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Shawn Repulles is National Fintech Crypto Business Development at Silicon Valley Bank, a position he has held since February 2011. His stated areas of focus include fintech strategy, fintech partnerships, embedded payments, banking as a service, transactional FX, API integration, payment partnerships, and competitive intelligence. He has also collaborated with Bloomberg on bicoastal events covering cash management, FX, and investment trends for the innovation economy.

Beyond his role at SVB, Repulles is an angel investor and a former founder. From July 2016 to July 2018, he served as a Payments Advisor and Mentor at 500 Startups, a seed-stage venture capital fund and accelerator. As of January 2024, he is a member of The Financial Club, a community focused on banking, payments, lending, insurance, risk management, compliance, venture capital, and academia. His total professional experience spans 29 years.

Verina Hanien is Vice President, Crypto at Silicon Valley Bank, based in New York, where she works on SVB's Crypto team helping venture-backed companies with banking infrastructure, capital strategy, and digital asset solutions. She brings seven years of experience across fintech, crypto, and traditional finance. Her focus includes stablecoins and their role in building more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure.

Prior to SVB, Hanien held client management roles at Web3-native startups, worked on strategic partnerships at Coinbase, and held business development and product roles within J.P. Morgan Payments. She holds a bachelor of business administration in economics from Baruch College and a data analytics certificate from Columbia University.

Weston Betts is Senior Manager, BSA AML - Blockchain at Silicon Valley Bank, a position he has held since May 2022. Based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, his role sits within the First Line of Defense - EDD Crypto function, focusing on Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance as it applies to blockchain and digital assets. He holds CAMS and CCAS certifications.

Prior to his current compliance-focused mandate, Betts served as Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank from May 2020 to May 2022, where his responsibilities included sourcing and managing client relationships, developing new business opportunities, and advising C-level executives on financial matters, with a focus on VC-backed companies in the software and technology sectors. Before joining Silicon Valley Bank, he was Sales Director at Patron Technology from June 2019 to March 2020, and prior to that held a Director of Business Development role at Blockparty beginning in April 2018. His total professional experience spans approximately 14 years.