David Kyle

Former CEO of India School Finance Company & former COO of Acumen Fund

David has just moved back to the US after living in Hyderabad for the past three years where he founded the ISFC, a for-profit finance company that provides medium term debt capital to private schools serving low-income families. The company now has 2 branches, a staff of 45 and a portfolio of well over 100 schools financed.

Prior to moving to India, David spent 4 years as Chief Investment Officer and COO of New York-based Acumen Fund where he led the build out of the firm in South Asia and East Africa. Prior to joining Acumen, David had served as Chief Advisor to the CEO of the London-headquartered Save the Children Alliance, responsible for establishing new, local agencies of Save the Children in Argentina and Brazil.

During the first part of his career David spent 20 years with Citibank in Brazil, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 6 in Lisbon, Portugal where he built a full service commercial and investment bank followed by 3 years in London where he led the development of CitibankÂ’s first intranet client management system in the late 1990s.

Bob Pattillo

Founder & CEO of Gray Ghost Ventures

An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Bob Pattillo is the founder of three social enterprises; The Rockdale Foundation, Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund, and Gray Matters Capital. He has over 12 years experience in microfinance and social impact investing and is committed to global poverty alleviation and the social empowerment of the poor. His current passion is an International Education initiative targeting affordable private schools. Prior to this career, Bob built and managed the 8th largest industrial real estate development firm in the United States.

Along with his own social enterprises Bob sits on the board of directors of several microfinance organizations and investment funds. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Owner/President Management Program. Bob speaks internationally on microfinance issues.

Menekse Gencer

Principal of mPay Connect & former Director of Mobile Business Development for PayPal

Menekse Gencer founded mPay Connect, a consulting service for clients seeking to launch mobile payments. Her consulting service advises banks, mobile network operators, governments, development agencies, and third parties on regulations, go-to-market-strategy, product design, business case, and business development. Her market expertise extends from North America to emerging markets such as Jamaica, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to founding mPay Connect, Menekse led PayPal MobileÂ’s Business Development efforts in North America for two years during which time she closed PayPalÂ’s first mobile network operator deal to launch PayPal Send Money on Sprint. Menekse has an MBA from Wharton and a BA in Macroeconomics from Harvard University.

Christina Cacciopo

Analyst, Union Square Ventures

Christina Cacciopo is a member of the investment team at Union Square Ventures. Prior to Union Square Ventures, Christina was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a design researcher at Deutsche Telekom/T-Mobile in Berlin, Germany. Christina graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Economics and in 2009 with an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, a combination of industrial engineering, human-computer interaction, and product design.

Bill Barhydt

CEO m-Via

Bill Barhydt is the CEO and Co-Founder of m-Via - a mobile banking and remittance company that helps people without bank accounts throughout the world to become part of the traditional financial system, using their mobile phones. Bill has become a recognized expert on mobile banking and financial inclusion in the Americas.

In the early days of the web, Bill was part of the team at Netscape, helping develop the first commercial browser and arguably kick-starting the Web, as we know it today. At Netscape and later at leading start-ups including Plaxo and Sennari Bill designed Internet banking systems, web hosting systems, E-Mail services, mobile phone games, group collaboration software and viral marketing software. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income Trading Group and for the US Government, first with the CIA and then at NASA where he worked in the Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center.