Mitchell Shapiro

Co-Founder & COO at Suggestic

Portfolio manager, photographer, advisor to various startups. Interests include virtual currencies, payments systems, trading technologies, retirement planning, healthcare, and social causes. Most recently, co-founder and COO of Nexxo Financial, inventor of kiosk-based remittances and underbanked financial services. Previously co-founder and CEO of MetaExchange, Inc., an online bid/ask exchange for everything. Prior to MetaExchange, was founder and President of StreetScience, Inc., an international technology strategy and services consultancy providing solutions to leading financial firms around the world. StreetScience focused on managing multi-million dollar trading floor implementations. Prior to StreetScience, created the Applications Consulting and Training organization at Teknekron Software Systems (now Tibco). Prior to all that, 4+ years doing work in various AI systems, including expert systems at Teknowledge and LISP machines (and all that entails) at Texas Instruments. From 1991 to 1999, consulted to 69 trading floors in 14 countries, representing nearly 10,000 trading positions in equities, currencies, fixed income, derivatives, and energy products. American Airlines is still wondering why I've stopped answering their calls.