The BayPay Forum is very excited to present its first Payment Innovation Day in London

Agenda:

3:00 - 3:25 pm: Reception and Networking

3:30 - 4:30 pm: Introduction and Overview of the payments industry landscape

Dave Birch, Founding Director at Consult Hyperion

Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at BayPay Forum

4:35 - 5:35 pm: Pitches by start-ups

5:45 - 7:00 pm: Panel discussion - Moderated and with audience participation

Alexandre Rhea, Partner CEO at PwC's Accelerator

Nektarios Liolios, Managing Director at StartupBootCamp

Roy Vella, Digital Advisor at Bank Hapoalim

Julian Wilson, Head of Mobile Innovation at Barclays

Moderator

Christopher A. Grew Partner at Orrick

7:00 - 8:00 pm: Networking

* Each start-up has 10 min to pitch his/her company's product.

Startup Pitches

These are the start-ups that will be pitching at our BayPay Payment Innovation Days.

 For more information about the companies, please click on their logo to view a short description, a slide deck and a video (as applicable).

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Speakers bios and photos

Dave Birch Founding Director at Consult Hyperion

Dave Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, the IT consultancy that specialises in secure electronic transactons. He is an internationally-recgonised thought leader in digital identity and digital money, one of Wired magazine’s global top 15 favourite sources of business information, in the European “Power 50” for digital financial services and ranked Europe’s most influential commentator on the emerging payments field. He latest book “Identity is the New Money” was published in April 2014.

Daniel Chatelain Managing Director at BayPay Forum

Daniel Chatelain is a payment industry executive focused on innovation in commerce and sitting on the board of directors or advisors of emerging companies. He started The BayPay Forum to help foster innovation in payment and commerce. The organization gathers today over 8,000 executives from over 2,800 different companies and organizes events for senior executives to understand new trends and network with peers. Prior to that, Daniel was CEO, President & COO of companies he started as an entrepreneur or within the Lagardere (Elle, Woman’s Day, Car & Driver, Hachette, Canal Satellite) and EADS group (Airbus, Ariane, Eurocopter) and Vice President of a VC backed companies giving him a wide experience of growing companies domestically and internationally in the banking, telecom and interactive media industries as an entrepreneur, corporate or VC backed senior executive.

Alexandre Rhea, Partner, CEO at PwC's Accelerator

Alexandre joined PwC in September 2011 as head of PwC’s Accelerator. Alexandre comes with 19 years of Private Equity experience of which 17 years in Venture Capital with Silicon Valley exposure. He was most recently a Partner at Invest Securities, a Paris based investment bank, mostly in charge of serving fast growing small cap companies. Alexander is a repeat entrepreneur. In 2000, he co-founded and was the Managing Partner of Pyramid Technology Ventures, a $120M venture capital fund with offices in both Paris and San Francisco. From 1995 to 2000, he was an Investment Director at Iris Capital (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts). Prior to Iris, Alexander was the CEO of a water recycling company. His managerial skills were first proven when running the US subsidiary of LaborBirkmayer. Alexandre graduated from HEC Paris.

Nektarios Liolios Managing Director at StartupBootCamp

Managing Director of Startupbootcamp FinTech, a leading innovation program in the financial industry, providing funding, mentorship, office space in the heart of London and access to a global network of investors and VCs, for up to 10 selected FinTech startups. More than 15 years in the business, the last three with Innotribe, SWIFT’s initiative to enable collaborative innovation and running the Innotribe Startup Challenge.  Motivated by entrepreneurship, collaboration and the desire to change the financial industry Global nomad, travel geek, sneaker freaker.

Julian Wilson, Head of Mobile Innovation at Barclays 

For many years Julian has worked with bright people turning ideas into software services or businesses at Apple, AT&T Unisource, the UK Government, as the founder of my own Internet software companies and now at Barclays:

... predicting, designing, funding, building and selling.

The ideas have sometimes been his and other times not. Today his focus is on the Internet's impact on banking and payments.

Specialties: business and product strategy, business planning and the ideology of the Internet.

Roy Vella, Digital Advisor at Bank Hapoalim

Mr. Vella is a mobile financial services expert and independent advisor/consultant to players large (such as Vodafone and the GSMA) and small (a number of startups) in the space. Prior to offering his services-at-large, Mr. Vella was at RBS where he developed the overall strategy and hired a team of 30 to implement the global bank’s mobile efforts including the development of new products and services, stored value functionality, mobile enabled payments, customer acquisition and the management of joint venture partners. Previously to RBS he spent five years with PayPal starting out as Director of Business Development in the US Merchant Services group, and finally as Head of Mobile Payments leading the mobile payments initiative in Europe. Previous to PayPal, Mr. Vella worked as the VP of Sales & Marketing at 4charity, Inc. (a software startup focusing on corporate philanthropy for the Fortune 500), and, prior to that, as a Partner at Quantum Technology Ventures (a corporate VC firm focusing on the storage industry). As an entrepreneur, Mr. Vella co-founded NetAbacus Corporation, a web-based purchasing service for small businesses, serving as the VP of Marketing/Strategic Relations. When the market turned in mid-2000, he facilitated the acquisition of NetAbacus by Biztro and the combined entity became Rivio, where he was responsible for channel marketing and customer acquisition. Before graduate school, he began his career in Client Service at the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago, working with such clients as Sony Consumer Electronics and Miller Brewing. Actively involved in the non-profit sector, Roy serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and is also the Board President Emeritus of Variety Children's Charity of Northern California. Formerly, for over 8 years he was the Board Treasurer of BATS Improv, an improvisational school and theater company. Roy received a BA in Mathematics (with High Honors and elected to Phi Beta Kappa) from the College of the Holy Cross, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an MBA (with certificates in Global and Public Management) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently lives in London with his family. While hobbies have truly taken a back seat to family life these days, he enjoys outdoor sports and travel adventures.

Christopher A. Grew, Partner at Orrick

Chris Grew, a partner in the London office, is a member of the Emerging Companies Group, which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Chris joined Orrick in 2008. Before joining Orrick, he was a co-founder of the London office of Heller Ehrman and a member of the Venture Law Group at that firm. Prior to that, he was a partner at WilmerHale in London and a partner at Brobeck Hale and Dorr, the joint venture between Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison and Hale and Dorr. Mr. Grew originally qualified in England as a barrister. Mr. Grew advises technology companies in venture capital transactions, public offerings and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He regularly advises high technology (particularly Internet and computer software and hardware) companies with respect to their international business operations and transactions, as well as investment banks, venture capital firms and other financial intermediaries that serve technology companies. Mr. Grew is also an active participant in Seedcamp, both as a mentor and a judge, and represents many of the Seedcamp winning companies.