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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Financial Services space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Harsh Sinha
CTO of Wise
Harsh Sinha is CTO at TransferWise – the international money transfer platform enabling people to send, receive and manage money across borders cheaply and easily. Prior to TransferWise, he was Director of Product at PayPal. During his tenure at PayPal and eBay prior to that, Harsh built various global product experiences and teams including PayPal mobile, eBay Motors, eBay Local and Milo (an eBay acquisition). Harsh is also an angel investor and advises early stage start up on product market fit and team scaling problems.
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About Wise: Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.
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Daniel Griffin
Co-Founder and CTO of MainStreet
Daniel Griffin is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of MainStreet. Prior to that, he was the Founder of Peak Podcasting.
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About MainStreet: MainStreet is a financial platform that helps startups and small businesses discover and claim tax credits and government incentives.
Jean-Denis Greze
Chief Technology Officer of Plaid
Jean-Denis Greze is the Chief Technology Office at Plaid
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About Plaid: Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Steve Rabin
CTO of Insight Partners
Steve is the Chief Technology Officer at OpenView, responsible for supporting portfolio companies in all aspects of their software design, development, validation and support activities. Steve also serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Insight Venture Partners. Prior to Insight, Steve was the CTO/VP of Engineering at InterWorld and American Software responsible for all R&D, product architectures and IT. Before that, Steve was the Director of Field Systems at Pfizer and CIO of Pfizer International from 1978 to 1986. In 1987, Steve founded Optimized Planning Systems, a supply chain vendor that was acquired by American Software in 1991 and continued with American Software as the CIO. He has consulted with many large independent software vendors and technology companies (e.g. IBM, Computer Associates, HP, Sun) in the areas of system architecture, R&D best practices, organizational growth and process automation. Steve has a B.S. in Mathematics from Colgate University and a Masters in Operations Research from NYU with high honors. Source:[ OpenView Venture Partners]( http://www.openviewpartners.com/who/index.html)
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Steve Ellis
Chief Technology Officer of SmartContract
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About SmartContract: Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources.
Idris Mokhtarzada
Founder, CTO of Truebill
He is the Founder & CTO at Truebill.
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About Truebill: Truebill is a personal finance app that utilizes AI to enable users to manage their personal finances and improve their financial health.
Constantine Saab
CTO of Valor Equity Partners
Constantine Saab currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Valor Equity Partners.
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About Valor Equity Partners: Valor Equity Partners is an operational growth investment firm focused on high growth companies across various stages of development.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Andy Milenius
CTO of MakerDAO
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
William Murphy
Sr. Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Blackstone Group
Bill Murphy is the Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone, leading the Blackstone Innovations and Infrastructure team. William Murphy is responsible for the firm’s technology efforts. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2011, Bill was founding Chief Technology Officer for Capital IQ. Bill was responsible for overseeing all product design, development, infrastructure and technology support and was involved with all operations of the business. Before Capital IQ, Bill led teams at Sapient, delivering solutions for large clients primarily in financial services. He received a BSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Blackstone Group: Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Michael Aguiling
CTO and Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management
Michael Aguiling is Chief Technology Officer of Cerberus Technology Solutions, a subsidiary of Cerberus focused exclusively on leveraging emerging technology, data, and advanced analytics to drive business transformations. In his role, he leads Technology Strategy, Architecture, Cyber Security, and Data Operations, as part of a broad set of responsibilities aimed at creating value for companies through technology modernization and transformation. Prior to joining Cerberus in 2018, he was Chief Technology Officer of Regulatory DataCorp, a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, where he was responsible for building an AI program primarily concentrated on the compliance software space. From 2005 to 2017, he was Chief Technology Officer of JPMorgan Intelligent Solutions, a unit of JPMorgan Chase and Co. created to solve business problems and provide strategic insights through data mining, analytics, and modeling. He also founded and chaired the JPMC Machine Learning Steering Committee from 2016 to 2017. He has served on various executive and advisory boards for enterprise technology companies, including Hortonworks, Cloudera, RedHat, and Amazon Web Services. He studied Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
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About Cerberus Capital Management, JP Morgan Chase: Cerberus Capital Management is a private investment firm that focuses on operational private equity investments.
Richard Alexander
Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of Cerberus Capital Management
Richard Alexander is the Chief Technology Officer at Cerberus, where he oversees global technology, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development, data operations, and computer support. He is also responsible for managing the firm’s global facilities as well as its general services and vendor relationships. Since joining Cerberus in 2008, he has held various roles at the firm. He was a member of the Cerberus Operations and Advisory Company, the firm’s industry-leading operations platform, where he was involved in the restructuring of GMAC and Momentis Property Group. Mr. Alexander has also participated in several due diligence projects for the firm’s private equity and middle-market direct lending platform. Prior to Cerberus, he spent 12 years at GE, where he was a Chief Information Officer and Quality Leader within GE Commercial Finance. He has also held various technology roles within the U.S. State Department and UST, Inc. Mr. Alexander currently sits on several technology advisory boards and was previously a member of the BAWAG Supervisory Board. He has been named Best Technology Executive, Buy-Side by American Financial Technology Awards and is a frequent speaker at IT executive and technology summits. Mr. Alexander graduated from Loyola University and is certified in Lean Six Sigma.
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About Cerberus Capital Management: Cerberus Capital Management is a private investment firm that focuses on operational private equity investments.
Paul Zhang
Chief Technology Officer of Avant
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About Avant: Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
Ran Harpaz
Chief Technology Officer of Hippo Insurance
Ran Harpaz is the CTO at Hippo.
