Best Startup
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 New York based CEO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Leif Abraham
Co-CEO of Public.com
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About AND CO, Prehype, Public.com: Public.com is the fractional investing platform where members build a modern portfolio of stocks & ETFs, crypto & NFTs, and collectibles.
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Sheldon Xia
Founder & CEO of BitMart
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About BitMart: BitMart is a digital asset trading platform that focuses on cryptocurrency.
Ryan Selkis
CEO & Co-founder of Messari
Ryan Selkis is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Messari. He was the Managing Director CoinDesk before that. After discovering bitcoin, Ryan became obsessed with the technology’s social and economic potential. That obsession, along with finance and startup experience, helps him lead DCG’s investing efforts.
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About Messari: Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Charles Cascarilla
CEO and Founder of Paxos
Charles Cascarilla is the CEO and co-founder of Paxos, a financial technology company delivering blockchain solutions for global financial institutions. With over 15 years of experience in financial services, Charles has a unique perspective on integrating blockchain technology with traditional systems. He co-founded institutional asset management complex Cedar Hill Capital Partners in 2005 and its venture capital subsidiary, Liberty City Ventures, in 2012. He also sits on the Governing Board of the Hyperledger Project. Earlier in his career, Charles was a portfolio manager at Claiborne Capital and worked at both Bank of America Securities and Goldman Sachs. He serves on the board of several charities and private companies including Project ALS and The Centurion Foundation. Charles holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA charterholder.
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About Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM), Liberty City Ventures, Paxos: Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets.
Dileep Thazhmon
Co-Founder & CEO of Jeeves
Dileep Thazhmon is the Co-Founder and CEO at Jeeves.
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About Jeeves: Jeeves is a fintech company that brings financial solutions to businesses globally.
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
William Libby
CEO of Upper90
Billy is co-founder and managing partner at Upper90 which is fintech focused private equity fund based in New York. Previously, he ran electronic trading businesses at leading institutions working closely with technology, quant research and steams.
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About Goldman Sachs, Upper90: Upper90 is a hybrid fund that provides founder-friendly credit and equity to top disruptors in e-commerce, enterprise, and fintech.
Junaid Wahedna
Chief Executive Officer of Wahed Invest
Junaid is the CEO and founder of Wahed Invest inc. He has a Graduate degree from the department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from Columbia University. While at Columbia, he served as the Managing Editor of the prestigious academic publication,The Columbia Financial Review. Junaid is the holder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and CIMA Diploma in Islamic Finance (CDIF) designations. He has also been a speaker at international conferences on Islamic Finance.
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About Wahed Invest: Wahed is the first automated Shari’ah compliant investment platform in the world.
Brandon Krieg
CEO and Co-Founder of Stash Financial
Brandon Krieg is the Co-Founder of Collective Returns, Inc. and has been its Chief Executive Officer since July 11, 2016. Brandon Krieg served as the President of Collective Returns, Inc. until July 11, 2016 and serves as its Executive Director.
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About Stash Financial: Stash is a personal finance app that combines banking, investing, and advice into one platform.
Howard Katzenberg
Founder & CEO of Glean analytics
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About Glean analytics: Glean unlocks the powerful data detailed in vendor invoices/receipts to surface relevant spend insights and drive spend accountability
Michael Reitblat
CEO & Co-Founder of Forter
Michael is the Co-Founder and CEO of Forter, the leading payment fraud prevention solution. Prior to founding Forter, Michael was the VP Product & International Operations at Pango Parking where he was in charge of the deployment and adoption of Mobile Wallet technologies worldwide. In 2008, before its acquisition by PayPal, Michael led Product at Fraud Sciences, where he faced some of the most challenging questions in the cyber security ecosystem. Michael’s fascination with online fraudsters began following a successful “self experimentation with the Internet” phase as a teenager and an even more successful period of service as an intelligence officer in the early days of the Israeli Cyber Command.
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About Forter: Forter offers a fraud solution that helps retailers grow sales, lower costs, and improve customer experience via its Decision as Service.
Rafay Farooqui
Founder & CEO of +SUBSCRIBE®
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About +SUBSCRIBE®: Powering alternative investments® with the leading electronic subscription document technology.
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Vishal Garg
Founder & CEO of Better.com
Vishal Garg is the Founder and CEO of Better.com, a digital-first homeownership company whose services included mortgage, real estate, title, and homeowners insurance. A serial entrepreneur, the day that he came up with the idea behind Better.com, Vishal was simply looking to purchase a home for his growing family (and not start a new company). When Vishal’s effort to buy his family’s dream house was defeated by an antiquated homeownership process, the vision and mission for Better.com was born. Vishal Garg’s Better.com all-in-one digital platform takes customers through the entire home-buying process, from finding an agent to securing a mortgage (or refinanced loan) to shopping for insurance. To date, under Vishal Garg’s leadership, Better.com has done over $46.9 BN in home loans and provided over $16B in cumulative coverage through Better Cover and Better Settlement Services, the insurance divisions of Better.com. Better.com has raised over $400M in equity capital and is backed by L Catterton, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, American Express Ventures, Citi and other investors. In December 2019, HousingWire honored Vishal Garg with the “2019 Vanguard Award”, which recognizes leaders of businesses contributing to the growth of the housing economy. In July of 2020, Comparably surveyed employees of color to rate the top CEOs driving diversity and inclusive work culture. The results ranked Garg at #13 out of 25, placing him alongside leaders at organizations like Microsoft and Google. In September of 2020, Business Insider named Vishal Garg as one of the “100 People Transforming Business in 2020”. And, in October of 2020, Ernst & Young included Garg on the “Entrepreneur of the Year 2020” list. Vishal Garg is also the founding partner of 1/0 Capital. Previously, Vishal was Co-head and Managing Partner, ARAM ABS Group ($6 B+ assets) and the Founder and President & CFO of MyRichUncle (2005 NASDAQ IPO), which he founded at the age of 21 and built into the fourth largest private student loan originator in the US. Prior toMyRichUncle, Vishal was an analyst in the Mergers & Acquisition dept. at Morgan Stanley, and a frontier emerging markets portfolio manager for the Strategos Fund. He is a graduate of NYU Stern with the highest honors.
