Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Texas based CEO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sashi Narahari
Founder & CEO of HighRadius
Sashi co-founded HighRadius and brings a unique combination of business management expertise and technical knowledge to his leadership of the HighRadius team and corporate strategy. This focus on business process improvement is the driving philosophy behind HighRadius’ offerings and results in our customers achieving peak financial performance through improvements such as reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), greater operational efficiency, and increased deduction recovery. He has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies in implementing credit management, collections management, dispute management, and invoicing and payments solutions. Prior to HighRadius, Sashi served as the CEO of Riversand Technologies, a provider of Master Data Management (MDM) solutions. Sashi holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Chennai, India.
Follow Sashi Narahari:
About HighRadius: HighRadius is a SaaS company that develops an artificial intelligence-based order-to-cash and treasury management software.
Joshua Chodniewicz
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Fundify
Josh is the co-founder and CEO of Fundify. Most recently, he co-founded and served as CEO of Art.com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors. Josh has an in-depth knowledge of the Internet and e-commerce and is extremely passionate about building sustainable value by providing vision, direction, and meeting the needs of the customer. One of his greatest accomplishments has been building Art.com and Allposters.com into the world’s largest online consumer marketplace for prints, posters, photographs, and custom frames. He is a firm believer that great companies are built by great people, and he attributes much of Art.com’s success to the combined vision and effort of his co-workers.
Follow Joshua Chodniewicz:
About Art.com, Fundify: Fundify connects startups and investors to each other.
Ryan Wuerch
Founder, Executive Chairman, & CEO of Dosh
Ryan Wuerch is an entrepreneur, a husband, and a father, who loves getting the most out of life. He has spent the last two decades focused on taking business ideas and turning them into reality. Ryan is a seasoned and proven leader as CEO, chairman, philanthropist, investor, and key visionary, leading companies from inception to the public market with values in excess of $1 billion. His pursuit to create success with the companies he’s founded has led to him being awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award by Ernst & Young two times. Previous to devoting his life to Dosh, Ryan launched Solavei. The vision of Solavei was to positively impact millions of people by enabling them to engage with the social commerce platform and obtain, then share the services such as mobile with their friends and family. Solavei was named a top 100 technology company in North America by Red Herring magazine. Solavei was acquired in late 2015 and much of the innovative technology continues to be used by other companies globally. Before Solavei, Ryan founded Motricity and spent a decade building it into a global leading mobile data services provider to the world’s largest mobile operators such as AT&T, Verizon, Reliance, Axiata and Telefonica. Motricity had investors such as NEA, TCV, and Intel, and went public in 2010, obtaining a market value that exceeded $1 billion. Ryan is passionate about giving back in his business efforts and in his personal life. For the last 11 years, Ryan has served on the board of the Miss America Organization which is one of the nation’s leading achievement programs and the world’s largest providers of scholarship assistance for young women. He is honored to call Miss America 1996, Shawntel, his wife. He and Shawntel are passionate about philanthropic causes that they support through their family foundation, such as digging water wells in Central African Republic, orphanages in Haiti and Belize, and education for those who need assistance. Ryan is an avid runner who has run over 45 marathons, including 9 Boston Marathons. He uses his Dosh to take his wife and boys on special trips, and buy feed for his Texas longhorn, five goats, and two donkeys!
Follow Ryan Wuerch:
About Dosh: Dosh is a free cash back app that finds users money for shopping, dining out, and pumping gas at thousands of merchants & brands nationwide.
Sheffield Clark
Founder & CEO of CoinSource
Founder of CoinSource.
Follow Sheffield Clark:
About CoinSource: Coinsource makes buying and selling Bitcoin with cash easier and faster than ever with its state-of-the-art, proprietary software.
Lamine Zarrad
CEO of Stellar
Lamine Zarrad is the Founder and CEO at Stellar.
Follow Lamine Zarrad:
About Stellar: Stellar is an app set out to solve one of the biggest economic problems faced by American consumers — access to credit.
Josh Smith
Co-Founder & CEO of Solovis
Josh brings a wealth of experience in investment management having worked in various investment capacities and as a consultant for investment management organizations. Josh has spent time in multiple roles as an analyst, investment team member, operations associate and subsequently, to a head of technology creating a software platform that helped a large outsourced CIO manage operations, risk and daily investment activities. After consulting for family offices, endowments and fund of funds, his passion for improving operational efficiencies and helping investment professionals make more informed decisions led Josh to co-found Solovis – the first true multi-asset class portfolio management and reporting application focused exclusively on the limited partner community.
