Michael Gardner is a managing director and Head of Center at the BNY Mellon Innovation Center, Silicon Valley. Mike is responsible for ensuring access to the best and latest Silicon Valley expertise and technology, to supplement the company’s other innovation centers and technologists around the world. Mike leads a team of actively engaged software architects and data scientists delivering software into the BNY Mellon private cloud, and manages relationships with universities, startups, and the investment community to ensure access to best of breed emerging technology.

A Silicon Valley veteran, Mike has nearly 30 years of experience in software engineering entrepreneurship, and executive leadership. Prior employers include Borland (a well-known programming tools and database provider), eBay, LiveOps, and Apigee, where he led technology efforts to build and run the Apigee public cloud and advised on enterprise digital transformations and innovation.

Daniel Wheeler is a financial regulation partner at the Bryan Cave LLP law firm and the global leader of their Financial Technology team. For 18 years, he has helped banks, financial technology companies, credit unions and other financial institutions innovate, including the design and upgrade of consumer and commercial financial products and business lines. He also helps clients solve significant regulatory challenges involving the Federal Reserve, FDIC, OCC, NCUA, CFPB and state financial regulators.