Finance & Banking

Experienced individuals involved in financial services, including banking, investment, insurance, and real estate

El Hassen Taktak

El Hassen Taktak

Avec plus de 30 ans d’expérience à la croisée du contrôle de gestion, de la gestion de projet et du leadership stratégique, El Hassen Taktak est actuellement Top Manager de filiales stratégiques au sein d'un Groupe financier privé.
Il est reconnu parmi les TOP 3 mondiaux en gestion de projet et a été distingué par de nombreux prix internationaux, dont Strategic Visionary (Qatar 2026) et TOP Global Excellence Awards (2025).
Sa conviction est simple : la performance ne naît pas des chiffres, mais des employés et collaborateurs qui les portent.
Formateur à l’École Supérieure de la Banque (France) et à l’Académie des Banques et Finances, il transmet une approche où rigueur stratégique, intelligence émotionnelle et innovation s’équilibrent.
Keynote speaker international, il intervient régulièrement sur les sujets de conduite du changement, d’excellence opérationnelle et d’humanisation de la performance.
Au ZTDays Tunis 2026, il propose un regard neuf sur un défi universel : faire accepter la sécurité sans friction, en transformant la contrainte perçue en adhésion collective.

Avec plus de 30 ans d’expérience à la croisée du contrôle de gestion, de la gestion de projet et du leadership stratégique, El Hassen Taktak est actuellement Top Manager de filiales stratégiques au sein d'un Groupe financier privé. Il est reconnu p... Show more

Phillip Dawson

Phillip Dawson

In addition to building strong partner relationships across the UK and EU, Phil is one of the leading Banking and payments experts at Yavrio.

Built on Open Banking technology, Yavrio delivers a comprehensive embedded banking solution for businesses—providing direct connections to over 10,000 banks globally, instant bank reconciliation, and the ability to make fast, simple payments both domestically and internationally—all within Business Central.

In addition to building strong partner relationships across the UK and EU, Phil is one of the leading Banking and payments experts at Yavrio. Built on Open Banking technology, Yavrio delivers a comprehensive embedded banking solution for business... Show more

Venkat Chandrasekar Subramaniam

Venkat Chandrasekar Subramaniam

Working on the Basel and Regulatory reporting space within the Financial services domain for more than a decade. In the past have enabled banks to fulfill their regulatory reporting requirements helping them automate their filing and data transformation process to enable an automated process for filing regulatory reports in the credit risk space. Also enabled banks to file new reports corresponding to new regulations in the US Regulatory reporting space like Single Counterparty Credit Risk(SCCL). Working on the impact of new regulations in the space like Basel III Endgame and also the impact of changes in internal subledgers on the entire regulatory reporting process.

A Subject Matter Expert in the regulatory reporting platform of Axiom SL which is used predominantly in North American Regulatory reporting jurisdictions , have worked on the customizations required for various bank environments especially if the bank is an Intermediate Holding Company(IHC) as defined by the Federal Reserve. Also worked on reporting outside of the Federal Reserve framework like with SEC and the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority(CIMA) reporting.

Working on the Basel and Regulatory reporting space within the Financial services domain for more than a decade. In the past have enabled banks to fulfill their regulatory reporting requirements helping them automate their filing and data transformat... Show more

Tim Beya

Tim Beya

I help busy professionals create a solid additional source of income from online trading and stop relying on a paycheck.

I help busy professionals create a solid additional source of income from online trading and stop relying on a paycheck. Show more

Nitisha Rathi

Nitisha Rathi

With 11+ years of experience at Meta, Amazon, Block, and MongoDB, I specialize in building distributed microservices for 10M–100M+ Daily Active Users. At Block, I led the redesign of Cash App's peer-to-peer payment engine, supporting 25M weekly senders and driving $109M in Q1 2024 revenue, while building a 10K event/sec platform that prevented $220M in fraud losses via ML risk signals. My work at Meta involved optimizing replica synchronization for ZippyDB, their largest distributed key-value store, and at Amazon, I led a cross-functional team to build Alexa News microservices, resulting in a 32% engagement lift and $4.5M in Ads revenue. I am currently engineering LLM-powered code generation at MongoDB to automate the modernization of legacy Oracle PL/SQL to Java and MongoDB for global financial institutions. I am also a key contributor in an open source library for model distillation (https://github.com/horus-ai-labs/DistillFlow/) which has gotten over 150 stars on Github.