Follow Josh Smith:
About Solovis, VRGL: Solovis is a multi-asset class portfolio management, analytics and reporting technology platform, designed for institutional investors.
Joshua Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of FloatMe
Joshua Sanchez is the Co-Founder and CEO of FloatMe.
Follow Joshua Sanchez:
About FloatMe: FloatMe is the fast-growing fintech app that’s helped Americans save $100M in fees since launch through “floats” and a host of PFM tools.
Jon Fry
Founder & CEO of Lendflow
Founder & CEO at ChannelGrowth
Follow Jon Fry:
About ChannelGrowth, FoodEagle, Lendflow, Quickline Credit: Lendflow makes it easy for software companies to embed lending services into their product.
Michael Hansen
President and Chief Executive Officer of Alkami Technology
Follow Michael Hansen:
About Alkami Technology: Alkami Technology provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for credit unions and banks.
Melbourne O’Banion
CEO & Co-Founder of Bestow
Follow Melbourne O’Banion:
About Bestow: Bestow is an insurance technology company offering term life insurance that is accessible and affordable to families.
Colton Seal
CEO/Founder of Routefusion
Colton Seal is the Founder and CEO of Routefusion.
Follow Colton Seal:
About Routefusion: Routefusion is an API first, global product expansion platform built for product teams
Christopher Brown
Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo
Christopher Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo & Modular & he attended Southern Methodist University in 2010.
Follow Christopher Brown:
About Modular, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
Joseph Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Unchained Capital
Joseph Kelly is the Co-Founder & CEO at Unchained Capital.
Follow Joseph Kelly:
About Perfect Timing, Unchained Capital: Unchained Capital is a blockchain financial services company that lends cash to long-term crypto holders.
Luca Garulli
Founder and CEO of Arcade Trader
Follow Luca Garulli:
About Arcade Trader: Arcade Trader provides an algorithmic trading platform to research, develop, test, and go live with a personal hedge fund.
Jose Bethancourt
CEO of Method Financial
Follow Jose Bethancourt:
About GradJoy, Method Financial: Method Financial is a debt repayment API that facilitates payments for all types of debt.
Wayne Roberts
CEO of Abrigo
Wayne Roberts is a transformational leader and builder of high growth technology companies and teams. He joined Abrigo as CEO in 2016 when the company was still called Banker’s Toolbox, and led its resurgence by driving next-generation products and services, unleashing a powerful company culture, generating impressive organic growth, and leading multiple acquisitions to make Abrigo the Enterprise Risk Management partner of choice for America’s community financial institutions. Earlier, he was chief operating officer at Accruent, the leading provider of software solutions in the commercial real estate management market, and also held senior leadership roles at Rackspace, Dell, Trammell Crow, and Accenture. A native of Austin, he is also a proud graduate of Texas A&M University, where he earned a BBA in business analysis and research and an MBA in finance.
Follow Wayne Roberts:
About Abrigo: Abrigo provides market-leading compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions to enable its customers to think bigger.
Jun Xu
CEO of 360 Finance
Jun Xu has over 15 years of field experience in the financial industry. Before, he had worked in HSBC bank and achieved the role of the youngest partner in the Asian region at McKinsey at age of 30. There he was in charge of banking, securities, and trust business in the Chinese area. Jun launched a private bank in 2014 and secured billions of investment from IDG Capital and other investors. Jun co-founded 360 Finance in 2016 and currently serves as its CEO.
Follow Jun Xu:
About 360 Finance: 360 Finance is a digital consumer finance platform.
Bruce Parker
Founder & CEO of Modo
Bruce Parker is a self-declared #paymentsgeek and has been a visionary and strategist for some of the largest and most innovative (according to them) payments technology companies in the world. Bruce has created new products, built partnerships and shaped strategy that has moved the payments industry, in some cases, to tears. Bruce founded Modo, in part because he had no idea what he was doing, but he remains the CEO until someone figures this out. Modo was recently granted a patent for its COIN® payments technology for connecting payments systems to new digital experiences. Bruce has the uncanny ability to connect the most diverse payments industry participants, and now has a company to help others do the same. Oh, and Bruce is also an accomplished diner and can recommend the best restaurant in any city in the world, and the best valued (red) wine on their wine list.
