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Alex is currently the Managing Director of USAA�s Corporate Development group where his team is responsible for setting the overall strategic direction and investing activities for the enterprise. With an overall commitment of nearly $500M, the group works closely with their business partners to identify and invest in leading technology companies in the financial services sector. While at USAA, Alex co-created the Blockchain Working Group, an enterprise wide initiative to identify and explore innovative implementations of the blockchain technology. Prior to USAA, Alex was the founding CEO and Chairman at AppScotch, Inc. a leader in advanced application streaming technologies for mobile user acquisition marketing. Prior to AppScotch, Alex was an Investment Director with Intel Capital, the world�s largest technology focused corporate investment organization, having invested more than $12B globally in established and emerging technology companies helping to drive internet adoption across all platforms. Alex received his MBA from Purdue University and holds an EE in Semi-Conductor Physics from UNLV.

As an Associate, Sohrab researches, designs, strategizes, and supports initiatives that address significant consumer challenges. With a background in financial services and economics, Sohrab is optimistic that there is great potential for innovative and impactful solutions that can raise our standards of health, financially and beyond.Prior to CFSI, Sohrab worked in management consulting in the banking and financial regulation areas. He also worked in financial communications, medical devices, and other industries. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor�s degree in Economics and Political Science.

Quinten Farmer is Co-Founder at Even. Previously, Quinten ran Client Operations at Taykey, a venture backed advertising technology company, and was Vice President of Operations at Onswipe, a New York based startup. Quinten studied Computer Science at Columbia University, and also founded the Open Loans Project, a nonprofit working to bring transparency to the student loans industry.

Dominick (Dom) Paniscotti manages the Systems and Performance Engineering team at Nasdaq where he is responsible for the architecture, design, and performance of the company�s U.S. market systems.Dom�s experience spans over twenty-five years and he has been employed in senior technology roles in a variety of business organizations in the telecommunications, defense and securities industries. While at Nasdaq, Dom�s efforts have resulted in marked performance enhancements to the trading systems and, most significantly, the genesis of the Nasdaq�s next generation architecture for these systems.As part of Nasdaq�s Systems Architecture team, Dom is tasked with the identification and integration of innovative technologies into Nasdaq�s trading platforms. These initiatives include Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Block Chain technologies.

J. Dax Hansen is a Partner at Perkins Coie LLP and Chair of the firm's Electronic Financial Services and Decentralized Virtual Currency Industry Groups and a member of the firm�s Technology, Transactions and Privacy practice group.� He has an extensive background in providing legal guidance on emerging payment systems, including online and mobile payments, decentralized virtual currencies and distributed ledgers. His practice emphasis includes IT, payments and international business transactions, including mobile financial services and m-commerce, online business, software and technology licensing, and Japanese business transactions.�

Zac Prince has worked in sales roles at multiple high-growth technology focused startups. �After financing his college education through online poker he joined Admeld, where he led the sales team in revenue generation for the year prior to the company’s acquisition by Google. �He then opened the U.S. entity of Berlin based technology company Sociomantic, which sold to Tesco in 2014. In his current role, Director of Business Development for Orchard Platform, Zac oversees sales and partnerships with institutional investors. Orchard Platform is a technology provider offering investors knowledge and tools to access marketplace lending.

Soul co-founded Lending Club, the world's largest and most advanced Peer-2-Peer (P2P) company, where he served as the Head of Technology until 2011. He led all the design and development efforts of Lending Club's online platform, ensuring that all online capabilities were both state-of-the-art and fully secure. The P2P platform received the prestigious Technology Pioneer award at the 2011 World Economic Forum. In Feb, 2014 Lending Club successfully shot up in the Wall Street debute, becoming the first P2P listed company. Its valuation reached over 8.5billion USD.In 2012, Soul came to China and started to build up Dianrong on basis of advanced technology and his expertise. His had a dream of providing a fast real-time online platform to Chinese market, with lower loan cost and higher investment return.Prior to founding Dianrong, Soul has spent most of his professional career building enterprise software at Oracle Corporation. His focus was in real-time online services and system design for high availability and fault tolerance.

Michele Livingston is a Senior Vice President, Director of Lending for Umpqua Bank.� Michele is responsible for the support to Retail Bank in consumer and small business lending.� This includes loan processing, loan origination systems, interfacing with business partners and supporting the stores lending activities and production.� Michele has been with Umpqua Bank over 5 years and previously served as the Region Executive for Community Banking in Washington State and Portland, Oregon, overseeing 60 retail stores.� Michele has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Michele’s background includes extensive experience in all types of lending, product management, operations and sales.Prior to joining Umpqua Bank, Livingston was First Vice President at JP Morgan Chase where she managed the sales operations of retail bank branches.Previously, Livingston served as National Sales and Strategy Manager for Washington Mutual where she worked for more than 20 years.A true Seattle native, Livingston graduated from University of Washington with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice.In her free time, she enjoys a variety of outdoor activities with her husband and 9 year old son, including golf.� She is also an avid volunteer for the Westside School and Habitat for Humanity.��

Peter Kirby is the Chief Executive Officer of Factom, the first usable blockchain technology to solve real world business problems by providing an unalterable record keeping system. A pioneer in his field, Peter works with leaders in financial services, government and law to address the most complex data security issues around the globe.A seasoned entrepreneur, Peter has spent the past 15 years involved in numerous successful early-stage tech companies and possesses a deep knowledge of business development and community-based marketing in the technology sector. His ventures have ranged from neurological supplements and investment financing to commercial development and real estate. As a leader in the blockchain space, Peter has led multi-million dollar operations and was the driving force behind delivering major products to market.Peter�s expertise in distributed ledger technology has made him a sought-after speaker across the world, where he has presented at conferences including Inside Bitcoins Singapore, Inside Bitcoins Berlin and Bitcoin Amsterdam. Peter is also a trusted source for leading outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and numerous other industry trade publications. Peter earned his degree in biochemistry from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and later pursued his MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Acton School of Business in Austin, TX, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.Peter Kirby is on Facebook and LinkedIn