Your Social Media Directory for LendIt USA 2016 - PART 1
This is my second year that I’ll be attending LendIt and there’s no question that this is THE event to attend for marketplace lending, P2P lending, crowdinvesting, online lending, crowdfunding for investment, etc. Last year, there were over 2000 attendees at LendIt in NYC (see last year’s post) and this year, LendIt is expecting over 4000 attendees and over 250 speakers. We’re getting close to Money 20/20 numbers, which can be overwhelming! Hopefully, you’re scheduling meetings now so you can take full advantage of the event and maximize your time. Also, it’s always highly recommended to shop the exhibit floor for new platforms, services, etc.
Below is a directory of speakers, to help in your mission to connect before, during and after the conference.
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EVENT INFO (LendIt USA 2016 on Twitter)
Twitter Handle: @LendIt
Conference Hashtag: #LendItUSA (click to see all tweets)
SPEAKERS (A-K)
Click here to see L-Z (Part 2)
Steve Abreu
Founder/CEO, Blustream Lending and Newfi Nexera Holding LLC companies - @NexeraHolding
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Ram Ahluwalia - @ramahluwalia
CEO, PeerIQ - @peeriqnews
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Antoni Airikkala - @antoni_ep
Director, New Markets, Fellow Finance - @FellowFinanceFi
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Steve Allocca
VP & General Manager, Global Credit, PayPal - @PayPal
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Manny Alvarez - @ManuelPAlvarez
General Counsel & CCO, Affirm - @Affirm
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Jeff Andrews
VP RIA and Family Office, Lending Club - @LendingClub
Owner, Andrews Partners
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John Arensmeyer
Founder/CEO, Small Business Majority - @SmlBizMajority
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Annie Armstrong
Partner, KPMG - @KPMG
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Mike Armstrong
President, ZestFinance - @zestfinance
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Rohit Arora - @RohitBiz2Credit
CEO & Co-Founder, Biz2Credit - @biz2credit
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Nav Athwal - @navathwal
Founder/CEO, RealtyShares - @realtyshares
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Jo Ann Barefoot - @JoAnnBarefoot
CEO & Senior Fellow, Jo Ann Barefoot Group
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Brett Baris - @bbarisnyc
Founder and President, Credibility Capital - @credibilitycap
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Jonathan Barlow
Fintech Entrepreneur, Investor and Advisor
Founder, Eaglewood Capital Management
Board of Directors, Money360 - @Money360
Advisory Board, Crowdnetic - @Crowdnetic
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Philip Bartow
Portfolio Manager, RiverNorth Capital Management - @RiverNorthCap
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Paul Behm
Chief Information Officer, B2R Finance (a Blackstone Company) - @b2rfinance
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Peter Behrens
CCO & Co-Founder, RateSetter.com - @RateSetter
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Louis Beryl - @louisberyl
Founder/CEO, Earnest - @meetearnest
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Joseph Besecker
Chairman President and CEO, Emerald Asset Management
George Bessenyei - @GeorgeBessenyei
Director, 48 Factoring - @48factoring
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Sandeep Bhandari
Chief Credit Officer, Lending Club - @LendingClub
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Rejesh Bhat - @rajeshbhat
Co-founder, Roostify - @roostify
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Brian Biglin
Chief Risk Officer, loanDepot - @loanDepot
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Sean Bill - @macrocrunch
Investment Program Manager, VTA - @VTA
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Merlin Bise
CTO/President, Giact Systems - @GiactSystems
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Chris Bishko - @ChrisBishko
Partner, Omidyar Technology Ventures - @omidyarventures
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Brock Blake - @BrockBlake
Founder/CEO, Lendio - @Lendio
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Jeff Bogan - @jefbogan
Head of Investor Group, Lending Club - @LendingClub
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Tom Brainerd
Executive VP of Marketing, National Funding - @NationalFunding
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Elizabeth Braman - @elizabethbraman
Chief Product Officer, RealtyMogul - @Realty_Mogul
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Noah Breslow - @noahbreslow
CEO, OnDeck - @OnDeckCapital
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Bo Brustkern - @brustkern
CEO & Co-Founder, NSR Invest - @nsrinvest
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Matt Burton - @burtomd0
CEO & Co-Founder, Orchard - @orchardplatform
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Derek Butler - @derekfbutler
Chief Executive Officer, GRID Finance - @GRIDFinance
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Mike Cagney - @mcagney
CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder, SoFi - @SoFi
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Scott Cammarn
Partner, Cadwaladar, Wickersham & Taft - @Cadwalader
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Steve Carlson - @carlsonsr
Co-Founder and CEO, Ascend Consumer Finance
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Brendan Carroll
Partner, Victory Park Capital - @victoryparkcap
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Sergio Chalbaud