Follow Bruce Parker:
About Modo, Walk-in: Modo is the payments orchestration platform for enterprises.
Clint Cornett
CEO & Founder of ValuTrac Software, Inc.
Follow Clint Cornett:
About ValuTrac Software, Inc.: ValuTrac Software develops SaaS technology solutions that help financial institutions solve complex operational problems.
Colin LeMahieu
CEO/Founder of Nano
Colin LeMahieu A software developer for the last 10 years, Colin founded RaiBlocks, now Nano, in 2014. He moved to the project full time in 2017 and is spearheading development of the core protocol. His interests include space technology, physics, and environmental sustainability.
Follow Colin LeMahieu:
About Nano, Nano Foundation: Nano A payment system for the world offering instant, feeless, scalable transactions.
Matt Flake
President & CEO of Q2ebanking
Matt currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Q2 and is a member of the Board of Directors. He has been with Q2 since its founding in 2005. During his tenure at Q2, he’s been a significant contributor to the growth and strategic direction of the organization. With more than 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, including sales and banking operations, Matt is intensely determined to help regional and community-focused financial institutions compete with the Mega and money center banks. He is a recipient of the esteemed EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award in the Central Texas region and was an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year National finalist. Matt received his degree from Baylor University and is currently a member of the Dell Children’s Hospital Board of Trustees.
Follow Matt Flake:
About Q2ebanking: Q2ebanking designs virtual, mobile and voice banking applications for financial institutions.
Jordan Graft
CEO of TriumphPay
Follow Jordan Graft:
About TriumphPay: TriumphPay is a payment processing platform dedicated to the supply chain industry.
Tony Aguilar
Founder / CEO of Chipper
Follow Tony Aguilar:
About Chipper, Forbes Councils: Chipper is a student loan app that lower payments, qualify for forgiveness, and chip away debt faster.
David Wieland
CEO and Founder of Realized
David is a serial entrepreneur who, over his twenty-five career, playing the critical role in more than $3 billion of institutional real estate and capital markets transactions, many as a principal. David is the founder of Realized, an end-to-end Fintech/WealthTech platform allowing accredited investors to buy ownership interests in commercial properties and create custom portfolios that minimize capital gains taxes and deliver tax-sheltered, passive income. The Realized marketplace is the missing link between investors seeking long-term, passive income and top-quality real estate operators that want efficient access to 1031 exchange capital. Before Realized, David founded Centrist Capital, a boutique venture capital firm that thematically invests in founders and their early-stage companies. Before Centrist, David co-founded a fully-integrated real estate operating company, which between 2004 and 2009 (when he sold his interest in the firm), acquired 12,500 apartments units across the Sunbelt, representing a total investment more than $925 million. David also co-founded Forward Capital, a structured finance company, as well as Convenience Retail Group, the parent company of a real estate investment trust and a wholesale gasoline distributor. Early in his career, David held positions with Security Capital Group, Prologis, Archstone Communities, Equitable Real Estate (now Morgan Stanley Real Estate) and Arthur Andersen. David currently serves as a board member and advisor to seven promising technology companies. David is a past chair of the Board of Governors of LifeWorks. He is involved in his church and various other community activities across Austin, where he lives with his college sweetheart and wife of 25 years, Laura, and their three children. David attended Texas A&M University where he received his MS in Land Economics and Real Estate, BBA in Finance and Real Estate, and served in various leadership positions, including Vice President of the Student Body.
Follow David Wieland:
About Centrist Capital, Realized: The Realized FinTech platform enables aging HNW families to tax-efficiently convert legacy real estate into passive income investments.
Martin Wong
CEO of TF Holdings
Follow Martin Wong:
About TF Holdings: TF Holdings provides lenders the ability to rapidly launch an online loan product with market-leading application and servicing features.
Gerardo Treviño
Founder & CEO, Board Of Directors of Paybook
Gerardo Treviño is a passionate entrepreneur and technology enthusiast. Currently, he presides as Founder and CEO of Paybook, Inc., a cloud-based financial platform that eradicates the manual data input and time consuming operations of expense tracking and management. Paybook also provides total financial visibility to companies and individuals so they can spend smarter and focus on the things that matter most. Gerardo touts a decorated leadership career in the IT realm. His previous roles include Chief Executive Officer at Venio Technologies, a custom software development company, and Chief Technology Officer at Dicex International, Inc., the largest international commerce company in Mexico. Dicex acquired Venio in 2006. Gerardo, a native of Monterrey, Mexico, found his passion for computers at age 12 and sold his first lines of code when he was 16. He has amassed over 17 years of professional experience and holds a Bachelor degree in Information Technology from the Technological University of Coahuila in Mexico.
