What is it?
FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech brings together Fintechs, corporate innovators, and investors disrupting financial services across Latin America. FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech is where Fintech leaders can learn about new trends, identify new investment opportunities and connect with the most relevant players in the ecosystem.
+700
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+150
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+1500
partners
Why attend FINNOSUMMIT
- Whether you are an early-stage startup or a scale up, at FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech you will connect with Latin American and international investors and leading financial corporations from LatAm.
- As a corporate innovator, you will have the opportunity to meet the best Fintech startups from Latin America.
- Also, at FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech international investors will discover the most innovative and disruptive investment opportunities in the Fintech industry in Latin America.
Speakers
US & RoW
Jackie Hyland
Jackie Hyland
Country Head Mexico
a55
Jackie lidera la expansión de a55 en América Latina, donde comenzó como Country Head de México. Antes de esta experiencia fue la directora para América Latina del Silicon Valley Bank donde lideró la relación con más de 400 startups y fondos de venture capital de la región. Previamente, Jackie dirigió las actividades de negocio y la cartera en América Latina como asociado de inversión con Venture Lab. Jackie también ha trabajado en Compass Group Asset Management en Ciudad de México donde formó parte del equipo de real estate private equity. Jackie tiene una licenciatura en relaciones internacionales y periodismo de Baylor University y un postgrado en negocios del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
LATAM
Alejandro Cosentino
Alejandro Cosentino
CEO & Founder
Afluenta
Alejandro, fundador & CEO de Afluenta, posee la singular capacidad para generar experiencias innovadoras de servicio para los individuos a partir de procesos operativos directos y simples apalancados por el uso de la tecnología e internet. Ayudó a transformar American Express en Latinoamérica, participó en la transformación del Banco Río (actualmente Banco Santander), facilitó el acceso gratuito a internet a millones con Gratis1/StarMedia y facilitó que millones descubrieran los beneficios de la radio online a través de VOY Music entre otros desarrollos. Ahora con Afluenta busca humanizar la inversión y el crédito. Es Licenciado en Administración de Empresas y Contador Público de la Universidad Católica Argentina donde también ejerció la docencia.
LATAM
Adalberto Flores
Adalberto Flores
CEO
Kueski
Adalberto es fundador de Kueski, la plataforma líder de prestamos 100% a través de Internet de México y Latino-América. A través de Kueski, Adalberto ha logrado captar financiamiento de inversionistas líderes de EEUU y Mexico, incluyendo Tuesday Capital, Victory Park Capital, Rise Capital, AVM y Variv Capital. Adalberto fue nombrado Empresario del Año 2016 en México por la Organización Internacional Endeavour. Ernst & Young y Expansión de la CNN le otorgaron el Premio a la iniciativa empresarial en México 2009 y el Reconocimiento de iniciativa empresarial México E100 México Oeste en 2012, entre otros.
US & RoW
Adam Klappholz
Adam Klappholz
Director of Global Credit Strategy & Business Development Team
Paypal
Adam Klappholz is a Director on PayPal’s Global Credit Strategy and Business Development team. His team’s remit is to scale PayPal’s consumer and SMB lending products into new markets. Prior to joining PayPal’s Credit team, Adam spent two years on PayPal’s corporate strategy team. Before PayPal, Adam worked on the International Rescue Committee’s strategy team, and spent three years at American Express in the Strategic Planning Group, and then Enterprise Growth Group. Adam frequently consults with startups, and has a passion for fintech in emerging markets. Adam graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School, and a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley.
LATAM
Adolfo Babatz
Adolfo Babatz
Founder & CEO
Clip
Adolfo es fundador y CEO de Clip, una plataforma de pagos móviles para mercados emergentes. La compañía está basada en Redwood City, California y Ciudad de México. Anterior a Clip, Adolfo fue responsable de Consumer Engagement en PayPal América Latina. Antes de unirse al equipo de Producto, Adolfo lideró el equipo que lanzó PayPal en México, y justo antes de unirse a PayPal, estudió su MBA en el MIT, donde se especializó en Emprendimiento y Economía de la Información. Antes de ello, Adolfo fue parte del equipo fundador de The Carlyle Group Mexico, donde trabajó como analista. Antes de unirse a Carlyle, Adolfo trabajó como asesor para el Vice-presidente Ejecutivo de Grupo Desc, una de los mayores conglomerados industriales de México.
LATAM
Alfonso de los Ríos
Alfonso de los Ríos
Tech Journey
Nowports
Alfonso De Los Ríos started his tech journey at the age of 11, mainly learning from youtube tutorials. Creating through coding became his passion, later on he had the opportunity to attend Stanford´s summer camp where he met Maximiliano Casal his now Co-partner, that's how Nowports began and grew to be the first digital freight forward in Latin America. A year ago Nowports was accepted to participate in Silicon Valley Y Combinator accelerator, they granted a $150,000 USD prize that allowed the Company to begin its operations. Today Nowports has offices in Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and the United States. Dedication, determination and perseverance are the values that allowed Nowports to grow to what it is now, and along with the employee's work ethic, continuous growth and expansion is to be expected.
LATAM
Alvaro Echeverria
Alvaro Echeverria
CEO
Facturedo
Alvaro Echeverria is the founder and CEO of Facturedo, a Latin American invoice discounting platform that helps SMEs obtain liquidity from their commercial receivables. Currently present in Peru, Chile and Mexico and growing 40% QoQ / 3.7x YoY. Previous starting Facturedo, he worked building fast growing internet companies in Latin America with Rocket Internet, including Linio (e-commerce) and Lendico (fintech). He also started his career working in Investment Banking at Blackstone and Credit Suisse.
US & RoW
Ana Paula González
Ana Paula González
Head of Miami
500 Startups
Ana Paula González es la Directora de 500 Startups Miami. 500 Startups está basado en Silicon Valley, fondo de VC de tecnología de etapa temprana cuya misión es descubrir y respaldar a los más talentosos del mundo emprendedores, ayudarlos a crear empresas exitosas a escala y construir una ecosistemas. Hasta la fecha, 500 Startups ha invertido en más de 2.000 empresas en más de 60 países alrededor del mundo. Antes de 500 Startups, Ana pasó 4 años en New Ventures, desarrollando el impacto de la inversión. campo en América Latina, liderando programas de inversión y aceleración para empresas ambientales en toda la región. Ana comenzó su carrera en The Boston Consulting Group, donde trabajó con clientes en Private Equity, servicios financieros y no sectores de ganancias. Ana tiene un MBA de Columbia Business School con honores y un Bachelor en Negocios Internacionales del Tec de Monterrey con honores.
US & RoW
Anabel Perez
Anabel Perez
CEO & Co-Founder
NovoPayment
Anabel Pérez es co-fundadora y directora ejecutiva de NovoPayment, una de las compañías FinTech (tecno-financieras) líderes de América Latina, que habilita servicios financieros y transaccionales digitales a través de su plataforma con seguridad bank-grade, basada en la nube, que soporta diversos servicios masivos de pago (mass payouts) y recaudación (cash-in). La compañía apoya a los bancos, a las instituciones financieras y a otras entidades que operan en las Américas para que puedan apalancar sus sistemas y servicios existentes y generar nuevos flujos de depósitos y transacciones. Anabel cuenta con más de 25 años de experiencia en el sector financiero incluyendo banca comercial, retail y digital, desarrollo de productos y servicios financieros. En el pasado se desempeñó como Vicepresidente Senior del Banco Venezolano de Crédito. Bajo su liderazgo, NovoPayment y sus subsidiarias han obtenido varios premios y reconocimientos importantes, incluyendo siete premios Paybefore (2008-2017), siendo nombrados a las 10 compañías menores de 10 años (2010) de Latin Trade Magazine y el International Business Leaders Award por innovaciones e innovaciones Prácticas comerciales de la Cámara de Comercio del Gran Miami (2008). Anabel ha recibido varios premios y reconocimientos profesionales, entre ellos el haber sido nombrada finalista del Premio Emprendedor de la Florida del Año - Tecnología de EY Florida (2015), Endeavor Entreprenuer (2014) y en 2011 recibió el premio Paybefore Achievement Award, el más alto honor individual del sector en reconocimiento a sus contribuciones a la industria de pagos y la inclusión financiera en América Latina.