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About Hippo Insurance: Hippo Insurance is an InsurTech company that uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties.
Nicholas Clark
Chief Technology Officer of Divvy
Nicholas Clark is the CTO of DoubleDutch, the first and only provider of cloud-based geosocial mobile applications for the enterprise. Prior to DoubleDutch, Nicholas was a Senior Development Engineer at Microsoft, working on Internet Explorer for 5 years, and Bing Mobile for 1 year. While at Microsoft, Nicholas founded and operated MobileSrc, a mobile development shop. MobileSrc pioneered a new form of location-based gaming for which a patent has been granted. Nicholas attended Cornell University and received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus in Computer Architecture and Digital Signal Processing.
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About Divvy: Divvy Homes is a tech-enabled real estate platform that facilitates rent-to-own home purchases.
Adam Davis
Managing Director, Finance, Risk and Analytics Services CTO of UBS
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Stanley Wasilauski
Chief Technology Officer of State Street
Stan is a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer for State Street Global Advisors. His key responsibilities include infrastructure management, application development and support, information security, governance, technology innovation and service desk operations. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Management Group. Stan has worked in the investment management and financial services industry for 20 years. Prior to joining SSGA, he served as chief technology officer for Pioneer Investment Management. Before that, Stan held a variety of technology leadership positions within State Street’s corporate technology organization in support of the core asset servicing business lines, product development initiatives, technical sales support and strategic global client relationships. He helped launch both the Investment Manager Services and Wealth Management Services business lines and platform capabilities. He was also very active within State Street’s corporate planning and investment banking process, functioning as technical lead for several large acquisitions and successful integrations. Additionally, Stan has held a variety of senior consulting positions with Computer Sciences Corporation, focused within the financial services industry. Stan holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from North Adams State College.
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Mahi Dontamsetti
SVP/Chief Technology Risk Officer of State Street
Mahi heads up the Technology Risk functions within Enterprise Risk Management at State Street Corporation. State Street Corporation has been designated as a Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) by US Regulators. As the Global Head of Enterprise Technology Risk Management, his responsibilities include governance and oversight over Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, Global Continuity Services, Third Party Vendor Management, Regulatory Compliance, Data Protection and Risk Analytics/Reporting globally for the firm. He defines the strategy, execution plan and owns/drives the technology risk agenda for the firms board of directors. Mahi joined State Street from Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), where he was Global Head of IT Risk and Deputy CISO. While at DTCC, Mahi built an IT Risk program that is leveraged across DTCC core clearance and settlement business as well as the new emerging businesses such as global trade repository, Clarient, etc. Mahi has previously served as Global Head of Application Security and Entitlements at Barclays Capital, Chief Technologist at Lockheed Martin and CIO at various startups. He has authored two books on wireless communications, contributed chapters to security books and served on the board of OWASP NY/NJ, Center of Hybrid & Satellite Communications Networks A NASA Commercial Space Center and other institutions. He is actively involved in Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), member of FS-ISACs products and services committee, has co-authored a white paper on Appropriate Software Security Control Types for Third Party Service and Product Providers. Mr. Dontamsetti holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications and a Bachelors degree in Engineering.
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About State Street: State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions.
Brad Boven
CTO of PEAK6 Investments
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About PEAK6 Investments: Peak6 Investments operates as an investment management firm.
Jessica McKellar
Founder and CTO of Pilot
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America’s Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O’Reilly Open Source Award in 2013.
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About Pilot: Pilot is a platform that offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses.
Ryan Graciano
CTO & Cofounder of Credit Karma
As a co-founder of Credit Karma and Chief Technical Officer, Ryan Graciano has grown the company’s engineering department from a one-man band into a team of hundreds, developing a technical framework to support the company’s rapid growth. His expertise and innovation has helped bring new levels of usability and sophistication to financial services technologies. Today, Ryan runs an ever-expanding group of engineers tasked with building out new products at pace while stressing a culture of agility and experimentation, even as Credit Karma reaches new levels of scale. As a leader, he serves as a constructive agitator, looking to break down traditional workplace hierarchies and empowering each member of his department with real influence over the future of the product. Ryan has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and spent five years at IBM before joining Credit Karma.
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About Credit Karma: Credit Karma offers a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help customers make the most of their money.
Dmitri Cherniak
Founder and CTO of Chargehound
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About Chargehound: Chargehound is a comprehensive chargeback solution that makes handling disputes easy.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Michael Klett
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chargify
Michael is a former hardware engineer who designed circuit boards for Alcatel, and parts of the XBOX 360 CPU for IBM. After his adoption of Ruby on Rails, Michael left the hardware world in 2007 to pursue web development full-time. He launched his own company, Web Advocate, to create custom e-commerce sites and content management systems, and ran it for two years. Now, as co-founder & Technical Lead of Chargify, Michael leads all of Chargify’s development. He derives particular enjoyment from working on applications that help entrepreneurs. Michael holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from NC State University. In his free time, Michael enjoys playing soccer, snowboarding, and putting together puzzles with his daughter.
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About Chargify: Chargify is a subscription billing software service that offers a recurring billing and subscription management space.
