Pay It Forward as a Mentor or Expert Amazing things happen when you share your expertise, whether it’s as a mentor, subject matter expert, or event speaker. Become a Mentor Meet our FinTech Changemakers Champion innovation as a speaker or mentor. From Banking & Small Business to Gaming & FinTech Our mentors and experts love FinTech! They like to hang out with entrepreneurs and industry veterans who want to work together to improve the financial lives of consumers and small businesses. They are passionate and love to give back to the community. Sarah Biller Submitted by Andriy Chyrskyy on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 17:53 Sarah Biller Vantage Ventures, FinTech Sandbox Co-founder Sarah Biller is an Entrepreneur, Investor, and Educator in the FinTech sector. She is the Executive Director of Vantage Ventures, a collaboration of West Virginia University (a Research 1 University), global Technology leaders, Fortune Class companies and Venture Capital firms, focused on providing entrepreneurs in the center of the country a systematic... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbiller/ Dara Tarkowski Submitted by Andriy Chyrskyy on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 18:04 Dara Tarkowski Actuate Law Managing Partner at Actuate Law Dara Tarkowski is a renowned legal expert shaping the future of law, technology and highly regulated industry. As a published author, keynote speaker, and the co-founder of the RegTech start-up quointec, she is an outspoken voice on how technology is impacting the future of delivering legal and compliance advice to... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dara-chevlin-tarkowski/ Jeff Cain Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Jeff Cain Envestnet | Yodlee VP Strategic Partnerships Jeff Cain has extensive technology and startup experience, having been a business development and M&A executive at companies such as Common Sense Media, Cadence Design Systems and Red Herring. He built an ecosystem of wireless startups for Rutberg & Company and ran a consultancy that provided M&A, partnership... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-cain-90b69/ Jason W. Henrichs Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Jason W. Henrichs FinTech Forge Managing Partner Jason is an entrepreneur and builder with a focus on turning opportunities into scaleable organizations. He’s founded companies, advised growing companies, built a venture capital firm and headed innovation (including strategic investment and corporate development) for a public company. He’s previously helped found PerkStreet... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhenrichs/ William C. Kragie Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 William C. Kragie Doppio Group CEO Doppio Group William is the CEO of Doppio Group, a global consulting firm and Infor Alliance Partner serving manufacturing, distribution and equipment service companies. He is responsible for leading customer acquisition, strategic... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/willkrag/ Jack Crabtree Submitted by Holly on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 16:03 Jack Crabtree Envestnet | Yodlee FinTech Manager EMEA Jack manages Fintech sales for Envestnet | Yodlee in EMEA engaging with both B2B and B2C companies varying from 2 people startups to some of the biggest tech enterprises globally. He has extensive experience working with FinTech startups, is educated and trained in executive leadership, employee engagement, and sales... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crabtree-13147a117/ Dorrian Porter Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Dorrian Porter Vestaboard Founder and CEO Dorrian Porter is an entrepreneur living in Menlo Park, California. He recently founded Vestaboard, which has reimagined and modernized the split-flap message board you might see at a train station. In February 2013 he started Northern Imagination, a company named in tribute to his Canadian roots and dedicated to the pursuit... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorrianporter/ Sonny Singh Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Sonny Singh Bitpay Chief Commerical Officer Sonny Singh is the Chief Commercial Officer at BitPay which is the largest processor of bitcoin in the world. BitPay has raised over $30M in funding from top investors like Founders Fund, Richard Brandson, and Index Ventures. Previously, Sonny was part of the founding sales team at Jumio where he was the first Vice... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonny-singh-2b0355/ Joe Lynam Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Joe Lynam Verrency President xPressTap Joe Lynam is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive with extensive Global fin-tech startup and operating experience. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of xPressTap leading a team of entrepreneurs and engineers building a... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelynam/ Peggy Burke Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Peggy Burke 1185 Design CEO Peggy Burke is the founder and CEO of 1185 Design, an award-winning digital branding agency specializing in brand development through positioning and design. Since November of ’85 she has done extensive work in Silicon Valley for Fortune 100 companies such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, IBM and SAP, as well as numerous startup and venture... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-burke-04416a2/ Ron Stewart Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Ron Stewart Transunion VP of Sales With more than 20 years experience in the credit industry, Ron is currently Vice President of Sales and Business Development for TransUnion Interactive, TransUnion’s direct-to-consumer business unit. Prior to that, he was Sales Manager for TransUnion’s local business unit handling Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-stewart-0279a15/ Aimeelene Gaspar Submitted by Holly on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 16:46 Aimeelene Gaspar LionX Aimeelene is CoFounder and CEO of LionX, offering a consumer privacy technology platform for businesses to meet the complex consumer privacy regulations in... