​Join us for an engaging discussion on the current fintech landscape, highlighting the exciting opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors in Connecticut. Our expert panel will explore various fintech sectors and products, delve into the current US regulatory environment, and examine how it influences product development and investment strategies.

​Host: Emily Goodman, Partner at FS Vector

​Panelists:

• ​Jason Cabral, Partner at Gibson Dunn

• ​Keith Strycula, Founder & CEO of Glasstower

• ​Jordan Lue, Investor at CT Innovations

• ​Frances Zelazny, Founder of Anonybit

​​​​This event is a part of #CTTechWeek - a series of events hosted by Non-Profits, The City of Stamford, VCs, and startups to bring together the CT tech ecosystem.

​Meet the Panelists

​Emily Goodman, a Greenwich resident, has spent her entire career as a lawyer and consultant embedded in fintech projects that span a diverse set of products and companies. Emily is currently a Partner at FS Vector, a boutique fintech regulatory and compliance firm. In this role, she serves as a strategic regulatory and compliance advisor to companies who are building innovative financial services. Emily's product expertise includes payments, lending, cards, and digital assets.

​Prior to joining FS Vector, Emily was Chief Legal Officer of HQ Digital, an early-stage digital multi-family office serving digital asset entrepreneurs and investors, as well as Lead Product & Regulatory Counsel at Brex. Before that, she spent a decade at American Express, where she was Vice President & Senior Counsel supporting the Digital Labs business unit. She started her career in the Financial Institutions & Payments group at Schulte, Roth & Zabel.

​Emily is a well-regarded practitioner and thought-leader in the fintech and digital asset space. She is an active participant in a number of industry groups, including as co-lead for CryptoMondays – Stamford. She is also a member of Tidal River, a CT-women led angel investment fund.

​Emily earned a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Politics from University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

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​Keith Styrcula is the CEO and Founder of Glasstower Digital, a revolutionary cross-border digital payments technology platform with a global ecosystem of 10 institutional partners. An award-winning financial products innovator, Keith was a pioneer in the structured investments business at JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and UBS where he developed and marketed diverse and first-of-its-kind financial products including indexes, derivatives, and ETFs.  Keith's notable achievements include creating and chairing the 17,500-member Structured Products Association and being named one of the “ten most influential executives in the global structured investments industry” by Structured Products Magazine.  With the launch of Glasstower, Keith brings his two decades of cutting-edge financial engineering experience to the digital assets and tokenized finance industry. A graduate of Fordham Law School, he is frequently quoted in major financial media and has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg News, CNN and Fox Business.

​Jason Cabral is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and leads the firm’s U.S. bank regulatory practice and is a member of the Financial Institutions, Global Financial Regulatory, FinTech and Digital Assets, and Anti-Money Laundering Practice Groups. He represents U.S. and non-U.S. banks and financial services companies, neobanks, fintechs, payments companies, lending companies, companies in the digital assets space, and third-party service providers to financial institutions regarding the application or potential application of federal and state banking, consumer protection and money transmission laws and regulations to their investments, activities, products and services. Jason represents clients before the federal financial services regulatory agencies and state banking departments on a variety of matters, including chartering or licensing initiatives, regulatory applications, notices and other submissions in connection with mergers, acquisitions, minority investments and other transactions, control and non-control determinations, and enforcement matters. He regularly advises clients on issues related to their digital assets strategies and the development of their own digital assets products and services and related commercial relationships, as well other strategic initiatives and related regulatory and consumer compliance matters.

​Jordan Lue is responsible for evaluating tech company investment opportunities, conducting due diligence, and managing portfolio companies at Connecticut Innovations. He joined the firm in 2021 after completing his master’s in organizational psychology at the University of New Haven. During his time at UNH, Jordan co-founded Jetro, an outsourced technology development firm, where he gained extensive experience architecting web and mobile applications for numerous startups. In 2018, Jordan earned his bachelor’s degree from Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was also a Division 1 soccer player and co-founder of Townview.

​Frances Zelazny is Co-Founder & CEO of Anonybit, a decentralized biometrics infrastructure (not blockchain!) that is breaking new ground in the area of user privacy and digital security. Since her early days in identity management, Frances has been an outspoken advocate for consumer privacy and the responsible use of biometric data.