FinovateFall 2023 | Informa Connect | 11 September 2023 | The Marriott Marquis Times Square, New York, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA

Network face-to-face with the fintech community and plot a course for the future. With live demos of innovative fintech solutions, expert advice from key influencers, and unparalleled networking opportunities, there’s no better place to find your path forward.
Short, punchy, and informative, we show you the tech to use right now, giving you the edge needed to stay competitive.

Take the pulse of fintech and financial services with renowned industry experts. There are undoubtedly challenges for fintechs as part of the fallout from the over-enthusiasm of the COVID era and the new interest rate environment is putting the banking sector under pressure. But digital acceleration will continue and success will belong to the players that collaborate to put their customers at the heart of their services and innovations.

At Finovate, you can meet a global audience of senior attendees from across the fintech industry – including 50%+ from financial institutions.
Connect directly to innovators behind the most exciting tech in finance. We host banks, fintechs, platform players, regulators, investors and other financial institutions re-defining the future of financial services around the world.

2023 Speakers

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Author, I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique

Alexa von Tobel
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Inspired Capital

Jill Castilla
President & CEO, Citizens Bank of Edmond

Luke Williams
Professor of Innovation, NYU’s Stern School of Business

Sherry Graziano
Head of Digital and Care Center Banking, Truist Financial Corporation

Matt Harris
Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Sam Kilmer
Managing Director, Cornerstone Advisors

Jacqueline Baker
Author, The Unexpected Leader

Ray Nazloomian
Executive Director, Corporate Development & Partnerships, J.P. Morgan Payments

Lilac Bar David
Founder & CEO, Lili

Tommaso Di Bartolo
Author, Navigating The Metaverse

Alyson Clarke
Principal Analyst, Forrester

Robert Bole
Director, Digital Product Management, SMBC

Catherine Porter
Chief Business Officer, Tilia

Manas Chawla
CEO, London Politica

Alexander Addario
Market Manager, FinTech Credit Solutions, Silicon Valley Bank

Kevin Alwell
Principal Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Sarit Amir
Executive Director, Lead of Corporate Development and Partnerships, J.P. Morgan

Liran Amrany
Partner, Team8

Ben Anderson
Director of Sales, Quavo Fraud & Dispute Solutions

Florencia Ardissone
Head of Product, Customer Insights & ChaseNet Analytics, JP Morgan Chase

Ritesh Arora
COO/Co-Founder, Effectiv

Arash Asady
CEO, Bits of Stock

Arvind Ayyala
Partner, Geodesic Capital

Azizjon Azimi
Founder & CEO, zypl.ai

Cody Barbo
CEO, Trust & Will

Alan Bekker
Co-Founder & CEO, eSelf.ai

Nickolas Belesis
VP of Growth, FinTech Insights

Francisco Benedito
CEO & Co-Founder, ClimateTrade

David Benskin
CEO & Founder, Wealth Access

Jody Bhagat
President of Americas, Personetics

Sundeep Bhimireddy
Co-Founder & CTO, Regulo

Steve Bishop
EVP & Chief Operating Officer, OMB Bank

Lexi Bohonnon
SVP Enterprise, Yext

Michelle Bonat
CTO, AI Squared

Chris Boncimino
Global Innovation Partner CEO, Key Moments, SRM Key Moments

Milind Borkar
Founder & CEO, Illuma

Kevin Brown
CMO, Onbe

Tyler Brown
Senior Research Analyst, CCG Catalyst Consulting

Ronan Burke
CEO & Co-Founder, Inscribe

Daniel Caplan
Director, Digital Money Management and Engagement, BMO Financial Group

