Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #157 by Patrick L Young with James Ashton CEO of The Quoted Companies Alliance, the members’ organisation that champions small and mid-sized companies whose shares are publicly traded. He is the author of several business books including the history of FTSE with IPO-VID alumnus Mark Makepeace and chairs Oscar’s Book Prize, the annual search for the UK’s best picture book. James is also a non-executive director of Finsbury Growth & Income, the FTSE 250 investment trust.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #156 by Patrick L Young with Paulina Bren, a writer and award-winning historian who teaches at Vassar College on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities. Her previous book, the best-selling The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her new book, She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street, called “enthralling” by Publisher’s Weekly, is already the Next Big Idea Club Must-Read. She-Wolves is in development with Mark Gordon Pictures.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #155 by Patrick L Young with Patrick Wood, CEO and President of DelphX Capital Markets (DELX-TSXv) which is advancing a revolutionary fixed-income solution for the future of credit rating volatility.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #154 by Patrick L Young with Aaron Kaplan, the co-CEO of Prometheum Inc. Its affiliate, Prometheum ATS, offers a blockchain-enabled ecosystem for trading digital assets. Another affiliate, Prometheum Capital, engages in clearance, settlement and custody for digital assets. Kaplan previously served as Of Counsel at Gusrae Kaplan Nusbaum.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #153 by Patrick L Young with Dr. Armen Papazian, a financial economist and author of two ground-breaking books on sustainable finance, The Space Value of Money and Hardwiring Sustainability into Financial Mathematics.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #152 by Patrick L Young with Maureen Downs & Jim Downs.

Maureen C Downs, Co-Founder and Chair

Maureen is a respected capital markets veteran with broad industry experience in derivative financial instruments and financial technology, including leadership roles at brokerages, trading firms, regulatory bodies, and trade associations including Chairing the NFA

Jim Downs, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jim’s vision for EP3 by Connamara Technologies, Inc. revolves around the EP3 matching engine which encapsulates his extensive knowledge and experience from decades of delivering capital markets software solutions and trading on the floors of CBOE and CBOT.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #151 by Patrick L Young with Bjorn Sibbern, the Executive Board of SIX as Global Head of Exchanges in 2024, responsible for the Swiss and Spanish Exchanges, as well as digital exchange SDX.

Welcome to IPO-VID Livestream Episode #150 by Patrick L Young with Dr. Richard Smith, fintech entrepreneur, Berkeley Mathematician & PhD in System Science – is CEO of The Foundation of the Study of Cycles known as "The Doctor of Uncertainty" amongst his academic peers who has helped government agencies and Fortune 500 companies (including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson) alike make sense of complex sets of data.