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About Better.com, Phoenix Holdings: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Charles Scharf
President and CEO of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Stephen Murphy
CEO of Genesis Global
Stephen graduated with a 1st in BSc Computer Science and has held senior business & “C-level” technology positions for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, HSBC & BTG Pactual. During his career he has lived in São Paulo, New York, Hong Kong & London. Stephen has managed teams of over 250 people, technology budgets over $100 million and supported business lines with over $500 million of revenue. Stephen also led from a client perspective key multi-million dollar contracts negotiations with major software vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, SunGard, Murex, Calypso, Charles River and Fidessa.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Alliott Cole
CEO of Octopus Ventures
Alliott Cole serves as Chief Executive Officer at Octopus Ventures. He joined the Octopus Ventures team at the start of 2008 as the team began investing their first fund. He currently also serves as a Board Member at Secret Escapes, Cazoo, Swoon Editions and Big Health. He focuses on internet-enabled services, enterprise software, and consumer innovation. Alliott Chairs the Investment Committee at Octopus Ventures and sits on the Board of the Octopus Group Executive Committee. Alliott has also spent two years working in the US when he established Octopus Ventures’ office in New York. The key investments he has been involved in at Octopus include Antidote.me (a digital healthcare company); Conversocial (a B2B customer service software); the food e-commerce business Graze (acquired by Unilever), the ecommerce platform Rangespan (acquired by Google), the machine learning business Magic Pony (acquired by Twitter), Permutive (an edge computing company); Sofar Sounds (a global music company); the pet food company Tails.com (acquired by Nestle), and the property portal website Zoopla (acquired by SilverLake). Before arriving at Octopus, he previously worked as a lawyer at Ashurst, where he spent time working for IBM, Sporting Bet, UC Rusal, and NM Rothschild. Alliott has also held positions on the Board of the British Business Angel Association. He holds a Masters in Classics from Oxford University.
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About ACF Investors, Big Health, Cazoo, Graze, Octopus Ventures, Permutive, Secret Escapes, Secret Escapes, Sofar Sounds, UK Business Angels Association: Octopus is a multi stage European venture capital investor specializing in health, money, deep tech, and consumer.
Adam Dell
Founder & CEO of Clarity Money
Adam Dell joined Austin Ventures as Venture Partner in May 2010. Adam has been a successful entrepreneur, academician, and has more than 12 years of experience in the venture capital industry. He focuses purely on early-stage venture investments in the information technology and business services areas. Most recently, Adam was Founder and Managing General Partner of Impact Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on information technology investments. Prior to founding Impact, Adam was a partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners in Northern California, and a Senior Associate with Enterprise Partners in Southern California. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he worked as a corporate attorney in Austin, Texas, with the law firm of Winstead, Sechrest & Minick. His prior investments include OpenTable (OPEN), Buzzsaw (ADSK), Ingenio (T), and Hotjobs (YHOO). Dell founded and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of MessageOne, which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in 2008. Adam teaches a class on the role of law in innovation at the University of Texas School of Law.
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About Austin Ventures, Clarity Money, SharedEarth.com: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Gaurav Suri
CEO of Arcesium
Gaurav Suri is the CEO of Arcesium. Gaurav was formerly a Managing Director and Head of Information Technology and Software Development for the D. E. Shaw group. From 1996 until Arcesium’s launch in 2015, he focused on developing proprietary software associated with the D. E. Shaw group’s investment management activities and building out the firm’s software development operations in Hyderabad, India. He also oversaw the D. E. Shaw group’s office in Hyderabad.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Kurt Lin
Co-Founder, CEO of Pinwheel
Kurt Lin is a Co-Founder and CEO 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.
Gal Krubiner
CEO/ Co Founder of Pagaya Investments
Former UBS investments & wealth management professional, UHNW biz dev having raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. Specializes in innovative & sophisticated credit structured products (ABS structures).
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About Pagaya Investments: Pagaya is a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its AI network.
Vinicius Vacanti
Co-Founder and CEO of YipitData
Vinicius Vacanti is a co-founder and the CEO of YipitData.
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About 140it, UnHub, YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Jes Staley
Group Chief Executive Officer of Barclays
Jes has nearly four decades of extensive experience in banking and financial services. He worked for more than 30 years at JPMorgan Chase, initially training as a commercial banker, and later advancing to the leadership of major businesses involving Equities, Private Banking and Asset Management, and ultimately heading the company’s global Investment Bank. Most recently, Jes served as Managing Partner at BlueMountain Capital. Jes holds a BA in Economics from Bowdoin College.
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About Barclays: Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Ali Javid
founder and CEO of Wrapbook
Ali Javid is the founder and CEO of Wrapbook.
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About Wrapbook: Wrapbook provides digital profiles that facilitate onboarding, paying and insuring project workforces compliantly.
Ryan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO of Cadre
Ryan Williams is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Cadre.
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About Cadre: Cadre is an online marketplace that connects investors and operators of real estate.
Jennifer Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO of Tagomi
Jennifer Campbell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Tagomi.
