Andrea Lo Head Bus DevHarbor Andrea heads business development at Harbor. Prior to Harbor, Andrea was in early stage venture capital in London and Silicon Valley helping founders at the earliest stages of the startup life cycle while helping VC funds raise capital from LPs. Andrea also spent 4 years as the CEO and founder of a VC-backed fundraising platform for students, leading it from concept and financing to exit. Andrea is a TEDx speaker, alumni of UC Berkeley and University of Oxford, and San Francisco-born Silicon Valley native.
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State of Tokens panel #stateoftokens
DISCUSSION: Joshua Rivera General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer Blockchain Capital; Tegan Kline Head Int Bus Dev & Investor Relations Orchid; Mike Zajko Head Sales CoinList; Andrea Lo Head Bus Dev Harbor; MODERATOR: Mark Albertson, Silicon Valley journalist
Blockchain: Bridging the Chains: Practical considerations in working with multiple Blockchains
Jae Yang, CEO Tacen Inc. #bridgingblockchains Interoperability is a multisyllabic word for a multi-faceted problem. How do you get blockchains to communicate with one another? Until recently, there’s been no easy way to achieve this, leaving assets isolated and smart contract-powered dapps siloed on their respective protocols. Before crypto assets can take over the world, first they need to escape the valley where they originated, a task which calls for building bridges. Jae Yang CEO Tacen Inc, a startup working on non-custodial solution to cryptocurrency exchange. Jae previously worked at Metal Pay as Director of Engineering, helping to build Metal Pay’s market infrastructure, graph-based AML and anti-fraud system, and other systems. Before that Jae worked in defense sector, helping to build high-fidelity engineering simulations. Jae started out as an aerospace engineer, but he found his passion in writing software. He is passionate about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. He is active in the cryptocurrency community, often explaining technical details to newcomers. In his spare time, Jae develops various open source softwares in Node.js and is an avid reader.
Arjuna Costa Managing Partner Flourish Ventures #fintechinvesting
Arjuna Costa Managing Partner Flourish Ventures Arjuna is driven by a deep compassion for vulnerable populations across the globe, and partners with entrepreneurs using innovative technologies to enhance their customers’ financial well-being. As a managing partner, he co-manages Flourish, with a primary focus on venture investing across emerging markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Before Flourish, Arjuna was a partner at Omidyar Network, where he built a global portfolio of early-stage, inclusive fintech companies. Prior to that, Arjuna developed a deep understanding of the potential to radically alter traditional “brick-and-mortar” economics through mobile money solutions for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Before that, he invested equity and debt in consumer finance companies in emerging markets at The Rohatyn Group, a multi-billion dollar emerging markets investment firm. In 2003, Arjuna cofounded a $120-million private equity fund focused on the turnaround of distressed commercial banks in Africa. The fund grew out of advising governments on the restructuring and privatization of its banking sector. Arjuna began his career at Lehman Brothers, where he spent five years financing power plants and airports globally. Arjuna earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in computer science from Columbia University.