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BayPay Event: Growing and Funding Your Business in LA
February 20, 2014 - JW Marriott Le Merigot, Santa Monica, CA
From 1pm to 6pm
Dear BayPay Members,
Entrepreneurs are often pulled between the need to run their business and the need to raise cash. Join us on February 20th, 2014 as we first hear from a panel of Los Angeles based Accelerators and Venture Companies about what they look for in an entrepreneur, and how they help them balance the demands of visionary leadership and fiscal responsibility. This will be immediately followed by a panel of successful entrepreneurs discussing how they bridge the gap between these two very different demands, whether it’s through individual growth or building a successful team.
The event sponsored by City National Bank will be hosted at the JW Marriott Le Merigot, 1740 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, CA on February 20, 2014 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Happy hour and networking from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
We want to thank our sponsor City National Bank for their support.
Select the registration link below to register for this event.
Agenda
1:00 pm NETWORKING
1:30 pm WELCOME AND INTROS
1:40 pm INVESTORS' PANEL
William Hsu Partner at Muckerlab
Jeff Solomon Co-Founder and Executive Director at Amplify
Arjan Schütte Managing Partner at Core Innovation Capital
Rafe Furst Senior V.P. Bus Dev at Crowdfunder.com
Hamet Watt Partner at Upfront Ventures
Moderator: Rod Werner Managing Director at City National Bank
2:55 pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Linda Bidrossian Director Bixel Exchange at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce
3:15 pm BREAK
3:35pm ENTREPRENEURS' PANEL
Wade Eyerly Founder at Surf Air
Ted Tekippe CEO at Doublebeam
Matthew Goldman Founder and CEO at Wallaby Financial
Jilliene Helman CEO at Realty Mogul
Steve Raymond CEO at BigFrame
Moderator: Kevan Peterson Assistant VP at City National Bank
5:05 pm CLOSING
5:15 pm RECEPTION
Bios
Linda Bidrossian is the director of the Chamber's technology center, Bixel Exchange, a partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Under her direction, Bixel Exchange is supporting the growth of technology, media and clean-tech ventures in the region. She is also the co-founder of a high-tech venture that she incubated at the University of Southern California's Viterbi engineering school.
Bidrossian is an entrepreneur and an executive with expertise in strategic business development. She has expertise working as a consultant, and as an employee in the United States and throughout the world. She earned her Master’s in public administration from USC, focusing on international policy. She worked in Armenia, Kosovo, Macedonia, El Salvador through United States Agency for International Development on local governance and economic reform through technology reform.
Arjan Schütte is the founder and a managing partner of Core Innovation Capital, a venture capital fund investing in financial technology companies that serve the Emerging Middle Class. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Center for Financial Services Innovation, the nation’s leading authority on the underbanked market. He was previously a senior manager at CFSI from its inception until Core was launched in 2010.
Arjan is a passionate industry expert. Through CFSI and Core, he has invested in some of the most innovative companies serving the underbanked, including AccountNow, CircleLending (acquired by Virgin Group), iSend, L2C, and BankingUp. Arjan serves on the board of portfolio companies Ripple Labs (as an observer), SavvyMoney, TIO Networks, and Wipit and is an advisory board member for several companies including Progreso Financiero. Arjan formerly served as a board member for RentBureau (acquired by Experian). He is cited broadly, blogs for Forbes, and regularly speaks at industry conferences.
Prior, Arjan spent 12 years as an entrepreneur in several venture backed companies in technology leadership, consulting and general management roles at Pierian Spring Software, Cognitive Concepts (acquired by Houghton Mifflin), Capella Learning (now NASDAQ: CPLA), and DoTheGood, among others.
Arjan earned an MS from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as an Interval Research Fellow, and earned his BA in Philosophy and Communication at Lewis & Clark College.
He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two young children.
Contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; 646-580-0046; http://blog.corevc.com; @arjanschutte
Ted Tekippe is the cofounder and CEO of DoubleBeam, a leading mobile commerce company. With over 14 years of experience in financial services and technology companies, Mr. Tekippe is a seasoned leader and innovator. He has demonstrated passionate leadership for building innovative products, teams, and companies that improve the lives of consumers, while effectively managing the risk and operational complexities inherent in financial services. Prior to founding DoubleBeam, Mr. Tekippe spent 4 years at Green Dot Corporation where he worked both on new product innovations for the Walmart MoneyCard program and in managing the fraud, risk and BSA/AML controls for the company. Mr. Tekippe spent 5 years prior to that at IndyMac Bank, where he helped run the Consumer Lending Group, helped set up and run the Incubator Group, and finally served as the Banks's Chief Fraud Officer. Mr. Tekippe holds an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business with a Management of Technology certification, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Business Administration from St. Mary's College of California, with an Honors Emphasis in Financial Services.
Matthew Goldman, Founder and CEO at Wallaby Financial
Matthew is the co-founder and CEO of Wallaby. Prior to founding Wallaby, Matthew served as Executive Director of Product Management for AT&T Interactive (YP.com), where he managed a $650 million advertising P&L. Prior to AT&T, Matthew was Director of Retail Strategy at Sequoia Capital-backed Green Dot Corporation, a leading provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards. He also has experience in strategy consulting, e-commerce and systems administration. Matthew is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and lives in Pasadena with his wife and two children.
Hamet Watt is a Venture Partner at Upfront Ventures. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of bLife – a wellness innovation company, and co-founder and Chairman of MoviePass – a subscription service for movies in theaters. Previously, Hamet was an entrepreneur-in-residence at True Ventures, after exiting another company that he founded called NextMedium, which was acquired by Brand Affinity Technologies. Prior to founding NextMedium, Hamet advised Nielsen Media Research in the development of the first product placement measurement service for network and cable television. Hamet was also a General Partner in the New Africa Opportunity Fund – a $120 million venture capital fund, which was the first US-backed venture fund investing in post-apartheid South Africa. A leader in the Los Angeles entrepreneurial community, Hamet sits on the board and/or advises several companies and organizations. He has frequently been noted in the national press for innovation in media and entrepreneurship, and has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and Forbes. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Joy, and his son, Zion. Hamet received a BS from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Jilliene Helman, CEO and Co-Founder at Realty Mogul
Jilliene is the CEO and Co-Founder of Realty Mogul responsible for strategic direction and operations. Previously she was a Vice President at Union Bank, where she spent time in Wealth Management, Finance and Risk Management. Jilliene is a Certified Wealth Strategist®, holds Series 63 and Series 7 licenses and has a degree in Business from Georgetown University.
William Hsu, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Muckerlab
William has spent his career as both a startup entrepreneur as well as an executive of a Fortune 100 company.
Prior to MuckerLab, William was the SVP and Chief Product Officer of AT&T Interactive where he owned P/L, Product Management, Product Marketing, and UX responsibilities for all digital advertising initiatives for greater AT&T. In 3 years at AT&T Interactive, he doubled revenue to over $1B and helped established AT&T Interactive as the 9th largest digital media company (ahead of Facebook), the largest digital local advertising company (ahead of Groupon), and the 2nd largest mobile advertising company (behind Google) in the U.S.
Almost 13 years ago, as a 23-year old, he was the founder and EVP of Product Development for BuildPoint – the leader in providing bidding management & marketplace services to the commercial construction industry. William helped the company grow to over 250 employees and raised over $50M in venture capital. The company was acquired in 2004.
In between, William has led product teams at eBay, Green Dot (GDOT), and Spot Runner.
William has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Terman School of Engineering at Stanford University and a MBA from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
William can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Wade Eyerly, Founder and President at SurfAir
Wade Eyerly is founder of Surf Air, responsible for developing the overall strategy and vision for the company. Prior to founding Surf Air, Eyerly worked in national defense, filling various roles for an intelligence agency. He served as a Senior Business Consultant leading Lean Six Sigma process improvement activities for the National Security Agency, and spent four years as an intelligence officer with the Department of Defense. Before leaving politics to work for the government, Eyerly worked on two Presidential campaigns, including time as a Press Advance Representative for Vice President Dick Cheney. Additionally, Eyerly served in Iraq from 2009-2010 where he built quantitative models that were used to predict conflict and help keep soldiers safe. He received the Secretary of Defense's medal for the Global War on Terror, and the Civilian Joint Service Commendation for his work there. In 2011, Eyerly and his brother, David, created a new business model for private air travel, a members-only service that provided travel between top United States cities. Surf Air was created to build a business service that would introduce the premiere experience of private flying to passengers who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it.
