Finance & Banking

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

Martin Clausen

Martin Clausen

Martin is a Cyber & AI specialist at Jyske Bank with 20+ years of experience across blue-team defense, red-team offense, security architecture, and leadership. His driving passion is to rethink security and solve cyber challenges the right way—shifting the asymmetric advantage from attackers to defenders.

Martin is a Cyber & AI specialist at Jyske Bank with 20+ years of experience across blue-team defense, red-team offense, security architecture, and leadership. His driving passion is to rethink security and solve cyber challenges the right way—shifti... Show more

Nilesh Charankar

Nilesh Charankar

With over 18 years of experience in the IT software industry as a Technology Leader, I am an dedicated to spearheading digital transformation initiatives using cutting-edge technologies like AI, microservices ,APIs and .net. My role has involved driving impactful projects for major corporations, focusing on developing transformative software solutions primarily in the sectors of B2B banking, media, and healthcare.

With over 18 years of experience in the IT software industry as a Technology Leader, I am an dedicated to spearheading digital transformation initiatives using cutting-edge technologies like AI, microservices ,APIs and .net. My role has involved dr... Show more

Enzo Villani

Enzo Villani

Enzo Villani is a serial entrepreneur and corporate strategist for Fortune 500 companies, startups, private equity funds, and fintech companies. Mr. Villani is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Transform Holdings and Founder of Alpha Liquid Terminal, the first all-In terminal to provide best-execution across all tradable assets.

Alpha Transform Holdings (ATH) has three distinct business lines. Asset Management and Venture Investing, this includes Alpha Sigma Capital Web 3 Fund and Alpha Liquid OTC Momentum Fund. ATH second business line are Products and Services that assist digital asset market participants. These products include Content Syndicate and Blockchain Wire. With over 4500 customers, Blockchain Wire is the leading press release news distribution in crypto.

Enzo is the founder of the Alpha Liquid Terminal, dedicated to creating a single terminal that can be leveraged across market participants for research, investing and trading in cryptocurrencies, RWAs, private share markets, equities, and options, empowered by AI.

Mr. Villani was Chief Strategy Officer of Transform Group. Transform Group represented the launch of over 47% of the alt-coin market capitalization in 2019 and was the head of international strategy and innovation at OKX.

Throughout his career, Enzo has raised $1B as a corporate strategist, private equity partner and M&A entrepreneur. Mr. Villani was co-founder of Nasdaq Global Corporate Solutions, and two strategic M&A consolidations focused in the areas of public company stakeholder solutions. Mr. Villani was Chief Strategy Officer representing over 10,000 public company including the Nasdaq 100, DJIA, and FTSE 50. Mr. Villani holds an MBA from The Johnson School at Cornell University.

Enzo Villani is a serial entrepreneur and corporate strategist for Fortune 500 companies, startups, private equity funds, and fintech companies. Mr. Villani is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Transform Holdings and Founder of Alpha Liqu... Show more

Mikel Ayala

Mikel Ayala

Leading the charge for Backpack in Europe, an ecosystem comprising Backpack Exchange, a fully regulated crypto exchange, Backpack Wallet, a self-custodial wallet, and Mad Lads, the top NFT community on Solana.

Brings 14+ years of experience working at global financial institutions, new ventures and regulated virtual assets service providers, lectures about Crypto at the College of Europe, the leading postgraduate school for European public policy, and is a proud MadLad.

Leading the charge for Backpack in Europe, an ecosystem comprising Backpack Exchange, a fully regulated crypto exchange, Backpack Wallet, a self-custodial wallet, and Mad Lads, the top NFT community on Solana. Brings 14+ years of experience workin... Show more

Andrew Rollins

Andrew Rollins

With 13+ years at Barclays, Deloitte and now at 3VRM, Andrew drives digital transformation through strategic expertise and global technology implementations

With 13+ years at Barclays, Deloitte and now at 3VRM, Andrew drives digital transformation through strategic expertise and global technology implementations Show more

