WEBINAR
Achieving Gender Equity in the FinTech Community
Sponsored by Deloitte
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The vast majority of FinTech founders and professionals are men. Company formation and fundraising activity over the last decade suggest that these trends will continue. A collective effort among three key stakeholders - investors, founders and financial institutions - is needed to improve diversity within the FinTech founder community.
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8:00 AM N. America West Coast
11:00 AM N. America East Coast
4:00 PM London
5:00 PM Paris
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The program will begin promptly. |
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PARTICIPANTS
Opening Remarks
Amanda Pullinger
100 Women in Finance
Shannon Austin
Financial Venture Studio
Maria Goy
Life by Spot
Ennie Lim
HoneyBee
Katie Palencsar
Anthemis Group
Jim Eckenrode
Moderator
Deloitte Services LP
Alaina Sparks
Moderator
Deloitte Services LP
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Amanda Pullinger
Chief Executive Officer, 100 Women in Finance
Amanda Pullinger is the Chief Executive Officer of 100 Women in Finance. She leads a staff team and provides direction to 500 volunteer practitioners globally. The organization, which now has over 17,000 members in 26 locations, is focused on empowering women in the finance industry and inspiring the next generation of pre-career young women. Amanda is a former principal of Aquamarine Capital Management, where she was responsible, over a period of seven years, for managing marketing, investor relations and back office administration for two private investment funds. Amanda is currently on the Boards of the HALO Trust (USA), the American Friends of The National Portrait Gallery (London) Foundation and serves as a Director on the Oxford University Alumni Board. She is President of the Brasenose Society and Vice Chair of the Women’s Network Forum. Amanda is Chair and Non Executive Director of the Board of FlyPlymouth, based in Plymouth, UK. Previously, she served as Chairman of the Board of The HALO Trust (www.halotrust.org) and served on the Board of Langone NYU Cancer Institute. She was on the founding Board of 100 Women in Finance, serving as its President for two years. She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Amanda graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1987 with an Honours Degree in Modern History. She earned an MBA from La Salle University, Philadelphia, in 1998, and received the Academic Award for MBA student of the year as well as the Beta Gamma Sigma designation.
Shannon Austin
Partner, Financial Venture Studio
Shannon Austin is a partner at Financial Venture Studio, where she leads the firm’s communications advisory for portfolio companies. She spent the previous two decades helping small companies grow using effective messaging and media outreach. Before joining FVS, Shannon led all marketing and communications efforts in support of the Financial Solutions Lab, a partnership between JPMorgan Chase and CFSI, where she advised more than 33 fintech startups and helped some important stories make it into Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, and more. Shannon previously managed global communications from Europe for a consumer tech brand in the Apple space. She also served as VP Marketing/Communications for a financial services software firm, where she handled investor relations during and after the firm’s IPO. Shannon began her career as a journalist and has also worked in advertising. In addition to her work at Financial Venture Studio, she is Global Communications Advisor to Quona Capital, an emerging markets fintech VC. Shannon likes a challenge and people are surprised when they hear she went back to high school undercover, once rode Harleys with a gang of Outlaws, and jumped out of a hot air balloon.
Maria Goy
Co-Founder & COO, Life by Spot
Maria is Co-founder and COO of Spot, the first short-term life and accident insurance company in the United States. She oversees all operations for the insurtech startup, leading strategic revenue growth, product and platform development, and carrier partnerships, while integrating the brand’s mission of redefining the insurance experience into every customer touchpoint within the business. Prior to founding Spot, Maria served as VP of Technology Strategic Partnerships at New York Life, one of the largest life insurance companies in the United States. There she was one of the youngest female executives, leading technology vendor sourcing and relationship strategy for the company. It was during her time at NYL that Maria determined there was a need to reimagine how insurance is underwritten and distributed especially for the underserved, hence the idea for Spot was born. Maria has developed a wealth of industry and global market experience, starting her career at Anderson Consulting and living and working throughout Europe, Asia and the United States.
