Brendan Wales, Principal e.ventures Brendan joined e.ventures in March of 2012 and specializes in investing in online marketplaces, fin-tech, developer tools and open source software. He has worked on e.ventures’ investments in Shipt, CodeFights, AppDiff, StackShare, Segment, App Annie, Acorns, When I Work, Shutl (Acquired by ebay), Everything But The House, Spothero, Nativo and HireAthena and is also actively involved with existing investments NGINX, Upsight, and Housecall. As a part of the e.ventures’ team that leverages big data for deal origination, Brendan has been closely involved in the firm’s development and utilization of in-house technology built to discover growing internet enabled companies. Prior to joining e.ventures, Brendan was an early employee at 500 Startups backed ZOZI, a leading SAAS booking platform for Tour and Activity Providers. He started his career at Sun Life Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company, and has also started two consumer internet start-ups. Brendan earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.
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Blockchain Technology Investors and Founders #blockchaintech
DISCUSSION: Alex Bessonov, Founder/CEO BitClave; Jack Saba, CoFounder Day One Investments; Sean Bennett, CoFounder/CTO Stronghold; Chance Du, Founding Partner Coefficient Ventures; Larry Li, Managing Partner Amino Capital; Brendan Wales, Principal e.ventures; MODERATOR: Daniel Cawrey, CoFounder/CEO Pactum Capital
What’s Hot in FinTech in 2018? FinTech Silicon Valley speakers weigh in #wotshot2018FinTech
What’s Hot in FinTech in 2018? FinTech Silicon Valley speakers weigh in: Dion Lisle, Capgemini; Orion Parrott, Lendsnap; Victoria Cheng, Citi Ventures; Stephen Bulfer, Streamloan; Aldo Carrascoso,Stealth AI+Healthcare Company then Pemo Theodore,FinTech Silicon Valley then Pierre Wolff, Tierion; Valerian Bennett,PopChest; Frederic Fortier, Enigma; Daniel Cawrey, Pactum Capital; Vitaly Bulatov, Drone Employee; Naddav Paran, TM Financial Forensics; Nadim Homsany, Earnup; Wayne Van Dyck, Repower Capital; Danielle Diebler, Compliance.ai; Jason Kumpf OFX Global Payments; Mark Crager, Next Stage Partners; Benjamin Lozano,True North Bus Exchange; Duncan Davidson, Bullpen Capital; Sean Bennett, Stronghold; Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca.
Jason Kumpf, Dir Strategic Partnerships OFX Global Payments
Jason Kumpf Director Strategic Partnerships OFX Global Payments. He works with Global Fortune 1000 Groups and other alliance partners that have member companies, employees or readers that are transacting globally to improve their international business using the leading fin-tech systems. For the last 4 years Jason has helped OFX grow its partnership and clients base in the US and abroad, arranging partnerships with major media groups, technology, accounting and real estate firms. Previous to OFX, he was VP of Institutional Sales for a Bitcoin Crypto Currency Exchange. Before that, Jason was a key team member, reporting directly to the CEO, of a once junior wireless company assisting it to quickly grow to over a billion dollars in revenue. With experience at Global Fortune 100 to start ups, he has led a diverse set of important initiatives resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and transactions. His entrepreneurial curiosity and persistence leads to implementing exciting new ideas for growth. He also takes time to be an advisor to growth companies. Jason has been quoted in CNN Money, Fox News and is asked to speak on international business, accelerating growth, real estate and emerging opportunities.