Simon Jaud, Payments Innovation at City National Bank

Simon's Bio:

Simon Jaud manages payments innovation and debit cards for City National Bank, where he built an innovation program based on the precepts of design thinking. His current areas of interest are real-time payments, non-currency applications of the blockchain, and contextual applications. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from UC Irvine and, because spending six years in grad school was not long enough, he also has an MBA from UCLA Anderson.