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This list showcases the top California based VP’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Adam Wolff
VP Engineering of Robinhood
Adam Wolff is currently Vice President of Engineering at Robinhood. Previously, he was an Engineering Director at Facebook in charge of the Product Infrastructure group, whose mission is to help product developers move faster. Adam joined Facebook when the startup that he co-founded, Sharegrove Inc., was acquired in 2010. Before founding Sharegrove, Adam was the Chief Software Architect for Laszlo Systems, where he worked on rich client apps and open source software before it was cool. Adam got his start in the software industry working as a game and interaction designer for companies such as Rocket Science Games, Purple Moon, and Microsoft.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Surabhi Gupta
VP of Engineering of Robinhood
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Oren Yunger
Vice President of GGV Capital
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About GGV Capital, Silicon Valley CISO Investments: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Tiffany Luck
Vice President of GGV Capital
Tiffany Luck joined GGV Capital in 2018 and is focused on enterprise software. Prior to joining GGV, Tiffany was with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Group in Menlo Park where she worked on several major transactions, including GitHub’s recent sale to Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Tiffany spent time at Amazon and worked with several venture-backed startups. Tiffany received a BS from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Christine Hinton
VP Marketing U.S. of GGV Capital
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
David Grenetz
Vice President of Global IT of GGV Capital
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Gregory Chang
Vice President of Product of Carta
Gregory Chang is a product executive who helped lead two companies, YuMe and Zuora, to an IPO. He is currently Vice President for Product at Carta, where he oversees the core product, including cap table management and equity plan software. Greg is an angel investor focused on enterprise SaaS. His investments include Amplitude, Atrium, Ironclad, Gem, and Vanta among others. Greg is also a Sequoia scout, advisor at 8VC, Affinity and Qualia and previously served on the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council during the Obama Administration.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Christine Ngo
VP of Services, Investor Services of Carta
Christine Ngo serves as VP of investor services at Carta.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Ry Sullivan
VP Product Platform of Carta
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Ragini Holloway
SVP, People of Affirm
Ragini Holloway is SVP, People at Affirm.
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About Affirm: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Brian Grassadonia
Executive VP & General Manager of Cash App of Square
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About Square: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Alyssa Henry
EVP & General Manager Seller Business Unit, EVP Infrastructure & InfoSec of Square
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About Confluent, Intel, Square, Unity Technologies: Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Ehsan Lavassani
Founding Engineer and VP of Engineering of Personal Capital
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About Personal Capital: Personal Capital combines online financial tools with registered financial advisor expertise to enable people and grow their net worth.
Jojo Flores
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jojo is currently involved in the overall strategic planning and prioritizing of Plug and Play. Jojo’s immediate focus is on building strategic alliances in the Philippines and other reigns of South East Asia.
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About Launchgarage, Plug & Play, Plug and Play Brand & Retail, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Jackie Hernandez
VP of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jackie Hernandez is SVP Global Partnerships & Founding Member of Plug and Play.
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About Hollywood Production Center, Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Connie Weisman
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships – Innovation of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Sobhan Khani
Vice President of Plug and Play Tech Center
Sobhan Khani serves as Mobility Director at Plug and Play Tech Center. Sobhan Khani is also the corporate partnership manager for Plug and Play IoT and founding member of Plug and Play Mobility. He has worked with Plug and Play. for the past two years. He manages corporate relationships within Plug and Play with a special focus in IoT/ Mobility. He assists start-ups in the field grow and connect with the right partners. Prior to Plug and Play, He worked for XEROX as business analyst. Sobhan Khani obtained a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from University of Southern California in 2014.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Renuka Nayani
VP of Finance, to lead the Strategic Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), of Fundbox
Renuka Nayani is the Vice President of Finance, leading the Strategic Finance, Financial Planning, and Analysis (FP&A) and corporate development teams of Fundbox. She previously spent six years leading the Personal Loans FP&A team at Oportun.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Jake Storm
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Jake Storm is the vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Ryan Isono
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Ryan Isono is the Vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Stephen Heisserer
VP Product of MicroAcquire
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About MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
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.
