Brad Pennington , CRO Prosper Marketplace. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all of the elements of the loan product, including pricing, underwriting strategy, credit policy, verification strategy, loss-forecasting, model development, model governance and new risk product development. Brad joined Prosper in 2012 and was instrumental to the development of Prosper’s rating systems, automated strategies and cutting edge monitoring systems. He has held roles with an increasingly broad set of responsibilities during his tenure with Prosper and he brings more than 10 years of experience in risk management and applied analysis. Prior to joining Prosper, Brad was a Credit Risk consultant with Moody’s Analytics where he worked with large global and U.S. clients focusing on Economic Capital, Basel Compliance and PD, LGD and EAD model development. He began his risk career designing the automated underwriting and pricing strategies at First Equity Card; a small-business credit card specialty finance start-up. Brad obtained his B.S in Economics from the Wharton Undergraduate School where he completed a self-directed course of study, obtaining minors in Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Econometrics and Operations Research.
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Akshay Krishnaiah, Founder/CEO teller
Akshay Krishnaiah, Founder/CEO teller. teller is a YC startup and is rethinking banking for the Gig Economy. Prior to teller Akshay headed Product for PayPal Research Labs, PayPal’s premier innovation group responsible for cutting edge innovations that today enable commerce on Social platforms such as Facebook, Google & Pinterest. Akshay is widely recognized as PayPal’s leading innovator and inventor, he has spent the last decade innovating at the intersection of Finance, Technology & Commerce. His proprietary framework of Economics-Ecosystem-Experience is used to this day at PayPal & eBay to deliver practical innovations.
Pierre Wolff, VP Bus Dev Tierion #icos
Pierre-R. Wolff, VP Business Dev Tierion Pierre is also Managing Director of ExecConnect, a firm facilitating professional transactional connections. Over the past 3 years he has spent a significant amount of time in the Blockchain ecosystems consulting on various transactions. Pierre currently serves on several advisory boards most relevant of which are Tierion and Science Blockchain, both of which have recently done token launches. He is currently also advising two other token launch bound stealth companies, one in the “fat protocol” space and the other in the gaming world on their network strategies and business models. He received his MBA from EDHEC in Nice, France, and conducted his undergraduate studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
Mason Borda, CoFounder Tokensoft #icos
Mason Borda, CEO/CoFounderTokensoft Mason is a cryptocurrency infrastructure veteran with experience scaling foundational technologies on Bitcoin and Ethereum. Tokensoft is a SaaS infrastructure and treasury management solution for token offerings. He was previously VP of Token Operations at doc.ai where he designed the Neuron Network, an ecosystem for decentralized, edge learning. As co-creator of Ether.li, he launched the world’s first multi-signature web wallet for Ethereum, the first secure wallet offering of its kind.