LATAM
Antonio Pelaez
Antonio Pelaez
CEO
DAPP
Antonio Pelaez is CEO and CO-founder of Dapp. Antonio and his team created an ecosystem in México with Dapp featuring a Universal QR code allowing every merchant to charge and any wallet to pay. Dapp QR enables payments with cards, wallets, local balance and CoDi (Mexican wire transfer QR). Antonio's favorite word is collaboration because he believes that if you want to succeed, you need to collaborate, even if that means collaborating with competitors. There are five banks in Mexico that work together using Dapp all with one common objective, beating cash.
LATAM
Benjamin Gleason
Benjamin Gleason
Founder
GuiaBolso
Benjamin Gleason is a Founder of GuiaBolso, a fintech startup that has built Brazil's leading finance platform, with nearly 4M users and the #1 personal finance app in the AppStore. To transform the financial well-being of Brazilian consumers, GuiaBolso developed proprietary bank account aggregation to organize user’s information in a financial hub that facilitates better decisions and access to the best products in the market. This access to unique financial data in a country with no FICO-equivalent powers a credit marketplace that matches consumers to loan offers from banking partners, with real-time approvals based on the GuiaBolso’s proprietary credit model. The company has raised approximately $65M over 5 funding rounds from investors such as Ribbit, Kaszek, Vostok, QED, IFC (World Bank), and Omidyar. Previously, Ben was Managing Director of Groupon Latam, from the early days of explosive growth through the NASDAQ IPO, and previously was Engagement Manager at McKinsey in Brazil. An American living in Brazil for the last 10 years, Ben is an Economics major and Wharton MBA.
US & RoW
Benjamin Sabloff
Benjamin Sabloff
Founder & Managing Partner
AQN Strategies
Ben Sabloff is Founder and Managing Partner of AQN Strategies, a leading boutique financial services consulting firm dedicated to enabling its clients, which range from fintechs to large banks, harness powerful data and analytics to achieve outsized returns. An accomplished financial services executive himself, Ben has led credit risk, business strategy, M&A, and lending business P&Ls at Fortune 500 banks and other specialty lenders. At AQN, Ben and his team have achieved needle-moving results for clients in the credit card, auto lending, installment lending, and small business lending segments. Ben received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
US & RoW
Bin Chen
Bin Chen
CEO & Co-founder
Stori Card
Bin is CEO and Co-founder of Stori Card, a fintech focused on providing equal access to compelling banking products with digital features in Latin America. The company is based in Mexico and Washington DC. Bin has 19 years of fintech experience with Stori Card, Capital One, BCG, and Mastercard in Mexico, U.S., and Asia, where he has been focused on driving financial inclusion with innovations and technology. Bin has an MBA from the University of Chicago.
US & RoW
Claudia Durán
Claudia Durán
Managing Director
Endeavor Miami
Claudia Durán is the Managing Director of Endeavor Miami, whose mission is to select, mentor and accelerate the growth of high-impact entrepreneurs in South Florida. Endeavor Miami currently supports 24 companies. Durán is an experienced business leader with a demonstrated history of strategic business development in the for-profit and non-profit industries across the Americas. She began her career with SAB Miller in El Salvador. She then transitioned to a strategic development role at Taca International Airlines in El Salvador and Mexico, before moving to New York City to join Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management group, rising to the role of Assistant Vice President.
US & RoW
Dan Cohen
Dan Cohen
Fundador & CEO
TiendaPago
Dan Cohen is the CEO and founder of Tienda Pago. TP is a micro lender in Peru and Mexico. TP provides one week credit line to small corner shops to finance inventory from Key Consumer brands, leveraging the mobile phone to enable cashless collection and provide a formal credit product to the base of the entrepreneur pyramid . Previously, Dan founded and was the CEO of Movilway, the leading distribution company of prepaid airtime in LATAM. Before that he was the COO of Celistics, the sole distributors of mobile equipment for Movistar in LATAM. Dan is a seasoned executive in the financial services industry. He worked 12 years at various top management consulting companies in NYC advising financial firms in international strategy, risk, and operations. Dan started his career as an FX trader at Citibank. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and currently resides in Miami Beach, FL.
LATAM
David Feliba
David Feliba
Financial Reporter
S&P Global Market Intelligence
David Feliba is a financial journalist from Argentina who reports on the banking and fintech industry for S&P Global news division in Buenos Aires. Over the past six years, his articles have been frequently published in business sections of La Nación newspaper and Noticias newsmagazine, two of the leading media outlets in Argentina. At S&P Global news agency, David is responsible for the coverage of financial markets and the banking industry in Latin America, reporting on key political and financial events and conducting interviews with top executives in the sector. David holds a degree in Business and IT management from ITBA university as well as an associate degree in Journalism.
US & RoW
David Johnson
David Johnson
CEO & EVP
Vervent
As CEO, David Johnson embodies the bold leadership we bring to our clients and the industry as a whole. With a penchant for innovation and passion for building teams of expert problem solvers, David drives our business and people forward. Since becoming CEO in 2008, he has grown the company from a niche player in the mobile home servicing space into an award-winning, global financial services player that delivers comprehensive solutions across the consumer life-cycle. With more than 25 years of experience across a range of industries – including finance, technology, communication and consumer products – Mr. Johnson offers clients unmatched perspective and foresight to drive their success.
EU
David Nangle
David Nangle
Managing Director
Vostok
La carrera profesional de David se ha enfocado en el sector de finanzas en mercados emergentes. En el año 2000 se unió al equipo de investigación de mercados emergentes de ING Baring antes de mudarse, en el año 2006 a Moscú donde trabajó en Renaissance Capital ayudó a impulsar sus finanzas y a convertir una base sólida en Rusia en una franquicia líder en EMEA. Además de vivir en Rusia, David ha pasado gran parte de su carrera viajando y trabajando con numerosas compañías financieras y en múltiples transacciones de mercados de capital en un entorno emergente. David también fue jefe de investigación en Renaissance Capital durante la mayor parte de su tiempo en la firma. Más recientemente, David fundó Vostok Emerging Finance (VEF) como un vehículo de inversión en startups Fintech de mercados emergentes. La compañía, que tiene una antigüedad de cuatro años, tiene participaciones en todo el mundo emergente, incluido la mitad de LatAm, una región prioritaria en su radar de inversión. David está graduado en International Business por la University College Dublin en Irlanda.
LATAM
David Poritz
David Poritz
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Credijusto
David lidera los departamentos de finanzas y legal, así como la relación con inversores incluidos bancos, fondos de crédito y equity investors. Antes de Credijusto, Co-fundó y fue presidente de Equitable Origin una organización enfocada en la elaboración de normas y certificación del desarrollo de energías sostenibles. David estudió en la Universidad de Oxford y tiene un undergraduate degree por la universidad de Brown donde fue alumno de Harry S. Truman.
