Pemo Theodore

Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She was Founder Silicon Valley TV which served the San Francisco Bay Area for 10 years! She has produced Silicon Valley Events for Investors & Startups for 10 years. Pemo loves to video interview venture capitalists & founders to engage the human behind the success stories.. She has been Executive Producer of FinTech Silicon Valley for 6 years, organizing twice monthly FinTech talks & panels in San Francisco & Palo Alto and audio podcasts. She believes in learning through a great discussion with experts in the domains. Pemo has a talent to bring the right people together and is an incredible networker. Pemo's events have been seen as supporting Venture Capitalists & Angels in sourcing great deal flow from startups who attend her events. Many founders have received funding through meeting investors at her events. Her favored medium is audio & visual media and she has built up a great body of work of videos of panels & interviews and podcasts in Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. She has lived & worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one

Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan #bankinnovations

February 24, 2024August 17, 2018 by Pemo Theodore

Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan, Life Sciences & Emerging Growth Middle Market Treasury Services. Kimberly is currently responsible for managing the national Treasury Management team focused on Technology, Life Sciences and Emerging Growth Middle Market companies. Kimberly has spent the past 5 years of her career focusing on domestic and international treasury for technology companies throughout all stages of their life cycles. Prior to this, she held various domestic and international treasury sales roles both at BNP Paribas and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Kimberly is International Treasury Management Certified and is fluent in English and Spanish. She has a Masters of Business Administration and Bachelor of International Business from Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

John Yao Senior Acct Exec Fiserv #bankinnovations

February 24, 2024August 16, 2018 by Pemo Theodore

John Yao Senior Acct Exec Fiserv John has been in financial services for over 25 years mostly on the technology side. Companies like Intuit, Salesforce.com, Digital Insight and now Fiserv. For last 10 years John has been helping financial institutions with their digital transformation strategy and specifically digital banking strategy. I have a passion for technology but still understand the importance of the human element but how that dynamic has changed in our technology enabled world

Innovations in Banking

February 24, 2024August 15, 2018 by Pemo Theodore

DISCUSSION: Kimberly Skiffington Exec Dir Manager Technology JP Morgan; John Yao Senior Acct Exec Fiserv; Vilmar Grüttner Leader Labbs, Banco do Brasil; Amar Singh Rathor Executive Director Standard Chartered Bank; Brian Ley CEO/Founder Alpharank; MODERATOR: Dion Lisle Managing Director FACERE25

Simplify Bitcoin Development #bitcoindev

February 24, 2024June 2, 2018 by Pemo Theodore

Satoshi Nakamoto once proclaimed that an alternative implementation of a blockchain codebase would be “a menace to the network”. Bcoin is an enterprise-level implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, written from the ground up entirely in JavaScript,to be secure, scalable, and maintainable. Today it is used in production at companies and projects across the industry, including at Purse.io, Edge Wallet, BitPay, and Chronobank.

Buck Perley, Engineering Lead Purse.io Buck works full-time on bcoin and derivative projects. He will be joining to talk about how bcoin can help you develop better, more secure cryptocurrency applications, how an alternative implementation can make the ecosystem and network stronger, and some of the exciting projects their team is working on including bPanel, the world’s first Blockchain Management System (BMS).

Buck gives a live demo for how to build something on bPanel and a live demo for working directly with the bcoin backend

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FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Yash Patel is General Partner at Telstra Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm that differentiates by generating revenue for its portfolio with strategic channel partners and customer relationships as well as by using data science to drive its investment process. Yash's focus is on the consumer side of fintech, Web3, crypto, esports, gaming, SaaS apps, ecommerce, and marketplace. Some of his standout fintech investments while at Telstra Ventures are companies like Super.com (Super Apps) and Playbook (next-gen wealthtech). Previously, Yash was the Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Adknowledge and was part of the technology investment banking team at Jefferies & Company prior.