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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 CTO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Harsh Sinha
CTO of Wise
Harsh Sinha is CTO at TransferWise – the international money transfer platform enabling people to send, receive and manage money across borders cheaply and easily. Prior to TransferWise, he was Director of Product at PayPal. During his tenure at PayPal and eBay prior to that, Harsh built various global product experiences and teams including PayPal mobile, eBay Motors, eBay Local and Milo (an eBay acquisition). Harsh is also an angel investor and advises early stage start up on product market fit and team scaling problems.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
Daniel Griffin
Co-Founder and CTO of MainStreet
Daniel Griffin is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of MainStreet. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Peak Podcasting.
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Jean-Denis Greze
Chief Technology Officer of Plaid
Jean-Denis Greze is the Chief Technology Office at Plaid
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About Plaid: Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Geoffrey Hayes
CTO and Founder of Compound
Maintainer of Exthereum, technology founder of two startups, led Core Services at Postmates
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About Compound: Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Idris Mokhtarzada
Founder, CTO of Truebill
He is the Founder & CTO at Truebill.
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About Truebill: Truebill is a personal finance app that utilizes AI to enable users to manage their personal finances and improve their financial health.
Paul Zhang
Chief Technology Officer of Avant
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About Avant: Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Ran Harpaz
Chief Technology Officer of Hippo Insurance
Ran Harpaz is the CTO at Hippo.
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About Hippo Insurance: Hippo Insurance is an InsurTech company that uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties.
Hisham Younis
Chief Technology Officer of Levelset
Hisham has directed zlien’s system architecture and development since 2009. He previously worked as a technical lead and software engineer for Microsoft, focused on search relevance, machine intelligence, and user intent for Bing. Prior to Microsoft, Hisham worked with Valeo on implementing solutions to provide vehicles with situational awareness and enhanced visibility. He is an experienced software developer and server manager with experience in PHP, MySQL, Zend, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS, CSS Languages, and Linux and Windows servers. Hisham is from Cairo, Egpyt, where he spends part of the year working with zlien’s development team. He spends much of the year in zlien’s New Orleans office, possessing an H1B visa.
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Jessica McKellar
Founder and CTO of Pilot
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America’s Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2013.
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About Pilot: Pilot is a platform that offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses.
Ryan Graciano
CTO & Cofounder of Credit Karma
As a co-founder of Credit Karma and Chief Technical Officer, Ryan Graciano has grown the company’s engineering department from a one-man band into a team of hundreds, developing a technical framework to support the company’s rapid growth. His expertise and innovation has helped bring new levels of usability and sophistication to financial services technologies. Today, Ryan runs an ever-expanding group of engineers tasked with building out new products at pace while stressing a culture of agility and experimentation, even as Credit Karma reaches new levels of scale. As a leader, he serves as a constructive agitator, looking to break down traditional workplace hierarchies and empowering each member of his department with real influence over the future of the product. Ryan has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and spent five years at IBM before joining Credit Karma.
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About Credit Karma: Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help customers make the most of their money.
Valery Nebesny
Founder and CTO of Bitfury Group
Founder and CTO of BitFury Group.
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About Bitfury Group: Bitfury is the leading full service bitcoin and blockchain technology company.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Alex Perelman
Co-Founder & CTO of PeerStreet
Alex Perelman is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at PeerStreet.
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About PeerStreet, Playhouse: PeerStreet is a crowdfunding platform that gives investors easy access to high-yielding loans that are collateralized with real estate.
Tanweer Surve
Control Senior Officer – Technology CTO (Cloud) 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.
Eric Detterman
Chief Technology Officer of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies, LexPredict: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Skye Isard
CTO & Co-Founder of Sandbox Banking
Skye was a software developer at MIT CSAIL and Harvard Management Company before co-founding AlphaPack. He holds degrees in both Computer Science and Psychology from Tufts University. He strives to correctly balance his obsession with building maintainable software with the need to deliver immediate customer value. He has learned there are few easy answers. Skye loves running, poker, and pretending to be a competent cook.
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About Sandbox Banking: Sandbox Banking provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) technology to banks, credit unions, and fintechs
Dario Vergara
CTO & Co-Founder of LendingFront
Formerly SVP of technology for OnDeck. Most recently, VP of Technology for Bonobos, the largest apparel brand ever built on the web in the US.
