Alana is an accomplished business executive with extensive hands-on experience in the foreign exchange, payments and pre-paid cards sectors.
She joined Caxton over 20 years ago and has had many roles during that time. She is now the COO, helping bring our strategy to life whilst focussing on efficiency and output, with a stronghold over product, payments and operations.
In addition, she is the CEO of nimbl, a pocket money and children’s financial educational app.
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Michelle He is the Co-Founder and COO of Fintern. Before co-founding Fintern, she was a Director at EY in London. During her tenure at EY, Michelle specialised in lending, credit analytics, and driving complex banking transformations for banks and financial institutions.
Her motivation to start Fintern stemmed from her personal experience after moving from Singapore to the UK 14 years ago. Despite having a stable job and decent pay at EY, and a PhD in AI, she struggled to secure a £5000 loan due to a lack of credit history.
This inspired her to co-found Abound (the B2C arm) and Render (the B2B arm) to de-risk lending for financial institutions and provide access to finance for individuals like recent graduates and immigrants who have no credit histories.
She holds a Ph.D. in machine learning from the National University of Singapore and is a trusted advisor to rapidly growing global fintech firms.
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Megan is Founder and CEO of Caywood, a new WealthTech startup based in London. She moved to the UK from San Francisco in 2016 when she was awarded an Exceptional Talent Visa for her work in fintech to move to the UK to help start Starling Bank as Chief Platform Officer, where she was subsequently awarded Forbes 30 under 30 in recognition of her work.
She was subsequently headhunted to Barclays to serve as Head of Digital Strategy, and then was promoted to Chief Product Officer for Barclays UK. She also served as chairman of the Digital, Tech, and Cyber Board at UK Finance, before now starting her newest venture.
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An enthusiastic and long-term member of the fintech community, Irina is an accomplished Fintech marketing leader with over 18 years of experience building world-class brands at the intersection of payments and technology, across Europe and Asia.
Currently Irina is CMO at Volt, a UK-based payments startup and real-time payments platform. Before that she held marketing leadership roles at Thunes and Rapyd, making substantial contributions to the global growth of these two payment unicorns.
She was also part of Southeast Asia super-app giant, Grab, where she helped to launch GrabPay, Grab’s mobile wallet, and GrabRewards, its loyalty platform across Southeast Asia. She also spent several years with Visa, where she was part of the Innovation and Digital Partnerships team.
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Passionate for driving change, Jen is a respected Business Leader with 22 years’ experience working with a range of clients, from start-ups to global FTSE 100 accounts and SI partners, to drive innovation and business transformation. Focussed on building exceptional trusted relationships, and leading global teams, Jen has enjoyed building strategic partnerships with businesses in all sectors with lasting personal connections.
Currently working at Microsoft, heading up the strategic partnership between Microsoft and Vodafone globally, leading and orchestrating a skilled team across the globe and bringing together the full capability and power of ‘One Microsoft’ to deliver value and innovation to Vodafone. Taking particular accountability for driving the Africa partnership on M-Pesa and Vodapay as a key pillar of the recently announced 10 year market making agreement.
Prior to that at Rackspace Technology for 18 years driving business development, leading sales teams and working with Global SI partners such as Deloitte, Accenture, CapGemini and IBM.
An alumnus of Oxford University, her personal interests include social mobility, music, public speaking, charity work, travel and embracing geographical and cultural differences. She has four sons and lives in Beaconsfield, UK.
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Natalie is the co-founder of Old Street Ventures, a fintech company building a platform to allow mass market retail investors access to VC via fund of funds style products.
Her background is in marketing, strategic partnerships and product management. She has successfully launched VC-backed start-ups, helped build out the marketing function of businesses, managed multi-million-pound campaigns, and developed impactful brand strategies.
She is passionate about helping early stage startups and entrepreneurs and has acted as a panel judge for pitch competitions.
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Alejandra Rojas is founder of The Money Mindset Hub, a financial platform dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs in their financial growth. As an Afro-Latina, trauma-informed finance professional, Trauma of Money™️ Certified Practitioner, and Money Mindset Mentor, she has a unique perspective on financial education and empowerment.
As host of The Money Mindset Show Podcast, she regularly shares insights on various financial topics, and her work has been featured in major publications such as Yahoo Finance, GoBankingRates, BestLife, and others.
She has coached over 250 female entrepreneurs and developed two unique financial frameworks, one of which is currently being trademarked. She has also been been part of the prestigious Amplify program by Money20/20.
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Gemma Livermore is the founder of Women of FinTech, an award-winning community promoting gender equality and inclusion in financial technology.
With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Gemma is a passionate marketer and community builder known for driving rapid growth and achieving outstanding results.
She hosts a podcast, speaks on DEI in finance, and has a strong background in B2B product and FS marketing. Currently, she leads international FS marketing at Seismic, focusing on thought leadership and community building.
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Ingrid is an accomplished leader with over 20 years of global marketing experience, specialising in B2B and B2C strategies. She has a strong track record of driving revenue growth and enhancing lifetime customer value for global organisations.
With her visionary leadership style, Ingrid has excelled in building and nurturing high-performing marketing functions by fostering a culture of empowerment and trust. Her extensive skill set includes expertise in brand strategy, customer lifecycle management, digital marketing, sales enablement, and data analytics, among others.
Ingrid’s most recent role as the VP of Global Marketing with Finfare has seen her play an instrumental part in establishing and leading a 20-member team in California, focusing on brand positioning, product marketing, and user experience to solidify Finfare’s standing as a leading fintech and rewards provider.
In addition to her professional achievements, Ingrid is actively engaged in mentoring programs.
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Kathryn Strachan is an award-winning fractional CMO, strategic advisor, and expert keynote speaker with a proven track record of driving business growth. As the former founder and CEO of CopyHouse, she built the content marketing agency into a market leader, growing it to a team of 32 and achieving a $1.5 million turnover.
Kathryn’s expertise has attracted top global tech companies, and she now serves as a non-executive director and advisor to various organisations. She also hosts the podcast Tech Marketers Uncorked and recently released a B2B Content Marketing course with Semrush.
A sought-after guest lecturer at NYU, Kathryn’s first book, Scaling Success: Building Brands that Break Barriers, is set for release in fall 2024. Her achievements have earned recognition from the CMA, The Drum, and IoD, including Young Director of the Year and Content Marketing Person of the Year awards.
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A seasoned strategic communications and marketing expert with over 20 years’ experience working with B2B and B2C organisations. Vivienne has a broad range of sector experience including healthcare, FMCG, automotive, energy, technology, fintech and financial and professional services.
She is a strategic leader who has worked extensively with PE, VC and in growth equity for high profile scale-ups and portfolio companies to raise capital, scale for long-term value and build market profile through her sector knowledge, network and advisory expertise.
Recognised as a one of the top 100 most influential women in the start-ups and VC space, she is a frequent speaker on key topics: finance, fintech, investing, emerging technologies, marketing ,communications and DE&I.
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