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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the Banking space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Chris Budd
Vice President, CISO Americas of Deutsche Bank
Chris Budd is a Vice President in the CISO Americas group of Deutsche Bank. He is responsible for representing the Americas CISO to major business divisions as well as for providing information security counsel in M&A exercises throughout the hemisphere. His experience provides raw material for driving internalized training initiatives across the enterprise. His success comes from infusing expertise into the curricula, but also by incorporating dialogue with front-office stakeholders to maximize value of the content. His trainings have reached nearly 2,000 colleagues in every major discipline, in board rooms and server rooms alike, around the globe.
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About Deutsche Bank: Deutsche Bank, a Frankfurt-based global investment bank, offers financial products and services to corporate and institutional clients.
Jade Mandel
Vice President, Growth Equity of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
John Giannuzzi
Vice President, Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
John is a vice president at Goldman Sachs in the Merchant Banking Division. In this role, John leads investments in growth stage enterprise technology companies, with a specific focus on software. He serves on several technology company boards. John joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 in the Investment Banking Division.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Mike Herman
Vice President of Goldman Sachs
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About Girard Securities, Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Harry Singh
Vice President of Goldman Sachs
Harry Singh is a Vice President in the US Power trading group at Goldman Sachs. Harry has extensive experience in power market design and renewable energy transactions. Harry’s recent focus includes work on corporate renewable procurement and he was a part of the team that executed the firm’s first renewable PPA. He has participated in structuring and origination of commercial transactions in power and environmental markets including renewables, energy efficiency and other low carbon resources. Prior to his current position, he was with RBS Sempra Commodities where he worked on structured renewable transactions under the California RPS. He also served as a Senior Advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and prior to that held various positions at PG&E. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently serves as Chairman of WSPP.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Lakshmi Subbramanian
Vice President of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Matthew Dorr
Vice President of Goldman Sachs
Matthew Dorr is a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Private Capital Investing team. In that capacity, he invests in private companies throughout North America in the software and technology sectors. He currently has board involvement with Aryaka, Zipwhip, xMatters and Skytap, and has been involved in the firm’s investments in Revionics, BigCommerce, Billtrust, Paycor (sold to Apax Partners), and IO Data Centers (sold to Iron Mountain). Matthew holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
John Waldron
President and Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs
John Waldron is a President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Erwin Eichmann
Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Vladimir Berezniker
Senior Engineer/Vice President of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
David Wardrop
Senior Vice President of UBS
I’m an advisor to entrepreneurs in the finance, tech and media worlds.
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Aman Thind
Executive Vice President, Chief Architect of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Yasser El Hamoumi
Assistant Vice President, Trading and Algorithmic Strategist of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Adam Stuart
Vice President, SSgA Information Technology Architecture of State Street
Adam is Vice President of Technology Architecture for State Street Global Advisors. He is responsible for researching, evaluating, implementing and advocating for emerging technologies that increase business productivity and insight. He has a proven track record of collaborating across business areas and technology segments to bring valuable capabilities to his business constituents.
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Stephanie Lo
Vice President, Head of Securities Finance Research of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Avesh Agarwal
Vice President of State Street
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Thomas DiBenedetto
President of Boston International Group
Mr. Thomas R. DiBenedetto has 40 years’ experience in the investment business, having worked as an investment banker in New York with Morgan Stanley & Co., Salomon Brothers, Inc. and Allen & Company, Incorporated. He is the founder and principal stockholder of two investment firms, Boston International Group and its affiliate, Junction Investors, Ltd. Mr. DiBenedetto has been active internationally for over 30 years. He is Chairman of Jefferson Waterman International, a Washington, D.C. based business intelligence and government relations firm, and a major shareholder of Moscow based Infotecs International, LLC, a telecommunications and internet security firm. He has also been an active investor in several exploration stage mining companies in the U.S., South America and Africa. An avid sports fan, Mr. DiBenedetto has been a partner in the Boston Red Sox baseball club since 1978. In 2011, he led a group in the acquisition and control of AS Roma, one of the leading global football clubs, where he is currently a Director. At Morgan Stanley and Salomon Brothers in the 1970’s, he worked with many of the largest developers in North America. During his career, he has been involved in financing, developing and investing in real estate; and since 1984, he has been a director of Alexander’s, Inc. where he assisted in the company’s transition from a retail and merchandising business to a real estate investment trust. An affiliate of Vornado Realty, Inc., one of the largest real estate companies in the United States, Alexander’s is the owner/developer of the highly acclaimed mixed-use development which houses the Bloomberg world headquarter offices in New York City. Mr. DiBenedetto began investing in private technology companies in 1978 when he was at Allen & Company, Incorporated. Since then, he has developed and sold two cellular telephone companies and has been a founder/director of several technology companies including Voice Signal Technologies, Inc., the worldwide leading mobile voice recognition business which was sold to Nuance Communications in 2007; Fortelligent, Inc., a predictive modeling firm which was sold to WPP, Inc. in 2007; and Shaser, Inc., a consumer personal products company whose first product i-LIGHT, Remington licensed and began selling in Italy in early 2010. Mr. DiBenedetto also serves as Chairman of Burst LLC. Burst is a leading mobile video technology company that helps content creators unlock the power of mobile video. The Burst platform is utilized by media companies, publishers and brands who want to leverage the power of both user-generated and “controlled” content. Mr. DiBenedetto is on the board of directors and an early investor in Likeable Local Inc. which offers scalable, integrated social media software solutions for small businesses to build, engage, and grow their online presence. In addition Mr. DiBenedetto is an advisor to Back9 Network, a new golf lifestyle television network and media company Mr. DiBenedetto is a member of the Board of Trustees of: Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut; the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Inc.; Kents Hill School in Kents Hill, Maine; the Nahant Preservation Trust in Nahant, Massachusetts; and the Ted Williams Museum in Florida. In addition, he is a member of the international advisory board of Perkins School for the Blind; and is an incorporator of the Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Joslin Diabetes Center. He has also served on the Leadership Council at the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Business and Government at Harvard University. Mr. DiBenedetto graduated with honors in Economics from Trinity College, has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and was a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. DiBenedetto and his wife Linda have five sons and reside in Ft. Myers, Florida and Nahant, Massachusetts.
