Brad Brunell, Co-Founder of IPMG AG

Brad's Bio:

Brad is co-founder of IPMG AG, a Swiss company specializing in Intellectual Property strategy and licensing. Over the course of his career, he has driven over US$1B in intellectual property transactions. Brad is also the founder of PicDS, Inc., a US based strategic consulting and investment management firm.

For 2009-2010, Brad was a consultant for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), reorganizing the 150 person R&D organization to optimize the future research plan and resourcing, move facilities, and guide the team to triple their IP licensing income.

Earlier in his career, Brad spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation where he held a number of senior management positions.

Brad is an inventor or co-inventor on 14 patents. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Anatoly Kvitnitsky, Head of Growth at Trulioo

Anatoly's Bio:

Anatoly has a wealth of experience working in strategy and corporate development within financial technology, credit, consumer healthcare and identity markets. His deep understanding of the industry combined with his thoughtful and strategic approach to nurturing relationships has helped him win partnership, investment, and acquisition opportunities with global data companies. Before joining Trulioo, Anatoly was the Corporate Development and Strategy lead at Experian Consumer Services.

Vincent Alimi, Chief Technology Officer - Payment at Mobeewave

Vincent's Bio:

Vincent has over 12 years experience in the electronic payment industry. He is currently Chief Technology Officer - Payment at Mobeewave where he leads the Product and Innovation. Mobeewave is a startup company offering a solution that allows anyone to get paid by tapping a contactless card on its NFC smart phone. Prior to joining Mobeewave, Vincent held several positons in the NFC mobile payment area and was an active member of the GlobalPlatform consortium. Vincent earned a Ph.D. in electronic payment in 2012.

Jason Goldberg, Director at Protiviti

Jason's Bio:

Jason is a Director of Protiviti's Financial Services Business Performance Improvement practice. An accomplished payments and retail banking executive, Jason has expertise spanning consumer and commercial payments, retail banking, and merchant acquiring, with a focus on business strategy design and optimization, customer lifecycle management, and omni-channel customer experience. Prior to joining Protiviti, Jason was a senior member of the Consumer Financial Services practice at Kurt Salmon. He previously held executive positions with MasterCard Worldwide, MasterCard Advisors, Citigroup and American Express.

Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld, CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board at Capsoole Inc

Ayelet's Bio:

Dr. Ayelet Hirshfeld, is the CEO, Co-Founder & Chairman of the Board at Capsoole Inc., a Fraud Prevention Mitigation Service for the financial sector. She holds a PHD in Clinical Psychology, has completed a Post Doc @ Stanford University, is a published author in the areas of Technology, Psychology & Psychoanalysis; provides management consulting to executives in her offices @ SJ & PA.

She previously served on the board of directors @ the Lacan School Bay Area; was an Associate Professor @ CIIS, & Faculty & VP @ the Lacan School; Co-Founder & CFO @ 'O' Data, & Founder & CEO @ Nadlan International. She served in the Israeli Military in Intelligence and as part of the PTSD Research Team @ the SFVA/UCSF. She speaks Hebrew, English, & French.

Bill York, VP of Product Development at Token

Bill's Bio:

I run the product development team at Token. We are creating a modern, fast, secure payments that will revolutionize how business and consumer payments are made.

I work directly with the CEO and other members of the team to determine our requirements and define the product, and lead the team on the design and implementation of the system itself. The technology stack includes a set of RESTful service APIs implemented in Scala (deployed on AWS and SoftLayer), web applications using React and jQuery, and native mobile clients.