Puon Penn
EVP/Head of Technology Investments for Wells Fargo Strategic Capital of Wells Fargo
Puon Penn is Executive Vice President/Head of Technology Capital which provides expertise, financial services, and resources to help innovative companies focus on advancing new technologies and business models to solve some of the most complex problems facing humanity including global population growth, climate change and environmental impacts, and the ongoing fight against diseases. Puon started Wells Fargo’s Global CleanTech Group in 2009 to provide expertise, financial services, and resources to help companies focused on decreasing the use of fossil fuels, fertilizers, industrial chemicals, and other activities that cause greenhouse gas emissions or other harmful environmental effects. Wells Fargo financed over $70 billion for green business, renewable energy projects, green buildings, and clean energy customers from 2005 to 2012.
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About Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Ben Soccorsy
SVP, Head of Digital Payments of Wells Fargo
Ben Soccorsy is Head of Digital Payments in Wells Fargo Virtual Channels. Ben is responsible for consumer and small business payments products including Digital Wallets, Control Tower, and Zelle, among others. Ben also leads the Secure Data Exchange (SDE) API program. Prior to his current role, Ben led Strategy and Partner Management for the Digital Product Management team. Before joining Digital, Ben managed Consumer Lending products at Wells Fargo, including the relaunch of the unsecured personal loan product. Prior to his 12 years at Wells Fargo, Ben worked at Blue Shield of California in Performance Management, as a Management Consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on financial services/health care and in retirement benefits consulting. Ben began his career as a Senate Staffer on Capitol Hill. He received a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and a MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
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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.
Marria Rhodriquez
VP, Innovation Strategy Consultant of Wells Fargo
Marria Rhodriquez is the Vice President and focuses on digital product strategy for the Wells Fargo Virtual Channel team. In her 15-year tenure at Wells Fargo Bank, Marria has worked in technology, marketing, strategy, and digital product management. She holds a degree in Technical Communication from the University of Washington and an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University.
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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.
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.
Marj Anzalone
AVP, Innovation Insights Manager 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.
Sean Greenfield
VP, Consumer Lending UX 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.
Rob Gegenwarth
SVP, Strategy Wealth and Investment Management of Wells Fargo
Rob Gegenwarth is a Senior Vice President of Strategy within the Wealth and Investment Management group at Wells Fargo, a division that manages $1.8 trillion in client assets. At Wells Fargo, Rob has been focused on growth strategy addressing clients ranging from mass market to high net worth, with a focus on digital offerings.
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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.
Lisa Frazier
EVP and Head of Innovation of Wells Fargo
Lisa Frazier is the head of Wells Fargo’s Innovation Group, an enterprise-wide organization devoted to accelerating the company’s delivery of next-generation, customer-inspired technologies, products, and services. The Innovation Group leads programs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), research and development (R&D) in new technologies, the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, and Greenhouse by Wells Fargo, a mobile-first banking experience geared toward improving financial health and planning to customers who need it, like students or others who are new to banking, or those who are paid irregularly. Prior to Wells Fargo, Lisa led highly regarded digital programs as the Chief Digital Officer for Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and as a Partner at McKinsey & Company. Most recently, Frazier has focused on advising startup companies on growth, with examples including product development at Jacobi Inc., and scaling enterprise integrations of digital wealth management solutions at SigFig. In addition, Frazier has served as an advisor to the Australia & New Zealand Bank’s Board of Directors and Citibank’s FinTech division. Lisa has received four Canstar “Innovation in Financial Services” awards. She was recognized for her leadership in developing the CBA mobile app, which was named Money Magazine’s “Most Innovative Financial Services Product” in 2014 and ranked sixth globally in the Forrester rankings in its launch year. Lisa was also listed among the “Top 50 Australian Innovators in Silicon Valley” by the Advance Australia Organization in 2011. She has a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Melbourne, and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Lisa also holds a Graduate Diploma in finance and investment from the Australian Securities Institute.
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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.
David Newman
SVP, Head of Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions, Data Management and Insights Group, Wells Fargo B of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo, 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.