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About Boston International Group: Boston International Group is a privately-owned investment manager specializing in hedge fund management.
Andrew Cecere
President, Chief Executive Officer & Director of U.S. Bancorp
Mr. Andrew Cecere is Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer of U.S. Bancorp. Until that time, he served as Vice Chairman, Wealth Management and Securities Services of U.S. Bancorp since the merger of Firstar Corporation and U.S. Bancorp in February 2001. Previously, he had served as an executive officer of the former U.S. Bancorp, including as Chief Financial Officer from May 2000 through February 2001.
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About U.S. Bancorp, US Bank: U.S. Bancorp is a financial holding company, offers banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services and products for its clients
Jennie P. Carlson
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of U.S. Bancorp
Ms. Carlson is Executive Vice President, Human Resources, of U.S. Bancorp. Ms. Carlson, 54, has served in this position since January 2002. Until that time, she served as Executive Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of U.S. Bancorp since the merger of Firstar Corporation and U.S. Bancorp in February 2001. From 1995 until the merger, she was General Counsel and Secretary of Firstar Corporation and Star Banc Corporation.
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About U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bancorp is a financial holding company, offers banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services and products for its clients
Daniel Crozier
Senior Vice President Operations of U.S. Bancorp
Dan Crozier is Vice President and Head of Capital Markets Operations for US Bancorp Investments, Inc. and U.S. Bank, N.A. Municipal Securities Group. Dan’s responsibilities include all middle and back office areas supporting the firm’s underwriting and institutional business. In addition, Dan is responsible for securities control and plays a leadership role in the firm’s activities for Financial Responsibility Rule requirements and is a leader for the firm’s T+2 preparation effort. Dan has been with US Bancorp since 2011. He is based in New York, but also spends considerable time in the firm’s Minneapolis/St Paul and Charlotte offices. Dan started his career at Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., and later worked at Banc of America Securities as Vice President of Fixed Income Middle Office in San Francisco and First Vice President and Head of Operations at WaMu Capital Corp. in Seattle. Dan is a member of the SIFMA’s Capital Markets Operations Committee, Regulatory Capital and Margin Committee and Municipal Operations Committee, as well as the SIFMA Think Tank and Red Group. Dan is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Wholesale Advisory Group. Dan is a former President and board member of the Securities Operations Association of San Francisco. Dan holds licenses in Series 7, 24, 27, 52, 53, 63 and 99.
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About U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bancorp is a financial holding company, offers banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services and products for its clients
Mark G. Runkel
Executive Vice President & Chief Credit Officer of U.S. Bancorp
Mr. Runkel is Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of U.S. Bancorp. Mr. Runkel, 38, has served in this position since December 2013. From February 2011 until December 2013, he served as Senior Vice President and Credit Risk Group Manager of U.S. Bancorp Retail and Payment services credit risk management, having served as Senior Vice President and Risk Manager of U.S. Bancorp Retail and Small Business credit risk management from June 2009 until February 2011. From March 2005 until May 2009 served as Vice President and Risk Manager of U.S. Bancorp.
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About U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bancorp is a financial holding company, offers banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services and products for its clients
Tonya Peterson
Assistant Vice President of U.S. Bancorp
Tonya M. Peterson, PfMP, PMP, LSSGB, CSM is a Sr. Project Portfolio Manager for the enterprise technology team within US Bancorp responsible for strategic leadership, portfolio management, process improvement, methodology direction, resource management, and project management. Tonya is also a Mentor, Consultant, Coach, and Instructor. She has over 20-years of experience within the public and private sectors in the Information Systems area. Her expertise encompasses PMO operations, portfolio, program, and project management, continuous improvement, quality direction, productivity metrics, instruction, and organizational efficiency. She is proficient in capacity planning, technical guidance, strategic planning, and outsourcing. Tonya is writing her first two manuscripts on influencing project success and building a leadership organization
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About U.S. Bancorp: U.S. Bancorp is a financial holding company, offers banking, investment, mortgage, trust, and payment services and products for its clients
Ed Olebe
President, Co-Brand Cards of JP Morgan Chase
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About JP Morgan Chase: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Calvin Shum
Vice President of JP Morgan Chase
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About IBM, JP Morgan Chase, Lovoco: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Bartholomew Baptista
Vice President, Product Marketing, Merchant Services of JP Morgan Chase
Bartholomew has enjoyed a versatile career spanning B2B to consumer marketing, and financial services to the performing arts. From working inside the halls of American Express, Citi, Neuberger and now J.P. Morgan Chase to collaborating with agencies and subject matters experts, he has activated some of the world’s most iconic global brands. Over the past 15 years, he has helped create client-driven strategic marketing roadmaps, launch new products, scale digital platforms, and enable sales. Bartholomew uses his varied background to tap into the area where creativity, strategy, and technology converge to reimagine how brands engage.