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeelene-gaspar/ On Be a Part of Launchpad Expand your knowledge. Increase your contacts. Move the needle forward for your company and help others do the same. 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Sarah Biller Submitted by Andriy Chyrskyy on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 17:53 Sarah Biller Vantage Ventures, FinTech Sandbox Co-founder Sarah Biller is an Entrepreneur, Investor, and Educator in the FinTech sector. She is the Executive Director of Vantage Ventures, a collaboration of West Virginia University (a Research 1 University), global Technology leaders, Fortune Class companies and Venture Capital firms, focused on providing entrepreneurs in the center of the country a systematic... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahbiller/
Dara Tarkowski Submitted by Andriy Chyrskyy on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 18:04 Dara Tarkowski Actuate Law Managing Partner at Actuate Law Dara Tarkowski is a renowned legal expert shaping the future of law, technology and highly regulated industry. As a published author, keynote speaker, and the co-founder of the RegTech start-up quointec, she is an outspoken voice on how technology is impacting the future of delivering legal and compliance advice to... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dara-chevlin-tarkowski/
Jeff Cain Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Jeff Cain Envestnet | Yodlee VP Strategic Partnerships Jeff Cain has extensive technology and startup experience, having been a business development and M&A executive at companies such as Common Sense Media, Cadence Design Systems and Red Herring. He built an ecosystem of wireless startups for Rutberg & Company and ran a consultancy that provided M&A, partnership... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-cain-90b69/
Jason W. Henrichs Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Jason W. Henrichs FinTech Forge Managing Partner Jason is an entrepreneur and builder with a focus on turning opportunities into scaleable organizations. He’s founded companies, advised growing companies, built a venture capital firm and headed innovation (including strategic investment and corporate development) for a public company. He’s previously helped found PerkStreet... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhenrichs/
William C. Kragie Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 William C. Kragie Doppio Group CEO Doppio Group William is the CEO of Doppio Group, a global consulting firm and Infor Alliance Partner serving manufacturing, distribution and equipment service companies. He is responsible for leading customer acquisition, strategic... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/willkrag/
Jack Crabtree Submitted by Holly on Wed, 06/24/2020 - 16:03 Jack Crabtree Envestnet | Yodlee FinTech Manager EMEA Jack manages Fintech sales for Envestnet | Yodlee in EMEA engaging with both B2B and B2C companies varying from 2 people startups to some of the biggest tech enterprises globally. He has extensive experience working with FinTech startups, is educated and trained in executive leadership, employee engagement, and sales... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-crabtree-13147a117/
Dorrian Porter Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Dorrian Porter Vestaboard Founder and CEO Dorrian Porter is an entrepreneur living in Menlo Park, California. He recently founded Vestaboard, which has reimagined and modernized the split-flap message board you might see at a train station. In February 2013 he started Northern Imagination, a company named in tribute to his Canadian roots and dedicated to the pursuit... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorrianporter/
Sonny Singh Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Sonny Singh Bitpay Chief Commerical Officer Sonny Singh is the Chief Commercial Officer at BitPay which is the largest processor of bitcoin in the world. BitPay has raised over $30M in funding from top investors like Founders Fund, Richard Brandson, and Index Ventures. Previously, Sonny was part of the founding sales team at Jumio where he was the first Vice... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonny-singh-2b0355/
Joe Lynam Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Joe Lynam Verrency President xPressTap Joe Lynam is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive with extensive Global fin-tech startup and operating experience. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of xPressTap leading a team of entrepreneurs and engineers building a... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelynam/
Peggy Burke Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Peggy Burke 1185 Design CEO Peggy Burke is the founder and CEO of 1185 Design, an award-winning digital branding agency specializing in brand development through positioning and design. Since November of ’85 she has done extensive work in Silicon Valley for Fortune 100 companies such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, IBM and SAP, as well as numerous startup and venture... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-burke-04416a2/
Ron Stewart Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 08:12 Ron Stewart Transunion VP of Sales With more than 20 years experience in the credit industry, Ron is currently Vice President of Sales and Business Development for TransUnion Interactive, TransUnion’s direct-to-consumer business unit. Prior to that, he was Sales Manager for TransUnion’s local business unit handling Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-stewart-0279a15/
Aimeelene Gaspar Submitted by Holly on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 16:46 Aimeelene Gaspar LionX Aimeelene is CoFounder and CEO of LionX, offering a consumer privacy technology platform for businesses to meet the complex consumer privacy regulations in... LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimeelene-gaspar/