Steve Ellis
EVP, Head of the Innovation Group of Wells Fargo
Steve Ellis is an executive vice president and head of the Wells Fargo Innovation Group, an enterprise-wide organization devoted to accelerating the company’s delivery of next-generation, customer-inspired technologies, products, and services. Prior to this assignment, Steve was head of the Wholesale Services Group, which included Treasury Management, Wholesale Banking Technology and Operations, Wholesale Social Strategies, Innovation and Research and Development, Wholesale Marketing, and the Enterprise Payment Strategies Group. A 30-year company veteran, Steve’s previous responsibilities included starting up and running the Wholesale Internet Solutions group, which launched Wells Fargo’s award-winning Commercial Electronic Office® (CEO®) portal in 2000 and CEO Mobile® in 2007. The fast pace of Wells Fargo’s early move into online and mobile financial services was due in large part to his commitment to fostering workplace creativity. Prior to starting up Wholesale Internet Solutions, Steve held senior finance and operations roles in Wells Fargo Commercial Banking, Real Estate Group, and Wholesale Banking. He has a B.S. in economics from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon. Steve served as chairman of the board for NACHA, The Electronic Payments Association, from 2005 to 2008 and was vice chairman from 2009 to 2010. He was also a board member of First Graduate, a nonprofit focused on helping young adults become the first members of their families to graduate from college, from 2010 to 2016.
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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.
Pascal Hoffmann
SVP, Wholesale and International Banking 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.
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.
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.
Peter Berg
VP of Business Development and Strategy of Very Good Security
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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.
Emma Yin
VP of ZhenFund
Emma is an Analyst at ZhenFund. She focuses on ZhenFund’s deal sourcing efforts in the Bay Area. Prior to joining ZhenFund, she was a Masters student at Stanford University and a core team member of the Chinese Entrepreneur Organization at Stanford. She also worked at Suning USA R&D Center’s strategy group and PwC’s Chicago Office. Emma received her bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Economics from Illinois Wesleyan University and her Masters degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford University.
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About ZhenFund: ZhenFund invests in TMT, healthcare, and education among other sectors.
Tomer Shoval
SVP Sales, Strategic Accounts, & Bus. Dev of Flywire
A veteran e-commerce leader, Tomer is a frequent speaker on the intersection of healthcare, technology, and consumers. Tomer founded Simplee as a way to help others better understand and manage their healthcare bills. Previously, he was the managing director of Shopping.com North America (an eBay company). Tomer holds a BA from Academic College of Tel-Aviv.
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About Flywire, Simplificare Hosting and Solutions: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Rajneel Ganjoo
VP, Product Development of Fantex
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About Fantex: Fantex is a financial service company creating a non-correlated asset category with stocks tied to the earnings of professional athletes.
Ethel Chen
SVP, Venture Capital & Technology Investing of GIC
Ethel Chen is a SVP with the Technology Investment Group at GIC. GIC’s Technology Investment Group (TIG) is a global team with offices in Silicon Valley, China, and India. TIG invests directly in private and public technology companies and also serves as a limited partner in top-tier tech funds. TIG’s mission is to forge long-term financial and strategic relationships with its global partners – examples include Zoom, Datadog, Snowflake, Slack, Amplitude, Peloton, Uber, Spotify, DoorDash, Affirm, Coinbase, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, and Bytedance. The team is particularly focused on helping its portfolio companies, entrepreneurs, and fellow asset managers navigate opportunities associated with tech disruption. Established in 1981 to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves, GIC is a long term investor with well over $100 billion in assets in more than 40 countries worldwide. Prior to GIC, Ethel invested in public software companies at EMS Capital, a family office associated with the Safra family. Prior to EMS, Ethel spent nearly 8 years as a venture capital investor with Norwest Venture Partners. Ethel started her career in M&A investment banking at Morgan Stanley and private equity at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and degrees in Management Science and Engineering (MS) and Computer Science (BS) from Stanford University.
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About CareCloud, EMS Capital, GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
Jeremy Kranz
Senior Vice President & Head of Tech Investing of GIC
Kranz is the global head of technology investing and Senior Vice President at GIC. He manages direct and fund investments across the VC, late stage, growth and buyout stages.
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About GIC, GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
Tevye Krynski
VP of Engineering of Migo
Tevye Krynski is the VP of Engineering at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Julian King
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Xoom
Julian King joined Xoom in 2005 and is the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He runs marketing, advertising, public relations, business development and strategy. Julian came to Xoom from EarthLink, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Products for the PeoplePC Online business, and was instrumental in growing it to more than a million paying subscribers. From 1992 to 2000, Julian worked at Procter & Gamble, most recently as Marketing Director. Julian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Xoom: Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.
