FinTech: Creative Destruction & Finance Alumni Careers Spotlight - New York

FinTech: Creative Destruction

A Road Map for the Future of Finance

FinTech is “creative destruction”. It´s about how technology is upending finance, and both destroying some traditional finance roles and creating new ones in your post-Master career. In this class, you will see the illustration of what´s happening by looking at some stories/mini case studies across the diverse FinTech landscape:

1) Lego and WealthTech

2) Cryptocurrencies - How to value something virtual that doesn’t pay anything?

3) Payments – How disruptive innovation might have predicted the success of M-Pesa.

4) The Five Forces of Alibaba

5) Crowdfunding – Are investing crowds wise or mad?

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

Professor Steven Zitzer has been adjunct professor of FinTech at IE since 2017, teaching both cryptocurrency/ICO and robo- advisory electives.  Searching for the next big thing in finance, he began intensively researching the FinTech space in 2012, and launched a pioneering FinTech course in Spain in 2013.  As a private investor, Prof. Zitzer has invested in US platforms and European FinTech startups.  Previously, he held various investment banking, advisory and investment management roles on Wall St., London and Madrid.  Prof. Zitzer has a BA in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California (Berkeley) and an MBA from Yale University.

FINANCE ALUMNI CAREER SPOTLIGHT

During this exclusive panel conversation, you will have the opportunity to hear directly from successful Alumni of our Master in Finance programs.

-Eric Kohlmann Founding Partner & CEO, Trinnacle Capital Management Alumni, IE Master in Finance 14’

-Manuel Sansigre, Head of M&A at Penguin Random House.  Master in Advance Finance 2009

-Colin Fitzgerald Research Associate at Morgan Stanley Alumni, IE Master in Finance 11’