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About LendingFront: Small business lending software platform for banks and other financial institutions
Marshall Jones
Co-Founder & CTO of Very Good Security
Marshall Jones is a co-founder and CTO of Very Good Security. He is a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in FinTech industry. Formerly VP Engineering at Balanced Payments, a payment system for the marketplaces, Marshall knows all ins and outs of setting up engineering processes from ground-up, building a scalable product infrastructure, and growing effective engineering teams. Originally from New Zealand, Marshall lived in Singapore and moved to the USA in 2012. He is an engineering focussed manager with extraordinary technical skills: Marshall codes, liaises between engineers and business and, most importantly, builds product architecture and infrastructure.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
David King
Chief Technology Officer of Flywire
David has made his mark in the billing and payment processing industry with his unmatched technical knowledge, transparent and direct approach to customer communication, and innovative software solutions that consistently exceed expectations. In 1997, David co-founded infiNET Solutions, Inc., which in 2000 became one of the first companies to deliver software-as-a-service to the higher education market. David was the CTO of infiNET, responsible for the architecture and management of an automated tuition billing and commerce system for colleges and universities. Today the system is used by more than 300 higher education institutions and processes over $16 billion annually. At infiNET, David led the technology development for HealthCom’s PatientCompass solution for healthcare. Nelnet, Inc. (NNI), a diversified education planning and financing company, acquired infiNET in 2006. David served as president of the higher education division of Nelnet, where he oversaw sales, product development, customer support, marketing, and strategic planning for the higher education market. His division generated $30 million in revenue annually with a 26 percent profit margin. Under David’s leadership, the business grew 18 percent annually. While at Nelnet, David spearheaded the development of Health Education Solutions, an online medical education and certification program.
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About Flywire, Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Matt Jacobs
Co Founder, CTO of Clarity Money
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About Clarity Money, Goldman Sachs: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Alexey Kalinichenko
Co-Founder and CTO of Step
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About Step: Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers.
JB Rolland
CTO of Credijusto
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About Credijusto: Credijusto provides an online lending platform designed to offer easy, reliable, and transparent credit for SMEs.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Tray Lewin
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer of Aikon
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About Aikon: Aikon provides API-based Blockchain as a Service for top public blockchains including EOS, Ethereum and Libra
Jack Dubie
Chief Technology Officer of Ladder
Jack is a Stanford CS undergrad and co-term. He is from Vermont and enjoys long-boarding and the outdoors. In addition to being the Stanford CS course advisor, he is co-founder of LifeSwap: www.TheLifeSwap.com.
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About Ladder, Ladder: Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%.
Steve Pulec
CTO of YipitData
Previously worked at CUNA Mutual Group. Graduated from University of Wisconsin – Madison with a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Dmitry Kashlev
Founder & CTO of TomoCredit
Dmitry Kashlev is a Chief Technology Officer and Founder of TomoCredit.
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About DearMissJ, Qventus, TomoCredit: TomoCredit helps millennials get the credit cards they deserve by analyzing alternative data sets.
Avi Turgeman
Founder & CTO of BioCatch
Avi is a founder of BioCatch, and comes with over six years of experience in the Israeli military intelligence (unit 8200) as a researcher and R&D team leader.During his military service Avi became well versed in white-hat hacking, system vulnerability management, network surveillance, data mining and electronic signatures. Avi is also the Co-Founder of VocalZoom, and was the Co-Founder & CEO of Tapingo.
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About BioCatch, Forbes Technology Council, IronVest: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
Eric Anderson
CTO of Aspiration
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Tom Harel
CTO and Co-Founder of Routable
Tom Harel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Routable.
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About Routable: Routable is a B2B payments-based platform that allows its users to send and receive business-to-business payments.
Paulo Marques
Founding Partner and CTO of Feedzai
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Feedzai, Forbes Technology Council: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Tyler Conant
Co-Founder & CTO of Possible Finance
Tyler Conant is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Possible Finance.
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
Matt Doka
Head of Business Development & CTO of Fivestars
Matt Doka is the CTO and Co-Founder of FiveStars, a venture-backed startup building a consumer identity platform that personalizes commerce in the real world by harnessing the power of big data, predictive analytics, and cloud-based marketing automation. Previously, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York, where he worked across a wide range of industries, including private equity, telecom, and healthcare, as well as development projects in Uganda in conjunction with Technoserve and the Gates Foundation. He was recently selected to Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Matt holds two degrees, one in Engineering and one in Finance, and a Math minor from the University of Pennsylvania, and is an avid skiier and backpacker.
