Bitcoin Meetup at Plug and Play

Speakers will include:

6:00pm - 6:20pm - Vault Wallet (Daniel Arulraj, Founder & CEO)
6:20pm - 6:40pm - Xelpha Health (Lauren Welch, COO & Co-Founder + Frank Atore, CTO & Co-Founder)
6:40pm - 7:00pm - Tim Potter & Dave Alexander
7:00pm - Close - Roger Ver (Via Skype)

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Speaker Bios:

Daniel Arulraj - Vault Wallet Founder & CEO

Founder and CEO of Vault Wallet. Experienced hardware engineer and blockchain/crypto analyst. Designed next-gen CPUs at ARM and Ethernet/Fiber Channel hardware at Emulex. Authored 2 patents.

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Lauren Welch - Xelpha Health COO & Co-Founder

Lauren is an Alumni Member of MIT’s Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp. With eight years of hospital experience, sits on the Board of Directors for Kimberly’s List assisting students of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, an Advisor for Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute’s initiative to support children of incarcerated parents, and an Programming Board Member for Startout empowering LGBTQ future business leaders. As COO and Co-Founder of XELPHAhealth Lauren helps underserved communities through new solutions in healthcare.

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Frank Atore - Xelpha Health CTO & Co-Founder

Frank was a University Innovation Fellow at Stanford where he worked as a design thinking facilitator for Microsoft, Google, and Adobe. With experience as an NXP Process Engineer and Software Developer, he was an Advisory Board Member for the GLEAMM Spark Fund investing in renewable energy, grid organization, and cyber security. With experience in transportation and manufacturing, Frank continues to consult in data science and machine learning for systems. As CTO of XELPHAhealth Frank utilizes cutting edge technology as a force multiplier for the good of humanity.

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Roger Ver

In 1999 Roger began his career by founding MemoryDealers.com at the age of nineteen while still attending college. Under his leadership the company quickly grew to become a market leader, employing dozens of people across the world and generating millions of dollars in revenue. MemoryDealers is still in business to this very day with a team of happy people around the world.

In 2005 Roger saw an opportunity in the market for fibre optic transceivers used in networking subsystems, so he founded Agilestar.com. Agilestar went on to become a world leader in optical transceivers used by fortune 100 companies around the world. To this very day thousands of Agilestar transceivers are sold to customers around the world each year, and thousands more can be found on secondary marketplaces like Ebay.com

In 2011 Roger heard about Bitcoin for the first time. The price was still under one U.S. Dollar each, but he already knew that it was one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. His company Memorydealers became the first established business in the world to start accepting Bitcoin for payments. Roger then went on to become the first person in the world to start investing in Bitcoin startups. He nearly single handedly funded the entire first generation of Bitcoin and Blockchain businesses including Bitcoin.com, Blockchain.com, Bitpay.com, Kraken.com, purse.io, and many many more. Those businesses have gone on to raise hundreds of millions of additional funding, and serve tens of millions of customers around the world. Subsequent investors in the companies that Roger helped provide the seed funding for have been people such as Sir Richard Branson, Virgin, Google Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, and many more. Roger has devoted his full time attention to Bitcoin and blockchains ever since.