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About JP Morgan Chase: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
David Wagner
Vice President of JP Morgan Chase
David Wagner is the Vice President at JP Morgan Chase.
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About JP Morgan Chase, Neograft Technologies: JP Morgan Chase is a global financial services provider that offers investment banking, asset management, treasury, and other services.
Douglas Feagin
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group of Ant Group
Mr. Douglas Feagin is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group Prior to joining Ant in June 2016, from August 1994 to May 2016, Mr. Feagin worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he last served as a managing director from 2004 to 2016, with a broad set of client relationships in the US, Latin America and Asia across sectors including banking, technology and insurance. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994.
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About Ant Group: Ant Group strives to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services through technology.
Prahalad Thota
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Avid Modjtabai
Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Consumer Lending of Wells Fargo
Avid Modjtabai is a senior executive vice president and head of consumer lending for Wells Fargo & Company. In this role she is responsible for home lending, auto lending and consumer credit. Avid Modjtabai is a 21-year veteran of Wells Fargo where she has served in a number of diverse leadership roles. Prior to her current role she was the chief information officer and head of the technology and operations group with responsibility for the core technology functions of the company including data centers, enterprise architecture, application development, information security and technology governance. Avid Modjtabai has served as Wells Fargo’s director of human resources, led the Internet Services Group and held management positions in consumer deposits and the investment group. Before joining Wells Fargo, she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where she focused on strategy initiatives in financial services. Avid Modjtabai was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” and the “Top 25 Women to Watch” by U.S. Banker and the American Banker. She received the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor,” for her outstanding personal and professional achievements and her commitment to preserving the richness of heritage. She serves on the board of trustees for The Branson School and is an advisory member of the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program and Stanford Center on Longevity. Avid Modjtabai holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. As a member of Avnet’s board of directors, Avid Modjtabai serves on the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Hope A. Hardison
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Human Resources Director of Wells Fargo
Hope A. Hardison, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Human Resources Director assumed her CAO role in September 2015. She has been HR Director since September 2010. As CAO, Hardison manages Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Government & Community Relations, the Innovation Group, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, overseeing the company’s brand, communications, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement efforts. In her role as Human Resource Director, Hardison leads a team that develops and implements people strategies to support Wells Fargo’s business objectives, as well as the management of compensation and benefits, human resource service centers, systems and payroll, finance, team member relations and assistance, talent management, learning and development and diversity for more than 266,000 Wells Fargo team members. Hardison is a 22-year veteran of Wells Fargo. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the head of Compensation and Benefits and was responsible for managing benefits, executive and team member compensation and mergers and acquisitions. She also managed international team member compensation and benefit programs. She has held numerous finance, strategic planning and compensation roles since joining Wells Fargo in 1993. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College and has done graduate work in applied economics and statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Steven Macko
Executive Vice President and Head of Technology, Media & Telecom of Wells Fargo
Steven Macko leads the Industries Group at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, which includes Technology Finance, Specialty Finance, Lender Finance, and Flatiron Capital. Macko joined Wells Fargo Capital Finance in 1998 and established its San Francisco office in 1999. Prior to joining Capital Finance, Macko spent several years at Ernst & Young, PWC, and Strome Investment Management, an alternative investment strategy hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Laura Fontana
Vice President, Product Strategy, Distributed Ledger Technology Program of Wells Fargo
Laura Fontana is currently a vice president and product strategist for Wells Fargo’s Innovation Technology team. She is responsible for supporting the distributed ledger technology program, exploring promising commercial opportunities across Wells Fargo’s diversified businesses and with a variety of business partners and consortia in the larger financial services industry.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Agus Sudjianto
Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk of Wells Fargo
Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president and head of Corporate Model Risk for Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning and computational statistics.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Nathan Susanj
Vice President, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development of Wells Fargo
Nathan Susanj is the VP, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Helen Beckschi
Vice-President and US Privacy Officer of Wells Fargo
Helen Beckschi, Vice-President and US Privacy Officer, is responsible for the overall governance and oversight of Wells Fargo’s US privacy program.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Brian Pearce
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence of Wells Fargo
Brian Pearce is senior vice president of enterprise artificial intelligence at Wells Fargo. During his time at Wells Fargo, he and his teams have led large, multichannel efforts such as mobile remote deposit, Apple Pay, P2P payments, transfers, bill pay, and the launch of an online brokerage platform, and he previously served as the head of the mobile banking function.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Geanie Asante
Vice President, Value Stream Delivery Manager of Wells Fargo
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About OAACC, University of the Cumberlands, Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Charles Scharf
President and CEO of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Michael J. Loughlin
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Wells Fargo
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Michael J. Loughlin oversees all risk-taking activities at Wells Fargo, including credit, market, operational, compliance, information security (including cyber risk), and financial crimes risk management. He is also involved in issues such as liquidity, capital, profit planning, and compensation. As the leader of the Corporate Risk group, which includes 5,000 team members, he serves on the Wells Fargo Operating and Management Committees and is based in San Francisco. Mike assumed his role as chief risk officer in 2006. Previously, he was responsible for credit approval, policy, and reporting for Wholesale Banking. A banking professional with 36 years of experience, he joined the company in 1986 after Wells Fargo acquired Crocker Bank. Before serving as head of credit for Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking, he was responsible for the private banking business of Private Client Services, headed systems and operations for the Wholesale Banking unit, and held other positions within Commercial and Corporate Banking including head of U.S. Corporate Banking and Regional Vice President in the Santa Clara Valley Regional Commercial Banking Office. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mike serves on the board of directors for Students Rising Above, an organization dedicated to helping low-income, first-generation college students realize their potential by guiding and supporting them through college graduation and into the workforce.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Kimarie Matthews
