Alex Trotta is Vice President of Fintech Acceleration at Citi Bank. His goal is bringing Citi FinTech's mantra of Open Innovation to the world and in doing so, inviting cutting-edge technologies into a Fortune 50 company that is poised to evolve with the new technological climate. Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Alex enjoys working with technology companies to help them better articulate the problem that they are solving and the target market they are solving it for. His ability to easily work with different types of people, from multiple backgrounds, and across various industries has allowed him to provide value in sales, strategy, marketing, and operations.

Chris Errico is Co-Chair of the firm's US Startup Program and member of the Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice at Dentons. Chris is actively engaged in a diverse corporate practice, working with a wide range of fast-growing technology, software, digital media and life science companies at every stage of their development.

Chris regularly counsels emerging growth companies on transactional matters, including venture capital, seed/angel financings; public and private offerings; asset and stock acquisitions; debt financings and mergers and acquisitions. Chris also advises his clients on a daily basis regarding complex securities matters, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, strategic transactions, and general legal issues.

Aman Kandola joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 2017 as an investor in the New York City office. Aman focuses on identifying high-potential machine learning, esports, VR/AR, and cybersecurity startups.

Before joining BVP, Aman studied Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard University where he particularly enjoyed learning about new statistical techniques and algorithms. He also worked as a co-founder of a logistics service in New York and a social media mental health software startup based out of the Harvard i-Lab incubator. Aman also worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg LC. For leisure, Aman enjoys playing music, playing video games, dancing on a Bhangra team, and watching sports, most notably Liverpool FC and his hometown New York Knicks.

Lucas Timberlake is the Director and the Chief Investment Officer at Fintech Ventures Fund. Prior to that, he worked as a Director at Fund That Flip. Lucas received a dual degree in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York. Upon graduation, he worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Lucas is a fintech venture capital investor, with a specific focus on early-stage lending, payments, and insuretech companies. He is also a strategic adviser/mentor to the fintech and transportation technology communities.

Sean is a Fintech Venture Investor at FinTech Collective, a venture capital fund focused exclusively on financial services technology companies. They invest across Capital Markets, Wealth & Asset Management, Banking, Lending, Payment, and Insurance.

Sean received his B.B.A. in Accounting and Finance from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Prior to working at FinTech Collective, Sean was an MBA Associate at Primary Venture Partners and a Strategy Consultant at salesforce.com.

Brian is the CEO and founder of VentureOut, which he launched in 2012 while working at Gotham Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. He started VentureOut as a vehicle to help bridge the gap between the innovators around the world and the opportunities available to them in the New York and San Francisco technology ecosystems.

Brian is also a proud advocate of the New York City's vibrant technology community, a role he plays as a speaker, a mentor, on the Board of Directors of the NYC Innovation Collective, Founding Member of NYC Tech International, a member of the FWD.us Innovation Council and as the Founder of the Chaminade Alumni Entrepreneurs Association.

Prior to VentureOut, Brian’s career has spanned venture, at Gotham Ventures, consulting, supporting early-stage tech startups in NYC, business development, at OTR Global, and sales, as the youngest institutional salesperson globally at Standard & Poor's. Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond.

Eric Wollberg is the Business Development at Gnowbe

Prior to Gnowbe, Eric was Director of Business Development at VentureOut, Eric sourced the world-class startups that populate our programs. Additionally, he helped develop and run our accelerators, so that our participants have a flawless and fruitful experience.

Eric was also an Israel Government Fellow, working at the Israel Innovation Authority. There he helped bring companies totaling $1.5 trillion in market capitalization to engage with Israeli startups. Eric studied innovation economics at Sogang University and graduated with a degree in economics from New York State’s Public Honors College at Geneseo.

Sam Swift is director of machine learning at Betterment. He is an expert on Doctor of how people make decisions and how those decisions affect organizations and systems. Practitioner ofdata science, reproducibility, machine learning, and rigorous examination of interesting ideas.

Betterment is the award-winning, fastest-growing online investment manager. We deliver smart, personalized financial advice paired with low fees and a superb customer experience. Betterment customers are invested in portfolios of ETFs that are personalized according to their goals and risk tolerances. Account management is automated to eliminate the friction and errors of self-directed brokerage accounts, freeing up time for other important things in life and improving returns. Personalized advice and behavioral guardrails are built into Betterment to help users make optimal decisions.

Joseph Brantuk is Vice President at Nasdaq, the second-largest stock exchange market in the world by market capitalization, behind only New York Stock Exchange. The exchange platform is owned by the Nasdaq OMX Group.

When the microprocessor was born in 1971, Nasdaq capitalized on the new technology by bringing all-electronic trading to the market. Later in the decade, this provided the likes of Apple and Microsoft with the means to raise capital that was previously unavailable to them. Today, Nasdaq is the leading technology and information services provider to the capital markets.

