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About Us

A FInTech Innovation Ecosystem

We are a community of ex- bankers, asset managers, government officials, technology professionals and financial regulators joining forces to launch FinTech companies from scratch in a member-owned community of entrepreneurs that shares resources, deep industry experience and professional networks in order to foster innovation for both startups and financial institutions globally.

Team Members

Amilcar Chavarria
COO & President, FundPaaS
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
General Partner, FinTech Portfolio
Instructor, FinTech School
Daniel Rice
CTO, FinTech Associates
Founder @Dr Bit Studios


Stuart Jivapongse
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
CTO, FinTech School
Founder, Renascent Technology

​Emanuel Pleitez
Strategy & BD, FundPaaS
Technology Growth Equity Investor


My Nguyen
Co-Op Community Builder, Fintech Portfolio
VP of Strategic Partnerships, FinTech School
Co-Founder, Fintech Meet

Gagandeep Gill
VP of Compliance & Ops, FundPaaS
Co-Founder, FinTech Tips
Head of Research, FinTech Scanner
​AML & Compliance Expert​
Edwin Carlson
Instructor & Advisor, FinTech School
CEO & Founder, Bitsmart Loans


Robert Lusk
Head of Business Development, FundPaaS



Brian Castro
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
Chief Executive Officer, FundPaaS


Brady Mason
Head of Design, FundPaaS



Jim Zucker
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
CTO, FundPaaS


Kenneth Korcal
Software Developer, FundPaaS



Fernando Cabrales
COO, FinTech Portfolio
COO, FinTech School


Amar Saigal
Chief Product Officer, FundPaaS



Timothy Li
Instructor, FinTech School
CEO, Kuber


David Heckadon
Legal, FinTech Portfolio
Of Counsel, Gordon Rees LLP


David Leeson
FinTech Portolio



Jeremy Sterns
Member, FinTech Portfolio
President, CTO Vantage



Matt Daniel
CRO, FundPaaS
Founder & President, Blue Spade


Dai Yoshida
General Counsel, FundPaaS
Attorney, Law Office of Dai Yoshida


Calvin Koh
Partnerships & Events, FinTech Meet
Business Development, Uber


Valli Bindana
Content Production, FinTech School
Writer, Director, Editor, The Surya Ganga Project


Patrick Baron
Instructor, FinTech School
Co-Founder, HitFin


Monte Malhotra
Instructor, FinTech School
Chief Dream Enabler & Founder, Money Intelligence


Kaivan Sattar
Instructor, FinTech School
CEO & Co-Founder, Asaak


Lawrence Go
Head of UI/UX, FinTech School
Presentation Designer, Office of the CEO, Yahoo


Lan Quang
Head of Marketing, FinTech School



Luigi Wewege
Instructor, FinTech School
CEO, Vivier Financial Services


Markus Lampinen
Instructor, FinTech School
Co-Founder & CEO, Crowd Valley Inc


Noah Fitzgerald
Instructor, FinTech School
CEO & Founder, M-Analyst


Jason Miles
CIO, FinTech Portfolio
Co-Founder, Crayvit


Amy Pearson
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
General Counsel, FinTech Portfolio
Managing Partner, TenacityIP LLC

Amy Johnson
Co-Op Community Builder, FinTech Portfolio
Corp Development and Fundraising, FinTech Portfolio
Managing Director, CMN Funding
Brandon Webb
Chief People Officer, FinTech Portfolio
HR Business Analyst, Hyundai Motor America


Iman Rehmatullah
Finance & Ops Fellow, FundPaaS
Admin Assistant, RHDC International LLC


Jeremy Glassenberg
Head of API Platform, FundPaaS
Expert in Residence, BootstrapLabs
Product Strategy Consultant, Clear Strategy Group


Daniel Gallagher
VP of Engineering, FundPaaS



John Ludlow
CMO, FundPaaS
Marketing Strategist, JP Marketing Consultants


Jim Jones
Director, Institutional Sales, FundPaaS
Founder, IRAeXchange.net


DuWyane Thomas
Sales, FinTech Portfolio



Hector Martinez
Sales & Customer Success, FinTech Portfolio
Federal Tax Associate, KPMG US


Hugh McSwain
Entrepreneur in Residence, FinTech Portfolio
Radiologist, UCSF


Ishrak Iltut
Sales, FinTech Portfolio
Transportation Engineering Co-op Student, Associated Engineering

Jay Mok
Contributor, FinTech Tips
Sr. Product Manager, Lending Club


Nathalie Salami
CLO, Liquid Tokens, Inc.
Founder & CLO, HitFin
Attorney, Naglaw

Neeraj Srivastava
Instructor, FinTech School
Founder/Chief Blockchain Architect, DLT Labs
Co-Founder & Chief Application/Blockchain Architect, True North Business Exchange
Josh Shepard
Director of ICO Sales, FinTech Portfolio



Advisors

Jeff Risberg
CEO at Squirrel Legend Games



Austin Lee
Advisor, FinTech Scanner
FinTech Expert


Tom Abogabal
Advisor, FinTech School
Consulting Venture Partner, NOMINUS Capital
EdTech Expert

Kiran Anantha
Technical Advisor, FundPaaS
Sr. Engineering Manager, Groupon


Erin Wiley
Advisor, FinTech Meet
President, Wiley Ideas


Venture Initiation Program (VIP) Participants

Irene Zhou
Statistics & Economics Double Major, UCLA



Andrew Linxie
Software Engineer, FinTech Scanner
BS, Comp. Sci., UC Berkeley
Past VIP Participant

Runik Mehrotra
Machine Learning, FinTech Scanner
President & CTO, AI Labs
Past VIP Participant

Jing Guo
Machine Learning, FinTech Scanner
President & CTO, AI Labs
Past VIP Participant

Archie Kong
Front-End Engineer, FinTech School
Past VIP Participant


Jatin Jaiswal
Marketing and Business Development Coordinator, FinTech School
Golden Gate University, MBA Candidate

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