Fintech

Lexie Kier is a Principal Strategist and Founder of AOK Group, a growth consultancy for startups. She advises bold brands and startups on fundraising, customer insights, branding and marketing and often takes on interim leadership roles to help with periods of intense change, entry into new markets, and expansion.

Previously, Lexie founded Cuurio, an index of startups and innovation platform helping bold brands find clarity, context, and connection. ​Cuurio helped a growing number of innovative brands and agencies (including Warner Brother, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, and J. Walter Thompson) to create vibrant native mobile partnerships that activated consumers in new channels.

Eyal is a digital media executive with extensive experience in product leadership, business development and, early-stage capital raising.

He sources, manages and cultivates key strategic partnership and M&A endeavors.

Susan Lindner believes that incredible connections change the world. As the CEO and Founder of Emerging Media, an award-winning PR • Marketing • Branding • Social Media agency, she develops breakthrough strategies that connect our clients to the right media, communities, influencers, and prospects. Susan gives back to the entrepreneurial community as a mentor to young domestic and international startups at VentureOut, and as a judge at premier competitions like NY Tech Week, The Mashies and many more.

Marcos Dinnerstein is Executive Council Member at NYVC

After being an editor at Digital.com, Marcos is now an Executive Council Member at New York Venture Council, with experience at establishing processes and continually improving them. He is an effective Product Management team member, possessing a ‘Figure it out and get it done’ attitude. New York Venture Council members are leading NYC-area venture capitalists, family offices, angels, entrepreneurs, universities, media and professional advisors, all dedicated to increasing deal flow and ecosystem cooperation in the world's financial capital.

Prior to joining Bain Capital VenturesRichie worked in investment banking across three different geographies, including New York, Toronto, and Tel Aviv.  Most recently, he worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Citi in New York and spent time with Barclays Capital in Tel Aviv. Richie has been a part of a variety of M&A and capital markets transactions in the software, internet, and IT services spaces.

Richie’s interest in creating global partnerships led to his founding of The Aleph Group, an apolitical and non-religious pro-bono consulting organization that connects Canadian business students with the Israeli startup ecosystem.

He graduated with distinction from the Ivey Business School at Western University, where he served in student government and played on the varsity baseball team.

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.

managing director at Infinia Group, where he leads Infinia Ventures, a practice dedicated to the startup ecosystem.

Before Infinia, he was at Havas Worldwide New York following a stint as a freelance strategy consultant at a number of creative agencies. He has done strategy consulting work in brand, digital and growth strategy for clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 and the US government

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.

Energetic and talented business leader with a proven record helping grow successful businesses and improve operational effectiveness. Diverse background with over 15 years experience in M&A, strategy and operations in the technology sector. Creative and strategic thinker that is able to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, manage visible strategic projects, and take a hands-on approach to solving business issues. I enjoy creating business strategy and getting stuff done.

Joshua Siegel is General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital VC fund that invests in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of early-stage disruptive technology companies. Rubicon only considers companies that have raised a minimum of $500k non-founder cash funding.

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.

Asael Meir is a partner in CohnReznick’s Long Island office and leads the Firm’s Technology and Life Sciences Industry Practice in the Firm's New York offices. With more than 15 years of experience in providing assurance and financial reporting services, Asael serves technology, hospitality, and retail and consumer products companies. He works closely with business owners and management teams of both privately held and publicly listed companies who are seeking guidance on acquisitions, divestitures, and capital formation transactions.

Richard is a US Market Structure Specialist & Sales Manager at Algomi, which connects fixed income professionals, empowering them to make better trading relationships, in the ever-changing landscape of capital, leverage and liquidity requirements. By harnessing the relationships between Fixed Income salespeople, traders and their clients, the Algomi Honeycomb suite of scalable software greatly increases the opportunities and velocity in large and illiquid voice trades between banks and buy-side investors.

Richard was previously the Managing Director at Javelin Capital Markets and a Senior Associate at Deutsche Bank. He graduated from Boston College in 2005.

Emre Ozgu is a Partner at Barst Mukamal & Kleiner LLP. He brings more than fifteen years of professional experience in representing and counseling individuals and corporations on all aspects of U.S. immigration law related to permanent residence (“green cards”) through employment and family sponsorship, a wide range  of work visas (H, L, E, O, J and P visas) and other  immigration matters. Emre successfully represented hundreds of individuals and corporations before a variety of US administrative agencies and can represent immigration clients in any jurisdiction across the United States. He graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in Economics.