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About Tagomi: Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Hicham Oudghiri
Co-Founder & CEO of Enigma Technologies
Hicham is the co-founder and CEO of Enigma, an open data technology company. In addition to managing the company’s commercial efforts, Hicham contributes heavily to Enigma’s platform product development as well as to the company’s R&D in architecture for semantic linking of data. Prior to Enigma, Hicham was managing a private sustainable finance program in Africa at BMCE Bank in partnership with the World Bank Group. Hicham spearheaded project finance initiatives and created energy models for large-scale alternative energy projects in Africa . He also developed a rating system and software for environmental and social risk management across the bank’s entire commercial loan portfolio. Hicham started his career at an energy fund in Dallas, Texas where he was responsible for hedging physical energy assets against modeled counterparts in the electronic markets. Hicham holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.
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About Enigma Technologies: Enigma provides reliable data and insights on the identity, activity, and risk profile of every small business.
Bulent Tekmen
Co-Founder & Global CEO of Colendi
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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About Colendi, Ininal, Next Ventures: A multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions
Neal Desai
CEO of Kafene
CFO in the consumer lending space. Responsibilities include capital structure design and execution, planning and valuation modeling, loan portfolio risk assessment, loss modeling and provisioning, debt and equity capital partnerships, performance reporting and design, cash flow management and analysis, treasury management, and accounting. Experienced statistical trader with more than 15 years of demonstrated capital markets success. Expertise in futures relative value and systematic trading with advanced proficiency in ETFs and equity derivatives.
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About Kafene: Kafene is a mission driven startup with the goal of empowering flexible ownership.
Ted Virtue
Chief Executive Officer of MidOcean Partners
Ted Virtue is currently the Chief Executive Officer of MidOcean Partners. Virtue graduated from Middlebury College and was a Senior Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Following this, he was the President of BT Alex, Brown Incorporated, and Executive Vice President and Head of Global Finance at Bankers Trust. After Deutsche Bank’s acquisition of Bankers Trust, Ted became the Chief Executive Officer of DB Capital Partners with oversight for Deutsche Bank’s $35 billion direct investment portfolio. He also serves on the National Advisory Board for Youth, I.N.C.
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About MidOcean Partners: Presence Capital is an investment firm that finances startups developing technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality.
Sallie Krawcheck
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ellevest
Sallie Krawcheck’s professional mission is to help women reach their financial and professional goals (or, put more bluntly, to get more money into the hands of women), thus enabling them to live better lives and unleashing a positive ripple effect for our families, our communities and our economy. To that end, she is the C.E.O. and Co-Founder of Ellevest, a digital-first, mission-driven investment platform for women. Ellevest is one of the fastest-growing digital investment platforms, named No. 24 on CNBC’s top 50 Disruptor list, No. 14 on LinkedIn’s 50 Most Sought-After Startups (and No. 2 in New York), and one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Ideas. Krawcheck is also Chair of the Ellevate Network, a 135 thousand-strong global professional women’s network; she is Chair of the Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund, a fund that invests in the top-rated companies for advancing women; and she is the best-selling author of “Own It: The Power of Women at Work.” Before launching Ellevest, Krawcheck built a successful career on Wall Street. She was the C.E.O. of Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney, US Trust, the Citi Private Bank, and Sanford C. Bernstein. She was also C.F.O. for Citigroup. Prior to that, Krawcheck was a top-ranked research analyst covering the securities industry.
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About Ellevate Network, Ellevest, TIME’S UP: Ellevest provides an engaging investing experience to help women meet their financial goals in life.
Michael Oved
CEO, Co-Founder of Fluidity
Michael Oved is the CEO and Co-Founder at Fluidity and a Co-Founder at AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, Fluidity: Fluidity bridges traditional finance to decentralized infrastructure.
David Snider
Founder & CEO of Harness Wealth
David Snider is the Founder & CEO of Harness Wealth, an early stage consumer fintech company with a mission of helping people reach their best financial future. The business will provide a unified data platform for people to manage their wealth and connect with a highly curated set of top advisors to manage their financial well-being. David incubated Harness Wealth as an executive-in-residence at Bain Capital Ventures. Previously he served as COO & CFO of Compass, a real estate tech company that he helped grow from pre-launch to a valuation of $1.8 billion. David was an investor at Bain Capital private equity, where he completed investments worth over $2 billion as well as the IPO of Sensata on the NYSE. He is the author of Money Makers: Inside the New World of Finance and Business published by Macmillan. David received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Duke University.
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About Harness Wealth: Harness Wealth provides the next generation of builders confidence in their best financial future.
Chris Bridges
CEO & Co-Founder of VITAL CARD
Co-Founder of VITAL CARD.VITAL is the world’s first social credit card that offers unlimited cash back rewards when you use it and share it. The more you share, the more you earn!
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About Grays Peak Capital LP, VITAL CARD: VITAL is the credit card that pays you to share and spend responsibly.
Greg Schvey
CEO of Axoni
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About Axoni: Axoni offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Dickson Nsofor
Co-Founder & CEO of Korapay
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About Kora Network, Korapay: Korapay offers a payment engine that enables local and global businesses to send and accept payments.
Jehan Luth
Founder & CEO of Banyan
Jehan has a unique background that combines Computer Science, Public Health Epidemiology, and Privacy Law. He identified the glaring gap in verifiable receipt data, and built Banyan to enable merchants and banks to deliver personalized services to their customers.
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About Banyan: Banyan provides an easy way for consumers to connect their receipts to any app in a secure, safe, and anonymized way.
Deepak Chhugani
Founder and CEO of Nuvocargo
Founder/CEO at Nuvocargo.com. Y Combinator alum. Former M&A Banker at BofA Merrill Lynch. Ecuador native, living in NYC.
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About Nuvocargo, The Lobby: Nuvocargo is the all-in-one digital platform for cross-border trade between USA and Mexico.
