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    Dara Albright

    President, Dara Albright Events

    Atlanta

    Dara Albright is a recognized authority, thought provoker and frequent

    speaker on topics relating to market structure, private secondary

    transactions, next-gen IPOs, P2P and crowdfinance. Albright has held a

    distinguished 22 year career in IPO execution, investment banking, corporate

    communications, financial marketing as well as institutional and retail

    sales. She is a visionary who continues to introduce rising asset classes

    and crowd-structured financial products to the Wall Street community.

    Through her NowStreet blog, Albright was one of the earliest voices covering

    the JOBS Act and advocating for greater democracy in the equity and credit

    markets. She produced the very first crowdfunding conference in January 2012

    which was headlined by key JOBS Act architects: Congressman Patrick McHenry

    and Dave Weild. That event helped birth the crowdfinance movement and led to

    the founding of the industry's trade and leadership organizations. In 2013,

    she co-founded LendIt, the largest and most recognized global p2p & online

    lending conference organization. In 2015, she co-founded FinFair, the first

    conference platform to feature the leadership, products and technologies

    driving the crowd-centric retail alternatives market. Some of the most

    prominent figures in the financial industry as well as the legislature

    continue to participate in Albright's events. Her leading-edge articles that

    have helped shape the direction of the crowdfinance industry can be found on

    Equities.com, Crowdfund Insider, Seeking Alpha, Investing.com and Business

    Insider. She has been featured in Forbes, ABA Banking Journal,

    Thestreet.com, Private Wealth Magazine as well as in a number of leading

    industry trade publications. Albright continues to help issuers, investors

    as well as financial service providers across the globe capitalize during

    this unprecedented period of financial industry disruption and regulatory

    reform.

    Prior firms she worked for include: Unterberg Towbin, Morgan Stanley Dean

    Witter, Divine Capital and Citigate Dewe Rogerson. Albright is a proud board

    member of SparkMarket, the nation's first bona fide crowdfunding portal

    allowing unaccredited investors to legally crowdfund via intrastate

    exemption. She is a graduate of the George Washington University and holds

    securities industry Series 7, 24, 31 and 63 licenses.

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