Tanweer Surve
Control Senior Officer – Technology CTO (Cloud) of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Eric Detterman
Chief Technology Officer of Green Key Technologies
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About Green Key Technologies, LexPredict: GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Skye Isard
CTO & Co-Founder of Sandbox Banking
Skye was a software developer at MIT CSAIL and Harvard Management Company before co-founding AlphaPack. He holds degrees in both Computer Science and Psychology from Tufts University. He strives to correctly balance his obsession with building maintainable software with the need to deliver immediate customer value. He has learned there are few easy answers. Skye loves running, poker, and pretending to be a competent cook.
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About Sandbox Banking: Sandbox Banking provides Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) technology to banks, credit unions, and fintechs
Aaron Roe
CTO Products & Solutions – Managing Director of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Bill Briggs
Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte
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About Deloitte, Deloitte: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Alexander Grbic
Chief Technology Officer of Deloitte
Alexander (Alex) Grbic is vice president of product marketing in the Programmable Solutions group at Intel Corporation, where he is responsible for defining, promoting, and managing innovative hardware, software, and intellectual property products for Intel’s programmable logic solutions, spanning the full product lifecycle. Alex joined Intel in 2015 with the acquisition of Altera Corporation, where he was senior director of software and IP marketing, managing product planning and outbound marketing for multiple Altera products, including the Quartus II design software and IP cores, digital signal processing design tools, and Altera’s software development kit for OpenCL. Previously, he spent several years overseeing Altera’s applications engineering—a role that included responsibility for escalated customer support, initiatives for early adoption of new products, and technical collateral—and worked in the company’s software and IP engineering organization, where he led the development of external memory interfaces IP, work on visualization and analysis tools, and performance analysis of Altera’s products. Earlier in his career, Alex was a hardware designer working on shared-memory multiprocessors in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Toronto. He also taught advanced computer science courses at the university and continues to serve on the university’s ECE board of advisors. He authored multiple patents in software design flows. Alex holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in applied science and a PhD in computer engineering, all from the University in Toronto.
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About Deloitte, Intel: Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and other related services.
Sandeep Varma, CFA
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Equity Data Science
Sandeep co-founded Equity Data Science in 2017 and serves as the company’s Chairman and CEO. His unique experience includes computer science, fundamental analysis, and data science. Prior to founding EDS, Sandeep was a quantitative analyst at Bridger Capital and a quantitative and fundamental analyst at Herring Creek Capital, a hedge fund founded by Steve Galbraith where he developed a proprietary quantitative platform for idea generation and risk management. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst at Credit Suisse where his responsibilities included portfolio and risk analysis and quantitative modeling for the Prime Brokerage and Securities desks. Before joining Credit Suisse in 2008, Sandeep developed and managed trading and risk management systems at Lehman Brothers and UBS. Sandeep received his Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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About Equity Data Science: Equity Data Science (EDS) is a cloud-based, scalable investment process management platform that leverages the capabilities of data science to improve decision making and increase productivity.
Brad Peterson
EVP & CIO/CTO of Nasdaq
Brad Peterson currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Nasdaq. He previously served as CIO and EVP for Schwab Technology Services (STS), responsible for Schwab’s technology innovation, development, infrastructure and operations.In addition to leading Schwab’s technology enterprise, Peterson also had responsibility for Project Services (which covered the planning, coordination and financial management of all company-wide projects) and Offshore Services (leveraging third-party offshore capabilities whenever appropriate). Peterson also served as CIO at eBay for five years. Prior to eBay, Peterson was the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Epoch Securities after its merger with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He has also held senior executive positions at companies including Epoch Partners, Schwab, Pacific Bell Wireless and Pacific Telesis (now part of AT&T).He earned his master’s degree in management at MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in systems science and economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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About Nasdaq: Nasdaq is a global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information, and public company services.
David King
Chief Technology Officer of Flywire
David has made his mark in the billing and payment processing industry with his unmatched technical knowledge, transparent and direct approach to customer communication, and innovative software solutions that consistently exceed expectations. In 1997, David co-founded infiNET Solutions, Inc., which in 2000 became one of the first companies to deliver software-as-a-service to the higher education market. David was the CTO of infiNET, responsible for the architecture and management of an automated tuition billing and commerce system for colleges and universities. Today the system is used by more than 300 higher education institutions and processes over $16 billion annually. At infiNET, David led the technology development for HealthCom’s PatientCompass solution for healthcare. Nelnet, Inc. (NNI), a diversified education planning and financing company, acquired infiNET in 2006. David served as president of the higher education division of Nelnet, where he oversaw sales, product development, customer support, marketing, and strategic planning for the higher education market. His division generated $30 million in revenue annually with a 26 percent profit margin. Under David’s leadership, the business grew 18 percent annually. While at Nelnet, David spearheaded the development of Health Education Solutions, an online medical education and certification program.
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About Flywire, Flywire: Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company.
Kenneth Cason
Co-Founder, CTO of Arrived Homes
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About Arrived Homes: Arrived Homes provides rental home investment services to help people become financially independent.
Matt Jacobs
Co Founder, CTO of Clarity Money
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About Clarity Money, Goldman Sachs: Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
Chris Tarr
Chief Technology Officer of Akkadian Ventures
Chris is a serial entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CTO of Momentum Index. Chris was also a co-founder and Board Member of OnRequest Images, a Seattle-based custom photography logistics automation company. Previously, he co-founded and was CTO of Expede, Inc., a software consulting and training firm which was acquired by Valtech SA, in 1999. Prior to this, Chris was Vice President of Research and Development for ObjectSpace, Inc. and held senior technical roles at Convex Computer Corporation and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Chris holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.
