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NYU Stern School of Business ... Thursday, March 28 ... 4:30pm – 6:00pm EST ... KMC 2-60 ... 44 West 4th Street, Suite 6-130, New York, NY 10012, United States

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

NYU Stern School of Business

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KMC 2-60
44 West 4th Street, Suite 6-130, New York, NY 10012, United States

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The EMA is thrilled to present a unique and exciting panel talk on the impact of technology and the future of financial inclusion.

Mobile payment systems, peer to peer lending, data visualization, big data, little data, and new tools for quantifying “social credit” are revolutionizing the ways that financial services are delivered across the economic spectrum.

We are excited to have representatives from some of the most influential organizations in microfinance, social finance and fintech, to discuss the current state of affairs and look to exciting new developments on the horizon.

Panelists

• Shannjit Singh (moderator): Founder, S Singh Ventures, technologist, innovation and investment banking consultant for micro/social finance sector
• Casey Gheen: Director of Finance and Corporate Development at Lenddo
• Sulin Lau: U.S. Kiva Fellow, Kiva Zip, US social credit pilot project
• Juan Maldonado: Echoing Green Fellow and Founder of Regalii, a system that allows Latinos in the U.S. to send gift cards via SMS to family members in Latin America

Shannjit Singh
Shannjit works as an advisor to technology startups in the US and frontier markets on fundraising and strategic marketing. At the growing intersection of microfinance and technology he leads projects and research efforts in cloud computing, crowdfunding, mobile payments, and mobile applications. He draws on twelve years experience collaborating with technology and social entrepreneurs at Grameen Foundation, Accel-KKR, and J.P. Morgan. His favorite mobile app is Instagram, avidly reads Seth Godin, and is learning to code Python.

Casey Gheen
Casey is a finance and business strategy professional working to achieve scalable and sustainable solutions to global problems. She is currently Director of Finance and Corporate Development for Lenddo, an emerging markets-focused technology company with a mission to financially empower the underbanked middle class by allowing them to use their social network profiles to demonstrate their trustworthiness and access financial services. Launched in 2011, Lenddo is currently extending life-improving loans to its members in Colombia and the Philippines, and is expanding to Mexico and Indonesia this year. Prior to Lenddo, Casey co-founded Avana, a microinsurance startup. She has worked with a number of anti-poverty and microfinance organizations, including the Millennium Village Project, Acumen Fund, Globalhood and Habitat for Humanity. Casey is a former Vice President at Goldman Sachs. She has a BS in economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Master in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She speaks French and (is really trying to learn) Spanish.

Sulin Lau
Sulin joins Kiva Zip USA from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as a Kiva Fellow, class of 2013. Kiva Zip is a spin-off project from Kiva.Org, operating in Kenya and the US, looking to leverage digital peer-to-peer payments to change micro-entrepreneurship funding. Sulin spent the first 10 years of her career in advertising as a brand planner. For the past 3 years, she has been working in telecoms leading demand-side services for a telco which include brand, ecommerce, social media, market research and customer experience. A marketer and a geek, she is particularly fascinated by how mass-adoption of technology and digital access continues to change how people consume, behave, and interact with the world. Sulin has a BSc in Government and Economics from the London School of Economics.

Juan Maldonado
Juan is a 2012 Echoing Green Fellow and Founder of Regalii, a system that allows Latinos in the U.S. to send gift cards via SMS to family members in Latin America. Juan has been honored and recognized by the NYC Commissioner of Consumer Affairs as well as the mayor for his outstanding work in providing key financial services to predominantly Latino communities. Juan graduated from the Zicklin School of business before working at Lehman Brothers for 4 years as an analyst. He also sat on the leadership broad for CUP (Counsel of Urban Professionals) and the executive board of directors for GLP (Global Language project) from 2010-2012.