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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the FinTech space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Oren Yunger
Vice President of GGV Capital
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About GGV Capital, Silicon Valley CISO Investments: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Tiffany Luck
Vice President of GGV Capital
Tiffany Luck joined GGV Capital in 2018 and is focused on enterprise software. Prior to joining GGV, Tiffany was with Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Group in Menlo Park where she worked on several major transactions, including GitHub’s recent sale to Microsoft for $7.5 billion. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Tiffany spent time at Amazon and worked with several venture-backed startups. Tiffany received a BS from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
David Grenetz
Vice President of Global IT of GGV Capital
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Derek Joyce
Vice President and General Manager, Global Accounts of Klarna
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About Klarna: Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.
Gregory Chang
Vice President of Product of Carta
Gregory Chang is a product executive who helped lead two companies, YuMe and Zuora, to an IPO. He is currently Vice President for Product at Carta, where he oversees the core product, including cap table management and equity plan software. Greg is an angel investor focused on enterprise SaaS. His investments include Amplitude, Atrium, Ironclad, Gem, and Vanta among others. Greg is also a Sequoia scout, advisor at 8VC, Affinity and Qualia and previously served on the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council during the Obama Administration.
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About Carta: Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Oivind Lorentzen
Vice President of Oak HC/FT
Oivind Lorentzen (FT), a Vice President at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2015 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in FinTech. Oivind currently serves as a Board Observer at Panorays and Rapyd. Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Oivind was an Analyst at Morgan Stanley where he focused on the energy and natural resources sector. Oivind received a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Andy Smith
Vice President of Oak HC/FT
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Libor Michalek
President, Technology of Affirm
Libor Michalek is the Chief Technology Officer at Affirm.
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About Affirm: Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Jojo Flores
Co-Founder & Vice President of Operations of Plug and Play Tech Center
Jojo is currently involved in the overall strategic planning and prioritizing of Plug and Play. Jojo’s immediate focus is on building strategic alliances in the Philippines and other reigns of South East Asia.
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About Launchgarage, Plug & Play, Plug and Play Brand & Retail, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Connie Weisman
Vice President, Corporate Partnerships – Innovation of Plug and Play Tech Center
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About Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center, Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Sobhan Khani
Vice President of Plug and Play Tech Center
Sobhan Khani serves as Mobility Director at Plug and Play Tech Center. Sobhan Khani is also the corporate partnership manager for Plug and Play IoT and founding member of Plug and Play Mobility. He has worked with Plug and Play. for the past two years. He manages corporate relationships within Plug and Play with a special focus in IoT/ Mobility. He assists start-ups in the field grow and connect with the right partners. Prior to Plug and Play, He worked for XEROX as business analyst. Sobhan Khani obtained a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from University of Southern California in 2014.
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About Plug and Play Tech Center: Plug and Play is an innovation platform bringing together startups and large corporations.
Mark Heynen
Vice President, Business Development of Stellar Development Foundation
Mark has led go to market in emerging markets for large and small companies, from Google’s initial push into maps in the mid 2000s to Facebook’s early mobile efforts and ultimately launching PayJoy, a Silicon Valley-based fintech, in 20 countries. He currently serves as VP of Business Development at the Stellar Development Foundation. His focus has been on analyzing markets, structuring transformational partnerships, hiring highly functional teams in market, and then producing revenue quickly with great unit economics. He has also raised ~$100M in early stage VC, venture debt, and SPV debt financing across four companies he built, and advised companies on fundraising. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley in 2006, Mark split his time between India and London, founding and running his first startup, Electrobug Technologies. As this company had clients in 18 countries and 250+ staff in India through a wholly owned subsidiary, Mark learned firsthand of the challenges and opportunities of working in emerging markets, and is currently an advisor for a number of startups. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a degree in Economics and History.
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About Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Jeffrey Billingham
Vice President, Capital Markets of Chainalysis
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Khary Scott
Vice President, Head of Partnerships of Fundbox
Khary Scott is the Vice President and Head of Partnerships at Fundbox. He is an executive with an entrepreneurial mindset that strives to put an organization at the center of the commerce revolution. Prior to joining Fundbox, he was the Vice President for Business Development – Small Business Card at Capital One.
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About Fundbox: Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses.
Allen Piscitello
Vice President Of Product Management of Blockstream
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
Jake Storm
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Jake Storm is the vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Ryan Isono
Vice President of Felicis Ventures
Ryan Isono is the Vice president at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Richard McCathron
President of Hippo Insurance
Richard McCathron is the President at Hippo Insurance.
