Venture Cafe Sydney and MQ Incubator sat down with a panel of experts to talk about the current and future trends in finance, cryptocurrency, sustainable finance, finance with a social conscience and more!
Meet our panelists:
1. Bernard Orenstein, Co-Founder of Proxima Capital, a trading firm focused on market neutral strategies in the cryptocurrency industry. He has 10 years of expertise in applied IT research, plus 20 years in Fintech.
2. Samuel Phillipos, Founder and Principal Mortgage Broker at Benevolence Financial Group, the first social enterprise mortgage brokerage firm in Sydney specialising in home loans with a purpose, where up to 50% of commissions made are invested to build affordable housing for families in need.
3. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, leader of the Center for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance at Macquarie University which brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading experts in the areas of corporate sustainability and environmental finance. She is also is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6 WGII) and is a member of the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council (ARC).
4. Dr Jack Parkin, product manager at Lygon, academic, and author with extensive experience in grounding disruptive technologies within the real economy
