Latest Innovations in FinTech
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2 pm T 12/15
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"Financial technology, also known as FinTech, is a line of business based on using software to provide financial services. Financial technology companies are generally startups founded with the purpose of disrupting incumbent financial systems and corporations that rely less on software."
-Wikipedia
Our distinguished panel will hold a lively discussion on the latest innovations in FinTech.
Please come with questions and comments.
Agenda
6:00 pm to 7:00 pm Check In, Food, Networking Reception
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Presentation, Q & A
8:30 pm to 9:00 pm More Q & A, More Networking
About the Panelists
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Jeanine Swatton is the Director of Developer Evangelism at Yodlee Interactive.
Jeanine has more than 15 years of engineering experience in the government and surveillance space as well as in the startup sector. For the last five years her main focus has been on mobile app development, which includes helping companies define a mobile strategy as well as developing native iOS apps.
Jeanine has taught iOS development and Ruby on Rails at a number of universities. She is also a technical mentor/advisor for TechStars Barclay's Accelerator and for Technovation. Jeanine is a regular speaker on Fintech, entrepreneurship and app development at conferences and events nationwide.
Jeanine holds a master's degree in computer science from Boston University and a graduate certificate in cybersecurity.
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Ephraim Lindenbaum is the founder and managing director of Advance Ventures, a Silicon Valley based venture investment fund and venture accelerator that invests in seed and early stage startups. Founded in 1999, Advance Ventures has consistently achieved meaningful exits with its portfolio companies across its core market sectors.
Mr. Lindenbaum has served as a board member, board advisor and/or investor: Acerro, Agnitia Networks (acquired by LeadingEdge), BonTriage, BPG Worldwide, Bright Light Systems, Corvigo (acquired by NASDAQ: TMWD), eSports (acquired by Ositech), iLoopMobile (acquired by Archer), Inertia Beverage Group (now WineDirect), Kite.io (acquired by Quixey) LandSonar (acquired by Triangle) MerchEngines (acquired by NASDAQ: DLX) MycoTechnology, Ooba Beverages (acquired by HealthyBrands), Parago (acquired by NASDAQ: HAWK) Realta Entertainment Group, SiteAudit, Sitebase, Smaato, SnapMD, Solaireo, TerraFusion, Tunewear and Workout.com.
Prior to founding Advance Ventures, Mr. Lindenbaum was the cofounder of interactive media pioneer Broadcast Production Group and served as CEO until its acquisition in 1999 by Parago (NASDAQ: HAWK). Under his leadership, Broadcast Production Group was listed as a Top 15 fastest growing private company in Silicon Valley and a Top 100 fastest growing private company in the US.
He has been nationally recognized in cover and feature stories by CNN Future Watch, New Media News, AV Video ~ Multimedia Producer Magazine, Wired, MicroPublishing News and Silicon Valley Business Journal. In 1995, Mr. Lindenbaum was chosen as one of the “30 most influential business leaders under 30 years of age” in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and listed alongside innovators such as Marc Andreessen (Netscape) and Jerry Yang (Yahoo). In 2005, Mr. Lindenbaum was selected again as one of the “40 most influential business leaders under 40 years of age” in Silicon Valley by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
Mr. Lindenbaum has a strong commitment to real world business education and entrepreneurial development. He is a lecturer at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business, University of California Haas School of Business, San Jose State University, Stanford University and UCLA/Digital Media Arts Program. Mr. Lindenbaum is a frequent keynote speaker, panel participant and lecturer at industry events, startup programs and to international entrepreneurial delegations.
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Riaz Karamali is a partner in the Corporate & Securities – Technology practice in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, a top ranked international law firm that is a leader in the fintech space. Riaz is a bitcoin enthusiast, an investor in fintech companies, and represents both investors and emerging companies in the space. Riaz has practiced law in Silicon Valley for over 20 years, and has extensive experience in corporate law, venture finance, private equity, strategic mergers and acquisitions and technology transactions. Riaz has worked with hundreds of start-up and emerging companies, guiding them from their pre-founding stages through their angel and venture capital financing rounds, significant commercial contracts and strategic alliances to their ultimate exit transactions. Riaz earned his law degree from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his undergraduate degree from Rice University.
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Srikant Sharma is the founder and CEO of Zenyx.
Srikant founded and built two successful enterprise technology businesses prior to Zenyx - each returning over 15x to investors. Srikant has a strong track record selling to the enterprise customer - having honed these skills in Sales and Marketing leadership roles with market leaders such as Societe Generale, TD Securities, Interwoven (now HP), OpenText, and ICAP (the world's largest Inter-Dealer Brokerage). Srikant has deep expertise in enterprise technology, Enterprise Content Management and work collaboration solution space.Financial Services expertise: Srikant spent 15 years in New York working on the Sell-Side in Financial Services - structuring and selling sophisticated financial products in capital markets to asset managers, hedge funds, corporate treasury and other Buy-Side customers. Srikant was instrumental in the design of two ECNs (Electronic Communications Networks) for automated derivatives trading. Srikant also ran global demand generation for Interwoven for their strategically important financial services vertical.In his first venture, Srikant founded and ran Solvos - a novel new solution in the space of Vendor Relationship Management - this used an innovative new technology for enterprise vendor score carding. After selling Solvos to a global technology company, Srikant co-founded Northbound DGS - a leading player in Revenue and Demand Management enabling over 300 enterprise customers to accelerate their sales funnels. These include major corporations such as Adobe, Sitecore, Oracle, Wolters Kluwer and several start-ups companies such as Allegiance, Coupa, BrightEdge, CloudVelox.
Srikant has an MBA from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), and a Materials Science Engineering degree from IIT Bombay (Mumbai, India). He has a deep passion in Cosmology and Astrophysics. He is a skilled pilot who complains about not enough time with his airplane that he fondly calls "Homesick Angel".
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