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About Akkadian Ventures: Akkadian Ventures is a direct secondary investment firm that offers liquidity to early employees and investors of venture-backed businesses.
Alexey Kalinichenko
Co-Founder and CTO of Step
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About Step: Step is a financial services company that builds mobile-based banking for teenagers.
JB Rolland
CTO of Credijusto
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About Credijusto: Credijusto provides an online lending platform designed to offer easy, reliable, and transparent credit for SMEs.
Anish Basu
Co-Founder, CTO of Pinwheel
Anish Basu is the Co-Founder and CTO at Pinwheel.
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About Pinwheel: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Jack Dubie
Chief Technology Officer of Ladder
Jack is a Stanford CS undergrad and co-term. He is from Vermont and enjoys long-boarding and the outdoors. In addition to being the Stanford CS course advisor, he is co-founder of LifeSwap: www.TheLifeSwap.com.
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About Ladder, Ladder: Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%.
Mayur Kapani
Chief Technology Officer of IntercontinentalExchange
Mayur Kapani is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) where he oversees all technology groups within ICE, including NYSE and Interactive Data. Prior to his role as CTO, Kapani served as SVP, Trading Technology. Since joining ICE, Kapani assumed technology responsibility for all ICE futures and options exchange platforms, ICE Trade Vault, ICE Benchmark Administration and SuperDerivatives. He also leads technology diligence on all of ICE’s acquisitions. In 2016, Kapani was recognized by Institutional Investor in the Trading Technology 40, an industry ranking of the leading technology executives in the financial markets. Before joining ICE in 2006, Kapani was Vice President of Options Development at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, where he focused on the development of several initiatives including the transition of trading from a floor-based model to a high performance electronic platform.
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About IntercontinentalExchange: Intercontinental Exchange is an operator of regulated exchanges and clearing houses serving the risk management needs of global markets.
Nico Kicillof
Chief Technology Officer of Axioma
Nico Kicillof is the chief technology officer at Axioma. He was previously the head of software development lifecycle at Two Sigma. He holds an MS in computer science and an undergraduate degree from the University of Buenos Aires.
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About Axioma: Axioma provides enterprise risk management, portfolio management, and regulatory reporting solutions to financial institutions worldwide.
Eric Anderson
CTO of Aspiration
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Ilya Kirnos
Partner, Venture & CTO of SignalFire
Prior to co-founding SignalFire, Ilya was a Software Engineer at Google (2004-2012). During his time at Google, Ilya held several technical leadership positions. He was a Technical Lead for Gmail Ads and was responsible for predicting consumer purchase intent and consumer Gmail monetization. Ilya was also a Technical Lead for AdWords Performance and Scalability where he managed responsiveness and uptime of the AdWords frontend. Prior to this, he performed due diligence on Google’s acquisition of Urchin, which became Google Analytics. Ilya was also the founder and Technical Lead for Google Prediction Markets, where he led the engineering team from conception to product launch. After Google, Ilya joined CardSpring, a payment platform company backed by Accel and Greylock Partners. At CardSpring, Ilya led platform backend development. CardSpring was acquired by Twitter. Ilya started his software engineering career at Bell Labs and Oracle. Ilya graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics.
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About SignalFire: SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Tyler Conant
Co-Founder & CTO of Possible Finance
Tyler Conant is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Possible Finance.
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About Possible Finance: Possible Finance provides financial tools needed to manage day-to-day lives.
Avnish Chauhan
Co-Founder, EVP, & Chief Technology Officer of Mobileum
Avnish is a co-founder of Roamware and is responsible for the company’s Roaming business, New Business Initiatives and the Mobile Financial Services business. Prior to Roamware, Avnish served as Vice President – Technology Solutions at US Interactive through its acquisition of SoftPlus. At SoftPlus, Avnish held cross-functional responsibilities helping design, build, sell and implement the Cross Roads 2001 award-winning solution across telecom service providers around the globe. Before SoftPlus, Avnish worked at Citicorp Software, where he led technology support teams for some of the projects in CitiGroup. He was also responsible for setting up and leading the Performance and Capacity Planning lab for Citicorp CEEMEA in London. Avnish has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry.
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About Mobileum: Mobileum provides voice and data roaming solutions and mobile financial services.
Ezra Olubi
Co-Founder, CTO of Paystack
Ezra Olubi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Paystack.
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About Paystack: Paystack lets businesses accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer and mobile money on their websites or mobile apps.
João Almeida
CTO of OpenNode
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About OpenNode: OpenNode offers accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments.
Jeff Schvey
Chief Technology Officer of Axoni
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About Axoni: Axoni offers blockchain infrastructure, distributed application development, and workflow automation tools.
Tushar Vaish
Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel
Tushar Vaish is the Co-Founder and CTO of Spinwheel.
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About Spinwheel: Transform how your business and your customers see, understand, and act on debt with our industry-leading debt APIs and drop-in modules.
Matthew Johnson
CTO of Bakkt
Matthew Johnson is the Chief Technology Officer at Bakkt.
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About Bakkt: Bakkt is a trusted digital asset platform that enables its customers to buy, sell, spend, send, and redeem digital assets.
William Danford
Co-founder & CTO of Tiv
Will Danford currently works as the Co-founder and CTO for Tiv. Formerly a software engineer and product manager at Clarity Consulting in Chicago, Will has led high-profile consumer-facing projects for several Fortune 100 companies. Will holds a B.A. in Economics and M.S. in Computer Science degrees from the University of Chicago.