Ivy is the Founder and CEO of IvyTL, with a goal to: identify, build, and set-up key tracking analytics and KPIs for publically-traded companies in Hong Kong; draft, refined and finalized public park experiences with New York City Housing Authority and partners; design branding, digital and traditional assets, including website and newspaper ads, for Brooklyn’s largest tutoring center; and establish brand guidelines, advertisements, and value proposition for Bay Ridge’s first dual-language preschool.

After graduating from Pace University, Ivy has a lot of experience, working at IPG, Gap, and Ladder.io. Ivy also takes part in a lot of service work.

Eleni Janis is a Vice President at the Center for Economic Transformation at New York City Economic Development Corporation. She leads efforts to accelerate sustainable, impact investing in order to direct more private capital to businesses with positive social and environmental impacts and oversees EDC’s incubator portfolio.
Prior to the NYCEDC, Janis specialized in federal and state public policy advocacy and research in areas including community development, banking, housing, labor, and immigration. Her work spans 15 years in Washington, DC, New York, London and Athens

Michael holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley where he was the President of the Ice Hockey TeamSocial Committee Co-Chair for Delta Upsilon Fraternity and a Member of the Asian Business Association. He has dedicated the entirety of his career thus far to working with growth-stage technology companiesMichael’s passion lies in helping management teams win. Prior to joining the team at CanaanMichael was with GCA Savvianadvising technology companies on M&A initiatives and private placements.

Ketan was the Chief Operating Officer at Sliced Investinga San Francisco-based fintech startup focused on simplifying hedge fund investing for accredited investors. He had broad responsibilitiesincluding product development and overall business operations. Prior to Sliced Investinghe was a Vice President and the Head of Business Management within J.P Morgan’s Alternative Investments Group.

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Edward received his B.S. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologycompleting both programs with a 5.0/5.0 grade point average. Edward was a founding team member of a high frequency trading firmwhere he led the construction of an automated equity trading strategy. Edward then served as Managing Director of JP Morgan's hedge fund subsidiaryHighbridge Capital Managementwhere he spent nine years. Edward is currently the founder and managing partner of Blue Basin Capital Managementa quantitative investment manager.

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Pete is an Executive Director for JPMorgan Chase Strategic Investmentsfocused on sourcing and executing venture-stage private investments in emerging businesses whose offerings are strategic to the JPMC franchiseits clientsand the financial services industry. He specializes in financial technologyasset managementmarket structureenterprise softwaredata technologiesand consumer digital experience. A graduate of Indiana University where he majored in FinancePete started his career at JPMorgan Investment Banking in the Financial Institutions Grouplater founding Bacchus Capital which made principal investments in concert finance and productionbefore returning to JPMorgan to the Asset Management Strategy Group to execute buyside acquisitions.

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Sorosh Tavakoli is the founder and CEO of Videoplaza. Headquartered in Londonthe company grew out of Stockholm and now has presence across Europe. Videoplaza provides the leading ad management platform for video. Sorosh has a background in broadcast media. Prior to VideoplazaSorosh was at MMS (the Swedish broadcast audience measurement body) where he led an extensive research project on the consumption of moving images."

Laurette DelGuercio is a business development and strategy consultant to FinTech start-ups. Her focus is helping companies to identify growth opportunitiesdefine competitive advantage and establish strategic alliances and channel partnerships. Laurette was the CMO of Transactis where she managed the business development and strategic relationship management team growing the business to being ranked #121 in Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500 and #420 in Inc’s 2014 500 America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.

Carlos is the Founder of Designed by Carlosa design studio that focuses on the tangible value of design. DbC is able to work across industries and capabilitiesaiming to use good strategy to tackle design challenges. Before founding DbC Carlos worked for Bain & Co as a Graphic Coordinator where he worked with Fortune 100 companies to improve their digital strategy & brand identity.

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Kathleen is currently serving as the Non-Exec Board Chairshe is also a board member and a CIO-type: senior global leadership roles in asset and wealth management: FinTech innovationtechnology and digital adaptationglobal multi-asset class investment strategy and process designbusiness leader (global strategyP&Lorganizationproduct design)researchthought leadership and client and marketing skills.

