Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Before Founder Shield, Carl spent the first years of his career in roles across the venture ecosystem. From venture due diligence at Originate Ventures to growth hacking and modeling for portfolio companies at Dreamit Ventures to M&A negotiations at Pepper Hamilton, he's seen how companies succeed (and fail) from all angles. When Carl met Benji, he was instantly energized by the possibility of rethinking the way the insurance industry worked through technology, best in class customer service, and cutting-edge marketing and branding. When he's not dreaming about insurance, he's probably out in the Rockaways surfing — winter, summer, rain, or shine.

Ryan Metcalf is the director of public affairs for Funding Circle U.S.

Josh Gnaizda is the founder and CEO of the alternative investment research firm The Blue Heron Group LLC.

Robert Dumas is the founder and CEO of TaxConnex, which provides outsourced sales tax services. An accountant, consultant and entrepreneur, he began his public accounting career on the tax staff at Arthur Young & Co., followed by a brief stint at Grant Thornton. In 1998, he founded Tax Partners, which became the largest sales tax compliance service bureau in the country, and later sold it to Thomson Corporation. He founded TaxConnex in 2006 on the principle that the sales tax industry needed more than automation to truly help clients, thus building within TaxConnex a proprietary platform and network of sales tax experts to take sales tax off client’s plates.

Jason Walker is co-founder of Thrive HR Consulting.

Faith Bautista is the founder and president of the National Diversity Coalition.

Dennis Santiago is a bank risk analytics expert and the COO of the National Diversity Coalition.

Kevin Jacques and Ben Malka are partners at Cota Capital, a San Francisco-based technology investment firm.