With 11+ years of experience at Meta, Amazon, Block, and MongoDB, I specialize in building distributed microservices for 10M–100M+ Daily Active Users. At Block, I led the redesign of Cash App's peer-to-peer payment engine, supporting 25M weekly sende... Show more

Devdas Gupta

Devdas Gupta

Devdas Gupta is a seasoned technology leader and Principal Software Engineer & Architect with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of AI-driven enterprise solutions, distributed systems design and architecture, and cloud integration, modernizing mission-critical platforms across the fintech, e-commerce, and healthcare sectors.

Currently serving as a Senior Manager of Software Development and Engineering Lead at Charles Schwab, USA, his expertise spans cloud-native distributed systems design and orchestration, including microservices, event-driven architectures, and intelligent automation.

A Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of BCS and IET, he actively contributes to the global technology community as a research paper reviewer, keynote speaker, hackathon judge, and mentor. Passionate about innovation, he drives engineering excellence, enterprise integration, and automation-led development. In addition to his technical leadership, he volunteers with IEEE committees and serves as a professional assessor and thought leader, helping shape the next generation of engineers and intelligent digital solutions.

Devdas Gupta is a seasoned technology leader and Principal Software Engineer & Architect with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of AI-driven enterprise solutions, distributed systems design and architecture, and cloud integration, moder... Show more

Prajakta Talathi

Prajakta Talathi

Prajakta Talathi is a Strategic Analytics and Marketing Performance leader with over 16 years of experience across FinTech, consulting, and the services industry. She specializes in building enterprise-wide reporting and analytics ecosystems that enable organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions.
Her work focuses on optimizing acquisition marketing funnels, developing forecasting and planning models, and delivering channel and segment performance measurement frameworks that improve marketing efficiency and business growth. Prajakta is also deeply involved in data modernization initiatives, helping organizations transition from legacy reporting environments to scalable, cloud-based data and analytics platforms that support real-time insights and advanced analytics.
She is known for bridging the gap between technical data teams and business leadership, including the C-suite, translating complex analytics into actionable strategic insights. Prajakta has led the transformation of traditional reporting functions into intelligent, cloud-enabled, self-serve platforms by leveraging automation and AI—enabling faster strategic planning, improved decision-making, and greater operational agility.

Prajakta Talathi is a Strategic Analytics and Marketing Performance leader with over 16 years of experience across FinTech, consulting, and the services industry. She specializes in building enterprise-wide reporting and analytics ecosystems that ena... Show more

Alex Ischenko

Alex Ischenko

Alex Ischenko, SVP of Engineering at Rebrandly (The #1 platform for branded short URLs), began his career as a Software Engineer over 20 years ago, and moved to Senior Management roles.

Recently, Alex was included in the Top 100 Leaders @ CTO Craft, shaping the future of technology.

Alex is an AI-driven CTO focused on building scalable, high-impact products and empowering elite engineering teams.
He turns visionary ideas into global technology platforms that raise the bar for performance, innovation, and customer experience.

His extensive experience includes:

15+ years building and leading development teams
10+ years in startup environments
Managed 100+ FTE teams

Solid expertise in AI, GenAI, ML, SaaS, Insurtech, Healthcare and Fintech.

Alex is passionate about mentorship, eagerly sharing his leadership and architectural knowledge.

Alex Ischenko, SVP of Engineering at Rebrandly (The #1 platform for branded short URLs), began his career as a Software Engineer over 20 years ago, and moved to Senior Management roles. Recently, Alex was included in the Top 100 Leaders @ CTO Craf... Show more

Daiki Takasao

Daiki Takasao

I am the first person in Japan to be awarded the title of Kubestronaut.
I was also awarded 2021,2024,2025 APN AWS Top Engineer.

