A Few Noteworthy Women in Global FinTech (Part 1!)
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Here are 10 prominent women who have been role models in Fintech. 1. Vidya
Peters, Chief Marketing O cer, Marqeta
Vidya Peters is the Chief Marketing O cer at Marqeta (https://global ntechseries.com/?s=Marqeta), the rst global modern card issuing platform. Before joining Marqeta in 2019, Vidya led the global marketing team of MuleSoft, which consisted of over 100 people. Before MuleSoft, Vidya held various leadership roles at Intuit and was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. Vidya received her MPA from Harvard University and MBA in marketing and nance from Kellog School of Management and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University. At Marqeta, Vidya is responsible for driving the strategy and execution of their global marketing. She is also a member of the Northwestern University Council of 100, which is a group of highly-successful female alumnae committed to furthering the careers of other Northwestern alums. 2. Kathryn
Petralia, Kabbage
Kathryn Petralia is a co-founder of Kabbage (https://global ntechseries.com/?s=Kabbage), a ntech company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Kabbage is an automated lending platform that provides funding directly to small businesses and consumers. Kathryn, with her B.A in English literature from Furman University, wanted to become an English professor. However, soon she noticed her interest leaning towards lending technology and ever since has spent her career dedicated to working with companies focused on credit, payments, technology, and ecommerce. Her passion for helping small businesses has always being her priority She co-created Consumer Financial Data (https://global ntechseries.com/tag/ nancial-datastandards-programs/) Rights, a consumer rights organization pushing to allow people access to their nancial data through a safe platform.
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3. Cristina
Junqueira – Nubank
Cristina is one of the co-founders of Nubank, a Brazilian neobank and also known to be the largest ntech in Latin America. Nubank was co-founded in 2013 and with her expertise in nancial technology it became a unicorn start-up with a valuation of US $1 billion within four years of its launch. Cristina holds her degree in BSc and MSc from the university in Sao Paulo and MBA from Nothwestern University. In 2016, Cristina received an award from Claudia, the most important female-focused award in Latin America, in the Business category. She was also recently elected by Fortune as one of the leaders under 40 that are transforming the business world. 4. Amnah
Ajmal, Executive Vice President, Market Development, MEA, Mastercard
Amnah Ajmal is currently the EVP of marketing development, MEA, at Mastercard (https://global ntechseries.com/?s=Mastercard). Amnah joined Mastercard in 2015 as a Head of Products for Middle East and Africa, with a focus on driving innovation across consumer and commercial payments. Amnah started her career as a traditional banker. Some of her previous roles entail heading the consumer bank franchise of Standard Chartered Malaysia and before Standard Chartered, she has worked in a number of positions at Citigroup. Amnah holds a master’s degree from London School of Economics and Political Science. Coming from a family where no woman worked, Amnah not only broke the glass ceiling but also was honoured to be listed as the top 100 women in Fintech across the globe, for 2019 by Lattice80 and was recognised as the top 25 women leaders in nancial technology (https://global ntechseries.com/tag/ nancialtechnologies/) across the world by the Financial Technology Report US. 5. Emily
Larkin, Chief Information Security O cer, Abrigo
Emily Larkin is the Chief Information Security O cer at Abirgo. Abrigo provides compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions and also offers advisory services. Emily is a veteran with over 25 years of experience in the information security segment. Her team at Abrigo is responsible for tech related audit and compliance initiatives, information security, risk management initiatives and more. Emily has achieved various
milestones at Abrigo and has won titles like CISO of the year. Her prior experiences include leadership roles at Infosys McCamish Systems. 6. Ana
Sirbu, Chief Financial O cer, BlueVine
Ana Sirbu is the Chief Financial O cer at BlueVine. BlueVine is a California based ntech company that provides online business banking and nancial solutions to businesses of small and medium size. Her academic journey includes Bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University. With an experience of more than 10 years in the eld of ntech, Ana now leads BlueVine’s strategic nance, accounting, capital markets and business analytics. In 2017, Ana was named in the Women in Fintech Powerlist, which recognizes the contributions of women professionals in the rapidlyexpanding industry. 7. Rebeca
Minguela, Founder and CEO,
Clarity Rebeca Minguela, is the Founder and CEO of Clarity. The tech startup Clarity, aims to solve the problem of ine cient and unequal allocation of capital by developing a universal framework and building an automated tool to rate companies. She is also a former founder of Blink Booking, hotel booking mobile app leader in Europe. Before Clarity, Rebeca lead the Global Digital Transformation Program at Santander Bank. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, MSc in Telecommunication Engineering for Polytechnic University in Madrid and Stuttgart University. She is also an advisor at several start-ups. 8. Jeanniey
Walden, Chief Innovation and Marketing O ce, DailyPay
Jeanniey Walden is the Chief Innovation and Marketing Offcer at DailyPay (https://global ntechseries.com/? s=DailyPay), a leading provider of the daily pay bene t that allows employees to get instant access to their earned wages. Jeanniey holds around 30 years of experience in leadership roles across a wide range of industries leading their global marketing teams and driving their growth. Before DailyPay, Jeannniey worked with companies like Zinio, Barnes and Noble, OgilvyOne, and JCPenney. Apart from being an impactful and accomplished leader, she is also a popular keynote speaker and has contributed to various blogs, book, and articles.
9. Anna
Maj, Â FinTech Leader & Advisor, WBAF
Anna Maj is presently the ntech leader and advisor for World Business Angels Investment Forum. Anna has 20 years of experience in banking and payments industries. She introduced one of the rst online payment gateways in EMEA region as well as the rst digital wallet and mobile payment platform. Her expertise lies in the eld of innovative digital payment solutions. In her former Role at PwC, she was responsible for building cooperation models between banks and ntech partners, especially with regards to the Open Banking, Payments as well as Conversational AI projects with a focus on Central Europe. Anna is the Co-Author of The PAYTECH Book and The AI Book and has been a prominent speaker at many international conferences. 10. Sheila
Monroe, Chief Operating O cer, TrueAccord
Sheila Monroe is the Chief Operating O cer at TrueAccord, a digital debt recovery company that is transforming the collections experience. Before TrueAccord, Sheila was the COO of Simplicity payments at Echo Health Inc. and was also at leadership roles at Barclays Bank and Barclaycard for 10 years. Given her previous roles, Sheila brings more than 30 years of nancial services and collections experience with her to TrueAccord. She has led multi-cultural teams across the US, UK, India, South Africa and parts of Europe. Sheila also has an impeccable ability to effectively navigate sensitive regulatory environments, which makes her a splendid leader that she is.
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