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Delve into the world of startups, featuring panels & fireside chats with founders, investors, mentors & successful entrepreneurs.
About this Event
Turning an Idea Into a Funded Startup is no simple feat & does not happen overnight. It's most often attributed to a founder's hard work & relentless dedication -- but that's too topical. What is it founder doing? What are they producing & what do they need to demonstrate to investors in order to gain their confidence & ultimate get funded?
During this event, a panel of experts -- [a founder, the leader of a major accelerator & an investment manager at an $80 billion fund] -- will delve into this topic. They'll discuss what's behind a founder's hard work & provide a view into what they must do on a daily basis to accomplish what so many founders are unable to achieve.
Panelists:
Jon Zanoff, Managing Director, TechStars
Archie Ravishankar, CEO, Cogni
Peter Sung, VP of Private Equity & Credit, Hanwha Asset Management
Moderator: Laura Keller, Banking journalist formerly with Bloomberg & AssetTV
Who should attend?
Innovators, technologies, investors, & others who are interesting what's behind the success of a startup.
Moderator:
Laura J. Keller is a finance journalist in New York. She most recently was a reporter at Bloomberg News, covering some of the biggest investment & retail banks in the U.S. She was a frequent contributor to Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, & Bloomberg LIVE, the firm's conference & events unit. She's been a periodic guest of C-SPAN, CBSN, NPR, NBC, Cheddar TV, plus CBS Radio, NBC local stations, & Monocle 24 Radio.
Laura Keller has become known for her deeply reported stories about work-life on Wall Street, writing about trading-desk boredom, using technology to break rules & secret client lists. She's broken market-moving news on large banks including Credit Suisse & Wells Fargo, & regularly uncovered market-moving scoops about Puerto Rico's $70 billion debt conundrum, coal company Walter Energy's $3 billion trip to bankruptcy & private equity's fight over chemical firm Momentive Performance Materials. Laura led the world's coverage of nearly every turn of casino operator Caesars Entertainment's $25 billion, two-year investor fight as it devolved into a protracted bankruptcy battle.
Laura earned her master's degree in the broadcast journalism concentration from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she also studied credit derivatives at Columbia Law School. She received her class's graduation prize for business reporting & won SPJ Mark of Excellence awards for her breaking news television work & television feature photography. She holds a dual bachelor's degree in economics & print journalism from the University of Southern California, where she was editor in chief of The Daily Trojan.
Panelists:
Jon Zanoff founded Empire Startups in 2011 & now leads the Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars program in New York City.
Often dubbed the Mayor of FinTech, Zanoff has spent 15 years galvanizing the FinTech community in the States. He runs the largest FinTech meetups in the country, serves as a mentor to countless FinTech startups & as a judge for FinTech competitions, & frequently speaks on the changing FinTech ecosystem- most recently as a panelist at the White House FinTech Summit. Empire Startups hosts popular annual conferences in New York, San Francisco, & Toronto, where the FinTech community converges to discuss the emerging issues facing the space today.
Jon's experience in FinTech started before the hashtag, with product management & strategy leadership roles at Blackrock, Goldman Sachs, Instinet & E*Trade.
Peter Sung is VP of Private Equity & Credit at Hanwha Asset Management where his activities include fund-of-funds, funds, co-investments & direct investments in Venture Capital/Growth Capital/Buyout/Credit opportunities. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT (Product Design/Energy Systems) where he serves as an Educational Counselor.
As a venture capital investor Peter has extensive experience in working with both US & South Korean companies. In South Korea, Peter worked for Ilshin Investment where he analyzed on deals for a green tech VC fund & helped the firm acquire Godiva's master franchisee license for the local market. In New York, Peter worked for Digital Entertainment Ventures where he launched & led DEV Korea Discovery, a New York/Seoul cross-border startup accelerator program. Prior to joining Hanwha Asset Management, Peter headed alternative investments at the family office of a tech investor based in New York & Geneva.
Archie Ravishankar is the co-founder & CEO of Cogni, a banking platform that brings banking, commerce, & lifestyle together in a single app. In 2017 Cogni graduated from The Barclays TechStars Fintech Accelerator in New York. The company is backed with well known Angel Investors & VC's.
A noted thought leader on The Future of Work, Open Banking, & Impact of Technology & Digital Commerce on Millenials & Gen Z, Archie has spoken on these topics at several conferences including GSMA - Mobile World Congress 360, The Brussels Summit, Webit.Festival, The European Internet Forum, Money 2020 & the Horasis Global Meeting. He has also been quoted in Reuters, Dailymail, Bankrate, The American Banker, & Bank Innovation on these themes & others.
Prior to founding Cogni, Archie served as an investment director at Manor Estate family offices overseeing investment in technology & Infrastructure business.
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