Aaron Schumm
Founder & CEO of Vestwell
Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, a digital platform that has re-imaged and redesigned the retirement solutions available to financial advisors, companies, and employees. The firm has created a completely new, independent 401(k) & 403(b) offering, that removes the barriers to saving as an employee in America, while always looking out for the best interests of employees, their employers and financial advisors serving them. Prior to founding Vestwell, Aaron co-founded FolioDynamix, a wealth management and advisory services company powering $800 billion in assets for over 100,000 advisors. At FolioDynamix, Aaron oversaw the strategy, revenue, marketing, customers, and product. FolioDynamix was sold to Actua, (NASDAQ: ACTA) in 2014. Before FolioDynamix, Aaron was a vice president at Citigroup where helped advance the Asset Manager Solutions global strategy efforts. Other past positions include the head of WealthSolutions products at BISYS (now part of Citigroup) and product manager at CheckFree Investment Services (now part of Fiserv) overseeing and the Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform. Outside of Vestwell, Schumm on the board of directors at Chalice Wealth Partners, as well as an advisory board member at Quovo, a financial services data science & performance analytics provider to advisors, Vestorly, an AI financial content marketing platform, and WorthFM, a women-focused financial advice and investment management platform. Aaron was named to the 40 under 40 Class of 2017 by Crain’s InvestmentNews. He holds a B.S. degree in finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. degree from Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business.
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About Vestwell: Vestwell provides underlying infrastructure to power workplace retirement plans.
Howard Yeh
Co-Founder, CEO & Board Director of HealthCare.com
Howard Yeh Online marketing entrepreneur and investor. President and Founder of HealthCare.com (Healthcare, Inc.). Founder of ContactUs.com, Inc. (2012), former co-founder of BrokersWeb (a 2x Inc 500 performance marketing company). Former venture capitalist at VantagePoint Capital Partners. Former investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Howard blogs at www.howardyeh.com.
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About HealthCare.com: HealthCare.com is an insurtech platform that allows users to analyze health insurance options that are available in their area.
Jason Gross
Co-Founder and CEO of Petal
Jason is the CEO and co-founder of Petal, a tech-enabled credit card company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. Prior to founding Petal, Jason worked with a number of high-growth technology companies in fintech, advertising and ecommerce. Jason has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Florida.
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About Petal: Petal is a financial technology company on a mission to make credit honest, simple, and accessible.
Damian Manning
Founder & CEO of HIFI
Damian Manning is a hacker, investor and serial entrepreneur with 20 years of commercial innovation and a dedication to creating groundbreaking online experiences for consumers. He is a founding venture partner at early-stage capital firm DEV, mentor at ERA and Golden Gate Ventures, and advisor to multiple high-profile startups, including Co-Star, Muserk and Stationhead. With his latest venture HIFI, Damian harnesses the remarkable power of AI to service the music industry. Previously, Damian was co-founder, CEO and principal architect of Echospin, whose pioneering solutions enabled rights holders to sell digital, physical and mobile goods directly to fans. Acquired in 2010, Echospin powered campaigns for the world’s chart-topping artists, generating millions in revenue for the major labels, Disney and Live Nation, among others. Earlier in his career, Damian served as Managing Director for Digital Strategy Partners and VP, Digital Media for MTV Networks, where he led global digital strategy when MTV was the top music destination in the world.
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About Digital Entertainment Ventures (DEV), HIFI: HIFI is a financial rights organization for the music industry.
Rowland Hobbs
Co-founder and CEO of Stake
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About Stake: Creating the future of FinTech powered real estate with Cash Back rewards.
William Heyn
CEO of trade.io
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About trade.io: trade.io’s mission is to democratize the financial markets through the world’s first ever blockchain-based trading platform.
David Hannes
CEO & Founder of Loved
Founder at Loved.
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About Loved: Loved is the platform that empowers kids to save, invest and learn guided by family & friends
Robert Fauber
President & Chief Executive Officer of Moody’s Investors Service
Mr. Fauber became President – Moody’s Investors Service effective, June 1, 2016. He served as Senior Vice President—Corporate & Commercial Development of Moody’s Corporation from April 2014 to May 31, 2016 and was Head of the MIS Commercial Group from January 2013 to May 31, 2016. From April 2009 through April 2014, he served as Senior Vice President – Corporate Development of Moody’s Corporation. Mr. Fauber served as Vice President-Corporate Development from September 2005 to April 2009. Prior to joining Moody’s, Mr. Fauber served in several roles at Citigroup and its investment banking subsidiary Salomon Smith Barney from 1999 to 2005. From 1992-1996, Mr. Fauber worked at NationsBank (now Bank of America) in the middle market commercial banking group.
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About Moody’s Investors Service: Moody’s Investors Service is a bond credit rating business that provides research, credit rating, and financial risk analysis services.
Jay Bregman
Founder and CEO of Thimble
Jay Bregman is the Founder & CEO of Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Philipp Von Girsewald
CEO of Deposit Solutions
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About Deposit Solutions: Deposit Solutions is provider of the open banking platform for deposits connecting banks and depositors.
Nico Simko
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clair
Nico is Clair’s Chief Executive Officer and one of its Co-Founders. He manages the company’s overall strategic direction and its relationships with its shareholders and customers. Prior to co-founding Clair, he was at J.P. Morgan, leading the M&A due diligence process on a broad range of payments companies for the firm’s Wholesale Payments division. He managed M&A, investment and partnerships due diligence on 10+ payments FinTechs worth over $25 billion. Originally from Switzerland and Argentina, Nico holds a B.A in Economics from Harvard University.
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About Clair: Clair is a mission-driven digital banking platform that is breaking the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle by offering flexible on-demand pay to America’s workforce.