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About Hippo Insurance: Hippo Insurance is an InsurTech company that uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties.
Darin McCarthy
Vice President, Claims of Hippo Insurance
Darin McCarthy serves as head of claims at Hippo Insurance.
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About Hippo Insurance: Hippo Insurance is an InsurTech company that uses technology to help homeowners maintain their properties.
Bradford Walker
Vice President of Finance and Operations of Levelset
Bradford Walker is the VP of finance and operations at Levelset.
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About Levelset: Levelset is a platform that helps contractors get paid faster and more efficiently.
Liron Damri
President and Co-Founder of Forter
Liron is an experienced Fraud Prevention professional. He heads Forter’s overall Product and Business Operations.Liron co-founded Forter after serving at the leadership of PayPal’s risk organization in Tel Aviv. Prior to that he was the head of operations at Fraud Sciences,where he was responsible for behavioral analytics, taking an active role in building one of the most robust fraud detection systems in the world. Liron received his MBA from Tel Aviv University.
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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.
Joseph Kauffman
President of 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.
Joe Mihm
Vice President of Susquehanna Growth Equity
Joe joined SGE in 2015 with a focus on infrastructure and application software, SaaS, and marketplace businesses. He is actively involved with Allocadia and Field Nation while sourcing, evaluating, and executing new transaction opportunities. Joe graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and minor in Computer Science.
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About ActiveCampaign, Allocadia, eToro, Field Nation, Susquehanna Growth Equity, WhiteSource: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests in growth stage technology companies in the software, information services, and internet.
Aneesha Raghunathan
Vice President of Susquehanna Growth Equity
Aneesha focuses on data, enterprise software and has industry expertise across fintech and healthcare.
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About Susquehanna Growth Equity: Susquehanna Growth Equity invests in growth stage technology companies in the software, information services, and internet.
Aaron Ru
Vice President of RET Ventures
Aaron Ru is a Vice President at RET Ventures.
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About RET Ventures: RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
Alec Page
Vice President of RET Ventures
Alec joined RET Ventures in 2017 from the Leveraged Finance group at BofA Merrill Lynch in New York, where he worked on debt capital financings for corporate issuers and private equity funds. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.
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About RET Ventures: RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
Jay Casey
President & Co-Founder of Intellectus Partners, LLC
Experienced investor and financial professional working in various roles; including Venture & Private Equity investing, Portfolio Management, Trading, and Client Relationship Management. Experienced investor in Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Private companies. Previous experience with First Union, Manulife Financial, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, and currently Intellectus Partners.
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About Intellectus Partners, LLC: Intellectus is an exclusive, private MFO for Entrepreneurs offering Wealth Creation&Preservation,Investment Mgmt, Venture & startup Advisory
Chase Gilbert
Co-Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer of Built Technologies
Chase Gilbert is the CEO at Built Technologies, Inc.
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About Built Technologies: Built Technologies is an enterprise technology company that provides cloud-based construction lending software.
Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Douglas Feagin
Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group of Ant Group
Mr. Douglas Feagin is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships and Investments at Ant Group Prior to joining Ant in June 2016, from August 1994 to May 2016, Mr. Feagin worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he last served as a managing director from 2004 to 2016, with a broad set of client relationships in the US, Latin America and Asia across sectors including banking, technology and insurance. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1988, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994.
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About Ant Group: Ant Group strives to enable all consumers and small businesses to have equal access to financial and other services through technology.
Jerry Selitto
President of Better.com
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About Better.com: Better.com is a homeownership journey platform that utilizes technology to change the way people buy and own a home.
