KEYNOTE SPEAKERS NANCY FECHNAY ORGANISATION BedrockX ROLE Co-Founder Nancy started her first company in 2008 and later began her investment career in 2011. She has since earned two Masters and worked for top firms, TWITTER such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GE Ventures. In 2015, Nancy @NancyFechnay moved to London and launched the first AngelList syndicate in Europe as a BEDROCKX.COM Partner at Flight Ventures alongside Gil Penchina. Nancy helped Flight Ventures grow to be the largest online group of investors in the world. Nancy also served as a mentor, EIR and interim MD at Techstars’ London program. In 2018 Nancy co-founded BedrockX, a tokenize incentive system which can be used by any relationship driven business model to increase revenue, and improve decision making. BedrockX’s first product is a platform for VCs to use their networks to create a greater ROI on investments. JOEL PERLMAN ORGANISATION OakNorth ROLE Co-Founder After starting his career at McKinsey, Joel left to co-found Copal Partners, a financial research outsourcing company with his business partner, Rishi TWITTER Khosla. Over a period of 12 years, they grew the business to almost 3,000 @oaknorth people before selling it to Moody’s Corporation in 2014. OAKNORTH.COM Joel co-founded OakNorth in 2015 with the vision of solving the problem of mid-sized lending globally, helping thousands of growth entrepreneurs around the world access debt finance. FRANK JAN RISSEEUW ORGANISATION Yolt ROLE Founder and CEO Having worked across a diverse range of marketing and online management roles at ING in The Netherlands, Frank Jan developed a reputation for driving TWITTER digital change and innovation within the financial services industry. Frank Jan @FJRISSEEUW founded Yolt in partnership with ING in 2016, working with a diverse team of YOLT.COM engineers, data scientists, strategists and designers to enable customers to ‘Unthink’ their money. Yolt gives everyone the power to be smart with their money. Users can view their accounts, credit cards, pensions and investments in one clear app. 5 ACC0718992528-5_FinTech Graduation Day 2019_A5 brochure_V9 SL.indd 5 22/03/2019 08:46