Nicole DeMeo is an accomplished business launch, growth, scaling and turnaround expert. As a Partner with the Andra Funds, CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), go-to-market strategist, and advisor Nicole works closely with executive teams and boards to guide strategy and growth. A Silicon Valley veteran and global citizen leading teams across the world, she has developed strategies and guided companies and funds through multiple phases of their lifecycles for over 20 years.

She has provided business strategy, fundraising expertise, brand positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategies and marketing for Fortune 500 companies including Apple, HP and Accenture and has expanded on those roles for many high visibility start-ups and Venture Capital funds (Earlybird Venture Capital, BCW Accelerator, How Women Invest.)

Her participation in over 50 company launches – including four of her own – created significantly increased valuations, acquisitions and IPOs. Nicole has served as brand ambassador and marketing strategist for industry leaders such as Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Carly Fiorina (with great stories from those days.)

Fueled by her desires to give back, she has also worked with some major foundations including The September 11th Fund, New York Community Trust, American Red Cross, and currently How Women Lead.

She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and in all her spare time she delights in making wine and helping people celebrate life as the owner of Media Luna Vineyards.

Dara Albright is a recognized thought provoker and frequent speaker on topics including blockchain, fintech, digital finance, crypto finance, peer finance & crowd finance. Her leading-edge articles and research papers that have helped shape and continue to set the direction of modern finance can be found on BanklessTimes, Equities.com, Crowdfund Insider, Crowdfund Beat, Seeking Alpha, Investing.com, FinTek News, FINalternatives, Real Assets Adviser, CNBC and Business Insider. Albright has been featured in a number of publications including the NY Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, ABA Banking Journal, Thestreet.com and Private Wealth Magazine. Albright possesses a distinguished 27-year career in financial services encompassing IPO execution, investment banking, trading, corporate communications, financial conference production as well as institutional and retail sales. She presently advises and serves on the boards of multiple fintech companies including Worthy Financial, a digital investment app that redefines how Americans access alternative investment products; and FinTek Capital, an investment firm that provides customized risk-mitigated strategies for digital currencies. Albright serves as an advisor to EisnerAmper LLP, one of the largest accounting, audit, tax, advisory and consulting firms in the U.S. serving sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups; high net worth individuals and family offices; global public firms and middle-market companies; and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries.

Head of sales with experience in genomics along with healthcare, automotive, and cryptocurrency SaaS. Rep of the year for two years with 5 years of building and managing sales teams both as a player/coach and full-time manager. First sales hire for two companies with $100m+ exits (Counsyl and Earn.com). /p>

Daniel Chatelain is a Payment and Fintech industry executive focused on innovation 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. He is the CEO of PayKademy: Payments are difficult, Learning them shouldn’t be.

PayKademy is the new school to learn Payments. Payments are more and more an integral part of a business and few people understand the competitive advantage that you get when you understand the complete ecosystem, how it works and its pricing models PayKademy provides courses in-person, on-site and online with a careful selection of instructors, experts in the industry and a particular attention to keep the students engaged with their instructors being face to face or online as well.

The BayPay Forum is a member-based organization that gathers today over 15,000 executives from thousands of companies and that organizes events for its members to understand the new trends in innovation in payments and commerce in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, New York, Paris, London, and Luxembourg.

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. Daniel is a Mentor at 500 Startups, Plug&Play, and French Tech.

Tricia is in Institutional Sales at Anchorage, an institutional digital asset custodian. Prior to this, she was at several hedge funds (equity and digital asset) both as a Research Analyst and in capital raising, Morgan Stanley Private Wealth, and Bloomberg. She has a BA from Rutgers Business School and an MBA from INSEAD.