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Ray from a young age has been pushing his knowledge boundaries in pursuit to change the status quo. At the age of 15, he was helping to manage and deploy the school district computer network. After a short career with IBM, he founded Zeal Corp., to weave space satellite downlink and 4G uplink to enable IPTV interactivity for the emerging markets which lacked physical infrastructure and bandwidth. Zeal Corp. was successfully acquired. Ray later joined Lyris as an advisor to support their Canadian expansion. Lyris had a very successful IPO.

Ray is an entrepreneur at heart and continues to be a student at the school of hard knocks. Innovative and results driven leader focused on achieving exceptional results in highly competitive environments that demand continuous improvement.

Edward Phillip Kinsey II is an accomplished technology entrepreneur. Trained as a finance professional, Kinsey has served several companies in the high-tech sector as CEO, COO, CFO, and Board Member. He has also served non-profit organizations as a Trustee and Board Member. He is a certified public accountant (CPA) in Ohio and California and started his career serving the clients of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP, in Ohio, and then KPMG as a senior manager in the Silicon Valley financial and high-tech sectors.

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Mr. Kinsey is the Co-Founder and former Executive Vice President of Ariba, Inc., a leading provider of Spend Management solutions that help companies analyze, understand and manage their corporate spending to achieve increased cost savings and business process efficiency. He also served as a member of the DocuSign Strategic Advisory Board and CFO advisor to the DocuSign CFO prior to their IPO. Known as a professional who doesn’t shy away from complex problems, Kinsey has a predilection for understanding deeply technical issues and complex situations and delivering practical solutions. In 2007 Kinsey founded Determination Ventures, LLC, a private investment fund that focuses on technologies serving business commerce transactions and communications. In 2012, as the founder of Impel, Inc., Mr. Kinsey developed ideas that resulted in the issuance of four patents for consumer service commerce using internet technologies.

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Most Recently, Mr. Kinsey served as the Chief Financial Strategy Officer and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment at the U.S. State Department. Mr. Kinsey helped inspire and direct work that resulted in Executive Order 13959 - "Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments That Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies”. An expert in the Rules and Regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Kinsey directed the State Department’s positions on the inequities of SEC regulation on U.S. stock markets related to foreign stocks.

Edward currently serves as a Senior Fellow in the Economic and Financial Threat Program of the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) and as Advisory Council Member of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University.
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Edward Kinsey founded The Kinsey Family Foundation in 1999 and established the Kinsey Determination Scholarship at The University of Toledo College of Business Administration, an endowed fund that has provided full tuition to young men and women.

Mr. Kinsey was admitted into The University of Toledo, College of Business Hall of Fame, and was recognized as The University of Toledo Pacemaker of the Year.

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Betty DeVita is the Chief Business Officer and member of the board for Finconecta, a technology company that connects digital solutions and financial services companies via an API platform to accelerate digital transformation and open banking. She is the founder/CEO of BetdevSolutions, a fintech advisory practice working with early-stage and emerging companies on strategy, value creation, partnerships and the path to global scaling.

Betty is a global executive with expertise in digital transformation and consumer financial services/payments. She served as Chief Commercial Officer of Digital Payments & Labs, MasterCard from 2015-2019. In this global role, she was responsible for commercializing MasterCard Labs innovations including an innovative digital order ahead payments platform and an IoT commerce platform.

Prior to this role, she served as president, MasterCard Canada where she oversaw all aspects of the company’s enterprise with a mandate for continued growth and innovation.

Before joining MasterCard, she held various positions of increasing responsibility with Citi, in their global consumer franchise from 1982 to 2010. She left Citi as the Chair/CEO for Citibank Canada Inc. where she led the franchise across all lines of business during the global financial crisis.

Her geographic scope of experience for Citi also included Latin America, the U.S. and Asia. She has served on the Executive Council of the Canadian Bankers Association and in 2014 was inducted into the Women’s Executive Network Hall of Fame as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women.

Ms. DeVita holds a Bachelor of Science from St. John’s University and holds a CEO Certificate from the program at Wharton-KMA in Seoul, South Korea. She earned the Institute of CorporateDirectors certification from the University of Toronto and has Chaired and served on multiple private and non-profit boards /committees. She was the Chair of the Ted Rogers business school advisory board, Ryerson University, and an independent director at the Molson Coors Beverage Company (NYSE: TAP)from 2016-2020, where she sat on the  audit committee. She joined the BancoPopular Board (Nasdaq: BPOP) in June 2021 where she sits on the Technology and Talent/Comp Committees. In November 2021, she joined the Home CapitalGroup (TSX: HCG.TO) where she sits on the Audit and Technology Committees.

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Alan Rosling CBE is an accomplished global business pioneer with specific knowledge of India and climate transition. Alan is co-founder of ECube, a specialist ESG platform in India which is establishing a climate finance institution. Earlier, he was Co-founder of Kiran Energy, one of India’s first solar power developers. Kiran was sold to a strategic investor in 2018.

Alan spent 5 years as Executive Director of Tata Sons Limited, where he was in charge of the group’s internationalization (2003-09). In this period the Group’s international business grew from $2.4 billion (24% of aggregate income) to $38 billion (60%).

From 1998 to 2003 he was Chairman of the Jardine Matheson Group in India. His prior career included positions as Special Advisor to Prime Minister John Major; Strategy Development Director at United Distillers plc; Chief Executive of Piersons, a division of Courtaulds Textiles plc; and as a banker with S.G. Warburg and Co Ltd.

Alan is a Non-Executive director of a number of early stage companies including Insolight SA, Vyome Therapeutics and Peotic Technologies. His first book, Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise (Hachette 2017) was widely acclaimed as a significant contribution to understanding Indian entrepreneurship.

Rosling was educated at Cambridge University and the Harvard Business School.Alan has been dynamic in advancing Indo-British relations for many years. As Chairman, he built up the British Business Group, Mumbai, into a lively association, and he set up and led the City of London Advisory Council for India.

Founded Streamr to make data more available, fair, and valuable for all. Built scalable infrastructure & tools for real-time data for 10 years. Passionate about the decentralization of applications and data infrastructure. Previously CTO at two algorithmic trading companies, one of which he co-founded, and CEO at a startup building cloud-based data infrastructure for IoT.