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Francesco Agosti
CTO & Co-founder of Phantom
CTO & Co-founder Phantom | Engineering at 0x, Yelp | Computer Science at Duke
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About Phantom: Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
George Melika
CTO / Co-Founder of SFOX
George Melika is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of SFOX, a cryptocurrency trading platform backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Loyola Marymount University.
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About SFOX: SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.
João Almeida
CTO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Jeff Schvey
Chief Technology Officer of Axoni
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About Axoni: Axoni offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Matthew Johnson
CTO of Bakkt
Matthew Johnson is the Chief Technology Officer at Bakkt.
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About Bakkt: Bakkt is a trusted digital asset platform that enables its customers to buy, sell, spend, send, and redeem digital assets.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
William Danford
Co-founder & CTO of Tiv
Will Danford currently works as the Co-founder and CTO for Tiv. Formerly a software engineer and product manager at Clarity Consulting in Chicago, Will has led high-profile consumer-facing projects for several Fortune 100 companies. Will holds a B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Computer Science degrees from the University of Chicago.
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About Tiv: Tiv is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking and rewards products built for the gaming community.
Yan Pritzker
Co-Founder & CTO of Swan Bitcoin
Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of [Swan Bitcoin, the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated daily, weekly, and monthly savings plan](https://www.swanbitcoin.com). Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at [Reverb](http://reverb.com), which was sold to Etsy for $275M.
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About Swan Bitcoin: SwanBitcoin is the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated savings plans.
Elmer Ortega
Co-Founder and CTO of Addi
Elmer Ortega currently serves Addi as the co-founder and CTO.
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About Addi: Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Jacky Chiu
CTO & Co-Founder of Brightside
Jacky Chiu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Brightside.
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About Brightside: Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Javier Gonzalez
CTO of HUMBL
As CTO at Tickeri, Javier manages operations, engineering teams, and oversees all technical development of the main Tickeri platform and its multiple services and products in order to connect music fans with their favorite Latin artists.
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About HUMBL, Tickeri: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Scott Yacko
Founder/CTO of SOTE
Scott Yacko is the CTO & Co-founder at Sote.
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About SOTE: Sote is building the digital logistics infrastructure and largest B2B marketplace for Africa.
Jeff Sneden
CTO of Netcapital
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About Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Germain Cassiere
Co-Founder & CTO of HMBradley
Germain Cassiere is the Co-Founder and CTO at HMBradley. He attended the University of Notre Dame.
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About HMBradley: HMBradley is a digital banking platform that develops programs to reward savers.
Chek Lim
CTO of Tango Card
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About Tango Card: Tango Card bundles simple technology, great rewards and expert service to help companies get the most out of their reward programs.
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Sam Aarons
Co-Founder and CTO of Modern Treasury
Sam Aarons is Co-Founder and CTO at Modern Treasury.
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About Modern Treasury: Modern Treasury offers a payment operations platform used to simplify and modernize business payments.
Ryan King
Co-founder & CTO of Chime
Ryan is the Co-founder and CTO of Chime. Previously, Ryan was the VP of Engineering of Plaxo, an early professional social networking pioneer which was acquired by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, Ryan worked at Liberate Technologies and Microsoft. Ryan earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA.
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About Chime, Comcast: Chime helps everyday people achieve financial peace of mind, together.
Max Bernardy
Co-Founder/CTO of Titan
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About Titan: Titan is an operating system for active investment management, powering investment products, and experiences for retail investors.
Alexander Lipton
Co-Founder, CTO of Sila
Alexander Lipton is Founder and CEO of Stronghold Labs, Co-Founder of Distilled Analytics, Partner at Numeraire Financial, Connection Science Fellow at MIT, and Visiting Professor of Financial Engineering at EPFL. He is an Advisory Board Member at several FinTech Companies. In 2016 he left Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he served for ten years in various senior managerial roles including Quantitative Solutions Executive and Co-Head of the Global Quantitative Group. Earlier, he held senior managerial positions at Citadel Investment Group, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Bankers Trust. In parallel, Alex held several prestigious academic appointments at NYU, Oxford University, Imperial College, and the University of Illinois. Before switching to finance, Alex was a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois. In 2000 Alex was awarded the first ever Quant of the Year Award by Risk Magazine. Alex published seven books and more than a hundred scientific papers. His next book “Financial Engineering – Selected Works of Alexander Lipton” is to appear shortly.