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Virtual Channels Social Care & Capabilities of Wells Fargo
As the senior vice president, social for Wells Fargo’s digital channels group, Kimarie Matthews is responsible for leveraging social technologies to extend Wells Fargo’s ability to support customers, including servicing customers in social channels, building customer community and testing concepts to bring bankers and customers together in social environments. Her programs deliver business benefits that include increased customer satisfaction and brand sentiment and increased website traffic through organic search results.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Daniel Ayala
Global Remittance Services Group Head, Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Albert Hwu
Vice President, International Treasury Consultant of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Soleil Dolce
Vice-President of Information Security Management of Wells Fargo
Soleil Dolce has been serving as Vice-President of Information Security Management at Wells Fargo since June 2018.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Bonnie Saunders
Vice President,National Client Service Manager of Wells Fargo
Bonnie Saunders serves as vice president of national client service manager at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Jason G. Pollack
Vice President; Public Power Relationship Manager of Wells Fargo
Jason Pollack is a Vice President on the Public Power team within Wells Fargo’s Government and Institutional Banking group. As the west coast Relationship Manager, he is responsible for new business development and client management for western region municipal utilities.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
John Shrewsberry
Senior Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Cristal Brawley
Vice President ,Senior Content Strategist, User Experience Design Lead of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Austin Smith
Vice President of Houlihan Lokey
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About Houlihan Lokey: Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Mary McDougall
Vice President of Astia Angels
Mary McDougall was CEO at Survox, Inc. until sale to Enghouse (TSX:ENGH) – her fourth exit. Prior roles include COO, IronSpire for 4 years before private sale, GM Decision Dynamics – sold to Perceptron (NASDAQ:PRCP), and VP Pdt Mgt, Mktg, & Support Mitron – sold to GenRad (NYSE:TER). SaaS transformation and M&A identification and integration with BMC Software.
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About Astia Angels: Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies.
Nick Baker
Senior Vice President of Macquarie Group
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About Macquarie Group: Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Kenneth Chan
Senior Vice President of Macquarie Group
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About Macquarie Group: Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services.
Kenneth Rosen
Executive Vice President, Chief Claims Officer of Allstate
Kenneth Rosen serves as executive vice president and chief claims officer at Allstate Insurance.
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About Allstate: Allstate offers a protection product through multiple brands & diverse distribution channels, including auto, home, life & other insurance.
Glenn Shapiro
President of Allstate
Glenn Shapiro is President of Allstate Personal Lines, overseeing product, claims, operations, risk, finance and distribution. He is focused on expanding Allstate’s trusted advisor strategy, accelerating the use of telematics and building an Integrated Digital Enterprise. From 2016 to 2017, Shapiro served as Chief Claims Officer for the Allstate Insurance Company. Prior to joining Allstate in 2016, Shapiro was Executive Vice President and Chief Claims Officer at Liberty Mutual Commercial Insurance. Shapiro has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in strategy and operations and has been at the forefront of leveraging predictive modeling and digital capabilities in insurance. Shapiro serves on the board of SitStayRead, a Chicago nonprofit dedicated to promoting a culture of
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About Allstate: Allstate offers a protection product through multiple brands & diverse distribution channels, including auto, home, life & other insurance.
John Rhodes
Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Allstate
John Rhodes is chief risk officer for Allstate Insurance Company. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating enterprise risk and return management practices and decisions throughout the company. This includes leading the Enterprise Risk and Return Management Committee, which determines economic capital requirements, establishes risk guidelines and monitors actual performance. Rhodes and his team work to enhance risk and return management by further embedding the use of economic capital in decision-making, enhancing model governance and expanding operational risk management. Before joining Allstate in 2015, Rhodes was senior vice president and chief risk officer for Lincoln Financial Group, a provider of retirement planning and life insurance products to individuals and employers. He provided strategic direction and oversight of Lincoln’s enterprise risk management, equity risk management, corporate actuarial and business resilience functions. From 2009 to 2012, he was Lincoln’s head of equity risk management. Earlier in his career, Rhodes served in a range of risk management roles with ING U.S. Financial Services (now Voya), JPMorgan Chase and GE Capital. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Rhodes served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He earned his MBA from New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business.
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About Allstate: Allstate offers a protection product through multiple brands & diverse distribution channels, including auto, home, life & other insurance.
Jason Bender
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of First Republic Bank
Bender has been with First Republic since 1999, and managed the Bank’s finance department for over a decade before being appointed Chief Administrative Officer on January 1, 2013. Effective January 1, 2016, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the overall operations of deposits and lending, strategic planning, enterprise data, online banking and related digital activities, and secondary loan marketing. He oversees banking activities in the Orange County and San Diego regions. B.A., 1992, Swarthmore College; M.B.A., 1999, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, 2014.
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About First Republic Bank, First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
Mollie Richardson
Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer of First Republic Bank
Richardson joined First Republic in 2003 and was appointed Chief Administrative Officer on January 1, 2016 and Chief People Officer in November 2016. Ms. Richardson oversees human resources, enterprise collaboration, facilities/administrative services, Eagle Lending and various bank-wide initiatives. Ms. Richardson previously served as Deputy Chief Administrative Officer and head of Board and Investor Relations at First Republic. She is Co-Chair of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Bay Area. B.A., 2001, Sonoma State University; Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, 2013.
