Emerging innovations in fintech | Michael Casey and Tricia Kemp
Channel: MIT Venture Capital & Innovation
Date: 2017-06-22

Michael Casey of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab discusses emerging financial technologies and the future of money with Tricia Kemp of Oak HC/FT, a venture capital firm focused on health care and financial services technologies. David Morczinek gives the introduction.

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Currently Senior Advisor to the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, Michael Casey has two decades of experience as a journalist—most recently as a senior columnist at The Wall Street Journal, covering digital currency, global finance, and economics. In addition to co-authoring The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order — a “timely and colorful book [that] is a rewarding place to learn it all” (The New York Times) and “the most thorough and readable account of the short life of this controversial currency” (The Washington Post)—and hundreds of bylines at WSJ, he has written for Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Financial Times and many other publications. He is also the author of two prior books: The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Financial System Destroys the Middle Class and Che’s Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image. His new book is The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life (co-authored with Oliver Luckett), about how social media functions just like a living being.

Patricia is a General Partner of Oak HC/FT where she focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities exclusively in financial services technology. Since Oak HC/FT’s launch in September 2014, Patricia has led the fund’s investments in Fastpay, Feedzai, Insureon and Trov among others, and sits on the boards of each. She is also a Board Observer on Poynt.

Patricia joined Oak Investment Partners as a Venture Partner in 2002 and continues to serve on the Boards of Duedil and Freshbooks. Some of Patricia’s past portfolio activity includes Vesta Corporation, Acculynk, Argus Information & Advisory Services (acquired by Verisk Analytics), Harbor Payments (acquired by American Express), NetSpend Corporation (acquired TSYS), Point Carbon (acquired by Thomson Reuters), and TxVia (acquired by Google).

Patricia’s history includes over 11 years of senior management experience at Cendant (formerly CUC International). At various times she was responsible for the marketing, operations, or general management of a variety of direct marketing credit card affinity programs. Patricia has also previously held positions at Hewlett Packard and Merrill Lynch.

Tricia earned a BA and MBA from Stanford University.