Prahalad Thota
Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Avid Modjtabai
Senior Executive Vice President & Head of Consumer Lending of Wells Fargo
Avid Modjtabai is a senior executive vice president and head of consumer lending for Wells Fargo & Company. In this role she is responsible for home lending, auto lending and consumer credit. Avid Modjtabai is a 21-year veteran of Wells Fargo where she has served in a number of diverse leadership roles. Prior to her current role she was the chief information officer and head of the technology and operations group with responsibility for the core technology functions of the company including data centers, enterprise architecture, application development, information security and technology governance. Avid Modjtabai has served as Wells Fargo’s director of human resources, led the Internet Services Group and held management positions in consumer deposits and the investment group. Before joining Wells Fargo, she was a consultant with McKinsey & Company where she focused on strategy initiatives in financial services. Avid Modjtabai was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Banking” and the “Top 25 Women to Watch” by U.S. Banker and the American Banker. She received the “Ellis Island Medal of Honor,” for her outstanding personal and professional achievements and her commitment to preserving the richness of heritage. She serves on the board of trustees for The Branson School and is an advisory member of the Columbia Business School Social Enterprise Program and Stanford Center on Longevity. Avid Modjtabai holds a master’s degree from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. As a member of Avnet’s board of directors, Avid Modjtabai serves on the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance Committee.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Hope A. Hardison
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Human Resources Director of Wells Fargo
Hope A. Hardison, Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Human Resources Director assumed her CAO role in September 2015. She has been HR Director since September 2010. As CAO, Hardison manages Human Resources, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Government & Community Relations, the Innovation Group, and Enterprise Data & Analytics, overseeing the company’s brand, communications, reputation management, and stakeholder engagement efforts. In her role as Human Resource Director, Hardison leads a team that develops and implements people strategies to support Wells Fargo’s business objectives, as well as the management of compensation and benefits, human resource service centers, systems and payroll, finance, team member relations and assistance, talent management, learning and development and diversity for more than 266,000 Wells Fargo team members. Hardison is a 22-year veteran of Wells Fargo. From 2008 to 2010, she served as the head of Compensation and Benefits and was responsible for managing benefits, executive and team member compensation and mergers and acquisitions. She also managed international team member compensation and benefit programs. She has held numerous finance, strategic planning and compensation roles since joining Wells Fargo in 1993. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Swarthmore College and has done graduate work in applied economics and statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Steven Macko
Executive Vice President and Head of Technology, Media & Telecom of Wells Fargo
Steven Macko leads the Industries Group at Wells Fargo Capital Finance, which includes Technology Finance, Specialty Finance, Lender Finance, and Flatiron Capital. Macko joined Wells Fargo Capital Finance in 1998 and established its San Francisco office in 1999. Prior to joining Capital Finance, Macko spent several years at Ernst & Young, PWC, and Strome Investment Management, an alternative investment strategy hedge fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Laura Fontana
Vice President, Product Strategy, Distributed Ledger Technology Program of Wells Fargo
Laura Fontana is currently a vice president and product strategist for Wells Fargo’s Innovation Technology team. She is responsible for supporting the distributed ledger technology program, exploring promising commercial opportunities across Wells Fargo’s diversified businesses and with a variety of business partners and consortia in the larger financial services industry.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Agus Sudjianto
Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Model Risk of Wells Fargo
Agus Sudjianto is an executive vice president and head of Corporate Model Risk for Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for enterprise model risk management. His technical expertise and interests include quantitative risk, particularly credit risk modeling, machine learning and computational statistics.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Nathan Susanj
Vice President, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development of Wells Fargo
Nathan Susanj is the VP, Head of NLP & Speech Capabilities Development at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Helen Beckschi
Vice-President and US Privacy Officer of Wells Fargo
Helen Beckschi, Vice-President and US Privacy Officer, is responsible for the overall governance and oversight of Wells Fargo’s US privacy program.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Brian Pearce
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Artificial Intelligence of Wells Fargo
Brian Pearce is senior vice president of enterprise artificial intelligence at Wells Fargo. During his time at Wells Fargo, he and his teams have led large, multichannel efforts such as mobile remote deposit, Apple Pay, P2P payments, transfers, bill pay, and the launch of an online brokerage platform, and he previously served as the head of the mobile banking function.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Geanie Asante
Vice President, Value Stream Delivery Manager of Wells Fargo
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About OAACC, University of the Cumberlands, Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Charles Scharf
President and CEO of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Michael J. Loughlin
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Wells Fargo