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About First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
Robert Thornton
Executive Vice President and President, Private Wealth Management of First Republic Bank
Thornton joined First Republic in 2004 and currently serves as President of First Republic Investment Management and President of First Republic Private Wealth Management. He became Executive Vice President of First Republic Bank in 2015 and oversees banking activities for the Los Angeles and Palm Beach regions. Prior to joining First Republic, Mr. Thornton held senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank over a 20 year period. B.A. 1980, Duke University; J.D., 1983, Columbia Law School; Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program, 2014.
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About First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
David Lichtman
Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer of First Republic Bank
Lichtman has been with First Republic since 1986, and has held positions in various phases of lending operations at the Bank. Mr. Lichtman was appointed Chief Credit Officer in 1995. In the role of Chief Credit Officer, he is responsible for promoting the Bank’s credit culture focused on safe and disciplined lending standards and practices. B.A., 1985, Vassar College; M.B.A., 1990, University of California, Berkeley.
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About First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
Justin Gibson
Executive Vice President, Chief Audit Executive of First Republic Bank
Gibson joined First Republic in 2012. As Chief Audit Executive, he leads a collaborative cross-functional audit department designed to meet the requirements of the banking industry’s complex regulatory environment. Mr. Gibson is on the Board of Governors at the San Francisco Institute of Internal Audit, a member of the Board of Directors at Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area and a Board member at the Partnership for Children and Youth. Mr. Gibson is a Certified Public Accountant. B.A., 1997, University of California, Los Angeles; Harvard Business School General Management Program, 2014.
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About First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
Michael Selfridge
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Banking Officer of First Republic Bank
Michael D. Selfridge joined First Republic in 2012. As Chief Banking Officer, he is responsible for Northern California Private Banking, Information Technology, and nationwide Business Banking. Previously, he served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer and also as the Chief Risk Officer. Prior to joining First Republic, Mr. Selfridge was head of U.S. regional banking at Silicon Valley Bank. Mr. Selfridge held various other senior management positions with Silicon Valley Bank over an 18 year period. Prior to this, he was with HSBC and also Wells Fargo Bank. He serves on the Board of Directors of Catholic Charities of San Francisco. B.S., 1989, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; M.B.A., 1995, University of San Francisco; Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program, 2013.
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About First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
David Tateosian
President of First Republic Bank
David Tateosian is President of First Republic Securities Company, a position he assumed in 2003, where he is responsible for building and growing the firm’s investment management, brokerage, foreign exchange, insurance and overall wealth management businesses. He is a member of First Republic Bank’s Enterprise Risk Management, Asset & Liability, and Pricing Committees. Before joining First Republic, Mr. Tateosian was senior managing director of brokerage and trading services for PreferredTrade, Inc., in San Francisco, California and spent 10 years at Fidelity Investments, part of which he served as vice president and manager of Fidelity’s retail investor centers in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. He is a recent graduate of the Harvard Business School’s General Management Program and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont. Mr. Tateosian is an Arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. He serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SF SPCA) and chairs its Investment Committee. Mr. Tateosian He holds FINRA Series 4, 7, 8, 24, 55, 63 and 65 licenses.
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About First Republic Bank, First Republic Bank: First Republic offers banking for individuals and businesses, wealth management and more with a focus on tailored services and solutions.
Ravishankar Gundlapalli
Founder, President & Chief Solutions Officer of MentorCloud
Ravishankar Gundlapalli is the Founder, Executive Chairman, President, and Chief Solutions Officer at MentorCloud.
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About Founder Institute, MentorCloud: MentorCloud is a cloud-based mentoring platform for enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, employee engagement and retention.
Suzette Junier
Vice President of CBG Holdings
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About CBG Holdings, Cloud Lending, Q2ebanking: CBG Holdings develops electronic banking software for financial institutions.
Paul Gould
Managing Director & Executive Vice President of Allen & Company
Paul Gould is the Managing Director at Allen & Company. Paul has worked for Allen & Company since 1972 and established Allen & Company’s arbitrage business in 1975. In addition to the Fund, Paul has been involved in Allen & Company’s merger and acquisition advisory practice, where he has served as a financial advisor to many Fortune 500 corporations. Paul is a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Communications and a Member of the Compensation and Nominating Committees. Paul served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Holding Company prior to Discovery Communications becoming a public company. Paul currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Liberty Global, plc and Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation. Paul also serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Cornell University, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the New School University and is an Overseer for the Weill Cornell Medical College. Paul attended Cornell University and graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University.
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About Allen & Company: Allen & Company is a private investment and advisory firm.
Herbert Allen
President & CEO of Allen & Company
Herbert Allen has been director of The Coca-Cola Company since 1982. Allen is President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Allen & Company Incorporated, a privately held investment firm, and has held these positions for more than the past five years. He previously served as a Director of Convera Corporation from 2000 to 2010.
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About Allen & Company: Allen & Company is a private investment and advisory firm.