LATAM
Diego Caicedo
Diego Caicedo
CEO & Cofounder
OmniBnk
Diego Caicedo, is the CEO and Cofounder of OmniBnk, he has been an entrepreneur his entire life, He founded his first company, ] when he was 16 and has been starting and running businesses ever since, including in the mining, finance and agriculture sectors all across Latin America and the US. He’s worked with some of the biggest companies in the world and has structured private equity vehicles to help companies buy and sell businesses. He started Omnibnk after his previous SME couldn’t find the financing it needed from traditional banks, and he wanted to solve the problem for himself, so that he could help other entrepreneurs avoid having the same problem he had, and help them build wealth via entrepreneurship.
LATAM
Diego Creel Moreno
Diego Creel Moreno
CoFounder & CEO
Creze
Diego is the Co-founder of Creze, hehas experience in investment banking, strategic planning, and general management in Mexico and Spain. The past companies he has worked fro include UBS, Cemex and Tuyo. Diego is the co-founded Tuyo of and then sold it to EZCorp after 5 years of working with the company. He is an endeavor entrepreneur, a member in six start up boards and an engineer from ITESM and MBA from IE in Spain.
US & RoW
Edgardo Torres-Caballero
Edgardo Torres-Caballero
Managing Director Americas
Mambu
Ex secretario adjunto del Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio de Puerto Rico en el año 2003. Durante este tiempo, también se desempeñó como Gerente General del Puerto de las Américas. En 2004, Torres-Caballero se unió a Hewlett-Packard, encargado de la Planificación de Negocios para la cadena de suministro de Tintas en las Américas. Más tarde, fue promovido a un puesto corporativo regional, liderando la gestión de cuentas del sector público y asuntos corporativos para América Latina. Seleccionado por la Revista Caribbean Business como uno de los 40 ejecutivos de negocios de Puerto Rico con mayor éxito antes de los 40 años. En 2007, recibió un reconocimiento como Empresario Exitoso en la edición especial del periódico El Vocero de Puerto Rico. Torres-Caballero fundó su propia empresa y se desempeñó como CEO hasta su ingreso a Mambu, como Director Ejecutivo para Las Américas. Edgardo se ha desempeñado como asesor de los Laboratorios Hewlett-Packard en el área de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) y ha formado parte de diversas Organizaciones sin Fines de Lucro relacionadas con las TIC. Resalta su participación en la Cámara de Comercio, Junta de Directores de Corporaciones Públicas y Asociaciones de la Industria. Torres-Caballero tiene un Licenciatura en Relaciones Internacionales, Economía y Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Escuela Elliot de Asuntos Internacionales de la Universidad George Washington en Washington, D.C. Tomó cursos de postgrado en Comercio Internacional en la Fundación Getulio Vargas, en la ciudad de Sao Paulo, Brasil.
US & RoW
Edrizio De La Cruz
Edrizio De La Cruz
CEO
Arcus
Edrizio De La Cruz is a Dominican-American technology entrepreneur, and CEO and Co-Founder of leading financial technology company Arcus. He is an MBA graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Wharton, De La Cruz worked at J.P. Morgan as an investment banker. He nearly spent 4 years in finance - first as an investment banker then, as a private equity investor. Alongside Iñigo Rumayor, Ramon De La Cruz and Juan Maldonado, De La Cruz founded Regalii and raised around $8 million in Series A. Regalii was rebranded as Arcus in 2018.
LATAM
Eric Núñez
Eric Núñez
Co-Founder
Openpay
Con más de 10 años de experiencia en comercio electrónico. Parte de su experiencia es el desarrollo de la primer versión de Ticketmaster.com para México, Brasil y Argentina. Openpay.mx, la plataforma más avanzada para la recepción y envío de pagos electrónicos en LATAM.
LATAM
Esteban Velasco
Esteban Velasco
CEO & Cofounder
Sempli
Esteban es CEO y cofounder de Sempli, fintech líder de préstamos a Pymes en Colombia. Así mismo, es socio de Velum Ventures, fondo de venture capital . Esteban es experto en financiación e inversión de empresas innovadoras en etapa temprana y ha trabajado en diversas empresas de tecnología, venture capital y banca de inversión. Esteban estudió Administración de Negocios en la Universidad EAFIT, tiene un MBA del ISM (Francia), realizó estudios de Emprendimiento en MIT (EEUU) y es mentor Endeavor en Colombia.
LATAM
Fabrice Serfati
Fabrice Serfati
Managing Director
Ignia
Fabrice se unió a IGNIA en 2008 como Director General y fundador de IGNIA Shared Services. Es Socio Director desde 2012. Fabrice llega a IGNIA con una exitosa carrera en Estrategia y Finanzas. Previo a IGNIA fungió como Vicepresidente Corporativo de ONEO/Grupo Domos, conglomerado de servicios medio ambientales, inmobiliarios y sistemas de información. Antes de incorporarse a Grupo Domos, fue Director de Finanzas Corporativas de Vitro, una de las empresas manufactureras de vidrio más importantes en el mundo, donde administró un portafolio de deuda de más de US $1,500 millones y fue responsable de la estructuración de transacciones de crédito por más de US$ 6,000 millones. Fabrice inició su Carrera profesional en Banco Santander donde ocupó varias posiciones en México y Nueva York. Actualmente, además de participar en Consejos de Administración de empresa en las que IGNIA ha invertido, es Consejero Independiente en Red de Carreteras del Occidente y Startup GDL. En lo personal es un convencido del poder de la combinación entre la equidad de género y la educación por lo cual es Fellow en Victoria 147 y Patrono en CORDEM, APB. Fabrice tiene una Licenciatura en Administración del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
LATAM
Francisco Ferreira
Francisco Ferreira
Founder & CEO
BizCapital
Francisco Ferreira is the Founder and CEO of BizCapital, a small business lender disrupting the Brazilian credit market. BizCapital helps micro and small entrepreneurs with resources to thrive. The company has raised US$ 7.6mn in equity and US$ 25mn in a loan funding vehicle, backed by local and international VCs like monashees, Chromo Ventures, and Quona Capital. Before founding Biz, Francisco co-founded Affero Lab, Brazil's leading edTech platform, acquired by German media group Bertelsmann in 2015. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and a M.Sc. Degree in Software Engineering.
LATAM
Gabriela Estrada
Gabriela Estrada
Co-founder
Vexi
Gabriela es co-fundadora y CFO de VEXI, una tarjeta de crédito digital para jóvenes underbanked lanzada en México en 2018 y que hoy tiene más de 20 mil usuarios activos. Ella lidera la planeación financiera, riesgo y liquidez de la startup, además de cobranza y relación con inversionistas. Antes de VEXI, Gabriela pasó 16 años construyendo una carrera exitosa en el Sector Financiero y la Banca como American Express y CITI, en diversas áreas como Riesgo, Tesorería, Banca de Inversión y Banca Corporativa. Su rol previo fue en citibanamex donde lideró Cash Management, supervisando negocios de 300 millones de dólares y un portafolio de depósitos de 4 billones de dólares, así como un equipo de alto rendimiento. Le apasiona México, la inclusión financiera, los perros, correr y bucear. Tiene una licenciatura en Finanzas por el ITESM y una Maestría en Economía por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
LATAM
Gabriela Ruggeri
Gabriela Ruggeri
Chairman
N5 Now
Chairman at N5 Now, Managing Partner of Overboost LLC, Founding Partner for Eastpoint Ventures and Managing Partner for Seagrass Capital Partners, focusing on early stage investing and company building in Latin America. Currently, Gabriela is an Investor and Advisor to companies such as Extendeal, Blended, Edutest, Viaedu, Workana, Red Innova, Unicorn Games, Gomovil.co, Warner Innovation Hub, amongst others. She recently launched Kamay Ventures, a CVC focused on Acceleration and Company Building programs, working together with Coca-Cola Argentina and Arcor, and acting as well as Managing Partner of the project. Gabriela also represented for 6 years DMGT International as Business Development Director for Latin America. She also serves as board member in the investments done by DMGT, Overboost, Seagrass and Eastpoint Ventures in the region. Gabriela also served as board member of the Foundation Junior Achievement for Argentina and is currently a mentor at Endeavor, globally.