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About Sila: Sila is an API platform that provides banking and payment infrastructure-as-a-service for software teams.
Keith Birdsong
Chief Technology Officer of Nuvei
Keith Birdsong is responsible for Pivotal Payments’ Information Technology services.This includes the operation and enhancement of the back office, processing systems and network infrastructure. He is responsible for the overall technology direction and leadership of the network and development teams. Keith Birdsong has more than 25 years of IT experience in a variety of technical and leadership roles with a number of organizations, including Torchmark Corporation, Heartland Payment Systems and Electronic Data Systems. Prior to joining Pivotal Payments, Keith Birdsong was the Director of Software Development at Torchmark Corporation.
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About Nuvei: Nuvei is a financial service company that provides its clients with payment technology solutions.
Marco Peereboom
Chief Technology Officer of Decred
Marco Peereboom is currently the New Systems Development Lead for Decred, a cutting-edge crypto currency that provides advancement in blockchain technology while also offering true governance. He is an avid open source developer who has been actively involved in Decred since its inception. Prior to Decred he worked on and around several Bitcoin projects. He originated several innovations such as on-chain voting which set Decred apart from other digital currencies. He serves as the CTO of Company Zero and continues to hack on Decred’s next generation digital governance tools. When not plastered in front of a screen Marco enjoys cooking, brewing, baking and farming chickens.
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About Decred: Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.
Brian Zotter
Co-Founder and CTO of Cacheflow
Brian Zotter has 15+ years of engineering and product management experience building and delivering enterprise-class products. Brian is currently VP and Technology and Products at ClearStory Data. Previously, Brian was Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce.com. Prior to Salesforce, Brian held senior engineering positions at EMC, BEA Systems and MobiTV. He is also a two-time founder and entrepreneur having founded Connectize and Boxcar Software (acquired by Documentum). With 8 patents in PaaS, SaaS and multiple other fields, he’s passionate about building and leading innovative, high-performance engineering teams.
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About Cacheflow: Sell more, Sell faster. With Flexible Payments.
Francesco Fabbrocino
CTO of FastPay
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About FastPay: FastPay is the definitive financial platform for digital media.
Shawn Vo
Co-Founder & CTO of Axle
As CTO, Shawn directs Axle’s technology strategy and develops the products that make up the company’s services. Additionally, Shawn is no stranger to working with financial technology. He previously worked for two other fintech startups: one that was acquired for over $1B and another where he reported directly to the CTO. Shawn graduated from the University of Virginia with two majors and three concentrations.
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About Axle, BusBot, Forbes Technology Council: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Christopher Jeffrey
CTO of Purse
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About Purse: Purse provides real incentive to use Bitcoin to the largest selection at the lowest price points.
Tanooj Luthra
Founder / CTO of Elph Network
Founder/CTO @ Elph • Ex-Crypto Eng @ Coinbase (launched SegWit & BCH) • Founder/CTO at @ Streem (Y Combinator S12, acquired by Box ) • UC Berkeley B.S. EECS
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About Brex, Elph Network, Khushi Baby, Pioneer Fund: Elph is a decentralized network of scalable Plasma sidechains that achieve high transaction throughput on top of Ethereum.
Benjamin Conant
Co-founder & CTO of Mantl
Benjamin Conant is the Co-founder & CTO of Mantl.
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About Mantl: Mantl is a banking technology company that provides workflow management and automation tools for banks and credit unions.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Bryan Starbuck
CTO of ZenLedger
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Empower.me. Empower.me is for teenagers to discover and pursue their interests and life’s passion. Empower.me creates a visualization of the teenager’s future. It then has videos for the teens to pursue everything they are interested in currently, as well as everything they are interested in around building their best future self. Parents love it because every video contains real learning towards building something important in the teenagers future. Empower.me is the ultimate building system to build 5th to 12th graders into their best future self. Bryan Starbuck was the founder and CEO of TalentSpring, a $2.7m private investor funded B2B SaaS startup. TalentSpring was acquired in October 2010. TalentSpring allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes, with access to over 100 million resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player). TalentSpring believes recruiters must have powerful tools that gives them “1 click†access to the top 100 resumes nationwide that are both the best match to the open position, and the top quality candidates nationwide. Bryan Starbuck’s former career came from managing engineering teams at Microsoft on Internet Explorer, Windows operating systems, and Windows Live. Bryan’s focus has been on utilizing data mining algorithms in mass market products to solve real world problems faced by consumers or an industry. He has worked with Microsoft Research (MSR) on several products. Bryan has 39 patents (between pending and issued). Specific Areas of Interests: – B2B SaaS Sales & Marketing: Managing inside sales reps, lead marketing, etc. – Engineering: Semantic search, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, semantic latent analysis, natural language processing, clustering, regression analysis, graph theory, web crawling (Hadoop) – Company Building: Building/growing SaaS companies, engineering, product UI design, machine learning, data mining, semantic search, online marketing, branding, enterprise sales, web services, entrepreneurship
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About ZenLedger: ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management.