Jeffrey D Hyslop
Vice President of Staple Street Capital
Jeff is a Vice President at Staple Street Capital. He is responsible for identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, performing due diligence and working with our management teams to create value. Prior to joining Staple Street Capital, Mr. Hyslop was a Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management where he focused on private equity, special situations and distressed debt investments across a wide range of industries, including automotive, industrial, financial services, retail and IT services. At Cerberus, Mr. Hyslop was responsible for executing transactions and overseeing portfolio company investments, as well as identifying and executing public-market high yield debt investments. While at Cerberus, Mr. Hyslop served on the boards of North American Bus Industries and Blue Bird Corporation. Mr. Hyslop received his B.A. from Michigan State University.
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About Staple Street Capital: Staple Street Capital invests in attractive middle market companies where we can partner with management to create value.
William Demchak
CEO, President and Director of PNC
Mr. William S. Demchak, also known as Bill, has been the Chief Executive Officer at PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since April 23, 2013. Mr. Demchak has also been the President of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and its subsidiary PNC Bank, National Association since April 24, 2012. Mr. Demchak serves as the Chief Executive Officer of PNC Bank, National Association and has been its President of PNC Financial Services Group since April 24, 2012. He served as Senior Vice Chairman of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since February 2009 until April 24, 2012. Mr. Demchak served as Senior Vice Chairman of PNC Bank until April 24, 2012. He served as Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Institutional Bank of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since September 2002, where he was responsible for PNC’s middle market and large corporate businesses, as well as capital markets, real estate finance, equity management and leasing. Mr. Demchak led PNC Financial Services Group Inc.’s asset and liability management function. From 1997 to May 2002, he served as Global Head of Structured Finance and Credit Portfolio for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. He also held key leadership roles at JP Morgan prior to its merger with the Chase Manhattan Corporation in 2000. Mr. Demchak was actively involved in developing JP Morgan’s strategic agenda. He served as Vice Chairman of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since September 2002. He served as Vice Chairman of PNC Bank. He has been Director of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. since February 2013 and of Blackrock Inc. since 2003. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Pittsburgh, the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and the Blue Mountain Credit Alternatives Ltd. He is a member of The Financial Services Roundtable. He served as a Director of BlackRock World Mining Trust plc. He served as a Director of PNC Financial Services Group Inc. He served as a Director of Hilliard Lyons Research Advisors – Investment Advisor of The RBB Fund, Inc. – Senbanc Fund. Mr. Demchak holds a Bachelor of science degree from Allegheny College and earned an MBA with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Michigan.
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About PNC, PNC Bank: PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposits products and services to its community.
Todd Wilson
Regional President of PNC
Todd Wilson is the Regional President at PNC.
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About PNC: PNC is a financial service company providing bank deposits products and services to its community.
James Dondero
Co-Founder and President of NexBank
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About Highland Capital Management, Highland Funds, NexBank, NexPoint Advisors, NexPoint Real Estate Strategies Fund: NexBank delivers customized institutional banking, commercial banking, and mortgage banking services.
Nicki Livanos
Vice President of AXA Group
Nicki Livanos is Director at AXA Equitable.
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About AXA Group, Equitable Holdings: AXA is a French multinational insurance firm that focuses on global insurance, investment management, and other financial services.
Lakshman Easwaran
Senior Vice President of Neuberger Berman Group
Lakshman Easwaran, PhD, FRM, Senior Vice President, joined the firm in 2004. Lakshman is the Head of Risk Analysis and Research, and is responsible for investment risk oversight for the firm’s fixed income and multi asset class strategies. Prior to joining the Portfolio Analysis and Risk team, Lakshman was part of Fixed Income Research at Lehman Brothers. He has also worked as a Fixed Income portfolio manager at SBI Mutual Fund and Prudential ICICI Asset Management. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay with a BTech in Electrical Engineering, received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and subsequently received a PhD in Finance from Duke University. He is a certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
Nicholas Lurvey
Senior Vice President and Complex Products of Neuberger Berman Group
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
Ian Haas
Senior Vice President and NB Alternatives of Neuberger Berman Group
Ian Haas, CFA, Senior Vice President, joined the Firm in 2000. Ian is a member of the Investment Committee and also serves as the Head of Quantitative and Directional Strategy Research on the NB Alternative Investment Management Team. His responsibilities include manager sourcing, screening, due diligence, monitoring and portfolio construction. Prior to joining the team in 2004, Ian was an Associate in Lehman Brothers’ Portfolio Strategy group, where he focused on asset allocation and manager selection. From 2000 to 2003, Ian was a member of the Financial Institutions group within the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, where he worked on M&A advisory projects as well as capital markets financings for clients in the financial services industry. Ian graduated from the University of Oregon, earning a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. Ian holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
Rory Ewing
Senior Vice President and Associate Portfolio Manager of Neuberger Berman Group
Rory Ewing, Senior Vice President, joined the firm in 2016. Rory is an Associate Portfolio Manager and a Research Analyst for the Option Group at the firm. In his current capacity, Rory’s primary responsibility is to assist in the implementation of the firm’s investment strategy in client accounts and to ensure proper adherence to account guidelines and client specific restrictions. Before joining Neuberger Berman, Rory was a Research Analyst at Horizon Kinetics. Prior to Horizon Kinetics, Rory worked at Tempus Quo, an investment firm focused on international, commodity related sectors where he led the trading team. Rory also spent two years as a trader at Pequot Capital and two years as a capital markets consultant at Thomson Financial. Rory received a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from New York University.