US & RoW
Glenn Goldman
Glenn Goldman
Founder
GS Goldman & Co
GS Goldman & Co provides active advisory across 3 verticals: FinTech, InsurTech, & Enabling Technologies. Current clients cross Consumer/SME lending, Payments, AI, and Logistics/Industry 4.0. Clients are global, with operations in Europe, LatAm and the US. Engagements are broad and include strategy development and execution, product<>market development/positioning, de novo and ongoing team-building, org structure/infrastructure design/development, mentorship/coaching, business development, PR, M&A, and capital raising, all in partnership with boards, investors and management teams.
US & RoW
Henrique Teixeira
Director of Strategic Relationships
Ripple
Henrique Teixeira
Director of Strategic Relationships
Ripple
LATAM
Hernan Patricio Lede
Hernan Patricio Lede
Executive Manager
Bind
Hernan Lede is the Credit and Continuity of business Executive Manager at BIND, where he covers business regulatory aspects of banking industry such as, AML, KYC, compliance, fraud, risk credit, etc. In his role, Hernan is instrumental for the Digital transformation Bind is going through, he is also a key member of the Bind Innova project. Mr Lede has a long record of successfully guiding regional and global units, within top multinational banks, in their transformation and reengineering processes. Hernan lead not only regional business units, but operations and technology as well, with budget over 20MM annually. His specific areas of expertise, includes, business planning, technology, compliance and regulatory framework. Hernan graduated from the Universidad de Belgrano with a degree in Economy. You can contact him on Hlede@bancoindustrial.com, or https://www.linkedin.com/in/hernan-lede-8448a1.
US & RoW
Ingrid Vanderveldt
Ingrid Vanderveldt
Founder & CEO
Empowering a Billion Women
Ingrid Vanderveldt (iV) is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020) and MintHERTM. Previously, she was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence (“EIR”) for Dell Inc. where she oversaw entrepreneurial initiatives worldwide helping to build a $250 million business segment and founded the $125M Dell Innovators Credit Fund, Dell Founders Club, and the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs during her 3-year term. iV is an Emeritus member of United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council, is a Managing Partner of Vanderveldt Global Investments, founding organizer of the GLASS Forum (Global Leadership & Sustainable Success), and co-founder of The Billionaire Girls Club. She also created and hosted CNBC’s first original primetime series, “American Made,” reaching over 1M viewers around the globe and is a Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN) Member. She is the 2018 Recipient of the Global Empowerment Award by the Global Business and Interfaith Peace Awards in partnership with the UN, has been named by Oprah as one of her Global 100 Leaders and is the winner of the FORBES & Northwestern Mutual "Global Entrepreneur in Excellence Award".
US & RoW
Jared Miller
Jared Miller
CEO
Accial Capital
Jared Miller is CEO of Accial Capital. Jared has worked with consumer, retail and small business lenders in emerging markets for almost twenty years. Jared led the spin out of Accial Capital from a business line launched in 2017 at LenddoEFL – a company dedicated to transforming diverse data sources into predictive credit scores in emerging markets. Previously Jared was CEO of Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), a specialist alternative data scoring company incubated at Harvard University. Jared was a VP at Citi and held positions in both the Consumer and Institutional Clients groups. Jared has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
EU
João Lima Pinto
João Lima Pinto
CEO
ITSCREDIT
João Lima Pinto holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) and a degree in Engineering from FEUP (Universidade do Porto). He was ITSector’s, a company specialized in software development for the financial sector, CEO and currently has the same position at ITSCREDIT, a spin-off, focused on software credit solutions. With nearly 20 years of solid experience in software engineering for the financial sector and actively participating in the design and implementation of innovative omnichannel and credit solutions, João Lima Pinto has garnered much success by leading a variety of business development, product and project management, business analysis and product operations functions. He has had management and administration roles, gathering unmistakable evidence of outstanding leadership ability and solid results in the institutions that he has represented throughout his career.
LATAM
Jorge Alexandre Casara
Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM Brasil
Office of Strategic Risk Supervision
Jorge Alexandre Casara
Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM Brasil
Office of Strategic Risk Supervision
Jorge Alexandre Casara, Assistant Director in the Office of Strategic Risk Supervision at CVM Brazil. Background includes an Engineering Degree at the University of Sao Paulo and an MBA at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Financial Innovation Lab sponsored by CVM and Inter-American Development Bank, a multi-sectoral forum for the development of Brazil’s sustainable finance and regulatory sandboxes. He represents CVM in ENCCLA (network of enforcement authorities that safeguard the financial system and combat money laundering), devising the official sector’s responses to the illicit use of cryptoassets. He is also a member of CVM’s Fintech Hub, a consultative board on regulatory issues facing investors and entrepreneurs. Before joining CVM in 2012 as Inspector in the Office of On-site Inspections and Examinations, he developed his career in the private sector working for multinational corporations such as Procter & Gamble and Crown Cork & Seal.
US & RoW
Katie Llanos-Small
Katie Llanos-Small
Editor & founder
Iupana
Katie Llanos-Small es editora y fundadora de Iupana, el único medio dedicado a la tecnología financiera en América Latina y el Caribe. Iupana ofrece información exclusiva y única en el mercado sobre transformación digital de los bancos y desarrollos de tecnología financiera en la región. Ejecutivos de banca, startups, compañías tecnológicas e inversionistas leen iupana para comprender la evolución de las oportunidades, riesgos y tendencias en la tecnología financiera latinoamericana. Antes de lanzar esta publicación, Katie cubrió durante una decada temas relacionados con banca y finanzas en mercados emergentes a nivel global, en roles como editora de banca y finanzas en Global Capital o como editor in chief en LatinFinance. A lo largo de su carrera ha entrevistado a líderes corporativos, financieros y políticos de todo el mundo, incluyendo a dos Presidentes en funciones.
US & RoW
Larry Chiavaro
Larry Chiavaro
Principal & EVP
Vervent
A trusted client partner and expert advisor, Larry Chiavaro has strategically identified and developed growth opportunities in the consumer finance industry for more than 25 years. Tapping into deep expertise and extensive industry relationships, he has helped build the company into the fastest growing servicer of loan and lease portfolios in the United States.
LATAM
Laura Clavijo
Laura Clavijo
Head of Innovation
Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia
Laura Clavijo is the Head of Innovation at Colombia’s Financial Superintendence and leader of an encompassing strategy to foster technological innovation in the financial sector. Before undertaking this innovation challenge, she has worked for almost a decade with government and multilateral agencies (IDB and IMF) in research and implementation of public policies for financial sector growth. Laura holds a Masters and BA in Economics from the Universidad de los Andes and a Master in Public Administration from Columbia University.