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Jason Harris is Venture Partner at Flatiron Investors. Prior to thathe worked in the strategic development department at GeistM. Before this he worked for 5 years as a trader at Amherst Securities Group. He is alsoa Certified Financial Analyst and earned his BS at New York University.

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Adam Smith is currently a Venture Partner at Bowery Capital. Previously he was a partner and West Coast Lead of AOL Ventures. Adam's passion for combining Art and Technology began with his first career as a Toy Designer. With degrees in both Physics and Sculpture combined with his enjoyment of design. Adam was accepted into MIT Media Lab Program where he helped create and complete the Toys of Tomorrow Program. Adam's adventures then sent him overseas where he took a position with Telecom Italia in both RomeItaly and Helsinki, Finland before moving back to the States for the the challenging and rewarding position of Product Manager at Google. Adam enjoyed 7 years at Google before joining AOL Ventures.

Peter Liu is a designer and developer. He believes there’s a huge divide in resources and talent between the technology world and the social impact world and his mission is to create technology that empowers people to overcome their biggest challenges. He’s worked with non-profit organizations, small businesses, and tech startups to lead projects from initial designs to actual implementation.

Collectively is a digital consultancy that works with start-ups and impact organizations to create sustainable social impact through design and technology.

Been doing digital since 2003 - from flash banners for some extra cash beck in the dayto full flash sitesdesign and conceptionto mobile devices. I created some communication operationson localeuropean and global scaleusing various technologies and good ideas.

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Dan Gesser is an experienced and innovative sales leader and digital marketer with a proven track record of building customer engagement and ROI in B2B and B2C environments. In his most recent role Dan was Senior Vice President of Sales for Cxense in North America, responsible for new sales and customer success.

Prior to joining Cxense, Dan held a number of Sales Leadership roles at IBM.  Dan joined IBM with the 2013 acquisition of the mobile customer engagement start-up, Xtify. He built and led the sales and business development organization for Xtify and was responsible for new customer engagements, working closely with the C-Suite of companies ranging from Coca-Cola to the U.S. Federal Government.

Prior to joining Xtify, Dan held a number of roles at Citi, Overture Technologies, and CGI-AMS.  Dan has an MBA from the Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan and a BA from Cornell University.

Kumar is an entrepreneurial executive with strong interest in technology, data and finance. He has over twenty five years financial services experience and brings expert knowledge of exchange structures, hedge fund strategies, risk mitigation, structured products and quantitative finance. This includes derivatives research at Salomon Brothers; followed by sales & trading and strategic, executive management level experience at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Natixis Capital Markets. Kumar also ran a quantitative hedge fund for several years and helped the electronic swap trading start-up TrueEX gain significant market share and traction in the competitive SEF market. Kumar is an active angel investor with a portfolio spread across finance, technology, biomedical and natural foods spaces. He loves the public equity markets and spends significant time on research and fundamental analysis of finance and technology companies.

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.

Nathaniel Abrams is a vice president of JPMorgan Chase in New York, where he helps make strategic investments. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small-business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

Jake is A passionate, ambitious, and well-rounded leader with the desire to attain a successful career that will utilize his skills from previous professional experiences, along with his prior education and communication skills.

He is currently working at Capco as Associate. Prior to Capco, he worked for Align, Eller College of Management, urboox.com, and Rentrak. He received B.A. in Marketing from University of Arizona, Eller College of Management.

Eric Spano is a Senior Consultant in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP, working in the Strategy group. A pragmatic, dedicated professional with over 3 years of experience in external audit, Eric has served biotechnology, retail and
financial services clients.
Eric has in-depth knowledge of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies and is an advisor to several companies, in addition to being the founder of the payment processing startup Bylls. He is also a founding director of the Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal.
Eric is experienced in financial modeling, trend analysis, cost allocation/optimization, business model development and creating value through collaborative teaming and innovative problem solving.

Nathaniel Abrams is a vice president of JPMorgan Chase in New York, where he helps make strategic investments. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a leading global financial services firm with operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small-business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands.