As an infrastructure engineer, I have been responsible for the design, maintenance, and operation of multiple enterprise systems, both on-premise and in the cloud.
Currently, I am responsible for the infrastructure of a microservices common infrastructure for a financial institution, which adopts many cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes and Linkerd.

I am the first person in Japan to be awarded the title of Kubestronaut. I was also awarded 2021,2024,2025 APN AWS Top Engineer. As an infrastructure engineer, I have been responsible for the design, maintenance, and operation of multiple enterpri... Show more

Christopher Bulin

Christopher Bulin

Christopher has over twenty years of experience in payments, with deep exposure to how merchants, processors, and platforms navigate fraud, risk, and compliance requirements. He also spent five years building a startup focused on improving how merchants achieve and maintain PCI compliance, gaining firsthand experience with both the technical and operational challenges of regulated environments.

Although that company did not succeed, the time spent building it provided direct insight into how compliance frameworks work in practice and where they fail under real-world conditions.

Christopher now works in workforce and staffing operations at Express Employment Professionals, where documentation, verification, and trust directly impact hiring decisions, reimbursements, and employee outcomes. His perspective is grounded in practical experience across payments, compliance, and workforce systems rather than academic theory.

Christopher has over twenty years of experience in payments, with deep exposure to how merchants, processors, and platforms navigate fraud, risk, and compliance requirements. He also spent five years building a startup focused on improving how mercha... Show more

Aki Asahara

Aki Asahara

Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performance engineering for large-scale AI training and inference workloads. His work spans autonomous driving, finance, healthcare, and industrial AI applications, with expertise in distributed training, mixed-precision optimization, and cluster-level observability on NVIDIA H100/H200/B200 architectures.

Aki serves as a Session Chair and Speaker at HPC Asia 2026 and has delivered invited talks at multiple GenAI-focused conferences in Japan. He also represents Fixstars as an exhibitor at the Supercomputing Conference (SC). He contributes to publications in AI systems performance engineering and leads industry projects that significantly improve throughput and cost efficiency.

Aki Asahara, Ph.D., is an AI systems performance engineer and the Chief Marketing Officer at Fixstars. With a doctorate in astrophysics and more than 15 years of hands-on engineering and project management experience, he specializes in GPU performanc... Show more

Jon Schubin

Jon Schubin

Jon Schubin is a financial communications strategist and writer with more than fifteen years working at the intersection of fintech, capital markets, and the media that covers them.

He speaks and writes about how financial companies communicate in a world being reshaped by AI, shifting regulation, and changing audience behaviour — and why so much of what gets said sounds identical. His particular interest is in the gap between what financial brands claim and what their audiences actually hear: where thought leadership becomes noise, where conference consensus hardens into cliché, and where a genuinely distinct point of view can still cut through.

His analysis covers the technology, business models, and narratives driving change across payments, banking, capital markets, and digital assets — with a focus on what the industry's own language reveals about where it is actually heading.

Jon is Global Head of Content at Cognito, the specialist financial communications firm, where he works with leading institutions and challengers across New York and London. He speaks Russian and is working on a long-term reporting project on Ukraine and the surrounding region.

Jon Schubin is a financial communications strategist and writer with more than fifteen years working at the intersection of fintech, capital markets, and the media that covers them. He speaks and writes about how financial companies communicate in... Show more

Fredrik Bekkevold

Fredrik Bekkevold

With 20 years of experience from creating solutions, I have seen a lot. The last 6 years I have worked primarily in healthcare and Fin-Tech. Both domains have similarities and are both seen as complex. By using the right mindset, technology and just being polite, I try to reduce complexity and make things happen. And sometimes great things do happen.

