Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Mike Ward is CRO and CEO of North America for WorldFirst.

Erin Warren is senior vice president of marketing for Splender, where she is responsible for customer acquisition and retention.

Danial Daychopan is founder and CEO of Plutus.it, a London-based technology company.

Behind Mike's avuncular exterior lies one of the sharpest minds in the financial technology industry. Over the last fifteen years, Mike has held leadership roles at a number of a FinTech firms. He joined Currencycloud in 2011, growing the firm to processing over $10bn of international payments per annum.As COO at Traiana, Mike played a pivotal role in ICAP's $274m purchase of a controlling interest. Mike was CEO at Infinity Financial Technology, Cohera and Coronet, and Chairman at FRS Global. As home in Silicon Valley as in the financial services world in London, you will be unsurprised if you meet Mike to learn that he has several degrees, including from Harvard. In his early career, he even spent six years working for the United Nations. In his spare time, Mike plays classical and jazz piano, a topic on which he can bore even the most ardent music aficionado rigid.

Don Bush, VP Marketing, Kount: Don joined Kount as the Director of Marketing in October 2010 and became Vice President of Marketing in December 2012. Don attended Brigham Young University studying Business Administration and Marketing. Prior to joining Kount, Don was the Director of Marketing at CradlePoint, a leading manufacturer of wireless routing solutions in the mobile broadband industry. Don has worked in several management roles within the technology segment for over 20 years with both hardware/software manufacturers and as a partner in two top technology marketing agencies. He has led products launches and marketing programs for dozens of companies around the world such as Citi, HP, IBM, Kodak, Motorola and Weyerhaeuser and co-authored the seminar series, “Common Launch Disasters and How to Avoid Them.

Kyle has worked in Contact Center operations and Fraud Prevention roles since graduating from Blackburn College in 2006. He currently works as the Fraud Prevention Supervisor for New Balance in St. Louis, MO. He has an affinity for data analysis and for reading industry white papers and articles. Prior to New Balance, Kyle spent nearly 3 years working for a small lead generation company as a Project Lead and Sales Manager. When he is not geeking out on data or reading a 30-page case study, Kyle is an avid St. Louis sports fan (Go Cardinals, Go Blues) and has an extensive collection of fitted hats.

Corey Glaze is the Sr. Sales Engineer of BitPay, a digital currency company with products and services that make it easy for payment processors, merchants, and consumers to accept and use bitcoin as a form of payment. For the past 20 years, Corey has been building transaction processing platforms and services being used by millions of consumers at retail and online businesses worldwide.Prior to joining forces with BitPay, Corey served as the Director of Product Development at InComm for 9 years, architecting prepaid products and platforms in the financial services sector. These platforms include game-changing consumer facing products such as the first open-loop gift card program sold at retail, General Purpose Reloadable products and retail cash-in networks such as the Vanilla Reload Network & the PayPal My Cash product. Corey's most recent prepaid program is called the BitPay Visa� Prepaid Debit Card. The BitPay Visa� Prepaid Debit Card allows cardholders to top-up dollars onto their card using any bitcoin wallet.

As Research Director of Aite Group’s Retail Banking & Payments practice, Julie Conroy covers fraud, data security, and anti-money laundering issues. She has more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with financial institutions, payments processors, and risk management companies, including a number of years leading the product team at Early Warning Services. Julie is often quoted in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S News and World Report, American Banker, and the New York Times.� Julie is fluent in Spanish and holds an M.A. in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. in Business Administration from the Michigan State University Honors College.