Speakers
 Aalap Parikh
Lead Engineer, Developer Technical Services
PayPal
Aalap Parikh is the Technical Lead at PayPal’s Developer Technical
Services team (DTS) which provides technical support/services for the PayPal
Platform product, APIs, SDKs, etc. He has over 6 years of development experience
and holds a Bachelors in Engineering (BE) and an MS in Computer Science.
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 Aaron
Kramer
Lead Manager, Application Review
PayPal
Aaron Kramer is the Lead Manager for Platform Application Review
and has over 10 years experience in technology and management
consulting to Fortune 500 companies. Aaron enjoys earning degrees
from basketball schools. He holds a Bachelors degree in Clinical
Psychology and History from the University of Kansas and an MBA
from Georgetown University.
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Alice Chen
Senior Manager, Product Management
PayPal
Alice Chen is a Senior Manager in the product management team,
focusing on helping customers understand and manage their money
with her leadership of the transaction experience and reporting
areas. She has been at PayPal for three years in
a variety of product management roles for merchant acquisition,
merchant acquiring, and partner support. Alice
has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Computer
Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Ana Shukla
Founder & CEO
Offerpal Media
Anu Shukla founded Offerpal Media in June, 2007, with the
vision of providing social developers with a viable way to
monetize their traffic. She has since grown Offerpal Media
into the leading social advertising network on the Web, generating
significant revenue for social publishers while driving high
quality leads and high value customers to online advertisers.
A serial entrepreneur, Anu is also the founder and CEO of Mybuys
Inc., the leading provider of personalized product recommendations
for online retailers. Prior to Mybuys, Anu pioneered the category
of Internet Marketing Automation as founder and CEO of Rubric,
Inc. Rubric was acquired in 2000 for $366 million. Prior to
Rubric, Anu held a variety of executive roles including the
VP of Marketing and Product Strategy at Versata (VATA), and
Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Product Management
at Compuware/Uniface Corporation (CPWR).
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Andrew Nash
Senior Director, Identity Services
PayPal
Andrew Nash is Senior Director of Information Risk Management/Identity
Services at PayPal. Formerly he was CTO at Sonoa Systems and Reactivity
working on XML and Service Oriented Architecture appliances. As Director
of Technologies at RSA Security, Andrew worked on a wide range of
identity systems and worked with the Liberty Alliance in the Strong
Authentication Expert Group He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services
markets, has co-authored of numerous Web Services security specifications
and is author of a book on Public Key Infrastructure.
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Andy Steingruebl
Manager, Secure Development
PayPal
Andy Steingruebl is a manager on the information risk management
team at PayPal. He manages the secure development program for
all PayPal applications including the Web sites supporting
PayPal’s 73 million active registered accounts. In addition,
he also works with the information risk management team on
issues of Internet governance, Internet policy, security protocols,
and Internet infrastructure. Andy has been with PayPal since
2006.
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Dr. Angelo Roussos
Chief Information Officer
Blue Label Telecoms
Angelo became interested in high-speed inter-networking and
supercomputing while pursuing a postgraduate medical science
degree at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), in South
Africa. He established one of the first companies in South
Africa to provide e-mail services, and later the second South
African business to provide commercial Internet services. With
his partners, he created one of the largest Internet Service
Providers in SA in 1994. At the end of 1997, Angelo left medicine
to focus full-time on inter-networking and Internet-related
businesses and associated opportunities. In 1998, he founded InfoSat,
the second company in the world to offer DVB/IP services via
satellite. Sentech, the largest satellite signal distributor
in Africa, acquired a majority stake in InfoSat in 2000. By
2003, InfoSat had become one of the largest satellite Internet
providers in the world, operating on 5 different satellites.
Between 2002 and 2003, Angelo guided Sentech as Group Executive:
Multimedia Services and was responsible for the technology
selection, business strategy and business management of the
new Sentech Multimedia business. In this regard, he led the
team that deployed Africa’s largest Broadband VSAT system,
as well as the first 3G-compliant wireless broadband network
on the African continent. Apart from his extensive Internet-based
telecoms experience, Angelo has engaged in extensive strategic,
policy and regulatory representations to the SA government & ICASA,
the South African Telecommunications regulator. As Blue Label
Telecoms Group CIO, Angelo is primarily responsible for Group
Transactional and Enterprise Systems Strategy, and together
with Dr. David Fraser (Group CTO – primarily responsible
for Mobile and Direct to Consumer initiatives), is also responsible
for ensuring that Blue Label remains ahead of the curve through
the development and operationalisation of new and innovative
technology solutions.
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Arjan Schutte
Associate Director
CFSI
Arjan Schütte. Arjan is the Managing Partner of
the General Partner and currently serves as the Associate Director
of CFSI, where has managed CFSI’s investment activities,
including the investment portfolio since 2004. He plays
a central role in CFSI’s strategy and growth. As
a recognized industry expert and with a background in private
equity-funded technology companies, Arjan sources and structures
CFSI’s investments and builds syndicates of investors
and other strategic relationships. He serves on the board
of directors, as an observer, for RentBureau, and actively
advises and supports CFSI’s portfolio companies. He
has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
BusinessWeek, National Public Radio and the American Banker
and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and industry
events. He has lectured at MIT, Johns Hopkins and Yale
University.
Arjan has founded three technology companies and served in
senior technical roles for numerous others. He earned
an MS from the Media Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and a BA in Philosophy and Communication at Lewis & Clark
College.
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Asim Razzaq
Senior Manager, Emerging Technologies
PayPal
Asim Razzaq is the Senior Manager of Technology on the PayPal
Platform team. He heads the software development of the platform
infrastructure, APIs and developer tools that will enable the
PayPal developer community to revolutionize the payments industry.
Asim also oversees the design and usability of all PayPal APIs.
He has extensive experience building Platforms and SAAS (Software
As A Service) based applications in various engineering leadership
roles. Asim leverages his background in software architecture
and engineering to build a Payments Platform that is flexible
and enables PayPal developers to build unique applications
and quickly monetize their ideas. Asim holds a BS in Computer
Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin and has co-authored
published papers on distributed computing.
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Babu Pasupathy
Senior Product Manager
PayPal
Babu Pasupathy is a Senior Product Manager responsible for
the PayPal Merchant Reporting Product.Prior to this, Babu had
been working on launch of products for strategic partners of
PayPal. Babu has a strong track record of clearly defining
and executing against business strategies, working effectively
with engineering, sales and support teams. Prior to joining
PayPal, Babu worked with startups and multi-nationals growing
up in the Engineering organizations and evolved to be a Product
Manager out of Passion to build relevant products. Babu has
received Masters in Computer Applications from College of Engineering,
Chennai, India.