With 20 years of experience from creating solutions, I have seen a lot. The last 6 years I have worked primarily in healthcare and Fin-Tech. Both domains have similarities and are both seen as complex. By using the right mindset, technology and just ... Show more

Reginald Ifeanyi Ozougwu

Reginald Ifeanyi Ozougwu

Reginald Ozougwu is a Senior Software Engineer specialising in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and event-driven architectures. Over the past eight years, he has designed and delivered high-scale backend systems across finance, trading, risk management, healthcare, government, and e-commerce sectors.

He focuses on building resilient microservices and real-time data platforms using technologies such as C#, .NET, Azure, and AWS. His work includes transforming legacy monolithic applications into event-driven architectures that enable scalable data pipelines and analytics workflows.

Reginald is particularly interested in how application architecture can produce analytics-ready data streams that power modern data science systems, real-time monitoring, and machine learning pipelines.

Reginald Ozougwu is a Senior Software Engineer specialising in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and event-driven architectures. Over the past eight years, he has designed and delivered high-scale backend systems across finance, trading, r... Show more

Maneesh Singh

Maneesh Singh

Maneesh Singh is a seasoned IT executive with over 19 years of global experience across banking, hospitality, commercial, and healthcare industries. Currently serving as an Enterprise Systems Delivery Manager at Corpay Inc through Hexaware Technologies, Maneesh leads global technical infrastructure projects under the CTO’s office. His leadership is pivotal in driving initiatives around global observability, Splunk infrastructure modernization, mainframe monitoring integrations, and license utilization analytics through Power BI.
Before this, Maneesh was the Delivery Director at Tangent Services Corporation, where he successfully steered AWS cloud and on-premise application development initiatives, leading high-performing, cross-functional teams while optimizing quality, compliance, and risk management across delivery lifecycles.
During his decade-long tenure at NTT Data Inc., he held several impactful roles, including Sr. Technical Program Manager for Citibank NA and Service Delivery Leader for Honeywell. At Citibank, he led a $14M program overseeing regulatory, business, and tech compliance initiatives and managed large-scale applications leveraging AI/ML and NLP. At Honeywell, he championed the global rollout of the PROS AI-powered pricing tool across regions, significantly improving pricing accuracy and automation.
Earlier, Maneesh held roles as Sr. Technical Delivery Lead and Cloud & DevOps Engineer at Enterprise Holdings, where he transformed digital architecture for flagship rental websites like Enterprise, Alamo, and National. His work contributed to $200M+ in revenue while overseeing AEM upgrades and end-to-end DevOps transformation.
At Hilton Worldwide, he led critical releases and DevOps transitions, including implementing Hilton’s groundbreaking “Digital Key” technology, now a flagship contactless guest experience across thousands of properties.
Maneesh’s foundational experience began at Siemens Information Systems, where for over six years he led development of advanced medical imaging solutions (Syngo ArchNet, Syngo fastView), implementing enhancements in DICOM image processing and remote data sharing.
He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Computing (C-DAC, Pune), a Master’s in Computer Applications (Punjab Technical University), and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science (Guru Nanak Dev University).
Maneesh is highly credentialed with multiple industry certifications, including PMI-ACP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Fundamentals, and multiple Adobe and Splunk certifications. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow Member of IETE, and actively Contributes to community service as a cricket coach and coordinator at the North Atlanta Cricket Academy.

Maneesh Singh is a seasoned IT executive with over 19 years of global experience across banking, hospitality, commercial, and healthcare industries. Currently serving as an Enterprise Systems Delivery Manager at Corpay Inc through Hexaware Technologi... Show more

Amir Mehrbakhsh

Amir Mehrbakhsh

Marketing leader with 11+ years of experience owning go-to-marketing strategies related to
• Tokenization (NFTs, CBDCs, and stablecoins)
• Enterprise Use Cases (supply chain, loyalty, compliance)
• Decentralized Finance (lending, derivatives, staking)
• Payments (Crypto Reward Cards)

Actively advising early stage ventures with Web3 Accelerators including
• Techstars
• The Blox
• Rokk3r
• XRPL Accelerator

Marketing leader with 11+ years of experience owning go-to-marketing strategies related to • Tokenization (NFTs, CBDCs, and stablecoins) • Enterprise Use Cases (supply chain, loyalty, compliance) • Decentralized Finance (lending, derivatives, ... Show more

Mads P Bender

Mads P Bender

With an M.Sc. in Organization Innovation and Entrepreneurship, I've leveraged my expertise to work as a Consultant for 4 years. With more than 8 years of experience in ERP systems, my focus has been on optimizing supply chain management and finance operations.