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About Tiv: Tiv is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking and rewards products built for the gaming community.
Yan Pritzker
Co-Founder & CTO of Swan Bitcoin
Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of [Swan Bitcoin, the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated daily, weekly, and monthly savings plan](https://www.swanbitcoin.com). Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at [Reverb](http://reverb.com), which was sold to Etsy for $275M.
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About Swan Bitcoin: SwanBitcoin is the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated savings plans.
Elmer Ortega
Co-Founder and CTO of Addi
Elmer Ortega currently serves Addi as the co-founder and CTO.
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About Addi: Addi is a technology company that provides credit and banking solutions.
Cory Tucker
CTO & Co-Founder of Windfall
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About Windfall: Windfall Data is on a mission to help organizations make better informed data-driven decisions.
Philip A. Teeter
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Pacific Life
Mr. Teeter joined Pacific Life as a technology consultant for the Annuities & Mutual Funds Division in 1995. In 1998, he accepted a position as assistant vice president, Technology for policy administration systems. He was promoted to vice president, Technology in 2000. In April 2010, Mr. Teeter was promoted to senior vice president and chief technology officer in the Retirement Solutions Division, the successor of the Annuities & Mutual Funds Division. He is responsible for the division’s Technology and Operations departments, overseeing the development of custom software/installation, customization and support of packaged software, desktop computing support, hardware and software, as well as, the maintenance and infrastructure of all application systems required to support the business requirements for contract administration, sales, and marketing. Prior to joining Pacific Life, Mr. Teeter worked in banking operations and management with Union Bank from 1978 to 1980. He worked for Executive Life Insurance Company from 1981 to 1993 in various management positions including vice president, Information Services and Technology.
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About Pacific Life: Pacific Life Insurance is an American insurance company that provides life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds.
Jacky Chiu
CTO & Co-Founder of Brightside
Jacky Chiu is the CTO and Co-Founder at Brightside.
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About Brightside: Brightside is an employer-based financial health solution that combines personal assistants and an innovative partner platform.
Javier Gonzalez
CTO of HUMBL
As CTO at Tickeri, Javier manages operations, engineering teams, and oversees all technical development of the main Tickeri platform and its multiple services and products in order to connect music fans with their favorite Latin artists.
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About HUMBL, Tickeri: HUMBL provides merchant services software which is being developed to accommodate the migration by governments to digital forms.
Hong Kim
Cofounder and CTO of Bitwise
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About Bitwise: Bitwise is a crypto index fund manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency.
Bryan Bishop
Co-Founder & CTO of Avanti Financial Group
Bryan Bishop is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Avanti Financial Group.
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About Avanti Financial Group: Avanti Financial Group is an operator of a crypto-asset banking company used to focus on providing regulated services for digital assets.
Jeff Sneden
CTO of Netcapital
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About Netcapital: Netcapital enables investors to invest in entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital using technology.
Germain Cassiere
Co-Founder & CTO of HMBradley
Germain Cassiere is the Co-Founder and CTO at HMBradley. He attended the University of Notre Dame.
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About HMBradley: HMBradley is a digital banking platform that develops programs to reward savers.
Nancy Boehm
Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of Perella Weinberg Partners
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About Perella Weinberg Partners: Perella Weinberg Partners is a privately-owned financial services firm that provides corporate advisory and asset management services.
Eugene Hertz
Founder / CTO of Thimble
Eugene Hertz is founder & CTO at Thimble.
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About Thimble: Thimble is an insurance producer enabling small businesses to succeed on their own terms.
Ryan King
Co-founder & CTO of Chime
Ryan is the Co-founder and CTO of Chime. Previously, Ryan was the VP of Engineering of Plaxo, an early professional social networking pioneer which was acquired by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, Ryan worked at Liberate Technologies and Microsoft. Ryan earned a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA.
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About Chime, Comcast: Chime helps everyday people achieve financial peace of mind, together.
Max Bernardy
Co-Founder/CTO of Titan
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About Titan: Titan is an operating system for active investment management, powering investment products, and experiences for retail investors.
Anthony Caiafa
Chief Technology Officer of SS&C Technologies
Anthony Caiafa is the Chief Technology Officer at SS&C Technologies.
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About SS&C Technologies: SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software focused exclusively on the global financial
Keith Birdsong
Chief Technology Officer of Nuvei
Keith Birdsong is responsible for Pivotal Payments’ Information Technology services.This includes the operation and enhancement of the back office, processing systems and network infrastructure. He is responsible for the overall technology direction and leadership of the network and development teams. Keith Birdsong has more than 25 years of IT experience in a variety of technical and leadership roles with a number of organizations, including Torchmark Corporation, Heartland Payment Systems and Electronic Data Systems. Prior to joining Pivotal Payments, Keith Birdsong was the Director of Software Development at Torchmark Corporation.
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About Nuvei: Nuvei is a financial service company that provides its clients with payment technology solutions.
Sam Artioli
CTO of Abe AI
Sam Artioli is a Solutions Architect with 15+ years experience in Software Development. He currently manages the technology initiatives of the Abe, a white-label chatbot software for community banks and credit unions. Prior to leading the technology initiatives of Abe, Sam was the Lead Solutions Architect in Emerging Technology for Disney. During this time he was responsible for experimenting with machine learning and advanced NLP and chatbot technologies. Prior to his work with the emerging technology division of Disney, Sam worked as an engineer for Apple where he focused mainly on Build Systems and Foundation Code; programming in C, Objective-C, Unix and Perl. As a GM, Sam oversaw the release of essential Apple Software including DVD Studio Pro, iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iSync, Keynote, Logic, Motion, Qmaster, QuickTime, Shake, and Soundtrack. These days you can find Sam these days crafting full platform configurations with Node.js, Angular, Gulp, Express, Cordova, a splash of Go, and Docker to bind it all together.