Rachel Chen
CEO & Founder, MacroMicro

Alessandro Chiarini
SVP of Enterprise Authentication, Aware

Katya Chupryna
Director, SPRINT, Citi

Ben Clayman
Engineering Leader, Square

Stessa Cohen
Strategic Advisor, Pivot Assets

Stuart Cook
CIO, Valley Bank

Trish Costello
CEO & Founder, Portfolia

Len Covello
CTO, Engage People

Chris Cox
Chief Operating Officer, Apiture

Kathleen Craig
Founder & CEO, Plinqit

Penny Crosman
Executive Editor, Technology, American Banker

Greg Cummings
Director, Global ISV Partners, Glia

Katie Curran
Solutions Engineer, Setuply

Sam Das
Managing Director, TruStage Ventures

Lola DeMoon
Senior Product Manager CX UX UI, Bank Of The West

Brandis DeSimone
Vice President and Head of Americas Data Sales, Nasdaq

Dhairya Dholiya
Vice President – Growth & Innovation, Celtic Bank

Kevin Dinino
President, KCD PR

Drew Dizon
EVP of Partnerships, Nymbus

Sasha Dobrolioubov
Head of Partnerships, Persona

Dan Domek
Co-Founder & CTO, Mahalo Banking

Ken Dummitt
CRO, Jaid

Michael Duncan
Co-Founder & CEO, Bankjoy

Steve Dunn
Head of Innovation and Fintech, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Larry Edgar-Smith
SVP, Sales Engineering, Savana

Sam Eisler
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Sheetal Elangovan
Product Manager, 1Kosmos

Ammar Faheem
VP - Sales North America, Banking & Payment, Thales

Angela Faust
SVP, Chief Operations Officer, Credit Union of Texas

John Findlay
CEO & Founder, LemonadeLXP

Lindsay Fitzgerald
General Partner & Co-Founder, Vesey Ventures

Theresa Forbes
Associate General Counsel, Meta

Sylvain Forté
CEO & Co-Founder, SESAMm

Irene Galperin
Senior Advisor for Financial Services, InterSystems

Chris Giamo
Executive Vice President, Head of Commercial Banking, TD Bank

Nate Gibbons
CXO, QuickFi

Tyler Gillies
VP Business Development & Business Operations, January

Bruce Gillooly
Sr Sales Engineer, interface.ai

Chrystina (Tina) Giorgio
President & CEO, ICBA Bancard

Xavier Gomez
COO & Co-Founder, INVYO

Chris Goodmacher
Co-Founder, Uprise

Vinay Guddye
Director- Financial Services, EDB Mauritius

Bonnie Gurry
CEO & Co-Founder, GreenPortfolio

Leah Hacker
CEO & Founder, Rebel

Imran Haider
Director Product, Intuit Data Exchange, Intuit

Daniel Haisley
Executive VP of Innovation, Apiture

Mariana Henriques
Senior Director of Product Marketing, FintechOS

Jens Hinrichsen
SVP, North American Sales, 1Kosmos

Christopher Hollins
Head of Global Solution Sales & Delivery, Silicon Valley Bank

Alex Holmes
CEO, MoneyGram

Sunsy Hong
General Manager of Planning Platform & Experience, JP Morgan Wealth Management

Denny Howell
Co-Founder & COO, Mahalo Banking

Stefan Ionescu
Senior VP of Engineering, Union Credit

Kevin Jacques
Partner, Cota Capital

Jo Jagadish
Head of Corporate Products and Services, TD Bank

Karan Jain
CEO/Founder, NayaOne

Alex Johnson
Founder, Fintech Takes

Justin Kamerman
Chief Product Officer, Instnt

Brent Kasper
VP of Sales, Inscribe

Mahesh Kedia
VP, Go to Market Strategy, Marqeta

Emre Kenci
CEO, Papara

Barry Kirby
Co-Founder & CRO, Union Credit

Kimberly Kirk
Executive Vice President, Chief Operations Officer, Queensborough National Bank & Trust Co.

Bob Koehler
CIO, SRM Key Moments

Brian Koenig
VP, Director of Business Solutions, Nymbus

Melissa Koide
CEO, FinRegLab

Dan Kramer
CEO, Jaid

Arun Krishnakumar
Author, The Metaverse Economy

Kabir Kumar
Partner, Ecosystem, Flourish Ventures

Mahen Kumar Seeruttun
Minister of Financial Services and Good Governance, Republic of Mauritius

