Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Since joining Bank of the West three years ago, Jamie has led the transformation of the bank's digital channels. Under his leadership, Bank of the West has transformed its mobile and online capabilities.Beginning in 2013, Bank of the West was the first bank in North America to offer Quick Balance, which provides customers with pre-login account balances on mobile. In 2014, the Bank was first to market with “Scan-to-Pay” capability, which allows mobile customers to pay their bills by taking a photo of a bill stub. In May 2015, the redesign of Bank of the West’s online banking service for personal and small business customers was launched.Under Jamie’s leadership and the bank’s strategic digital focus, his team brought to market a number of award-winning services while enabling customers’ to interact with Bank of the West based on their multi-channel preferences in order to meet their specific needs.Prior to joining Bank of the West, Jamie spent eleven years in Digital Channels at Bank of America.

After nearly a decade of managing portfolios and trading complex financial securities, such as structured products, hybrids and derivatives, Ashees Jain with J.P. Marra launched Blue Elephant Capital Management in April 2013 to focus on platform lending investments. Today the firm is investment adviser to the levered Blue Elephant Consumer Fund, which invests in short-term, prime consumer loans issued by online lending platforms.Previously, Ashees was the executive director of underwriting and trading agency callable and rates structured notes at Nomura Securities in New York. He also traded derivatives-based securities while a vice president at Barclay�s Capital. Ashees began his career as a financial services consultant with Deloitte Consulting. Ashees is one of the leading authorities on the evolving platform lending industry in the U.S. As such, he would be an excellent choice as session speaker for the New York P2P Lending + Investing Summit in October on these or other issues related to peer-to-peer (P2P) and crowdfunding.

Joined JPMorgan Chase in 2005, where he led a number of Marketing and Product efforts before joining the Branch & ATM Innovation team. Currently leads the Product Team responsible for developing and executing new products and technologies to drive productivity, and improve customer experience. He received his BBA in Finance from the University of Notre Dame, and an International MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, he held various Marketing, Product, and Strategy roles in the US and abroad with industry leading firms such as Unilever, Monsanto, and Scotts Miracle-Gro.

Kristin Broughton is a reporter for American Banker, where she writes about the business of national and regional banking.