Dr. Sedighi is a Wall Street Technology Executive with over 18 years of planning, designing, developing and having end-to-end ownership of large enterprise-wide solutions for Financial Services Industry world-wide. He managed cross-functional teams in building and supporting solutions to contribute to business strategies. He was the founder and CTO of a dense-computing systems company, which was acquired by Univa in 2008. Art became the Global Head of HPC and Grid Engineering at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Art moved to Morgan Stanley, where he was focused on design and implementation of the Target State Architecture (TSA). He joined Noble Markets as the VP of engineering, where he ran product development and engineering based on the Blockchain technology.  His focus areas are on the Global Financial Markets, and behavioural economics vis-a-vis impacts in large shared infrastructures such as Cloud and Blockchain. Dr. Sedighi received his PhD from Texas Tech University in Systems Engineering, a Masters in Bioinformatics from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.