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Killer AIs are taking over your business! Had enough of the hype surrounding AI? Take this class if you want to see real-life, fun examples of how AI is changing the way that we interact with our clients with an emphasis on fintech.  Learn how to apply AI at your job and talk intelligently with your tech teams.   Be in control of AI so that it doesn’t control you.

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Create Solutions

Solving your problems by bringing real fintech solutions to life. As an expert in financial technology, analytics and AI, I create solutions by applying cutting edge tech, finding strategic partners who deliver, and designing new products. This requires a keen eye for numbers, outstanding communication skills, and an ability to think creatively on how to use tech to generate revenue.

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Keynote Speaker

Bringing to life your vision of fintech and AI.  My passion is people and engaging an audience. I have an innate ability to communicate complicated concepts to listeners in a simple way that makes learning easy.  Whether talking about the latest in AI or fintech, I make these subjects come to life so that the audience sees beyond the technology and into the strategic vision of how this tech will change our world.

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Inspired

with over 20 years of experience in FinTech, WealthTech, InsurTech, Innovations, Artificial Intelligence and analytic technology solutions.

Rich is passionate about managing and building teams of exceptional people, launching new global products and services that create an impact.
He has headed three start-up risk advisory operations in banking, rebooted Risk in China for IBM, and launched FinTech at the IBM Studios.

Award Winner

In 2015 Rich was the winner of the “Risk Technology Product of the Year”  Risk Award  which is  based on a unique hybrid cloud based system deployed in Shanghai that fully complies with China’s stringent data security laws.

Co-author

The book presents the insights, the current thinking and the actionable strategies from a wide range of international contributors who are experts on the topic. The authors explain why the traditional ways of doing business will soon become irrelevant and offer a guide to thriving in the digital revolution.

The InsurTECH Book

The book provides the information needed for holistically connecting insurance and technology. Discover new ways of grasping and defining growth opportunities and explore the business models, value chain, customer engagement strategies and organizational structures that can be adopted to transform the insurance industry.

The InsurTech Book is an invaluable source of the most current information available for entrepreneurs, innovators, insurers, investors, analysts and consultants working in or interested in investing in this space.

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Experience in Innovation

Rich was a banker for almost 20 years and a serial innovator for his entire career. Specializing in the design and innovation of new bond and risk management products he saw first hand how technology, finance, and regulation impact product development.

As the head of several trading teams he worked directly with clients in banking and insurance to bridge the gap between client demands and product realities just as he does in the fintech space today.

Throughout his career Rich has worked together with coding teams and financial engineers to actually build the trading systems used to bring new products to life.  He is responsible for a number of industry firsts in hybrid bonds and insurance, and is a master of thinking “out of the box.”

As a consultant Rich focuses on people,
not just the tech, since in his experience people’s relation to tech is what holds the key to innovation.

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China’s fintech innovation scene is legendary and Rich was the first to sell and build an IBM hybrid cloud system in China, the benchmark for all used subsequently in trading systems in that country. Then as now in his current work as a consultant, Rich guided technical teams to deliver the system’s million dollar build-out.

Recently, as the senior executive heading fintech for IBM Cognitive Studios Singapore,he worked with banks, insurers and innovation labs to build groundbreaking artificial intelligence-based fintech systems with a build team of ten. Given his strong ties to the fintech and innovation community, he continues this work today.