Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-American visual artist based out of Los Angeles, California. Crosby was born and raised in Enugu, Nigeria and moved to Lagos when she was 10 years old. Shortly after, her mother won the U.S. green card lottery and two years later, at 16 years old, her family moved to the United States. Crosby later graduated... read full bio
Ganesh Padmanabhan is the current Chief Revenue Officer of Molecula which helps enterprises execute on Artificial Intelligence. Ganesh has previously been the Vice President of Global Business Development and Marketing at CognitiveScale where he was responsible for growth through channel sales, business development, strategic partnerships and marketing. Ganesh has previously been a software engineer in product management at Microsemi, he... read full bio
Ariadne Grant is the editorial director at Marie Claire magazine in Latin America and is one of the biggest fashion experts in Latin America. Grant began her career with Marie Claire as an editor of Marie Claire Mexico and Latin America and within months of starting, she was assumed the role of editorial director. Since being the editorial director, Grant... read full bio
Diego Bolson Ruzzarin is the founder and CEO of Foodlosofia, a food design center focused on innovation of the food industry, and Casa Nomo. He is an industrial designer who specializes in food design and has worked for several large companies over the years such as PepsiCo where he was a brand manager and R&D manager. Ruzzarin began his career... read full bio
Steve Fredette is the President and co-founder of Toast, which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Fredette woks to build restaurant software, hardware, services and support, and changing the restaurant technology landscape. Fredette began his career as an engineering intern at Precision Optics Corporation. From there, he became co-founder of Klick Mobile... read full bio
Aman Narang is the co-founder and President of Toast, Inc., which is an all-in-one restaurant technology platform that was built specifically for restaurants in mind. Toast works in integrated online ordering, gift cards, loyalty programs, labor and sales reporting on a mobile, cloud-based POS system. Narang began his career as a software engineer in Special Operations and then worked as... read full bio
Eliot Buchanan is the co-founder and CEO of Plastiq which is a company that lets small businesses use a credit card to pay for expenses such as rent, contractors, and inventory for 2.5% fee. Plastiq is currently being used by more than 50,000 small business customers and processes nearly 4 billion dollars in transactions a year. During his time with... read full bio
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