US & RoW
Lindsay Lehr
Lindsay Lehr
Associate Managing Director Miami consulting firm
Americas Market Intelligence
Lindsay Lehr is the foremost thought leader in the Latin America payments industry and specialist in market and competitive intelligence. As Associate Managing Director at Miami consulting firm Americas Market Intelligence, Lindsay has spearheaded over 100 consulting engagements in 20+ LatAm markets since 2012. Her industry specialization is in digital payments, with experience in e-commerce, digital wallet, NFC/contactless, POS technology, payment networks and aggregators, financial inclusion, QR codes, P2P, innovation, fintech and real-time payments, and much more. Lindsay has authored various industry publications, presented at industry events, and is active in payments industry circles across Latin America, Miami and San Francisco.
LATAM
Manuel Beaudroit
Manuel Beaudroit
Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer
Bitex
Manuel es cofundador y Chief Marketing Officer de Bitex, una empresa enfocada a américa Latina que ofrece servicios financieros de Bitcoin blockchain a individuos, PYMES e instituciones financieras que busquen explorar esta tecnología. La empresa ya opera en Argentina, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay y ha construído una red de partners en más de 50 países. Bitex es la primera empresa en el mundo en ofrecer pagos transfronterizos a los bancos utilizando bitcoin. Previamente a bitex, Manuel fundó Cryptocueva (llamada conectabitcoin más tarde) con sus actuales socios, la primera plataforma descentralizada de intercambio de Bitcoin y Litecoin en América Latina así como también cryptocambios, el primer broker de bitcoin de Argentina con un precio público en Pesos. Anteriormente, Manuel trabajó como Service Delivery Manager en Accenture para el Digital Marketing Operation de P&G en América Latina e Iberia.
LATAM
Marcelo Lima
Marcelo Lima
Partner
Monashees Capital
Dirige las inversiones en los segmentos de E-commerce, PropTech y FinTech. Anteriormente, trabajó cuatro años como consultor estratégico en Roland Berger y en empresas líderes de los sectores de energía y servicios financieros. Se graduó como Ingeniero de Computación en el Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) y realizó el curso de Finanzas Corporativas del programa de extensión en la University of Berkeley, Estados Unidos.
US & RoW
Maria Allen
Maria Allen
Global Head & Vice President Financial Services
Unisys
Maria Allen is the global leader for financial services. In her role, Maria is building a cohesive strategy for the financial services vertical, by leveraging the extensive domain expertise across the Unisys portfolio and ensuring that solutions and services are delivered in a way that enable our clients to meet their strategic goals and objectives.
US & RoW
Mariano Carranza
Mariano Carranza
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
Mariano lidera la práctica de FinTech en Latinoamérica para la división de Banca de Inversión en Goldman Sachs. Se unió a la empresa en 2013 como asociado en la división de Instituciones Financieras y se ha enfocado en ofrecer consultoría estratégica y financiera a compañías y corporativas en Tecnología Financiera. Desde 2017, Mariano ha participado activamente en la expansión de la práctica FinTech en Latinoamérica para Goldman Sachs. Antes de unirse a Goldman Sachs, Mariano fue Banquero de Inversión en Lazard en Buenos Aires. Mariano tiene un MBA de Columbia Business School y una licenciatura en Economía de la Universidad Católica Argentina.
LATAM
Martin Mazza
Martin Mazza
COO
PAGO46
Martin Mazza, COO at PAGO46, runs P46 company operations with the mission of revolutionizing cash payments in emerging markets by making them more beneficial and convenient. A former General Manager at Uber in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, Martin holds deep operating experience in Technology and Media. He held business development, strategy, and finance positions at DIRECTV. He currently serves as an advisor to Scale Capital, an operational intensive private investment firm, currently managing six investments ranging from Telecommunications to Artificial Intelligence.
US & RoW
Miguel Herrera
Miguel Herrera
Director
Krealo (Credicorp)
Miguel Herrera es Director de Krealo (Credicorp) Antes fue co-fundador y partner de Quona Capital una empresa de capital riesgo enfocada en la inclusión financiera a través de la tecnología en mercados emergentes. Miguel es responsable de la región andina. Antes de co-fundar Quona, Miguel se centró en América Latina para Accion Frontier Investments. Antes de unirse a Accion Frontier Inversiones en 2010, Miguel trabajó durante cuatro años para el administrador de inversiones de AINV, un fondo de capital privado patrocinado por Accion dedicado a la inversión en instituciones de microfinanzas. Durante este tiempo, obtuvo, ejecutó y administró inversiones en América Central y del Sur y formó parte de las juntas directivas de Banco Solidario (Ecuador), Mibanco (Perú) y BancoSol (Bolivia), entre otros. Hasta el 2006, Miguel fue vicepresidente en la división de mercados de capital de renta fija de Citigroup, donde prestó servicios de asesoría de gestión de riesgo de tipo de cambio y de tasas de interés para instituciones financieras y compañías Fortune 500. Mientras estuvo en Citigroup, Miguel fue formalmente presentado a las microfinanzas a través de su rol en la reestructuración y cambio de Accion Chicago como el Presidente de Operaciones de la Junta. Miguel comenzó su carrera financiera en la División de Banca de Inversión del Banco Wiese en Perú. Actualmente, Miguel forma parte de los consejos de GloboKas (Peru), Konfío (Mexico) and Tiaxa (Chile) y Anteriormente, Miguel ocupó el puesto de director de MFX Solutions, una iniciativa de la industria que brinda servicios de cobertura a instituciones de microfinanzas. Miguel creció en Perú y después de mudó a Canadá donde se graduó en Económicas en la Universidad de Queen y cursó un MBA en la Universidad Simon Fraser. Miguel vive en Lima con su mujer y sus dos hijos.
LATAM
Nathan Lustig
Nathan Lustig
Managing Partner
Magma Partners
Lustig is currently the managing partner at Magma Partners, a seed stage venture capital fund based in Latin America, USA and China. Previously, he founded ExchangeHut during his sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin and ran it until his senior year, when ExchangeHut was acquired. After the acquisition, he worked on multiple businesses, including a consulting firm to help startups grow more quickly. In 2008 he cofounded Entrustet, a service that allows people to create a list of digital assets and decide if they should be transferred or deleted when they die. In 2010, Lustig was part of the pilot program of Startup Chile and grew Entrustet to the market leader in the industry. In 2012, Entrustet was acquired by a European competitor. Lustig is also the founder of Capital Entrepreneurs, an organization of high tech entrepreneurs in Madison, WI dedicated to making Madison a new startup hub. After Entrustet was acquired, he returned to Santiago, Chile where he worked as the head of marketing for Welcu and taught entrepreneurship at multiple Chilean universities. He also wrote Startup Chile 101, a book about everything you need to know about living, working and doing business in Chile.
LATAM
Nicolas Arrellaga
Nicolas Arrellaga
Founder
Nexoos
Nicolas founded Nexoos a Marketplace lending platform for SMEs in 2015; since inception the platform has analyzed more than US$2 billion, acquiring more than 150.000 Businesses and 50.000 Retail investors in Brazil. Nicolas graduated in Information Technology and management for Business from University College London and was selected as an MIT Innovator under 35 in the 2016 edition. He worked for more than 5 years with large multinationals in supply chain management and ethical source projects with SME's in LATAM. He also had the opportunity to work at the nescient UK’s Fintech ecosystem in 2011, where he supported in the acceleration of more than 100 startups at IdeaLondon; one of London’s first incubators for Fintech startups. Nicolas it’s a passionate FinTech entrepreneur, with a clear vision and passion for shaping finance around the world.
