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A Yale College graduate, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and New York State Bar-certified lawyer, prior to joining Bitreserve, Parsa lived for twelve years in Mexico City starting and running tech, media, and telecom businesses for Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas-Pliego.Parsa received a B.S. in Biology from Yale College and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. His Peace Corps service was in Guatemala.

Peter brings his diverse background - five years as an analog electronics designer, computer science, and even a fine arts degree - to the Bitcoin space in an equally diverse way as a consultant for multiple projects including Chief Scientist of Mastercoin and Dark Wallet, Chief Architect of Zerocash, and finally Chief Naysayer of Coinkite. Uniting all these positions however is a shared ethos of permissionless money, freedom of choice, and user-defined privacy.

Trevor Dryer is the CEO and co-founder of Mirador, a small business lending platform for banks and credit unions. He has dedicated his career to creating financial technologies that provide opportunities for both financial institutions and their small business customers.Prior to Mirador, Trevor launched new financial and payment products at Intuit for the company’s small business and banking divisions. The concept for Mirador came from Trevor’s time at Intuit talking to small business owners and hearing about their frustrations in getting credit. Dryer learned that for small businesses the lending process was slow and they were often turned down for seemingly arbitrary reasons. When Dryer spoke to bankers, he learned that they wanted to offer these loans, but didn’t have the tools to do so profitably. As a result, banks were approving few loans and small businesses began turning to alternative lenders even though many charged much higher APRs for their loans.To work on removing this “bottleneck” in small business lending, he partnered with data scientist, William Beaver. William’s research has focused on solving complex, real-world problems by applying novel machine learning techniques to build adaptive, self-learning systems. And to design these systems for use by non-experts in machine learning. Together they co-founded Mirador to equip traditional lenders with the latest lending technology in order to help more small businesses get access to affordable credit.Trevor holds an AB from Harvard University and a JD from Stanford Law School.

Paul is co-founder of Upstart, the first lender to underwrite consumers based on financial potential rather than financial history. Paul pioneered Upstart�s statistical models to predict income and employment, and now oversees the team�s product and data science efforts. Paul�s background is in quantitative finance � he began to trade algorithmically at the age of 20, and previously worked in risk analysis at the D.E. Shaw Group. He has been recognized as one of Peter Thiel�s 20 under 20 and Silicon Valley Business Journal�s 40 under 40. Paul studied economics and computer science at Yale University.

Perianne M. Boring is the Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world's largest trade association representing the blockchain and digital asset industry. The Chamber's mission is to educate policymakers in shaping regulation and advocate for the acceptance and use of digital assets. Ms. Boring is a frequent speaker at FinTech conferences, and has also testified to governments around the world. CoinFilter named Ms. Boring the top woman in Bitcoin for her efforts in public policy, promoting a pro-growth legal framework for blockchain technology. Prior to forming the Chamber, Ms. Boring was a television host and anchor of "Prime Interest," an international finance program that aired in over 100 countries to over 650 million viewers. Ms. Boring was also a contributor at Forbes, and authored the column "Boring Economics." Ms. Boring began her career as a legislative analyst in the US House of Representatives, advising on finance, economics, tax and healthcare policy.

Maria is President of DirectPayNet, a private payment services firm that specializes in international and domestic merchant accounts for ecommerce merchants mainly in the medium to high-risk arenas. In addition, Maria works as a consultant to clients on an international scale to aid in managing their merchant accounts and help in secondary revenue sources as well as strategies to maximize revenue on their websites. Prior to DirectPayNet, Maria was the Director of Monetization at Manwin (now MindGeek), parent company of the world's largest adult entertainment sites.� She headed a department that handled payment services for all properties as well as secondary revenue sources for all major brands. Maria has a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University as well as a certificate in Project Management from McGill University.�

