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Zachary Pessin is President and CEO of Distributed Capital Group (DCG), which he founded after a number of years researching market mechanisms and the expansion of globalization. The patent portfolio that supports DCG's commercial efforts derives from Pessin's integrated experience in markets, engineering and development. DCG is focused on increasing access to wealth opportunity and higher standards of living for the global majority, accomplished by means of commercially sustainable economics. The company's first products serve cross-border capital flows by eliminating currency risk, even where conventional swaps and forwards are not available or are too expensive; they further serve central banks and ministries of finance in the complex goal of maintaining growth and stability in the context of increasing liquidity. Previously at JPMorgan in New York, Pessin was one of three employees at the firm charged with operating and advancing the company's $6 billion economic capital model for operational risk. Pessin received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Stanford University and a master's degree in East Asian studies from Yale University.

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How Can We Really Help the World's Poor?

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