LATAM
Nicolás Shea
Nicolás Shea
Founder
Cumplo
Nicolás Shea, Commercial Engineer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Master in Education at Columbia University and MBA at Stanford University, is the founder of Cumplo. Before creating the company, Nico had founded the Chilean Association of Entrepreneurs, CasaCo, eClass and the StartUp Chile accelerator. In 2013 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Santiago and the Chilean Engineers Association, and in 2014 he was elected as one of the Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum.
US & RoW
Nuria Aliño
Nuria Aliño
Global Digital Finance Services
International Finance Corporation
Nuria Aliño, Global Digital Finance Services Specialist at the International Finance Corporation (IFC-World Bank), supports Partnerships and Innovations in the financial industry. at the Financial Institutions Group. She primarily focuses on digital transformation of financial services industry accompanying banks and microfinance institutions with their digital strategies. She is also responsible for the promotion of alliances between financial institutions and Fintech or leading technology companies, to build their digital strategies. She is an active advisor on Open Banking to accelerate financial inclusion, competition and innovation. She is an accomplished investment banking professional with +20 years of experience, in developed (BBVA) and developing markets (World Bank Group and InterAmerican Development Bank), spanning corporate finance (M&A, ECM, DCM), private equity/VC, impact investing, Fintech equity/debt transactions, and digital strategy. She was appointed Advisor and Member of boards of directors. She also mentored entrepreneurs, lectured for fundraising, and actively participated within entrepreneurship forums.
US & RoW
Omar Arab
Omar Arab
VP of Corporate Business
VeriTran
Omar is the VP Corporate Business Development of VeriTran, a global company that speeds up and simplifies application development through its Low-Code Platform. He joined VeriTran in 2019 and led the landing of the company in the United States, building and designing the strategic go to market plan. He also focuses on sales and marketing activities with the partner ecosystem. Omar holds a degree in Systems Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional of Argentina (UTN) and a degree in Management and Technologies from Stanford University. He has more than 25 years of experience in the technology, banking, Fintech and entrepreneurship industries, has founded a software company and served as CEO of Fintechs, digital banks and payments companies. Besides, he is a professor of entrepreneurship and venture capital in the course "How to build startups"; from the UTN.
LATAM
Paolo Fidanza
Paolo Fidanza
CEO & Co-founder
MO Technologies
Named the 2019 “Most Influential CEO in FinTech” by CV Magazine and the 2018 “Best Fintech CEO” by the Finext Awards, Paolo is a successful serial entrepreneur and the architect of the MO Technologies vision. Literally a rocket scientist, Paolo has been leading innovative new tech companies to successful exits for more than 15 years.
US & RoW
Paulo Passoni
Paulo Passoni
Managing Investment Partner
SoftBank Group International
Paulo is a Managing Investment Partner of SoftBank’s $5Bn Innovation Fund based in Miami. The Innovation Fund targets Latin American high growth companies that are reshaping the economic and social reality of the region through technology. Prior to SoftBank, Paulo was a Managing Director responsible for Emerging Markets investments at Third Point where he built a very successful franchise of helping companies go public in the region, identifying them early and assisting CEOs and owners in the process alongside Third Point’s investments. He invested across the capital structure in public equity and debt securities.
EU
Pedro Coelho
Pedro Coelho
Executive Chairman
Banco BNI Europa
Innovative, agile and multi-award winning banking leader with over 25 years' international financial services experience with leading blue-chip institutions across three continents in progressive leadership roles, both executive and NED, in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, general management, business development, strategy and latterly in FinTech. His value proposition is centered around enabling challenger banks to establish strategic partnerships with FinTechs to create profitable financial products using an 'open architecture model.' Expert in driving digital banking transformations both in terms of creating 'best in class' digital customer experiences, and transforming key internal support functions to fully align with the overall digital transformation programs of financial institutions.
LATAM
Pedro de Paula
Pedro de Paula
Head of Mercado Crédito Brasil
Mercado Livre / Mercado Pago
Experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the capital markets industry and strong bias to fintech. Skilled in LBO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Structured Finance, Financial Structuring, and Risk Management. Strong professional with a MBA focused in Business Management from INSEAD.
LATAM
Rafa de la Guia
Rafa de la Guia
Principal
Quona Capital
Rafa de la Guia is a Principal at Quona Capital, a venture firm focused on fintech for inclusion in emerging markets. He is based in Mexico City and invests in Latin American startups. Rafa has more than 15 years of experience across venture capital, impact investing, private equity, and investment banking. Prior to Quona, Rafa spent six years at Omidyar Network, where he focused on education, emerging technologies, and financial inclusion in LatAm and the US. He has also worked for Acumen Fund and Adobe Ventures, two impact investment funds, and MV Capital, a leading European subordinated debt fund manager. He began his career at UBS Investment Bank in London. Rafa is also an executive coach and active supporter of education nonprofits. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and honors degrees in law and business administration from ICADE (Madrid).
US & RoW
Rafael Pereira
Rafael Pereira
Founder & CEO
Rebel
Rafael is the founder and CEO of Rebel, a Brazilian fintech that offers middle-class consumers access to unsecured credit at affordable rates and tailored for each specific personal financing need. Rafael learned computer coding at ten years old and started his career as a tech entrepreneur at a very young age. Prior to founding Rebel, Rafael spent a number of years at Enova International (NYSE:ENVA) where he led the company’s expansion into Latin America until the company’s public offering.
US & RoW
Raul Moas
Raul Moas
Director
Miami Knight Foundation
Raul is the Miami Program Director at Knight Foundation where he leads the foundation's work investing in Miami's community of entrepreneurs. Most recently, Raul served as the Managing Director of Miami Angels, Florida's largest angel investor collective which brings together exceptional entrepreneurs and accredited investors to fuel success. Prior to joining Miami Angels, Raul served as the Executive Director of Roots of Hope, an international non-governmental organization focused on youth empowerment in Cuba through tech and entrepreneurship. Raul is a founding member of the Global Shapers Miami Hub, the young professional arm of the World Economic Forum and a CPA in the State of Florida.
LATAM
Raymond Katz
Raymond Katz
CEO
Adelantos
Raymond Katz: Co-Founder and CEO of Adelantos. Adelantos is a Fintech company that combines big data and machine learning to create financial products for the unbanked and underbanked population. With transparency, financial inclusion and agility, Adelantos helps underbanked get access to transparent financial product, pay them in installments and build credit. We are the first step in the credit ladder, helping our users get access to the financial world. Adelantos offers two products to their customers, Adelantos Loans and Adelantos Movil. Adelantos Loans offers installment loans up to $500. Adelantos Movil is a point of sale financing for smartphones, mostly designed for the prepaid segment. Before Adelantos worked in commercial banking structuring syndicated loans in latam. Graduated from USC Marshall School of business.
US & RoW
Ronald Alvarenga
Ronald Alvarenga
Head of LatAm
Rapyd
Ronald Alvarenga is the Head of Latam for Rapyd’s Global Fintech as a service company. Ronald is an experienced global financial technology executive with extensive experience in mobile/digital payments. He brings a unique combination of expertise in the banking sector, mobile technologies, and fintech industry. In his previous roles, Ronald has served as the Regional Vice-President for Products and Segments at Citibank, and most recently has successfully launched one of the largest mobile money fintech services in the world - Millicon (Tigo). Ronald is currently leading the Latam region for Rapyd - the most innovative Global Fintech as a service company. Ronald holds a BS in Business and Economics and MBA from Incae Business School.