Chipper is an experienced internet investor and business builder, based in NY.  He co-founded Firestartr, a London seed-stage investment platform helping >30 promising entrepreneurs build leading global companies across fintech, marketplaces, new media and cloud/SaaS.  Chipper’s current focus is Fintech, with investments including: Transferwise, Pantera, Railsbank, Wagestream, Yoyo Wallet, AngelList.

Chipper previously led Corporate Strategy for eBay in Silicon Valley developing its first mobile strategy and spearheading over $3 billion in strategic acquisitions, including Skype.  A management consulting partner in Asia, he co-founded McKinsey’s global Mobile Commerce Initiative, and co-built Booz-Allen’s Jakarta office.

Harvard (Physics), Cambridge (Math), and MIT (Management).

Prior to joining Canapi, Jeffrey Reitman was a Principal at Nyca Partners, another fintech-focused venture capital firm. While at Nyca, Jeffrey primarily spent his time working on investments in the alternative credit, digital advice, and financial infrastructure sectors.

Before Nyca, Jeffrey worked in J.P. Morgan’s Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group, focusing on the specialty finance sector. Jeffrey started his career as a co-founder, board member, and the chief technology officer of GXStudios, Inc., a media and entertainment company responsible for creating multiplayer web-based games.

Jeffrey received his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.

Lawrence Johnson Experienced in developing international ventures in China and Europe. He has Specialties in Diffusion of new technologies in uncharted markets

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the private capital markets.

Stella serves as Senior Executive at one of the largest media groups in the world and has helped win several new businesses and new global clients for MDC’s client portfolio. Stella is a subject matter expert on the role of Digital Media in Advertising, Digital Operations and the future of the Internet.

She has experience working in global operations and business technology integration issues and has worked extensively with companies such as E*Trade and Fox to engage in a more data and technology-driven marketing approach. Stella is now based in NYC and as a self-identified polymath is exploring among other things the future of media through technological innovation.

Paul founded Graphite Financial, as an internal service for (nearly 50%) of Venture Capital’s ("ffVC") portfolio of early-stage technology companies since 2008. In 2016, while continuing to serve ffVC's portfolio, Paul oversaw Graphite Financial's transition to operating as an independent company to serve the broader startup community.

He is an expert in helping startups and other young ventures with strategy, financial modeling, fully outsourced or augmented bookkeeping & accounting, tax, compliance and interim CFO work.

Matt Listro brings extensive experience in business development and sales. Prior to founding Harbinger, he helped build the business development and strategy team at Crowdtap, a venture-backed brand content platform that’s consistently recognized by Inc., Fortune, and others as one of the fastest growing firms in America. Matt brought on and managed partnerships with 50+ top brands including GE, J&J, P&G, Sony Pictures, and Kraft.
Prior to Crowdtap, he managed business development initiatives for MAXIMUS, a publicly-traded program management and consulting firm, helping MAXIMUS expand into Europe. Matt also teaches at General Assembly. He graduated from Brown University and Columbia Business School with Dean’s Honors.

Edwin is the Director of Growth at Ladder.io, a growth technology and services agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI.

Edwin grows businesses with impactful analysis + tech-infused creativity, as an ROI-Driven Growth Strategy Architect and Director, Transforming Performance Marketing Into Systemized Solutions/Processes.

Nitya is an Associate at Tribeca Venture Partners.  Prior to joining Tribeca Venture Partners, she was an investment banking analyst at Lazard where she received the André Meyer Fellowship.  In her role at Lazard, she worked on mergers and acquisitions as well as restructurings across numerous sectors within the Middle Market Group.

Her passion for entrepreneurship and investing began at Georgetown University where she was the Director of Operations at the Social Innovation Public Service (“SIPS”) Fund, a $1.5 million fund dedicated to fund students’ and alumni’s projects to improve the Georgetown community and the community at large.

Nitya graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a B.A. in Classics and a minor in Economics.

Iulia Mic is a Marketing Associate at VentureOut and is responsible for planning and implementing marketing campaigns, including content, social media, email, and web. Born in Romania, Iulia has recently joined the team in pursuit of her dream to work and gain international experience in NYC.

Prior to VentureOut, Iulia spent the past few years working in marketing and sales and participating in cultural programs around the world. Iulia has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and a Master’s in Statistics.

James has been at the forefront of the global investment banking and venture capital industries, focusing on emerging markets and early stage finance in the digital, wireless, mobile media and communications businesses. He has been advisor to over 50 venture-backed entities, co-founded NXTPLabs, a leading tech accelerator in Latin America and co-founded PALcapital, a NY based merchant bank and early stage VC fund.

Previously, James was the MD of Latin American Equity Capital Markets at INGBarings, Founder and MD of Emerging Markets Investment Banking at Furman Selz, and MD of Asian Investment Banking in Hong Kong for Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for the first listing of a Chinese company on the NYSE.

He is a Founder and board member emeritus of Urban Arts Partnership and Chairman of the USA of WeForest.

James received an AB in Economics and Art History from Vassar College and a JD/MBA from Emory University.

