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

FinTech Opportunities in Asia #fintechAsia

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Main Fintech trends and developments in Asian Fintech, as well as opportunities for Fintech companies in Silicon Valley considering expansion into Asia. Interactive Panel with Lawrence Tang, Head of Investement Promotion at Hong Kong Economic and Trade, Cang Quach, Managing Partner Stern Ventures, and Ivy Montgomery, Vice President of Marketing, Layer; Amy Shuen, Berkeley-based HKU Professor & moderated by Pemo Theodore, Executive Producer of Fintech Silicon Valley.

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Untapped Opportunities in Asian Fintech: Experts and VCs #fintechasia

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With the pace of investments exceeding the pace recorded in the US and Europe, Asia is quickly growing as the next frontier for business opportunities in Fintech. Especially given an increase of Fintech-oriented initiatives launched by local governments and big appetite for Fintech solutions shown by customers, and banks. What are the main trends within Asian Fintech? What initiatives have been recently launched to support Fintech startups in Asia?

Lawrence Tang, Head Investment Promotion, Hong Kong Trade & Economic Office San Francisco; Winston Cao, VP Global Banking Partnerships/PingPong Financial; Karen Hsu, Head Growth BlockCypher MODERATOR Pemo Theodore, FinTech Silicon Valley.

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Ken DeLeon, Founder DeLeon Realty #disruptrealestate

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Ken DeLeon Founder DeLeon Realty. Ken was a scholar – he has a degree in mathematics and economics, and graduated from Berkeley Law. Ken was a lawyer – he practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of the nation’s most prestigious law firms and the largest firm in Silicon Valley. Ken is a real estate rockstar – it took him less than ten years to skyrocket from a brand new agent to one of the country’s best and most successful, with over $275 million in sales in 2011 alone. In June 2012, the Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends, Inc. announced that Ken DeLeon was the nation’s #1 real estate agent out of over 1.2 million agents, the only agent in Silicon Valley to ever be ranked the nation’s top agent. Ken and his team sold over $330 million in 2013 and over $550 million in 2014, and he regularly appeared in newscasts and storied in national shows and publications.

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