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About Abe AI: Abe builds conversational banking solutions for progressive banks.
Francesco Fabbrocino
CTO of FastPay
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About FastPay: FastPay is the definitive financial platform for digital media.
Arjun Dugal
CTO, Financial Services of Capital One
Arjun Dugal leads an organization of technologists who are reinventing the auto finance business by leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence and next-generation data to develop breakthrough innovations and strategic products. The solutions they create propel Capital One’s Auto Finance business, India DataLabs and the Garage, Capital One’s innovation center, to deliver transformative customer experiences. Before joining Capital One, Arjun spent five years at Macy’s where he oversaw the implementation technology solutions across various areas, including e-commerce fulfillment, supply chain and call centers. Prior to that, Arjun held various leadership roles at Staples and Wipro Technologies. Arjun holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Pune University in India and a master’s degree in management and operations from Harvard University. He is also the co-founder of Dream a Dream, a non-profit organization that empowers young people from vulnerable background to overcome adversity through creative life skills.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Mark Cauwels
Chief Technology Officer of Capital One
Chief Technology Officer at Capital One Canada.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Thien Tran
CTO & Co-Founder of Honeydue
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About Honeydue: Honeydue is a mobile app for couples that offers tools to share information on respective account balances and spending.
Ismail Coskun
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer of HarbourVest Partners
Ismail Coskun joined HarbourVest in 2015 and leads the Firm’s global information technology operations and strategic initiatives involving systems, security, infrastructure, development, telecommunications, and mobility. He joined HarbourVest from AQR Capital Management, where he spent 11 years in roles as Vice President, Head of Development and Infrastructure, and Chief Technology Officer. His responsibilities included the management of a diverse team of technologists, risk assessments, global technology delivery and project management, budgeting and cost control, strategic planning, regulatory controls and business continuity, and other tasks. His prior experience also includes senior positions with Credit Suisse First Boston, Thomson Financial Services, Moody’s Investors Service, and JPMorgan. Ismail holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from Pace University.
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About HarbourVest Partners, QUA GRANITE: HarbourVest is an independent investment firm that provides innovative private equity solutions to institutional clients worldwide.
Tricia Mackechnie
Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer of HarbourVest Partners
Tricia Mackechnie joined HarbourVest in 2016 and leads the Firm’s global information technology operations and strategic initiatives involving systems, security, infrastructure, application development, telecommunications, and mobility. Tricia joined the Firm from The Hartford where she held various roles in both operations and IT and was most recently a senior vice president and CIO. She was responsible for operations and technology for The Hartford’s annuity and group benefits businesses. She was also accountable for the strategy and execution of The Hartford’s enterprise IT functions including Investment Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Finance, Human Resources, and Real Estate. Prior to that, Tricia was the head of project management for US Customer Service at ING. Her experience also includes ten years at Accenture. Tricia received a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1991.
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About HarbourVest Partners: HarbourVest is an independent investment firm that provides innovative private equity solutions to institutional clients worldwide.
Zachary Poley
Chief Technology Officer of Clear Ventures
Zachary Poley was Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Paysa, Inc. He holds BS in EECS from University of Michigan.
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About Clear Ventures: Clear Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focusing on investing in startup companies.
Benjamin Conant
Co-founder & CTO of Mantl
Benjamin Conant is the Co-founder & CTO of Mantl.
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About Mantl: Mantl is a banking technology company that provides workflow management and automation tools for banks and credit unions.
Lakshan De Silva
CTO of Intellect Design Arena
Lakshan is an experienced global executive that has worked across technology, venture capital, insurance, wealth management, construction, manufacturing and mining. He is bringing in exponential technology that will define the next 10 years into the Intellect SEEC products. His current projects revolve around AI and Blockchain.
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About Intellect Design Arena: Intellect Design Arena Ltd, is a global leader in Financial Technology for Banking, Insurance and other Financial Services.
Jason Meltzer
Co-Founder & CTO of Papaya
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About LA CTO Forum, Papaya, SightCine: Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.
Bryan Starbuck
CTO of ZenLedger
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Empower.me. Empower.me is for teenagers to discover and pursue their interests and life’s passion. Empower.me creates a visualization of the teenager’s future. It then has videos for the teens to pursue everything they are interested in currently, as well as everything they are interested in around building their best future self. Parents love it because every video contains real learning towards building something important in the teenagers future. Empower.me is the ultimate building system to build 5th to 12th graders into their best future self. Bryan Starbuck was the founder and CEO of TalentSpring, a $2.7m private investor funded B2B SaaS startup. TalentSpring was acquired in October 2010. TalentSpring allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes, with access to over 100 million resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player). TalentSpring believes recruiters must have powerful tools that gives them “1 click†access to the top 100 resumes nationwide that are both the best match to the open position, and the top quality candidates nationwide. Bryan Starbuck’s former career came from managing engineering teams at Microsoft on Internet Explorer, Windows operating systems, and Windows Live. Bryan’s focus has been on utilizing data mining algorithms in mass market products to solve real world problems faced by consumers or an industry. He has worked with Microsoft Research (MSR) on several products. Bryan has 39 patents (between pending and issued). Specific Areas of Interests: – B2B SaaS Sales & Marketing: Managing inside sales reps, lead marketing, etc. – Engineering: Semantic search, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, semantic latent analysis, natural language processing, clustering, regression analysis, graph theory, web crawling (Hadoop) – Company Building: Building/growing SaaS companies, engineering, product UI design, machine learning, data mining, semantic search, online marketing, branding, enterprise sales, web services, entrepreneurship
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About ZenLedger: ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management.