Follow Gerardo Treviño:
About Paybook: Paybook is a hub that connects people with their financial world through bank connectivity and innovative technology.
John Flynn
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Open Lending
He has been privileged to lead, launch or co-found numerous companies. Passionate about innovation, his work and personal ventures have remained committed to advancing the industry forward and provide solutions to real needs. Since co-founding both in 2000, John has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Open Lending, LLC and Lenders Protection, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. In his role, John leads the Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Account Management divisions. He also manages the insurance carrier relationships that support the Lenders Protection program. Under his leadership, Open Lending has been named to the Austin Business Journal’s “FAST 50” list five times, recognizing the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas. The company has also been named to the “INC 5000” list of fastest growing private companies nationwide and been named a “Best Place to Work” in Central Texas three times. John’s extensive background allows him a unique perspective for the industry. He brings diverse experience across financial institution leadership and operations, sales and marketing, and business development. He served for 12 years as Chief Executive Officer at Washington Gas Light Federal Credit Union in Springfield, VA. John was previously Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Good2cu.com. He formerly led Marketing at The Equitable where he spearheaded the design and execution of the firm’s national marketing program for the credit union industry. A sought after expert in financial institution operations and profitability, John co-founded Objective Advisors, Inc., a registered Investment Advisory firm dedicated to providing objective financial management services exclusively to credit unions and banks nationwide. John also currently serves as President of IAS (Insurance Administrative Services, LLC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Open Lending, LLC. In 2015, John co-founded The Finest Federal Credit Union, established to serve the police and law enforcement agencies of New York City. It became the first newly chartered credit union in years. John also co-founded and co-owned CU Mortgage, Inc. and Digital Settlement Services in the Washington, D.C. area. He served on the Board of Directors for the Metropolitan Area Credit Union Management Association, in Washington, D.C. for six years. During his tenure there, John was honored to serve as Board President and Vice President, each for one year. He served on the Virginia Leagues Dues and Budget Committee for two years. John received his BA in Accounting from Bloomsburg University, in Bloomsburg, PA. He holds Property and Casualty insurance licenses in all 50 states. In his free time, John enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs and working with youth. He and his wife Michelle reside in Austin, TX.
Follow John Flynn:
About Open Lending: Open Lending is a provider of lending enablement and risk analytics solutions to financial institutions.
John Wingate
CEO of BankSocial
John Wingate is the CEO of Fivancial Inc., a holding company that includes two subsidiaries: BankSocial and Rivia.
Follow John Wingate:
About BankSocial: BankSocial is a global FinTech company leading the evolution of financial services and technological infrastructure through blockchain technology.
At the heart of their mission is the belief that the individual is paramount and social capitalism will be the future of economies.
The company offers a range of products, including a self-custody crypto exchange, KYC solution, partnerships with credit unions, payments solutions, lending, and more.
BankSocial is committed to empowering businesses and individuals globally by offering an open financial system, providing a new way of finance to the world.
About Rivia: $rUSD (Our USD) is a 1 to 1 verifiably backed stablecoin called Rivia US Dollar (“$rUSD”) that is tradeable across private and public decentralized distributed ledgers for Credit Unions, Banks, Businesses, their members, and their customers to circumvent traditional financial rails including card networks and ACH/Wire networks.
Rivia is reducing the reliance on legacy finance, lowering costs of doing business, and providing worldwide access to the American financial system for the unbanked and underbanked
Ruben Izmailyan
Co-Founder and CEO of Quiltt
Ruben Izmailyan is the co-founder and CEO of Quiltt.
Follow Ruben Izmailyan:
About Quiltt: The Quiltt platform empowers anyone to launch modern consumer fintech experiences, no backend required.
Will Mitchell
CEO of Rabbet
Will Mitchell is Co-Founder at BumperCrop.
Follow Will Mitchell:
About Rabbet: Rabbet is an intelligent construction finance platform using data to bring trust, transparency, and matchmaking to home renovation.
