Managing Partner

Guido Molinari

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About

Guido Molinari

Guido Molinari is the Managing Partner of Prysm Group. He is a multi-industry business leader and entrepreneur who has co-founded ventures in the emerging technologies, consumer goods, and retail. He leads the firm's relationships with academic institutions, enterprises, investment funds, and government entities, including work with MIT Sloan, IBM, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Pantera Capital, DARPA, and the World Economic Forum. He was the host of the Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC) in 2019 and 2020. He is a former investment banker at Merrill Lynch and has been a visiting lecturer in entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and the London School of Economics, and an Imperial College Master in Innovation business coach. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Guido holds a BA in International Economics & Management from Bocconi University, a Graduate Diploma in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, a joint MSc in International Management from HEC Paris and the London School of Economics, and an executive education certificate from MIT Sloan.

Recent speaking appearances include Consensus, the Global Blockchain Energy Conference, Korea Blockchain Week, and Yale University

Blockchain Needs Users and Economics Can Help
Guido Molinari discusses the role of economics in driving user adoption for blockchain platforms.
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Enterprise Blockchain: The Path to Monetization
Guido Molinari discusses the way enterprise blockchain projects can move from being cost centers to profit centers.

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