Earlier this week, we highlighted a few of the girls who will probably be introducing their corporations to Finovate audiences through the demo stage at FinovateSpring 2025 in San Diego, Might 7 by 9.
At the moment, as a part of our continued Girls’s Historical past Month commemoration, we function the “content material” aspect of Finovate conferences by showcasing the ladies who will probably be discussing and decoding most of the developments and applied sciences which can be shaping fintech at this time.
Ipsita Basu
Product Administration Chief, Shopify
Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Shopify is a world commerce firm that gives instruments to allow entrepreneurs to begin, develop, handle, and market a retail enterprise of any measurement. The corporate powers tens of millions of companies in additional than 175 nations.
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Katie Dove
Behavioral scientist and Managing Director, Irrational Labs
Irrational Labs leverages behavioral science to make folks happier, more healthy, and wealthier. The corporate applies behavioral economics findings to product, advertising, and organizational design issues. By way of surroundings design and considerate interventions, Irrational Labs improves decision-making for each corporations and their clients.
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Erin Estelle
SVP, Chief Advertising and marketing Officer, Valley Sturdy Credit score Union
With greater than 350,000 members, Bakersfield, California-based Valley Sturdy Credit score Union affords checking and financial savings accounts, bank cards, private and auto loans, mortgage and residential loans, investing and retirement providers, and extra.
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Emily Foulkes
Individuals Lead – North America, Smart
Headquartered in London, Smart offers foreign money administration and trade options that allow people and companies to carry greater than 40 currencies, transfer cash between nations, and spend cash overseas. Launched in 2011 as “TransferWise,” the corporate serves 16 million folks and companies all over the world.
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Sharon Gai
Writer, Tradition Fluid
Tradition Fluid is a month-to-month e-newsletter, revealed on LinkedIn, that gives “a brand new option to assume in a post-AI world.” Current e-newsletter matters embody “What’s Creativity in an AI Age?” “DeepSeek: Looking for Solutions within the Depth of the US-China AI Battle,” and “The Agentic Future and The way it Will Change Work.”
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Diksha Gera
Senior Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
Bloomberg Intelligence (BI) offers impartial views, interactive information, and analysis throughout a wide range of industries and worldwide markets. The BI workforce options 400 analysis professionals who assist purchasers make extra knowledgeable choices in an ever-shifting funding panorama.
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Bhoomika Ghosh
Tech Product Lead, Amazon Prime
A paid subscription service of Amazon, Amazon Prime offers customers entry to a variety of extra providers together with one- or two-day items supply; streaming music, video, e-books, gaming, grocery buying providers, and extra. The corporate has greater than 200 million subscribers all over the world.
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Lizzie (Guynn) Hartley
Associate, TTV Capital
Based mostly in Atlanta, Georgia, TTV Capital invests in fintechs that serve the various wants of companies in monetary providers in addition to the shoppers of monetary merchandise. With greater than 100 years of enterprise capital and related trade working experience, TTV creates worth for entrepreneurs and traders, serving to them develop and succeed.
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Ami Iceman-Haueter
Chief Analysis and Digital Expertise Officer, MSU Federal Credit score Union
MSU Federal Credit score Union (MSUFCU) was based in 1937 as a way to assist its members safe monetary success and stability throughout difficult financial occasions. MSUFCU has 23 places together with 5 in Oakland County, one in downtown Detroit, two in Grand Rapids, and two in Traverse Metropolis.
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Pam Kaur
Head of Financial institution Know-how, BankTech Ventures
Constructed by neighborhood bankers to assist neighborhood banks innovate, evolve, and thrive, BankTech Ventures is a strategic funding based in 2021. Based mostly in Costa Mesa, California, BankTech Ventures seeks to generate each strategic worth and monetary returns for his or her traders. The fund sources, vets, invests in, and introduces bank-enabling know-how options to spice up the aggressive positions of its neighborhood financial institution companions.
