We're thrilled to have Chaney Ojinnaka, CEO of VendorMach and VP of Enterprise, Ivan Kotorov in as guest speakers for Byte Academy students and a limited number of members.VendorMach is a network driven platform that uses AI (predictive analytics) to produce the VM Trust score. The score is then used to offer invoice receivables financing and insurance products to SMBs while enabling enterprises to better manage their supply chain. Founded in London, VendorMachrecently opened its US office in New York. (Byte Academy, including this meetup organizer, was thrilled to mentor such a great company after they graduated Startupbootcamp FinTech's first NYC accelerator class)

Topics covered over the evening will include: VendorMach and founders' overview, building a startup, AI and machine learning, data science in fintech, supply chain finance, FinTech environment London v. US (pre/post Brexit), pros & cons of an accelerator and more. There will also be ample time for audience Q&A and the integration of other requested topics into the discussion.

Bios:

Chaney is founder and CEO at VendorMach, a company he founded to level the playing field for SMBs within international supply chains.Before that he led M&A, innovation and vendor integration at a Humana line of business and worked extensively in senior risk and product roles at the firm as well as at Aetna Inc. Chaney holds an MBA, Finance from theUniversity of Chicago (Booth), and has degrees from Kings College London and Howard U.

Ivanis VP, Enterprise Accounts at VendorMach and brings to the team valuable commercial and leadership talent.He has over 8 years of enterprise sales experience helping innovative companies drive return on investment in technology in the EMEA market in companies such as Brightcove, Gartner and Datawind. Ivan holds an MBA from London South Bank University and has a BA degree in International Economic Relations from University of Economics, Varna.