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The BayPay Forum is very excited to present its fourth Payment Innovation Day in Paris

Agenda:

8:00 - 8:25 am: Reception and Networking

8:30 - 9:00 am: Introduction and Overview of the payments industry landscape

Eric Grover, Principal at Intrepid Ventures

Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at BayPay Forum

9:35 - 10:35 am: Pitches by start-ups

10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Panel discussion - Moderated and with audience participation

Alexandre Rhea, Partner CEO at PwC's Accelerator

Richard Hababou, Chargé de Mission Open Innovation at Société Générale

Anne Gousset, Managing Director at Paris Incubateurs

Vincent Maret, Energy Director of e-lab at Bouygues

Moderator

Ben Cichostepski, Attorney at Orrick Rimbaud Martel

12:00 - 1:00 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

Eric Grover Principal at Intrepid Ventures

Eric Grover is Principal at Intrepid Ventures, providing corporate development and strategy consulting to financial services, payment network, and processing businesses, principally in North America and Europe. He has a comprehensive understanding of the global payment network and processing space, including each stage in the payments value chain: credit, debit and prepay issuing, issuer processing, payment networks, and merchant acquiring and processing. Grover is an expert on network competitive dynamics and the unprecedented wave of innovation stressing and enhancing the payments industry, was the first to publicly make the case for banks demutualizing MasterCard and Visa, and is the world's foremost independent authority on interchange and interchange regulation. His prior experience includes Visa International, GE Consumer Finance, BofA, NationsBank, Transamerica and serving as a director on Nordstrom's credit card A/R subsidiary's board. His commentaries have been frequently published in the American Banker, Barron's, Cards International, the Daily Deal, Digital Transactions, Credit Card Management, Cards & Payments, Card Technology, the Las Vegas Review and Journal, National Review Online and the Washington Times. Grover has a BA in economics from Amherst College and an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern’s Graduate School of Business.

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.

Richard Hababou Chargé de Mission Open Innovation at Société Générale

In January 2014, Richard Hababou took a new position in Société Générale Group as Open Innovation Director working within the Open Innovation Institute created by the Ecole Centrale de Paris Foundation. Previously, he held the position of Director of Innovation with the main mission to define and coordinate the strategy of Open Innovation and Innovation process of Société Générale Group. From February 2001 to July 2009, he held the role of Managing Director of Societe Generale Corporate Venture in Silicon Valley (USA) where he made several strategic investments in U.S. startups. Before that, Richard Hababou had responsibilities in IT departments of Société Générale and several other banks in Paris.

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.

Anne Gousset, Managing Director at Paris Incubateurs

Graduated in management and finance, Anne focuses early on issues related to start-ups and incubation. After participating in the creation of a regional seed fund, she joined in 2000 one of the first public incubators supported by the City of Paris, then called Paris Innovation. Today, Paris Region Lab Incubators welcomes and supports permanently 200 companies (seed & take-off stages), operating sectoriel incubation programs (Digital, Cleantech, Finance ...) as well as Corporate programs (ex: Air Liquide, Renault, Alcatel One Touch …). The 500 graduated companies generated in 2013 404M€ revenues and created over 4300 jobs. Anne Gousset is Managing Director of Paris Région Lab Incubators since January 2011.

Ben Cichostepski of counsel at Orrick

Benjamin Cichostepski, an of counsel in the Orrick's Paris office, is a member of the M&A and Private Equity group. Benjamin Cichostepski focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate law with particular emphasis on leveraged buy-out transactions and venture capital investments. Before joining Orrick, Mr. Cichostepski worked as an associate for the Paris offices of Denton Wilde Sapte and Ashurst Morris Crisp. He was also a lecturer in contract law at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

 Vincent Maret Energy Director of e-lab at Bouygues 

Vincent Maret is currently director of Energy with BOUYGUES Corporate Research and Innovation. BOUYGUES Corporation is the holding company of the BOUYGUES Group. Vince focuses on innovation and business development across the whole group, with an emphasis in the field of Digital solutions, Energy, Smartgrid, Ecocities. BOUYGUES is a diversified industrial group with a strong corporate culture. Its businesses focus on two sectors: construction, with Bouygues Construction (building, civil works and electrical contracting), Bouygues Immobilier (property development) and Colas (roads); and telecoms/media, with TF1 and Bouygues Telecom. Operating in more than 80 countries, the Bouygues group has a workforce of 128,000. Sales: €33.3 billion in 2013. Listed on CAC40. Vince has an extensive experience in marketing, strategy, innovation, project management, telecom and Information Technologies; as Marketing Manager; deputy R&D director with BOUYGUES Telecom and previously as a Project Executive with IBM Global Services. Vince is very familiar with international contexts. He set-up and led the US Office of BOUYGUES Telecom for 4 years. Vincent sits on the board of directors of Cap Digital, the French cluster for digital transformation. He is a member of the steering committee of the Open Innovation Club. He used to sit on the Board of Directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce of San-Francisco and was Chairman of its High Tech Committee until June 2005. He also sat –as Secretary General- on the Board of Directors of Wireless Link, the French Association managing WIFI Vince is a graduate of ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, France - Master’s Degree in Physics, Master’s Degree in Chemistry - and from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris – Master’s Degree in Electronics.-

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