With an M.Sc. in Organization Innovation and Entrepreneurship, I've leveraged my expertise to work as a Consultant for 4 years. With more than 8 years of experience in ERP systems, my focus has been on optimizing supply chain management and finance o... Show more

Rajiv Chaitanya Muttur

Rajiv Chaitanya Muttur

Rajiv Chaitanya is an applied machine learning researcher who enjoys taking models out of papers and stress-testing them against reality. His work focuses on reinforcement learning, financial ML, and reproducible ML systems, with a particular interest in understanding where sophisticated methods actually help, and more importantly, where they quietly fail.

He builds end-to-end learning pipelines that account for real-world constraints such as risk, non-stationarity, and system trade-offs, rather than optimizing purely for benchmark performance. Rajiv is especially interested in failure modes, design decisions, and lessons learned when ML systems meet noisy, imperfect data.

Rajiv Chaitanya is an applied machine learning researcher who enjoys taking models out of papers and stress-testing them against reality. His work focuses on reinforcement learning, financial ML, and reproducible ML systems, with a particular interes... Show more

Luis Guerrero

Luis Guerrero

Como desarrollador experto en Flutter con más de 5 años de experiencia, inicié mi camino fundando Snap Eats, una startup de delivery que me permitió enfrentar los retos de construir y escalar productos móviles reales. Esa experiencia marcó mi pasión por crear soluciones digitales con impacto.

Desde entonces he liderado el desarrollo de aplicaciones en los sectores fintech y healthtech en Latinoamérica, impulsando la adopción por miles de usuarios y resolviendo desafíos técnicos complejos con un enfoque en escalabilidad y experiencia de usuario.

Actualmente, como Frontend Tech Lead en Monet, guío equipos móviles y decisiones de arquitectura, promoviendo buenas prácticas y asegurando entregas de calidad en entornos dinámicos.

Estoy comprometido en aprovechar la tecnología para resolver problemas reales, empoderar a los usuarios y llevar la innovación móvil al siguiente nivel.

Como desarrollador experto en Flutter con más de 5 años de experiencia, inicié mi camino fundando Snap Eats, una startup de delivery que me permitió enfrentar los retos de construir y escalar productos móviles reales. Esa experiencia marcó mi pasión ... Show more

Ishita Narsiker

Ishita Narsiker

Ishita is a sanctions data engineer at Bloomberg working at the intersection of technology, global regulation, and geopolitics. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow and has experience across business intelligence and software engineering with prior roles at Amazon and J.P. Morgan. Alongside her industry work - Ishita is a Women Techmakers Ambassador and a Google Developer Group organiser - contributing to tech communities through advocacy, speaking engagements, mentorship, and hosting events with a focus on bridging the gap between education and industry to make careers in technology navigable for students and early career professionals.

Ishita is a sanctions data engineer at Bloomberg working at the intersection of technology, global regulation, and geopolitics. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow and has experience across business intellig... Show more

Ray'Chel Wilson

Ray'Chel Wilson

Ray’Chel Wilson is a Certified Financial Therapist™ and Certified Financial Education Instructor® who helps first‑generation wealth builders and mission‑driven organizations heal financial trauma and turn it into financial traction. She is the CEO of Raise the Bar Investments and co‑founder of ForOurLastNames.io, a financial technology venture rooted in North Tulsa’s historic Black Wall Street.

