Araminta is the Founder and Managing Director at Mint Studios, a content marketing agency that helps fintech companies turn their website blog into a customer acquisition channel. The Mint Studios team has helped fintech companies including Modulr, Zai, Confused.com and Jeeves use content to bring in $100k+ worth of customers.
She also manages the 1,500+ person Fintech Marketing Slack group and conference, is the host of the Market Like a Fintech podcast and Edinburgh’s Fintech Mixer events. She talks regularly at events hosted by Finovate Europe, Fintech Talents and BrightonSEO.
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Smitha is currently working in People Operations at Yonder, having first started in human resources almost a decade ago.
Her current role spans resourcing, onboarding, establishing Yonder’s workplace guidelines, benchmarking compensation and developing a positive working culture for the growing team. She was previously working in a similar role at health tech start-up Thriva.
Smitha also has an MSc in Human Resource Management and is CIPD qualified.
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Christine is Chief of Staff at Sidekick Money Ltd, a new digital private bank, looking to democratise the wealth industry. Prior to joining Sidekick she built her career as a practitioner in the wealth management industry and as a management consultant.
In industry, she specialised in financial planning, working for the likes of SJP and Rathbones, supporting clients to achieve their financial goals. As a consultant, she also worked with some of the largest wealth managers and banks in the UK, using her specialist knowledge and experience to help deliver strategic change and high value outcomes for senior executives.
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Funmi is the founder of financial education provider, Hoops Finance, which delivers workshops aimed at simplifying money topics and breaking the money taboo.
Starting her career as a lawyer in London before moving to work in the legal team of several financial services organisations, her most senior roles were as the Legal Representative on the Executive Committee of a UK bank and as Head of Legal & Compliance at a fintech start-up.
Outside of the workshops, Funmi writes and speaks about money. She has been a guest on several podcasts, a speaker at events such as the Black Girl Finance Festival 2023 and she is the Host of the monthly roundtables for the Institute for Financial Wellbeing.
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Zoe is a pioneering web3 marketer and co-founder of crypto girls club. With six years in the crypto industry, Zoe previously fronted communications at SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based digital asset exchange. Zoe was also in charge of marketing strategy at German crypto bank Nuri (formerly Bitwala) and Fidor Bank, one of the first fintechs in Europe to offer bitcoin onramp.
Through founding crypto girls club in 2021, Zoe is a prominent figure in Germany’s vibrant Web3 scene. Her mission is to help women propel their careers in Web3 by hosting over 50 educational and networking events to over 2000+ women.
From this, Zoe recently led and launched the crypto girls club NFT membership collection on Polygon, which unlocks real-life perks such as co-working spaces, mentorship and conferences.
She is currently building a recruitment tool to encourage diversity in Web3 and sits on the advisory board of Soonami, a venture-fund for DeFi, Web3 & Metaverse.
Zoe has spoken at conferences across the world (NFT NYC, Zebu London, DMEXCO) on the topic of NFTs, community and diversity in the web3 space.
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Meaghan Johnson is a seasoned fintech consultant with over 10 years of expertise in product development, digital transformation, strategic research, customer experience strategy, and partnership scouting.
Throughout her career, she has collaborated with over 50 banks, fintechs, and tech firms, including ING, UBS, Solarisbank, Spotify and Tink. Meaghan holds esteemed positions as a Senior Lecturer at CFTE and a Subject Matter Expert at Manchester Business School. She also co-founded both 11FS and Digital Magss Consulting.
A recognized thought leader, Meaghan has been published twice in the Journal of Digital Banking and is co-authoring a book on Financial Inclusion. Additionally, she leads workshops and keynotes on customer experience, open banking, data and personalization, and fintech and bank partnerships
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Virginie O’Shea is a capital markets fintech research specialist, with more than two decades of experience in tracking financial technology developments in the sector, with a particular focus on regulatory developments, data and standards.
She is the founder of Firebrand Research, a research and advisory firm focused on providing capital markets technology and operations insights for the digital age.
Ms. O’Shea has spoken at industry conferences including Sibos, TradeTech, InvestOps, FISD events, and The Network Forum, and is actively engaged in a number of post-trade industry standards groups. Prior to this, she was a director with Aite Group, heading up the Institutional Securities & Investments practice and covering data management, collateral management, legal entity onboarding, and post-trade technology.
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Ashlyn Lackey sits on the Emerging Technology Team at Prudential. In her role, she surfaces pertinent trends for senior leaders and introduces relevant startups.
Prior to Prudential, she was on the fintech partnerships team at Citi and the Business Development team at New York Life Ventures.
Outside of work, she volunteers with New York Women in Fintech, Women in Banking, Finance, and Fintech, and RevTech Labs.
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Rita is a results oriented executive specialised in leveraging the latest technologies and solutions in FinTech and Web3 to transform Financial Services.
Currently, Rita serves on the Advisory Board of the pioneering DeFi startup, KIMA, and provides advisory services to a diverse portfolio of Web3 startups (defi, blockchain, custody, crypto). Rita is the author of the Book Web3 in Financial Services, which will launch in Jun 2024. The book demystifies the opportunities and challenges in Web3 for Financial Services.
In her previous role as the Global Head of FinTech Partnerships at HSBC, Rita played a pivotal role in the incubation and acceleration of numerous disruptive technologies, carving significant
advancements in the FinTech landscape.
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Rosie is Head of Strategic Partnerships at the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, a UK charity working to break the link between money and mental health problems.
Prior to working at Money and Mental Health, Rosie worked as Head of Corporate Development at Starling Bank and in the corporate development team at peer-to-peer lender RateSetter.
Rosie has a particular interest in making consumer lending better, and is working on her own initiative in this space to help prospective and current borrowers improve their financial health.
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Lissele Pratt, a young entrepreneur and fintech trailblazer, co-founded and scaled Capitalixe into a seven-figure consultancy in less than 3 years. Acclaimed on Forbes 30 Under 30 and Tech Round Under 29 lists, she’s a UK Fintech Awards Rising Star and a force on the Women in Fintech Powerlist.
An official member of the Forbes Business Council, Lissele is a prolific contributor to multiple prestigious publications and a sought-after guest in podcasts, also hosting her own “Success Secrets” series.
Lissele is a celebrated speaker, mentor to women in fintech, and an influential figure for diversity and inclusion within the industry.
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Professor Karen Elliott is Chair of Practice in Finance and FinTech at Birmingham University Business School and Co-Director of the FinTech MSc. She has been named as ‘Standout #35 Women in FinTech Powerlist’ in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Karen co-leads FinTrust, Agency, UKFin Network+, INFINITY, and Trustworthy AI projects (£12m EPSRC/UKRI/Research England), optimising trustworthy AI, ethical AI, and inclusion. An Advisory Board member to Incuto, We are Group and Saible, championing access to fair and affordable finance.
Plus, the Prime Minister’s Champions Group for Dementia, CDR.net, IEEE Planet Positive and an Ambassador for the Digital Poverty Alliance. Karen creates a fusion between academic/practical ethical/governance considerations at the individual/societal level.
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