| Manuela Andaloro Management Consultant & Founder: Strategy and Content - Panel Sessions SmartBizHub GmbH Senior professional with strong experience in global and regional roles in financial services, with responsibilities spanning across business strategy, digital transformation and engagement. A IULM and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School alumna, she has worked in Milan, London and Zurich for firms such as Nielsen, Financial News and UBS. Since 2017 Manuela runs high profile projects as a management consultant focusing on marketing, communications, content, sustainability, innovation and tech, future work, change management, digital strategies. A professional speaker, published author, and editorial consultant to leading publications on the topics of finance, social shifts, impact, culture and leadership. She serves as a board member of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Europe, and of Corriere dell’Italianita’, an advocate for diversity and EQ- driven leadership, speaks English, Italian, German and Spanish. | |
| Katharina Bart Senior Contibutor - Master of Ceremony Finews I’m a journalist specialized in finance. I began at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal in 2002, where I spent nine years before I became the chief correspondent for Thomson Reuters in Zurich. I’ve spent the past nearly four years with finews, an online financial media outlet. My speciality areas are banking, white-collar crime and corruption cases like 1MDB, business and the economy, and politics. I’ve been a journalist for most of my professional career, with several stints in the corporate world in insurance and in medtech. I was educated in the US (Grand Valley State University) as well as in Switzerland (University of Fribourg) and graduated with a degree in journalism from the latter. Technology changes hitting the financial services industry are currently what interests me the most! | |
| Anna Brailsford CEO Code First: Girls Code First: Girls is one of the UK's largest communities of female coders and is dedicated to change in tech. We connect women to industry through education. Anna is the CEO of Code First: Girls and a Board Member for the Institute of Coding. Before joining CF:G Anna was the CEO and co-founder of Founders Factory incubated EdTech startup Frisbee. Prior to that, Anna was the Commercial Director of Lynda.com and LinkedIn. When LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 Billion in April 2015, she became part of the fourth-largest acquisition in social media history and subsequently contributed to the creation of LinkedIn Learning. | |
| Rishi Chattopadhyay Founder SwissWealthTech Before starting his own business venture with SwissWealthTech recently, Rishi worked as a program manager and finance expert for leading companies in their fields. In banking, he has worked for UBS, Credit Suisse, Coutts and Bank Julius Baer & Co. Subsequently he was put in charge of large-scale change-management and digitization projects at various banks. Following this he became an advisor for digital transformation and innovation. Before being their ambassador, Rishi joined F10 Fintech Incubator & Accelerator as a mentor. He is on a mission to build & develop the FinTech world to enable client experience. Rishi is happy to inspire and to motivate entrepreneurs with his insights of hands-on problem solver approach. | |
| Janine Hirt COO Innovate Finance Janine Hirt is the Chief Operating Officer and a Board Member at Innovate Finance (IF), the UK membership association for global FinTech. Janine is responsible for monitoring key trends in FinTech and innovation to ensure Innovate Finance is continuously providing its membership community - from startups to multinational financial institutions - with the best support possible. She overseas IF’s 250+ member ecosystem and directly manages the relationship with its highest supporters. Janine previously led corporate relations at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) before joining the founding IF leadership team as Head of Membership then Ecosystem Director. She received her BA Magna Cum Laude from Boston College, JYA at Oxford University, and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Janine is an American, Swiss and German national who calls NYC and London home. | |
| Lisa Moyle Director of Strategy, Fintech / Director of Partnerships - FinTECHTalents VC INNOVATIONS Lisa Moyle is a co-founder and director of strategy and partnerships at VC Innovations. She is also a regular contributor to the Banking Technology magazine and a commentator on the UK fintech sector. She sits on the judging panels for the Banking Technology, PayTech and Growth Finance Awards. She is a co-founder of the Fintech Cocktail Club and sits on the Staffing Committee for Fair Finance. She is also a mentor in the Women in Fintech Global Initiative run by the Department for International Trade. Previously, she was director of strategy, fintech, at Informa where she established and led a portfolio of global fintech events and activity. Prior to that she was head of Financial Services and Payments at techUK and contributed to a broad range of policy initiatives in support of financial services innovation. She was programme director at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, a leading financial services think tank. | |
| René Nicolodi Member of the board, Swiss Sustainable Finance Swisscanto Invest by ZKB René Nicolodi is the head of Equities & Themes in Asset Management at Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank and deputy head of Asset Management. After starting his career at Swiss Bank Corporation and UBS, he held several positions in Investment Bank and Asset Management at Zürcher Kantonalbank prior to his current function. René received his Ph.D. in the area of 'Sustainable Pension Fund Engagement' from the University of Zurich, and since 2009 has been a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). In addition to his role at ZKB, René is a lecturer at the University of Zurich, at the Swiss Training Centre for Investment Professionals (AZEK) and the International Management Institute (MIM) in Kiev. René represents the Swiss Financial Analysts Association in the ESG Commission of the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) and is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility at the University of Zurich. | |
| Jane Owen Her Majesty's Ambassador to Swizerland and Liechtenstein British Embassy, Bern In December 2017 Jane Owen took up her post as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Jane was educated at Ellerslie School in Malvern, and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA Hons in Russian, French and German). She was born in Bilston in the West Midlands and has 2 children, Phoebe (19) and James (16). From 2014-17 she worked in London as Chief Operating Officer of UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), the government body responsible for promoting Britain’s commercial and business relationships around the world. Jane was Ambassador to Norway (2010-2014) and Director for Trade and Investment at the British Commission in India (2006-2010) and at the British Embassy in Japan (2002-2006). She has also worked in Vietnam and in the European Union department at the Foreign Office in London. | |
| George Quinn Group Chief Financial Officer Zurich Insurance George Quinn started his career at KPMG 1988 in London, where he held several positions working with the insurance and reinsurance industry. He joined Swiss Re in 1999 as Group Chief Accounting Officer based in Zurich and later served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Swiss Re Group’s financial services. Mr. Quinn became the regional CFO for Swiss Re Americas based in New York in 2005. In March 2007 he became Swiss Re Group’s CFO. Mr. Quinn joined Zurich in May 2014 as Group CFO and is a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Quinn is a member of the finance chapter of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Quinn holds a degree in engineering from the University of Strathclyde. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. | |
| Eric Schuh Managing Director - Global Head P&C Solutions SwissRe Eric joined the Swiss Re Group in Beijing in 2008 as Director of Business Development for China. Two years later, he became Head of Business Development for Asia. In 2011, he was appointed as Swiss Re’s Head of Investor Relations, based in Zurich. In August 2014, Eric moved to the Casualty Underwriting Division as Head Casualty Centre. In May 2017, he was appointed as Global Head P&C Solutions. Prior to joining Swiss Re, Eric was Head of Investor Relations at DEPFA Bank in London and before that he worked several years as Head of Corporate Communications at Hannover Re in Germany. Eric is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and Chartered Financial Analyst. He holds a Master's degree in Economics from University of Tübingen, where he also studied Mandarin Chinese. Eric also spent a year at University of Washington in Seattle in 1999 as a Fulbright scholar and graduate student of International Studies. | |
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