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer Michael J. Loughlin oversees all risk-taking activities at Wells Fargo, including credit, market, operational, compliance, information security (including cyber risk), and financial crimes risk management. He is also involved in issues such as liquidity, capital, profit planning, and compensation. As the leader of the Corporate Risk group, which includes 5,000 team members, he serves on the Wells Fargo Operating and Management Committees and is based in San Francisco. Mike assumed his role as chief risk officer in 2006. Previously, he was responsible for credit approval, policy, and reporting for Wholesale Banking. A banking professional with 36 years of experience, he joined the company in 1986 after Wells Fargo acquired Crocker Bank. Before serving as head of credit for Wells Fargo Wholesale Banking, he was responsible for the private banking business of Private Client Services, headed systems and operations for the Wholesale Banking unit, and held other positions within Commercial and Corporate Banking including head of U.S. Corporate Banking and Regional Vice President in the Santa Clara Valley Regional Commercial Banking Office. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. Mike serves on the board of directors for Students Rising Above, an organization dedicated to helping low-income, first-generation college students realize their potential by guiding and supporting them through college graduation and into the workforce.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Kimarie Matthews
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Virtual Channels Social Care & Capabilities of Wells Fargo
As the senior vice president, social for Wells Fargo’s digital channels group, Kimarie Matthews is responsible for leveraging social technologies to extend Wells Fargo’s ability to support customers, including servicing customers in social channels, building customer community and testing concepts to bring bankers and customers together in social environments. Her programs deliver business benefits that include increased customer satisfaction and brand sentiment and increased website traffic through organic search results.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Daniel Ayala
Global Remittance Services Group Head, Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Albert Hwu
Vice President, International Treasury Consultant of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Soleil Dolce
Vice-President of Information Security Management of Wells Fargo
Soleil Dolce has been serving as Vice-President of Information Security Management at Wells Fargo since June 2018.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Bonnie Saunders
Vice President,National Client Service Manager of Wells Fargo
Bonnie Saunders serves as vice president of national client service manager at Wells Fargo.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Jason G. Pollack
Vice President; Public Power Relationship Manager of Wells Fargo
Jason Pollack is a Vice President on the Public Power team within Wells Fargo’s Government and Institutional Banking group. As the west coast Relationship Manager, he is responsible for new business development and client management for western region municipal utilities.
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
John Shrewsberry
Senior Executive Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Cristal Brawley
Vice President ,Senior Content Strategist, User Experience Design Lead of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Sunil Pandya
Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo
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About Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Colette Hastings Featherly
Senior Vice President of Oxford Finance LLC
Featherly has over 12 years of experience in the financial services industry, and has been part of the Oxford team since 2010. She is responsible for Oxford’s capital raising, strategic planning and investor relations activities. Prior to joining Oxford, she worked at Dymas Capital Management, a middle market lending affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management. Previously, she held positions at American Capital and CIBC World Markets. Ms. Featherly holds a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Oxford Finance LLC, Oxford Finance LLC: Oxford Finance delivers flexible financial solutions to healthcare and life sciences companies worldwide.
Mary McDougall
Vice President of Astia Angels
Mary McDougall was CEO at Survox, Inc. until sale to Enghouse (TSX:ENGH) – her fourth exit. Prior roles include COO, IronSpire for 4 years before private sale, GM Decision Dynamics – sold to Perceptron (NASDAQ:PRCP), and VP Pdt Mgt, Mktg, & Support Mitron – sold to GenRad (NYSE:TER). SaaS transformation and M&A identification and integration with BMC Software.
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About Astia Angels: Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high-growth companies.
Kathryn Petralia
Co-Founder & President of Kabbage
Kathryn Petralia is the Co-founder and President of Kabbage Inc., a data and technology company offering automated cash flow solutions to small businesses. Kathryn is a seasoned leader in financial services with more than 20 years’ experience across credit, payments and lending. Recognized as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World by Forbes, Kathryn helps lead Kabbage to simplify the way small businesses access the capital and services they need to build lasting businesses.
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About Drum, Kabbage, Visionary Systems: Kabbage is a fintech company that offers cash flow management solutions to small businesses.
Rob Bemis
Vice President, Global Infrastructure of Highland Capital Partners
Rob joined Highland in 2003, and serves as Vice President, Global Infrastructure. He is responsible for the firms’ technology, facilities, construction, and conservation and environmental impact initiatives. As part of his role, Rob acts as an advisor to Highland-backed companies in the areas of infrastructure and technology, and has been highly active in the support of entrepreneurs and startups residing in a Highland Entrepreneur Center. Background Prior to Joining Highland, Rob was the Director of Information Systems for Audax Group, a Private Equity Firm based in Boston, where he started at the firms inception. Prior to Audax Group, Rob served in various network management roles for several high tech startups. Rob is also an 8 year veteran of the United States Air Force. Rob received his technical training in the United States Air Force specializing in Electronics & Electronics Systems.
