Michael Gronager is the CEO and co-founder of Chainalysis, the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies, and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis, Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro-to-bitcoin exchange, where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and serving as a cryptocurrency expert. Before entering the Bitcoin scene in 2011, Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, most recently as CEO of the Nordic DataGrid Facility, which was then the biggest distributed storage installation in the world. Michael has served as a member of the Research Infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board, and is currently a member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center (NSC). Michael is also co-founder of Kraken in San Francisco.