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Theodora (Theo) Lau
Innovator, Technologist, and Connector, Unconventional Ventures
Unconventional Ventures offers boutique consulting providers to drive innovation that enhances monetary wellness. The agency connects founders to funders, offers mentorship to entrepreneurs, advises a broad vary of corporates, and helps broaden alternatives for range with monetary providers. Unconventional Ventures works with banking purchasers, fintech startups, and know-how companies alike
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Lindsay Lehr
Managing Director, Funds and Commerce Market Intelligence (PCMI)
Based mostly in San Francisco, California and based in 2022, Funds and Commerce Market Intelligence (PCMI) works with cost and know-how corporations from all over the world to assist them make strategic choices in rising markets by analysis, information evaluation, and revolutionary pondering. PCMI is a subsidiary of Latin America-based market intelligence firm Americas Market Intelligence (AMI).
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Jade Mandel
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Goldman Sachs was based in 1869. A number one world funding banking, securities, and funding administration agency, Goldman Sachs affords a variety of monetary providers together with funding banking, securities buying and selling, asset administration, and wealth administration to corporates, governments, monetary establishments, and people.
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Lauren McCollom
SVP, Head of Embedded Finance, Grasshopper Financial institution
A digital financial institution serving small companies, startups, and traders within the innovation economic system, Grasshopper Financial institution affords digital options for small companies, venture-backed companies, fintech-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and business API banking platforms, in addition to each SBA and business actual property lending. Based in 2019, Grasshopper Financial institution is predicated in New York.
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Mary Miklethun
Senior Vice President, U.S. Financial institution
U.S. Financial institution is the fifth-largest business financial institution in the USA. The agency affords a diversified combine of companies, together with business and institutional banking, enterprise banking, funds, wealth administration, and client banking. The corporate is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Julie Muhn
Senior Analysis Analyst, Finovate
Finovate conferences showcase cutting-edge banking and monetary know-how by a singular mixture of dwell, short-form know-how demonstrations and mainstage shows from thought leaders and analysts in fintech and monetary providers.
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Lily Web page
Head of Embedded Funds, SVB, a Division of First Residents Financial institution
SVB, a Division of First Residents Financial institution, is understood for its function in supporting revolutionary corporations, entrepreneurs, and traders. Greater than 70% of cyber corporations featured on the Fortune Cyber 60 record are SVB purchasers as are 50% of all US VC-backed know-how corporations with 2024 IPOs.
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Suraya Randawa
Head of Omnichannel Expertise, Curinos
Curinos was based in 2021 and is headquartered in New York. The agency leverages AI-based decisioning instruments, predictive analytics, and science-based platforms to allow purchasers to identify rising alternatives that result in higher decision-making and enduring efficiency beneficial properties.
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Alisa Rusanoff
Head of Credit score / Commerce Finance, Crescendo Asset Administration
Crescendo Asset Administration affords a commerce finance technique targeted on provide chain finance, embedded finance, accounts receivable buying, structured commerce and different commerce finance structured merchandise that help the SME (small and mid-sized enterprise) market within the US in addition to all over the world.
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Lindsey Unusual
SVP, Chief Retail Officer, Valley Sturdy Credit score Union
Headquartered in Bakersfield, California and based in 1938, Valley Sturdy Credit score Union serves its neighborhood with intensive mortgage packages—together with residence and auto—in addition to the most recent in digital know-how, retirement and wealth administration providers.
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Sydney Thomas
Founder and Common Associate, Symphonic Capital
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Symphonic Capital is a pre-seed enterprise capital fund. Led by veteran pre-seed traders and operators, the fund bets on founders at their earliest phases and matches them with the instruments, steering, and capital they want as a way to succeed.
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June Yuan
Enterprise Product Lead, Smart
Based in 2011 and often called “TransferWise” when it made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2013 in London, Smart at this time facilitates the motion of $37 billion (£30 billion) throughout borders every quarter. The corporate is listed on the London Inventory Change (LSE) underneath the ticker WISE, and has a market capitalization of $11.5 billion.
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