Gina Taylor
SVP & GM – Kabbage Strategy & Integration, Global Commercial Services of American Express
Gina Taylor Cotter has amassed tremendous experience in her more than 19 years with American Express, specializing in areas such as customer acquisition, product management, risk management and strategy. She is a seasoned lending leader, having led teams in a variety of functional areas overseeing various aspects of the lending business for American Express. She is known as a leader who challenges the status quo, successfully driving large-scale strategy and business transformation initiatives. Gina is currently the head of Global Commercial Financing, the division focused on serving small and mid-size customer’s working capital and financing needs with a variety of short-term lending solutions. Global Commercial Financing is a high growth opportunity for the American Express Commercial Payments business. Merchant Financing and Working Capital Terms are two of the fast growing products within the suite. In her previous role, Gina was head of the corporate payments product suite that served mid-size and large clients globally, including the management of the T&E and B2B product suite. Prior to her time in product management, Gina led a strategy and business operations function for the OPEN line of business. Gina also led the Project Resource Team, a unique approach to flexible project based staffing, enabling OPEN to opportunistically retain high-performing employees while flexibly staffing strategic projects. She is an advocate of advancing a culture of flexibility through workplace innovations. Gina lives and breathes workplace flexibility as she works virtually from her Los Angeles home office. She has also served as Vice President and General Manager, Customer Acquisition and was responsible for leading the customer acquisition and cross-sell strategy for the OPEN business for both charge and lending products. Previously, Gina served as Vice President, Risk Management working in various underwriting and customer management functions. Gina attended Wilkes University graduating summa cum laude and after earned an MBA from Drexel University, where she taught microeconomics as a teaching assistant. She is married with three children.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Jennifer Lo Chan
Vice President Digital Platforms Marketing of BlackRock
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About BlackRock: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
Jeff Roberts
VP Software Engineer of BlackRock
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About BlackRock, Visa, Western Union Business Solutions: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
Margit Zwemer
VP, Systematic Active Equities of BlackRock
Margit Pavlath Zwemer is a member of BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equities – Emerging Markets group. Her research focus is on using AI and non-traditional data sources to better understand and model low-transparency markets. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2017, Margit was cofounder and CEO of LiquidLandscape, a Techstars-backed big data exploration and visualization startup. Prior to that, she was an early employee of Kaggle, and an algorithmic volatility trader at Societe Generale.
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About BlackRock: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
Abhi Arunachalam
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Abhi is the Managing Partner at Alkeon, enterprise-infrastructure investing on the West Coast in sectors such as cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and big-data analytics. He has more than 12 years of operational and investment experience. Abhi is currently involved in Battery investments including Databricks, Expel, Fungible, InfluxData, Jask, JFrog, and Streamsets. Before joining Battery, Abhi was a partner at Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corp., where he focused on early- and growth-stage investing in areas including big-data analytics, mobile/IoT and broader infrastructure. At Intel Capital, he helped lead investments in category-defining companies such as Recon Instruments (acquired by Intel), EyeFluence (acquired by Google), iZettle, Urban Airship, Inrix and Brit+Co. He also served as a board observer at Kaltura, CashStar and Apperian. Prior to Intel Capital Abhi spent over six years at Qualcomm Research in various operational roles. He built the industry leading APM solution for mobile handsets and backbone networks. Abhi was also involved with the incubation and design of Qualcomm’s LTE technology and managed strategic partnerships with OEMs, infrastructure vendors and carriers. Abhi holds an MS in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA, with honors, from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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About Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Justin Da Rosa
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Justin is a VP in Battery’s San Francisco office who focuses on consumer internet and software investments. Previously, Justin was an investor at growth equity firm TCV, where he focused on growth investments in consumer-internet and software companies. He helped lead TCV’s investments in Peloton, Klook, TripAdvisor, and Sojern, and was actively involved with the firm’s portfolio, including companies such as Netflix, Rover, Varsity Tutors, and Zillow. Prior to that, he was an investment banking analyst within the Global Technology Group at Credit Suisse. He also previously worked as an analyst at Steamboat Ventures. Justin received his B.S. in business administration from the Marshall School of Business at USC, graduating cum laude.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Rebecca Buckman
Vice President, Marketing Communications of Battery Ventures
Becky leads Battery’s communications and content-strategy efforts. She joined the firm in 2013 after running her own strategic-communications practice providing branding, positioning and media-related services to Silicon Valley investment firms and high-tech startups. Prior to that Becky worked for many years as an award-winning business journalist, including ten years at the Wall Street Journal in its New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong bureaus. She covered topics including Wall Street, technology and Asian economics and trade. At the Journal, Becky’s reporting was honored by groups including Amnesty International, the Newswomen’s Club of New York and the American Association of University Professors. She was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2007. After leaving the Journal, Becky joined Forbes as a senior editor, where she covered small and large technology companies and specialized in writing about venture capital. Previously in her career she wrote for the Dow Jones News Service and the Indianapolis Star, where she was a Pulliam Fellow. Becky graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in international politics.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Amr Mohamed
VP of Engineering of Aspiration
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About Aspiration, HintBox.ai: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Matt Lee
VP of Product of Aspiration
Matt Lee is the Vice President of Product at Aspiration. Matthew Lee was the co-founder of Hyperink, a Y Combinator digital publishing startup. Prior to this, he worked at Microsoft for eight years as an engineer and program manager. Born and raised in Southern California, he has a degree in computer science from UCLA.
