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National Fintech Organization (NFO) Chicago Meetup | January 25th, 2024 at The Clayton

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January 25, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Central)
January 25, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm (Central)

NFO Chicago Meetup January 25th, 2024 at The Clayton

Join the local Chicago National Fintech Organization (NFO) community at The Clayton, a private Cigar Lounge in West Loop, on Thursday, January 25th at 5:30 pm (Central). This evening of networking, learning from peers, and cocktail reception with a motivational guest speaker is sponsored by the National Fintech Organization, JP Morgan, and Evolutio (a Cisco Observability partner, Fintech IT solution provider, and AFT member).

Kyle Kinner of JP Morgan and Mike Alles, NFO Board Member, will lead the group through a fun and informative evening.


Agenda (Central):

5:30 pm
Peer networking with folks from Fintech and the financial community

6:20 pm
Brief remarks and message

6:30 pm
Open floor for introductions, shaping the future of a Chicagoland Fintech “group” and regular meetups

6:40 pm
Motivational guest speaker

7:00 pm
Continued networking

7:30 pm
Depart (begin optional Chicago NFO roundtable discussion)

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Presenter

Author

Mike Alles
Board Member at National Fintech Org (NFO) and Founder at Alles Leadership

Mike Alles, is a Fintech veteran, with a career spanning 25 years in Fintech, most notably at FIS, where Mike served as SVP, Global Head of Digital Sales and other sales leadership roles. He also served at Metavante for 10 years, and is an active member of National Fintech Organization (NFO) and a member of Association for Financial Technology (AFT). Today, he runs Alles Leadership, helping leaders recognize their true influence.

Aaron Abodeely
Director of Corporate Strategy

Aaron has marketed Information Technology for fifteen years. He's held roles in partner marketing, community management, and field marketing. His experience managing large technical community-building initiatives and product roll-outs makes him savvy at bridging the divide between technology, advisory, service delivery, and marketing.

Prior to joining Evolutio in 2021, in 2018 he founded a self-employed consultancy and podcast, focused on the IT Channel by delivering Sales and Marketing services to OEMs, distributors, and IT solution providers. Aaron is also the Outcome Studio Podcast host, growing his audience to thousands of downloads and hundreds of thousands of video views on LinkedIn.

Aaron is applying the skills of developing a brand for a services company to Evolutio's practice areas. He works side-by-side with practice area leaders in Observability, Automation, Data Science, and Security to tell stories about how Evolutio is helping organizations build, scale, and secure enterprise applications.

Kyle Kinner
Web3, Fintech & Gaming Business Development at JP Morgan

Kyle supports Business Development efforts for JPMorgan’s Web3 pipeline across the Commercial & Corporate and Investment Bank. He also leads research efforts in developing a monthly “All things web3” newsletter, as well as a “Web3 Case Studies” catalogue, outlining partnerships between JPM and both web2 and web3 entities across JPM’s industry segments. He assisted in the early development of JPM’s “VASP Risk Framework” for the Commercial Bank and “Web3 Risk and Coverage Framework” for the Corporate and Investment Bank. He is supporting initial efforts in formulating JPM’s go-to-market strategy for seeking gaming partnerships and incorporating payment solutions from JPM’s existing payments product portfolio. Kyle collaboratively hosts Fintech & Web3 networking events, gathering entrepreneurs, investors, and key figures from the Chicago ecosystem.

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