Scott Ryles is the Co-founder and Managing Member of Echelon Capital Strategies, LLC. Echelon commenced investment and fund management operations in September 2013. As of April 2014, Echelon managed more than $75 million in assets, with investments through two funds consisting of LendingClub consumer prime, near-prime and small business loans. Echelon Capital Fund, L.P. invests in prime consumer loans and uses leverage to enhance returns. Echelon Diversified Fund, L.P. invests in a variety of loans that differ by product, duration, and borrower type. The Echelon investment process is led by investment professionals with significant risk management experience. Aamir Sheikh, PhD., formerly was Managing Director in the Enterprise Portfolio Management Group at Bank of America, Managing Director of Portfolio Analytics in the Global Equities division of Merrill Lynch, President of Barra Inc., and Assistant Professor of Finance at Indiana University. Andrew Rudd, PhD., was the co-founder and CEO of Barra Inc., and Professor of Finance at The Johnson School Cornell University. Mr. Ryles has served in CEO roles in the insurance, alternative asset management, and investment banking industries. Mr. Ryles spent 18 years at Merrill Lynch in various investment banking positions. He has originated and executed financings and merger and acquisition transactions with cumulative market value more than $100 billion. Mr. Ryles has been a Director of KKR Financial Holdings LLC, ArcSight Inc., and Gymboree Corp. He also has served as a Director of several private, venture capital-backed companies. He received a BA Degree in economics from Northwestern University.

Elizabeth McClure is the 2014 secretary of the Electronic Signature and Records Association (ESRA), the premier the premier global trade association focused on the advancement of electronic signatures and records.� She is general counsel and corporate secretary for Baltimore-based eOriginal, a provider of electronic signature and asset management solutions.McClure provides legal advice and counsel to the board of directors and company executives, as well as manages its intellectual property portfolio of patents, trademarks and copyright registrations. She has been with eOriginal for 14 years, beginning as assistant general counsel. She has brought an extensive background in both licensing on demand and on premises software solutions and in the impact of privacy compliance on technology company operations.McClure also served as general counsel with Chesapeake System Solutions, Inc., a company offering financial reconciliation, unclaimed property compliance, commercial bank account analysis, and corporate treasury software solutions. In her role, she focused on coordination of contract management and compliance from prospect generation through termination or expiration, and successfully negotiated high-value enterprise and SaaS agreements with multinational corporations.McClure was also an associate of Bowie & Jensen, LLC, a law firm specializing in meeting the transactional needs of privately-held, small- to medium-sized technology companies. There she focused on technology licensing and services agreements, compliance with privacy laws and regulations such as HIPAA and GLB, and prosecuting trademark applications for registration.McClure is a member of the American Bar Association and the Maryland Bar Association. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in finance and Bachelor of Science degree in international business Phi Beta Kappa from University of Maryland College Park, and her Juris Doctor with Honors from University of Maryland School of Law.

Chandan Sharma is Global Managing Director, Finance/Insurance/Retail Marketing, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, and is responsible for Verizon's financial services industry strategy and solutions for banking, payments, financial markets, and insurance sectors. Sharma is a thought leader on IT transformation, services-based IT, and emerging cloud-based delivery models. With shift of focus from survival to growth within financial industry, his recent customer discussions have focused on key trends shaping financial services this decade and how financial institutions can best position to win.Sharma has held executive and advisory roles in IT and business operations at U.S. and global Fortune 500 financial institutions. He has led, advised and partnered with senior and C-level executives on significant transformation activities to dramatically improve operational efficiency and effectiveness. Prior to joining Verizon, Sharma led technology shared services at a large diversified financial services company, where initiatives and programs under his leadership delivered $500M+ in operational efficiencies for the company while improving technology delivery capacity and quality. In the ITO and BPO landscape, he has cumulative experience in excess of $4B in total contract value spanning all aspects of technology and shared services operations. He started his career with one of the big four consulting firms helping financial services clients assess, source, implement, and optimize business and IT capabilities. He holds an MBA and a Bachelor degree in electrical engineering.