A former Teach For America high school personal finance teacher, Ray’Chel created what became the internationally selling Black Wealth Freedom workbook series, equipping thousands of readers with practical, values‑aligned money strategies. Her expertise in financial resilience and money mindsets has led to invitations from institutions such as Boston University, Urban Leaders Fellowship, and Impact Tulsa.

Named the 2024 U.S. Small Business Administration Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Oklahoma, Ray’Chel blends behavioral economics, lived experience, and trauma‑informed care to close wealth gaps for underinvested communities. Event organizers choose her for sessions that are both grounding and galvanizing—leaving audiences with language for their money story and clear next steps to change it.

Ray’Chel Wilson is a Certified Financial Therapist™ and Certified Financial Education Instructor® who helps first‑generation wealth builders and mission‑driven organizations heal financial trauma and turn it into financial traction. She is the CEO of... Show more

Luke Bettridge

Luke Bettridge

Technology lead for equity derivatives, delivering and supporting front-office trading platforms.

Technology lead for equity derivatives, delivering and supporting front-office trading platforms. Show more

Tara Saxon

Tara Saxon

Tara Saxon is a Certified Money Coach, keynote speaker, and founder of The Intentional Wealth Co., where she helps high-achieving women build deep, grounded confidence with money - not just on paper, but in real life, under pressure, and at moments that truly matter.

Her work sits at the intersection of money psychology, decision-making, and identity. Tara is known for translating complex financial concepts into clear, human conversations that leave women feeling empowered rather than overwhelmed. She brings both commercial acumen and compassion to the room, blending practical strategy with insight into the emotional and intergenerational patterns that quietly shape our financial choices.

With a background spanning banking, project finance, and equities research, Tara understands high-stakes environments and big numbers. But it’s her ability to name what women aren’t taught about money - self-trust, internal permission, and the cost of chronic self-doubt - that resonates most deeply with audiences.

Tara speaks to organisations, conferences, and leadership audiences who want more than surface-level motivation. Her sessions spark reflection, challenge inherited beliefs, and give participants practical ways to make confident decisions without burning out, shrinking back, or second-guessing themselves.

Her signature message is simple and powerful: money isn’t just math - it’s mindset, memory, and identity. And when women change the way they relate to money, they change the way they lead their lives.

Tara Saxon is a Certified Money Coach, keynote speaker, and founder of The Intentional Wealth Co., where she helps high-achieving women build deep, grounded confidence with money - not just on paper, but in real life, under pressure, and at moments t... Show more

Surbhi Pokharna

Surbhi Pokharna

I spent my career in designing and managing enterprise scale data solutions with fundamental building blocks of Reliability, Security, Scalability, Governance and Maintainability in business-critical private and public cloud data platforms in financial domain.
Architecting the operationalization aspect in a client facing role, delivering relational and advanced analytics solution for large scale Operational and Data Warehouse implementations with focus on learning and innovation remained a constant part of my data journey.
Currently I am leading enterprise scale cloud data migrations in SQL Server/Snowflake/Azure SQL/Managed Instance/PostgreSQL and am involved with delivery of next generation Data & AI solutions using various data platforms. Also, I am managing large on/offshore teams, applying inclusive leadership, vendor management and technical skills.
As a woman in tech and part of data community, I have advanced with grit to create an impact, work with the mindset of ‘how I can’, passion for continuous learning and delivering results.
** I am board member of the New England SQL Server User Group, part of Snowflake Data Superhero 2025 program, member of PASS, speaker in PAAS Summit/Snowflake User Group/Azure Data User Groups/Data Saturdays/SQLBits. **

I spent my career in designing and managing enterprise scale data solutions with fundamental building blocks of Reliability, Security, Scalability, Governance and Maintainability in business-critical private and public cloud data platforms in financi... Show more

