{"id":1250,"date":"2017-08-16T21:17:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?page_id=1250"},"modified":"2017-08-16T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T21:17:24","slug":"kim-wales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/womens-entrepreneurship-week-2020\/past-wews\/wew-2015\/speakers\/kim-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Founder and CEO | Wales Capital<\/h2>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/08\/walesk.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/08\/walesk.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Wales\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Kim Wales is the Founder and CEO of Wales Capital and CrowdBureau.<\/p>\n<p>Wales Capital is a leading strategy, risk management, and regulatory compliance \u2013 consulting firm focusing primarily on policy reform such as the JOBS Act (equity\/ debt based securities crowdfunding) across the financial services, real estate, consumer product and IT industries.<\/p>\n<p>CrowdBureau provides an unbiased and transparent view into P2P Lending and small-medium enterprise (SME) and emerging growth company (EGC) market analysis, ratings, research, and portfolio tools. The firm serves investors, emerging growth businesses and platforms by providing a centralized hub for real-time private public securities.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wales was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in Economics \u2013 \u201cEntrepreneurship: Women &amp; Diversity\u201d at The Zahn Innovation Center at the City College (CUNY) for the Fall Semester 2015. An invited member of Clinton Global Initiative (2015), Ms. Wales is a Founding and Executive Board Member of Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates and also holds several board positions at privately held companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) lists Ms. Wales on its Top Ten download list. She also writes for the international peer-reviewed \u201cJournal of Governance and Regulation,\u201d which is indexed by and included in journals around the world, including Cass \u2013 Capco: Journal of Financial Transformation; Cayman Financial Review; TABB<\/p>\n<p>Forum &amp; Research; and Thomson Reuters: Corporate Finance Review.<\/p>\n<p>A former banking consultant, Ms. Wales serves as a change agent, lobbyist and advocate and is recognized as one of the countries thought leaders on the JOBS Act and securities based crowdfunding. She has advised and influenced decision-making through written recommendation letters and ongoing in-person meetings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA, European Commission [Building a Capital Markets Union green paper], the Ontario Securities Commission, Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission, Australian Stock Exchange and other state and federal government agencies as related to equity and debt based crowdfunding.<\/p>\n<p>She has been quoted in media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Smart CEO, Business Week, Fast Company, The Deal, Black Enterprise and featured on Bloomberg-TV. She is a frequent invited speaker at global events.<\/p>\n<p>From 1995\u20132011, some of Ms. Wales\u2019 clients included Chase Manhattan Bank, Morgan Stanley, Depository Trust Clearing Corporation, Prudential, NYSE Euronext, Shaklee Corporation and The Bank of N.T. Butterfield &amp; Son Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and CEO | Wales Capital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1080,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1250\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}