David Kimball
Chairman & CEO of Prosper Marketplace
David Kimball is Chief Finance Officer of Prosper Marketplace. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing all financial activities, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax and fund accounting. David brings over 20 years of financial services experience to Prosper. Previously, David served as Senior Financial Officer of USAA’s Chief Operating Office, where he oversaw USAA’s real estate unit, bank, P&C and life insurance companies, investment management company, and the call centers/distribution functions. During time at USAA, he also served as USAA’s corporate treasurer and held several senior positions across several finance functions including capital markets, treasury, accounting, and FP&A. Prior to USAA, David spent ten years at Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor Credit Company in both the U.S. and U.K., working on their securitization programs, debt issuance, and a variety of FP&A positions. David has an M.B.A and B.A from Brigham Young University.
Follow David Kimball:
About Prosper Marketplace: Prosper Marketplace is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions.
Christopher Winn
Chief Executive Officer of Ormonde
Founder & President of Kidbusy.
Follow Christopher Winn:
About Ormonde: Ormonde provides institutional clients with customized investment solutions, including customised fiduciary management for pension funds.
Paul Snow
CEO of Factom
Chairman of the Texas Bitcoin Conference, Inventor of the Factom protocol and a co-founder of Factom Inc., Paul has spent 30+ years writing compilers, interpreters, protocols, and rules engines. An early adopter of Bitcoin, he organized Passing Bitcoin Around the World in 2013, a stunt highlighting the speed at which value can be exchanged around the world. He continues to run meetups, speaks, and even testifies before Congress about Bitcoin and crypto technology.
Follow Paul Snow:
About Factom: Factom, Inc. is a blockchain innovations company providing blockchain as a service platforms.
Gene Grant
Chief Executive Officer of Levelfield
Follow Gene Grant:
About Levelfield: VRBex is a Houston, Texas based financial services company seeking to blend traditional banking, securities, and digital assets
Christopher Doyle
Founder, Board Member, President & Chief Executive Officer of Billd
Follow Christopher Doyle:
About Billd, Ocean Breeze Recovery: Billd is a construction finance company that offers material purchases at 120-day terms to the construction industry.
Chris Slaughter
Co-Founder & CEO of LVL
Chris Slaughter is a Founder & CEO at Lynx Laboratories.
Follow Chris Slaughter:
About LVL, Lynx Laboratories: LVL is an FDIC-insured mobile banking app where you can exchange cash & Bitcoin for free & invest easily with Autopilot.
David Knoch
Chief Executive Officer of Docupace
David Knoch is the Chief Executive Officer at Docupace.
Follow David Knoch:
About Docupace: Docupace is a solutions provider focused on digitizing and automating operations in the financial advice and investment industry.
Brad Lawler
Co Founder CEO of DRAFT
Follow Brad Lawler:
About DRAFT: Draft offers a modern suite of analytics and communication tools built to help wealth advisors win and retain assets.
Bill Clark
CEO and Founder of MicroVentures
Follow Bill Clark:
About MicroVentures: MicroVentures is an online equity crowdfunding platform enabling angel investors to connect with startups to raise capital.
Kurt Rathmann
CEO & Founder of ScaleFactor
Kurt is a born and raised entrepreneur. He brings a diverse background measuring and growing businesses and functions as the Chief Everything Officer. He has a keen focus for growing revenue, refining operations and developing people. He is a news junkie, technological optimist, and has inherited the travel bug with a passion for exploring the world with his awesome wife.
Follow Kurt Rathmann:
About ScaleFactor: ScaleFactor provides accounting and finance software with automated bookkeeping, proactive alerts, and other features.
Gary Forni
CEO Advisory Staff of ScaleFactor
Gary’s focus is on acceleration finely tuned for success. He brings more than 25 years of experience in launching industry-disrupting technologies and business models. Previously, Gary served as the CEO of multiple companies and spent extensive time at Intel as the Worldwide Director of Marketing where he started four new businesses.
Follow Gary Forni:
About ScaleFactor: ScaleFactor provides accounting and finance software with automated bookkeeping, proactive alerts, and other features.
Andy Roberts
Chief Executive Officer of Vpay
Andy’s focus at VPay is to drive an innovative company that allows their customers to gain a strategic competitive advantage through the use of the company’s patented solutions and their associated processes. He believes the best way for a company to be successful is to position their customers to be successful. Prior to joining VPay, Andy was the President and CEO of Fleet One Holdings LLC. Fleet One was sold to WEX Inc. in 2012. Prior to Fleet One, Andy was the CEO, President or senior member of the management team for Alliance Data Systems, Harmonic Systems Inc., and Diamond Shamrock (now Valero). Andy started his career as an information technologist with General Motors and wrote a significant amount of software in multiple languages and on multiple technology platforms. Andy received his education from the University of Texas, Austin and the University of Michigan, Flint.
