William Hockey is the co-founder, President and CTO of Plaid. Plaid is a company that connects payments apps as well as personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Some companies that Plaid has worked with over the years include Robinhood, Coinbase, and Venmo. Hockey has studied at Emory University – Goizueta Business School in systems... read full bio
Zach Perret is the co-founder and CEO of Plaid, a company that connects payment apps and personal finance apps to users bank accounts to transfer and track funds. Plaid has worked with companies such as Venmo, Robinhood, and Coinbase. Perret started his career working as a research fellow on the Duke Board of Trustees and was also a trustee. From... read full bio
Scott Galit is the CEO of Payoneer, which is an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer empowers their customers to grow their business by enabling them to pay and get paid easily. Payoneer is currently being used by millions of entrepreneurs, professionals,... read full bio
Yuval Tal is the founder, President, and former CEO of Payoneer, an Internet-based payment company that establishes viable solutions for payments in prepaid credit cards through the Internet via their own prepaid Payoneer credit card. Payoneer allows it’s members to sell products, but pay for their own supplies through an online service. Tal was born in Israel and earned his... read full bio
Jason Gardner is the founder and CEO of Marqueta, Inc. which is a debit card transaction processer that gives companies more control over which transactions are approved for customers or workers through issued cards. Well-known companies that use Marqueta include Square and Instacart. Gardner started his career working as a General Manager at Benattar Marble & Granite Co. From there,... read full bio
Richie Serna is the CEO and co-founder of Finix, a company that gives other companies more control over their payment processing and helps give them a greater share of the processing fee that merchants pay. Finix helps businesses earn 0.4% more on every transaction procession compared to other traditional processors. Finix has over 50 customers one of which includes Lightspeed.... read full bio
Suneera Madhani is the CEO and founder of Fattmerchant, which is a payment technology company who makes it easy and affordable for any business to accept modern forms of payment, track data, and stay competitive. Madhani has studied Business Administration abroad in Italy at Saint John’s University. She has also earned her degree in Finance from the University of Florida... read full bio
Jonathan Grimm is the co-founder and CTO of Toast, Inc., which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Grimm’s work with Toast includes spearheading the software and technology efforts, focuses on scalable infrastructure as well as technology architecture. Grimm began his career working for Endeca where he was a technical consultant and then... read full bio
Kristo Kaarmann is the co-founder and CEO of TransferWise, which is an online currency exchange and international money transfer business that allows people to exchange currency using mid-market rates for a flat fee. Kaarmann began his career as a consultant for PwC. From there, he went on to be a systems and data architect at EGeen before becoming an associate... read full bio
Taavet Hinrikus is the CEO and co-founder of TransferWise, which is a peer-to-peer international money transfer business that doesn’t charge companies, foreign students or expats for foreign-currency transfers. Hinrikus specializes in Internet businesses, early-stage companies and entrepreneurship. He began his career as a Senior Engineer at Halo Interactive DDB. From there, he went on to be a Project Manager at... read full bio
Sydel Curry-Lee is an American entrepreneur, tastemaker, and athlete who is a former college volleyball player who has played for the Elon Phoenix women’s volleyball team of the CAA Conference. Sydel was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and she is the younger sister of NBA basketball stars, Steph Curry and Seth Curry. Sydel began playing volleyball at only five years... read full bio
Roland Williams is a retired American football tight end from Rochester, New York. Since retiring from football, Williams has gone on to work as a keynote speaker as well as a television and radio sports analyst. During his childhood, Williams was raised in a challenging neighborhood but went on to earned his B.A. in Speech Communications from Whitman School of... read full bio
Laura Gassner Otting is the founder and Chief Catalyzing Officer of Limitless Possibility, is a motivating keynote speaker, executive coach, media personality, and a Washington Post Best Selling author. Otting earned her B.A. in Government from the University of Texas, Austin, and she went on to earn her M.A. in Graduate School of Political Management from George Washington University. Otting... read full bio
Deborah Shaw is the former Senior Vice President of Chief Global Diversity and Engagement at PepsiCo and is currently a consultant for PepsiCo and is Principal of Rosado Shaw Group, LLC., which is a consulting and advisory firm that specializes in diversity, culture, employee engagement, high performance teams and women’s leadership. For Rosado Shaw Group, Shaw delivers keynotes, seminars, insights,... read full bio
Hamish Taylor is the former CEO of Eurostar and Sainsbury’s Bank. He has been one of the world’s leading experts in brand management, innovation, and customer focus. As a speaker, he inspires his audience with his lessons from his several years leading major corporations. Taylor has earned his M.A. with honors in Economics from the University of St. Andrews. He... read full bio
Elena Corchero is the Director of Emerging Technology at NewsCorp and is an awarded Product Designer of her own company. She has been the founder and CEO of Room One – which is a Design & Technology Lab that merges AI, IoT, and VR. Corchero started her career as a fashion designer at Rena Lange before changing her career to... read full bio
Stephen E. Murphy and Javier F. Pena are retired DEA special agents and are the subjects of the Netflix series “Narcos”, which goes through their story of capturing drug cartel kingpins. Murphy and Pena became known for capturing the world’s first narco-terrorist, Pablo Escobar and the duo were the center of the investigation. Murphy began working in law enforcement when... read full bio
Jim Denevan is an American artist who is best known for creating temporary land art on surfaces such as sand, earth, and ice, which are then erased by natural causes such as rain or the weather. Denevan’s art usually ranges in scale from small works of art to works that are as big as a city. Most of Denevan’s artwork... read full bio
Iddris Sandu is a Ghanaian software engineer and architectural technologist who was born in Accra, Ghana, and was raised in Compton, California. Sandu is best known for creating the world’s first smart retail store experience entitled, “The Marathon Store”, alongside the late Nipsey Hussle. Sandu’s work with The Marathon Store includes coding and creating algorithms and the store would allow... read full bio
Caspar Lee is a British-South African YouTube personality, actor, and entrepreneur from Knysna, South Africa. Lee gained fame through YouTube where he currently has nearly 8 million subscribers and nearly 900 million video views. Lee is known for his videos where he comically interviews celebrities such as Liam Payne, Channing Tatum, Zac Efron, and more. Lee was born in London,... read full bio
