John is a co-founder of Blueleaf and is an active startup advisor. He has served as a board member and advisor for venture-backed and bootstrapped companies and has guided them to increased valuations and successful exits for their teams and investors. He is also an experienced entrepreneur and senior executive. As part of 6 founding teams, he has led the product management, marketing, and finance functions. His background in banking and wealth management has shaped the vision for Blueleaf.
Chris is a co-founder of Blueleaf and its founding CTO. As a director, Chris is an active advisor on technology and strategy. He is currently the founder and CEO of Brightgate. Previously, he was CEO of Philo, named to Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative companies worldwide in 2014. He is an accomplished internet entrepreneur with several patents granted and pending on cryptography in auctions and financial markets, cloud computing, video compression, and natural language processing. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard where he taught a graduate seminar in computational finance, and is a chartered financial analyst.
Sean combines a powerful mix of entrepreneurial, investment and corporate experience and is widely recognized as a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services, informed by his many years as a senior executive in capital markets and investment banking.
Founder of Anthemis Group, author of The Park Paradigm, and serving as non-executive director on the board of a number of high growth companies, Sean has a proven track record of successfully investing in and advising innovative and disruptive startups.
Jason is the founder of the FinTech Forge, a managed service provider helping financial institutions build and extend their innovation capacity, and Alloy Labs, a consortium of banks working together to adopt technology and drive innovation. He is also the co-host of Breaking Banks, the world’s largest fintech podcast, and Chairman of FinTEx, a non-profit growing the FinTech cluster across the Midwest. Jason is a frequent speaker on financial innovation, regulation, compliance as competitive advantage, the importance of diversity and the potential for technology to drive financial inclusion. He is on the FinTech advisory boards for the City of Chicago, the AARP, the Center for Financial Services Innovation Lab, and the SXSW Accelerator.
Charles Clark has years of experience transforming sales organizations into highly competitive teams. As SVP, Sales & Account Development at eMoney Advisor, Clark transformed the sales team to capture leading market share. Currently, as Sales Pistons’ founder, Clark counsels fintech CEOs on sales strategies, capital raising, technology, and staffing.
John DeVincent has decades of experience driving marketing for fintech organizations targeting broker-dealers and RIAs. DeVincent has led teams for several top platforms in financial technology, including Workplace by OS33 (now Venn) and Docupace. As Executive Vice President of Marketing at eMoney Advisor, he was instrumental in developing innovative advisor marketing programs that still drive growth today.