Ganesh is an experienced strategist, growth hacker, quant, angel investor, and entrepreneur. He is passionate about ventures that change the world and disrupt the status quo in finance, technology, and B2B SaaS.

Ganesh spent years building disruptive platforms in both startup and enterprise companies. He built one of the first high-frequency trading platforms at Lehman Brothers across four continents. At FactSet Research, he blitz-scaled Derivative Solutions, a fin-tech startup, to hundreds of thousands of users using distributed cloud and machine learning algorithms. Ganesh also has helped PE/VC and F100 companies tackle blue-sky challenges at the Parthenon Group by creating M&A and growth strategies across fin-tech, retail, e-commerce, and biotech verticals.

Solo practitioner. He practiced corporate and securities law on Wall Street for many years, while also developing residential condominium lofts in Soho and Tribeca on the side, before opening his solo practice. Berton Law, formed in 2011, provides general corporate advice to starts up, small companies and individual entrepreneurs. John’s experience advising start-ups has sparked an interest in angel and early round investment. Prior to forming his own firm, John worked as in-house counsel at Jane Street Capital from 2008-2010, Goldman Sachs from 1997-2008, and was an associate at Clear Gottlieb from 1992-1998. A life-long New Yorker, John attended public schools and has never lived above 14th Street. He serves on the Boards of Trustees of the Washington Market School, the pre-eminent preschool in Tribeca, and also serves as trustee and treasurer for two international human rights advocacy groups: the Campaign for International Human Rights in Iran, and Justice Trust, which focuses on rights abuses in Myanmar.

Tripp Shriner is an Associate Director focused on financial services investments for Point72 Ventures, working from our New York and Connecticut offices.

Tripp joined Point72 from City Light Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, where he was a Principal. Before City Light, he was a Vice President with J.P. Morgan’s Private Investments group, responsible for sourcing, executing, and managing early and growth-stage venture capital investments in financial technology businesses. Tripp began his career working for J.P. Morgan in the Investment Bank’s Equity Capital Markets group.

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.

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.

Mazy is CEO of OpenFin. Prior to OpenFin, he led credit derivative strategy at Intercontinental Exchange and served on ICE‘s executive committee. Before ICE, Mazy was Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008.

Mazy started his career at UBS as a software programmer. He earned a degree in Computer Science and French Literature from Cornell University.

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.

Matt Lopez is a Partner at Skaled, which helps companies optimize their sales process, people, and technology to accelerate business growth for scaling success.

Skaled accelerates sales organization growth by examining fundamental sales process and using cutting-edge technology to enable clients to optimize, modernize, and thrive in the constantly evolving world of SMB & Enterprise sales. They have worked with over 80 organizations globally helping larger organizations generate millions of dollars in new and incremental revenue and startups raise over 250 million dollars post-engagement.

Relentlessly pursuing the agile, test-driven discipline of growth marketing. I'm a life-long learner that continuously finds new ways to grow companies.
Ladder is a growth marketing agency that uses proprietary technology and data-driven strategy to increase your ROI. The team has spent millions of dollars and thousands of hours working with over 100 companies in New York and London.

Matt Hooper is VP- Open Innovation of Barclays and the Head of Rise NY. After college, Matt co-founded Redrawn Labs before working as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Casual Corp. He has also served as the Managing Director of Startup NEXT NYC.

He also works as a Creator and a Co-Host at Live! From Tomorrow, 'Letterman-meets-Shark Tank', created by the leaders of Startup NEXT NYC (acquired by Techstars). A mixture of live pitching, pre-recorded comedy skits and a keynote interview, it is a fun way for startups to grow, audiences to laugh and everyone to (fingers crossed!) learn.

Andrew is Cofounder at Spruce Inc. he worked as MBA Associate at Gotham Ventures and Associate at Stanford C. Bernstein.

Prior to spruce he served as Director of Analytics at Betterment. Prior to Betterment, he worked as MBA Associate at Gotham Ventures and Associate at Stanford C. Bernstein.

Tommy joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2013 and focuses on software and financial services companies. Prior to Bain CapitalTommy worked at North BridgeMK Capitaland developed websites in his spare time. "

Travis is an Entrepreneur and Investor who is passionate about startups and all things FinTech. After graduating from Georgetown University, Travis started his professional career in New York as a financial services strategy consultant with Accenture. Following Accenture Travis joined HSBC again in New York where he was responsible for a number of strategic initiatives in the Private Bank.

