Fintech Talents North America 2025 - Fintech Talents

Featured Rockstar speakers 2023

One day, four events and an interconnected community:

EXPLORE 2023 AGENDA

Denis Kinnally

Senior Director, Bank Partnerships and Strategy

Chime

Dexter Wilson

Director, Digital Partnerships

BNY Mellon

Mariquit Corcoran

Head of FinTech and VC Coverage

Independence Point Advisors

Carol Grunberg

Citi TTS Global Head of Strategic Partnerships & Digital Innovation

Supreet Kaur

Assistant Vice President

Morgan Stanley

Susan Ehrlich

Venture Partner

Core Innovation Capital

Darius Wise

President/CEO

Red Rocks Credit Union

Trevor Rozier-Byrd

CEO & Founder

Stackwellcapital

Brian Chin

Fintech Partnerships

Santander

Nicole Casperson

Founder, Fintech Is Femme & Content Creator

Workweek

Brandon Baines

VP, Tech Enabled Banking

Customers Bank

Marc Rehberger

SVP, Sr. Managing Director, Head of Tech Enabled Banking

Customers Bank

Jing Zhuang

Managing Director

Mizuho

Brian Luciani

Head of Rise New York

Rise, created by Barclays

Curt Queyrouze

President

Coastal Community Bank

Dana Wilson

Founder & CEO

CHIP

Greg Brown

Head (VP) North American Digital Product Management - Sales & Marketing

BMO

Amy Young

Director, Global Strategic Partnerships, Financial Services

Microsoft

Rupa Krishnan

Head of Global Real Time Payments

J.P. Morgan

Michael Cyr

Director of Financial Inclusion

Regions

Scott Astrada

Director of Public Policy

Affirm

Peter Fishman

President

Finnovia Group

Lisa Violet

SVP Strategic Partnerships

Varo

Ben Maxim

Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer

MSU Federal Credit Union

Kelly Wagner-Grull

Director of Member Experience, Innovation and Digital Services

Credit Union of Colorado

Charles Potts

EVP, Chief Innovation Officer

Independent Community Bankers of America

Mimi Joy

CEO

Comprehensive AI

Miguel Armaza

Co-Founder & General Partner

Gilgamesh Ventures

Venu Appana

Lead Client Partner BaaS

Finastra

Frank Gargano

Reporter, Credit Unions

American Banker

Adrian Gutierrez

Principal Product Manager, Embedded Finance

TurboTenant

Dhruv Sharma

Head of Payments

WeWork

Wesley Mann

Manager, Finance and Payments Analytics

Etsy

Allen Bryant

Advisor

Payroll Growth Partners

Sunil Kumar

Director, Product Management, Payments

Expedia

Jean Sullivan

Head of Wealth Management

Celent

Jess Dembeck

Principal Product Manager, Payments

LTV

Yasmin Moaven

CMO

Pipe

Lixia Zhu

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Ciphorama & EIR in Columbia Startup Lab

Matt Zalubowski

SVP - Head of Marketing

Atlanticus

Charvi Gandotra

Associate Director

Commonwealth

Akita Somani

SVP - BNPL / POS Lending

U.S. Bank

Carlosluis Duchicela

Senior Product Manager | Growth, Monetization, Payments

Dashlane

Andrew Jernigan

CEO

Insured Nomads

Dave Campbell

Financial Product Manager

Gusto

Jaime Toplin

Senior Research Analyst, Payments & Commerce

Insider Intelligence

Courtney Cardin

Co-Founder

Aura Finance

Gali Heichal

Director, Head of Payments Partnerships

Klarna Inc.

