Rosario Ingargiola Founder/CEO OTCXN which is a capital markets trading infrastructure company using proprietary blockchain technology to eliminate counterparty and settlement risk, starting in Crypto and FX trading. Trades on OTCXN are real-time Payment-vs-Payment transactions that clear and settle instantly over a multi-custodian blockchain network. By leveraging patent pending asset tokenization, proprietary blockchain, and real-time collateral management, provable assets at any participating custodian are incorporated into real-time, pre-trade risk. Trades are executed as an atomic swap between one custodial asset ledger and any other custodial asset ledger with instant clearing and settlement, and finality, on the custodial ledgers. OTCXN facilitates frictionless institutional crowdsourcing of balance sheet for short lending and margin financing without holding client assets or becoming a counterparty to transactions. Prior to OTCXN, he was the Founder and CEO of FXone Seabury, a leading institutional FX trading technology platform and ECN operator that was acquired by a NYC- based global investment bank. The company provides a full front-to-back vertically integrated stack of high-performance trading system modules for institutional FX trading used by Tier-1 global investment banks, brokerages and hedge funds to service internal and external trading. Prior to this he was Founder and CTO of Alphacet, an institutional, multi-asset algorithmic trading strategy platform provider used by Tier-1 global hedge funds, banks and energy companies to build, test and deploy in real-time, arbitrarily complex algorithmic trading strategies by drawing from a library of thousands of mathematical, statistical, machine learning and other functions and algorithms using a patented drag-and-drop interface. Rosario has received numerous awards and accolades for his institutional electronic trading platform product design and has authored numerous articles related to Crypto and FX trading, and technology for major industry publications.
Pemo Theodore
Pemo Theodore is a Media Publisher and a great people connector. She is Founder Silicon Valley TV which has served the San Francisco Bay Area for 12 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, Ireland, London, Northern Ireland, New Zealand & Silicon Valley. Bio https://pemo.one
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