Henry Gilbert

Henry Gilbert

Henry Gilbert, PhD is Head of AI & Data Infrastructure at Arta Finance, where he leads global teams building low‑latency trading pipelines, large‑scale data‑ingestion systems, and the LLM‑powered advisory agents that serve Arta’s clients. A former principal engineer in quantitative finance, Henry has spent the past year translating that rigor into safe, regulator‑ready large‑language‑model tooling for wealth management. He is a seasoned presenter, with talks ranging from deep‑tech LLM conferences to live investor demos, and is equally comfortable coding on the front line or steering cross‑functional engineering roadmaps. ​

Henry Gilbert, PhD is Head of AI & Data Infrastructure at Arta Finance, where he leads global teams building low‑latency trading pipelines, large‑scale data‑ingestion systems, and the LLM‑powered advisory agents that serve Arta’s clients. A former pr... Show more

R. Lance Belline

R. Lance Belline

R. Lance Belline is the founder and partner of Lighthouse Financial, an esteemed advisory firm located in Rogers, Arkansas. This firm specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning, investment strategies, and tax planning services tailored to meet the needs of both individuals and businesses. Lance, a seasoned professional with decades of experience in the financial services industry, is also the author of the influential book *More Wealth, Less Taxes*, which was released in 2022. The book serves as a valuable resource, offering strategies to help individuals retain more of their earnings while efficiently building wealth for the future.

In 2009, Lance established Lighthouse Financial as a boutique firm with a clear mission: to assist high-income and high-net-worth individuals in achieving their financial aspirations. From the beginning, the firm set itself apart with a distinctive tagline, "Always on Watch," which reflects its commitment to vigilant and proactive financial management. A critical factor that has distinguished the firm under his leadership is its innovative approach to integrating tax-efficient strategies into investment planning, aimed at minimizing the tax burden on clients during their retirement years.

Belline earned the prestigious designation of Certified Financial Planner in 2002, underscoring his deep expertise and commitment to the field. Over the years, he has successfully passed numerous financial industry exams, including the Series 65 Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination and the Series 7 General Securities Representative Examination, among others. These qualifications have equipped him with a broad and deep understanding of the financial landscape, enabling him to provide exceptional guidance to his clients.

As an author, Lance has a remarkable ability to demystify complex financial concepts, presenting them in a way that is accessible and relatable to a broad audience. In *More Wealth, Less Taxes*, he uses real-life examples and client stories to illustrate strategies for financial growth and tax efficiency. His passion for helping others achieve financial success is evident in his writing, as he imparts practical wisdom to empower individuals to build wealth, give generously, and navigate the financial pitfalls that can hinder their progress.

In *More Wealth, Less Taxes*, Belline introduces readers to the concept of managing wealth through three distinct categories: pre-tax money, after-tax money, and tax-free income, such as Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s. His approach emphasizes the importance of diversifying across these categories to influence future tax obligations, with the ultimate goal of achieving a zero tax rate on specific income streams. The book has been widely praised for its clarity and practicality, with readers expressing gratitude for his ability to make complex topics understandable and actionable.

Beyond the core content, R. Lance Belline's book provides a wealth of resources designed to support readers in their financial planning journey. These resources include tools like the Tax Facts at a Glance, Retirement Investment Flow Charts, and an Asset Organizer, all of which are aimed at helping individuals organize and optimize their financial strategies. Readers have lauded the book for its life-changing content, describing it as a powerful tool for anyone looking to secure their financial future with confidence and clarity.

Belline's book has received rave reviews, with one reader writing, "…this book hands down has helped me so much at such an early age to understand concepts and things that were so foreign to me and make them so relatable that I felt confident in my ability to make smarter decisions with my money." Another reader praised Lance's book for packing "a punch for anyone looking to take care of their financial future. The amount of life-changing content is at the next level."