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About Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Ishan Sinha
Vice President of Point72 Ventures
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About Point72 Ventures: Point72 Ventures is an every-stage global VC fund focused on fintech, deep tech, and enterprise investments led by Steven A. Cohen.
Jeremy Kranz
Senior Vice President & Head of Tech Investing of GIC
Kranz is the global head of technology investing and Senior Vice President at GIC. He manages direct and fund investments across the VC, late stage, growth and buyout stages.
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About GIC, GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
Lim Hock Tay
Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer, President (Europe) of GIC
Tay Lim Hock joined GIC’s Asian Private Equity (PE) team in 1995. He was posted to London (2000) as Head PE Europe and to San Francisco (2003) as Head PE US. He became Global Head of the Funds and Co-Investment Group in 2008, Deputy President of PE & Infrastructure in 2010, and President in 2011. In January 2017, Mr Tay returned to London as President (Europe), and as Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer. Prior to GIC, he worked as an Aeronautical Engineer with the Republic of Singapore Air Force. Mr Tay graduated from I’Ecole Nationale de I’Aviation Civile (ENAC) in Toulouse, France, with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering in 1987, and completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2004.
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About GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
Martin Hood
Vice President, Channel Partnerships of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Terry Sutton
Vice President, Client Success of CashStar
Terry Sutton is a seasoned senior executive with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Technology and Customer Experience. She most recently was at L.L.Bean where she oversaw the E-commerce and Marketing departments as Senior Vice-President of the Direct Channel. Prior to that she was the VP of Customer Satisfaction for L.L.Bean, responsible for four call centers and over 1,000 employees. She is unique in her ability to bring together people, process and technology to solve complex business problems and is known for her ability to translate strategy into action. Her passion for the customer experience and business process design and optimization positions her well to scale DAVO Technologies for the future. Terry has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Dan Farrell
Vice President, Worldwide Sales of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Katherine Edenbach
Vice President, Finance of CashStar
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About CashStar: CashStar is a provider of prepaid commerce solutions for the world’s top retailers and restaurants.
Christian V. Bergmann
Vice President of Partnerships of Migo
Christian V. Bergmann is the VP of partnerships at Migo.
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About Migo: Migo is a cloud-based platform that allows customers to use loans, make purchases, and withdraw cash without the need for plastic cards.
Julian King
Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development of Xoom
Julian King joined Xoom in 2005 and is the company’s Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. He runs marketing, advertising, public relations, business development and strategy. Julian came to Xoom from EarthLink, where he was Vice President of Marketing and Products for the PeoplePC Online business, and was instrumental in growing it to more than a million paying subscribers. From 1992 to 2000, Julian worked at Procter & Gamble, most recently as Marketing Director. Julian holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Xoom: Xoom is a digital money transfer company that allows users to securely transfer money online.
Gunther Bright
Executive Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Large Market and Global Client Group of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Denise Pickett
President, Global Services Group of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Kerla Wolf
Vice President & GM, Global Coverage, Reporting & Merchant Experience of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Jaromir Divilek
Executive Vice President – Head of American Express Network and Global Network Businesses of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Phil Norman
Vice President, Membership Products and Partnerships of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Suraj Madnani
Vice President, Chief Product Owner – Risk Management and Product Development of American Express
Suraj Madnani is the Vice President of Product Development in the Global Risk group at American Express. In this role, he is responsible for leading strategy and development of innovative products to support risk management across all risk domains. Prior to this, Suraj was responsible for product development and launch of new-to-market lending and payment products such as American Express Business Financing and Working Capital Terms. Prior to American Express, Suraj held various product and technology roles at IBM and GE. Suraj holds a B. Eng, from the University of Pune, India and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Kavita Gupta
Vice President, Global Information Management of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Colleen Taylor
President, Merchant Services – US of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Sara Milsten
Senior Vice President, New Member Acquisition, US Consumer Services of American Express
Sara Milsten is SVP, New Member Acquisition, responsible for new customer acquisition for the U.S. Consumer Business. In this role, Sara is responsible for marketing strategies and investments for all owned and paid channels including Search, Media, Affiliate, Phone, Direct Mail and Site. Prior to this, Sara served as the Chief Commerce Officer for Plenti and was focused on driving commerce and engagement on the Plenti platform. She also served as VP, Partnership Marketing and led marketing for our co-brand portfolios including Delta, Hilton and Starwood. Previously, Sara spent 8 years working in a variety of roles in our International Consumer business and delivered digital marketing strategies and solutions across our portfolio of proprietary markets. Prior to American Express, Sara worked in advertising at a variety of agencies, including Young & Rubicam and Leo Burnett. Sara holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Patrick Watson
Vice President of Kabbage Security of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Patrick Watson
Vice President of Kabbage Security of American Express
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About American Express: American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
Laurel Hesch
Senior Vice President and Head of Business Operations of Arcesium
Laurel Hesch is a Senior Vice President and the Head of Business Operations for Arcesium. Prior to the formation of Arcesium, Laurel spent 11 years with the D. E. Shaw group in roles within the firm’s Treasury, Finance, and Operations departments. She also served as Head of Management Reporting for the D. E. Shaw group.
