Speakers
王金龙 海投全球 CEO
Jerry Wang, Founder and CEO, Haitou Global
王金龙先生是海投全球的创始人兼首席执行官。曾在圣母大学基金、 Wesleyan 大学基金协助管理共超过10亿美元的全球投资组合。王金龙先生拥有清华大学工程学士学位，以及美国圣母大学工程与工商管理硕士学位，是CFA 和CAIA持证人。
海投全球于2014年在纽约成立，是领先的全球资产配置平台，为个人和机构投资者提供全面的全球理财产品和服务。海投专注于为投资人提供包括美国和英国在内的发达国家市场以及包括东南亚在内的新兴市场的全球投资机会。海投目前推出了网页端、移动端和微信投资平台，共计管理5万注册投资用户。海投已累计管理超过2亿美元的财富管理产品和另类资产。海投总部设在纽约，并拥有洛杉矶、北京、香港和印尼分公司。海投拥有美国证监会注册投资顾问资质（Registered Investment Advisor）以及投资银行资质(Broker-Dealer)和MSB支付资质（Money Services Business）。
Jerry Wang is founder and CEO of Haitou Global, a leading online global asset allocation platform, in 2014 in New York.
Previously as Investment Manager at University of Notre Dame’s Investments Office, Jerry managed a portfolio of over $1billion global investments.
Jerry holds Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University, as well as Master’s Degree in Engineering and Business Administration from University of Notre Dame.
Jerry is CFA and CAIA charter holder.
Mitchell Dong, President & CEO, Pythagoras Investment Management
Mitchell Dong is a private investor and runs his family investment office. He is a serial entrepreneur who has started a dozen businesses over the last 40 years in alternative energy, technology and finance. He invests in quantitative traders, hedge funds, private equity and venture funds and real estate. Mitchell is a 1975 graduate of Harvard College and a 1997 graduate of the OPM program at Harvard Business School.
Orlando Mendoza, General Partners, Arsenal Venture Partners
Orlando has been involved in venture capital and private equity throughout his career. Before joining Arsenal in 2015, he served as a partner with the small- market private equity asset management firm Method Advisors and as VP of Harvard Management Co. As principal at Edison Partners, an expansion stage venture firm, he was involved in more than 30 investments. Orlando holds an MBA in asset management from Yale University, an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and The Wharton School, and a BA in economics from Rollins College, and is a graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy. He is a former technology chair for the Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, an alumni organization.
Jason Rottenberg, General Partners, Arsenal Venture Partners
Jason Rottenberg is a General Partner with Arsenal. He has spent the last 19 years founding, building and funding technology companies. He has served as Managing Director of the Army’s Venture Capital Initiative since its inception, and is a frequent speaker on the topic of government innovation and the need for the government to leverage the venture capital ecosystem. As founder of Muse Ventures and IT
Angel, he was involved in the founding and successful exits of several technology businesses. Previously a manager in Arthur Andersen’s Silicon Valley office, he began his career in Washington, DC. Jason holds an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard University, where he was named a Baker Scholar, as well as a BS in business from Georgetown University.
John Hargrave, CEO of Media Shower
Publisher, Bitcoin Market Journal
John Hargrave is the publisher of Bitcoin Market Journal (www.bitcoinmarketjournal.com), which attracts thousands of great investors to bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs. He is also the CEO of Media Shower (www.mediashower.com), the leading media company connecting great blockchain companies with great investors. He is a writer, speaker, and leader of the New Finance revolution.
John Slyusarev
Chief Marketing Officer at ICORating
John has been responsible for marketing, sales and business development in ICORating since November 2018. He is an expert in the field of marketing management, strategic partnerships and business development in global markets. John is based in New York office of ICORating. Prior to ICORating, John was the CMO of the European travel company from the TOP-20; he also had his own consulting firm which mainly worked with e-commerce, retail and banking sector.