CEO & Founder, Fintonic - @fintonic
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Simon Champ
CEO, Eaglewood Europe
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Emily Chang - @emilychangtv
Anchor, Bloomberg West - @BloombergWest
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Steve Chaouki
EVP U.S. Information Services, Transunion - @TransUnion
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Joe Chen
Chairman & CEO, Renren
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Larry Chiavaro - @LarryChiavaro
Principal & EVP, First Associates - @1stassociates
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Gaurav Chopra - @chopragaurav
Founder, IndiaLends - @indialends
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Daniel T. Ciporin - @dtcippy
General Partner, Canaan Partners - @canaanpartners
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Nick Clements - @npclements
Co-Founder, MagnifyMoney - @magnify_money
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Itzik Cohen - @itzikcoh
Chief Business Officer, Prosper Marketplace - @prosperloans
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Alejandro Consentino - @alecosentino
Founder & CEO, Afluenta - @afluenta
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Brett Crosby - @brettc
Co-Founder & COO, PeerStreet - @PeerStreet
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Sanjay Darbha - @SanjayDarbha
Founder and CEO, PeerLend - @PeerLend_IN
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Stephen Dash - @stephenjdash
Founder and CEO, Credible Labs - @credible
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Raj Date - @rajdate
Managing Partner, Fenway Summer - @fenwaysummer
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Don Davis
Managing Partner, Prime Meridian - @PMIfunds
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Will Davis - @willydavisjr
CEO & Co-founder, Able Lending - @ablelending
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Phil DeGisi - @PhilDeGisi
Chief Marketing Officer, CommonBond - @commonbond
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Daniel DeMeo
Chief Executive Officer, CAN Capital - @cancapital
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Rick D'Emilia
VP Managing Director, Wilmington Trust
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Andrew Deringer
VP Head of Financial Institutions, Lending Club - @LendingClub
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Samir Desai - @samirdesai01
Co-Founder and CEO, Funding Circle - @FundingCircleUK
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Tonio DeSorrento - @TonioDeSo
Chief Executive Officer, Vemo Education - @vemoed
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Lauren DeSoto
SVP Marketing and Product Management, Experian - @ExperianCredit
Miklos Dietz
Director Managing Partner of Vancouver Office, McKinsey & Company - @McKinsey
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Alistair Dunlop
Senior Associate, Clifford Chance - @CC_US_PR
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Morgan Edwards
Chief Financial Officer, CommonBond - @commonbond
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Darrell Esch
VP & General Manager Small/Medium Business Lending, PayPal - @PayPal
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Miguel Estien - @MiguelEstien
Director, GE Capital - @GECapital
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Garient Evans
VP of Client Services, ID Analytics - @ID_Analytics
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Christian Faes - @ChristianFaes
CEO & Co-Founder, LendInvest - @LendInvest
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Mark Fitzpatrick
Managing Partner, Glide Capital
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Daneil Foggo
Chief Executive Officer, RateSetter Australia - @ratesetteraus
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Marc Franson
Managing Partner, Chapman and Cutler LLP - @chapmancutler
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James Friedman
Senior Analyst, Susquehanna Financial Group
Zack Friedman
VP & Head of Finance, CommonBond - @commonbond
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Jason Fritton - @JasonFritton
Co-Founder & CEO, Patch of Land - @patchofland
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Robert Frohwein - @KabbageRob
CEO & Co-Founder, Kabbage - @kabbageinc
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Sergio Furio - @sergiofurio
Founder & CEO, BankFacil - @bankfacil
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Gilles Gade - @gillesgade
Founder CEO & Chairman, Cross River Bank - @crossriverbank
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Michael Garrity - @mgarrity
CEO & Co-Founder, Financeit - @financeit
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Evan Gentry
Founder & CEO, Money360 - @Money360
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Nima Ghamsari
CEO & Founder, Blend - @blendlabsinc
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Dave Gilbert
Founder & CEO, National Funding - @NationalFunding
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Dave Girouard - @davegirouard
Founder & CEO, Upstart - @Upstart
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Ben Gold - @Gold_Ben
President, Quick Bridge Funding - @QuickBridgeOC
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David Goldin
Founder President & CEO, Capify - @Capify_US
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Glenn Goldman
CEO, Credibly - @credibly360
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Al Goldstein - @_AlGoldstein
Founder/CEO, Avant - @avant_us
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John Goodall - @JRGLandbay
