speakers

Hannah spent 6 years in banking whilst studying two Master's Degrees before setting up her own business as a freelance writer.Today, she writes for 70+ fintechs, banks, investment houses and magazines.

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Since working for herself, she's become an FT writer and multi-award-winning financial journalist. It's her life's mission to expose greenwashing, empower investors and shine a light on the best people in our industry.

Kelli is currently the managing director of consumer interactive at TransUnion in the UK. She also serves on the board for Monevo and was the Commercial Director at Callcredit Consumer & Noddle, as well as a role as Account Director at EuroDirect before joining TransUnion in 2018.

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Her role is to help consumers protect and improve their credit score, while educating them on threats such as data breaches and cyber-attacks.

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She also provides expertise on lending, market trends and fraud prevention to ensure consumers are receiving up-to-date and trustworthy advice. Kelli spearheaded the consumer empowerment campaign launched in 2020, raising awareness of the importance of credit scores.

With a decade of experience in financial services, Nicole is a Product and Strategy leader creating products that truly get to the heart of peoples’ Jobs to Be Done. Whether that’s unpicking the conversations that happen about money at the dinner table, or getting to the heart of the racing thoughts that keep people up at night, she evangelises true customer understanding to develop market leading products that create positive change in peoples’ lives.Nicole is currently Head of Product at Monument, where she leads a passionate team to design products and services for one of the most underserved segments of the market; the mass-affluent.Nicole is passionate about product thinking, equity and inclusion and creating positive working environments for brains to thrive. Nicole takes inspiration for leadership from her experience with endurance sports, with two of her proudest personal achievements being cycling all 21 Stages of the Tour de France in 2022, and running the London Marathon, raising over £40,000 for charity. A proud Glaswegian, she loves to talk and hopes to inspire others in pushing the boundaries of what we think is possible.

Sahra is currently a director of digital investing at private bank Coutts.

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Previously she was in the product development & innovation team at NatWest.

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Sahra focuses on delivering the strategic roadmap for digital investing products, creating experiences that delight customers and help them make informed decisions in their financial growth.

Hayley has spent her career working across organisations on end-to-end large scale digital transformation, working primarily within digital banking and insurance. She has supported clients with taking a more customer centric approach to the development and launch of technology products, including spending time working in continuous improvement and process re-engineering, project and programme management and scrum master/product management.

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She is currently Strategy and Operations manager for Tokio Marine HCC, a leading specialty insurance group conducting business in approximately 180 countries and underwriting more than 100 classes of specialty insurance. H

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Most recently, around having her 2 daughters, she has spent 3 years working at the centre of the London market, leading projects developing and deploying new products and technologies across the marketplace.

Charlotte leads Business Development for American Express’ Open Banking payments business, Pay with Bank transfer. She is passionate about the potential of open banking and alongside leading the business development team, Charlotte works with the ecosystem to consult on the future of open banking, educate consumers and further drive adoption in the space.

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Previously, she has spent 6 years in the payments industry with a cross-functional background across strategy & business planning, business development, marketing, data & insights.Charlotte regularly speaks on panels, moderates events and recently has lead a series of Women in Open Banking, Sales and Payments sessions across different forums.

Sarah has worked in fintech for 10+ years as a strategist, researcher and analyst specialising in product market fit and competitor dynamics.She worked for Founders Factory as head of fintech insight, 11FS as head of competitor strategy, and Business Insider Intelligence where she built and led the fintech team. Now, she holds the title of CEO of Fintech Wales, the voice of Fintech and Finance in Wales.She also has experience delivering keynote presentations, as well as moderating panels, roundtables, podcasts and webinars, and chairing events and conferences.

Julie Neogy is a tech-proficient business leader currently working for MFS Africa, a digital payments aggregator in Africa and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was part of the original team that set up The Company's payments footprint in Africa and has formed partnerships with companies across the world.She has lived and worked in North America, West Africa and Southern Africa, and travelled frequently to East Africa.Other than working in business management, she has worked in product development and launches, ecommerce, product marketing, project management, and operations, and CRM systems. She has a deep passion for creating seamless customer experiences.

Maria is the co-founder FilmChain, transforming how film and TV producers, financiers, and sales get paid. FilmChain collects, allocates, and analyses revenues in film, TV, and digital in a transparent and efficient way, developing a solution on Ethereum blockchain. The company is modernising royalties management for the entire entertainment industry, bringing transparency and efficiency to payments.

