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Christin Bogg, Treasury Management Sales Consultant at Wells Fargo

Christin's Bio:

Christin is currently a Treasury Management Sales Consultant for the Telecom Media and Technology banking team at Wells Fargo.

She has 19 years of experience with Wells Fargo supporting various aspects of the bank. Most recently, Christin spent three years in International Treasury Management covering customers from large corporate, middle market and technology banking. During her time in international, her focus was to establish innovative payment solutions for global clients and develop payment strategies when customers wanted to enter a new country. Prior to International, she spent 14 years in Energy banking focusing on treasury management, business development, management, compliance and operations.

Christin holds a bachelor degree in liberal arts with an emphasis in advertising and marketing from the University of Northern Colorado. She also holds SWIFT certification. She has participated in Habitat for Humanity and continues to support local non-profit organizations in the Denver metro area. Christin enjoys running marathons and traveling.

 

Dana Nino, Executive Vice President, Country Manager at Geoswift

Dana's Bio:

As Executive Vice President of Geoswift, Dana leads the North American team that is focused on bringing China and Asia payment solutions to local markets. A recognized leader in the payments space, Dana has broad, deep knowledge of the entire payments eco-system. She leads the Money Service licensing and regulatory projects for US, heads up Sales, strategic partnerships and account management as well as local oversight of Compliance, Information Security, onboarding, Product and legal as it pertains to North American clients. Dana has 15+ years in payments and technology industries, with particular expertise in banking, financial services, travel, ecommerce and education sectors. She has held leadership roles with Cambridge Global Payments, eBillme, Mastercard, PayPal and AT&T. Originally from Redondo Beach, CA, and a graduate of University of Southern California, Dana currently resides in Pleasanton, Ca and has 3 daughters; one that is 10 years old and was adopted last year from foster care.

 

Wei Jiang, President & Chief Operating Officer at CITCON

Wei's Bio:

Wei Jiang serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Citcon, which is the mobile payment and commerce leader for merchants to reach and engage with over 1B Chinese consumers via Alipay, WeChat Pay and China Union Pay. Wei overseas the sales, marketing, product and business operations of the company. He has over 15+ years of product, marketing and sales experience in payment, technology and consumer goods industries. Prior to joining CITCON, Wei led consumer and commercial Prepaid product & innovation team at Visa. He also headed up Visa US marketing team for Debit, Prepaid, Commercial and Small Business products. Before Visa, Wei held leadership roles with global companies such as Terex, Whirlpool and P&G. Wei holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.

 

CMD CTRL

inWebo Technologies participates in this year’s IT-SA Europe’s security show from 9th to 11th October 2018 in Nuremberg.

If you would like to take this opportunity to schedule an appointment with us, please follow this link .

You can find the program here.

Phil Stupak, Director of Cybersecurity and Information Services at Silicon Valley Companies

Phil's's Bio:

Phil Stupak provides bespoke government relations solutions to companies operating within the cybersecurity, homeland security, and national security environment. His clients are at the cutting edge of malware hunting, secure-by-design firmware and hardware architectures, IoT, and cloud services.

Phil previously served in President Obama's Administration where he handled cybersecurity, technology research & development, national security, and international relations portfolios for the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He served on the executive team implementing President Obama’s Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity; developed the first version of DHS’s continuous diagnostic monitoring (CDM) program as well as conception-to-deployment of EINSTEIN 3A; chaired the internal DHS China Working Group; launched the first ministerial-level engagement on cybersecurity cooperation between DHS and the People’s Republic of China’s Ministry of Public Security; ran the DHS Big Data Project; and worked on interagency law enforcement task forces investigating significant cybersecurity hacks (including the 2013 $45-million ATM cyber heist). Phil also helped negotiate the U.S.-EU Passenger Name Records Agreement, which improved the safety and security of both continents through secure data sharing on inbound passengers from the EU.

Before joining President Obama’s Administration, Phil served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on House Administration, led then-Senator Obama’s 2008 field campaign in northern Michigan, and served in the General Counsel’s office at the New York City Board of Elections.

Phil has lectured on cybersecurity, homeland security, and privacy impacts of unmanned aerial vehicles. He has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley and a JD from the University of Richmond.

 

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Shamir Karkal, Sila CEO & Co-Founder, www.silamoney.com

For as long as people have lived, we’ve sought ways to make more out of what we have through trade. In 3000 B.C. the Sumerians created the ‘sila’, the first ‘token’, which began with a small bowl used to measure a standardized volume of barley.

This original ‘currency’ established the foundation of finance.

Today I’m excited to announce Sila: a simple, secure, and accessible suite of developer tools and an API platform to help build the new financial world.

We started Sila with a clear mission — to empower developers by providing open-source infrastructure for the fintech companies of tomorrow. Now, with our pre-seed investment secured from a strong network of experienced angels across fintech and emerging technology — including Jerry Neumann, Taavet Hinrikus, Iyin Aboyeji, Village Global, Mucker Capital, and 99 Tartans — we’re preparing to launch the alpha of our API in the coming months.

While I’ve been a part of many truly exceptional organizations over the years, nothing compares to the deep expertise, industry knowledge, and passion of this founding team that brings together more than 60 years of combined experience at the forefront of their industries, ranging from legal, to finance to nuclear power.

