DISCUSSION: Charlie Wilson Chief Revenue Officer Green Bits; Mark Denzin President Crypto Value Management System; Stacey Jackson General Counsel Golden Bear Insurance Company; Joe Barton, Associate Sheppard Mullin; MODERATOR: Mark Crager, Founder/Managing Partner Next Stage Partners
Pemo Theodore
Ethereum for Dummies #ethereum
The goal for this presentation is to give you the pieces required to build Ethereum dapps and learn more about how they work. To get you there we will cover getting started with writing, testing, and deploying your own Ethereum smart contracts using Solidity and the Truffle Framework for development. We will also look at the Ethereum computing environment and how it differs from traditional software environments.
David Goldberg CoFounder BlocTrax He is also a Software Engineer at Salesforce. BlocTrax is a freelance smart contract development and security audit consulting company. Previously, David taught programming at the advanced software engineering immersive program, Hack Reactor.
Susan Mason CoFounding Partner Aligned Partners #aifintech
Susan Mason CoFounding Partner Aligned Partners Susan has over 25 years of operating management and venture capital experience. Aligned Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in capital efficient start-ups in the enterprise space. Prior to Aligned Partners, she was a General Partner with ONSET Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with $600 million under management.Susan specializes in investing in the information technology area, specifically communications, security and financial technology.As an investor and board member, Susan has played a pivotal role in the development of companies including Securent (acqd CSCO), Alteon (IPO), Gadzoox (IPO), SilverTail Systems (acqd EMC), Omney (acqd MA), and many others. Prior to entering venture capital investing, she held positions in high-technology engineering, marketing and business development.She led a highly successful consulting practice, helping Fortune 1000 corporations capitalize on emerging markets and technologies.Early in her career, she held positions in marketing and engineering design of high-performance systems and microprocessors for Fujitsu Microelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor and NCR Microelectronics. Susan received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.She is a regular guest speaker on entrepreneurial topics at Stanford University, UCLA and many of the local events in Silicon Valley. She is a founding boardmember of the Center for Venture Education, which operates the Kauffman Fellows Program.She has served as its Chairman and continues to serve on the board as Chair Emeritus.
Cang V. Quach, Managing Partner Stern Ventures #aifintech
Cang V. Quach, Managing Partner Stern Ventures. Previously, Mr. Quach served as the VP of Finance & Strategy at Untangle, Inc where he spearheaded the company’s acquisition growth strategy, doubling the size of the parent company. In addition, as part of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, Mr. Quach completed numerous equity, debt and M&A transactions, representing over $250 million in aggregate value. Mr. Quach co-founded two startups in the digital publishing and display sectors for mobile devices and holds five U.S. patents. Prior to these ventures, Mr. Quach served as an Equity Research Associate at Dodge & Cox, an investment management firm with over $200 billion in AUM, where he analyzed companies in the cellular, automotive and retail sectors. He also served as an economic analyst at the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations in New York. Mr. Quach holds an MBA from U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business. He earned his B.A. in Economics with Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from Occidental College. Mr. Quach is a CFA charterholder and holds the FINRA Series 7, 24, 62, 63, & 79 licenses.