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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.
Alexandra Horigan
VP Strategic Initiatives 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.
Hema Sundarraj
VP, Corporate Controller of Dividend Finance
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About Cepheid, Dividend Finance: Dividend Finance is a Technology-enabled finance platform supporting the energy transition with lending and other financial solutions.
Atticus Tysen
SVP Product Development, Chief Information Security and Fraud Prevention Officer of Intuit
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Laura Fennell
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Intuit
Laura Fennell is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary, leading Intuit’s legal, corporate affairs, information and physical security, privacy, and data services teams. Before joining Intuit in April 2004, Fennell served as Sun Microsystems’ vice president of corporate legal resources and acting general counsel, directing the company’s legal staff of more than 250 people. During 11 years at Sun, she was also responsible for the company’s corporate and securities law compliance and the Office of the Secretary of the Board of Directors. Previously, Fennell was an associate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, where her practice included public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, private financings and public and private company representation. She sits on the board of directors of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, providing learning and discovery opportunities for children, families and schools. Fennell earned her law degree from Santa Clara University and received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State University, Chico.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Alex Chriss
EVP & General Manager, Small Business (QuickBooks) of Intuit
Current: EVP / GM, Small Business & Self Employed Group, Intuit Inc. Past: Director, Intuit Partner Platform, Intuit Inc. CEO, CollegeWeb.com President, Prospect Design Group
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About Houzz, Intuit, Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Jolanta Szczerba
Vice President Product Management of Intuit
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Lara Hood Balazs
EVP, Chief Marketing Officer & General Manager, Strategic Partner Group of Intuit
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About Intuit, Ridge Ventures: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Varun Krishna
SVP & GM, Mint of Intuit
Varun Krishna is the SVP & GM, Mint at Intuit.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Raji Arasu
Senior Vice President, of Intuit
As StubHub’s Chief Technology Officer, Raji Arasu leads all product and engineering functions for StubHub. Joining StubHub in 2011 from eBay, Raji brings more than 23 years of experience in software development, specializing in online commerce and payments business. Under Raji’s leadership, her organization has led numerous technology innovations that are now foundational to eBay’s business including building out the fixed price format in 2001, integrating PayPal with MP in 2002, pioneering eBay checkout in 2003, introducing the first shipping services on eBay in 2004, leading application teams through three generations of site redesign, re-architecting of the Trading flows and helping make cart and payment intermediation a reality. As one of the only female CTOs at a major technology company across the industry, Raji is passionate about growing women leaders in technology both within the company and externally. She is an executive sponsor for eBay Women in Technology and was recognized by Business Journal of Silicon Valley/San Jose as a “Woman of Influence” in 2011. She is also a member of Women in Technology International (WITI) and FountainBlue, whose focus is on the advancement of women in technology. Raji earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Pune University, India. She is a fan of the San Francisco 49ers and enjoys running, skiing and traveling. In 2012, Raji used her five-week sabbatical (a benefit earned by eBay and StubHub employees after five years with the company) to travel with her son to serve a remote and impoverished community in India. There the two of them tutored young monks and nuns and the visually impaired in the subjects of science and English.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Jon Fasoli
VP ,Business Segment Leader, Small Business & Self-Employed of Intuit
Jon Fasoli is the VP ,Business Segment Leader, Small Business & Self-Employed at Intuit.