Follow Andy Roberts:
About Vpay: VPay is focused on delivering best-in-class claims payment solutions designed specifically to streamline the payment process.
Cathryn Peirce
Co-Founder & CEO of Carbon Zero
Follow Cathryn Peirce:
About Carbon Zero: Carbon Zero provides a credit card that funds forestry and carbon capture projects with every swipe.
Youngro Lee
Cofounder, CEO of NextSeed
Youngro Lee is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NextSeed.
Follow Youngro Lee:
About NextSeed: NextSeed is an online fundraising platform where any businesses can raise financing from any investors including non-accredited investors.
Ashish Gadnis
CEO & Founder of BanQu
Ashish Gadnis is the Co-Founder / CEO of the award winning blockchain application BanQu.
Follow Ashish Gadnis:
About BanQu, Unreasonable: BanQu seeks to provide financial inclusion for the un/underbanked of the world using blockchain technology
John Mitchell
CEO of Episode Six
Follow John Mitchell:
About : Episode Six offers a highly configurable ledger and payments system. The financial technology is readily accessible via over 550 API.
Daniel Chu
Founder & CEO of Tricolor Holdings
Daniel Chu is the Founder and CEO at Tricolor Holdings.
Follow Daniel Chu:
About Tricolor Holdings: Tricolor Holdings is a mission-driven company that utilizes advanced data analytics and technology to advance financial inclusion.
Jeff Ball
President & CEO of Visio Lending
Jeff is responsible for setting Visio’s overall strategy and direction. Prior to forming Visio Lending, he founded Visio’s predecessor company, Econohomes. Jeff previously served as the Global Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking at JPMorgan, where his clients included some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Intel and Texas Instruments. Before JPMorgan, Jeff was a corporate securities attorney at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper). Jeff received his JD and MBA from Santa Clara University. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Theology from Georgetown University.
Follow Jeff Ball:
About Visio Lending: Visio Lending offers a range of loans and mortgage loans to investors in the real estate investment markets.
Scott Tynes
CEO of Consero Global Solution
Scott co-founded Consero Global in 2006 with a vision of providing small- and mid size companies with a more reliable, scalable and economic way to address their internal finance and administration needs. Since, then, Consero has become the go-to solution for private equity firms and growing companies. Scott has more than 15 years of direct finance and consulting experience with companies ranging in size from emerging technology businesses to Fortune 500 companies, including IBM. Prior to founding Consero, Scott was a senior finance executive at Trilogy Software where he made significant improvements to the company’s financial forecasting process while leading the buildup and management of its finance and accounting operations. Scott earned an MBA from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Managerial Studies from Rice University.
Follow Scott Tynes:
About Consero Global Solution: Consero is a provider of cloud-based outsourced finance and accounting services.
Luis Macias
CEO & Founder of GrainChain
Luis is a serial inventor and entrepreneur. Throughout his career, he has led and designed many successful enterprise systems within the government, insurance, and agricultural sectors. His relentless commitment to enhance business processes and mission critical deployments has resulted in numerous prosperous endeavors. His focus over the last four years on viable agricultural smart contracts will ensure GrainChain becomes the leader in its market space. Grainchain introduces blockchain technology to an untapped multi-trillion-dollar global industry, agriculture. This innovation provides instant payment to suppliers and farmers, and immediate access of commodities to buyers. It attacks fraud and corruption through certification and accountability. It streamlines procedures for all farmers, buyers, and participants in the commodities market. Grainchain is a comprehensive exchange platform that modernizes the agricultural ecosystem and tracks farm goods from initial storage to the financial markets. Grainchain’s digital token is backed by fiat currency which provides individuals and organizations in the agricultural industry with a secure and verified method of exchanging commodities. The fixed minimum reserve ratio between all outstanding tokens in circulation and associated real world assets sustains accountability and stabilizes the internal exchange. Grainchain uses the Ethereum blockchain and other audit methods to verify that issued tokens are financially backed by the reserves. The full power of blockchain innovation allows all participants in the industry to use smart contracts and exchange tokens on the internal exchange. The benefits include safe, verifiable, and immediate payments, matching farmer production to buyer order, real time audit trails, agreement creation and enforcement.