Co-Founder and CEO, Landbay - @landbayuk
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John Graetz
Principal, Deloitte Advisory - @Deloitte
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Andrew Graham - @andrewtgraham
Co-founder & CEO, Borrowell - @borrowell
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Fiona Grandi - @FinTechQueen
Lead Partner, KPMG - @kpmg_us
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Alexander Graubner-Müller - @alexkorotkikh
CEO, Kreditech - @kreditech
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Bill Green - @BillLendingOne
Chief Executive Officer, LendingOne - @Lending_One
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Rene Griemens - @griemens
CFO, Kreditech - @kreditech
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Duncan Gross - @duncangross
Head of Institutional Funding, Harmoney - @harmoneynz
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Paul Gu - @paulxgu
Co-founder & Head of Product, Upstart - @upstart
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Manu Gupta - @mgupta1013
General Partner, Lakestar
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Sanjay Gupta - @sangup
Chief Operating Officer, C2FO - @C2FO
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James Gutierrez
Co-founder & CEO, Insikt - @insiktinc
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Melissa Guzy
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures - @arborventures1
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Jacob Haar
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Community Investment Management
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David Haber - @dhaber
Co-Founder & CEO, Bond Street - @onbondstreet
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Tony Hadley
Senior Vice President, Experian - @ExperianCredit
Sherif Hassan - @sherifyhassan
Founder & Managing Partner, Herio Capital - @HerioCapital
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Jared Hecht - @jaredhecht
Co-Founder & CEO, Fundera - @fundera
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Jilliene Helman - @JillieneHelman
Founder & CEO, RealtyMogul - @realty_mogul
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James Herbert
Co-Founder & President, LendingHome - @lendinghome
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Roberto Hernandez - @RobertoGHern
Principal, PwC - @PwC_LLP
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Rick Herrick - @RickSHerrick
Founding Partner & Managing Director, Salt Branding - @SaltBranding
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Steven Heruty
Managing Director Credit, Colchis Capital Management
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Sam Hodges - @HodgesSam
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Funding Circle USA - @FundingCircleUS
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Jason Hogg
CEO, Lending.com - @lending_dot_com
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Janice Horan
Senior Director Fair Isaac Corporation, FICO - @FICO
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Anthony Hsieh
Founder/CEO, loanDepot - @loanDepot
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Adam Hughes
Chief Operating Officer, Avant - @Avant_US
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Jillian Jaccard - @JillianJaccard
VP Business Development, Patch of Land - @PatchOfLand
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John Jacobs
Director of FinTech Strategies, eOriginal - @eOriginal
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Lisa Jacobs
Chief Strategy Officer, Funding Circle - @FundingCircleUS
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Sid Jajodia
Chief Investment Officer, Lending Club - @LendingClub
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Estee Jimerson
SVP Manager Solutions, Envestnet - @ENVintel
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Blake Johnson
Chairman & Founder, IMCA Capital
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Brew Johnson - @brewjohnson
CEO & Co-Founder, PeerStreet - @PeerStreet
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David Johnson - @davidjjohnson
CEO, First Associates - @1stAssociates
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Christopher A. Johnson
Managing Director, Prospect Capital Management
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Jason Jones - @cardinalrose
Co-Founder, LendIt Conference - @lendit
Co-founder, NSR Invest - @NSRInvest
Co-Founder, Cardinal Rose Group
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Richard Juliano
Chief Operating Officer, Emerald Asset Management
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Sam Kasle - @SK_LendingClub
Head of Self Directed Retail, Lending Club - @LendingClub
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Bill Kassul
Partner, Ranger Capital
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Brendon Kensel - @kenselandco
Founder & President, PrimaHealth Credit - @primahealthcred
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Piyush Khaitan
Managing Director, NeoGrowth Credit - @NeoGrowth_Loans
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Hyung Kim - @SupHyung
Co-Founder & CEO, Ldger - @ldgerinc
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Levi King - @kinglevi
CEO, Nav - @navsmb
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David Klein - @DavidXKlein
CEO & Co-Founder, CommonBond - @CommonBond
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Brian Korn - @Brian_Korn
Partner - Capital Markets, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP - @manatt
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Jonathan Kramer
Sales Director, Zopa - @Zopa
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