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About Arcesium: Arcesium is provider of middle- and back-office technology and services to alternative asset managers.
Curtis Lee
Chairman, President, and Cofounder of Pinwheel
Curtis Lee is a co-founder and CEO of Luxe, Founder of Pinwheel, Angel Investor, and Partner at Primary Venture Partners.
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About Pinwheel, Primary Venture Partners: Pinwheel is the market-leading payroll data connectivity platform building the income layer that will power a fairer financial system.
Jennifer Lo Chan
Vice President Digital Platforms Marketing of BlackRock
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About BlackRock: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
Joseph Greenbaum
Vice President of BlackRock
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About BlackRock: BlackRock is an investment company that offers its services to institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors.
Abhi Arunachalam
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Abhi is the Managing Partner at Alkeon, enterprise-infrastructure investing on the West Coast in sectors such as cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and big-data analytics. He has more than 12 years of operational and investment experience. Abhi is currently involved in Battery investments including Databricks, Expel, Fungible, InfluxData, Jask, JFrog, and Streamsets. Before joining Battery, Abhi was a partner at Intel Capital, the investment arm of chip giant Intel Corp., where he focused on early- and growth-stage investing in areas including big-data analytics, mobile/IoT and broader infrastructure. At Intel Capital, he helped lead investments in category-defining companies such as Recon Instruments (acquired by Intel), EyeFluence (acquired by Google), iZettle, Urban Airship, Inrix and Brit+Co. He also served as a board observer at Kaltura, CashStar and Apperian. Prior to Intel Capital Abhi spent over six years at Qualcomm Research in various operational roles. He built the industry leading APM solution for mobile handsets and backbone networks. Abhi was also involved with the incubation and design of Qualcomm’s LTE technology and managed strategic partnerships with OEMs, infrastructure vendors and carriers. Abhi holds an MS in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MBA, with honors, from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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About Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Dallin Bills
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Dallin joined Battery in 2015 as an associate focusing on early and growth-stage investments in Internet, software and services companies. Previously, Dallin was the director of sales and operations at Lucid Software, a private software company that develops cloud-based productivity solutions for businesses. There, Dallin built out and scaled the sales team. Prior to that, Dallin spent three years at Intuit, the software company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint. While at Intuit Dallin held roles in product management, product marketing, corporate strategy and corporate development. Dallin graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in business finance. While at BYU, he was the student body president for the Marriott School of Management.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Justin Da Rosa
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Justin is a VP in Battery’s San Francisco office who focuses on consumer internet and software investments. Previously, Justin was an investor at growth equity firm TCV, where he focused on growth investments in consumer-internet and software companies. He helped lead TCV’s investments in Peloton, Klook, TripAdvisor, and Sojern, and was actively involved with the firm’s portfolio, including companies such as Netflix, Rover, Varsity Tutors, and Zillow. Prior to that, he was an investment banking analyst within the Global Technology Group at Credit Suisse. He also previously worked as an analyst at Steamboat Ventures. Justin received his B.S. in business administration from the Marshall School of Business at USC, graduating cum laude.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Justin Rosner
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Justin joined Battery in 2014 as an analyst. He focuses on buyouts, rollups, PIPES and take-private deals, particularly in the industrial-technology sector. Prior to joining Battery, Justin was a summer associate at Copley Equity Partners, a private-equity firm focusing on small- to middle-market deals. There, he sourced potential investment opportunities, conducted valuation analyses and performed due diligence. Justin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College with a BA in economics and public policy. While at Dartmouth, he was a member of the varsity soccer team, as well as a Rockefeller Leadership Fellow.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Roland Anderson
Vice President of Battery Ventures
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Dillon Joyce
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Dillon joined Battery in 2016 as an associate. He focuses on growth and later-stage software investments, including growth-equity, buyouts, rollups and take-privates. He is currently involved with Battery’s investments in Guardsquare, PageUp and Quinyx. Prior to joining Battery, Dillon was an investment banking analyst in Barclays’ technology group. There, he worked on a variety of M&A transactions, debt and equity financings and strategic-advisory assignments. Dillon holds a BS in business administration with a concentration in finance and accounting from Boston University.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Brandon Gleklen