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About Intuit, Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Alex Balazs
Senior Vice President, Intuit Chief Architect of Intuit
Alex Balazs is Chief Architect for Intuit. He leads business and technical architecture, drives product and engineering excellence, and stewards technology talent across Intuit. Intuit products serve over 45 million consumers, self-employed and small businesses in the US and around the world. Alex previously served as chief architect for Intuit’s Consumer Group that delivers products like TurboTax and Mint. He also served as chief architect for Intuit’s 100+ million Identity Ecosystem. He is passionate about solving big unmet customer needs through technology and building the next generation of technologists and leaders. Alex sits on the executive advisory board for Tech Women at Intuit and serves on the advisory board for the Galisano College of Computing & Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Rania Succar
VP, Business Leader, QuickBooks Payments & Capital of Intuit
Rania Succar is the Senior Vice President & QuickBooks Money Platform at Intuit.
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About Intuit, Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Ashok Srivastava
Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer of Intuit
Ashok N. Srivastava is the senior vice president and chief data officer at Intuit, where he is responsible for setting the vision and direction for large-scale machine learning and AI across the enterprise to help power prosperity across the world and in the process is hiring hundreds of people in machine learning, AI, and related areas at all levels. Ashok has extensive experience in research, development, and implementation of machine learning and optimization techniques on massive datasets and serves as an advisor in the area of big data analytics and strategic investments to companies including Trident Capital and MyBuys. Previously, Ashok was vice president of big data and artificial intelligence systems and the chief data scientist at Verizon, where his global team focused on building new revenue-generating products and services powered by big data and artificial intelligence; senior director at Blue Martini Software; and senior consultant at IBM. He is an adjunct professor in the electrical engineering department at Stanford and is the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Ashok is a fellow of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has won numerous awards, including the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the IBM Golden Circle Award, the Department of Education Merit Fellowship, and several fellowships from the University of Colorado. Ashok holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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About Intuit, Stanford University, University of Colorado Boulder: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Neil Williams
Senior Vice President, CFO of Intuit
Neil Williams became Intuit’s senior vice president and chief financial officer in January 2008. Williams has nearly 30 years of strategic, operational and transactional experience in the financial services industry. He is responsible for all financial aspects of the company, including corporate strategy and business development, investor relations, financial operations and real estate. Before joining Intuit, Williams was the executive vice president and chief financial officer for Visa U.S.A., Inc. In that role, he led all financial functions for the company and its subsidiaries, including financial planning, business planning and financial monitoring. Williams concurrently served as chief financial officer for Inovant LLC, Visa’s global information technology organization, responsible for global transactions processing and technology development. His previous banking experience includes senior financial positions at commercial banks in the Southern and Midwestern regions of the United States. Williams, a certified public accountant, received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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About Intuit: Intuit offers business and financial management solutions for SMBs, financial institutions, consumers, and accounting professionals.
Michael Plato
Vice President of Hercules Capital
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About Hercules Capital, US Capital Partners: Hercules Capital is a capital market company that lends to technology, life sciences, and sustainable technology companies.
Greg Peterson
Vice President of Hercules Capital
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About Hercules Capital: Hercules Capital is a capital market company that lends to technology, life sciences, and sustainable technology companies.
Rohit Goyal
Co Founder, VP DeFi of Mudrex
Rohit Goyal joined Mudrex as Co-Founder in 2018.
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About Mudrex: Mudrex is a cryptocurrency company that specializes in autopilot smart crypto investment.
Chang Fu
VP of Growth of Possible Finance
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
Brett Pitts
Executive Vice President, Digital Channels Group, Wells Fargo of clearXchange
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About : clearXchange is a digital payments network that allows its users to send money to anyone with a U.S. bank account.
Chris Luo
SVP of Marketing of Fivestars
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About Fivestars: Fivestars provides a platform that offers loyalty, marketing, payments, and other services to small merchants and businesses.
