https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-FinTech-Meetup/events/249464508/Tomorrow Tuesday May 8th-6:30 pm in San Francisco- if you can't make it it will be live streamed also
Charlie Wilson Chief Revenue Officer Green Bits, the leading retail management and automatic compliance platform for the legal cannabis industry where he leads business development, sales, marketing, and customer success. Charlie has served in leadership roles at numerous leading technology, payments and commerce companies for more than 20 years. He spent nearly half that time at Visa, the world's largest payment network, where he led the company's ecommerce initiatives, including Visa's $2 billion acquisition of merchant services provider CyberSource in 2010.
Mark Denzen President Crypto Value Management System. Mark and his team have created a propriety blockchain utility token called ICCE which stands for Instate Crypto Commodity Exchange. This was created for the Cannabis Business by offering banking and B2B transactions that is FinCEN and AML compliant. Crypto Cowboy is a fully turnkey vertical solutions provider to make your coin or token business come alive. From Pre-design, Business Plan & Requirements, Development, Deployment, Support, Legal Guidance and Marketing.
Stacey Jackson General Counsel Golden Bear Insurance Company and M.J. Hall & Company, Inc. She began her legal career as a prosecutor for the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s office before becoming a civil litigator. Stacey represents Golden Bear as an active member of PADIC- Pacific Association of Domestic Insurance Companies. Stacey also holds a Master’s Degree in English and a teaching credential from the University of the Pacific. Stacey was instrumental in drafting coverage for the Cannabis package policy offered by Golden Bear. It is the only admitted cannabis product in the State of California.
Joe Barton, Associate Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles. Mr. Barton advises companies and individuals in the cannabis space on compliance with federal, state, and local government regulations and defends them in government enforcement actions. Mr. Barton also defends companies and individuals generally in federal criminal and civil False Claims Act cases as well as trade secret cases. Mr. Barton actively performs pro bono work. Mr. Barton’s most recent pro bono projects involved composing a manual of civil tort remedies for domestic violence victims and litigating disabled access claims against the New York Transit Authority.
Moderator: Mark Crager, Founder/Managing Partner Next Stage Partners, a firm that works with early-stage Fintech companies and Financial Institutions to develop strategy and implement new products and services in the payments space and other key growth verticals. Prior to NSP, he held a number of executive positions at Visa Inc. resulting in the launch of multiple products and significant development of key industries. He has a proven track record of moving products from concept to full commercialization in consumer and B2B environments.
6:30pm to 7:00pm Networking
7:00pm to 8:00pm How to Raise an ICO panel
8:00pm to 8:30pm ICOs & AI startups Demo Pitches/Networking