Portfolio Website: https://lancebelline.net

Linkedin Company Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancebelline

R. Lance Belline is the founder and partner of Lighthouse Financial, an esteemed advisory firm located in Rogers, Arkansas. This firm specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning, investment strategies, and tax planning services tailored... Show more

Andrew Christodoulou

Andrew Christodoulou

Andrew is a seasoned Financial Services Expert with a strong focus on digital transformation across industries like Banking, Payments, Retail, and more. Known for his expertise in customer services, digital security, and open banking, Andrew has been a speaker at prominent events such as Devcom 2022, HIT Games Conference 2023, Gamescom Asia 2023, HITGames Conference 2024, PocketGamer Connects London 2024, and TechSummit 2024. In addition to his speaking engagements, he is the editor and author of "Five Point Friday," a weekly LinkedIn newsletter that highlights the top 5 fintech, payments, and tech stories of the week

Andrew is a seasoned Financial Services Expert with a strong focus on digital transformation across industries like Banking, Payments, Retail, and more. Known for his expertise in customer services, digital security, and open banking, Andrew has been... Show more

Nicholas Løjmand-Kines

Nicholas Løjmand-Kines

Commercial Background
With 4 years of experience in B2B sales to accounting offices, including a key sales leadership position at Visma e-conomic. Advising large accounting offices and groups/conglomerates in optimizing their business with digitalization and automation.
Educational Background:
Bachelor in Finance and Master of Science in economics and International Business

Commercial Background With 4 years of experience in B2B sales to accounting offices, including a key sales leadership position at Visma e-conomic. Advising large accounting offices and groups/conglomerates in optimizing their business with digitaliz... Show more

Ross Kolodiazhnyi

Ross Kolodiazhnyi

Ross Kolodiazhnyi is an executive leader and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in FinTech, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, RWA tokenization, and AI. As a CEO of DCM, he creates a trailblazing SaaS for asset tokenization and financial messaging processing. In his portfolio, there are international banks, award-winning regulated & decentralized crypto and blockchain innovations, and AI products.

Ross Kolodiazhnyi is an executive leader and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience in FinTech, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, RWA tokenization, and AI. As a CEO of DCM, he creates a trailblazing SaaS for asset tokenization and financ... Show more

Natasha Perez

Natasha Perez

Experienced Agile practitioner with a demonstrated work history in the financial services industry. Skilled in team building, product leadership, data and analytics, UX / UI, business relationship management, risk management, customer service, lending collections, and credit cards. Strong project and product management professional with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Westminster College and Product Management Certification from Cornell University.

Experienced Agile practitioner with a demonstrated work history in the financial services industry. Skilled in team building, product leadership, data and analytics, UX / UI, business relationship management, risk management, customer service, lendin... Show more

Mark Elenowitz

Mark Elenowitz

Mark Elenowitz is a Wall Street veteran with over 30 years’ experience. He co-founded a boutique investment bank that was based in Manhattan and its online capital formation platform BANQ® (www.banq.co), both which have been instrumental in laying down the framework for Regulation A+ crowdfunding offerings. The methodology Mark Elenowitz structured is what led the first successful Reg A+ IPO to list on a National Securities Exchange — the New York Stock Exchange — with other Reg A+ offerings following the blazing trail. He is a noted speaker at Small Cap and Reg A events, including the SEC Small Business Forum, and has been profiled in BusinessWeek, CNBC, and several other publications. Mr. Elenowitz also is a member of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Private Markets Executive Advisory Board tasked with developing DTCC’s new Digital Securities Management (DSM) platform. Mark Elenowitz is currently the Co-Founder of Horizon. Horizon offers a suite of integrated securities software applications for compliant issuance through secondary trading of electronic securities. Truly a compliance-first business, Horizon's solutions combine Wall Street and Silicon Valley to power the next generation of exchanges and securities offerings in the U.S. and globally. In addition, he is the Co-Founder of Upstream, a MERJ Exchange Market, that is a fully regulated global stock exchange for digital securities which is an affiliate of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), recognized by HM Revenue and Customs UK, a full member of the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and a Qualifying Foreign Exchange for OTC Markets in the US. In addition, Upstream is also a member of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative. Powered by Horizon's proprietary matching engine technology, the exchange will enable investors to trade NFTs, shares in IPOs, crowdfunded companies, U.S. & Int'l. equities, and celebrity ventures directly from the app: https://upstream.exchange

