Bitcoin 2013 conference - Panel: Fraud Prevention - B Armstrong, J Kenna, V Chapela, R Ver
Channel: Athena Gibbons
Date: 2013-06-08

Recorded at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose, CA.  Conference sponsored by Bitcoin Foundation.  Red Pill Recording recorded this talk.

Brian Armstrong is Founder and CEO of Coinbase - a hosted bitcoin wallet.  Brian previously worked on fraud prevention at Airbnb.com as a software engineer and founded UniversityTutor.com.  He holds a Masters in computer science and BA in economics from Rice University.

Jered Kenna is Tradehill's founder and Chief Executive Officer. He got involved in Bitcoin exchange in 2009 and started building Tradehill in late 2010. More than anything, Jered is a world traveler, natural hacker, and entrepreneur. In addition to Tradehill, he is owner of the 20Mission "hacker hotel" located in the trendy Mission District of San Francisco and won the Vets in Tech Hackathon on 2012. Jered attributes his entrepreneurial determination and resiliency to lessons learned in his six year tenure in the US Marine Corps and years spent in developing countries like Chile and Afghanistan. Jered speaks regularly about Bitcoin, virtual currency, and the future of money and has been featured in major media outlets around the world.

Victor Chapela is Founder & CEO of Sm4rt Predictive, a Palo Alto based predictive analytics company that specializes in payment fraud prevention.

Mr. Chapela has over 25 years of IT experience. During this time, he has founded and managed 6 technology related companies in the United States and Mexico. As CEO of these companies he has primarily been involved in the design and implementation of technological processes and software for the financial industry. He is a frequent speaker at international events and is frequently featured in business and trade magazines, television and radio.

As part of his previous experience Mr. Chapela founded and led Sm4rt Security Services, a highly specialized Pen Testing, Incident Response, Financial Fraud Investigations and Information Security Consulting company based out of Mexico City. Sm4rt Security Services continues to work for over 20 of the Global 500 financial institutions.

Previously he also founded and served as CEO of TrueCentric, an Austin based consumer analytics company where he lead a development team of over 90 engineers in the creation of a data mining and customer relation software product for the financial industry. Back in 1994 he founded DigiPro, one of Latin America's leading financial data and document image processors. He has served in 14 different boards of directors in the technology industry.

His main expertise lies within the area of risk modeling, predictive analytics and financial information security. He is co-author and contributor of courseware, study material and security papers for SANS, OWASP, ISACA and several other security organizations and media companies.

He is currently co-authoring RiskVolution a book on the evolution of risk in the digital age.

Roger Ver is the CEO and founder of MemoryDealers.com.  With an educational background in economics and computer science, Bitcoin caught his attention in late 2010.  He has since devoted nearly every waking moment to it's promotion, earning the nickname "Bitcoin Jesus" in the process.  Roger has invested in numerous Bitcoin related startups and is incredibly optimistic about the numerous ways Bitcoin will change the world for the better. 

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