Investor Insight: Blockchain Industry & Opportunities Briefing for Family Office | Private Wealth - October 15, 2019 - San Francisco, CA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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CONTACT DESCRIPTION
Experience curated expert content, high-level networking and a wine and cheese pairing by a sommelier
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5:30 PM | Welcome Networking, Wine & Cheese Tasting |
6:15 PM | Welcome from our Hosts |
6:20 PM | Panel on Infrastructure: “Building the Next Generation of Finance” Imran Khan - General Partner at Token Daily |
Panel moderated by Imran Khan, General Partner, Token Daily | |
Panelists: | |
Dara Albright, Digital Transformation Advisor at EisnerAmper | |
Joshua Deems, Business Development, Digital Assets at Fidelity Investments | |
Tyle-Perry Smith, Venture Fund and Crypto Fund Senior Accountant at Kranz & Associates | |
Daniel Chatelain, Founder and CEO of PayKademy | |
7:00 PM | Panel of Investors: “Could Asset-Backed Tokens Unlock New Investment Strategies?" |
Panel moderated by Nicole DeMeo, Partner at Andra Capital | |
Panelists: | |
Brett Noyes, Founder and Managing Director at UnVentures | |
Tricia Lin, Institutional Sales at Anchorage | |
Dave Bean, Institutional Sales at Coinbase | |
7:30 PM | Networking |
8:00 PM | End of Session |
EMCEEs and MODERATORs
Nicole DeMeo
Partner/Chief Marketing Officer Andra Capital
Imran Khan
General Partner at Token Daily
Imran is General Partner at Token Daily Capital, a research and community focused crypto fund manager. Prior to Token Daily Capital, Imran co-founded and sold a startup focused on sales and growth for other technology companies. Afterwards, he was a technology executive and an active angel investor. Imran was most recently Business Development Manager at Microsoft, who helped lead and diligence crypto projects at Microsoft. He was a Partner at zk Capital and led investments into Polkadot, Nervos, Dharma, and BloXroute. Imran has a BS in Business from Northwestern University.
PANELISTS
Dara Albright
Digital Transformation Advisor at EisnerAmper
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.
Joshua Deems
Business Development, Digital Assets at Fidelity Investments
Josh Deems co-leads business development for Fidelity Digital Assets, a division of Fidelity Investments focused on deploying institutional-grade infrastructure for an emerging asset class. Prior to joining Fidelity, he led coverage of both public and private applications of blockchain and cryptocurrencies within State Street’s Emerging Technologies Center. Prior to State Street, Josh spent six years as a management consultant in the asset management sector. Josh holds a B.B.A. from the George Washington University.
Dave Bean
Institutional Sales at Coinbase
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>
Tyler-Perry Smith
Venture Fund and Crypto Fund Senior Accountant at Kranz & Associates
Tyler Perry-Smith brings a depth of experience and knowledge gained by personal and professional experience in blockchain, crypto, private equity, venture capital and hedge fund businesses. Currently serving as a Senior Accountant at Kranz & Associates, Tyler handles a wide variety of venture capital and angel clients, most notably cryptocurrency and blockchain focused funds. Taking an interest in blockchain technologies in 2011, Tyler tracked the growth and began personally investing. After finding success in the crypto markets, Tyler took a year off of work in 2017 to pursue trading full time and participate in the industry advising ICO’s. Returning to work in 2018, Tyler sought to be more involved as an accountant in the blockchain space. He currently helps lead crypto-centric initiatives, and is helping to build out a robust blockchain practice at Kranz & Associates. Prior to Kranz, Tyler worked in Private Equity at Savitr Capital, and began his accounting career working on hedge funds at State Street Bank. Tyler earned his B.A. in Accounting from Sonoma State University and completed a Master’s of Science in Accounting at Saint Mary’s College.
Daniel Chatelain
Managing Director at The BayPay Forum
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.
Brett Noyes
Founder and Managing Director at UnVentures
Brett Noyes is the founder and managing director of UnVentures. UnVentures operates a series of FinTech and Blockchain focused incubation programs in Silicon Valley. Prior to starting UnVentures, Noyes built startup incubator programs for famous Angel investor, Jason Calacanis, and world-famous VC Tim Draper. Through this work, the companies he has worked with have raised over five hundred million dollars. This money was raised through angels, venture capitalists, and global fundraising platforms.
Tricia Lin
Institutional Sales at Anchorage
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.