Clayton Gardner
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Titan
Prior to co-founding Titan, Clayton was an analyst at a NY-based fundamental long/short equity hedge fund, where he led consumer technology investing. Previously he was an investor at Farallon Capital Management and Cerberus Capital Management investing in public and private companies. Clayton graduated summa cum laude from The Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Clayton earned a BAS in Computer Science and a BS in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Statistics and a minor in Mathematics. Originally from Chicago, he is most passionate about investing and software.
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About Titan: Titan is an operating system for active investment management, powering investment products, and experiences for retail investors.
Jarrod Yuster
Chairman, Founder and Co-CEO of Pico
Jarrod has over 20 years of experience in institutional trading. Prior to founding Pico, Jarrod served as Global Head of Electronic Trading at Merrill Lynch, where he oversaw the business from its inception and was responsible for sales, trading, risk, execution service, product development and quantitative analytics for these products worldwide. Before his work on Wall Street, Jarrod served as a product engineer, performing semiconductor research at Intel.
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About Pico: Pico is a provider of technology services for the global financial markets community.
Doug Scott
CEO & Co-founder of Ethic
Doug Scott is the CEO and co-founder at Ethic.
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About Ethic: Ethic operates as a tech-driven asset manager that powers the creation of investment portfolios.
Andrew Hoag
Founder and CEO of Teampay
Andrew Hoag is Founder of urbantag. He is also Founder of Team Labs. Andrew Hoag serves as Managing Director of Europe at Startup Institute Inc. He serves as an Advisor of Medlert, Inc. He also worked at NASA and VeriSign. Andrew Hoag served as Advisor of FuturePerfect Ventures.
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About Teampay: Teampay is a spend management platform that enables companies to request, approve, and track expenditures in real-time.
Everett Cook
Co-Founder / CEO of Rho Business Banking
Everett Cook is a Co-Founder at Rho Business Banking.
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About Rho Business Banking: Rho Business Banking is a digital banking platform for startups and high-growth companies.
Bharath Krishnamoorthy
Co-Founder & CEO of Axle
As CEO, Bharath applies his entrepreneurial intuition and enterprising spirit to oversee company sales, fundraising, and business expansion. He previously worked as a Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Funds lawyer at one of the top 10 firms in the world. Bharath led business development for a real estate investment firm, and graduated with honors from both Columbia Law School and James Madison University.
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About Axle, BusBot: Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
Shawn Melamed
Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral
Shawn Melamed is a serial fintech entrepreneur that founded Spiral. He is the former Managing Director of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices. He also founded software company Correlix, which was acquired by TSA, and led StrikeNet to its M&A with TMX Group.
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About Spiral: Spiral is a provider of a banking solution for the charitable sector.
Nathaniel Harley
Co-founder & CEO of Mantl
Nathaniel Harley is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder 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.
Ram Ahluwalia
Co-Founder & CEO of PeerIQ
CEO at PeerIQ.
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About PeerIQ, Winged Foot Capital: PeerIQ is a data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, access and manage risk in the alternative lending sector.
Jarred Kessler
CEO & Co-Founder of EasyKnock
Jarred Kessler is the CEO and Co-Founder of EasyKnock, and former Global Head of Equities at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., a New York-based financial services firm. He previously held positions at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Jarred is the propelling force behind the name that’s changing the future of real estate. Having worked on Wall Street for years, Jarred saw the fundamental issues preventing Americans from accessing the money they need. He decided he was going to do something about that. With over fifteen years of experience in technology and business strategy and development, Jarred has developed the first institutionalized sale-leaseback platform to help homeowners across the country.
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About EasyKnock, Forbes Real Estate Council: EasyKnock provides sale-leaseback solutions that help homeowners to convert their home equity to cash.
Gayle Jennings O’Byrne
Founder and CEO of iNTENT Manifesto
20+ years of finance, investment banking, philanthropy and lobbying experience. Previously, executive positions in Mergers and Acquisitions, Global Philanthropy, International Government Relations at JPMorgan Chase. Media Manager at Sun Microsystems. Developed and managed investment strategy and corporate relationships. Enjoys valuation, modeling, due diligence and championing founders and startups. Graduate of Wharton School of Business and the University of Michigan School of Business. Attended National University of Singapore and City of London Polytechnic. Conducted academic consulting project in Israel.
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About iNTENT Manifesto, The Prometheus Exchange, WOCstar Fund: iNTENT Manifesto IS an educational and investment platform.
Andrew Wynn
Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Ascend
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About Ascend: Ascend is a modern, all-in-one payments solution purpose-built for insurance
Ronnie Mateo
Chief Executive Officer of Trumid
Ronnie is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Trumid. He has 20 years of experience in the credit market. Prior to Trumid, he started and ran the credit group of inter-dealer broker Trinity Brokers. He was an MD at Salomon Brothers/Citibank for 12 years where he traded corporate bonds and CDS, Emerging Markets, and CDX indices. He started Trumid in 2014 to make credit trading easier for all market participants. Away from Trumid, Ronnie is passionate about his family and coaching. He has a B.S. with honors from Cornell University and played for Cornell’s football team.
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About Trumid: Trumid is a financial technology company bringing efficiency to credit trading through data, technology, and innovative products.
Alex Maffeo
Founder and CEO of Boost
Alex Maffeo is the CEO & Founder of Boost Insurance.
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About Boost: Boost enables innovators to build, offer, and deliver insurance products to their customers.