Richard Aberman
Founder & VP Product of WePay
Rich oversees the company’s product and marketing efforts. Before joining WePay, Rich briefly attended NYU Law in the Academic Scholars Program in Law and Business. In 2010, he was named one of Business Insider’s Silicon Valley 100. He is a prolific blogger and the co-curator of NextDigest Payments, a weekly newsletter about the payments industry.
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About WePay: WePay is an online payment service company that provides secure and comprehensive APIs designed for ISVs and SaaS providers.
Cliff Goldstein
VP, Partnerships of Secfi
Cliff Goldstein is the VP of Partnerships at Secfi, where he helps startups, executives and their employees better manage their equity. Prior to Secfi, Cliff led business development and partnerships at Upgrade and Nerdwallet. Cliff began his career as an investment professional on a $10B+ team in the Private Wealth Management division at Goldman Sachs.
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About Secfi: Secfi works with startup employees and founders to provide equity planning and stock option financing.
James White
VP Sales of Sentieo
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About Sentieo: Sentieo provides the first financial intelligence platform specifically designed for the research needs of investors.
Michele Rivera
Founder & Vice President, Global Partnerships of HUMBL
Michele Rivera is the Founder and Vice President, Global Partnerships at HUMBL.
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About HUMBL: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Rolf Njor Jensen
SVP Engineering of Tradeshift
Rolf Njor Jensen is the senior vice president of engineering at [Tradeshift](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tradeshift#/entity), a global B2B platform that helps companies run more efficiently. Prior to that, he was the vice president of engineering at the same company. Jensen holds a master’s degree from Aalborg University. He is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Tradeshift: Tradeshift is a cloud-based business network connecting buyers and suppliers.
Mandy Wen
Vice President of GSR Ventures
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About GSR Ventures: GSR Ventures focuses on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled technology.
Lalit Kumar
VP Engineering of LendUp
Lalit Kumar is the vice president of engineering at [LendUp](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lendup#/entity). Previously, he was the senior vice president of engineering at [Tribune Media](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tribunecompany#/entity). Kumar holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from [IIT Delhi](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/iit-delhi#/entity) and the [University of North Carolina](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill#/entity) respectively. Kumar resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About LendUp: LendUp is a socially responsible lender for the 56% of Americans shut out of mainstream banking due to low credit or volatile income.
David Durant
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and EVP of YapStone
David Durant will manage the YapStone legal team and lead legal, compliance and government affairs initiatives for YapStone online and mobile payments offerings and partnerships. David joins YapStone after 10 years at Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc., where he built a team of 40 in-house legal, compliance and government affairs experts. In his tenure, David also led Blackhawk’s legal efforts through an IPO and spin-off as the Company expanded to over 20 countries, 1,800 employees and $1.4 billion in revenue. Prior to Blackhawk, he was Senior Corporate Counsel at Safeway, Inc., one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. David received his J.D. from University of Chicago Law School.
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About YapStone: YapStone is a global provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces and large vertical markets.
Charlie Hughes
VP Growth & Partnerships of Embroker
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About Embroker: Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
Serena Satyasai
VP of Marketing and SMB Sales of Plastiq
Seasoned executive with a passion and prowess for scaling businesses where digital marketing and online sales matter. Entrepreneurial, proven at inspiring teams and intensely results-driven. Specialty in global, high-tech brands. ‘Growth hacker’ before it was cool.
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About Plastiq: Plastiq offers a bill pay service for businesses to better manage their cash flow.
Jay Parekh
VP Business Development And Partnerships of Chime
Jay is the VP Business Development and Partnerships at Chime. Previously he was the Director of Business Development at Braintree, based in SF, where he focuses on deals with key partners and driving merchant adoption of key strategic initiatives. He has worked extensively on key consumer-facing Braintree product partnerships including Venmo Touch, One Touch PayPal, Apple Pay, and Coinbase. Prior to Braintree, Jay was a Lead Product Manager at Zynga, where he led teams developing original entertainment IP for web and mobile devices.
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About Chime: Chime helps everyday people achieve financial peace of mind, together.
Vicky Sagehorn
VP of Finance & Operations of LISNR
Vicky Sagehorn is the VP of Finance & Operations at LISNR.
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About LISNR: LISNR enables secure and seamless data transmission using the most advanced ultrasonic data technology