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Bob LiVolsi
CEO/Founder
BooksOnBoard
Bob LiVolsi is CEO and founder of BooksOnBoard. BooksOnBoard
is a reseller of eBooks, downloadable audio books, and eBook
Readers such as the Sony Reader, the Cybook Opus and the Astak
E-Z Reader . With its first full quarter of revenue in the
winter of 2007, BooksOnBoard is now one of the largest eBook
retailers. It was the first retailer to sell ePUB titles from
the major publishers, introduced Qik Clik technology to the
iPhone in February 2009, and among the first to offer MP3,
DRM-free audio books.
Bob spent many years in the high tech field before founding
BooksOnBoard, being the VP of Sales and Marketing for two storage
networking companies that achieved # 1 market share and built
successful initial public offerings, Colorado Memory Systems
and Crossroad Systems. Bob was also the global vice president
for mini-cartridge tape drive sales and marketing at Hewlett
Packard, and director of global business development and alliances
at SAP. He also was the VP and General Manager of the Exabyte
Eagle division which designed and manufactured storage hardware.
He has been on the board of the Quarter Inch Cartridge Committee
and of the Storage Networking Industry Association and was
an early supporter of IDPF.
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Brent Ryan
Pay Capture Development Lead
PayPal
Brent Ryan is the Pay Capture development lead at Bill Me
Later and is responsible for the support of real-time credit
authorizations and services. Brent has been with Bill Me Later
for nearly 2 years and has extensive background in integrating
enterprise systems.
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Brian Fling
President
Pinchzoom
Brian Fling is an authority in the field of in mobile
user experience and designing for multiple contexts. He has
worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups
to Fortune 50 companies to leverage a variety of mediums, like
mobile devices, to design for the needs and context of real
people.
Author of O'Reilly Media's Mobile
Design and Development: Practical concepts and techniques
for creating mobile sites and
web apps,
Brian goes in depth into the design principles involved in
creating compelling mobile experiences for this new era of
multiple devices and context. As well as explore the rapidly
growing area of how to easily design and build a mobile site
and web app, how to deal with devices practically and how to
translate an experience to a variety of mobile devices. Brian
is a frequent author and speaker on the issues on mobile design,
the mobile web and mobile user experience, teaching people
how to leverage mobile all over the world. Brian is also the
founder and president of pinchzoom.com,
a design and development agency specializing on mobile experiences
helping clients like Best Buy, Lonely Planet and others dive
into the world of mobile.
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Brian Riley
Research Director for Bank Cards
TowerGroup
Brian Riley is a Research Director for Bank Cards at TowerGroup,
specializing in technology, emerging trends, product development,
and revenue management. His 24 years of experience in consumer
credit and bank cards include work in applied technology, operations
management, portfolio acquisitions, risk, scoring, and portfolio
analytics. Brian held senior management roles at Citibank,
Chase, and Wachovia.
Brian has a passion for applied technology in the credit card
business. He led the design of numerous financial management
systems at leading credit card issuers and has worked on projects
with several leading processors. Most recently before joining
TowerGroup, he led a group specializing in applied technology
for the receivables and payment functions in vertical markets
such as intermodal transportation, broadcast and cable, industrial
gas, and high-tech manufacturing.
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Bulent Cinarkaya
Senior Product Management Director
Salesforce.com
Bulent Cinarkaya is senior product management director at
salesforce.com responsible for Force.com Sites and Portals.
Prior to this role, he was at Oracle and lead the Oracle E-commerce
Applications Product Management for CRM division. He
has a BS and MS in computer science from Istanbul Technical
University.
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Carolyn Mellor
Manager, PayPal X Developer Network
PayPal
Carolyn Mellor is a member of PayPal X Developer
Network Team, a girl geek and officially the PayPal X Zen
goddess developer happiness. She has been with Pay Pal
for over 4 years and has over 15 years of experience in web development
and technical, product and community management.
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Catherine Chiang
Senior Product Manager, Express Checkout
PayPal
Catherine Chiang is a Senior Product Manager for Express Checkout. She
currently leads checkout experience related initiatives to drive
checkout conversion rate and optimize buyer experience. Prior
to her role as Product Manager, she was one of the original members
of the PayPal Merchants Services Group, where she managed the Merchant
Acquisition and Activation Programs. She’s a veteran
of merchant services and payment industry for over 5 years. Catherine
received her MBA from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Catherine Wong
Group Product Manager, PayPal Platform
PayPal
Catherine Wong is a Lead Product Manager for PayPal Adaptive
Payments product suite. Catherine has been with the company
for 10 years and has led the product development of several
checkout and platform products. Prior to joining PayPal, Catherine
worked in companies like Billpoint, Mondex, Wells Fargo and
Oracle on payments, ATM, billing, smart card and Oracle Financial
solutions.
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Chad Hoffman
Senior Sales Engineer, Merchant Integration
PayPal
Chad Hoffman is a Senior Sales Engineer in PayPal's
Merchant Integration organization. He works with PayPal's largest
merchants to help them understand and incorporate PayPal into
their ecommerce sites. He has over 12 years of experience providing
technical expertise to support the sale of internet and ecommerce
technologies.
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Chris Mclean
Technical Lead
PayPal
Chris Mclean is the technical lead for both the user interface and
API button factory products. He has been with PayPal for two and
a half years and has been the technical lead on many other projects
including OpenWAX: Rest of World and various WAX projects. Chris
has experience working with various technologies, back-end services,
web services, embedded systems, and distributed services. Before
joining PayPal Chris was a full time doctoral student and was a developer
at General Motors.
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Cody Sims
Senior Director of Product Management
Yahoo
Cody Sims joined Yahoo! in 2005 and is currently Senior Director
of Product Management for the Yahoo! Open Strategy, which includes
all of Yahoo!’s user generated content platforms, social platforms,
and open application platform efforts. Before Yahoo!, Cody
held product management positions at The New York Times, Sprint PCS,
and NBC Internet. He holds an MA in transnational communications
and global media from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and
is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Kansas with a BA
in Chinese and history. Outside of Yahoo!, Cody is a lecturer for
the Annenberg Program on Online Communities at the University of
Southern California.
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Colin Rule
Director of Online Dispute Resolution
PayPal
Colin Rule is Director of Online Dispute Resolution for PayPal.
Before joining PayPal he handled resolution for eBay, and served
as CEO of one of the first online dispute resolution start ups, OnlineResolution.com.
