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 14 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 8 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

Brendan Wales, Principal e.ventures: Predictions for Crypto/Blockchain 2018 #blockchaintech

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Brendan Wales, Principal e.ventures Brendan joined e.ventures in March of 2012 and specializes in investing in online marketplaces, fin-tech, developer tools and open source software. He has worked on e.ventures’ investments in Shipt, CodeFights, AppDiff, StackShare, Segment, App Annie, Acorns, When I Work, Shutl (Acquired by ebay), Everything But The House, Spothero, Nativo and HireAthena and is also actively involved with existing investments NGINX, Upsight, and Housecall. As a part of the e.ventures’ team that leverages big data for deal origination, Brendan has been closely involved in the firm’s development and utilization of in-house technology built to discover growing internet enabled companies. Prior to joining e.ventures, Brendan was an early employee at 500 Startups backed ZOZI, a leading SAAS booking platform for Tour and Activity Providers. He started his career at Sun Life Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company, and has also started two consumer internet start-ups. Brendan earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.

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What’s Hot in FinTech in 2018? FinTech Silicon Valley speakers weigh in #wotshot2018FinTech

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What’s Hot in FinTech in 2018? FinTech Silicon Valley speakers weigh in: Dion Lisle, Capgemini; Orion Parrott, Lendsnap; Victoria Cheng, Citi Ventures; Stephen Bulfer, Streamloan; Aldo Carrascoso,Stealth AI+Healthcare Company then Pemo Theodore,FinTech Silicon Valley then Pierre Wolff, Tierion; Valerian Bennett,PopChest; Frederic Fortier, Enigma; Daniel Cawrey, Pactum Capital; Vitaly Bulatov, Drone Employee; Naddav Paran, TM Financial Forensics; Nadim Homsany, Earnup; Wayne Van Dyck, Repower Capital; Danielle Diebler, Compliance.ai; Jason Kumpf OFX Global Payments; Mark Crager, Next Stage Partners; Benjamin Lozano,True North Bus Exchange; Duncan Davidson, Bullpen Capital; Sean Bennett, Stronghold; Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca.

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Sumeet Ajmani, General Counsel Nova Credit Inc #fintechcredit

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Sumeet Ajmani, General Counsel Nova Credit Inc Nova Credit is the world’s premier cross-border credit bureau, where Sumeet leads Nova Credit’s US and international legal, regulatory and compliance efforts. Prior to joining, Sumeet led the Legal and Compliance functions at Credit Karma, helping advise as the company provided consumer’s access to free credit scores and reports, educational information and targeted financial products. He also served as an attorney at the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System from 2010-2014, providing a broad range of legal counseling on matters in the areas of data management, compliance with federal information security standards and banking regulation. Before pursuing his legal career, Sumeet worked as an Analytic Consultant at FICO, leading analytical design and development efforts on credit and insurance risk scoring models. Sumeet obtained his J.D. from Berkeley School of Law and a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

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