Maximilian Forster is CBDO & Co-Founder of CashOnLedger Technologies GmbH. Furthermore, he is member of the Digital Finance WG from the economic council (Wirtschaftsrat der CDU), member of the Payments WG & Blockchain WG at Bitkom e.V. and co-founded Blockchain Bayern e.V. Additionally, Maximilian serves as private sector expert & public speaker for the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as well as the European Commission & Parliament. Before launching his own company, he helped to build up the DLT and blockchain service offering from KPMG and Accenture and worked as technology investment expert at Picus Capital. Maximilian has contributed to a number of publications including the Goethe University Frankfurt’s “Handbook of Digital Banking”, Bitkom’s “Digital Euro on blockchain” as well as the WCLF “Tax und IP Gesprächsband 2019”.