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. Currently she is Head of Bank Partnerships at Stripe.
With professional experience spanning across four continents, she is a global-minded fintech operator with a passion for women empowerment, people development, and mentoring.
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Emmie Jones is a Partner in the global M&A and Corporate practice of White & Case – based in London specialising in Private Equity, with a focus on growth investing. As a leading lawyer, she advises clients on the structuring, negotiation and execution of highly complex, cross-border private equity transactions across multiple sectors.
She has extensive experience advising sponsors, corporates and management teams on acquisitions, disposals, management equity deals and distressed situations.
With a focus on the tech industry, Emmie regularly advises fintech companies and their founders, as well as their investors, and has a unique understanding of the challenges when operating in this space from the both the company and investor perspective.
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Helen Pantelides is a Senior Associate in our global M&A and Corporate practice of White & Case – based in London, and a founding member of the firm’s Fast-Growth practice.
Helen advises both emerging growth companies and investors (both institutional and strategic) on growth equity and venture capital financings and M&A transactions, primarily in the technology industry.
Helen regularly works with fintech companies, and their investors, with clients including SoftBank Vision Fund, Bud Financial and Pollinate.
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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.
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. 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.
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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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Lisa is also working as an adviser to a pre-seed green fintech.
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Aisha has built a strong career in fintech. Holding previous roles at FIS and PayPal, she is focusing more closely on the payments space, and is currently driving UK&I Growth at Stripe.
Working with their largest, strategic retail users – helping them scale, innovate and transform commerce experiences.
Aisha is a trained public speaker; often moderating webinars, speaking at events and panels.
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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.
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.
Before FilmChain, Maria was producing for film, television and digital and was nominated ‘Rising Star’ Screen International 2018.
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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.
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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.
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’.
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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.
Prior to joining Digital Frontier she was a Senior Reporter at leading online fintech publication AltFi covering the UK and European fintech landscape.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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