Speaker Info

Dr. Robert F. Dittmar

Robert F. Dittmar is a Professor of Finance at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and Faculty co-Director of the Ross FinTech Initiative. His research focuses on empirical and theoretical issues in asset pricing, in particular the determination of the term structure of interest rates and the cross-section of equity risk premia. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Econometrics. Robert teaches courses across the BBA, MBA, and Ph.D. programs in investments and FinTech and advises the student-run public equity investment fund, the Maize and Blue Fund.

Robert earned his Ph.D. at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and joined the Ross faculty in 2003. Prior to his time at Ross, Robert was an Assistant Professor at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University in Bloomington.

Jessica Willis

Jessica Willis, Founder & CEO, PocketNest - Jessica has spent nearly 20 years of her career in the investment and finance industries and has obtained the Certified Financial Planner (CFPR) and Certified Private Wealth Advisor (CPWAR) designations. Jessica has an MBA from Loyola University Chicago, Quinlan School of Business and a B.S. from University of Michigan. Jessica has a passion for serving clients, getting messy financial plans in order and a love of smart fintech tools that improve efficiency and accessibility. Offline, Jessica loves spending time with her three children and husband of 12 years, Tom.

Shoaib Shafquat

Shoaib Shafquat is President of QCheque. QCheque is a Fintech company that is eliminating payments fraud with tokenization!

Member of:

* Federal Reserve Bank ~ Secure Payments Task Force

* NACHA ~ Afinis; Interoperable Standards governance organization

* US Faster Payments Council ~ Fraud Prevention Work Group

Krishnan Kandasamy

Co-Organizer of Ann Arbor Fintech Meetup