Rafael Pereira
CEO & Co-founder of Rebel
I am a tech entrepreneur with many years of expertise in building companies from the ground up across a variety of industry. Having learned how to program C at age 11, I still code to the day as a hobby (mostly burning the midnight oil) and my main areas of expertise are business development and product. However, I’ve found that my passion is to build amazing teams, which in turn create great companies. I now invest most of my time on listening to my teams and trying to figure out how I can best contribute with my experience and skill sets to their success. (worst case scenario they can at least learn from my mistakes…)
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About Open Co (Brazil), Rebel: Alternative Online Lending, FinTech, online credit, Personal financial management
Christopher F. Schellhorn
CEO & Chairman – Retired of Confirmation
With over 30 years experience managing technology businesses, Chris brings a solid background to lead this business in the rapidly changing regulatory environment created by Sarbanes Oxley. Chris has lead the organization from start-up to its position as the world’s leading provider of electronic confirmations. Prior to working with Capital Confirmation, Chris was the Managing Director of Integrion Financial Network, the online banking platform owned by eighteen of the world’s largest banks, IBM, and VISA International. Prior to Integrion, Chris was the President and CEO of VISA Interactive, VISA International’s wholly-owned online banking and bill payment subsidiary. Chris has extensive experience in commercial banking, online banking and bill payment, and managing technology businesses. Chris is a retired Naval Officer and was an assistant professor at the University of Rochester’s College of Arts and Sciences. Chris completed his MBA at The Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester and received an AB in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.
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About Confirmation: Confirmation is the leading digital platform and global network for confirming financial data.
Angela Ceresnie
CEO of Climb Credit
In 2011 Angela Galardi Ceresnie co-founded and served as CFO of Orchard Platform, a leading technology provider to institutional investors, money managers and loan originators in the Marketplace Lending sector which was later acquired by Kabbage. Since 2018 University of Michigan engineer Ceresnie has helmed Climb as its CEO and COO, helping provide simple, fast, and affordable loans to students.
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About Climb Credit, Climb Credit: Innovative student payments platform that makes career creation and transformation more accessible, affordable, and accountable than ever.
Matt Rodak
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fund That Flip
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Fund That Flip, a venture-backed real estate investment marketplace specializing in short-term loans for residential real estate rehabbers. As an active real estate investor, Matt became frustrated with the inefficiencies and lack of transparency offered by traditional rehab lenders. Fund That Flip’s technology provides ease-of-use, speed and transparency to professional real estate rehabbers. For accredited and institutional investors the platform automates sourcing, underwriting and loan origination, providing unprecedented access to this desirable asset class. Prior to founding Fund That Flip, Matt led sales and marketing for a $950M commercial property risk management firm. Matt earned a finance degree from John Carroll University and is a Chartered Property Underwriter.
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About Fund That Flip: Fund That Flip provides fast, convenient, and affordable capital for experienced real estate investors.
Mickey Costa
Co-founder and CEO of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Jeff Baehr
Founder & CEO of RueOne Investments
RueOne Investments is an independent private investment firm offering family offices and institutional investors exclusive access to direct and co-investment opportunities in private equity and venture capital. I have been involved in the alternative investment industry since 1998. I began my career as an analyst working for Strategic Financial Solutions and continued in increasing roles of responsibility at The Carlyle Group, The World Bank, and ARIS Capital Management. Most recently, I founded Empiric Asset Management, a family of funds focusing on energy infrastructure and energy master limited partnerships(“MLPs”).
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About RueOne Investments: RueOne is a private investment firm making early to growth stage investments in FinTech / InsurTech / Enterprise Software.
Mazy Dar
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenFin
Mazy Dar is CEO and Co-Founder of OpenFin. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy of the company. Prior to OpenFin, Mazy was VP of CDS Strategy at IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) where he was responsible for ICE’s CDS strategy and managed the company’s CDS e-trading and processing platforms. He also led ICE’s launch of CDS central clearing for buy-side market participants. Before ICE, Mazy served as Chief Strategy Officer of Creditex which was backed by JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and TA Associates and acquired by ICE in 2008. He joined the firm in 2000, prior to the company’s launch, and was a key architect of Creditex’s innovative products and services. Earlier, Mazy worked in information technology at UBS. He attended Cornell University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and French Literature.
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About OpenFin: OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Jacob Shoihet
CEO of Marco
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About Antler, Marco: Marco provides a tech-enabled financing platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
Cormac Kinney
Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard
Investor, serial entrepreneur with 5 exits to date. Founder and CEO of Diamond Standard. Founder and CEO of Flont, the fine jewelry leader in the sharing economy. Previously Founder and CEO of Network, a business social network incubated by The Wall Street Journal with direct reporting to Rupert Murdoch. Software designer with inventions cited in 1,500 patents. Raised over $500 million in capital. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Bitcarbon, Diamond Standard, Flont: Diamond Standard is a regulator-approved fungible commodity for natural resource, with a built-in wireless chip for electronic trading.
David Lighton
Founder & CEO of SendFriend
David Lighton is a CO-Founder of Lithium Finance.
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About Lithium Finance, SendFriend, Yale University: SendFriend leverages the blockchain to make remittance transactions less expensive, faster, and more secure.
Nadav Lidor
Co-founder & CEO of Weav
Nadav Lidor is a Co-founder & CEO 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.
Ben Mackinnon
Founder and CEO of Kard
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About Kard: Rewards infrastructure for card issuers
Jared Hecht
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Fundera
Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in August 2011 was acquired by Skype, which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft in October 2011. Prior to GroupMe, he led Business Development at Tumblr where he focused on international expansion and strategic partnerships. Jared currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Columbia University Entrepreneurship Organization and is an investor and advisor to startups such as Codecademy, SmartThings, and TransferWise. Jared received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University where he served as the publisher and managing director of Inside New York.
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About Fundera: Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.
Diwakar Choubey
Co-Founder & CEO of MoneyLion
Diwakar Choubey (“Dee”) is the Founder & CEO of MoneyLion. After beginning his career in investment banking, Dee co-founded MoneyLion in 2013 with the goal of combining AI and machine-learning technology and behavioral science to bring consumer finance into the future. During his time on Wall Street, Dee held senior positions at leading financial firms including Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Barclays Capital, where he advised M&A and capital raising deals with a specific focus on payments and specialty finance companies. Dee holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago.