Tyson Kunovsky
CEO, AutoCloud

Benjamin Labbe
Co-Founder & CTO, Viffy

Michael Lappin
Sr. Director, Solutions Engineering, Telesign

Evelyn LaTour
CPO, AutoCloud

Theodora Lau
Founder, Unconventional Ventures

Rachel Lauren
COO & Co-Founder, Debbie

Mike Lee
CEO & Co-Founder, Fundica

Frida Leibowitz
CEO & Co-Founder, Debbie

Alexander Lempka
Co-Founder & CEO, Connect Earth

Zack Levine
Vice President & Head of North America, Checkout.com

Alex Leybov
Founder, CREED

Andre Llewellyn
Marketing Consultant, AI Squared

Kirsten Longnecker
Senior VP of Marketing, Plinqit

Adam Lowe
Chief Product & Innovation Officer, CompoSecure

Rachel Lyubovitzky
CEO, Setuply

Barb MacLean
SVP, Head of Technology Operations and Implementation, Coastal Community Bank

Ravi Madavaram
Co-Founder & CEO, Regulo

Sunil Madhu
Founder and CEO, Instnt

Yashwanth Madhusudan
Co-Founder & CEO, Fyle

Harry Mamaysky
Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Business School

Kate Marienthal
Head of Client Solutions, Pinwheel

Brett Martin
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Charge Ventures

Edward Maslaveckas
CEO & Founder, Bud

Alex Matjanec
CEO & Head of Vision, Wysh

Bobby Matson
CEO/Founder, Payitoff

Maya Matthews
Investor, March Capital

Daniel McCool
Co-Founder & CPO, Trustworthy

Craig McLaughlin
CEO, Finalytics.ai

Maya Mikhailov
CEO, Co-Founder, SAVVI AI

Tiffani Montez
Principal Analyst, Insider Intelligence

Martha Montoya
CEO, Agtools

Gus Morgan
Director of Climate Solutions, Cloverly

Rachel Muench
Security & Biometrics Lead, Nuance

Julie Muhn
Senior Research Analyst, Finovate

Alex Muller
CPO, Co-Founder, SAVVI AI

Jillian Munson
VP, Process & Automation, QuickFi

Chastity Murphy
Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Nantha Muthusamy
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering, Uprise

Kenichi Nagayoshi
CEO/COO, Zero Bank Design Factory

Madhu Narasimhan
EVP, Head of Innovation and Digital Product Development Strategy, Digital, and Innovation (SDI), Wells Fargo

Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan
Co-Founder & CTO, Fyle

Chase Neinken
Co-Founder, Chimney

Ryan Nichols
Solutions Engineer, DataVisor

Srinivas Njay
Founder & CEO, interface.ai

Greg O'Gara
Lead Analyst, Wealth Management, Javelin Strategy & Research

Dr. Ned Palmer
Co-Founder & COO, Panacea Financial

Greg Palmer
Vice President, Finovate

Kaushal Pandia
Chief Digital Officer, Corporate Segment, U.S. Bank

Konstantine Pappas
Account Executive, FinTech Insights

Neepa Patel
Founder and CEO, Themis

David Penn
Research Analyst, Finovate

Jim Perry
Senior Strategist, Market Insights

Guido Petrelli
CEO, Merlin Investor

Chris Pinkerton
CGO, Flybits

Oli Platt
Product Manager, NayaOne

David Porter
Managing Director FSI, Genesys Cloud Services Inc.