LATAM
Sami Haddad
Sami Haddad
Global Head
Fintech Z-Tech
Sami is global head of fintech at Z-Tech, an AB-Inbev company whose mission is to catalyze the growth of SMBs through marketplace and fintech technology. SMBs represent 90% of businesses and 50% of employment worldwide, a trend even more pronounced in Latam. Prior to joining Z-Tech Sami was the CEO of Ideiasnet, a Brazil based Venture Capital technology fund where he served on the board of 15 companies. Prior to Ideiasnet Sami served as CEO of Webb, a B2B marketplace that started in Brazil and expanded its procurement and logistics optimization solutions to Latin America. Prior to that Sami served as CTO and partner at Banco Pactual.Sami holds a M.Sc. from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic institute NY) and a M.Sc. in engineering management from Stanford University.
LATAM
Sandro Reiss
Sandro Reiss
Founder & CEO
Geru
Sandro is an economist with a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and an MBA from Georgetown University in the United States. Sandro has 18 years of experience as a finance and operations executive at companies such as RBS and Pátria Investments and has participated in the creation of four major start-ups in Brazil in the last twelve years (Ersa, Geo, BR Towers and Geru)“.
LATAM
Santiago Suárez
Santiago Suárez
Co-Founder & CEO
Addi
Santiago is co-founder and CEO of ADDI a leading POS lending platform in Latin America backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Village Global, and Monashees. Prior to ADDI, Santiago led Strategy and M&A at LendingClub and served as a part-time partner at Y Combinator. He founded and led J.P. Morgan’s New Product Development team and worked on key strategic initiatives for the bank. He started his career at McKinsey.
US & RoW
Sean Lippel
Sean Lippel
Principal
FinTech Collective
Sean is a Principal on the investments team at FinTech Collective and leads the firm's Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sub-strategy and investments in Latin America. Sean spent five years as an investment banker at Credit Suisse covering financial services and technology companies. A former entrepreneur and world-ranked poker player, Sean helped bring the practice of "poker staking" online using data and analytics. Sean graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
LATAM
Sergio Furio
Sergio Furio
Founder & CEO
Creditas
Sergio Furio es Fundador y CEO de Creditas, la plataforma líder de préstamos con garantía en Brazil. Con 1,000 empleados y $315 millones de dólares en fondeo de capital de riesgo, Creditas es uno de las Fintechs líderes en América Latina y una referencia en innovación y gestión de talento. Los fondos de capital de riesgo detrás de ésta inversión incluyen Softbank, Kaszek, Redpoint eVentures, Vostok Emerging Finance, QED Investors, IFC, Quona Capital, Santander Innoventures y otros. Tomando como garantía las propiedades de los usuarios, Creditas reduce considerablemente la tasa de interés con respecto a las altas tasas de interés que paga la población Brasileña. Antes de fundar Creditas en 2012, Sergio fue ejecutivo en Boston Consulting Group y la Banca de Inversión de Deutsche Bank.
LATAM
Stefan Möller
Stefan Möller
Co-Founder
Klar
Stefan Möller is a Mexican entrepreneur with more than 10 years of career dedicated to develop technology companies in Mexico and Germany. His new challenge is Klar, a much-awaited banking alternative for Mexico. Aiming to democratize bank services in Mexico by offering a 100% digital, transparent, free and secure alternative to traditional credit cards and debit services. Stefan, as co-founder of Klar has raised $57.5 million is debt and equity seed funding being the largest seed round ever recorded in Mexico, and already launched the company last September issuing the first cards to consumers.
LATAM
Tarek El Sherif
Tarek El Sherif
CEO
Zinobe
Tarek El Sherif is the founder and CEO of Zinobe, a Colombian fintech specialized in online lending. Tarek has over seven years of investment banking experience split between New York and London. Previously working for Deutsche Bank Global Markets providing corporates with derivative solutions for asset and liability management. Prior to that, he worked at JP Morgan in the Investment Banking Coverage and M&A group. Tarek holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Northeastern University. He currently lives in Bogota with his wife and two daughters.
US & RoW
Terry Angelos
Terry Angelos
Global Head and SVP Fintech
Visa
Terry Angelos is the Global Head & SVP of Visa's Fintech team and is CEO of TrialPay, Inc. Terry is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully founded and sold three venture backed companies and is an angel investor and advisor to startups focused in Advertising and Fintech markets. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from WITS University, an SM in Engineering Science from Harvard University, and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
LATAM
Thiago Paiva
Thiago Paiva
Product Manager Oyster Financial
Inc
Thiago is a fintech entrepreneur, investor, and columnist! He has been actively engaged in the Latin American ecosystem since 2010. During this period, he evaluated 2,600+ and invested in 60+ startups from 9 different countries while working at Wayra Brazil and Startupbootcamp Fintech Mexico. He writes about fintech in Latin America in international and regional publications and also develops reports analyzing the ecosystem. He's currently a Product Manager at Oyster Financial, a Neobank for SMEs in Mexico, leading its marketplace initiate.
LATAM
Victoria Albanesi
Victoria Albanesi
Founder & Partner
Albanesi Tech Legal Consulting
Victoria Albanesi is founder and partner of Albanesi Tech Legal Consulting. The firm provides legal consulting services to companies of the digital economy. Victoria provides sophisticated, high quality advice to domestic and international companies regarding the regulatory and legal aspects of their innovative businesses, including e-commerce, digital payments, financial technologies y last-mile logistics. Victoria performed as legal director for Mercado Libre in México, the largest e-commerce ecosystem in LatAm. She engaged in public policy matters, having had an active role in the Fintech Law and e-commerce regulation, and represented Mercado Libre before Mexican Authorities, multilateral organizations and industry chambers. Previously, she performed as a corporate lawyer in Mercado Libre’s Headquarters and in market-leading Law Firms in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Victoria is a Lawyer by University of Buenos Aires, holds a Masters Degree in Company Law from Austral University and a Fintech Diplomma from Saïd Business School / Oxford University.
LATAM
Wenyi Cai
Wenyi Cai
Founder & Managing Partner
Polymath Ventures
Wenyi Cai es la fundadora y socia gerente de Polymath Ventures, una incubadora de empresas enfocada en mercados emergentes con oficinas en Bogotá, Ciudad de México y Shanghai. Polymath ha creado 7 empresas en una amplia gama de industrias, que incluyen servicios financieros y de movilidad, y recaudó más de $20 millones de USD en fondos de etapa inicial. Polymath es un socio estratégico de Mesoamérica, un líder en capital privado en América Latina, con un fondo dedicado de USD $ 40 millones para invertir en la cartera de Polymath. Antes de fundar Polymath, Wenyi fue la COO de Milo.com, una startup de consumo de Internet que vendió a eBay en 2010. Al principio de su carrera, Wenyi fue consultora de McKinsey & Company en Oriente Medio, África y Asia meridional, y un comerciante cualitativo en la industria de fondos de cobertura. Wenyi se graduó con honores en Harvard College y estudió filosofía y física.