Mark Elenowitz is a Wall Street veteran with over 30 years’ experience. He co-founded a boutique investment bank that was based in Manhattan and its online capital formation platform BANQ® (www.banq.co), both which have been instrumental in laying do... Show more

Jason McGuiness

Jason McGuiness

Jason has a long-standing love/hate affair with C++ and vastly prefers *nix-like O/S. With over 20 years experience, including programming prototype super-computers and automated program-verifiers, but mainly in finance, now focusing on low-latency and HFT software and architectures and the issues arising from them. I am also actively involved with the ISO C++ Standards Committee (UK Panel) and try to present regularly to maintain my skill-set.

Jason has a long-standing love/hate affair with C++ and vastly prefers *nix-like O/S. With over 20 years experience, including programming prototype super-computers and automated program-verifiers, but mainly in finance, now focusing on low-latency a... Show more

Simon Smith

Simon Smith

Simon started out his career, working for a bank as a systems developer. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2004 and start making a living as a private trader in the futures market. He also became an Angel Investor in early stage tech and has been running the two investment strategies successfully alongside each other for the last 19 years. With some good angel exits under his belt and having ridden out some very hairy investment cycles, he has achieved financial freedom, but still continues to work hard.

After buying Bitcoin in 2013, Simon took a deep dive down that rabbit hole and got a really good understand of the technology. Bringing together his understanding of economics, finance, technology and the psychology of human incentives he holds high hopes for decentralised systems. He now runs a team of developers that he funds out of his crypto investing profits. They have built Excliabur.FM, a decentralised audio application that enables NFTs of audio content.

Simon started out his career, working for a bank as a systems developer. He managed to escape the corporate world in 2004 and start making a living as a private trader in the futures market. He also became an Angel Investor in early stage tech and ha... Show more

Brodie Macdonald

Brodie Macdonald

I've built my career around helping companies make great strategic choices and then working to translate them into tangible action.
In my role at ASB I work in Corporate Strategy and Customer Experience, leading our Operating Model Transformation; we're evolving our way of working to include lean, agile and human centered design to create better customer experiences.

I've built my career around helping companies make great strategic choices and then working to translate them into tangible action. In my role at ASB I work in Corporate Strategy and Customer Experience, leading our Operating Model Transformation; ... Show more

Roman Ivanov

Roman Ivanov

Java developer with 5+ years of experience
Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Developer
Work in the largest bank in Russia. Develop Serverless solutions for the bank's cloud.
Telegram @romanivanov
Email: roivanoff@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/roman-ivanov-dev/
Medium blog: https://roivanoff.medium.com/

Java developer with 5+ years of experience Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 11 Developer Work in the largest bank in Russia. Develop Serverless solutions for the bank's cloud. Telegram @romanivanov Email: roivanoff@gmail.com linkedin.com/i... Show more

Morgan Newman

Morgan Newman

Morgan Newman is a Director of Investments at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in the NYC Chrysler East office. Her passion for finance originates with her study experience abroad, in the rural area of Amacambini in South Africa. After studying grassroots economic development, Morgan became an advocate for impact investing, translating her studies into everyday life. After a few years of working for USAID contractors in Washington DC, Morgan followed her passion to New York City and joined her mother’s practice in 2012. Since then, Morgan’s goal has been to revolutionize the way financial advising is perceived by the Millennial generation.

In addition to investment management, Morgan runs the Women and Wealth at Work program for the Newman Group – a turnkey program designed to spread their message of women’s empowerment through financial education. To date, Morgan and Cindy have presented to Fortune 500 companies, networking organizations and trade associations – reaching thousands of women at various points in their personal and professional lives.