Eyerly earned a B.A. in International Economic Policy and Cross-Cultural Relations from Central Missouri State University and a Masters in Public Policy and International Development Management from Brigham Young University – where he also earned a Global Management Certificate. In 2005, Eyerly received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from Central Missouri State.
Rafe Furst, SVP Business Development at crowdfunder.com
Rafe is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor who connects ideas, people and resources to make good things happen faster. Beginning in Silicon Valley in the mid 1990s, Rafe founded or was a first round angel investor in over 30 startups, which collectively have generated over $1 Billion in revenue and $450 Million in liquidity to their stakeholders. Rafe's been featured in the New York Times Magazine, WIRED.com and Shake The World, for his ideas on unlocking shared value. He's won awards for cancer awareness and video production; hold's a championship bracelet from the World Series of Poker; and a B.S. & M.S. from Stanford University. What people want to talk to him most about though is the year he spent in an RV with his best friend, drinking beer and attending sporting events. More on http://RafeFurst.com
Jeff Solomon, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Amplify
Jeff is a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Leads360, a VC backed SaaS company. He is a highly creative, innovative and motivated executive with a passion for culture and is very active in the LA startup and entrepreneurship scenes. Jeff currently serves as the Executive Director & Co-Founder of Amplify.
Stever Raymond, CEO at Big Frame
Steve is the CEO of Big Frame, which he co-founded in 2011 to help the biggest YouTube content creators grow their presense online, both with their audiences and brand advertisers. Big Frame has launched BAMMO, Polished, and Wonderly, three of the largest YouTube vertical media networks that provide curated content and programming to millions of unique users every month. Prior to starting Big Frame, Steve was Vice President of Product and Strategy for Comcast Digital Entertainment, where he established and ran their entertainment based vertical ad network with annual sales over $50 million.
Steve has been a leader at 3 successful digital media startups over the past decade: Relegence - a pioneer in real-time content syndication (sold to AOL), Musicmatch - an early leader in digital music software and services (sold to Yahoo!), and Flux — a social media platform for entertainment-focused brands (sold to MTV Networks). He has also led the business development teams at Yahoo! Music and Yahoo! Entertainment.
Steve has an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and is a founding partner of Los Angeles Social Venture Partners. He lives in Santa Monica with his wife Jennifer and twin sons.
The Demo Corner
For this session, we will have demo tables to see first hand Innovation in Payments, Commerce and Security:
Gigway is an innovator in promoting the right offers to the right people in the right place and time. We have several patent-pending technologies that orient around purchase data.
OfferBox, dubbed Adwords for Offers at the Money 2020 show, is a distributed technology that uses unique algorithms to study the elasticity of offers through a consumer's unique offer value matrix and present the right offer in the right amount to the right person based on their past, current and evolving purchase behavior. This patent-pending technology wraps around payment methods, online shopping carts, mobile wallets and various publisher presences to maximize consumer engagement and retail / service provider ROI.
Punchcard is a patent-pending mobile/location based shopping platform that captures SKU level data at over 15 million businesses and helps consumers get rewarded everywhere they shop. Punchcard is revolutionizing local retailing and in-store brand marketing by helping businesses and brands measurably acquire and retain consumers who want to engage with their brands through unique and unparalleled metrics designed to drive profitability.
Twitter @Gigway
Mint and Lolly has the most affordable and sweetest online jewelry shop! Candy-inspired pieces make the ladies sparkle and feel fabulous. Mint and Lolly has lots of colorful statement pieces for any season or style: www.mintandlolly.com
Twitter @mintandlolly
CARD.com strives to be the world's first like-able financial provider. Our mobile-first ewallet solutions include Visa and MasterCard debit cards featuring the world's best brand, including Star Trek, Salvador Dali, The Walking Dead and more. We will demonstrate our best in class mobile web, Android and iPhone ewallet apps for our prepaid cards..
Ben Katz, CEO, will demonstrate Card.com's solution during the networking part of the event.
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