Alex Cram
Cofounder & CTO of Abound
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About Abound: Abound is the independent benefits API for businesses that serve independent workers.
Matt Matteson
Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar
Matt Matteson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Northstar. He attended the Colorado School of Mines.
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About Northstar: Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
Brady Cale
Chief Technology Officer of Taulia
Brady is responsible for Taulia’s product strategy, delivery and operations. Leading our Product, Engineering, Operations, and IT teams, he is focused on delivering a best-in-class solution for our customers. Prior to joining Taulia, Brady combined his technical and business acumen, serving in various senior leadership roles at ProvideCommerce, an e-commerce company based in San Diego, CA. As General Manager of Sincerely, a division of ProvideCommerce, he was responsible for overall business unit strategy, product and operations. Prior to this, he served as Chief Technology Officer for the full suite of ProvideCommerce brands (including ProFlowers, Sincerely, Personal Creations, Shari’s Berries and RedEnvelope) where he led the 175 person technology team and platform as the business rapidly scaled from $80 million in revenue to over $700 million. When not working, you can find Brady chasing after his three toddlers with his wife, or out enjoying a Warriors or Giants game with his friends and family.
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About Taulia: Taulia is a FinTech startup that provides working capital management and electronic invoicing services for supply chain companies.
Ofer Shaked
CTO of Earnin
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About Earnin: Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Kenan Pulak
Co-Founder and CTO of Point Card
Kenan Pulak is the co-founder and CTO at Point. He was a lead iOS engineer at Metal Payments.
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About Point Card: PointCard is a mobile banking app that offers debit cards and credit cards rewards.
Anthony Schiavo
Chief Technology Officer of Trumid
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About Trumid: Trumid is a financial technology company bringing efficiency to credit trading through data, technology, and innovative products.
Robert Walker
CTO of CMT Capital Markets Trading
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About Alpha Trading Labs, CMT Capital Markets Trading, xCelor: CMT provides operational and financial support to proprietary trading outfits, privately owned businesses and venture capital startups.
Chris Vitone
CTO of Boost
Chris Vitone is the CTO of Boost Insurance. Chris is responsible for the technology vision and implementing the products needed to support our insurtech and reinsurance partners. Chris has over 17 years’ experience designing scalable technology solutions across a wide range of industry verticals, both as an engineer and as a team leader. He has expertise in creating server-side applications that support hundreds of thousands of real-time requests per day. Chris was previously the Vice President of Engineering at Goji where he was responsible for digitizing all aspects of the agency workflow, including leading the team that built out the realtime quoting and binding of policies with carrier partners. Chris graduated with High Distinction from WPI with a BS in Computer Science.
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About Boost: Boost enables innovators to build, offer, and deliver insurance products to their customers.
Stephan Richter
Founder & CTO of Shoobx
Stephan Richter is CTO and Co-Founder of Shoobx, the fast-growing SaaS company providing automated equity management solutions for venture-backed startups.
Reshaping how companies get started, raise capital, and exit, Shoobx is bringing together startup leaders, lawyers, and investors into a single collaborative hub that enables startups to streamline communications, fundraise faster, and stay financing-ready. Shoobx is used by brands such as Aumni, Zus, Type:A Brands, and Toast.
Prior to Shoobx, Stephan served as VP of Engineering and Chief Information Security Officer at CipherHealthwhere he formulated and developed CipherHealth‘s initial product offering, driving them to HIPAA compliance and initiating the HiTRUST certification process. Stephan was also a founding engineer at Keas, Inc. After 17 years of industry experience, he has published several books, holds 3 patents and is heavily involved in Open Source Software development.
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About Shoobx: Shoobx is a comprehensive platform designed to manage startup corporate legal activity from incorporation to exit.
Rutul Davé
Co-Founder & CTO of Maxwell Financial Labs
Rutul is a entrepreneur who loves creating products and building startups. In 2012, he founded Bright Funds with a mission to reimagine charitable giving and build a platform for a new generation of donors focused on impact. With three startups and an exit under his belt, he lives and breathes startups. He is on CauseArtist’s list of social entrepreneurs to watch for in 2014. He is also an active voice on immigration reform and was featured on The Wall Street Journal in 2013. He doesn’t write much, but his thoughts on Agile software development were published in ‘Creative Entrepreneurship’, a collection of essays helping founders great build companies.
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About Maxwell Financial Labs: A digital mortgage platform and value-added services designed exclusively for small to midsize mortgage lenders.
Eric Lyon Miles
Chief Technology Officer of Mogo
Eric Miles has been Mogo’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2012 and has over 30 years of experience leading world-class software and technology companies. Mr. Miles’ former roles include CEO, SVP/GM/VP at companies such as IBM, Bank of America, Bi3 Solutions, AssetPoint, Entopia, Sybase, Informix and Ingres.He has deep expertise in managing the innovation, development and support of category creating technology. Significant innovative technologies include; first relational database (DB2), first mainframe UNIX system (UTS), first high-speed columns oriented database for big data analysis, personalized text search engine relating topics to employee work profiles, and mobile application for manufacturing equipment maintenance management and service prediction. Mr. Miles is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a degree in Mathematics.
