SPEAKERS · ROSTER

Operators & investors shaping the next decade.

Our speakers are founders, technical leads, investors and operators — women who are building, not just commentating.

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Emma Richardson
Investment Director
● Balderton Capital

Leads Balderton's vertical SaaS thesis. 12 years across Series A–C investing in European fintech. Board member at Wise, Currencycloud and four undisclosed.

Venture CapitalFintech InvestmentFounder Scaling
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Priya Patel
Founder & CEO
● Finova Technologies

Built Finova's embedded-finance rails powering 40+ vertical SaaS companies. Ex-Stripe, ex-McKinsey. Raised $32m across three rounds.

Embedded FinanceFounder JourneyFundraising
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Sarah Mitchell
VP of Product
● Stripe

Leads payments product at Stripe. Previously built core banking infrastructure at Monzo from 200k to 4m users.

Product StrategyPayments InfraPlatform Growth
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Nina Okafor
Head of Open Banking
● TrueLayer

Architects Europe's largest open banking network. Speaks regularly on PSD3 and pay-by-bank. Mentors at Founders Factory and Antler.

Open BankingRegulationPayments
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Jessica Hartley
Chief Risk Officer
● Revolut

Leads risk & compliance at Revolut across 35 markets. Built the function from 6 to 280 people. Former MD at JP Morgan.

ComplianceRiskScaling Teams
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Lara Köhler
Founder
● Solaris (alumna)

Co-founded Solaris, Germany's leading BaaS platform. Now angel investor and operator-in-residence at HV Capital.

Banking-as-a-ServiceEmbedded FinanceExits
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Aisha Verma
Director of AI
● Plaid

Builds Plaid's AI-driven fraud and risk products. Previously led ML at Affirm. PhD from Stanford, ex-Google Brain.

AI / MLRisk ScoringEngineering Leadership
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Maya Andersson
Partner
● Index Ventures

Partner at Index, leads fintech investments out of London and SF. Board member at five portfolio companies.

Series B+Marketplace FintechEuropean Fintech
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Zoe Chen
Founder & CTO
● Atomic

Technical founder building institutional crypto custody infrastructure. Forbes 30u30. Ex-Citadel quant.

CryptoInfrastructureTechnical Founders
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Rachel Moss
Head of Marketing
● Monzo

Built Monzo's brand from cult to mainstream. Grew the marketing function from 4 to 90.

BrandConsumer FintechGrowth
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Beatrice Saunders
GM, Europe
● Checkout.com

Runs Checkout's European business. Scaled the team from 80 to 600 across 9 markets. Ex-Adyen.

PaymentsEnterpriseInternational Expansion
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Thandi Fairbanks
Founder
● Spire (stealth)

Building climate finance infrastructure for emerging markets. Currently in stealth. Ex-McKinsey, ex-Tala.

StealthClimate FinanceSeries Seed
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