EXCLUSIVE – Dan Rosen, founder and general partner at Commerce Ventures, has joined the speaker roster for Bank Innovation 2018, taking place next week March 5 to 6 in San Francisco.
Since founding Commerce Ventures in 2012, Rosen has added more than forty fintech startups to its portfolio. The companies in its portfolio includes B2B payments platform, Bills.com; PFM app Bloom; and payments issuing platform, Marqeta, to name a few.
Prior to Commerce Ventures, Rosen served as principal at PE firm Highland Capital Partners, where he focused on investing in mobile, payments and digital marketing companies. He has also served as served as a mentor or advisor in programs such as 500Startups, Money2020’s StartupPitch 180 and HBS Angels.
At Bank Innovation, he will be speaking on the panel “Consortiums, Token Offerings and the Prospects for Blockchain Commercialization.” On this panel, he will be joined by Marley Gray, principal architect at Azure blockchain engineering for Microsoft, Tim Swanson, founder and director, Research at Post Oak Labs and Ian Putter, head of unified finance development and innovation at Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank.
The event will also feature speakers from Chain, Visa, Royal Bank of Canada, Mastercard, Green Dot, Wells Fargo, and more.
Attendees to the event will see startup demos, panels and presentations, and have the chance to seek advice and insights from fintech experts at the Innovation Bar.