Rob Azarow is a partner at Arnold & Porter and head of their financial institutions transactions practice.  He has extensive experience advising banks and other financial institutions on their most important transactional, corporate governance, and regulatory matters.  Mr. Azarow’s experience includes serving as lead corporate, transaction and regulatory counsel on financial institution mergers & acquisitions, financial asset acquisitions, branch purchases, joint ventures and collaboration agreements with fintech companies and other non-bank financial services providers, takeover defense strategies, and acquisitions of failed financial institutions and distressed assets from the FDIC.

Mr. Azarow also has extensive experience with public and private offerings of equity, debt, and hybrid securities, securities law compliance and related disclosure matters including how to incorporate ESG disclosures and the impact of ESG issues on investor activism. 

Further, Mr. Azarow has assisted financial institutions with their regulatory compliance matters, including response to examination issues, capital management and growth activities.

David Carlson is head of sales at MANTL. 

Prior to MANTL, Mr. Carlson worked with community financial institutions for more than 15 years to develop and implement scalable growth strategies.  He has presented at numerous conferences on topics such as new customer acquisition strategies, sales and marketing initiatives, revenue growth, strategic planning and team development.

Peter Glyman is the managing director of corporate strategy at Jack Henry & Associates, Inc, where he directs fintech and crypto strategy.

Mr. Glyman co-founded Geezeo, a personal financial management company, in 2006 (acquired by Jack Henry in 2019).  He served on the board of directors for The Association for Financial Technology (AFT) and is an active advisor to SmartSeal, a company that provides blockchain provenance for physical products and Abaca, a cannabis banking solutions company.

Mr. Glyman is a skilled presenter and enjoys discussing blockchain, crypto, payments, open banking, wealthtech, fintech and financial services innovation.  He has been quoted in American Banker, Credit Union Times, The Financial Brand, The Washington Post, LA Times, MSNBC.com and appeared on CNBC’s “On The Money.”

Michelle King is president of Bank Director and FinXTech. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing the strategy and financial performance of the company. Michelle joined Bank Director in 2011. She is focused on leading the company’s business development, bank services efforts, marketing, public relations and branding. This includes efforts to reach senior bank executives and board members along with corporate clients and prospective clients. In addition, she frequently meets with CEOs, chairs of the board, c-level executives and members of the board to provide services and support to these officers and directors. Michelle is a member of the Bank Director board and serves on the Executive Committee.