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Thursday, May 24th, 2018

10:15 AM – 11:15 AM – Immersive Hollywood: VR – AR - MR

Session I: Haas Conf. Ctr. - Rm. 172 & 173

Funding and Business Development in ICOs, Blockchain, AR/VR, AI and Immersion – From VCs to Kickstarter and Corporate Investments

Sohrob Farudi, CEO, Fanchise

Carinda Salomon, Head of Business Development, Facemap

Mike Parker, Partner, AGC Partners

Valentin Preobrazhenskiy, ceo & Founder, LATOKEN

Gretchen Fox, CMO, AIKON

Katie Johnson, CEO & Founder, Carbon38

Kinsey Cronin, Director of Business Development, StartEngine

Moderator - Mariana Danilovic, Founder and Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio

 

Mike Parker, Partner, AGC Partners: Mike is a Partner, and Head of the Chicago Office, at AGC Partners. His focus areas include enterprise software/SaaS, consumer technologies, digital media, internet of things, artificial intelligence/machine learning and technology services, among others. Mike is a seasoned M&A banker with experience advising, and executing transactions for, technology leaders from Fortune 500 members to high-growth venture backed startups. Most recently, Mike was an M&A banker with Lazard based in Chicago. Prior to Lazard, Mike spent a number of years in Silicon Valley as Vice President

of Business Operations & Strategy at SuccessFactors, which sold to SAP for over $3.6 billion and an investment banker with Barclays Capital advising technology, media and telecom companies. Mike holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where he was an Amos Tuck Scholar.

 

Carinda Salomon, Head of Business Development, Facemap: Carinda Salomon’s unique perspective and innovative strategies have proven invaluable to Angel Investors, VC’s, Family Offices, Start Ups and Emerging Growth Companies globally for the past 15+ years. Experience consulting, collaborating & strategizing with numerous capital sources has provided her with priceless insight into what funding sources are looking for in companies up for investment consideration. Carinda’s passion to achieve a Return On Community alongside a Return on Investment for all she works with, has been requested by Individual Investors, Funds, VC’s, LP’s, StartUps & CEO’s, COO’s, CSO’s, CCO’s & Fortune 100, 500 & 1000 companies alike. Bridging the gap between investors and entrepreneurs is her focus when cultivating relationships for those she works with, resulting in maximum returns and development. Carinda serves as Business Development and Public Relations & Communications for Dirk Schneemann & Facemap, LLC’s in Malibu, CA, as well as is an Advisor to Keiretsu Forum Southern California. Additionally, Carinda enjoys consulting, speaking & mentoring along the way.

 

Sohrob Farudi, CEO, Fanchise: Sohrob is an accomplished international C-level executive and venture-backed entrepreneur. He’s held the CEO role at multiple startups, spent two years overseas working in Europe, raised more than twenty million dollars in angel and venture financing, and served as an investor and advisor to numerous companies over the last decade. He has spoken at events including SXSW, Hashtag Sports, MIT Sloan Sports & Analytics Conference, and Block-Con. He is currently the CEO of the FCFL, responsible for strategic direction, partnerships, and financing. Prior to the FCFL, Sohrob founded Fanchise in 2015, the company that built the real-time play calling and fan engagement application with the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles that lead to the creation of the FCFL. In his time with Fanchise, he secured millions of dollars in angel funding, led product design for the mobile play calling app, negotiated partnerships with Sports Illustrated and Twitch, and attracted notable executives from the worlds of entertainment and professional sports to help push the league forward. Before disrupting the world of sports and entertainment, Sohrob led companies across sectors in analytics (SeeVolution), digital marketing (ActBold), and mobile (Flipswap). As co-founder and CEO of Flipswap, Sohrob led the company from “garage startup” to venture-backed company, securing $14M from RRE Ventures and NGEN Partners. Under Sohrob’s guidance, Flipswap secured the #81 ranking on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 fastest-growing companies, and in 2011, Sohrob led the merger/sale of Flipswap to HYLA Mobile in a transaction that included a $35M investment from Kleiner Perkins. Sohrob started his career as a consultant at Accenture. He holds a MS in Information Systems from the George Washington University School of Business and a BS in Finance from the University of Maryland, where he graduated in just three years. He currently resides in Manhattan Beach, CA with his wife and two young daughters.

 

Kinsey Cronin is an expert in the crowd investment field. As Director of Business Development at StartEngine, she helps entrepreneurs navigate JOBS Act crowdfunding regulations to run large capital raise campaigns for equity, debt and token offerings.

 

Valentin Preobrazhenskiy, ceo & Founder, LATOKEN: Founder & CEO of LAToken: Founder & CEO at LAToken, a platform for assets tokenization and unlocking the value of illiquid assets ranging from real estate and banks loans to works of art (Singapore based) • Founder of Home Equity Marketplace Zalogo - Mortgage Lending as a Service (MLaaS) platform • Formerly a Director of Founder Institute (Moscow Chapter) • Leader of Founders & Developers in blockchain community with 1500 participants and 50+ meetups since 2015 • Previously managing partner of Avega Capital where he created a back-office for hedge funds for trading equities and derivatives, director of Research at Marcuard Spectrum; also worked with IHS CERA, Sberbank and VTB.

 

Gretchen Fox is the CMO of AIKON, a technology company making blockchain work for the booming API economy. As CMO, she is focused on launching the world’s first decentralized API marketplace and sharing the company’s mission of creating an equal-access economy for developers everywhere. A seasoned executive, Gretchen founded values-based digital agency MTO Agency and online education program MTO EDU. Prior to launching MTO, she served as Vice President of Social at Live Nation and Ticketmaster, where she generated over $20 Million annual revenue through social media. Gretchen pioneered the social media marketing space, leading innovative initiatives for some of the world’s largest sport properties, including Wimbledon, IndyCar Race Control, and NBC’s Winter Olympics. Her work has earned her “Top Women in Social” from Billboard Magazine, frequent press coverage and a contributor’s column at Forbes.

 

Mariana Danilovic, CEO, hollywood portfolio: Ms. Danilovic is the Founder and CEO of hollywood portfolio, a crowd-centric accelerator that develops and operates Augmented, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and digital media companies. Through hollywood portfolio, Ms. Danilovic launched and helped develop numerous technology and digital media companies, and served as the President, CEO and Director of ultralivetv, served on the Board of Directors of Emerge Digital, serves on the Board of Advisors of Transmosis, LoveTV, and NightFlight. Ms. Danilovic was the EVP Business Development for NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) and Head of Business Development, Content Aggregation and Programming for MediaZone, broadband video company owned by NASPERS/MIH media conglomerate. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP, which launched about two-dozen digital media companies. The companies Ms. Danilovic helped develop received institutional funding from KPCB, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank, North Star Ventures, HP, and Intel. Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Entertainment and was on the management team of the venture fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment, investing in media companies worldwide. Ms. Danilovic also worked for Michael Milken’s Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. She serves on the Board of Directors of C3, the Arts and Media Node of the Millennium Project, served on the Board of Directors of the Producers’ Guild of America, and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Tim Draper’s Zone Club and was a member of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. Mariana earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with a Minor in Biomedical Engineering from University of California, San Diego.