Her passion for empowerment through education goes beyond her work as a financial advisor. She remains an active member of the Chi Omega Sorority and currently serves as an advisor to the chapter at her alma mater, Bucknell University. She served as President of the NYC Chi Omega Alumnae Chapter for three years and only left that role to create a new nonprofit organization, Chi Omega IGNITE, which creates lasting programs for high school girls in NYC to recognize and vocalize their unique strengths. She has also been an active volunteer for ORT America, a global education and vocational training organization; having recently served as Chair of the Young Professionals Committee, and as a member of both the Board of Directors and the Women’s American ORT Foundation.

Morgan earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with minors in Mathematics and International Politics from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA and her Certificate of Financial Planning from NYU. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband.

Morgan Newman is a Director of Investments at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. in the NYC Chrysler East office. Her passion for finance originates with her study experience abroad, in the rural area of Amacambini in South Africa. After studying grassroots econ... Show more

Chapin Newhard

Chapin Newhard

Chapin Newhard is Managing Partner at 48North Partners, an M&A advisory firm exclusively serving founders and privately held business owners. He helps entrepreneurs navigate the sale or transition of their businesses, bringing a rare combination of buy-side private equity experience and genuine entrepreneurial empathy to every engagement.
Before founding 48North, Chapin worked at Pine Tree Equity Partners, a Miami-based private equity firm focused on family-owned and founder-led service businesses, where he was actively involved in sourcing, due diligence, and end-to-end deal execution. That insider perspective on how buyers think and make decisions is something he now puts to work for sellers.
Raised in Colorado in a family of entrepreneurs, Chapin has a deep personal understanding of what it takes to build a business and what is truly at stake when it comes time to transition one. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
48North Partners is fee-free to business owners. Chapin and his team are compensated only by the buyer at closing, meaning every conversation with a founder is completely no strings attached.

Chapin Newhard is Managing Partner at 48North Partners, an M&A advisory firm exclusively serving founders and privately held business owners. He helps entrepreneurs navigate the sale or transition of their businesses, bringing a rare combination of b... Show more

Amen Divine Ikamba

Amen Divine Ikamba

Amen Divine Ikamba is a founder building the financial infrastructure Africa has been waiting for. Born in Kigali, Rwanda, and studying at Pitzer College in California, she is the Founder and CEO of PACIN, the Pan-African Credit Intelligence Network, a platform that converts mobile money and alternative data into explainable AI credit scores for African lenders. Selected as part of the global cohort of the Technovation AI Ventures Accelerator sponsored by UNICEF and a national Black Is Tech finalist, she is on a mission to make 500 million financially invisible Africans visible. She believes AI's greatest power is not what it can automate but who it can finally see.

Amen Divine Ikamba is a founder building the financial infrastructure Africa has been waiting for. Born in Kigali, Rwanda, and studying at Pitzer College in California, she is the Founder and CEO of PACIN, the Pan-African Credit Intelligence Network,... Show more

Mehak Goyal

Mehak Goyal

From a civil engineer to an investment banker to a software engineer

From a civil engineer to an investment banker to a software engineer Show more

Shaurya Shounik

Shaurya Shounik

Investment professional at a leading private equity firm with experience in Tech LBOs, Distressed Investing and Restructurings

Investment professional at a leading private equity firm with experience in Tech LBOs, Distressed Investing and Restructurings Show more

Deepak Rathore

Deepak Rathore

Deepak Rathore is a blockchain and AI security leader with over 16 years of experience securing financial systems, decentralized networks, and emerging AI-driven architectures. He currently leads product security initiatives for a Layer-1 blockchain ecosystem, where he works at the intersection of cryptography, autonomous systems, and secure transaction infrastructure.

Deepak specializes in AI-powered fintech architectures, focusing on how large language models, agentic systems, and autonomous workflows interact with wallets, payment APIs, MPC/TSS signing systems, and on-chain settlement layers. His recent work explores the security implications of AI agents initiating real financial transactions—designing guardrails for intent validation, policy enforcement engines, transaction risk scoring, and cryptographic containment mechanisms for autonomous money movement.

