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David Drake: Keynote Speaker at 2nd Global Fintech & Blockchain China Summit 2018

April 12, 2018
Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao
1116 Hongsong East Road, Minhang District,
Shanghai, China

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2nd Global Fintech&Blockchain China Summit 2018 will be held in Shanghai on April 12th, which is consisting of Main Conference, Parallel Session, and a Conjunction Mini Exhibition Show, more than 800 delegates from government, associations, research institutes, traditional financial institution as well as fintech and internet finance companies, blockchain technology and industry application companies, cryptocurrency and digital asset related companies.

The blockchain summit will discuss the real application cases and future prospect of the blockchain in areas of finance, global payment system, healthcare, energy trading, digital identity authentication, electronic record authentication, IoT, supply chain management and government governance., etc, and address the opportunities and challenges ahead. We aim to create a global network of entrepreneurs and developers in the fast-evolving blockchain economy, to explore the new business models and unrecognized opportunities in the blockchain world, We are fully convinced that this summit will empower the creation of the new technology-driven financial eco-system and reconfiguration of the future by the blockchain technology.

Event Highlights:

1000+ Professional Visitor for Exhibition

800+ High-Level Participants for Conference

150+ Financial Services Companies

80+ Fintech Innovators

50+ Eminent Speakers Sharing Real Cases

30+ Startups Technology Demo Show and Project Presentations

80+ Top VC/PE Investors Attending

50+ Media Reporting

Parallel Session: Startups Project Presentation

Awards Ceremony: Fintech & Blockchain Industry Awards 2018

Mini Show: Fintech Leaders and Startups on the Same Stage

1-on-1 Meeting with Investors： Blockchain Project Team vs Institutional Investors

David Drake

Founder and Chairman,

LDJ Capital

The Soho Loft Media Group

David Drake is the Chairman of LDJ Capital, a multi-family office; Victoria Partners, a 300 family office network based in London; LDJ Real Estate Group and Drake Hospitality Group; and The Soho Loft Media Group with divisions Victoria Global Communications, Times Impact Publications, and The Soho Loft Conferences.

Mr. Drake has been involved in TMT (technology, media, telecoms), realty, hospitality, cleantech, energy and social impact investments for more than 20 years. He is an advocate of innovative investing in early-stage equity, capital formation policies and developments globally, and the US JOBS Act which he lobbied for in the US Congress and the EU Commission. Because of his leading work in this space, he represented the US Commerce Department at the EU Commission in Brussels and Rome in 2012 and was invited to the White House Champions of Change ceremony in Washington, D.C. and as a speaker at the UK Parliament in 2013.

His investment, The Soho Loft Media Group, produces and sponsors over 200 global conferences annually and his articles are syndicated in over 100 publications. One such event was April 2013 for the institutional media leader Thomson Reuters, with speakers from Nasdaq, NYSE, KKR and Carlyle Group. He advances financial innovation through his work as an international speaker and writer. He has spoken in top universities like Cambridge, NYU, Cornell, Columbia, and writes regularly for major publications like WSJ, Forbes, Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters. He is the co-author of the books Planet Entrepreneur and Crowdfunding and Other Animals and is the author of the upcoming books TheCrowdfunding Economy and LIFEE: Life Instructions for Entrepreneurs and Executives.

Previously, Mr. Drake has acted as a general partner in fund-of-funds, realty funds, venture capital funds, seed funds and hedge funds. Mr. Drake’s holdings have media partnership with the European Business Angel Network, European Venture Philanthropy Association and Angel Capital Association of North America. He sits on 4 angel networks and has co-founded two angel networks.

His focus today is to take on board advisory positions at companies, angel networks, and venture funds, and to guide them on international regulations, corporate strategy, and fund structures, with emphasis on the growing trend of online investment automation for retail and angel investors.

Privately, Mr. Drake has hosted the Harvard Business Club of NY at his home, produced Carnegie Hall concerts and raised funds for the charities Trail Blazers and Best Buddies for many years. Today he is a board director for the New York City Opera Renaissance, London-based UBS Charity of the Year ARCHIVE Global, and a board advisor for The Washington Ballet. He is a board director also of the Carnegie Hall Einhorn Oratorio Project in honor of the Ukraine MH17 flight victims which allows him to work and advise US Ambassadors from, but not limited to, Dominica, Ukraine, Marshall Islands, Australia, Canada, and Sweden.

Born in Sweden and fluent in six languages, Mr. Drake has an MBA in Finance and an MA in International Law and Economics from George Washington University, where he was awarded the Wallenberg Scholarship for academic merit.