About Us

Andrew is a digital professional with over 15 years experience in digital media and software development. He is a recognized authority in the crowdfunding industry and a firm believer in the power of the internet to disrupt traditional forms of finance. He regularly speaks or participates at alternative finance events around the globe. He is a member of the Cambridge Alternative Finance Leadership Advisory Board, part of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) and a regular participant in the bipartisan Securities Regulation Working Group organized by the Heritage Foundation. Andrew was recognized by the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council, CFIRA, and Crowdfund Capital Advisors by receiving the inaugural New Capital Markets Leadership Award. Andrew has a BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University and a Masters in Business from Boston University. He also attended Case Weatherhead School of Management where he continued his education in Finance.

Kristin is a finance professional with 20 years experience in Corporate Finance, Public Finance, Asset Securitization and Real Estate Finance. She has held various positions at Banc One Capital, McDonald Investments (KeyCorp), and NatCity Investments (now PNC). Kristin's background has provided perspective for both small and large market business segments including the various compliance and legal challenges for raising capital. She is intrigued to see how the possibilities of crowd funding further change the dynamics of capital allocation in our markets.

Samantha is an experienced writer and reporter, most recently she was writer at Blue Fin Media. She is a graduate of Toledo University with a degree in Creative Writing and is currently working on her Masters in Business in Social Media Marketing at Southern New Hampshire University. Samantha@crowdfundinsider.com

JD Alois is the pen name of a frequent contributor to Crowdfund Insider. JD has a background in finance and media. Email: jd@crowdfundinsider.com

Erin Hobey writes about the global crowdfunding industry and was recently named one of “Top 19 Crowdfunding Experts Startups Need to Know” by Inc.com. A Brown and Dartmouth grad, Erin has been a Bosch fellow in Germany and Jiwar writer-in-residence in Spain. Alternative finance, fintech and equity crowdfunding particularly interest Erin; she also enjoys exploring creative projects. Erin may be contacted via email at Email: Erin@crowdfundinsider.com

Jonathan Nieh, Esq. is an associate attorney at Trowbridge Sidoti LLP where he advises clients on matters related to crowdfunding, syndications, and securities laws. Prior to joining Trowbridge Sidoti, he interned at Patch of Land, a real estate marketplace lender and Regulation D Rule 506(c) issuer. Jonathan earned a JD from the University of California Los Angeles School of Law and a BA from the University of California Los Angeles. He is currently a CCIM member candidate. Jonathan may be contacted via email at: JNieh@CrowdfundInsider.com

Cole Lyons is a student of business and entrepreneurship with a concentration in data analytics at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. As a student, he served as CFO of an academically-sponsored business startup called Boost Butter, a caffeinated peanut butter targeted for the sports and athletics market. As CFO, he was responsible for weekly and monthly financial analysis, profit optimization and ROI. Cole spent the summer of 2016 serving as a Design Intern for the multi-national software corporation SAP in Palo Alto, CA, where he assisted with project learning at the Stanford University d.school, creating surveys to quantify course impact and interviewing various influencers studying design. In his role of intern, he also wrote articles about the process and impact of design thinking. Cole is currently living in Berlin, where he is studying journalism, propaganda, and International business through CIEE. Cole has served as a volunteer for under-privileged communities in Haiti, Nicaragua, Navajo Country, NM and Skid Row in LA. He plays piano and guitar and enjoys snowboarding, golf and soccer. Cole may be contacted via email at: CLyons@FintechInsider.co

Samuel S. Guzik is a corporate and securities attorney and business advisor with the law firm of Guzik & Associates, with more than 30 years of experience. He is admitted to practice before the SEC and in New York and California. During this time he has represented a number of public and privately held businesses, from startup to exit, concentrating in financing startups and emerging growth companies. He also frequent blogger on securities and corporate law issues at The Corporate Securities Lawyer Blog. Email: sguzik@guziklaw.com