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Awards include ‘Startup of the Year’ London Business Awards 2020, Startup Challenge at San Sebastian Film Festival 2020, Makers and Shakers 2020, Unchain Fintech Festival 2022, and many more.

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Before FilmChain, Maria was producing for film, television and digital and was nominated ‘Rising Star’ Screen International 2018.

Alex is a marketing specialist, primarily within the financial services space over the last 12 years. She's held roles at Nationwide Building Society and American Express; where she oversaw the campaign strategy for one of their key benefits across 15 international markets.

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Alex is now Associate Director for Financial Services Strategy at Movable Ink, where she supports their Financial Services clients put their best foot forward in digital marketing personalisation - including many leading FinTechs.She also spent 5 years as Head of Strategy and Marketing for TEDxBrighton, where she supported over 70 speakers take to the 'big red dot'.

Janthana is the CEO and Founder of Tapoly, winner of Insurance Provider of the Year at the British Small Business Awards 2018 and silver in the Insurtech category at the Efma & Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards 2019.

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Tapoly is an award-winning digital managing general agent (MGA) providing tailored commercial lines to micro SMEs and freelancers. Tapoly also builds end-to-end white labelled SaaS solutions connecting insurers with their distribution partners.

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Janthana was listed by Forbes as number 6 of the Top 100 Women Founders to watch, is among the Top Ten Insurtech Female Influencers according to The Insurance Institute and was named in Insurance Business UK’s Elite Women 2021. Janthana is a chartered accountant and former internal audit director at top-tier investment banks.

Amelia is the Future of Finance Reporter at Digital Frontier. She covers innovation in business and finance at the intersection of technology.She has been covering finance and fintech for over two years and has been featured on Innovate Finance’s Women in Fintech Powerlist twice.

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Prior to joining Digital Frontier she was a Senior Reporter at leading online fintech publication AltFi covering the UK and European fintech landscape.

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A gold-standard NCTJ-trained journalist, she frequently hosts and moderates panels and is particularly passionate about empowering women in fintech.At the coalface of fintech news, she regularly jumps from covering new startups to fundraising to regulation, interviewing senior leaders in the industry across the spectrum of finance.

Lisa is co-founder of green money site Good With Money which sees more than 130,000 monthly visitors looking for information on how to make money and save money without harming the planet or society.

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A firm believer in the power of our money to combat climate change, Lisa has spent the last 12 years promoting and writing about green and sustainable money issues, working as head of communications at ethical bank Triodos before setting up Good With Money.

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She is regularly quoted across UK media: BBC Future, The Times, The Independent, and The Guardian among others, and has appeared on podcasts and broadcasts for platforms such as BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph, Sustainable-ish, Green Squirrel.

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Lisa is also working as an adviser to a pre-seed green fintech.

Daniela looks for exceptional businesses in the fintech and future of work space in the UK, DACH and Iberian markets. She’s involved with Dawn Capital's investments in BRYTER, Quantilope and Copper.

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Daniela previously worked at Capital on Tap, a London-based SME-lending fintech where she focussed on automating customer onboarding, product and partnership development, and operational improvements.

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Before that, she was at McKinsey, advising retail banking clients on how to implement new technologies and ways of working.She holds an Economics degree from Princeton University where she graduated with honours.

Anna has over 12 years of experience in cross border payment solutions, and has also led new market expansion on both the regulatory and partnership front across Asia, Middle East, and Africa in developed and emerging markets.

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Currently she is Head of Bank Partnerships at Stripe.

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With professional experience spanning across four continents, she is a global-minded fintech operator with a passion for women empowerment, people development, and mentoring.

Leda is an executive, entrepreneur and writer. She pens the popular Fintech Futures column under the rubric of #LedaWrites and is the author of Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an industry in transition (Routledge: 2023).

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As the day job, Leda is Chief Client Officer at 10x Banking and focuses on driving client success for existing and new 10x clients. She leads business development, client delivery and growth, partnerships, marketing and communications.

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Leda is a former banker, technology executive and founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry, where she led the growth of its modular core digital banking offering. Prior to that, Leda was Chief Innovation Officer at Qatar National Bank, the largest bank in the Middle East and North Africa, with responsibilities for employee-driven and market-led innovation strategy and execution.  

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Prior to QNB, Leda was a Director at business and technology consulting firm Sapient, focusing on digital transformation and emerging technologies, and led EMEA innovation at BNY Mellon. Leda joined BNY Mellon from fintech start-up Great East London Software, where she served as Head of Services Development.  

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Leda holds an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has taught politics, global governance and management principles, while working in management roles across various industries.