Allie Fleder

Co-founder & COO

SimplyWise

Stavros Zervoudakis

VP Al, Mutual of America & Assistant Professor

New York University

Erica Khalili

Chief Legal & Risk Officer

Lead Bank

Leigh Phillips

CEO

SaverLife

Carol Grunberg

MD, Citi TTS Global Head Strategic Partnerships & Digital Innovation

Samuel Hollander

Founder & Chief Growth Officer

Mango Media

Krithika Rosenthal

Group Director of Strategy

Wavemaker

Nana Danielov

VP Sales and Marketing

BioNova

Lauren Benkov

Director of Customer Experience

Wonder

Shahzad Haider

President

The Future Connoisseurs

Haixia Yu

Advisory Board Member

Dirty Labs

Thiago Gaiao

Global Omni Category Development Director

Reckitt Benckiser Group

Olaseni Bello

Associate General Counsel, Product (Payments)

Meta

Andrés Ricaurte

SVP & GM, Financial Services

Buildertrend

Eugenie George

Head of Content & Strategy

CHIP

Katie Palencsar

Managing Director, Female Innovators Lab Fund, Global Head of Venture Studio

Anthemis Group

Valerie Mosley

BrightUp

Tor Opedal

SVP & GM, Payments

Olo

Killian Brackey

SVP, Engineering

Happy Money

Angélique Wynants

Head of Mexico CX

Nubank

Collin Mellott

Head of Marketing and Growth

First National Bank of Omaha

Darren Hecht

SVP, Sales & Business Development

Biz2Credit

Manan Modi

Product Manager

Amplify Life Insurance

Charlotte Hausemer

Fintech and Banking Partnerships

BNP Paribas

Jim Perry

Senior Strategist

Market Insights

Jean-Paul LaClair

Senior Director of Product

Financial Data Exchange

Josh Rowland

Founder & former CEO

Lead Bank

Katherine Parker

Partner

Andra Capital

Laurie Stewart

CEO | President

Sound Community Bank

Lule Demmissie

CEO

eToro US

Jesse Podell

Sr. Director

Ally Ventures

Robert Daniel

FinTech Catalyst

ATDC

Casey Christopher

Chief Empowerment Officer

Quontic

Lance Amato

Head of Customer Experience

The Canoa Supply Company

Gregory Garson

Co-Founder & President

Sibilance

Jonah Redel-Traub

Director of eCommerce

Summit Golf Brands

Trevor Mengel

CEO & Co-Founder

Cloutdesk

Elizabeth Zietlow

VP - Experience insights, strategy and research

Signet Jewellery

Jamaal James

Manager, Product Implementation

Alliant

Teo Blidarus

CEO

FintechOS

Steven Hewlett-Light

Head of Product

FinTru

Bill Liatsis

Vice President & General Manager

Cars.com

Sam Paik

Chief Financial Officer

Max Rudy

Director of eCommerce

Wild Planet Foods

Cindi Rosner

Vice President of Marketing

CR Consulting

Diana Barrero Zalles

Head of Research and Sustainability / Senior Contributor

Global Blockchain Business Council / Forbes

Kate Drew

Director of Research

CCG Catalyst Consulting

Gareth Rhodes

Managing Director

Pacific Street

Immanuel Fabian Klaiber

Head of Subscription Pricing and TCO

FINN

Sharon O'Sullivan

Global Head, Technology & Innovation, Enterprise Architecture and Innovation

BMO Financial Group

Peter Gray

Former Vice President of Growth Product

Wall Street Journal

Rodrigo Suarez

Chief Banking & Innovation Officer

Piermont Bank

Marc Lupinacci

Senior Director D2C eCommerce

SimpleTire

Eric Satz

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Alto

Alex Pliskin

Chief of Staff

Alto IRA

Rebecca Mulholland

Senior Policy Advisor

Allon Advocacy

Ben Schein

Head of Product Management

Shake Shack

Ambika Sharma

Creator and Host

Fintech Cafe

Tara Brady

FVP, Director Customer Experience

Provident Bank

Bipasha Ghosh

CMO

Dali Spaces/ex NBC Universal Media

Yizhu Wang

Senior Fintech Reporter

S&P Global

Harry Mendell

Data Architect and Artificial Intelligence Co-chair Innovation Roundtable

Federal Reserve Bank of NY

Safwan Zaheer

hundredX

Patrick F. McClure

Product Director, Open Banking Partnerships

American Express

Brian Luciani

Chief Development Officer and Venture Partner

SMB Franchise Advisors

Metanize Saunders

Hip Hop Tech Accelerator

Stuart Cook

Chief Innovation Officer

Valley Bank

Franklin Garrigues

Vice President, External Ecosystems

TD Bank

Zaid Khan

CEO

Manhattan Crypto Capital

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