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FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech
FINNOSUMMIT Miami by LendIt Fintech brought together more than 700 attendees to know the most innovative technologies in three verticals of content.
| Opening remarks | |
| 9:00 - 9:10 | Opening Remarks |
| Keynotes | |
| 9:10 - 9:30 | Reshaping the lending experience in Brazil |
| Sergio Furio (Creditas) y Moderator: Manuel Silva (Santander Innoventures) | |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | TBD |
| TBD | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Smartphones are the banks of the future |
| Adolfo Babatz (Clip) | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Open Banking as a Service |
| Anabel Perez (Novopayment) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Networking Break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Follow the money… Fintech investment opportunities in LatAm |
| Mike Packer (QED Investors), Fabrice Serfati (Ignia), Marcelo Lima (Monashees), Ishan Sinha (Point72 Ventures) y Moderator: Ben Saloff (AQN Strategies) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Reducing the cost of capital for SMEs in LatAm |
| Nico Shea (cumplo) | |
| 12:00 - 12:40 | Regulatory Environment Across the Region |
| Laura Clavijo (SFC Colombia), Carlos Orta (Deloitte), Jorge Alexandre Casara (CVM Brazil) y Moderator: Leticia Riquelme (Inter American Development Bank) | |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Harnessing the power of data to improve Brazilians’ financial wellbeing |
| Benjamin Gleason (Guiabolso) y David Nangle (Vostok Emerging Finance) | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Cutting Edge in Fintech | |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Fintech as a means to break the gender-equality gap in LatAm |
| Ana Barrera (aflore), Hannah Schiuma (PRACK Asset Management), Ana Paula Gonzalez (500 startups), Claudia Duran (Endeavor) y Moderator: Raul Mohas (Knight Foundation) | |
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Non-fintechs becoming fintechs |
| Jon Lewy (grow mobility), Alfonso de los Rios (NOWPORTS) Mate Pencz (LOFT) y Michael Sidgmore (Broadhaven Ventures) | |
| 16:00 - 16:25 | How AI Broadens the Origination, Customer Service and Collection for MPL |
| David Johnson (Vervent) y Moderator: Larry Chiavaro (Vervent) | |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Applying Fintech lessons from Europe in LatAm |
| Boris Batine (ID Finance), Joao Lima Pinto (ITSCREDIT) y Moderator: Pedro Coelho (Banco BNI Europa) | |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | Cross pollination session: Asia look towards LatAm |
| The Digital Banking Ecosystem | |
| 14:30 - 14:55 | Low-Code: the Revolution of the Digital Transformation |
| Omar Arab (Veritran) | |
| 14:55 - 15:45 | Open Banking: the core of the collaboration phenomenon |
| Edgardo Torres-Caballero (mambu), Rafael Pereira (Rebel), Edrizio de la Cruz (Arcus Financial Intelligence), Maria Allen (Unisys) y Nuria Aliño (IFC) | |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Fintechs vs. Banks: is collaboration coming? |
| Hernan Lede (BIND) | |
| 16:05 - 16:40 | The importance of debt capital for growth |
| Gordon Watson (Victory Park Capital), James Sagan (ArcLabs) , Jackie Hyland (a55), Jared Miller (Accial Capital), Diego Creel Moreno (Creze) y Modertor: Rafa de la Guia (quona) | |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | The Neobank Revolution |
| Vilash Poovala (Oyster Financial), Gabriela Estrada (vexi), Stefan Moller (klar), Diego Caicedo (omnibnk) y Moderator: David Feliba (S&P Global Market Intelligence) |
| Opening remarks | |
| 8:55 - 9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Keynotes | |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Betting on LatAm’s future |
| Paulo Passoni (Softbank Group International) y Moderator: Steve McLaughlin (FT Partners) | |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Securing Institutional Capital |
| David Poritz (Credijusto) y Moderator: Mariano Carranza (Goldman Sachs) | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Building the next generation of payments and commerce |
| Arnoldo J. Reyes (VISA) y Juan Pablo Ortega (Rappi) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Visa Everywhere Initiative |
| DinDin (Brazil), Druber (Argentina), Facenote (Argentina), Flexio (Mexico), Kublau (Mexico) y Pagalo (Guatemala) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Networking Break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Visa Everywhere Initiative |
| Appa (Argentina), Peiky (Colombia), Tiendapp (Colombia), Zen Finance (Brazil), Zinobe (Colombia) y ZroBank (Brazil) | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | From broke to a billion |
| Ingrid Vanderveldt (Empowering a billion women) | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Pushing the Pace on Innovation and Partnering with Fintechs |
| Manolo Sánchez (Former Chairman & CEO BBVA Compass) y Moderator: Katie Llanos-Small (iupana) | |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Forging the Future of Money with Fintechs: Visa’s Vision for the Next Five Years of Payments Innovation |
| Terry Angelos (VISA) y Moderator: Ana Paula Gonzalez (500 startups) | |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Visa Everywhere Initiative – Awards Ceremony |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| The Payments Revolution | |
| 14:00 - 14:25 | The Power of the Wallet |
| Marcela Zetina (BBVA Mexico) y Moderator: Katie Llanos-Small (iupana) | |
| 14:25 - 15:10 | Traditional Ecosystems Explore Payments Partnerships |
| Ronald Alvarenga (Rapyd), Martin Mazza (Pago46) y Eric Nuñez (OpenPay) | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | The QR Payments Push |
| Antonio Pelaez (dapp), Victoria Albanesi (Albanesi) y Barbara Magnoni (EA Consultants) | |
| 15:35 - 16:15 | Blockchain as Payments Infrastructure |
| Henrique Teixeira (Ripple), Manuel Beaudroit (bitex), Sam Trautwein (carbon), Dom Rozic (Minka) y Sean Lippel (Fintech Collective) | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Payments at the Center of the Fintech Ecosystem |
| Sami Haddad (Z-tech), Dan Cohen (TiendaPago), Paolo Fidanza (Mo Tecnologias), Jan Heinvirta (sonect) y Moderator: Lindsay Lehr (AMI) | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | How data is changing the SME lending market |
| Pedro de Paula (Mercado Libre), Adam Klappholz (Paypal), Marc Stein (Underwrite.ai) y Moderator: Matthew Gamser (SME Finance Forum) | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Consumer Lending Leaders Across LatAm |
| Adalberto Flores (kueski), Santiago Suarez (ADDI), Tarek El Sherif (Zinobe), Alejandro Cosentino (Afluenta), Sandro Reiss (Geru) y Glenn Goldman (Fintech Collective) | |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Small Business Lending: How Fintech Helps Drive the Economy |
| Francisco Ferreira (BizCapital), Nicolas Arrellaga (Nexoos), Esteban Velasco (Sempli), Alvaro Echeverria (Facturedo) y Moderator: Joan Zhang (Startup Grind Miami) | |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Mobile is the Key to Solving Financial inclusion |
| Mark Heynan (PayJoy), Raymond Katz (Adelantos), Steve Polsky (Juvo) y Amilkar Torres (Cable & Wireless) |
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“If we don’t join this type of events, we don’t collaborate and we don’t open the doors to have more visibility on what’s happenning, we won’t be able to learn about new opportunities. Here we can meet the next Steve Jobs.”Alejandro Valenzuela
Banco Azteca
“FINNOSUMMIT is a very important platform to meet the people that have helped us to grow our business, to get to know those who gave the right advice and the ones taking decisions at big corporations and can benefit from solutions similar to the one we provide.”Eric Núñez
Openpay
Venue
FINNOSUMMIT by LendIt Fintech will take place at the JW Marriott Marquis, an extraordinary venue in Miami.
JW Marriot Marquis
255 Biscayne Blvd Way,
FL 33131
Miami, EEUU
