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24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- Paris 6/26/2014 PANELIST: RICHARD HABABOU

This blog is to present Richard Hababou (see bio below), Chargé de Mission Open Innovation at Société Générale.

Richard Hababou Chargé de Mission Open Innovation Société Générale

In January 2014, Richard Hababou took a new position in Société Générale Group as Open Innovation Director working within the Open Innovation Institute created by the Ecole Centrale de Paris Foundation. Previously, he held the position of Director of Innovation with the main mission to define and coordinate the strategy of Open Innovation and Innovation process of Société Générale Group. From February 2001 to July 2009, he held the role of Managing Director of Societe Generale Corporate Venture in Silicon Valley (USA) where he made several strategic investments in U.S. startups. Before that, Richard Hababou had responsibilities in IT departments of Société Générale and several other banks in Paris.

24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- Paris 6/26/2014 PANELIST: ANNE GOUSSET

This blog is to present Anne Gousset (see bio below), Managing Director at Paris Incubateurs.

Anne Gousset Managing Director Paris Incubateurs

Graduated in management and finance, Anne focuses early on issues related to start-ups and incubation. After participating in the creation of a regional seed fund, she joined in 2000 one of the first public incubators supported by the City of Paris, then called Paris Innovation. Today, Paris Region Lab Incubators welcomes and supports permanently 200 companies (seed & take-off stages), operating sectoriel incubation programs (Digital, Cleantech, Finance ...) as well as Corporate programs (ex: Air Liquide, Renault, Alcatel One Touch …). The 500 graduated companies generated in 2013 404M€ revenues and created over 4300 jobs. Anne Gousset is Managing Director of Paris Région Lab Incubators since January 2011.

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24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- Paris 6/26/2014 PANELIST: ALEXANDRE RHEA

This blog is to present Alexandre Rhea (see bio below), Partner CEO at PwC's Accelerator.

Alexandre Rhea Partner CEO PwC's Accelerator

Alexandre joined PwC in September 2011 as head of PwC’s Accelerator. Alexandre comes with 19 years of Private Equity experience of which 17 years in Venture Capital with Silicon Valley exposure. He was most recently a Partner at Invest Securities, a Paris based investment bank, mostly in charge of serving fast growing small cap companies. Alexander is a repeat entrepreneur. In 2000, he co-founded and was the Managing Partner of Pyramid Technology Ventures, a $120M venture capital fund with offices in both Paris and San Francisco. From 1995 to 2000, he was an Investment Director at Iris Capital (Groupe Caisse des Dépôts). Prior to Iris, Alexander was the CEO of a water recycling company. His managerial skills were first proven when running the US subsidiary of LaborBirkmayer. Alexandre graduated from HEC Paris.

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24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- Paris 6/26/2014 SPEAKER: ERIC GROVER

This blog is to present Eric Grover (see bio below), Eric Grover Principal at Intrepid Ventures.

Eric Grover Principal Intrepid Ventures

Eric Grover is Principal at Intrepid Ventures, providing corporate development and strategy consulting to financial services, payment network, and processing businesses, principally in North America and Europe. He has a comprehensive understanding of the global payment network and processing space, including each stage in the payments value chain: credit, debit and prepay issuing, issuer processing, payment networks, and merchant acquiring and processing. Grover is an expert on network competitive dynamics and the unprecedented wave of innovation stressing and enhancing the payments industry, was the first to publicly make the case for banks demutualizing MasterCard and Visa, and is the world's foremost independent authority on interchange and interchange regulation. His prior experience includes Visa International, GE Consumer Finance, BofA, NationsBank, Transamerica and serving as a director on Nordstrom's credit card A/R subsidiary's board. His commentaries have been frequently published in the American Banker, Barron's, Cards International, the Daily Deal, Digital Transactions, Credit Card Management, Cards & Payments, Card Technology, the Las Vegas Review and Journal, National Review Online and the Washington Times. Grover has a BA in economics from Amherst College and an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern’s Graduate School of Business.