Colin is the author of Online Dispute Resolution for Business, published
by Jossey-Bass in September 2002. He is currently Co-Chair of the
Advisory Board of the National Center for Technology and Dispute
Resolution at UMass-Amherst and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center
for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
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Damon Hougland
Senior Director, Geek, Troublemaker
PayPal
Damon Hougland is a geek. He is the Senior Director of the PayPal
Platform. This means he leads the Product Development teams focused
on creating PayPal’s API service suites. He is also co-author
of three books on Java and wireless technologies. He has a passion
for all technologies that are viral and disruptive. More than anything
he wants to make developers on the PayPal Platform successful beyond
their wildest dreams.
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Dan Garcia
Product Manager, Merchant Solutions
PayPal
Dan Garcia is a Product Manager in PayPal’s Global Product & Experience
group. He has been at PayPal for over 3 years, spending the bulk
of his time developing and managing payment products for Small-to-Medium
Businesses. He joined PayPal as part of the Payflow gateway acquisition
from VeriSign and has worked in the E-Commerce field for the past
8 years.
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Dan Schatt
Senior Director, Financial Innovations
PayPal
Dan Schatt heads Financial Innovations for PayPal. In this
role, he is responsible for defining the business and product strategy
for PayPal’s initiatives with financial partners. Prior
to PayPal, Dan was an industry analyst with Celent, and led the company’s
retail payments practice. Prior to his role as industry analyst,
he served as GM of Yodlee’s data services group, responsible
for integrations with top tier financial institutions. Prior to Yodlee,
Dan worked as an investment banker for Salomon
Smith Barney and held positions in Asia, Europe, and Africa
with Citigroup. Dan has been widely quoted in the media, including The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Business
Week, and has also written articles for American Banker and Bank
Systems & Technology. He has presented at national
and international venues, including the United Nations Development
Program Roundtable on Remittances, the World Bank / APEC Dialogue
on Remittance Systems, NACHA's Annual Payments Conference, BAI's
TransPay conference, and The Internet Retailer conference. Dan received
a dual MBA (Finance) and MIA (International Economic Policy) from Columbia
University and his BA from the University
of California. He is fluent in Romanian.
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Daryl Hatton
Founder/CEO
ConnectionPoint Systems Inc.
Daryl Hatton is founder and CEO of ConnectionPoint Systems Inc.,
an innovative start-up developer of social commerce applications
for social networks.
Daryl loves the challenge of building software companies from scratch
and believes that FundRazr, the first product from ConnectionPoint,
will change the game of fundraising and fee collection within social
networks like Facebook.
With almost 30 years of experience in the software industry, Daryl
has founded multiple start-ups and helped grow one of them (Pacific
Genesys, the key technology foundation of Optio Software Inc.) to
a very successful IPO on NASDAQ in December 1999. In his role as
Optio CTO and SVP Development he also led the strategic and technical
components of an M&A team that acquired three companies and sold
one. He was also a key member of the team that sold Optio to its
largest competitor in April 2008.
In addition to his passion for ConnectionPoint, Daryl likes to share
his experience in building companies by advising multiple top-notch
British Columbia software companies including a top 10 competitor
in casual gaming for social networks.
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Dennis Goedegeebuure
SEO Manager
eBay
Dennis Goedegeebuure is in-house SEO manager for eBay. Apart from
working with the product development teams to incorporate SEO best
practices, Dennis also has set up and manages a full training program
on SEO for eBay Inc worldwide. Next to having direct responsibility
over the eBay organic search traffic, the in-house team of eBay has
been consulting on SEO for PayPal, Skype, eBay's Classifieds sites,
Shopping.com and StumbleUpon. With seven years of Internet Marketing
experience within eBay, Dennis has seen the majority of traffic driving
sources for eBay. Started in The Netherlands office, managing direct
partnerships with MSN, Yahoo and Advertising.com, Dennis moved in
2006 to the US, to coordinate Internet Marketing for all the International
teams.
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Edwin Aoki
Fellow and Head of AOL Developer Network
AOL
Edwin Aoki is a Technology Fellow at AOL. Holding a joint degree
in Computer Science and Sociology from Harvard College, Edwin believes
strongly in the ability of technology to bring people closer together
and to make our lives easier. He's worked at Apple Computer, GO Corporation,
and Intuit before joining Netscape Communications in 1996.
At Netscape, Edwin worked on the Netscape Communicator browser, enterprise
products, and web applications prior to the company's acquisition
by AOL. Currently, Edwin oversees architecture and technology strategy
for many of AOL's consumer facing products, manages AOL's Developer
Network, and represents the company at the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF). A published author and California native, Edwin is
based out of AOL's Silicon Valley office. When he's not at work,
Edwin is involved in wildlife conservation and likes to spend time
with big cats.
Follow Edwin on Twitter @edwinaoki.
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Eve Maler
Distinguished Engineer, Identity Services
PayPal
Eve Maler is a Distinguished Engineer in PayPal’s Identity
Services group, where she drives the development of security and
identity strategies for enabling consumer choice in permissioning
of personal data sharing. Eve was one of the inventors of XML; she
also co-founded the SAML effort and has made major leadership, technical,
and educational contributions to many other standards and technical
communities. In recent times she has focused primarily on consumer
trust, privacy, and empowerment issues in Web identity and permissioned
data-sharing. She launched an open effort called User-Managed Access
to explore long-term solutions in this area.
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Fabio Sisinni
Director, Mobile Product Management
PayPal
Fabio does not model, punch famous actors or try to catch birds
on a roller coaster as his famous homonymous. He is an engineer and
enough busy being the Director of Product Management of PayPal Mobile
products. In this role he is responsible for bringing to the market
mobile payment solutions directly and in partnerships with carriers,
devices and mobile OS vendors. Fabio has over ten years of global
experience in the mobile industry and worked at Motorola, where he
helped define the first generation of Motorola smartphones and build
the billion+ dollar Bluetooth accessory business and worked in A.T.
Kearney where he advised carriers and telcos across NA and Europe.
Fabio received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a MS
degree in Computer Engineering from University of Rome “La
Sapienza”.
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Fred Speckeen
Title
CEO, Advanced Ecommerce Research Systems Inc.
Starting his career in the 1980s as a product manager in DSP-audio
hardware and software, Fred’s over 20 years of experience in
high tech and semiconductors led to launching dozens of products
and starting 3 new companies. Fred joined AERS as CEO in 2007 and
has led the continued exponential growth and profitability of AERS
as both a ecommerce focused PaaS and SaaS company. AERS is
a silver sponsor of Innovate 2009.
