John Woyton Head of HIG Technology Partners and Managing Director H.I.G CAPITAL

John is currently Senior Advisor at H.I.G. Capital based in Miami. John has over 20 years experience in technology private equity. John joined H.I.G. Capital to found, build, and manage HTP, a dedicated technology fund built on the H.I.G. platform. Prior to this, John was a Partner and technology sector head at Advent International. John started his private equity career at The Carlyle Group. Throughout John’s career he has led or sponsored investments in over 30 companies across the enterprise applications, infrastructure software, and fintech sectors.

Maja Vujinovic Managing Director OGROUP LLC

In 2005 Ms. Vujinovic identified a global need for mobile payment networks. She went on to acquire and develop over $700M assets across Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin American in mobile payments. This led her to Bitcoin and DLT in 2010 and since, has been an avid builder and an investor in digital assets. In 2013, Maja was involved in buying a first bank that held Tether. In 2014, as a CIO of Emerging Tech at General Electric, she was the catalyst for blockchain across all General Electric. She was responsible for the idea and team construction and management of blockchain as a service platform for all GE customers, inspiring JP Morgan Quorum and Microsoft’s blockchain as a service. 

Currently, Maja runs OGroup focused on investments and scale of digital assets/Web3, particularly merging Web3 technology and ideas with Web2 users. Her focus lies in helping Web3 companies scale and exit through operational know-how and M&A advisory. Second, she provides guidance to institutional investors and family offices interested in Web3. Maja is an investor in over 55 companies in digital assets and is an operational and growth partner to Kauffman Fellows DAO. 

Maja is on the board of Nayms, Civic, Prism partners and Coindesk, a lead contributor to InfoMoney.br and holds frequent talks at DAS Blockworks, Abudance 360, Financial Times, BTC Miami, large family office gatherings and CEO’s and CIO’s of Fortune500 companies globally. Maja is also an investor in longevity and on a board of Longevity Science Foundation. 

Jeff Ransdell Founder and Managing Partner FUEL VENTURE CAPITAL

Jeff Ransdell is a venture capitalist building a portfolio of exponential technology companies at Miami-based Fuel Venture Capital, which he founded in 2017 following his departure from the world of wealth management on Wall Street. As Founding Partner and Managing Director, Jeff approaches venture capital with a signature “founder focused, investor driven” mindset, shaped by two decades as a top executive of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. As a managing director and market executive of the financial powerhouse, he managed more than $130 billion of global private client investment assets, a P&L of $2 billion, and over 2,000 employees across the bank’s Southeast Wealth Management Division. His transition to venture capital was motivated by what he saw as mounting evidence that opportunities to shape the economy and capitalize on innovation were steadily shifting from the public markets to the private markets. In the face of much skepticism, Jeff chose Miami, Florida, as the homebase for Fuel Venture Capital, armed with an unparalleled rolodex and emboldened to leverage the city’s untapped resources and advantages. Today, Fuel is a VC firm with more than $550 million assets under management and has a portfolio of 33 companies, including Betr, Tradeshift, Taxfyle, Ubicquia, Curve, and NovoPayment, among others.

Jairo Riveros Managing Director Americas & Group Head of Strategy PAYSEND

Jairo Riveros is an inspirer, strategist, tactician, and transformer leader across Payments, Insurance, Pensions, and Investments. Passionate about the future of financial services, the use of data and analytics, and the need for new business models to challenge the status quo.

Jairo is the Chief Strategy Officer and the Managing Director for the USA and Latam at Paysend, a global Fintech company born in 2017, based in UK and regulated by the FCA, servicing over 8 million customers in 180+ countries. In his role, Jairo is responsible for the strategic direction of the firm, developing a world-class Fintech team, securing regulatory approvals, licences, and partnership deals.

Previously, through his C-suite consulting firm, Artemis Worldwide, and as a Director at Deloitte Consulting, Jairo headed the acquisition team for fintech payments company in Latin America, advised a global pension and insurance fund in a go-to-market strategy with a direct to consumer/client model leveraging analytics, and spearheaded research and technology options to develop an investment platform to facilitate direct investor-placed capital and financing with operators and managers in the alternative investment arena.

From 2013-2015, Jairo was a strategic advisor for AIMCo, one of Canada's largest diversified institutional investment fund managers with an investment portfolio of ~$120B. At AIMCo, he directed the development of their longer-term strategic direction, assessed global opportunities for growth, and developed an institutional capability for scenario and strategic planning.

Jairo was the Head of Strategic Planning for TIAA (New York, USA), a diversified financial services firm (Investment, Advice, Retirement, and Banking) with over $1 trillion in assets under management. From 2009 to 2013, he led the formulation and implementation of a multi-year corporate wide growth and diversification strategy and setting the path for the firm's assets to double, with significant growth in net flows and expansion of revenues sources.

Previously, Jairo was the Head of Market Models and Business Strategies for MasterCard Worldwide and its advisory unit, MasterCard Advisors. In this role, he implemented the Value Quantification Initiative to measure the impact of the MasterCard products and services to the bottom line of its issuing banks; assisted in the evolution of the MasterCard B2B business model to increase payment card issuing and processing in selected markets including opening B2C and B2G channels; Jairo also developed strategic frameworks and business cases for nonfinancial institutions to become issuers of payments products.

Jairo holds a Global Executive MBA from NYU Stern, LSE, and HEC Paris (TRIUM). He is a member of the New York University Stern School Alumni Council, a member of the Board of Directors at Sentio Intercultural Experiences and, served on the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) in Sinai, Egypt, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

An avid problem-solver, Jairo can currently be found assessing the impacts of disruptive innovation on investment managers and researching about disruption strategies for global themes such as Money in Motion (de-accumulation), Financial Education, and Financial Inclusion.

Troy Hooper Head of Pre-Event Equity Capital Market Coverage MERGERMARKET

Troy Hooper is head of pre-event equity capital market coverage for Mergermarket & Dealreporter. Based in Southern California, Troy has covered M&A and IPOs in the technology sector for this news service for a decade.