Alex Cram
Cofounder & CTO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is the independent benefits API for businesses that serve independent workers.
Matt Matteson
Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar
Matt Matteson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar. He attended the Colorado School of Mines.
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About Northstar: Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
Brady Cale
Chief Technology Officer of Taulia
Brady is responsible for Taulia’s product strategy, delivery and operations. Leading our Product, Engineering, Operations, and IT teams, he is focused on delivering a best-in-class solution for our customers. Prior to joining Taulia, Brady combined his technical and business acumen, serving in various senior leadership roles at ProvideCommerce, an e-commerce company based in San Diego, CA. As General Manager of Sincerely, a division of ProvideCommerce, he was responsible for overall business unit strategy, product and operations. Prior to this, he served as Chief Technology Officer for the full suite of ProvideCommerce brands (including ProFlowers, Sincerely, Personal Creations, Shari’s Berries and RedEnvelope) where he led the 175 person technology team and platform as the business rapidly scaled from $80 million in revenue to over $700 million. When not working, you can find Brady chasing after his three toddlers with his wife, or out enjoying a Warriors or Giants game with his friends and family.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Ofer Shaked
CTO of Earnin
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Min Kim
Chief Technology Officer of DreamFunded
Award winning Stanford University programmer: Stanford Computer Science Major: 1st place- 2012 Intel ISEF Competition, Gold Medal- 2011 Korean Young Physicist Tournament & 2012 I-SWEEP Int. Science Olympiad
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About DreamFunded, YouTube: DreamFunded is a world-class equity crowdfunding platform providing exclusive insider access to seed- and later-stage private companies.
Anthony Schiavo
Chief Technology Officer of Trumid
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About Trumid: Trumid is a financial technology company bringing efficiency to credit trading through data, technology, and innovative products.
Victor Kabdebon
Co Founder, CTO & Product of Truework
Victor’s passion for technology led him to one of the top engineering schools in his home country of France. From there, he went on to earn his master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech. At LinkedIn, he led the Profile Security team before joining forces with fellow LinkedIn alum, Ryan Sandler, in founding Truework.
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About Truework: Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment.
Chris Vitone
CTO of Boost
Chris Vitone is the CTO of Boost Insurance. Chris is responsible for the technology vision and implementing the products needed to support our insurtech and reinsurance partners. Chris has over 17 years’ experience designing scalable technology solutions across a wide range of industry verticals, both as an engineer and as a team leader. He has expertise in creating server-side applications that support hundreds of thousands of real-time requests per day. Chris was previously the Vice President of Engineering at Goji where he was responsible for digitizing all aspects of the agency workflow, including leading the team that built out the realtime quoting and binding of policies with carrier partners. Chris graduated with High Distinction from WPI with a BS in Computer Science.
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About Boost: Boost enables innovators to build, offer, and deliver insurance products to their customers.
Rutul Davé
Co-Founder & CTO of Maxwell Financial Labs
Rutul is a entrepreneur who loves creating products and building startups. In 2012, he founded Bright Funds with a mission to reimagine charitable giving and build a platform for a new generation of donors focused on impact. With three startups and an exit under his belt, he lives and breathes startups. He is on CauseArtist’s list of social entrepreneurs to watch for in 2014. He is also an active voice on immigration reform and was featured on The Wall Street Journal in 2013. He doesn’t write much, but his thoughts on Agile software development were published in ‘Creative Entrepreneurship’, a collection of essays helping founders great build companies.
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About Maxwell Financial Labs: A digital mortgage platform and value-added services designed exclusively for small to midsize mortgage lenders.