Navroop Sahdev, Connection Science Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Navroop is a Fellow at MIT Connection Science and holds a host of leadership roles in the DLT space, both as a practitioner as well as a researcher. An economist by training, Navroop is currently building a FinTech company that seeks to leverage blockchain technology. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Blockchain Technologies (CBT) at University College London and holds three masters in IP Management, Economics of Innovation and Applied Economics.
A United Nations Youth Delegate for 2017, Navroop has co-authored Hyperledger’s Blockchain for Business online course. She speaks regularly at FinTech and blockchain conferences and currently serves on the advisory board of a host of blockchain companies, across industries. Previously, she has worked at Harvard University and United Nations Environment Programme. Her research interests are focused on Distributed Ledger Technologies, Game Theory, Networks Theory and Complex Systems Science.
Salman Habib, Co-founder & CEO of Hellofriend
Salman Habib is a Co-founder & CEO of Hellofriend and is currently based in Boston, MA. Salman studied Government, Economics, and Nuclear security at Harvard and has previously worked for the United Nations and U.S. Senate. Salman’s work lies in the intersection of blockchain technology, AI, and social media.
Charles Wang, Managing partner of Boston Data Science group and Founder of AsklepI
王长风 是人工智能和大数据领域科学家和连续创业的企业家。 他拥二十五年多人工智能基础研究， 企业级机器学习平台， 和跨学科垂直应用经验。 他目前致力于医疗健康的人工智能的应用。 此前， 他是 Adelphi Inc., 的发起人， 领导开发了业界第一个依靠大数据和 AI 驱动实现全自动化， 在美欧洲市场领先的无线和多屏 实时广告交易平台， 2017年初被 Time Inc. 并购前日交易量达百亿级， 客户包括世界六家最大广告代理公司。 此前在世界上第一个人工智能公司Thinking Machines Corporation （为 Oracle 并购 ）， 他主导开发了世界上第一个商业级并行神经网路／机器学习平台 。 他的的理论成果如early stopping 帮助奠定了现代深度学习系统的基本技术。他早期开发的大数据， 广告营销平台等产品先后成为 Apple, IBM, Facebook/Microsoft 的一部份。
Charles Wang is serial entrepreneur and AI expert with 25+ year experience in artificial intelligence theory, technology, and end-to-end applications development. He is currently founder of AI startup (in stealth mood) in healthcare space. Previously, he was founder of Adelphic, an industry leading mobile and cross-screen programmatic platform that uses AI to completely automates real-time advertising transactions, serving all of the top six advertising agency holding companies in the world as well as big brands. The platform performs tens of billions of transactions each day before acquired by Time, Inc. early 2017. He began his career at Thinking Machines (Acquired by Oracle), where he built the world’s first commercial parallel Neural Networks and core Machine Learning platform. His theoretic research such as early stopping helped build the foundation of modern core deep learning algorithms. Other products/companies that he has played key roles building are now part of Apple, IBM, Nokia, and Facebook.
Paul Xie, Co-founder, Lightelligence, Havard Busniess School
Paul Xie is co-founder and VP of product at Lightelligence, a venture backed AI startup that develops novel computing chip through algorithm and hardware innovation. Lightelligence recently closed 11M Series A financing and has global offices in Boston and Shanghai. Prior to co-founding Lightelligence, Paul has held multiple engineering management roles in the semiconductor and consumer electronics companies including Apple, Applied Materials and GlobalFoundries. Paul is an Harvard Business School MBA and holds a Ph.D. degree in Microsystems Engineering.
Paul现任人工智能芯片初创公司Lightelligence的联合创始人及产品副总裁。Lightelligence通过在算法端，硬件架构，材料的创新，致力于开发高性能人工智能芯片，并获得包括百度在内顶级风投机构1100万美国的投资，目前在波士顿和上海分别设有研发和产品团队。在联合创立Lightelligence之前，Paul曾在Apple, Applied Materials, 和GlobalFoundries等多家半导体和消费电子公司担任工程研发和产品管理职位。Paul曾就读于哈佛商学院MBA，并获有微系统工程博士学位。
Andrew Zhang, IBM Watson & Cloud Evangelist
Andrew has many years experience in cloud, big data and machine learning, he had worked with large online advertising, web platform, data warehousing etc with media, financial, healthcare and telecom industries. He currently is interested in AI and blockchain cloud platform for consumer and enterprise applications.