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23 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- London 6/24/2014 PANELIST: JULIAN WILSON

This blog is to present Julian Wilson (see bio below), Head of Mobile Innovation at Barclays.

Julian Wilson Head of Mobile Innovation Barclays

For many years Julian has worked with bright people turning ideas into software services or businesses at Apple, AT&T Unisource, the UK Government, as the founder of my own Internet software companies and now at Barclays:

... predicting, designing, funding, building and selling.

The ideas have sometimes been his and other times not. Today his focus is on the Internet's impact on banking and payments.

Specialties: business and product strategy, business planning and the ideology of the Internet.

24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- London 6/24/2014 PANEL MODERATOR: BEN CICHOSTEPSKI

This blog is to present Ben Cichostepski (see bio below), Attorney at Orrick Rimbaud Martel.

Ben Cichostepski Attorney Orrick Rimbaud Martel

Benjamin Cichostepski, an of counsel in the Orrick's Paris office, is a member of the M&A and Private Equity group. Benjamin Cichostepski focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate law with particular emphasis on leveraged buy-out transactions and venture capital investments. Before joining Orrick, Mr. Cichostepski worked as an associate for the Paris offices of Denton Wilde Sapte and Ashurst Morris Crisp. He was also a lecturer in contract law at the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas.

24 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- Paris 6/26/2014 SPEAKER: DANIEL CHATELAIN

This blog is to present Daniel Chatelain (see bio below), Managing Director at The BayPay Forum.

Daniel Chatelain Managing Director The BayPay Forum

Daniel Chatelain is a payment industry executive focused on innovation in commerce 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. The organization gathers today over 8,000 executives from over 2,800 different companies and organizes events for senior executives to understand new trends and network with peers. 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.

23 June 2014

BayPay Payment Innovation Day- London 6/24/2014 PANELIST: ROY VELLA

This blog is to present Roy Vella (see bio below), Digital Advisor at Bank Hapoalim.

Roy Vella Digital Advisor Bank Hapoalim

Mr. Vella is a mobile financial services expert and independent advisor/consultant to players large (such as Vodafone and the GSMA) and small (a number of startups) in the space. Prior to offering his services-at-large, Mr. Vella was at RBS where he developed the overall strategy and hired a team of 30 to implement the global bank’s mobile efforts including the development of new products and services, stored value functionality, mobile enabled payments, customer acquisition and the management of joint venture partners. Previously to RBS he spent five years with PayPal starting out as Director of Business Development in the US Merchant Services group, and finally as Head of Mobile Payments leading the mobile payments initiative in Europe. Previous to PayPal, Mr. Vella worked as the VP of Sales & Marketing at 4charity, Inc. (a software startup focusing on corporate philanthropy for the Fortune 500), and, prior to that, as a Partner at Quantum Technology Ventures (a corporate VC firm focusing on the storage industry). As an entrepreneur, Mr. Vella co-founded NetAbacus Corporation, a web-based purchasing service for small businesses, serving as the VP of Marketing/Strategic Relations. When the market turned in mid-2000, he facilitated the acquisition of NetAbacus by Biztro and the combined entity became Rivio, where he was responsible for channel marketing and customer acquisition. Before graduate school, he began his career in Client Service at the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago, working with such clients as Sony Consumer Electronics and Miller Brewing. Actively involved in the non-profit sector, Roy serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford Business School Alumni Association and is also the Board President Emeritus of Variety Children's Charity of Northern California. Formerly, for over 8 years he was the Board Treasurer of BATS Improv, an improvisational school and theater company. Roy received a BA in Mathematics (with High Honors and elected to Phi Beta Kappa) from the College of the Holy Cross, a JD from Stanford Law School, and an MBA (with certificates in Global and Public Management) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently lives in London with his family. While hobbies have truly taken a back seat to family life these days, he enjoys outdoor sports and travel adventures.

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