Brian Hamilton, EIR BBVA Digital Ventures/CEO Azlo, a disruptive new banking service for freelancers and entrepreneurs. A serial entrepreneur himself, Brian has over 15 years of experience in product development, business management and innovation in Payments & FinTech. Brian was a co-founder at Pushpoint, a location-based ad redemption platform successfully acquired by Capital One, where he served as President of Capital One Merchant Services and SVP for National Digital SMB banking. Brian was also a founder at Isomer Labs, a technology incubator in San Francisco which developed the Chargesmart Mobile payments platform later acquired by Verifone. Prior to his start-up experience Brian led Product & Strategy for Clear2Pay, the global payments technology provider based in Brussels, and began his early career at Wells Fargo as a CLO, later leading new product development for the WF Foreign Exchange group.
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FinTech Changes in Banking #fintechbanking
DISCUSSION: Michael Gardner, Managing Director/Head of Center BNY Mellon Innovation Center, Silicon Valley; Steve Kirsch CEO Token; Sam Ostler, Venture Analyst Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator; CS Lai, HSBC; John Stewart, Global Head Scouting & Research Royal Bank of Scotland; Brian Hamilton EIR BBVA Digital Ventures/CEO Azlo; Jessica Chen Riolfi, Head Asia TransferWise; MODERATOR: Pierre-R. Wolff Managing Director ExecConnect
Brian Ley, CEO/Founder Alpharank #fintechbanking
Brian Ley CEO/Founder Alpharank. Alpharank helps banks and credit unions monetize their data by turning transaction data into social influence data. He has always been fascinated with how viruses, behavior, trends, and emotions travel through human networks. Alpharank publicly launched in April 2017 at Finovate where it was voted best new technology by over 1000 bankers. Brian was then listed in June as one of the top innovators in banking to watch alongside the CEO of Plaid and CTO of Ripple. The seemingly fast rise to success is actually a 6-year story of persistence in the face of countless signs to quit.
Joe Guzel, Crosslink Capital #insurtech
Joe Guzel, Senior Associate Crosslink Capital. Joe joined Crosslink in 2016 and is focused on investments in financial technology, digital media, e-commerce, and consumer technology. Prior to joining Crosslink, Joe was an investor with CrossCut Ventures, an LA-based Seed firm, where he focused on investments across consumer tech, gaming, ecommerce and digital media. Prior to his career in venture, Joe was with Intuit where he held a variety of operating roles; most notably with the Corporate Strategy and Development team where he focused on global expansion initiatives and participated in over $2B worth of M&A transactions.