Austin Trombley
CTO of Random Forest Capital
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About Random Forest Capital, SpotOn, Vaultbank: Investing more intelligently in credit via AI and Machine Learning
Suresh Venkatraman
Co-Founder & CTO of Solid
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About Solid: Solid is a Modern Banking Platform that instantly creates bank accounts & cards for your customers.
Ambika Acharya
Co-founder, CTO of Weav
Ambika Acharya is a Co-founder, CTO at Weav.
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About Weav: Weav is an API for commerce platforms that allows its users to access their customers’ standardized transaction data in real-time.
Phillip Wei
Co-founder & CTO of OpenInvest
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About OpenInvest: OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing.
Mustafa Gulam
Co-Founder, CTO of ProjectFRED
Mustafa was born in Detroit and raised in its metro area. His fascination with technology began in high school when he started designing webpages and was chosen by Microsoft to test their early suite of office software. At the University of Michigan, he played in active role in student groups focused on improving access to medical care across the globe such as developing a battery powered surgical lamp for surgical theaters in areas with poor access to electricity through MHEAL. He attended medical school at Michigan State University and focused on the intersection of medicine and technology. He conducted research on artificial intelligence in healthcare and joined the Brain-Computer Interface group at the University of Michigan in where he assisted in finding a solution to using EEG technology to communicate with ALS patients. In 2013 he joined the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Education committee and became a published author for Neurology and Neuroanatomy for the medical board exam. After completing several subinternships in Neurology, General Surgery and Neurosurgery Mustafa decided to focus his efforts on how blockchain technology can maintain the integrity of healthcare records and improve communication between different EMR systems. After his medical studies he pursued an education and certification in Python coding through the University of Michigan and Blockchain engineering and design through the hyperledger project with IBM. He has a passion for teaching medicine and is the current chief medical educator and master trainer at the Princeton Review and has held teaching posts through TPR at Boston University, University of Central Florida and the University of Michigan where he continues to lecture on biochemistry, medical physiology, neurology, neuroanatomy and molecular biology.
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About ProjectFRED: ProjectFRED deploys smart contracts and hyper-targeted marketing, providing fractional commercial real estate ownership.
Mark Shaw
Co-Founder & CTO of Inclined Technologies
Mark Shaw is co-founder & CTO at Strava.
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About Inclined Technologies: Inclined pioneers a new form of lending in a large and vastly underserved market.
Steven Surgnier
Co-Founder, CTO of Fabric Technologies
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About Fabric Technologies: Fabric offers a digital insurance-buying experience that is fast, affordable and easy.
Kenter Wu
Co-founder & CTO of Dealpath
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About Dealpath: Dealpath is the intelligent software solution empowering smart investment decisions with data-driven insights and digital collaboration
Rosh Cherian
Co-Founder & CTO of CogniCor
Rosh leads the global technology team at CogniCor and works closely with clients and partners in solution design and architecting. An experienced software engineer, Rosh has over 15 years of experience in developing commercial software products for large enterprises in Europe and India. Prior to co-founding CogniCor, Rosh had worked in software architecting, development and deployment roles with Telefonica, HP, Agilent and Honeywell.
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About CogniCor, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo: The Leading AI Digital Assistant Platform for Financial Services
Michael Jannain
CTO of Pei
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About Pei: Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!
Hamel Kothari
Co-founder & CTO & CDO of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Corey Beebe
CTO of Lifesaver
Corey Beebe is Lifesaver’s Co-founder and CTO. Prior to founding Lifesaver, Corey worked in operations, sales and marketing for Columbia University. Before that, he did research for a digital media startup. A book nerd and technology enthusiast, he is a self-taught programmer specializing in backend and native mobile development. His professional interests lie in emerging technologies and paradigms. He holds a B.A. from Louisiana State University and a certificate from the Columbia Journalism School.
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About Lifesaver: We’re the first universal banking platform for managing, discovering and opening accounts across banks and credit unions.
Victor Liew Jia Hao
Co-founder & CTO of Xfers
Co-Founder & CTO
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About Xfers: Xfers is a Major Payment Institution approved by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for the provision of e-money issuance services.
Daniel Robenek
Co-Founder & CTO of BitOasis
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About BitOasis: BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering a digital asset wallet and exchange to buy, sell, and trade.
