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Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Lori Collins, CEO, SmartHippo

Lori Collins joined SmartHippo in September, 2009 after 18 months as an Advisor to this company, which uses the power of the online community to help consumers make the best financial decisions.  Lori was previously a member of the original Executive Team at LendingTree that grew the company from IPO through the acquisition by IACI, and increased revenues from $7 million to $476 million over seven years.

Previously, she was head of marketing for Bank of America’s mutual fund company, and VP at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where she launched the first mutual fund marketplace and generated more than $9 billion in assets. She was also a director of marketing at American Express Company in New York.  Lori graduated from University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and earned her MBA from Kellogg University.

Vincent Guyaux, President and CEO, Metafoam

Vincent Guyaux has extensive management and business development expertise in North America, Asia and Europe in high tech industries. Since 2008, he is the President & CEO of Metafoam, a metal foam manufacturer. Prior to that, Vincent was President & CEO of Imaginum, a fabless chip manufacturer, Co-Founder and President of Embrase Business Consulting, General Manager of Mindready's Embedded Systems Division, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing at Locus Dialog (acquired by InfoSpace) and Sales Manager at Apple Canada.

Since 2006, he also guest-lectures on creating business plans for the MBA program at McGill University. Vincent holds a diploma in Applied Computer Science from the University of Quebec in Montreal.