FINTECH INN 2020

Stephanie Brennan is a creative and challenge-driven entrepreneur and investor, also known as Australia’s Youngest Property Tycoon. At the age of 26 she came up with an idea of revolutionising the finance industry by providing an easy to use, transparent and low cost way to access stocks, bonds and ETFs in the biggest stock markets around the world, and that’s how Evarvest, one of the leading European FinTech start-ups providing the first ‘Spotify style’ trading app, was born and Stephanie became one of very few female leaders in the global fintech industry.

Raisin co-founder and CEO Tamaz Georgadze is focused on partner bank acquisition, business development, and legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Europe’s leading marketplace for deposit-insured savings products and investments, Tamaz spent ten years with McKinsey & Co., the last three as a Principal leading McKinsey’s Savings and Investment products service line for EMEA countries, serving some of the largest retail, universal and wholesale banks in Europe and Asia. His core areas of expertise were performance management/organization, deposit gathering, direct banking, branch transformation, SME strategy and regulation. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics and honors law degree from the University of Giessen as well as an international economics degree from Tbilisi State University.

Pavel is the co-founder and CEO of Wirex, a global payment company empowering individual and corporation to exchange, pay and transfer both traditional currency and cryptocurrency internationally. He is a thought-provoking leader in digital finance, an execution-orientated visionary, and a high profile evangelist for the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Sukhi Jutla is an award-winning entrepreneur, author of 3 books and co-founder of MarketOrders, an online marketplace for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. A sought after international speaker, thought leader and qualified IBM Blockchain Developer, she has won numerous awards including Asian Women of Achievement, Female Entrepreneur of The Year and named Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. In April 2018 Sukhi made global headlines becoming the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author. Named as a Top 100 Woman in Tech, Sukhi is a regular media commentator on tech, blockchain and digital disruption, having been featured in over 100+ UK and international press including Chinese and Spanish media. In 2019 Sukhi was appointed Board Member to the Mayor of Londons Digital Skills Partnership.

Akoni is a multi-currency cash and cash/deposit management platform, providing specialist SME solutions and B2B2x cash/marketplace solutions to banks and other enterprise clients for their end-customers. Akoni uses multiple data sources including open banking/open data,  to personalise financial products, providing nudges and prompts, removing the lack of transparency and creating hassle-free movement of funds. The company is an award-winning and FCA regulated partnering with various banks, wealth platforms and financial institutions in addition to channel partners – providing a marketplace within marketplace solution for our white label API or portal solution for B2B2x.

Felicia Meyerowitz Singh, CEO and co-founder of Akoni, is a passionate believer in the power of business and technology to drive changes. Felicia is a promoter of diversity and was named the Everywoman in Technology Overall Woman of the Year 2019 and Innovator of the year and founded Hive founders, supporting female entrepreneurship, as well as on the Foundation Board of TEDxEuston.  Akoni has been awarded an Open Banking/Nesta challenge grant; winner of IFGS Banking/Enterprise solution, Top10 BBVA Fintech company and NTT Data Top10 challenge startup, in addition to various other tech accolades.

Madalina brings with her more than 10 years of experience in dealing with Financial Services Digital Transformation. Most recently as a Microsoft Account Director for banking customers and in her previous roles with IT&C integrators. In her FSI Director role Madalina is focusing on: engaging with the biggest banks and insurance companies across CEE in digital transformation conversations and initiatives; driving line of business (LOB) solutions implementations together with local Microsoft teams through knowledge of the Financial Services industry, Microsoft software and independent solution vendor (ISV) solutions. Madalina graduated from the University of Economic Studies in Bucharest with a degree in management and holds a master’s degree in Communication and Public Relations. She is passionate about personal development literature, hiking and exploring mountains and volunteering on environment, animals and children causes.

Richard Davies joined Revolut in July 2019 as Group Chief Operating Officer, and leads a range of transformation work across the Group. Revolut is a radically better digital bank account that includes a debit card, currency exchange, and peer-to-peer payments. We are on a mission to build a fair and frictionless platform to use and manage money around the world. Our platform allows users to transfer, exchange, and spend money at great value rates with a multi currency card that is accepted everywhere.

Prior roles include:
– Commercial Banking Director at TSB
– Global Head of Propositions / Digital – SME Banking at HSBC
– Chief Operating Officer, UK Commercial Banking, at HSBC
– First CEO of challenger bank OakNorth

Richard has a MA Economics and M.Phil Development Economics from Trinity Hall Cambridge.