Brian is a co-founder and Managing Partner ofTribeca Early Stage Partners.  Prior to his role there, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity.

Cosmin is currently developing and running LaterPaya Payment Infrastructure Platform for digital content provider. Content providers can use the LaterPay platform for creating different paid content business modelse.g. pay per use. Following the claim "Use nowpay later" the users can experience content first and convince themselves before paying for it. LaterPay's technology identifies and tracks user’s devicecreates a real time invoiceaggregates purchases across many websites and provides for their payment when €5 or a certain number of used articles is reached."

Michael is CFO of Mineful. Michael was a VP at J.P. Morgan Asset Management where he specialized in derivatives trading and investment strategy. He served as President of the JDRF Young Leadership Committee a Type I diabetes charity. Michael completed the General Course at the London School of Economics. He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and earned his MBA with honors from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Victor M Ramirez is a technology professional with a focus in online marketing and content strategy. He is constantly developing the best strategies using the latest tools and resources combined with the lean / agile methodology. Using continuous improvement, he helps his clients align their goals through data driven decision making and measurable results. His specialties include project management, SEO, social media strategy, and online brand development. I am also a full stack web developer with a focus in WordPress and Ruby on Rails.

Jake Dunlap is a top-level sales executive and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience, working with global 2000 and start-up companies, and specializing in talent acquisition, brand marketing, decision-making, operations, and sales processes. In 2013, he founded Skaled, a revenue-innovation firm focused on replicable ways to generate new customers for growing companies, as well as innovating sales process for established organizations. Previous to Skaled, Jake served as Head of Sales & Customer Success for Chartbeat, Vice President of Sales at Glassdoor, and Senior Sales Manager at CareerBuilder. Jake holds an MBA in international business from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, as well as a BS in entertainment management from Missouri State University.

Boris is Associate Management Consultant, AML Transaction Monitoring Project Manager & Business Analyst- Global Bank, PMO Analyst- Top National Bank, CUNY Baruch Ambassador for Associate Training Program and Lead for Capco Connect Recruiting at Capco.

He is also Founder of Volunteers For Smiles Inc, a non-profit organization which helps people, in need, meet basic needs, orient actionable plans to achieve their desires and provide support so they can successfully function within society and live to their fullest potentials.

Divya is Principal Consultant at Capco, an FIS™ company that is a global management consultancy with a focus in financial services including banking and payments, capital markets, and wealth and asset management, plus a dedicated energy division. We combine innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to deliver business consulting, digital, technology and transformational services. Its collaborative and efficient approach helps clients reduce costs, manage risk and regulatory change while increasing revenues.

Jay Heller is Head of IPO Execution Team & Capital Markets at Nasdaq with 20+ years of experience in the financial markets. His specialties include Trading, Banking, IPO's, Syndicate, and Equity Capital Markets, Sales - Financial Markets.

Prior to Nasdaq, he was Director of Institutional Trading and Sales at American Capital Partners at American Capital Partners, a sell-side boutique that in addition to institutional and retail brokerage and trading services, also provides high-quality independent research and investment banking services. He received B.S. in Management Science & Economics from Kean University.

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.

Ian Myers is Corporate Advisory at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, a core member of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), working together with other members of the Group to offer customers highly sophisticated, comprehensive financial services globally.

Prior to SMBC, Ian worked worked on the Stanford Silicon Valley New Japan Project designed to increase ties between Japan and Silicon Valley through networking, policy research, events, and academic inquiry at Stanford Asia Pacific Research Center. He holds MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University.

Ron is an accomplished executive and entrepreneur, with 25 years of experience in financial services and technology, including executive management, business operations, contract negotiation, start up company formation, early stage capital raise, financial product sales, new product creation and product management.

He is also acting as an advisor and investor, with a focus on bridging the gap between the growing world of virtual currencies and Wall Street, and has presented at a variety of industry conferences regarding virtual currencies and financial markets.

Steven Ehrlich works at Spitzberg Partners as Associate. He gathers, analyzes, and synthesizes complex qualitative and quantitative information and business intelligence regarding European / international political, regulatory, financial, macro-economic, and technology-related matters. More specifically, He provides detailed analysis of the political dimension of the ICT sector – especially as it relates to the intersection of technology, geopolitics, privacy, and security.