 

SIla

The Sila co-founders - From left to right: Shamir Karkal (CEO), Alexander Lipton (CTO), Angela Angelovska-Wilson, (Chief Legal Officer) and Isaac Hines (COO)

Our Chief Technical Officer, Alexander Lipton, is an MIT Fellow and a Visiting Professor of Financial Engineering at EPFL, who previously ran Bank of America’s global quant business. Sila’s Chief Legal Officer, Angela Angelovska-Wilson, comes to us after a distinguished career at Reed Smith and Latham & Watkins, then as the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer of Digital Asset Holdings and is the co-founder of DLx Law, the leading blockchain law firm. Isaac Hines, Sila’s Chief Operating Officer, boasts an impressive management career in the energy sector, where he led projects totaling upwards of $200m and most recently worked at NuScale, a nuclear power startup.

Together, we recognize that the financial world needs better support, now more than ever. Despite extensive efforts to innovate, the current financial system is controlled by a long chain of middlemen engaged in moving money between a buyer and a seller. Bureaucracy, legacy software, and complex regulatory environments have held back innovation and disruption in banking, and fixing this has motivated much of my career over the past 10 years.

You might say the driving force that drew our founding team together was a shared motivation to solve these challenges. Alex has written extensively about his experience fighting for good on Wall Street, while Angela built her legal practice around helping banks, investors, and VCs navigate complex environments, most recently when she helped setup and run Digital Asset Holdings.

I have been skeptical of crypto as a solution — until late last year when I began to wonder if we could solve the scalability and stability problems that bedevil crypto apps. I recognized that this would require bringing the best of crypto and fintech together in order to build a bridge from the familiar to the future. And that’s just what we’ve done in creating Sila: an API platform and suite of developer tools supported by a new regulatory-compliant, fiat-backed tokenized means of exchange — the Sila Token — that allows developers to rapidly build fintech applications and bring them to market.

The Sila token is pegged to the US dollar via a centralized, 100% reserve held in USD-based instruments, and is guaranteed to be stable and retain its value even in the most extreme volatility environments. Perhaps most importantly, it forms the basis for a fintech API platform that will enable fast, regulatory-compliant payments, and other uses of money, with minimal reliance on the traditional banking system.

Our initial offering will include five APIs :

  • ID Verification: an endpoint that allows developers to verify the identity of their users in a regulatory compliant fashion, and link that verified identity to a user’s handle and Ethereum address
  • Account Linking: Once a user’s identity has been verified, developers can use the Account Linking endpoint to securely verify the user’s ownership of a US bank account and add the routing and account numbers to the system
  • Issue Sila: this will debit the user’s linked bank account via ACH, and the corresponding amount of Sila will be issued via the Sila smart contract to the user’s Ethereum address
  • Redeem Sila: will lead to destruction of the Sila tokens at the user’s Ethereum address, and the corresponding amount of dollars being credited to the user’s linked bank account via ACH
  • Transfer Sila: an endpoint that will simply move the associated tokens from the user’s Ethereum address to the target user’s Ethereum address, an action that can also be achieved directly using Ethereum via the smart contract’s functions

One of the biggest impediments to unleashing creativity and developing new business models in finance is the absence of open access platforms for money and identity. I know this from the frustrated accounts of many fintech founders and my own grueling first-hand experience to disrupt banking, first at Simple, and then from the inside out at BBVA.

Existing payment systems like ACH, Visa, and SWIFT are inaccessible to all but a handful of large incumbents. This creates an ecosystem where even when innovators do succeed in gaining access to the underlying infrastructure, they struggle to integrate effectively.

While blockchain-based payment systems can significantly reduce many of these barriers in theory, none of the existing ecosystems have banks worthy of the name. They’re forced to rely on algorithmic monetary policies for cryptocurrency creation, leading to highly volatile cryptocurrencies. In essence, these systems resurrect in one way or the other old ideas of central planning, without fully appreciating the consequences.

Meanwhile, incumbents in the world of finance, who are naturally risk averse, have avoided working with blockchain-based payment systems for precisely this reason. This hampers the development of critical infrastructure such as payment gateways and custodians, without which developers using blockchain platforms have struggled to build applications targeted at the mass market.

Blockchain technology has already demonstrated immense promise, but the industry needs the right tools to unleash its full potential. At Sila we’re building these tools, and our mission is to enable a wave of innovation for crypto and fintech developers, and in turn, make money work better for everyone.

Today, we’re encouraged by early feedback from an active cohort of creators using our API and we look forward to expanding access with a private alpha later this year.

Learn more: Fintech and blockchain developers interested in building the next wave of financial innovation can sign up for our alpha waitlist. For more information visit www.silamoney.com.

 

Source: Medium

Assises

inWebo will be at Les Assises de la Sécurité 2018 (InfoSec France) in Monaco, October 10-13, 2018. Representatives of inWebo and of our Hexatrust partners will be on our booth. Please find the program here

We hope to see you there!

CMD CTRL

inWebo Technologies participates in this year’s CMD CTRL – The Leading Summit for Cyber Security from 20th to 22nd September 2018 in Munich.

The Command Control visualises cross-industry networked cybersecurity and is the interdisciplinary dialogue platform for decision-makers from business, politics, and administration as well as experts in Europe. With a holistic Cybersecurity approach along networked industries, service providers and their value chains, command control forms the cross-sector bridge to future topics and new growth markets in the age of digitization.

InWebo will exhibit and present its solutions at the booth of its partner Keyp, the provider of an independent and decentralized digital identity infrastructure.

Click here to make an online appointment with us.

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