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Brandon joined Battery in 2015 and focuses on mobile, internet, and SaaS/software investments. Previously, Brandon worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was part of the business planning and capital strategy/analysis team. Brandon also spent time at Bessemer Venture Partners, as an analyst in their Herzliya, Israel office. There, he conducted market and product research to help the deal team formulate investment strategies surrounding various technology-market segments. Brandon graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in science, technology and society, with a concentration in information technologies and organizations.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Max-Julian Kaye
Vice President of Battery Ventures
Max joined Battery in 2014 as an analyst focused on later-stage, enterprise-software investments, including growth-equity deals, buyouts, rollups and take-privates. Prior to Battery, Max was a student at Northeastern University, where he served as the CEO of IDEA, the university’s venture accelerator. In that role he led a management team of 18 people who worked on investment strategies, marketing, fundraising and partnerships for young companies. Before that, Max worked on a six-month, finance-analyst engagement in IBM’s software group, where he performed revenue analysis and produced comprehensive customer acquisition analyses and upsell strategies for regional sales teams, among other functions. He also worked as a fund administrator at MFS Investment Management for six months. Max graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business with a BS degree in business administration, with a concentration in finance.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Scott Goering
Vice President of Battery Ventures
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Rebecca Buckman
Vice President, Marketing Communications of Battery Ventures
Becky leads Battery’s communications and content-strategy efforts. She joined the firm in 2013 after running her own strategic-communications practice providing branding, positioning and media-related services to Silicon Valley investment firms and high-tech startups. Prior to that Becky worked for many years as an award-winning business journalist, including ten years at the Wall Street Journal in its New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong bureaus. She covered topics including Wall Street, technology and Asian economics and trade. At the Journal, Becky’s reporting was honored by groups including Amnesty International, the Newswomen’s Club of New York and the American Association of University Professors. She was a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2007. After leaving the Journal, Becky joined Forbes as a senior editor, where she covered small and large technology companies and specialized in writing about venture capital. Previously in her career she wrote for the Dow Jones News Service and the Indianapolis Star, where she was a Pulliam Fellow. Becky graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a degree in international politics.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
James Moran
President/Co-Founder of YipitData
Jim is co-founder of YipitData.
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About YipitData: YipitData is the market research firm that analyzes data points to provide accurate insights for the disruptive economy.
Kevin Donovan
Vice President of Sales Americas of BioCatch
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About BioCatch: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
Saaya Nath
Vice President of Jump Capital
Saaya Nath currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Boston Consulting Group as an Associate.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Tarun Gupta
Vice President of Jump Capital
Tarun Gupta currently works as the Vice President for Jump Capital. He previously worked at Scientific Games as the Manager.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Vice President of Jump Capital
Shanav Mehta is the Vice President at Jump Capital.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Brendan Keane
Senior Vice President, Capital Markets of Dividend Finance
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About Dividend Finance, Kinsale Capital Group: Dividend Finance is a Technology-enabled finance platform supporting the energy transition with lending and other financial solutions.
Raed Khawaja
Senior Vice President of Business Development of Even Financial
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About Even Financial: Even is the definitive search, comparison and recommendation engine for financial services.
Boris Silver
Co-Founder & President of FundersClub
Boris Silver is the Co-Founder & President at FundersClub.
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About FundersClub: FundersClub is an online venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and early stage investments.
Caitlin Cella
Vice-President of Finance and Operations of FundersClub
Caitlin has extensive experience providing tax and consulting services to clients in the venture capital, private equity, and real estate industries. She joins FundersClub from Deloitte, and prior to that she worked at Rothstein Kass (now known as KPMG), a national accounting firm focused in the alternative investments industry. Caitlin holds a Master’s degree in Business Taxation from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego. In her free time, Caitlin enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing tennis, and exploring all that San Francisco has to offer.
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About FundersClub: FundersClub is an online venture capital firm that focuses on Seed and early stage investments.