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About Neuberger Berman Group: Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
Jay Longosz
Vice President of Veritas Capital
Prior to Veritas, Jay was an Associate at OMERS Private Equity where he focused on investments in healthcare and business services. Previously, he was an investment banking Analyst at Harris Williams in the Diversified Industrials Group. Jay holds a B.A., cum laude, in Politics from Washington and Lee University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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About Veritas Capital: Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Ted Shanahan
Vice President of Veritas Capital
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About Veritas Capital: Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Alice Li
Vice President of Veritas Capital
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About Veritas Capital: Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Joel Posner
Vice President of Veritas Capital
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About Veritas Capital: Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Dejan Ilic
Vice President of Veritas Capital
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About Veritas Capital: Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Mike Maddox
President & CEO of CrossFirst Bank
Mike graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Business. He continued his education at the University of Kansas School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctorate degree. While at KU, Mike was a four-year letterman and a member of the KU basketball team that won a National Championship in 1988. He was captain of the 1991 KU team that was the national runner-up. He practiced Law in Lawrence, Kansas for more than six years and has been in banking for almost nine years. Mike is a former Community Bank President for INTRUST Bank in Lawrence, and was later promoted to Regional President where he managed all of the bank’s operations in Northeast Kansas. He completed the Graduate School of Banking in Wisconsin in 2003. Mike is currently involved in a number of community activities and boards.
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About CrossFirst Bank, CrossFirst Holdings: CrossFirst Bank provides banking services primarily designed for business owners, professionals and their families.
John A. Kanas
President & CEO of BankUnited
John Kanas was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of BankUnited in May 2009. Mr. Kanas led a group of investors in the purchase of the bank in a history-making transaction. Prior to joining BankUnited, Mr. Kanas was chairman, president and CEO of North Fork Bancorporation, the sixteenth-largest bank holding company in the United States. He held this position from 1977, when he was appointed at the age of 29, until North Fork’s acquisition by Capital One in December 2006. Mr. Kanas led the company in its initial public offering in 1982 to its membership on the NYSE and inclusion in the S&P 500 Index. During his tenure, the company completed 15 bank acquisitions and distinguished itself as one of the most profitable and efficient banking companies in the country.
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About BankUnited: BankUnited, Inc. (BKU) is a bank holding company with three wholly owned subsidiaries:
Dan Bosman
Vice President & Managing Director of TD Bank
Dan Bosman is leading the development of TD Securities global derivatives, valuations and trading risk platforms. Mr. Bosman was previously with RBC Capital Markets, as Global Head of Derivatives Risk and Pricing Technology and Citi as North American Head of Rates and CVA Technology. Mr. Bosman has a BSc. from the University of Southampton.
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About TD Bank: TD Bank is a banking center that provides its clients with retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services.
Louise O’Donnell
Vice-President and Senior Information Technology Manager of TD Bank
Louise O’Donnell has over 35 years’ experience in Financial services. She has been a member of the TD senior management within commercial lending and specialty banking for 3 years. Prior to joining TD Bank, Louise server as CIO for PHH Joint Venture and was the Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer of First Bank of Delaware. Louise has spent over 25 years as a leader and strategist for innovating business solutions which are reasonable and sustainable within a disruptive, transforming and highly regulated industry. Under her leadership, Louise drives innovation and delivery of advanced technologies to preserve the customer experience, meet business and customer demands and to gain financial, competitive advantage.
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About TD Bank: TD Bank is a banking center that provides its clients with retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services.
John Thomas
Executive Vice President of TD Bank
John has 25 years of experience in various service industries including digital media, e-commerce, and financial services. As a seasoned GM, product and business development executive, his expertise lies in the areas of consumer technology and marketplaces, consumer and business payments, and scaled business transformation. John is responsible for Enterprise Innovation and Business Architecture at TD Bank. In this role, he leads a best-in-class center of excellence for innovation, creating a sustainable program to drive business transformation globally for TD. He also leads the bank’s US personalization and insights strategies, and US customer retention. John joined TD Bank from Amazon, where he oversaw product, marketing, engineering, user design, business development and operations for a new business line. Prior to Amazon, John was the Global GM of the Digital Business Group at hibu. John also has 20 years of banking experience in R&D, payments, cards, and commercial lending at numerous companies.
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About TD Bank: TD Bank is a banking center that provides its clients with retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services.
Chad Mitchell
Vice President, Head of Content and Digital Platforms of TD Bank
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About TD Bank: TD Bank is a banking center that provides its clients with retail, small business, and commercial banking products and services.
Dorinda C. Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer,SunTrust Mortgage of SunTrust Bank
Dorinda Smith has been named president and chief executive officer of SunTrust Mortgage, Inc., effective November 1, 2015. In this role, she will oversee SunTrust’s mortgage production, servicing, operations, secondary marketing and technology areas. Smith joined SunTrust predecessor, Crestar Mortgage, Inc., January 1996 as the operations manager overseeing the consumer direct channel, and subsequently held increasingly responsible positions including oversight of national operations for both the wholesale and correspondent channels. Most recently, Smith served as the national production manager for the correspondent channel. During her tenure in that position, she launched the non-delegated platform to meet the needs of smaller community banks as well as independently owned mortgage companies. Prior to joining SunTrust, Smith managed commercial real estate portfolios for Perpetual Savings Bank in Tysons Corner, Virginia and subsequently the Resolution Trust Corporation. She graduated cum laude from the University of Memphis with a BA in pre-law.
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About SunTrust Bank, SunTrust Bank: Products and services to make banking easy.
Enrique Escallon
Vice President of SunTrust Bank
Enrique Escallon is a Member of Board of Directors at National PTA.
