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Yobie Benjamin is a successful venture investor and innovator in thefinancial technology, banking, Internet and consumer products space. In recognition of his technology achievements in virtual reality, the World Economic Forum named him as a 2015 Technology Pioneer.

Yobie Benjamin is the CTO of ClickSWITCH.com. ClickSWITCH helps financial institutions become more competitive by solving the complex problem of switching account holders’ direct deposits and electronic payments to new accounts. One click and your account securely switches from one bank to another. He is also co-founder and CTO of Token.io — providing software to banks that enables them to issue a new payment type designed specifically for use in the digital era. Token has developed an open and secure banking platform delivering a single API usable by any bank without disrupting legacy systems.

He is senior advisor and mentor to several startups in the technology and synthetic biology space — AstroDigital.com (satellites and space imagery, satellite communications), CambrianInnovation.com (clean water and clean power), Stilla (wearables), WildlifeWorks.com (forest and wildlife conservation/carbon credits), WearableWorld (IoT accelerator), Moni.com (payments/fintech), Filld.com (fuel and energy delivery), IndieBio (synthetic biology accelerator).

Yobie Benjamin is a member of the US Federal Reserve Bank Faster Payments Task Force. He is also an co-lecturer at Hong Kong Polytechnic University co-lecturing an executive education course on Global Angel Investing. He was co-founder of Avegant - developers of the next generation of virtual reality and augmented/mixed reality devices.

Previously, Yobie Benjamin was Global Chief Technology Officer for Citibank Institutional Clients Group / Global Transaction Services. He was also Chairman of Citi’s Research Development Innovation & Learning. He was former Partner and Chief of Global Strategy at Ernst & Young, LLP and was Managing Director/Partner at Computer Sciences Corporation. He was former chair for a civilian volunteer group NASA AMES Collaboration Labs.