Raymond Fu, Associate Professor and Serial Entrepreneur, Northeastern University
Raymond Fu is an associate professor at Northeastern University and a serial entrepreneur. His research interests focus on AI: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Big Data, etc. He is Fellow of SPIE and IAPR. In 2016 he founded Giaran, Inc., a company that leverages advanced artificial intelligence technology developed in his Northeastern University lab with the goal of providing an interactive virtual experience for consumers to find and try on cosmetics products. In 2017, Giaran was acquired by Shiseido Americas Corporation, a subsidiary of the leading global cosmetics company Shiseido Company, Limited.
Chong Xu, F-Prime Capital
Chong is a Senior Associate at F-Prime Capital. He focuses primarily on biopharmaceutical and medical technology sectors and works closely with the Eight Roads Ventures Asia team to manage portfolio companies and new investment opportunities in China. Prior to joining F-Prime in 2015, Chong was an associate in McKinsey and Company’s Boston office, a hedge fund healthcare equity analyst with Massif Partners and Affirmed Healthcare, and a researcher focusing on developmental neurobiology at Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory in Singapore.
Chong holds a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from University of Virginia and a MBA from Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He received his B.S. in biology from Zhejiang University, China.
Matthew Unger, CEO, iComplyICO
Matthew found early success in his career, becoming one of the youngest executive financial advisors in Investors Group Financial Services’ history at the age of 22. Featured in Canada’s leading financial industry publication, Investment Executive, Matthew experienced award-winning success (i.e. Pillar Awards, President’s Club) by unpacking complex financial problems and providing simplified solutions.
Following his tenure in financial services, Matthew began consulting with companies on innovation management. He has worked with organizations ranging from high-growth startups seeking to scale into enterprise markets, to major global companies such as Virgin Group and Investors Group Financial Services.
Matthew has also provided consulting services to organizations such as the Canadian Centre for Cold Climate Innovation, First Nations Technology Council, among others, his focus on helping companies leverage technology to identify opportunities, optimize workflows and scale business processes. His specialties include financial technologies, Salesforce architecture and systems integration.
In 2015, Matthew co-founded a fintech company with a product designed to automate and digitize all workflows and tasks for financial advisors; much of the product’s technical architecture and framework have since been incorporated into Planswell’s expanded FinTech platform.
Matthew completed MIT’s Fintech Innovation Management program with distinction in 2016. He is currently an advisor and shareholder in multiple BC tech ventures, and is also a mentor through several startup and mentorship initiatives such as New Ventures BC.
Pu Shi, CEO, One Game
Serial entrepreneur and early adopter of cryptocurrency. Investor and adviser in multiple blockchain projects. Independent game developer with more than 10 years’ experience. Co-founded Carloha, a leading used car e-commerce company based in New York. Has held Senior Software Engineer and Tech-lead positions for multiple years in technology companies, including Google and Microsoft. M.S. of Computer Science from Emory University.
石璞，万世基金会的创始人和CEO，连续创业者，前谷歌员工，旅美11年，有超过十年的游戏开发经验，同时是区块链行业著名的从业者，先后担任红酒链，标准链，DAEX等项目的海外顾问，同时运营区块链自媒体“比特大书”粉丝数万人。
Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, MD, Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Co-founder,Inkrypt
Dr. Muhammad Ali Chaudhary is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and a data scientist at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He heads the system architecture and design of Inkrypt. Dr. Chaudhary’s background focuses on utilizing Big Data methodologies on loosely structured data to tackle public health and health economics issues in the U.S.