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Gene Alston
Senior Director of Business Development
PayPal
Gene Alston is Senior Director of Business Development for the PayPal
X team. Gene is responsible for driving PayPal’s platform partnership
efforts, delivering PayPal’s business enablement programs to
accelerate the growth of the most promising startups, and building
a supporting community of seed and venture capital around PayPal’s
entrepreneur/developers. Gene has over 12 years of experience driving
business strategy, building strategic partnerships and growing lines
of business in major technology companies. Prior to joining PayPal
X, Gene was an early member of PayPal Merchant Services and built
PayPal’s indirect channel business. Gene’s experience
also includes various product, sales, and corporate development roles
at XO Communications and Verizon. He has a B.S. from University of
Washington and a J.D./M.B.A. from UCLA.
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Gill Haus
Director of Systems Engineering
BillMeLater
Gill Haus is the Director of Systems Engineering at Bill Me Later
managing the development and support of the real-time credit authorization
engine and the service platform. Gill has been with Bill Me Later
for nearly 6 years and has a background architecting mission critical
business and workflow systems.
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Greg Tseng
CEO
Tagged
Greg Tseng is Co-Founder & CEO of Tagged, a profitable and fast-growing
social discovery site with over 80 million members, 20 million monthly
users, and 7 billion monthly pageviews. Tagged is ranked a Top 100
website in the world (Alexa) and the #3 social networking site in
the US after MySpace and Facebook (Hitwise). Greg holds an A.B. in
Chemistry & Physics & Mathematics from Harvard College and
is on leave from Stanford University where he was pursuing a Ph.D.
in Physics.
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Hadi Nahari
Principal Mobile & Security Architect
PayPal
Hadi Nahari is a software security professional with over 18 years
of experience in software development, including extensive work in
design and architecture, verification, proof-of-concept, and implementation
of secure systems. Hadi has worked on large scale, high-end enterprise
solutions, as well as resource-constrained embedded systems, with
primary focus on security, cryptography, complex systems design,
and vulnerability assessment & threat analysis. Hadi is a frequent
speaker in U.S. and international security and embedded events and
has led and contributed to various security projects for Netscape
Communications, Sun Microsystems, United States Government, Motorola,
MontaVista, eBay, and PayPal, among others. Hadi is currently working
at PayPal Emerging Technologies as Principal Security and Devices
Architect.
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Hugo Olliphant
Director, Product Strategy
PayPal
Hugo is a 10 year veteran of both payments and internet technologies.
In 1999 he founded gMoney, a startup focused on group finances and
group payments. PayPal acquired many of the gMoney assets and Hugo
joined PayPal in 2003. He is a named inventor on nearly 25 patent
applications and currently runs PayPal Labs (labs.paypal.com). He
holds an MBA from Kellogg, and enjoys surfing, snowboarding, and
hanging out with his 2 year old twins.
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Ilja Laurs
CEO
GetJar
Ilja Laurs is Founder and CEO of GetJar, the world’s largest
cross-platform mobile application store. In 2009, Informa Telecoms & Media
included Ilja in the “Top 40 most influential people in mobile
communications”. Born in 1976 in Lithuania, and attended school
at a time when the country was part of the Soviet Union, Ilja enrolled
in an American student exchange program and graduated from Jackson
high school in Ohio in 1994. He came back to Lithuania to attend
Vilnius University where he studied Economics, financing his education
by teaching English to school students. Serial entrepreneur since
1999, Ilja's launched over 20 successful projects, as diverse as
Lithuania's largest hotel reservation system LithuanianHotels.com,
mobile payments service MicroPay.lt and mobile games studio Gaxo
Interactive. Fluent in Lithuanian, Russian and English, he holds
a keen interest in Basketball, Tennis, Chess and Watches, and enjoys
traveling.
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Jason Korosec
General Manager, PayPal Platform
PayPal
Jason Korosec is the GM for the PayPal platform product team. In
his role, Jason applies his extensive payments, identity, and business
launch experience to PayPal, by selecting the services, features
and functions that will enable developers to create cool applications. When
he is not busy at PayPal, he spends his time teaching payments at
Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, and at Universidad Francisco Marroquín
in Guatemala.
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Jeff Lewis
ePayment Solutions
FIS
Jeff Lewis is responsible for leading the ePayment Solutions area
at FIS. He is focused on growing the leadership position established
by FIS in ePayment, ACH, Mobile and Emerging Payment products and
services. Lewis joined FIS in October 2009 with the company’s
acquisition of Metavante Corporation. He serves on the board of Monitise
Americas, an FIS mobile financial solutions joint venture in the
United States. He also serves on the eFinancial Enablers Council,
an Electronic Funds Transfer Association working group. Lewis has
served FIS with his payments expertise for 22 years. Before assuming
his current role, he held a variety of management positions within
the company’s electronic funds group, including division executive
for debit, prepaid debit and ACH processing. Previously, he served
FIS as a mortgage support manager, was a member of the software development
group for licensed products and worked with loan products in the
loan development service bureau.
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John Chiu
Lead Technical Integration Manager, Professional
Services Engineering
PayPal
John Chiu is a Technical Integration Manager at PayPal for 3 years.
Initially, he helped large merchants to launch Express Checkout before
proceeding to work with financial partners to add PayPal as a method
of payment. Currently, he is helping to represent the channel partner
team in a diverse portfolio of integration uses cases that range
from mobile devices to application stores which require creative
solves using variety of PayPal products – including the new
PayPal Platform.
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Jon Crawford
Co-Founder and Developer
StorEnvy
Jon Crawford is the co-founder and developer of Storenvy, a social
online store and shopping community. He is a strong believer in bootstrapped,
lean startups and advocates strongly for developers to consider entrepreneurship.
He has contributed to the Ruby on Rails source code and politely
refuses to use any other development platform. He and his two partners
quit their jobs in mid-2008 to build Storenvy with no outside investment.
It was profitable three months later.
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John Earner
Vice President,Product Management
Playfish
John Earner brings extensive expertise in online gaming to his role
as vice president of product management at Playfish, where he oversees
the daily service operation of the company’s growing portfolio
of live popular social games. Prior to Playfish, John was with Sony
Computer Entertainment America where he designed the micro-transaction
business model for PlayStation Home, Sony’s free-to-play virtual
community, which he also helped launch. John earned a MBA from University
of California at Berkeley and holds a Bachelor of Science from Stanford
University.