Ugo Nwanne

Ugo Nwanne

CPA teaching how to save, invest and build wealth

CPA teaching how to save, invest and build wealth Show more

Manav Kapoor

Manav Kapoor

Manav Kapoor is a seasoned product and technology leader with over 14 years of experience driving innovation at the intersection of technology, customer experience, and business strategy. He currently serves as a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon's Selling Partner Trust and Store Integrity organization, leading AI/ML-powered technology innovations that protect customers from sales abuse through unfair and illegitimate business practices across Amazon's global marketplace, safeguarding 300MM+ Amazon customers worldwide.
Previously, as a VP at Goldman Sachs, Manav led the fraud product team for Apple Card and spearheaded the launch of the digital High Yield Savings Account in partnership with Apple, the first banking product fully integrated into Apple's iOS ecosystem, which accumulated over $10 billion in deposits.
Manav has built a career translating complex technical challenges into customer-first innovations, spanning marketplace trust and safety, fraud detection, digital banking, and customer experience. An IEEE Senior Member and Forbes Technology Council member, he speaks on ecosystem-driven product strategy, AI governance, and responsible AI implementation in regulated industries and e-commerce.

Manav Kapoor is a seasoned product and technology leader with over 14 years of experience driving innovation at the intersection of technology, customer experience, and business strategy. He currently serves as a Senior Technical Product Manager at A... Show more

Stephan Simonidis

Stephan Simonidis

17 years of experience in reporting, data analytics and business intelligence in finance, insurance and media.

17 years of experience in reporting, data analytics and business intelligence in finance, insurance and media. Show more

Ismaël Hassane

Ismaël Hassane

Cloud Solution Architect with 10 years of experience, Ismaël specialises in data, analytics, and AI platforms. He held various positions as a developer and architect in both pre-sales and implementation roles. On a daily basis, He contributes to the technological transformation journey of a wide range of sectors across EMEA (Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Public Sector, etc).

Cloud Solution Architect with 10 years of experience, Ismaël specialises in data, analytics, and AI platforms. He held various positions as a developer and architect in both pre-sales and implementation roles. On a daily basis, He contributes to the ... Show more

Ritish Chugh

Ritish Chugh

Ritish Chugh is an analytics and data science leader with over a decade of experience designing and scaling data, AI, and decision-support systems in complex, regulated, and high-impact environments. His work focuses on operational analytics, semantic metric layers, data governance, and AI-enabled decision systems—particularly where data quality, trust, and automation directly influence executive decisions and regulatory outcomes. He has led and advised initiatives spanning finance, risk, compliance, and global operations, translating large-scale data into systems that are relied upon by senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

Ritish is an active contributor to the professional analytics community through speaking engagements, peer review, and published practitioner and industry articles. He regularly collaborates with researchers and practitioners to bridge theory and real-world implementation, with a particular interest in conversational analytics, metric integrity, and AI adoption at scale. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an active member of INFORMS and other professional societies, and he enjoys contributing to forums that emphasize rigor, practical impact, and responsible AI deployment.

Ritish Chugh is an analytics and data science leader with over a decade of experience designing and scaling data, AI, and decision-support systems in complex, regulated, and high-impact environments. His work focuses on operational analytics, semanti... Show more

Thelma Dike

Thelma Dike

Thelma is a Senior Product Designer and aspiring Tech Operator with a reputation for solving hard problems in high-stakes environments. Her expertise lies in translating complex technical requirements into intuitive user experiences.

Her career spans the African FinTech landscape, including work with Flutterwave and Chipper Cash, where she focused on product growth and user retention. Beyond FinTech, Thelma has carved a niche in technical consulting for complex systems. She served as a design consultant for Apple, redesigning legacy applications for battery engineers, and collaborated with Verizon R&D (in partnership with Nvidia) on the user experience for AI infrastructure in media.

Passionate about the future of tech, she recently returned to the classroom to teach AI in secondary schools and is authoring a book on Artificial Intelligence for teenagers. She is currently documenting her career pivot from craft-focused design to operational leadership.

Thelma is a Senior Product Designer and aspiring Tech Operator with a reputation for solving hard problems in high-stakes environments. Her expertise lies in translating complex technical requirements into intuitive user experiences. Her career sp... Show more

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