Purpose-built to transform financial services, Provenance Blockchain enables institutions and fintechs to seamlessly and securely issue, transact, and service digitally-native financial assets at scale, delivering material business and customer value. A leading public blockchain for financial services, Provenance Blockchain is leveraged by more than 70 financial institutions, has supported over $15B in transactions, and has over $8B in real-world financial asset value locked on-chain. Learn more at Provenance.io.

Paragon Intel is a management analytics firm that believes c-suite decision making ability is a crucial, but under analyzed, determinant of future performance.We focus on the aggregation, filtering, and extraction of insights from data on executives and howthey affect their company's performance.

Machine Learning and AI for Smarter Investing.

Provides advisory services to and invests in early stage fintech and financial services companies. The firm will also invest opportunistically in other sectors such as the food and beverage industries.

D’Marie is a social media analytics and casting technology company. We connect brands with talent agencies that are using D’Marie to determine the value of their influencer’s social media portfolio. D'Marie is the leading platform for talent identification and influencer analytics across the fashion, beauty, food, automotive and consumer goods industries.

SenaHill is a merchant bank connecting the dots between global financial institutions and the entrepreneurial innovators of financial technology. We ensure the right ideas get in front of the right people. As former operators with incredible domain expertise in the Fin-Tech space, we view our client’s business from the perspective of experience, not a spreadsheet.

Tribeca Early Stage Partners is a collection of current and former finance professionals, entrepreneurs, and technologists focused of assisting and investing in seed or early stage companies in the FinTech space. Learn more at www.tribecaesp.com

Diligence Labs uses Big Data to help connect 18 million college students with 180 thousand employers recruiting on their campuses.

We help the buy side centralize, organize and privatize all of their research, content and interactions.

The Food Exchange is a B2B web-based marketplace for ordering and wholesale comparison shopping. We connect suppliers and buyers, providing industry-relevant technology solutions to optimize the purchasing process.

Street Contxt is reinventing the way information is shared in the institutional financial industry. Our platform delivers competitive advantage to brokerages, asset managers, hedge funds, and boutique research firms. We make content discoverable and accessible, plus we deliver game-changing analytics.

Served as Chief Executive Officer (2001–2014), holding full P&L and operational authority for the firm’s research and commission management businesses, including Westminster Research Associates; Jaywalk, LLC and ConvergEx Research Solutions.Built business from a niche player to a widely recognized industry leader. Traveled extensively, met personally with major clients and prospects. Managed 40 employees with 5 direct reports. As Executive Managing Director (2006–2014), collaborated with Executive Committee on strategic direction, new businesses, cross-selling, and other significant management decisions. HIGHLIGHTS:► Grew total research payments 460+% and captured 25% of total U.S. market share► Nearly quintupled research payments to $310 million through organic and acquisitional growth► Propelled market share from 5% to an estimated 25%. Won business away from the competition, cementing the firm’s reputation as a dominant, highly visible player in the market► Differentiated the firm through cutting-edge technologies, including an enhanced website and a patented web portal to streamline and ease client access► Created a culture of service, responsiveness and accuracy that surpassed all competitors, achieving #1 ranking for 3 consecutive years in the Greenwich Survey► Orchestrated successful lobbying before Congress, SEC and White House staff (as well as authorities in the U.K.) to prevent unfavorable regulatory changes. Coordinated efforts that achieved codified federal guidelines enabling the financial services industry to use brokerage commissions to acquire research► Drove significant increase in annual net revenues for ConvergEx trading for WRA by incorporating the ConvergEx trading desk into the WRA network► Secured 7 of 12 mandates for Jaywalk to provide independent research to investment banks► Maintained commission management EBITDA margins of 50+% consistently for more than a decade, even during extreme commission rate suppression

For this start-up international telecom company based in The Netherlands, played primary role in sourcing investors and raising funding from private equity firm. Coordinated efforts to win licenses in France & Belgium. Recruited and hired country heads and other key staff. Developed and executed market entry strategies.

Led worldwide depositary receipts and securities processing sales and marketing, heading a team of 40 senior sales executives located across 12 countries and regions – including Europe, Middle East and Africa, Northern Asia, Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Traveled internationally, liaising with C-level executives of the world’s largest public and private corporations. Played key role in integrating the acquisition of J.P. Morgan’s global custody business.HIGHLIGHTS► Completely changed the paradigm to create a pioneering culture of competition for the industry. Propelled what had been a passive, back-office function into a high-profile, high-growth business. Transformed BNY from the industry’s smallest player in the depositary receipts business into the #1 dominant player.► Brought new vision and ideas that successfully cracked open the market, beating out enormous competitors to win major clients► Grew previously dormant, undeveloped business to a profitable enterprise that was positioned as the #1 fastest growing division in the bank► Educated non-U.S. regulators on capital markets access and created first U.S. stock exchange listing of companies from Russia, China, Indonesia, Brazil, India, and many others

Pioneered the firm’s sales of depositary receipts to international companies, leveraging contacts around the globe to win the trust of local staff, demonstrate competence, and ensure value from the relationship. Shook up the industry, changing dynamics completely by winning a key customer away from the competition—the first time such a switch had ever been made.

PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM, WASHINGTON, D.C.Member of President George H. W. Bush’s transition team for Commerce Secretary Designate Robert Mosbacher. Took leave of absence from Citibank.ACTING ASSOCIATE DEPUTY SECRETARYU.S Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE UNDER SECRETARYInternational Trade Administration, U.S. Department of CommerceCONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DEPUTY SECRETARYU.S. Department of CommerceASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR BUSINESS ISSUESOffice of Business Liaison, U.S. Department of CommerceCONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DEPUTY UNDERSECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADEInternational Trade Administration, U.S. Department of CommerceSTAFF ASST TO TRANSPORTATION SECRETARYOffice of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Department of TransportationLEGISLATIVE AND CAMPAIGN STAFF TO MAINE CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS: ► Rose rapidly through the ranks, continuously earning more responsibility. Staffed President’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness and the Steel Advisory Committee. ► Participated in Technical Telecom Trade Mission to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. ► Major issues of involvement included the prevention of the Fujitsu acquisition of Fairchild, critical Japan trade negotiations in supercomputers, semiconductors, autos, beef and citrus, export controls, anti-dumping as well as other key non-trade related matters such as international whaling disputes and the establishment of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award.