Jesse Prince
Co-Founder & CEO, HappyNest

Arvind Purushotham
Global Head, Venture Investing, Citi Ventures

Efi Pylarinou
Global Fintech & Tech Influencer, Pylarinou Advisory

Hossein Rahnama
CEO/Founder, Flybits

Steven Ramirez
CEO, Beyond the Arc

Jas Randhawa
Managing Partner, StrategyBRIX

Madhu Rao
Head of Enterprise Architecture and Process Reengineering, U.S. Bank

Baanu Ratneswaran
Head of Enterprise Innovation, TD Bank Group

Razi Raziuddin
CEO & Co-Founder, FeatureByte

Liliana Reasor
President, SupraFin

Surendra Reddy Challapalli
VP Technology, Citi

Caio Reis
Head of Strategy & Marketing, Banking & Payment, Thales

Charlie Renzoni
Venture Capitalist, OMERS Ventures

Steve Robert
CEO & Co-Founder, Autobooks

Ope Runsewe
Head of Business Development, Amex Ventures

Mark Ryan
Chief Analytics Officer, Finalytics.ai

Anu Sachdeva
Global Service Line & Solutions Leader, Genpact

Jazz Samra
Head of Partnerships, Wells Fargo

Eric Satz
Founder & CEO, Alto Solutions

Leo Schwartz
Reporter, Fortune

Patrick Sells
Co-Founder & CEO, True Digital Group

Devendra Kumar Sharma
President & Chief Operating Officer, Kore.ai

Eylon Shoshan
Co-Founder & CTO, eSelf.ai

Alex Sklar
Vice President Strategic Partnerships - Fintech, Cover Genius

Brandon Smallwood
Fintech Executive, Microsoft

Philip Smith
Director of Regulatory Compliance, Booking.com

David Snitkof
SVP of Growth, Ocrolus

Akita Somani
SVP BNPL/POS Lending, U.S.Bank

Elliott Star
Former Director of Data Science, Chime

Andrew Steele
Partner, Activant Capital

Rodrigo Suarez
Chief Banking & Innovation Officer, Piermont Bank

Aeron Sullivan
CEO, Pangea Technologies

Derik Sutton
CMO, Autobooks

Sachin Tandon
Worldwide Banking Industry Strategist, AWS

Sasha Terenteiv
Analyst, CREED

Puneet Thiara
COO, Peach

Michelle Tran
Founder, NYC Fintech Women

Nneka Ukpai
Head of Financial Innovation, Better

Mart Vainu
CEO, Cashy

Rutger Van Faassen
Head of Innovation & New Markets, Curinos

Peter Wannemacher
Principal Analyst, Digital Banking, Forrester

John Waupsh
Co-Founder & CEO, Nerve

Emilia Wei
Global Project Manager, MacroMicro

Robin Weiss
Senior Technology Advisor; Board Member, RLW Advisory

James Wester
Director, Cryptocurrency & Co-Head of Payments, Javelin Strategy & Research

David Williams
CPO, Savana

Josh Williams
Chief Banking Officer & Head of Partnerships, Seattle Bank

Josh Williams
Head of Partnerships, CD Valet

Sam Winslow
Co-Founder & CEO, Viffy

Aaron Wollner
Chief Marketing Officer, Quontic Bank

Howie Wu
Head of Product, CD Valet

Jo Wyper
EVP, Head of Commercial Digital and Operations, Citizens Bank

Frank Yang
Principal Solutions Architect

Karen Yankovich
Founder, She's LinkedUp

Stephanie Yu
Director of Product Management, Uplift

Quan Yuan
Chief Strategy Office Manager, Zero Bank Design Factory

2023 Sponsors and Partners

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Apiture, Inc
• Economic Development Board - Mauritius
• InterSystems
• Nuance

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Arculus by CompoSecure
• Aware, Inc.
• Cover Genius
• Genesys
• Genpact Limited
• Github
• Instnt Inc.
• Kore.ai
• Marqeta, Inc.
• MoneyGram
• Personetics
• Quavo Fraud & Disputes
• Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank
• TD Bank
• Thales
• Wysh
• Yext

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Anaconda
• Creatio
• Extole
• FintechOS
• FIS
• Glia
• January
• JRNI
• Onbe
• Papara
• Persona
• Pinwheel
• Planview
• Telesign
• Trulioo
• VGS

EVENT APP SPONSOR:
• FIS

INNOVATION ECONOMY LOUNGE:
• Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank

OFFICIAL NEWSWIRE PARTNER:
• NetworkNewsWire

LEAD MEDIA PARTNER:
• FinTech Futures

COMMUNITY PARTNER:
• Women in Payments

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS PARTNERS:
• Caliber PR
• The Financial Revolutionist

RESEARCH PARTNER:
• IBS Intelligence

PARTNERS:
• American Bankers Association
• BankersHub
• Breaking Banks
• The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
• Celent
• Coinaute
• Cryptoken Media
• Datos Insights
• EbankingNews
• Financial IT
• Finolab
• Fintech Finance
• Fintech Fuse
• Fongit
• Funday
• IGM
• InvestorBrandNetwork
• Javelin Strategy & Research
• Nestria
• NYC FinTech Women
• NYPAY
• The Paypers
• Plug and Play
• Spryte Labs
• TSG
• Wealth Management
• Zephyr