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John Reif
IT Architect
IBM
John Reif is an IT Architect with IBM Software Group Strategy in
the Cloud Labs team where he works on customer Proof of Concepts,
architectures, and internal projects. Since joining HiPODS in 2001,
he has worked on numerous customer projects with eBay, Visa International,
Morgan Stanley, Sprint, and many others. He has extensive experience
in WebSphere Application Server scalability, performance, and management,
Tivoli Provisioning Manager for IT automation, enterprise search
solutions and Web 2.0 technologies. John is currently working
on cloud solutions for IBM including the IBM Development and Test
and IBM CloudBurst solutions. John is the Chief Architect for
cloud computing solutions from Cloud Labs team, John received
a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado
Boulder in 2001.
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John Schulte
Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer
Mercantile Bank of Michigan
John Schulte and his staff manage the information technology infrastructure
for the bank, as well as item processing, ACH/cash management services,
payroll services, electronic banking, and deposit/loan/credit card/courier
operations. He is one of the original members of the team that founded
Mercantile Bank of Michigan in 1997, a business oriented community
bank headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI with offices throughout Lower
Michigan. Prior to starting with Mercantile Bank, he worked as a
commercial lender and credit manager with FMB-First Michigan Bank
in Grand Rapids. John is a graduate of Western Michigan University
(BA in Finance) and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking. In
the community, John serves on the Regional Advisory Board of the
Arthritis Foundation and is a member/Past President of the Grand
Rapids Exchange Club. John and his wife Cara reside in Grand Rapids
with their two daughters.
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Julie Craft
Vice President of Publisher Relations
Super Rewards
Julie Craft is the Vice President of Publisher Relations at Super
Rewards, the world’s largest virtual currency monetization
platform for social networks, social applications and virtual worlds
(www.srpoints.com). She has spent
the past 20 years in various high-tech executive leadership positions,
including a long stint at AT&T where she ran a multi-million
dollar national product marketing division and 8 years at high-tech
start-ups within the VoIP, search and social media industries. She
is a frequently sought after social media consultant, a former Adjunct
Business Professor at DeVry University and IBU, she holds a B.S.
in Marketing, an M.S. in Organizational Development, and executive
leadership credentials from Columbia University.
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Karl Mehta
CEO
Playspan
Karl Mehta is Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc, an Inc 500 fastest
growing company and a leader in monetization platform for online
games, social networks and new media. Karl brings over 18 years of
experience to PlaySpan in founding, building and funding technology
start-ups in the US and International markets. Prior to founding
PlaySpan, Karl was founding team at MobileAria Inc. (acquired by
Wireless Matrix) based in Mountain View and co-founder/ CEO of OmniLabs
Inc., based in Singapore and India. Prior to that, he held executive
positions at Hughes leading new business and technology development.
Karl was selected “Entrepreneur of Year” 2009 finalist
by E&Y for Northern California and is a Charter member of TiE-Silicon
Valley and board member of Ecosystem Ventures.
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Kent Griffin
Sr. Product Manager, Mobile
PayPal
Kent Griffin is a Sr. Product Manager at PayPal and manages the
mobile SDK products. He has been with PayPal for over 5 years and
prior to that developed solutions for other financial service providers.
Kent holds both a BS and MS degree in symbolic systems from Stanford
University.
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Ketan Babaria
Senior Product Manager
PayPal
Ketan is a product management leader with a rich experience in the
internet space and a passion for building customer focused products
that delight end users. Ketan has worn many hats in the past, being
UI designer, developer, researcher, at various points in his life.
He is currently part of the Global Product and Experience team at
PayPal and is focused in on managing ‘Website Payments Standard’ product,
which is used by millions of satisfied users worldwide. He is passionate
about making it easy for developers to integrate it on their customers
site and providing them great end-to-end user experience. He holds
B.Tech degree in engineering from IIT, MS in Systems Engineering
from UMD and MBA from UC Berkeley.
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Kristen Schumacher
Principal Product Manager, Mass Pay and Invoicing
PayPal
Kristen Schumacher is a Principal Product Manager at PayPal and
manages the Mass Pay and Invoicing products. She has over 10 years
of product management experience. She holds a BA in Business from
Santa Barbara and an MBA from UCLA. ; Michael Blanton is the Senior
Manager of Merchant Integration for PayPal Merchant Services and
has been with the Merchant Services team for 5 years. During that
time, he’s provided technical consulting to partners such as
Dell, Apple iTunes, Napster, and Chase Paymentech. He has also presented
PayPal integration information at numerous conferences, contributed
to open-source projects based on Java technology, and provided technical
editing to the books PayPal Hacks and Pro PayPal E-Commerce. He has
over 10 years of experience in eCommerce consulting and over 12 years
of experience with online payments.
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Lauren Thorpe
Senior Director, Developer Relations
Qualcomm
Lauren Thorpe is senior director of developer relations for Qualcomm.
Thorpe is responsible for growing and sustaining the robust community
of developers and publishers working with Qualcomm products and services,
including Brew, the Plaza suite and Qualcomm Software Platforms.
Prior to this role, Thorpe was the vice president of operations for
THQ Wireless, where she managed product development for wireless
games and personalization product lines. In her 13+ years in wireless
and mobile entertainment, Thorpe has held a variety of positions
from production management, to marketing and product development
at companies such as Helio, Hands on Mobile and Alcatel.
Thorpe holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
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Loren Cheng
Product Lead, Emerging Technologies
PayPal
Loren Cheng used to be an engineer. After driving product managers
and marketers crazy with his questions of "Why?", he became
a product manager himself 10 years ago, and has continued to ask "Why?" ever
since. In just about every role, he has created teams and processes
that fast-track research, innovation, and execution. That makes working
as a Product Manager on the Platform team a dream job. He deeply
believes that developers are the heart of PayPal's next wave of creativity
and looks forward to talking with each and every one of you at Innovate
2009.
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Madhu Gupta
Group Product Manager, eBay Platform and Developers
Program
eBay
Madhu Gupta is Group Product Manager for the eBay Platform team,
and leads the Selling Manager Applications product strategy. Madhu
has been with the eBay Platform team for over 6 years, and has over
13 years of experience in software and Web Services.
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Mark Pickens
Microfinance Specialist
CGAP
Mark Pickens is a Microfinance Specialist with Consultative Group
to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a policy and research center working to
improve access to finance for the unserved in developing countries.
CGAP is housed at the World Bank. Pickens coordinates the research
agenda for CGAP’s Technology Program which is supported by
the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His work centers on understanding
how poor people adopt new banking technologies and unraveling the
business case for providing what for the most part are very traditional
financial services over very new electronic channels. His work has
been quoted in The Economist, The Banker, and CNN.com. Prior to joining
CGAP, Pickens launched an award-winning web portal for progressive
news in New York City, founded an enterprise extending basic health
care in Madagascar, and worked as an independent microfinance consultant.