Beyond traditional blockchain security, Deepak actively builds and experiments with:
- AI-driven SAST and DAST security automation pipelines
- Local and cloud-hosted LLM deployments for secure code review
- AI-powered threat modeling frameworks
- Agentic workflows that simulate autonomous financial decision systems
- LLM-based red teaming for smart contracts and Web3 infrastructure
- AI-augmented DevSecOps pipelines

He has architected AI-integrated security systems that combine structured intent validation, cryptographic controls (MPC/TSS), and blockchain safety patterns to prevent AI-triggered financial abuse. His work bridges AI alignment concerns with real-world financial security constraints—where hallucinations can translate into irreversible transactions.

Deepak is also an active researcher in:
- Secure AI-to-wallet trust boundaries
- Autonomous transaction risk modeling
- Cryptographic isolation layers for AI agents
- Prompt-level exploit analysis in financial systems
- Cross-layer attacks between AI inference pipelines and blockchain execution

He is a multi-CVE reporter, Microsoft Hall of Fame honoree, and an offensive security practitioner with deep expertise in DeFi, custody platforms, exchanges, and protocol-level security.

Deepak frequently speaks on AI security, blockchain resilience, and agentic fintech architecture. His mission is to ensure that as AI begins to move real money, security architectures evolve faster than attackers.

Deepak Rathore is a blockchain and AI security leader with over 16 years of experience securing financial systems, decentralized networks, and emerging AI-driven architectures. He currently leads product security initiatives for a Layer-1 blockchain ... Show more

Luba Orlovsky

Luba Orlovsky

Luba Orlovsky is the Principal Researcher at Earnix, a global provider of intelligent, composable, SaaS solutions for insurers and banks. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Israel Institute of Technology. During her career she’s held different analytics related roles in several companies, from algorithm developer and market analyst to head of analytics in the customer experience department and Principal Researcher today in Earnix.

Luba Orlovsky is the Principal Researcher at Earnix, a global provider of intelligent, composable, SaaS solutions for insurers and banks. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering and a Master of Science in Operations Research... Show more

Samuel Amoakoh

Samuel Amoakoh

Samuel Amoakoh is an AI and Automation Expert specializing in Microsoft Power Automate, M365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio. He helps organizations modernize their operations by designing intelligent workflows, building custom copilots, and creating automation systems that reduce manual work and improve enterprise efficiency.

He believes that any task that is repetitive is a candidate for automation, a principle that guides his work across financial services, operations, and enterprise transformation. Samuel focuses on practical, real‑world applications of AI, building solutions that get work done rather than just demonstrating concepts.

With a strong blend of technical expertise and business understanding, he empowers teams to adopt AI confidently, automate the boring stuff, and unlock new levels of productivity through the Microsoft ecosystem.

Samuel Amoakoh is an AI and Automation Expert specializing in Microsoft Power Automate, M365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio. He helps organizations modernize their operations by designing intelligent workflows, building custom copilots, and creating aut... Show more

Ifeoluwa Oduwaiye

Ifeoluwa Oduwaiye

My name is Ifeoluwa, and I’m passionate about building scalable AI solutions. I have over four years of experience in data science and analytics, with proven expertise across finance, fintech, voice tech, and education.

One of my favourite mantras is, "I build production-ready AI models", and that's because I get that itch when I see models sitting pretty in a repository; I always take the extra step to put them on the web. I am a proactive individual, and that much is evident in my commitment to continuous learning, and my strong work ethic.

Some might think of me as a Jack-of-all-trades, but I believe it's all a matter of perspective. I bring a creative flair to every project that I work on. I also write blogs (https://medium.com/@ifeoluwaoduwaiye), articles, research papers, and whitepapers, including this very bio that you're reading. If that didn't do me justice, shoot me an email, let’s have a chat.

