a communication and marketing specialist.
Olga holds the degree in economics and business and is passionate about the tech industry in terms of analytics and innovations.
Her addiction for the CryptoChicks has been developed from the first meeting with them :)

Konstantin Borovik

Konstantin spent past 2 decades building corporate IT infrastructure.
He is a Bitcoin early adopter and blockchain educator.
Konstantin is currently working on a blockchain project focusing on the private key security, crypt accents governance and blockchain end-user interaction experience.

Tracy Leparulo

Tracy is an early advocate for blockchain technology, and is committed to growing the crypto community through organizing game charger events. She’s the Founder of Untraceable, the first blockchain event management and marketing agency in Canada. Over the past 5 years, she has organized hundreds of iconic crypto events from the first Bitcoin Conference in Canada to the largest Ethereum hackathon in the world. As an early crypto investor Tracy has navigated through the blockchain ecosystems working on various projects from bitcoin wallets to ICOs to certified training. Tracy is committed to providing a platform for the greatest crypto minds to share knowledge, build technology, and create stronger connections within the blockchain community.

Minna Liang

Minna is a volunteering CTO at Cryptochicks . She likes to dabble in different technology and broaden her understanding in subjects like finance, economics and cognitive science to have a more wholistic view of everything. One of her first blockchain meetup that she attended was hosted by cryptochicks and was pretty intrigued by the technology prospects. Besides helping build the site, she also helps out in different roles such as marketing, designing promotional content, teaching blockchain 101 and anything she can help out to make cryptochicks events successful.

Naba Sadia Siddiqui

Naba (M.Eng. Computer Engineering University of Toronto) is a Toronto-based engineer and software developer. Her day job involves drinking lots of Java. Apart from her day job, she spends a fair amount of her time learning and working on Blockchain-based projects. Naba is committed to increasing diversity in STEM industry, specially the Blockchain space. She is also very passionate about advocating the potential of Blockchain. If she is not behind a screen writing code or designing solutions, you will find her at the gym doing Yoga or swimming.

Karla Vilhelem

Karla is a Crypto PR & Marketing Specialist passioned by social innovation.

Dedicated to delivering business growth, my journey in this space began as a marketing manager alongside Ambisafe, a leading SF Blockchain Solutions Provider. In the last year, I contributed in efficiently leveraging the benefits of token sale campaigns and helped over 10 startups reach their goals.

I like to advise new projects on the best ways to integrate the blockchain ecosystem and positively impact the upcoming disruptive solutions in the global markets.

Alison Alexis

A CPA (CA) from Vancouver, with a further degree in Classical studies, Alison considers herself a Blockchain Community maximalist.

An unrelenting curiosity to understand the past, present, and future of humanity drives her interest in science and technology. In particular, she has a strong interest in cognitive/neuro sciences, blockchain technologies, and Artificial Intelligence and their inter-play. Alison believes that diversity, a multi-disciplinary approach, and the lessons and principles learned from the past, will be crucial to the advancement of these newer technologies and thus in creating the communities, social, and economic impact we all desire.

It was the promise of Blockchain that drew her in; creating a more open world, leveling the playing field, giving people more control and freedom over their information, assets, and livelihoods, and the opportunity to take part in something that has the potential to change the world.

Carlos Cabrera

Carlos G Cabrera is an International Economist who graduated from Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton, Florida in 1998, he joined a fast growing import export company in Venezuela where he learned about the import export business in Latin America and the US in the following years he opened his own company where he sold all the major baseball team merchandise all over Venezuela as well as Panama and Brazil, in 2009 after receiving his MBA he began work as a broker dealer in Boca Raton, Florida and then served as a financial consultant at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce where he received many awards in his five years of tenure additionally he was also part of the United Way initiatives in Toronto. Carlos has always been a strong advocate of an organized society therefore, he has volunteered many times at the West Palm Beach Police department and the West Palm Beach Courthouse resulting in budget savings for local residents and a learning opportunity for him about local Florida issues. He was part of Egla Communications for 2 years as a Senior Project Manager, in 2018 he joined Swiss Borg as a Director of Business Development for North America and lastly in June 2018 as COO for Blockchain Strategies for BCF Blockchain Canada Foundation in Toronto. He does mentoring to some local college students and volunteering in Toronto.

Anna Niemira

Corporate Consultation Professional experienced in the retail brokerage industry, corporate finance, investment banking and international listings with a specialization in European, Caribbean and North American exchanges. Strategic communicator and a business development ambassador focused on innovations in the financial, technology and regulatory environment.
Successfully concluded admissions of entrepreneurial companies to European quotation boards and Exchanges; completed extensive research and analysis of the global exchanges' rules and regulations; actively promoted business growth by bridging various initiatives, creating strategic and valuable partnerships and launching organizational development initiatives to streamline operations and communications.
Reported business news and information from financial conferences and seminars focusing on developments in FinTech, RegTech and Compliance issues in cross-border banking and securities transactions, including KYC and AML rules and regulations. Served as a judge at various financial and entrepreneurial competitions.