Pamela Rice
Chief Technology Officer of Earnest
Pamela Rice is a dynamic, business-centric technology executive who drives start-ups to Fortune 100 companies to strategically position themselves for success, leveraging emerging technologies and best practices to stay competitive and relevant. She has deep expertise in strategy, payments, blockchain, cyber, emerging technology, innovation and scaling product and technology while also driving appropriate risk management. With a degree in engineering and an MBA, she has been a vital part of the architecture and development of FinTech systems, including one of the first online credit and payment systems. Pamela’s track record and ability to identify underlying issues, ask the right questions and clearly articulate compelling and supported strategies make her a powerful leader and C-level advisor.
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About Earnest: Earnest is a technology-lender that brings low-interest loans to high-potential people.
Brandon Dewitt
Co-Founder & CTO of MX Technologies
Chief Technology Officer Brandon Dewitt uses his passion for helping people relieve financial stress to lead the MX engineering team. He has a unique management philosophy that focuses on team members taking responsibility and managing themselves. Brandon was co-founder and CTO of MyJibe, an Indianapolis-based personal financial management company. In 2011, Brandon merged efforts with Ryan Caldwell when MX acquired MyJibe.
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About MX Technologies: MX Technologies is a fintech company that aims to connect people with their financial data in a way that automates their money experience.
Masoud Jalali
Co-Founder and CTO of Fintor
Masoud received his Ph.D. in machine learning and mechanical engineering from UC San Diego. He has extensive experience in data science, machine learning, product management, and real estate. After Masoud’s last exit from the startup he Co-founded in the AI and computer vision industry, he wanted to make real estate more accessible and efficient with technology for the new generation. He is currently the co-founder at Fintor.
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About Fintor: Fintor is a platform for buying and selling fractional equity shares in real estate properties.
Sunil Kayiti
CTO of Emburse
Sunil Kayiti Chief Technology Officer at Emburse. Before that, he was the CTO at Chrome River Technologies.
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About Emburse: Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.
Adam Krellenstein
CTO, Co-Founder of Symbiont
Adam Krellenstein is Co-Founder and CTO of Symbiont.io, Inc., a FinTech company focused on coupling traditional financial markets and blockchain technology using smart contracts. He is co-founder and chief architect of Counterparty, a protocol for trustless, peer-to-peer finance built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain and responsible for 1% of daily Bitcoin transactions. Adam is Founding Director and Chief Scientist of the Counterparty Foundation.
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About Symbiont: Symbiont has developed the market-leading platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology.
Ryan Cooke
CTO of Orum.io
Ryan leads engineering efforts at Docurated and related practices including technology strategy, security and innovation. Previously he cofounded Alta Investors which provided holistic portfolio analysis software for institutional investors with a focus on alternative asset classes. Over the past decade Ryan has been involved in multiple startups, most from an early stage, contributing to the development of technology products. He studied computer science at Stanford University.
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About Docurated, Orum.io: Orum builds infrastructure for a frictionless financial system that enables real-time money movement with proprietary intelligence.
Chris Lorenz
Co-Founder & CTO of Trust
Chris Lorenz is the Co-Founder and CTO at Trust.
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About Trust: Trust is a community corporate card designed to help businesses learn from each other’s spending patterns.
Mihai Iosivas
Senior Managing Director & CTO of Tora Trading Services
Mihai is TORA’s Co-Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining TORA, Mihai was co-head of technology for Evolution Capital Management where he was in charge of offshore development and low latency automated trading. Mihai was lead developer and CTO for several large hedge funds in Tokyo, Japan, developing leading edge technology in financial information processing before he joined the Evolution team in 2003. Prior to that, he was a developer for the proprietary trading group of Lehman Brothers in Japan. Mihai has twenty years of experience in trading systems and automated trading technology. He holds a B.S. and a M.S degree in Computer Science from The Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania.
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About Tora Trading Services: Tora Trading Services provides advanced trading technology and financial services to address trading challenges that are unique to Asia.
Jon Hagen
CTO & Founder of NextCapital
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About NextCapital: NextCapital provides a personal benchmarking tool to help clearly understand how investments are performing.
Tao Liu
Co-Founder and CTO of MioTech
Tao Liu is the co-founder and CTO of MioTech. He used to be the senior software engineer of Turn. He earned his master’s degree at Cornell University and his bachelor’s degree at Tongji University.
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About MioTech: MioTech is an artificial intelligence platform that empowers financial institutions to draw actionable insights on their data.
Marvin Mah
CTO of TabaPay
Marvin joined TabaPay as CTO in 2017.
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About TabaPay: TabaPay is the easiest way to disburse, collect and transfer funds between accounts instantly