Lou Kerner has been a crypto enthusiast, investor and thought leader since 2013, and is recognized as one of the most influential crypto bloggers. Lou was previously a Partner at the decentralized VC, Flight, where he managed The Israel Founders Syndicate, which invested in tech companies founded by Israelis.

Prior to Flight VC, Lou was the Managing Partner of The Social Internet Fund (SIF), which invested in shares of rapidly growing tech companies. Before SIF, Lou was an angel investor, best known for investing in Facebook and writing the first Wall Street style research report on the company in 2010. Prior to angel investing, Lou ran Bolt and .tv.

Lou had a distinguished career as an equity analyst following media & tech companies for Goldman Sachs & Merrill Lynch.

Lou has a BA from UCLA and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Deep is a principal and the leader of Withum’s Technology Advisory practice based in New York City. Deep’s team of technology industry specialists provide consulting services including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital raising to both venture and private equity-backed companies, ranging from SaaS, e-commerce, marketplace, ad-tech and publishing sectors.

Deep is known for delivering high-value strategic advice to entrepreneurs, private equity, and venture capital firms as they seek to stay at the forefront of the rapidly changing market. He frequently presents and authors articles around technology trends, entrepreneurial strategies and the venture capital landscape. Deep also serves as a mentor and advisor to various tech organizations including 500 Startups, Y-Combinator and Techstars, and is a member of the New York Venture Capital Association, and the National Venture Capital Association.

Kent is a global financial leader with extensive trading experience generating profits and managing risk in derivative and cash markets. He has multi-asset class experienceboth buy side and sell side trading and management rolescovering fixed incomecreditand equity markets.

John is a passionate, serial entrepreneur who, since 1999, has started three companies focused on using technology to alter the traditional rhythms of the institutional finance space. His first venture, Creditex was acquired by IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2008 for over $600mm. More recently, he has been a founder and operating partner of eBond Advisors, which is bringing financial technology to the product level of corporate bonds – creating a more liquid corporate bond for investors while lowering financing costs for large issuers. Prior to his entrepreneurial pursuits, John spent 13 years on Wall St at PaineWebber, Bankers Trust, and Deutsche Bank in derivative structuring and sales. He has been an active angel investor, board member, and advisor to many young companies.

Chuck Doerr is President and COO of OpenFin. He is responsible for the company's technology strategy and business operations. Prior to OpenFinChuck was VP of CDS Technology at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE's CDS e-trading and processing technology and software development. Before ICEChuck served as Chief Technology Officer of Creditex where he was responsible for all technology initiatives. He architected the company's award-winning technology platformled software development and managed Creditex's global technology infrastructure.

Mat Torgow has over 8+ years in the technology industry and held various roles working for startups to the Fortune 100. In his current position, Mat is responsible for working with innovative organizations in New York and Eastern Canada to overcome their most complex challenges through AI (Machine & Deep Learning). These organizations range from newly funded startups to the Fortune 500 who represent M&E, service provider, technology, retail, manufacturing, consulting and advertising verticals.

Artificial Intelligence is the biggest technology disruption of our generation. He helps companies envision their future and leverage this technology to stay ahead of the competition.

He looks at how AI can impact key aspects of the business such as acquiring and retaining customers, customizing products and services, and achieving profitability. He then works with companies to develop the right solution which, at times, can fundamentally re-shape how the business operates.

His experience includes working in the Financial, Media and Transportation sectors, and using technologies such as IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure, Google Tensorflow, H2O.ai and Intel.

If you are looking to adopt AI and are looking towards the future, He can help.

BCG(consulting), 37Angels(investing), Cornerstone(data&analytics), Columbia(MBA), Penn(electrical engineering, finance)

His career has been focused on financial services mixing strategy, banking, asset management, digital, FinTech, and fundraising. Previous employers include J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Societe Generale.

David has been an active entrepreneur and investor in financial software and services for 25 years. From 1994 to 2004 David was co-founder and CEO of CDS, which sold front-office software for high yield bond trading, loan trading and loan syndication. In 2008, David led an angel group that invested in Debtdomain, an early-stage company with an emerging Web platform for new issue book building, CRM, and data rooms in the syndicated loan market. He joined as co-CEO, opened the New York office and built the business to a successful exit in 2013 via a sale to Ipreo, which was then a KKR portfolio company. David stayed at Ipreo as a member of the senior management team through 2018, until its acquisition by IHS Markit.

Paul Wigdor currently serves as Managing Partner at Ascendant Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor based in Houston, Texas. Paul was a Founding Shareholder in Ascendant when the Company was formed in 2009 and joined the Firm as a Partner in 2011 to launch the Firm’s Mutual Fund Business. Under Paul’s direction, Ascendant has launched four mutual funds and will be launching a fifth in May, 2015. Prior to his work with Ascendant, Paul spent 15 years on the buy side and the sell side in a variety of capacities including legal and compliance, equity trading, wealth management and asset management. In addition to his financial services work experience, Paul is a seasoned entrepreneur and has been an active angel investor, advisor and board member to many young companies in a variety of industries including financial services, technology, restaurants, real estate, and luxury goods.