Dave Glass (Electrum)
Hosted by Startup Grind Cape Town
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Dave Glass (Electrum)
Start Up Grind is collaborating with Barclays Rise to showcase the 'future of banking' and entrepreneurship in this event.
Dave is a born and bred Capetonian with 14 years experience in payments working in Australia, Europe and South Africa.He co-founded Electrum, a transaction processing software company, in 2012 which has now grown to 20 staff. His interests are reading and outdoor sports. Electrum customers include 2 of the 3 biggest retailers in Africa, the 3rd largest retail Bank in South Africa and the largest drugstore chain in South Africa. Electrum will process over 2 billion transactions in 2016.
Start Up Grind is collaborating with Barclays Rise to showcase the 'future of banking' and entrepreneurship.
It forms part of a series of global events called Rise to the Challenge exploring the technology areas that are shaping the future of the financial industry. For this event, Start-up grind will hold a fireside chat on the ‘Future of Banking’.
Rise to the Challenge aims to shake the current thinking and identify the opportunities and challenges that banks and startups face. Conversations will critically assess where to steer the future focus of investing in Fintech.
Agenda
4:30 pm Drinks & Welcome
5:30 pm Fireside Chat & Q&A
6:30 pm Snack and Drinks
Hosted By Guillaume De Smedt, Cape Town Director
Guillaume De Smedt, "G", as he is otherwise known, is the Global Community Director for Startup Grind. He completed his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering and is part of the Silicon Cape Board.
Twitter: @gdesmedt1 (http://twitter.com/gdesmedt1) Hosted By Chelsea Evans, Cape Town Co-Director
Soft spoken, yet fun-loving and energetic. Chelsea combined everything she loved - creativity, entertaining, travelling and motivating people, after creating exceptional relationships. She put this into action by founding The CES Collection
Chelsea takes on her company projects with great confidence and realises everyday her love of gratifying and motivating people. Chelsea lives life completely, honestly and compassionately - with a healthy dose of reality and a creative imagination. Her motto – 'anything is possible if you set your mind to it.'
Twitter: @planmyweddingsa (http://twitter.com/planmyweddingsa) Hosted By Louise De Smedt, Cape Town Co-Director
Louise is G's right-hand lady and has been helping make Startup Grind Cape Town a success since August 2013. She loves entrepreneurship and thinks that running her startup is way more fun than the corporate rat-race.
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Rise to the Challenge aims to shake the current thinking and identify the opportunities and challenges that banks and startups face. Conversations will critically assess where to steer the future focus of investing in Fintech.
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