Nigel Morris (cofounder of Capital One)

Name: Nigel Morris (cofounder of Capital One)
Start: 2013-05-16T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2013-05-16T21:00:00-04:00

1776 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor 20005 Washington Washington DC
Thu, May 16, 2013, 6:00 PM (EDT)

About this event

Nigel Morris co-founded Capital One Financial Corporation which started as a simple idea of dropping the annual fee of credit cards and instead target different credit cards to specific segments of the population. Now it's a publicly traded company (NYSE: COF) with $21.3 Billion in revenues headquartered in Tyson’s Corner, VA. Nigel is now the managing partner of QED Investors, a direct investment fund focused on high-growth companies that leverage the power of data strategies. In addition, he serves on the board of numerous companies, including TransUnion, Red Ventures, Prosper, MediaMath, and Braintree. He has angel invested in Webs.com (acq by VistaPrint for $117M) and AddThis. "What's in your wallet?"

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Nigel Morris

cofounder of Capital One

Nigel Morris co-founded Capital One Financial Corporation which started as a simple idea of dropping the annual fee of credit cards and instead target different credit cards to specific segments of the population. Now it's a publicly traded company (NYSE…

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Nigel Morris

cofounder of Capital One

Nigel Morris co-founded Capital One Financial Corporation which started as a simple idea of dropping the annual fee of credit cards and instead target different credit cards to specific segments of the population. Now it's a publicly traded company (NYSE: COF) with $21.3 Billion in revenues headquartered in Tyson’s Corner, VA. Nigel is now the managing partner of QED Investors, a direct investment fund focused on high-growth companies that leverage the power of data strategies. In addition, he serves on the board of numerous companies, including TransUnion, Red Ventures, Prosper, MediaMath, and Braintree. He has angel invested in Webs.com (acq by VistaPrint for $117M) and AddThis. "What's in your wallet?"

When
Thursday, May 16
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT)

Where

1776
1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor
20005 Washington

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Nigel Morris (cofounder of Capital One)

1776 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor 20005 Washington Washington DC Thu, May 16, 2013, 6:00 PM (EDT)

About this event

Speaker

Nigel Morris

Nigel Morris

cofounder of Capital One

When

Where

Brought to you by

Brian Park

Patrick Bryant

Global sponsors

AMEX

Dell Technologies

DuploCloud, Inc.

Local sponsor

Code/+/Trust

Partners

SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain

AWS

WeWork

ThinkNimble

1776 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor 20005 Washington Washington DC
Thu, May 16, 2013, 6:00 PM (EDT)