SPEAKERS

Ken is the founder & CEO of Octagon, a venture-backed Gen AI startup that aims to surpass human boundaries in investment research. Previously, Ken founded two venture-backed fintech startups with a successful exit in Tillful which modernized SMB credit using AI and cash-flow data (acquired by Nav). Prior to his entrepreneurship, Ken had over 10 years of experience in equity research at Citigroup and corporate development at companies including Qualcomm and Ericsson, closing over $3B+ transactions. He started his career as an engineer and became one of the inventors of the world’s first 3D memory chip and held over 15 patents. He received his MBA from UC Berkeley, Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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