He holds a master's in financial inclusion from Columbia University.
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Marsha Collier
Author
eBay for Dummies
Marsha Collier is a successful eBay PowerSeller, one of the foremost
eBay educators and the bestselling eBay author. Her For
Dummies business
series on eBay and PayPal have sold over 1,000,000 copies. (Not including
the special editions in foreign countries; two in Australia, two
in Canada and two in the United Kingdom - as well as translations
in Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese and German). She got started
with eBay during the site’s early years and quickly mastered
the art of buying and reselling for profit.
She hosts Computer & Technology Radio on KTRB 860 AM in San Francisco – as
well as on the web at www.computerandtechnologyradio.com. She also
makes regular appearances at conferences; on television, radio, and
in print to discuss social media, customer needs and online commerce.
Marsha currently resides in Los Angeles and can be reached via her
Web site, www.marshacollier.com.
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Mary Ku
Director, Partner Experience
PayPal
Mary Ku has been at PayPal for over 5 years, managing products in
a variety of different areas, including PayPal’s marketplaces
business, international business, and most recently partnerships.
In her current role, she manages the program and infrastructure for
PayPal’s Partner Program and strategic partnerships. She holds
a BA in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford
University.
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Matt Holleran
Venture Partner
Emergence Capital Partners
Emergence Capital is 100% focused on investing in cloud application
companies with recurring revenue models. Matt defines
investment strategies, sources investments, and works with a few
portfolio companies. He serves on the board of ServiceMax,
a cloud field service application company.
Prior to Emergence, Matt’s team built the AppExchange and
Force.com partner ecosystems at salesforce.com. He has held
product management, direct sales, CMO, and CEO positions at pure
startup, growth and expansion stage software companies. He
began his career as a financial analyst in Morgan Stanley’s
private equity group.
Matt has a BA in engineering and economics from Dartmouth College
and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Michael Blanton
Senior Manager, Merchant Integration
PayPal
Michael Blanton is the Senior Manager of Merchant Integration for
PayPal Merchant Services and has been with the Merchant Services
team for 5 years. During that time, he’s provided technical
consulting to partners such as Dell, Apple iTunes, Napster, and Chase
Paymentech. He has also presented PayPal integration information
at numerous conferences, contributed to open-source projects based
on Java technology, and provided technical editing to the books PayPal
Hacks and Pro PayPal E-Commerce. He has over 10 years of experience
in eCommerce consulting and over 12 years of experience with online
payments.
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Mrugan Bhorkar
Technical Lead, Merchant Experience
PayPal
Mrugan Bhokar is the technical lead for PayPal’s Merchant
Experience product development team. He has been at PayPal for 4
years and has been the technical lead on many products including
Express Checkout, Auth/Capture, PayPal APIs, merchant onboarding
and rebates . Mrugan has vast experience working on various technologies
such as web applications, web services, back-end services, and distributed
services. Before joining PayPal, Mrugan worked as a developer/design
lead for various companies like Applied Materials, AT&T, Sun
Microsystems.
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Musaab At-Taras
Director of Technology, Emerging Technologies
PayPal
Musaab At-Taras is a Director of Technology at PayPal, leading the
Adaptive Payments product and PayPal’s device initiative. He
has over 12 years of experience in product development. He has a
Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
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Narasimha Chivukula
Technical Lead, IPN Domain
PayPal
Narasimha Chivukula is a Developer at PayPal and Technical lead for IPN domain. He has over 10 years experience in development. He holds degrees in Bachelor of Engineering from Osmania University and Master of Technology from Anna University.
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Neil Mansilla
Founder
Mansilla Dev
Neil Mansilla is the founder of Mansilla Dev, where he leads a team
of developers in building Web and mobile applications in the financial,
medical, and e-commerce sectors. Several years ago, his wife, Laura,
became an eBay PowerSeller. Neil developed several tools to help
optimize her business processes, from procurement to fulfillment.
One of those tiny tools grew into what is now ahTEXT, a service that
delivers real-time eBay account events directly to a seller's mobile
device. Neil is a serial entrepreneur, starting his first Internet
company in 1994. His role in all of his companies has been chief
technical architect and developer. Neil's company is currently developing
new and exciting applications built on the eBay platform. He is also
an eBay Certified Engineer and Certified Consultant.
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Oktay Dogramaci
Chief Technology Officer
MissionFish
Oktay Dogramaci is the Chief Technology Officer of MissionFish and
has responsibility for all of the organization's technology efforts. Prior
to serving as the technical lead for the development of the original
MissionFish website in 2000, he was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers
specializing in e-business services as well as an information technology
analyst with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In addition
to his professional experience, Oktay is co-author of a book on e-business,
Electronic Commerce: Technical, Business, and
Legal Issues (Prentice-Hall, 1999).
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Pamela Rice
Manager of Authorization Engineering
Bill Me Later
Pamela Rice is the Manager of Bill Me Later Authorization Engineering
managing the development of the real-time credit authorization engine.
Pamela has been with Bill Me Later for 5 years and has a background
developing complex decisioning systems.
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Patty Saari
Vice President, Client Services Engagement & Events
Carlson Marketing
Patty Saari leads the sales and delivery aspects of engagement programs
focused on rewards and recognition. Her expertise stems from her
years building Carlson Marketing’s market-leading prepaid card
portfolio and has expanded to include the broader rewards and recognition
market. She is a primary thought leader and strategist regarding
the application and delivery of rewards in the employee, channel
and consumer space. Since Patty’s start with Carlson Marketing
in 1997, she has built an extensive list of client experience that
includes leading companies in the automotive, pharmaceutical, telecommunications
and financial services industries.
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Pat Lynam
Data Systems Architect
Advanced Ecommerce Research Systems Inc.
Pat leads the data team at AERS, and has been intensely involved
in working with eBay transaction data for the past 3 years. AERS
hosts over data for over 10 billion eBay transactions, taking in
over 8 million per day. Using proprietary VLD and API systems
on 2 tier one facilities, Pat is responsible for making this data
available to the eBay developer community as well as AERS’s
own terapeak development team. Pat leads the new PayPal data
team at AERS.
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Paul Grill
Partner
First Annapolis Consulting, Inc.
Paul Grill is a Partner at First Annapolis Consulting, Inc. He has
over 10 years of experience helping clients develop successful business
strategies in the payments industry. Paul co-manages the firm’s
Card Issuing practice area and is also responsible for Emerging Payments
initiatives.
