Chief People Officer

Jennifer Christie is joining DocuSign on June 6th as their Chief People Officer. In this role, she will oversee the HR function as well as play an active role in the product and go to market strategy for their HR vertical. Most recently, she served as Chief People Officer at Bolt, a fintech startup powering one-click checkout on the internet. She oversaw the Human Resources, Internal Communications, and Real Estate and Workplace teams. She also had responsibility for Bolt’s Conscious Culture organization which was focused on transforming corporate culture and defining the future of work. Prior to Bolt, Jennifer was the Chief Human Resources Officer at Twitter. She led both the global People and Real Estate and Workplace teams and worked with the executive management team as well as the board of directors to support the strategic direction of the company.

Prior to joining Twitter, Jennifer was the Senior Vice President and head of HR for the Global Consumer Services Group at American Express. In this role, she was responsible for developing and executing the talent, organizational, and leadership strategy for the business. Prior to this role, Jennifer was the Vice President and HR Business Partner for Enterprise Growth Group. In her first three years with American Express, she served as Chief Diversity Officer and VP, Global Executive Recruitment and was responsible for developing the company’s global diversity and inclusion strategy while leading executive level recruitment for all business and staff groups worldwide.

Before joining American Express, Jennifer was a consultant at a leading executive search firm and also spent two years as a Special Assistant to the President of the United States in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Earlier in her career, she was an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton in their organizational design and change management practice and worked for more than a decade at several federal government agencies to support community safety and security programs and implement offender reentry initiatives.
She is a member of the board of directors for Special Love, a nonprofit organization that supports children with cancer and their families. She has previously served as a member of the board of directors for both the Prevent Cancer Foundation and Compass Family Services. Jennifer received a master’s degree in criminal justice from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jamie Dimon is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., a global financial services firm with assets of $3.2 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

Dimon became CEO on January 1, 2006 and one year later also became Chairman of the Board. He was named President and Chief Operating Officer upon the company’s merger with Bank One Corporation on July 1, 2004. Dimon joined Bank One as Chairman and CEO in 2000.

Dimon began his career at American Express Company. Next, he served as Chief Financial Officer and then President at Commercial Credit, which made numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including acquiring Primerica Corporation in 1987 and The Travelers Corporation in 1993. Dimon served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Travelers from 1990 through 1998 while concurrently serving as Chief Operating Officer of its Smith Barney Inc. subsidiary before becoming co-Chairman and Co-CEO of the combined brokerage following the 1997 merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers. In 1998, Dimon was named President of Citigroup Inc., the global financial services company formed by the combination of Travelers Group and Citicorp.

Dimon earned his bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the boards of directors of a number of non-profit institutions including the Business Roundtable, Bank Policy Institute and Harvard Business School. Additionally, he serves on the executive committee of the Business Council and the Partnership for New York City, and is a member of the Financial Services Forum and Council on Foreign Relations.

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

Matt is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures in New York City and focuses on investments in financial
technology. He sees a huge amount of revenue, profit and market cap shifting from regulated financial
institutions to entrepreneur-led insurgents, across payments, lending, capital markets, real estate and
insurance. More ramblings on these topics can be found at https://medium.com/@mattcharris.

Matt started his investing career at Bain Capital private equity in 1995, having worked previously at Bain
& Company, and attended Williams College, where he majored in political economy (with a minor in
rugby). In 2000, Matt founded Village Ventures, which he ran for 12 years and where he focused on
early-stage fintech investing. In 2012 he rejoined Bain Capital Ventures.

Outside of work, Matt enjoys spending any free moments with his wife, Jessica, and their six children.
Matt is the former Chair of the Board of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, a regional theater associated
with Williams College. He is also a board member at Endeavor, an organization leading the global
movement to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and accelerating the best
high-impact entrepreneurs around the world, as well as the boards of Greater NY and the Partnership
Fund for New York City. He is obsessed with military history, and some day will write a book connecting
the strategy and tactics of insurgency with what he has learned about entrepreneurship.

Managing Partner at NYCA Partners

Hans Morris is managing partner of Nyca Partners, a fintech VC in New York and San Francisco founded in 2014, which has invested in approximately 90 companies and is currently investing from its fourth fund. He is the chairman of the board of Lending Club, and a board member of public companies AvidXchange and Payoneer, as well as private companies SigFig, Thought Machine, Fidel, and Propel. From 2010 to 2014 he was managing director at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. From 2007 until 2010 he served as president of Visa Inc., and from 1980 until 2007, he worked at Citigroup in several operating and management roles, including CFO and head of finance, technology, and operations for Citi’s institutional businesses, COO of the investment bank, and head of the financial services group at Salomon Smith Barney. He is a trustee of the Public Theater in New York and a former chairman of the boards of MASS MoCA and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth. He graduated from Dartmouth College.

Founder and CEO at AllyCorp

Kevin P. Ryan is one of the leading Internet entrepreneurs in New York, having founded and is Chairman of several businesses, including AlleyCorp, Zola and Nomad Health.  Previously he founded and was Chairman of MongoDB, Business Insider and GILT.  Combined, these companies have raised more than $700 million in venture capital funding and currently employ almost 2,000 people.  Previously, Kevin helped build DoubleClick from 1996 to 2005, first as President and later as CEO.  He led DoubleClick’s growth from a 20-person startup to a publicly traded global leader with over 1,500 employees.  In 2013, Kevin was named one of “The 100 Most Influential New Yorkers of the Past 25 Years” by the Observer.

Aside from his professional responsibilities, Kevin serves on the board of Mercy Corps, is Vice Chairman of The Partnership for New York City, is a member of the CFR Committee on Foreign Affairs, is on the Board of TECH:NYC and is Director Emeritus for Human Right Watch.  He previously served on the boards of Yale Corporation, INSEAD, the Direct Marketing Association, The Ad Council, HotJobs and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders.  He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

CEO at Fidel API

Dev Subrata is the founder and CEO of Fidel API, a global financial infrastructure platform that allows users to link their payment cards to an app. Since its launch in 2018, Fidel API has been on a mission to accelerate the future of ‘programmable money’.  Today, thousands of developers around the world are using the platform to build event-driven experiences on top of real-time payment flows. Startups through global enterprises, including Google, British Airways and Royal Bank of Canada, are leveraging Fidel API’s tools to power a range of solutions including digital receipts, customer attribution, loyalty and rewards, expense management and personal financial management.

In 2021, Fidel API was named one of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK by Deloitte, which is awarded based on revenue growth rates. Fidel API was also named one of the Best Places to Work by Built in NYC.

Dev is a seasoned entrepreneur and has been part of building startups ranging from travel to social networks. Prior to founding Fidel API, he was part of the early team at Badoo and played a key part in helping to grow its revenue by hundreds of millions and monthly users from zero to over 200 million, in just four years. 

Dev was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Indian parents and graduated from Queen Mary, University of London. He currently spends his time working between the Fidel API offices in London, Lisbon and New York.