Follow Luis Macias:
About GrainChain: GrainChain creates an exchange platform with blockchain-based solutions for prompt payment and accountability.
Ricardo Flores
CEO of @yuhu.mx
Investor and board member of IT companies , telecommunications , financial and construction industry . In 1996 he founded a telecom business pioneer in Mexico, specializing in broadband wireless data transmission solutions, this company deployed +500 across the country . At the age of 24 years taking advantage of market conditions and the first VOIP technologies, he founded a B2B company focused on cost reduction telephony and international long distance in a vertical way, in 1998 co-founded IP Bell LLC, (now IPBTel ) which remains in the wholesale voice market , this has evolved Unified Communications and currently sells more than 5 Billion minutes a year. Ricardo is globetrotting, marathon runner, snowboarder passionate, and above all a constant learner of the practical applications of the technology.
Follow Ricardo Flores:
About @yuhu.mx: Fintech
Matt Beecher
Chief Executive Officer of Neocova
Follow Matt Beecher:
About Neocova: Neocova is a financial services company that specializes in providing artificial intelligence, analytics, and other cloud-based systems.
Cameron Desautels
Founder / CEO of CollBox
Follow Cameron Desautels:
About CollBox: Debt collection for cloud accounting
Dave Tomlinson
CEO & President of BorrowersFirst
Dave Tomlinson is the CEO & President at BorrowersFirst, Inc.
Follow Dave Tomlinson:
About BorrowersFirst: We are a tech-enabled consumer lending platform organized around providing superior value and experience for our borrowers.
Mark Dittman
CEO of IBT
Mark Dittman has more than 25 years of financial technology experience. Dittman is focused on steering the company’s roll in the financial services industry, while maximizing performance. As CEO, Dittman has maintained a tremendous growth rate of over 20% year over year. Mark Dittman is responsible for developing strategic partnerships, architecting merger and acquisition opportunities, and marketing oversight. Mark has played a critical role in the successful acquisition of MICR Resource Management and two divisions of Goldleaf Financial Solutions.
Follow Mark Dittman:
About IBT: Financial Software Development Firm
Kiley Summers
Founder and CEO of SpenDebt
Kiley Summers is the founder and CEO of SpenDebt, a financial technology company that helps consumers to pay off debt through micropayments. Previously, Kiley has served Naulijable Homecare as CEO. Kiley Summers holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Follow Kiley Summers:
About SpenDebt: SpenDebt is a financial technology company helping save one million families from financial fatalities with every purchased made.
Jerry Jackson
CEO, Founder of GivePay Commerce
Jerry has over 20 years experience in digital payments and is the CEO and Founder of GivePay Commerce. Prior to standing up GivePay, Jerry held leadership positions as SVP of Business Development at Switch Commerce and VP of Strategic Accounts at Bank of America Merchant services. Jerry’s vision for electronic payments via POS, ATMs, Online, and Mobile is leading the company to be a FinTech powerhouse in the years ahead.
Follow Jerry Jackson:
About GivePay Commerce: GivePay is a digital Gift Card Mall launching via thousands of ATMs and POS/Kiosk devices nationwide. | FlatRatePay offers Merchant Services
Adam Jernigan
CEO of Financials OnTap
Follow Adam Jernigan:
About Financials OnTap: Financials OnTap is a digital marketplace and collaborative platform that matches companies with short-term finance and accounting needs.
Akshay Singh
Founder and CEO of Indyfin
Akshay Singh is the Founder at CEO at Indyfin.
Follow Akshay Singh:
About Indyfin: Indyfin empowers independent financial advisors to compete and win in a new era of wealth management.
Ari Palmer
Co-founder & CEO of TaxTaker
Follow Ari Palmer:
About TaxTaker: TaxTaker identifies, applies, and secures R&D Tax Credits for Startups and SMBs.
Aladin Abughazaleh
CEO of ATA RiskStation
Chief Executive Officer at ATA RiskStation, LLC.
Follow Aladin Abughazaleh:
About ATA RiskStation, GCI Asset Management: ATA RiskStation is a financial services company that offers a web-based platform for risk-reporting of funds and investors.
Adam Welwood
President & CEO of Town Square Financial
Follow Adam Welwood:
About Town Square Financial: Town Square Financial is a mortgage lender firm based in Texas.