Paul’s expertise in the Card Issuing market includes strategic
partnership formation (such as co-branding, affinity, and agent bank
relationships), de novo market entry analyses, account acquisition
and portfolio optimization, and outsourcing evaluation and negotiation.
His issuing clients are a variety of financial institutions (e.g.,
regional banks, multi-nationals), non-financial organizations seeking
to develop card issuing capabilities, and card issuers in international
markets, particularly Europe.
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Peter Martin
Sr. Manager for North America and Emerging
Markets Risk Consulting
PayPal
Peter Martin is the Sr. Manager for North America and Emerging Markets
Risk Consulting for PayPal. He has been at PayPal for three years
managing Risk Consulting teams for the Merchant Services, Debit Card
and Credit business units, working with large merchant and Digital
Goods merchant segments. Before joining PayPal, Peter managed risk
for Wells Fargo Bank, Consumer Deposits Group and Barclays Global
Investors (BGI).
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Ray Tanaka
Technical Design Lead
PayPal
Ray Tanaka is Technical Design Lead on the Platform team. In what
he would describe as a prior life, Ray was Architect for PayPal’s
Web Services APIs and Sandbox. These days he is determined to make
the new Platform easy to use and flexible enough to meet the needs
of all developers that want to enable payments. Outside of PayPal,
he enjoys sleeping, digital photography, college sports, tinkering
with gadgets and spending time with his wife and newborn son, Zachary.
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Rekha Patel
Staff Developer Technical Support Engineer
eBay
Rekha Patel has been with eBay four years. Rekha is on the developer
technical support team that helps developers with API questions,
usage and implementation.
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Renata Dionello
Director, Consumer Business Development
PayPal
Renata leads PayPal’s efforts in business development
on the consumer side of the business. She is currently involved in
developing PayPal’s strategy in the micropayments and social
media space. Renata has over 10 years of experience in business development,
strategy, product management and marketing. Prior to PayPal, she
ran marketing and product management at Pictage, the leading online
services provider for professional photographers. Renata’s
experience also includes heading up strategy at Rent.com, corporate
strategy at Disney, project management at Universal Music and strategy
consulting at the Boston Consulting Group. Renata holds a BA and
MEng from the University of Oxford (England) and an MBA from the
Harvard Business School.
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Rob Schaible
PMP, Project Manager IT
Carlson Marketing
Rod joined Carlson Marketing’s Awards and Fulfillment IT team
in 1999 as a software developer. Through his work as a developer,
he gained deep knowledge of the merchandise, gift certificate and
prepaid card Awards Fulfillment Systems and business capabilities.
The highlight of his development career was working on the team that
created the first modular e-Catalog. In 2005, Rod was promoted into
a Project Manager role driving some of CMW’s most complicated
client awards fulfillment projects to completion. He has also managed
IT projects for many of CMW’s largest and most innovative clients
successfully delivering robust, industry leading solutions. While
still managing projects and client deliverables, Rod is currently
in the Program Manager role where he oversees the planning and execution
of all IT projects inside of awards fulfillment. He also manages
the Project Management and Business Analyst teams. Prior to joining
Carlson Marketing, Rod was an Arabic Linguist and Interrogator for
the US Army where he served 5 tours of the Middle East including
Egypt, Kuwait and Somalia. Rod earned a B.S.B with MIS emphasis from
the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.
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Ritwick Dhar
Solution Architect
FIS ePayment Solutions
As a Solution Architect with FIS ePayment Solutions, Ritwick is
responsible for shaping the technical strategy for innovative
payment solutions. Previously, Ritwick served as Development
Manager for the Emerging Payments product area with Metavante. Ritwick
has worked in the bill payment arena for nearly a decade, having
joined Metavante Corporation in 2001 via the acquisition of Eastpoint
Technologies, where he led the creation of the first internet-facing
solution for the banking software provider. Ritwick earned
his MBA from Marquette University in Milwaukee, where he currently
resides with his family.
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Robert Goldberg
SVP, Business Operation
Zynga
Robert Goldberg is Zynga's senior VP of Business Operations, which
includes revenue management, sales, marketing, business and corporate
development, partner management and studio services. He brings over
25 years of senior management experience at industry leading media,
e-commerce, enterprise software companies and venture capital firms,
including Idealab and NBCi.
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Robert Kanok
Lead Manager, Developer Technical Services
PayPal
Robert Kanok manages the Developer Technical Services team (DTS)
which provides technical support/services for the PayPal Platform
product. He has been with PayPal for less than a year
and prior to that was doing technical consulting for multiple online
companies including Amazon and Verizon. Robert holds a BS in
Electrical Engineering and has a MS in Computer Science from the
University of Denver.
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Robin Kohli
Founder and Lead Developer
eJunkie
Robin Kohli is the lead developer of E-junkie, a shopping cart and
digital delivery service. Starting his career as a system software
engineer, he turned to web development 8 years ago and has been working
on various aspects of e-commerce technology since 2003. Robin's keen
focus is on buyer experience and transaction security.
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Saeed Amidi
CEO/President and Founder
Plug and Play Tech Center
Saeed Amidi is the Founder, President and CEO of Plug and Play Tech
Center. Plug and Play is the premier technology startup accelerator
with over 250 companies which collectively have raised an excess
of $650 million.
Additionally, Saeed is a General Partner in Amidzad. The fund has been investing
in technology companies for over 15 years and it holds successful investments
in over 70 technology companies some of which are: PayPal, Powerset, Danger,
Bix, Powerset, DropBox etc.
Saeed is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 28 years of
experience in founding, operating, and growing successful companies. He has successfully
started and grown businesses both nationally as well as internationally in countries
like: Spain, Italy, France, Austria etc.
Saeed’s recent passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups
out of universities. In this respect, he is working closely with MIT, Cornell,
Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, Santa Clara, Wharton, and Dartmouth to identify
great entrepreneurs with a passion to execute on their ideas.
Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor
to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young
Presidents Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished
serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives.
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Sam Shrauger
VP, Global Product Strategy
PayPal
Sam Shrauger joined PayPal in April 2004 in the newly formed Merchant
Services business unit where he was involved in defining and executing
product and marketing strategies for PayPal’s merchant products.
He later led efforts to develop PayPal’s merchant reporting
system and define the product set required to support PayPal’s
channel distribution efforts. Following that, Sam led PayPal’s
Checkout product team, and was responsible for efforts to drive acceptance
and usage of PayPal Checkout across the web. Currently, Sam is Vice
President of Global Product Strategy, where he is responsible for
defining PayPal’s long-term global product portfolio strategy
and ensuring that PayPal’s product architecture evolves to
support this long-term strategy.