My name is Ifeoluwa, and I’m passionate about building scalable AI solutions. I have over four years of experience in data science and analytics, with proven expertise across finance, fintech, voice tech, and education. One of my favourite mantras... Show more

Dhruv Chopra

Dhruv Chopra

I m a finance guy, optimised ERP systems , cloud securitya and have 10 research paper on quick commerce and internet banking

I m a finance guy, optimised ERP systems , cloud securitya and have 10 research paper on quick commerce and internet banking Show more

Stefan Gräfe

Stefan Gräfe

Stefan is on a mission to take the pain and risk out of B2B e-invoicing, transforming dry legal mandates into sleek, scalable enterprise architecture. Backed by over 15 years as a Software Architect and Senior Lead Developer, his approach bridges the gap between strategy and execution. He isn’t just a conceptual designer, but a hands-on builder of complex systems. Prior to his current focus, industry leaders in FinTech, logistics, and aerospace relied on his architectural decisions to build mission-critical, highly scalable platforms. Now, on stage, Stefan shows tech leaders and decision-makers how to integrate clunky e-invoicing standards into existing ERPs elegantly, future-proof, and without the compliance headaches.

Stefan is on a mission to take the pain and risk out of B2B e-invoicing, transforming dry legal mandates into sleek, scalable enterprise architecture. Backed by over 15 years as a Software Architect and Senior Lead Developer, his approach bridges th... Show more

Gabriel Koo

Gabriel Koo

Senior Lead Engineer at Bowtie Life Insurance
AWS Community Builder (2022-)
AWS User Group Hong Kong Volunteer (2026-)

Senior Lead Engineer at Bowtie Life Insurance AWS Community Builder (2022-) AWS User Group Hong Kong Volunteer (2026-) Show more

Nilima James Rodrigues

Nilima James Rodrigues

Nilima Rodrigues is an accomplished data engineering and analytics leader with over 19 years of experience delivering transformative data strategies and reporting solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Currently serving as Senior Manager of Systems and Reporting at Align Technology, Nilima has led numerous high-impact initiatives at the intersection of data, finance, and technology, driving multimillion-dollar efficiencies and innovation across global operations.
Her core expertise lies in architecting enterprise-grade data infrastructures, leading cross-functional teams, and transforming raw data into actionable insights that directly influence business strategy. Notable achievements include the rapid and successful delivery of a $1.5M+ SAP Datasphere and Onestream integration project, optimization of AI-driven ETL pipelines reducing latency by 40%, and architecting a FinOps platform that enabled $500K in freight savings. Nilima’s efforts have directly contributed to 65% improvements in operational efficiency and 50% cost reductions through intelligent automation and strategic resource planning.
Nilima has also been instrumental in scaling analytics at Align, establishing the Finance Analytics Center of Excellence (COE) and delivering 100+ interactive Power BI dashboards across global business units. She has championed data governance, regulatory compliance, and change management enabling the smooth onboarding of commerce platforms, data migration strategies, and the successful execution of financial transformation programs. Her earlier roles at Deloitte Consulting and Capgemini involved groundbreaking implementations, including the world’s first SAP ERP-based Public Sector Collection platform at Florida Department of Revenue and the first SAP Bank Analyzer integration at PayPal. Across industries from tech and telecom to retail and government Nilima has consistently pushed boundaries to ensure organizations leverage data for strategic advantage.
Nilima holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Mumbai and is certified in Google Advanced Data Analytics and SAP BTP Datasphere. With deep technical fluency in tools such as SAP BW/HANA, Azure Data Lake, Power BI, Python, and AI-powered analytics, she blends technical prowess with executive communication and project leadership.

Nilima Rodrigues is an accomplished data engineering and analytics leader with over 19 years of experience delivering transformative data strategies and reporting solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Currently serving as Senior Manager of Systems and... Show more

Ashita Jain

Ashita Jain

UX designer with 7+ years of design experience and academic background in Human Computer Interaction, HCI & Communication Design. Experience of working in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams across various domains like financial services, education, health & wellness, and security, from the early-stage startups to high-growth companies like
JP Morgan & ServiceNow.

UX designer with 7+ years of design experience and academic background in Human Computer Interaction, HCI & Communication Design. Experience of working in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams across various domains like financial services, educat... Show more

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