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About MoneyLion: MoneyLion is a mobile banking platform for borrowing, saving, and investing.
Zuben Mathews
CEO & Co-Founder of Brigit
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About Brigit: A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
Karen Rios
Co-Founder & CEO of Lifesaver
Karen Rios is Lifesaver’s Co-founder and CEO. Prior to founding Lifesaver, Karen served as Chief Compliance Officer for Seminole Management Company. Karen was the first Latina and youngest C-level officer in the firm’s history. Prior to that role, she worked for an education technology startup. In another life, she worked as a beat writer in Paris while studying abroad at the Sorbonne, and would later return to the U.S. to work for the Obama Campaign. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
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About Lifesaver: We’re the first universal banking platform for managing, discovering and opening accounts across banks and credit unions.
Ian Kane
CEO & Co-Founder of Unbanked
Co-Founder of Unbanked, a global fin-tech platform built on blockchain. The Unbanked.com platform connects traditional enterprise fin-tech banking systems with blockchain infrastructure giving real-world utility to digital assets. The products enable instant remittance and the transfer of value on blockchain rails in a compliant and regulated environment.
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About Unbanked: Unbanked provides banking services built on blockchain, allowing easy on and off ramps for digital currencies.
Ahmed Moor
Co Founder & CEO of liwwa
Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American who was born in the Gaza Strip. He is a PD Soros Fellow, co-editor of After Zionism and co-founder and CEO of liwwa.com.
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About liwwa: liwwa is an intermediary that connects investors and small businesses.
Reed Switzer
Founder and CEO of Hopscotch
Reed Switzer is the Co-Founder and CEO at Hopscotch.
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About Hopscotch: Hopscotch is an Instant, fee-free payments for small businesses & solopreneurs.
Hugo Renaudin
Co-Founder & CEO of LGO Group
Entrepreneur. CEO and Co-Founder of LGO Group.
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About LGO Group: Building the next generation of financial exchanges.
Michael Carvin
Founder and CEO of SmartAsset
Michael’s expertise is in financial decision making. In the pre-SmartAsset days, Michael worked in Private Equity. He spent most of his time using financial models to help companies understand how to make better decisions. We believe the same models can help people improve their decision making. Michael is a graduate of Princeton University.
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About SmartAsset: SmartAsset is an online destination for financial advice that powers SmartAdvisor, a marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors.
Tiernan Kennedy
CEO of Umba
Tiernan Kennedy is the co-founder and CEO of umba. He has been working in technology firms for the past six years. A graduate of computer and electronic engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Tiernan has worked on a large number of software projects in the cloud and mobile space. Tiernan has worked with companies such as Novo Nordisk, Saatchi and Saatchi and Faberge during his time at Resolute Digital. He then went on to become the Senior Director of Engineering at Canary, managing all of their properties including their iOS, Android and Web Apps.
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About Umba, Umba: Umba is an African digital bank, offering free bank accounts and financial services to our customers
Sam Bobley
Co-Founder and CEO of Ocrolus
Trained to be an entrepreneur since childhood, Sam began building Ocrolus in his parents’ kitchen immediately upon graduating from the University of South Carolina. Under Sam’s leadership, the Company has grown into an international organization, analyzing millions of data points every day for hundreds of customers. Along the way, Sam authored a patent application and led fundraising efforts at every level- from friends and family to angel investor groups to institutional investors. Outside of the office, Sam is known for his ball handling skills on the basketball court and wicked forehand on the ping pong table.
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About Ocrolus: Ocrolus is the leading document automation platform in financial services, powering the digital lending ecosystem with trusted data
Tim Attia
CEO of Slice Labs
Tim Attia is the cofounder and CEO of Slice Labs, a technology Startup providing on-demand insurance for the on-demand economy. Slice has reimagined and redesigned insurance by providing a straightforward, cost-effective, easy-to-use solution that provides coverage to on-demand workers on a transactional basis, so they’re only paying for coverage while they’re working. Tim began his career with a large technology and management consulting firm, and has since continued to worked with major global insurance carriers on technology and distribution. He is excited to use his background in insurance and financial technology to apply intelligent design, data and technology to solving the gaps and risks facing the growing on-demand workforce. Tim holds an Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University, and has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance technology industry.
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About Slice Labs: Slice Labs is the first on-demand insurance cloud platform provider, enabling companies to build intuitive digital insurance products.
Benoit Brookens III
Founder & CEO of Accrue
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About Accrue, nuOctave: Accrue is a financial analytics company that builds deep learning technology.
Stephany Kirkpatrick
Founder, CEO of Orum.io
Stephany Kirkpatrick is the Founder and CEO at Orum.
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About Dbilia, Orum.io: Orum builds infrastructure for a frictionless financial system that enables real-time money movement with proprietary intelligence.
Jon Barlow
Founder & CEO of Finitive
Jon Barlow is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Finitive. Prior to Finitive, Mr. Barlow was the founder and CEO of Eaglewood Capital Management, an investment firm with roughly $2 billion in assets under management. In 2014, Mr. Barlow led the sale of Eaglewood Capital to an affiliate of Marshall Wace LLP (MW Eaglewood), a London-based alternative asset manager. He served as MW Eaglewood’s global CEO, overseeing its New York and London business units until his departure in 2015. During his tenure at Eaglewood, Mr. Barlow pioneered algorithmic and programmatic trading of direct lending investment strategies; successfully completed the IPO – on the London Stock Exchange – of the world’s first publicly traded online lending credit fund; and closed the first securitization of peer-to-peer loans. Previously, Mr. Barlow worked at Lehman Brothers as a Portfolio Manager within proprietary trading. Mr. Barlow graduated with a B.S. in Accounting, cum laude, from Brigham Young University and is a CFA charter holder. He has served as a board member and advisor to eight companies within the alternative lending and fintech sectors.