Prior to joining PayPal, Sam was a Client Partner with Agency.com
overseeing the Visa USA and Visa International accounts. Before this,
he held positions in product management and consulting with VerticalNet,
Deloitte Consulting, and Quantum Consulting.
Sam received his MBA from the University of Virginia, and has a BA
in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Scott Holmes
Director of Product Development
S1 Enterprise
Scott Holmes is Director of Product Management at S1 Enterprise
with primary responsibilities for Mobile Banking, Security, Administration,
and Business Intelligence. In his more than nine years at S1, Holmes
has served in numerous roles including Senior Principal Consultant
in Professional Services, Sales Support Engineer, and Project Manager.
Holmes earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management
from Georgia Southern University.
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Scott Liddicoat
CEO
Encore Systems LLC
Scott Liddicoat is the lead developer for and a principal partner
in Encore Systems LLC. Encore Systems provides developer tools
designed to simplify PayPal integration. They have specialized
in web application development and ecommerce integration since 2005. Scott
Liddicoat has been developing software of one type or another for
over 25 years.
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Sergio Monsalve
Principal
Norwest Venture Partners
Sergio has over 13 years of operational experience in marketing,
product management, business development, sales and finance from
a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio
is focused on investments in the software, Internet, and media sectors.
His current investments and board seats include Center'd and myYearbook.
He is also a board participant and actively involved with M-Factor
and Lending Club. Prior to NVP, Sergio was VP of Product Marketing
at Photobucket. Previously, Sergio was Director and General Manager
of the consumer electronics division at eBay, and he was also a Director
of New Ventures at eBay. For a complete biography of Sergio, please
visit www.nvp.com.
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Srinivas Vadhri
Product Manager, Emerging Technologies
PayPal
Srinivas Vadhri is with Platform Product team, and has been with
PayPal for about 5 years. He started his career as a Management Consultant
(PWC and E&Y) and has worked in Strategy and eCommerce areas. He
also worked at Commerce One for a few years, where he lead several
eCommerce integrations and also managed Products. He is a Certified
PayPal Developer, and a Certified Scrum Maste
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Stephane Kasriel
Senior Director, Consumer Experience
PayPal
Stephane Kasriel leads the Consumer Products team and manages the
products that PayPal offers to its consumers and micro merchants.
This includes financial products (notably the PayPal Debit Cards,
and the PayPal Money Market Fund), traditional products (sending
money to friends, remittances, small business invoicing) and new
ventures (PayPal Student Accounts and Disbursements). Stephane joined
PayPal in July 2004 to launch the French site and was subsequently
Country Manager for PayPal France until January 2008 when he relocated
to San Jose to lead the new Consumer Products team. Prior to joining
PayPal, Stephane spent 7 years in the Bay Area in various technology,
product and business development roles at startups, including web
analytics company Fireclick which he founded in 1998 and which was
sold to Digital River in 2004. Stephane received a B.S. from Ecole
Polytechnique (France), an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford
University and an MBA from INSEAD.
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Steve Woloshin
Senior Manager, Professional Services Engineering
PayPal
Steve is the Sr. Manager of Professional Services Engineering at
PayPal. He has over 20 years experience managing payment operations,
merchant integration services, and product development and has worked
with or for payment processors, developers, merchants and other businesses
of all shapes and sizes. He is a strong advocate within PayPal for “voice
of customer” issues and never misses an opportunity to champion
ideas that make using PayPal easier, safer and faster for our partners.
Steve has an AAP accreditation from NACHA and served for 2 years
on NACHA’s Internet Council.
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Suchit Dash
Product Manager, Checkout Experience, Merchant
Services
PayPal
Suchit Dash is the Product Manager of PayPal Express Checkout. He
focuses on researching and developing best practices for PayPal by
conducting multivariate testing, usability testing and studying web
analytics through a variety of tools and vendors. Over the last three
years, Suchit has been integral on renewing PayPal's focus on improving
sales and conversion for the merchant. His research on web optimization
has led to dramatic improvements on the PayPal user experience ultimately
bringing incremental revenue to merchants across verticals. Prior
to his focus on Express Checkout, Suchit was on the large merchant
product management team focusing on the top 100 merchants at PayPal
and improving integrations across the board. His work was pivotal
to bringing branded merchants on board such as Wal Mart, Southwest
Airlines and Zappos.com. Suchit received a bachelors of science in
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Economics from
Northwestern University.
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Sudha Jamthe
Social Media Strategist
PayPal
Sudha Jamthe is a Social Media Strategist passionate about innovative
energy of communities, and specializes in partnerships that build
ecosystems. She has built social media infrastructure and developer
programs for AOL/Bebo, Intuit, Network World. She is a venture mentor
at MIT and leads the Bay Area Facebook meetup and Twitter meetup.
She has a MBA from Boston University. She blogs at coolastory.com
and tweets as @sujamthe.
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Todd Sieber
Product Marketing Manager
PayPal
Todd Sieber is a Product Manager for the Payflow Gateway responsible
the gateway’s core processing functions, interactions and support
with external 3rd party processors, and management of the Payflow
SDKs and protocols. Todd personally directs the continuous improvement
of our Payflow the SDK in both .NET and Java and is active member
and collaborator in our Developer Forums. Prior to PayPal Todd has
worked closely in the product management of Payflow at both VeriSign
and Signio, supporting Payflow collectively for over 10 years.
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Tracy Bailey
Senior Product Manager, Prepaid Card Services
Carlson Marketing
Tracy Bailey provides leadership, direcetion and product expertise
specifically tied to Carson Marketing's prepaid product portfolio.
Her responsibilites include servicng as the primary expert on prepaid
marketplace trends and competitors; overall product branding; sales
collateral; training; and assessing current products, services and
pricing strategies to determine market requirements in each product
and market. Tracy aligns herself directly with the prepaid leadership,
business development, operations and partner relations teams to create
and enhance the products based on customer and market insight. She
is a visible advocate for prepaid card solutions with Carlson Marketing
and direclty with clients.
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Yannick Bercy
Software Development Manager
PayPal
Yannick is senior manager of the Payflow Gateway for PayPal,
where he is responsible for core payment processing. He brings
12 years of experience in technology for financial services and telecommunication
applications. Prior to joining PayPal, Yannick was a software
engineer for Motorola’s semiconductor division. He also worked
as a consultant for Computer Sciences Corporation. Yannick received
a master of science in nuclear and radiation engineering from the
University of Texas
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YP Cheong
Product Lead for Express Checkout
PayPal
Yuet-Peng Cheong, "YP", is the Product Lead for Express
Checkout and has led its development over the past 3 years.
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