Prior to Spitzberg Partners, he worked at Booz Allen Hamilton and BDP International. He holds M.A. in International Relations and Affairs from Colombia University and received B.S. Business Administration and General Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Anna is a results-driven financial services executive with 15+ years of experience in senior roles across capital markets, investment banking, asset management and venture capital. During most of her Wall Street career, she ran a top-ranked fixed income origination/hedging business and had a proven track record of building high impact client relationships and driving revenue growth.

More recently, she has immersed herself in working with and investing in early stage companies where she can contribute her professional expertise and help management teams build viable businesses. She currently serves as an Advisor to two fintech firms and mentor at several start up accelerators in New York City (ERA, Barclays/Techstars, Canadian Technology Accelerator).

David Bigelow is a Senior Banker at J.P.Morgan’s Private Bank which brings indispensable intelligence and personalized insights to individuals and families across the globe. J.P.Morgan’s Private Bank focuses on helping clients address their long-term financial needs. It develops strategies to help preserve your wealth-so clients can enjoy their life, provides for their heirs and supports the causes they are passionate about.

His passions include my children, his family's Vermont homestead, rugby and fund-raising for high impact non-profits (especially higher education and medical foundations).

Scarlett is SVP of Open Innovation and Ecosystem Building at BBVA. She runs the North American region for BBVA's global fintech competition and is the US lead for BBVA's millennial initiative.

Prior to BBVA, she was COO and co-founder of a tech startup, Infomous, whose clients include The London Olympics, Super Bowl XLVII, and NFL Films/. Outside of work, she is a contributor to the Huffington Post, Forbes, and WeWork. She is a mentor at Dogfish Accelerator, a NYC Fellow for Startup Leadership Program, a Global Youth Ambassador for A World at School and is also an Ambassador for One Young World.

Benjamin Bernstein is a Senior Associate at the Partnership Fund for New York City. Prior to joining the Partnership Fund, Benjamin worked at UBS Investment Bank for over five years, focusing on the Consumer Products and Retail sector. Benjamin worked with companies on mergers, acquisitions and capital raising in both the debt and equity markets in addition to providing general financial and strategic advice. Benjamin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics as well as a Certificate in Political Economy from Princeton University.

Jesse is Managing Director for Startupbootcamp FinTech New York.  He is responsible for all aspects of the program including startup outreach and working with its excellent partners. A lifetime New Yorker, Jesse spent twelve years in trading and business development roles at financial insitutions such as Jefferies, KCG and Susquehanna.  In 2012 he entered the NYC fintech startup scene and has never looked back.

Jesse is a founding board member of Hannah Banana Foundation, a non-profit that helps chronically and terminally ill patients when they're in care, and is a mentor for Career Gear, a national nonprofit organization offering interview clothing and job counseling to men in need.

Randolph Adler is the co-chair of Dentons' startup program and a member of the Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies practice. Randolph represents companies in all stages of development, with a particular focus on founding entrepreneurs, startups, emerging growth companies and small and mid-cap companies. He also counsels founders, executives, boards of directors, family offices and venture and private equity principals on a wide range of issues, including business strategy, capital raises, board governance, general corporate counseling, intellectual property protection, complex business disputes and strategic transactions.

Dmytro Pokhylko is Director and  Vice President of FS, Media, Tech, and entrepreneurship Teams at New York City Economic Development Corporation. He oversees development and implementation of economic policies across the City’s key sectors and key functions of sector teams, including budget development, portfolio structuring, and personnel development. Oversee and manage outside multiple consultant teams conducting work on current initiatives. In terms of community engagement and stakeholder management, he represents the City and helps build consensus at CEO-level public-private dialogues, domestic and international panels and in-person meetings with key stakeholders; coordinate communications for finance-, media- and broadband- focused advisory boards.

David Antokal’s mission is to be a perfect equity partner to small business owners and entrepreneurs through respectful and valuable engagement, building bonds that extend beyond business. His company leads and co-invests in equity investments in growth-ready companies between $5-$50 million of revenue and up to $5 million of EBITDA. They bring to bear a focused group of operating advisors and a supportive network to help make the best decisions for long-term success.