Georgia P. Quinn, is an attorney at the law firm of Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole. Quinn is also a co-founder of LawBot, a new technology platform offering iDisclose, that will assist in the automated generation of legal and disclosure documents for private securities offerings. She has spent her career representing public and private companies and investment banks in a wide range of capital markets transactions, including registered offerings and private placements of debt, equity, and hybrid securities. Over the last several year, Ms. Quinn has been active in the crowdfunding space, helping clients stay at the forefront of the enacted and proposed SEC regulations. Georgia has conducted webinars, presented to the New York State Bar Association’s Securities Law Section and the Business Law and International Sections, and has been a prominent spokesperson and advocate for all forms of alternative finance. Email: Gquinn@crowdfundinsider.com

Anthony is an experienced transactional attorney with a national practice. Specializing in the areas of securities, commercial finance, real estate and general corporate law, his clients range from individuals and small privately held businesses to multi-million dollar entities. He is also an industry-recognized crowdfunding and JOBS Act expert who, most recently, has drafted a bill to allow for an intrastate crowdfunding exemption in Illinois, a copy of which can be found on his website: IllinoisCrowdfundingNow.com.

Therese Torris is an entrepreneur and consultant in eFinance and eCommerce based in Paris. She has covered crowdfunding and P2P lending since the early days when Zopa was created in the United Kingdom. She was a director of research and consulting at Gartner Group Europe, Senior VP at Forrester Research and Content VP at Twenga. She publishes a French personal finance blog, Le Blog Finance Pratique and curates crowdfunding news on Scoop.It.

Amy Wan, Esq., CIPP/US is a Partner with CrowdfundingLawyers.net where she practices crowdfunding law. Formerly, she was General Counsel at Patch of Land, a real estate marketplace lending platform. While there, Amy pioneered the industry’s first payment dependent note that is secured pursuant to an indenture trustee and designed to be bankruptcy remote, and advised the company on its Series A funding round. In recognition her work at Patch, she was named as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal. Amy also brings extensive experience in legal innovation and rethinking the delivery of legal services. She is the founder and co-organized of Legal Hackers LA, and was named one of the one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014. Prior to joining Patch of Land, Amy worked in enforcement and compliance at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she represented the United States at the WTO and participated in free trade agreement negotiations on regulatory coherence and technical barriers to trade. Amy also spent time at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation as a Presidential Management Fellow. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.

A serial tech entrepreneur and technologist, founder, writer and conference creator Barry created TheCrowdfundingCentre, now a global resource for #Crowdfunding, and VentureFundingHubs an innovation to support entrepreneurs globally. He has a long history in #Fintech stretching back to the late 1970s. Founder of the UK's first national conference, Crowdfunding:Deep Impact, he has been at the forefront of the development of Fintech and crowdfunding in the UK, and internationally, since its earliest days helping found the UK's All-Party-Parliamentary-Group on the subject and influencing the nature and direction of regulation. As a pioneering systems and eco-system architect, he and his team remain active in creating new models and new technology, including the creation of more than 70 funding hubs worldwide.

Spencer Ang Li has served as Fincera’s Vice President of Product since June 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer for Fincera’s multiple product development subsidiaries since March 2014. Prior to joining Fincera, Mr. Li was an Investment Banking Analyst at Cogent Partners in New York, a sell-side advisor for private equity secondary transactions, from 2011 to 2014. During his tenure at Cogent, Mr. Li conducted fund due diligence, managed marketing processes, and participated in the sale and transfer of nearly $2 billion in limited partnership interests on behalf of public pensions, large regional banks, asset managers, and other financial institutions. Mr. Li received a BS in Economics and BA in Psychology from Duke University in 2011.

Robin Sosnow, Esq., principal of the Law Office of Robin Sosnow, PLLC is a solo practitioner in New York City. The firm offers legal services in the areas of corporate, securities, and real estate law, as well as compliance and risk management services. In her practice, Ms. Sosnow’s core focus is to service issuers, platforms, and broker-dealers in the equity crowdfunding industry. Ms. Sosnow previously acted as General Counsel to one of the first real estate crowdfunding platforms in NYC. She is also the founder of the National Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Lawyers Group (NABLLG), a community of alcoholic beverage licensing professionals across the USA. Ms. Sosnow is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and New York. She holds a JD/MBA from Suffolk University and is an active member of the New York City Bar Association. She can be reached at via sosnowr@gmail.com :, Twitter @RobinSosnowEsq, and RobinSosnow.com.