Cathryn Chen CEO/CoFounder MarketX. MarketX is an online investment management platform helping connect a generation of mass affluent investors with alternative financial products and independent wealth managers. We offer a spectrum of investment products from single house lending projects, car & consumer luxury goods loans, to pre-IPO company shares in high growth technology companies. We are the first online platform to facilitate direct investments in alternative financial markets between the U.S. and Asia. Previously, Cathryn worked at Deutsche Bank, Rothschild in London, and JP Morgan in Hong Kong, where she contributed to dozens of IPOs and private placements including Alibaba and Xiaomi. Prior to the Twitter and Alibaba IPOs, she witnessed first-hand the pent up demand for pre-IPO shares which led her to found MarketX. She also worked at EverString, an ad-tech startup backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia, bringing predictive analytics to sales & marketing at Fortune500 enterprises. In college, she co-founded MoneyThink LA, a White House-recognized, 501(c)3 non-profit that provides financial education to urban high school students. Cathryn graduated from UCLA and the London School of Economics.
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Vivek Ganesan, CoFounder Zyudly Labs #cybersecurity
Vivek Ganesan, CoFounder Zyudly Labs, is a seasoned technologist with a strong background in big data and analytics. He has worked in applying Big Data and Analytics to deliver business value in the Financial Services and Cybersecurity domains. He has more than 20 years of experience in applying analytics and data-driven thinking to solving security problems. Vivek has worked on complex data security solutions at Cisco as well as driving analytics and cloud security solutions at Intuit. He has also applied his hands-on data-centric skills to good use at several consumer startups such as FanIQ, ListenLogic, and Syfto. He is currently serving as the co-founder and CEO of Zyudly Labs which is building a data-driven deep learning solution to discover data breaches and improve network security for the financial services industry.
Puneet Thapliyal, CoFounder TrustedPassage #cybersecurity
Puneet Thapliyal CEO/CoFounder TrustedPassage where he heads up overall strategy, direction and product management. He is a seasoned cyber security and networking executive with previous work experiences at Yahoo and Oracle. Puneet is an active member of the OWASP and Cloud Security Alliance where he contributes towards the Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) working group. He has extensive experience with cloud security, building one of the first Firewall As A Service (FAAS) offerings. He holds multiple technology patents including in the areas of Web App Security and Multicast Protocol Congestion Control. He earned an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from HBTI, Kanpur and graduate degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer (RPI), NY.
Linus Liang, Partner SigniaVC #cybersecurity
Linus Liang, Partner SigniaVC is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in technology, medical devices, and social enterprises. He most recently co-founded a company called Embrace, a social enterprise that develops and distributes a low-cost infant incubator for developing countries. Prior to this, Linus founded several software companies in the mobile and social networking space, the last one resulting in an acquisition by Zynga. Linus has also worked in the corporate sector as a Program Manager at Microsoft, a database researcher at IBM, and on the deal team at Andreessen Horowitz. Linus graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford, and an MBA at Stanford.