DISCUSSION: Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan; John Yao Senior Acct Exec Fiserv; Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil; Amar Singh Rathor Executive Director Standard Chartered Bank; Brian Ley CEO/Founder Alpharank; MODERATOR: Dion Lisle Managing Director FACERE25
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Steve Kirsch, CEO Token #fintechbanking
Steve Kirsch is the CEO of Token, a Silicon Valley startup company building the infrastructure components for next generation payments. He has pioneered several core computer technologies (optical mouse, Internet search, spam filtering, and secure identity) and founded 7 high tech companies, two with billion dollar market caps (Infoseek and Frame Technology). He has BS/MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Sam Ostler, Venture Analyst Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator #fintechbanking
Sam Ostler, Venture Analyst at Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator. Sam joined the Startup Accelerator Investor Team in 2015 and his responsibilities include facilitating investment activities, portfolio management, and external partnerships. The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator is a hands-on program designed to advance startups that create solutions for enterprise customers – inside and outside the financial industry. Prior to Wells Fargo, Sam was a developer for a number of startups and graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Economics and a Minor in Computer Security.
Michael Gardner, Managing Dir Center BNY Mellon Innovation Center, Silicon Valley #fintechbanking
Michael Gardner is a managing director and head of the Center at the BNY Mellon Innovation Center, Silicon Valley. Mike is responsible for ensuring access to the best and latest Silicon Valley expertise and technology, to supplement other company innovation centers and technologists around the world. Mike has nearly 30 years of experience in software engineering and executive leadership. At Borland, a well-known programming tools provider, he led teams pushing the envelope of databases, compilers, and Java. He co-founded and ran PeachPit Press, an early innovator in the desktop publishing revolution. At Lutris Technologies, he ran a large software engineering consulting practice, and later shipped one of the industry’s first application servers and helped pioneer a commercial business model based on publishing open source software. Mike ran the Search engineering teams at Ebay and ran a very large codebase conversion.