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About Finitive: Finitive is a fintech platform providing institutional investors with turnkey, zero-fee access to alternative lending investments.
Bela Szigethy
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Riverside Company
Together with Stewart Kohl, Béla Szigethy manages all aspects of Riverside’s activities (or at least thinks he does) and co-chairs the Riverside Investment Committees.
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About Riverside Company: The Riverside Company is a private equity firm investing in companies with enterprise values of under $200 million.
Paul Zepf
Chairman & CEO of Global Partner Acquisition Corp.
Paul Zepf has more than 25 years of private equity investment experience. He started his career in the Merchant Banking Department at Morgan Stanley and later became a managing director of Lazard, Lazard Alternative Investments and Golub Capital. While Paul has completed successful investments across the private equity spectrum, he has specialized in negotiated investments in public and private companies in which the injection of new capital into the partner company allows that company and its management team to take advantage of compelling opportunities or address significant challenges.
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About Global Partner Acquisition Corp.: GPAC is a special purpose acquisition company.
Christina Ross
CEO of Cube
Christina Ross is the CEO and founder of Cube.
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About Cube: Cube is a real-time FP&A platform that helps strategic finance professionals move from numbers to narrative in record time.
David Klein
Co-Founder & CEO of CommonBond
David is the CEO and Co-Founder of CommonBond, a leading marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors. David is responsible for setting strategy on creating a superior borrower experience. Prior to CommonBond, David worked in consumer finance at American Express, as Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development. David started his professional career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. David graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in Politics, Economics and International Business, and attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About CommonBond: CommonBond was founded in 2012 to help relieve the student loan burden, and since then we’ve funded over $4 billion in better loans.
Seth Phillips
Founder and CEO of Bound
Seth Phillips is the Founder and CEO at Bound.
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About Bound: Bound protects your business from fluctuating exchange rates.
Wil Eyi
Co-founder & CEO of Toolbox
Wil Eyi is the chief executive officer and CEO of Toolbox.
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About Toolbox: Modern financial operating system for construction, maintenance & repair contractors
Sean Engelking
Co-Founder and CEO of Starship
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About Starship: Starship is mobile health savings account (HSA) with automated investing built for humans.
Rohit Arora
CEO & Co-Founder of Biz2Credit
Rohit Arora is the co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit. He is known for his immense expertise in the field of small business finance. Under his tutelage, Biz2Credit has witnessed a stupendous growth since its inception. Rohit Arora was named Crain’s NY Business “Entrepreneur of the Year 2011.” due to his pioneering business model and entrepreneurial vision. His expert opinions on small business lending have been covered by major news media that include New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, American Banker, CNNMoney, MSNBC, Inc., and Washington Post. Besides, he is a frequent guest speaker for small business lending seminars and conferences. Rohit’s columns are published on SMB finance for FOX Small Business Center, SmallBizTrends, Franchise Handbook, NewJerseyNewsroom and New York Enterprise Report, just to name a few.
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About Biz2Credit: Biz2Credit is a digital-first provider of small business funding and offers its Biz2X Platform to help financial institutions manage risk.
Zachary Garippa
Co-Founder and CEO of Order
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About Order: Order is a guided B2B marketplace that helps businesses place orders, control spend, and submit payment across their vendors.
Rakesh Gupta
Chairman & CEO of KiwiTech
Rakesh is the founder and CEO of Kiwitech, a digital interactive production and publishing house with over 300 APP’s in the companies production portfolio. Prior to founding Kiwitech, Rakesh was the founder and CEO of Aptara Corp, a leading Digital publishing & production company with over 4000 employees. The company was acquired in 2008 and was started from Rakesh’s kitchen table.
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About KiwiTech, KiwiVenture Partners: KiwiTech is a growing innovation ecosystem that’s home to more than 500 portfolio companies and 2000 investors.
Nat Ware
Founder & CEO of Forte
Dr. Nat Ware is an award-winning entrepreneur, economist and speaker. At 16, he raised $100,000 to rebuild a school in Mozambique and an orphanage in Thailand. At 19, he founded 180 Degrees Consulting and built it into the world’s largest consultancy for non-profits and social enterprises, with over 120 branches across 35 countries and over 4 million hours of consulting services provided (www.180dc.org). At 21, he taught a postgraduate course on Innovation, Strategy and Global Business. At 25, he did a PhD at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship where he invented a new way to finance education (Tradable Income-Based Securities, or TIBS), as well as new ways to measure poverty, social impact, and government performance. Due to these inventions, which use economic approaches to redesign human systems to improve social outcomes, Nat has been called “the father of social impact economics.” He is a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, Forbes 30 Under 30 list-maker, Australian State Young Achiever of the Year, Asia21 Fellow, Goldman Sachs Global Leader, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, winner of the Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award, received the highest scoring speech at the World Debating Championships, and is only-ever Two-Time Global Winner of the St Gallen Wings of Excellence Award. He received ‘No Corrections’ for his Oxford PhD, the Saïd Prize for Top Oxford MBA Student, the Arthur Lewis Prize for Best Performance in Development Economics at Oxford, The University Medal for Top Economics/Business Student at Sydney University, and the Convocation Medal for Best All-Rounder at Sydney University (1/33,000 students). He has also swum the English Channel with friends to raise money for charity, completed a full Ironman triathlon, and given three TEDx talks on that have been viewed over a million times. Nat is currently the Founder/CEO of Forte, an innovative way to finance education at scale at no cost to individuals or governments.
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About 180 Degrees Consulting, Forte: There is a way to finance education and healthcare at no cost to individuals, governments or donors. That way is Forte.