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About SunTrust Bank, Truist: Products and services to make banking easy.
Rebecca Cox
Senior Vice President, Commercial Real Estate of SunTrust Bank
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About SunTrust Bank, Truist: Products and services to make banking easy.
Jennifer Lopez
Vice President Of Product Development of Capital One
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Konrad Schwarz
Executive Vice President Commercial Banking of Capital One
Konrad Schwarz is the Executive Vice President Commercial Banking at Capital One.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
Managing Vice President of Machine Learning & AI of Capital One
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov is managing vice president of machine learning and artificial intelligence at Capital One, where he leads a group of scientists, engineers, researchers, and product managers who are driving ML and AI transformation at the company. Nitzan and his team develop enterprise-scale, real-time intelligent solutions for a broad range of business problems, including forecasting, NLP in customer service and conversational AI, anomaly & fraud detection, reinforcement learning and more. Nitzan earned his master’s degree in computer science and his Ph.D. in bioinformatics from the University of Chicago.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
David Castillo
Managing Vice-President of Machine Learning of Capital One
Dave Castillo is the managing vice president at Capital One and leads the Center for Machine Learning and Emerging Technology. In this role, Dave is responsible for driving excellence in applied ML research, university ML research, ML technologies (tools and platforms), ML consulting, and ML awareness within Capital One. He’s a strong advocate of responsible AI and has a keen interest in automated machine learning and time series ML. For more than 25 years, Dave has been involved with developing applications involving big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large-scale distributed computing across a wide variety of industries. He’s spent a great deal of time in real-time ML for bidding on real-time auctions and delivering personalized advertising to online and mobile devices. He’s a promoter of analyzing data streams “in flight” to extract meaningful content and for creating and delivering model features in near real time. Dave’s also experienced in developing and deploying fully automated self-learning models. Previously, Dave has developed artificial intelligence applications for NASA, been chief software engineer for Motorola’s Iridium system, chief information officer at KAST (an AI company), chief analytics architect for Adenyo/Motricity, chief technology officer at Voltari Corporation, and chief data scientist for Early Warning. He’s founded two startups in the areas of automated machine learning for online and mobile marketing and advertising. Dave earned his bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Arizona in Tucson, a master’s in engineering from Arizona State University, and a doctorate in engineering from the University of Central Florida. He’s an active speaker and participant in industry events and an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Maryland University College.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Darren Alcus
President, Corporate Banking of Capital One
President, Corporate Banking at Capital One.
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About Capital One, Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Irakli Nadareishvili
Vice President, Core Innovation of Capital One
Irakli Nadareishvili is currently leading microservices transformation efforts as the Senior Director of the Tech Fellows Group at Capital One. Irakli is a co-author of Microservice Architecture (O’Reilly 2016), and was formerly co-founder and CTO of ReferWell, a NY-based health technology startup. In the past he has also held technology leadership roles at CA, Inc. and NPR.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Hutch Douglas
Vice President Of Product Management of Capital One
Hutch’s mission is to create experiences that support Capital One’s users in the moments that matter. By blending strategy with technical approach, he helps to create experiences that win the hearts and minds of consumers. Hutch most recently led Capital One’s effort to build the Capital One’s Wallet, including pushing discounts to you where you shop, instantly locking your card, digital card reissuance, and big-data solutions to identify and avoid unwanted charges and clean transaction data.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Theresa Bedeau
Vice President, Community Development Banking of Capital One
Theresa Bedeau is a Senior Manager on Capital One’s Community Development Banking team, and is responsible for identifying, developing and implementing activities that promote economic development in NY, NJ, and FL. She manages a network of non-profit partners with a special focus on small business development and financial inclusion. Prior to joining Capital One Bank, Theresa focused her efforts in non-profit management and economic development. As Director of Programs at the Business Outreach Center Network she managed and developed programming to serve culturally diverse and low-income communities. While working for the Trickle Up program, she managed a national network of small business technical assistance providers dedicated to supporting very-low income entrepreneurs to launch and grow viable small businesses. Theresa has a B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University and a Master’s degree in Non-Profit Management and International Finance from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Managing Vice President – Data Platforms, Strategic Partnerships & Integrations of Capital One
Naveed Anwar is the Managing Vice President – Data Platforms, Strategic Partnerships & Integrations at Capital One.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Carlisle Campbell
Vice President, Corporate Communcations of Capital One
Carlisle Campbell is the Vice President, Corporate Communcations at Capital One.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Ken Dodelin
Vice President, Mobile, Web, Conversational AI & Messaging Product Experiences of Capital One
Ken Dodelin leads Capital One’s Intelligent Assistant, digital messaging (email, SMS, push notifications) and digital content products in the Digital Enterprise organization, based in Vienna, Virginia. Ken joined Capital One in 2015 and has focused on building a new strategy for digital customer communications that includes innovative products in the virtual assistant/AI space. He leads a cross-divisional team that in 2016 made Capital One the first bank to provide customers with access to their account information on the Amazon Alexa platform, and in 2017 the first bank to launch a natural language SMS chatbot (Eno). Prior to joining Capital One, Ken led mobile product development at The Washington Post and Cricket Media. Ken was also Founder and CEO of Mobile Surroundings, which produced the It Happened Here mobile app that reached #1 in iTunes Travel. Ken has a BS in Psychology from The College of William & Mary and a JD/MBA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ken has been an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate-level digital product development courses at Georgetown University for 10 years.
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About Capital One, Georgetown University: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