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About Mogo: Mogo is a consumer finance company that helps in managing and controlling finances.
Austin Trombley
CTO of Random Forest Capital
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About Random Forest Capital, SpotOn, Vaultbank: Investing more intelligently in credit via AI and Machine Learning
Eric Meltzer
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Waddell & Reed
Mr. Meltzer serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Leadership team and leads the technology teams dedicated to leveraging technology as a strategic asset across the organization, overseeing areas including enterprise technology architecture and infrastructure, cybersecurity, application development, and data integration, and service delivery management. Prior to joining Waddell & Reed Financial, he served as Chief Technology and Operations Officer at OppenheimerFunds, where he led a team of nearly 1,000 people and oversaw multiple functions, including technology, operations and cybersecurity. His prior experience also includes serving as Chief Technology Officer at Putnam Investments, where he led a 300-person team and oversaw the creation and execution of a technology strategy that enhanced applications, infrastructure, and telecommunications. Earlier in his career, he worked at a number of Wall Street firms, including Deutsche Bank and Kidder Peabody & Co. Mr. Meltzer received a Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering from Boston University and earned an MS in Operations Research from George Washington University.
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About Waddell & Reed: Waddell & Reed is an asset management and financial planning firm.
Suresh Venkatraman
Co-Founder & CTO of Solid
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About Solid: Solid is a Modern Banking Platform that instantly creates bank accounts & cards for your customers.
Phillip Wei
Co-founder & CTO of OpenInvest
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About OpenInvest: OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing.
Jay Bhatti
Co-Founder and CTO of BrandProject
Jay has over 15 years of experience building and managing Internet businesses and brings broad consumer and tech expertise to BrandProject. Jay was the co-founder of spock.com, the world’s leading people search engine. In 6 short months after launch, it became one of the top 1000 sites on the Internet and was covered by publications including The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Forbes, Newsweek, ABC News, NBC, and the Financial Times. Spock was sold in May of 2009 at which time it was generating over 50 million monthly searches. Prior to Spock, Jay was a product manager at Microsoft, managing Global server marketing and service support. Earlier in his career, while at Accenture, Jay built trading systems for the major trading firms on Wall Street. Most recently, Jay has recently been angel investing, advising startups in New York City and working with large retailers to develop their e-commerce strategies and plans. Jay has an MBA from the Wharton School and an Engineering Degree with highest honors from Rutgers University.
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About BrandProject: BrandProject is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in consumer products, services, and technology companies.
Mustafa Gulam
Co-Founder, CTO of ProjectFRED
Mustafa was born in Detroit and raised in its metro area. His fascination with technology began in high school when he started designing webpages and was chosen by Microsoft to test their early suite of office software. At the University of Michigan, he played in active role in student groups focused on improving access to medical care across the globe such as developing a battery powered surgical lamp for surgical theaters in areas with poor access to electricity through MHEAL. He attended medical school at Michigan State University and focused on the intersection of medicine and technology. He conducted research on artificial intelligence in healthcare and joined the Brain-Computer Interface group at the University of Michigan in where he assisted in finding a solution to using EEG technology to communicate with ALS patients. In 2013 he joined the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Education committee and became a published author for Neurology and Neuroanatomy for the medical board exam. After completing several subinternships in Neurology, General Surgery and Neurosurgery Mustafa decided to focus his efforts on how blockchain technology can maintain the integrity of healthcare records and improve communication between different EMR systems. After his medical studies he pursued an education and certification in Python coding through the University of Michigan and Blockchain engineering and design through the hyperledger project with IBM. He has a passion for teaching medicine and is the current chief medical educator and master trainer at the Princeton Review and has held teaching posts through TPR at Boston University, University of Central Florida and the University of Michigan where he continues to lecture on biochemistry, medical physiology, neurology, neuroanatomy and molecular biology.
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About ProjectFRED: ProjectFRED deploys smart contracts and hyper-targeted marketing, providing fractional commercial real estate ownership.
Mark Shaw
Co-Founder & CTO of Inclined Technologies
Mark Shaw is co-founder & CTO at Strava.
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About Inclined Technologies: Inclined pioneers a new form of lending in a large and vastly underserved market.
Jesus Rodriguez
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Intotheblock
Jesus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tellago and Tellago Studios. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft’s Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Identity Framework, StreamInsight, AppFabric, .NET Software Design, Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server. Jesus derived his extensive experience with business process integration and messaging through numerous implementations of disparate systems founded on the principles of SOA and BPM. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal as well as speaking engagements at top industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft DevDays, Software Architecture Conference, SOAWorld, Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference, Oracle Open World, Web Services Security Conference and the Microsoft MVP Summit. Additionally, Jesus has conducted a number of Web Casts on varying SOA technologies.
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About Intotheblock, KidoZen: Intotheblock is blockchain and cryptocurrency market analysis, insights and trading signals.
Steven Surgnier
Co-Founder, CTO of Fabric Technologies
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About Fabric Technologies: Fabric offers a digital insurance-buying experience that is fast, affordable and easy.
Justin Kasad
Co-founder & CTO of Doorvest
Justin Kasad is the Co-founder and CTO of Doorvest.
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About Doorvest: Doorvest is a modern, frictionless way to own income generating homes entirely online.