Ennie Lim
CEO & Co-Founder, HoneyBee
Ennie Lim is the ceo and co-founder of HoneyBee. HoneyBee is a result of Ennie’s journey through personal financial challenges, they provide a Rainy Day Coverage with no-cost emergency funds and on-demand financial counseling for working Americans. 89% of HoneyBee's users are people of color, women, or both. They provide support for issues that disproportionately affect these marginalized groups. Systemic barriers to financial health exist all around us. It’s up to employers to acknowledge this and take a step toward equality. Ennie is passionate about diversity and inclusion initiatives and building businesses for a better tomorrow.
Katie Palencsar
Venture Studio Lead, Female Innovators Lab, Anthemis Group
Katie Palencsar is an investor at Anthemis Group, a fintech-focused venture capital firm. Based in New York, she leads the Female Innovators Lab in partnership with Barclays and develops new, digital-era concepts and ventures with a focus on women entrepreneurs. Previously, she served as an advisor and interim executive for an early stage sports marketing & technology company, where she supported retired professional athletes on their investment opportunities, new business build-outs, and corporate brand partnerships. She was also the founder and CEO of Unbound Concepts, a tech company focused on metadata, search and sell-thru for publishers in the school and library market. Unbound Concepts was then acquired by Certica Solutions in 2017. Her passion lies in bringing new businesses and products to market, as well as increasing access to capital and support for female founders; recently, she advised on state legislation for investment in female and minority-owned businesses that was successfully passed in 2019
Jim Eckenrode
Managing Director, Deloitte Center for Financial Services, Deloitte Services LP
Jim is responsible for defining and guiding the Center’s strategy, research agenda and marketplace deployment. He is a trusted advisor to executives from the world’s largest financial institutions on business and technology strategy, emerging trends and competitive strategy. Jim has been in his current role with Deloitte for 8 years. Prior to joining Deloitte, Jim held a variety of research and consulting roles at TowerGroup, a technology advisory research firm, where he published on topics such as technology architecture, customer experience, financial regulation, and financial services trends. Jim also spent almost a decade as a management consultant at EDS and AT Kearney. He has also keynoted major industry and client conferences, and has been quoted in major print and broadcast media, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Banker, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio. Jim holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s in Business Administration from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
Alaina Sparks
Managing Director, US Fintech Practice Leader, Deloitte Services LP
Alaina is a managing director, Deloitte Services LP, and leads both Deloitte’s US Fintech practice and its Global Financial Services Ecosystem & Alliances program. In these current roles, she leads teams that advise fintech companies on critical topics ranging from initial business model development to tax compliance, risk management, regulatory and compliance considerations, data strategy, global growth, and exit planning. She also advises financial institutions in defining and executing their innovation strategy, including in the identification of relevant potential partners that may accelerate their efforts. She has served in a variety of financial services roles for more than 10 years at Deloitte. Alaina has served as Deloitte’s global relationship leader for several large investment banks and investment management companies. Before joining Deloitte, she worked for several advisory firms developing business across Asia and the US. She began her career advising US multinationals on their China business strategy. Alaina graduated from Indiana University with bachelor’s degrees in management and marketing, and Chinese language and literature. She lives in San Francisco and enjoys traveling, gardening, cooking, hiking and practicing yoga. Alaina is passionate about health and wellness including affordable access to basic financial services.
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The Deloitte Center for Financial Services
The Deloitte Center for Financial Services, which supports the organization’s US Financial Services practice, provides insight and research to assist senior-level decision makers within banks, capital markets firms, investment managers, insurance carriers, and real estate organizations. The center is staffed by a group of professionals with a wide array of in-depth industry experiences as well as cutting-edge research and analytical skills. Through our research, roundtables, and other forms of engagement, we seek to be a trusted source for relevant, timely, and reliable insights. Read recent publications and learn more about the center on www.deloitte.com/us/cfs.
Deloitte
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100 Women in Finance
100 Women in Finance's near 20,000 registered members strengthen the global finance industry by empowering women to achieve their professional potential at each career stage. Its members inspire, equip and advocate for a new generation of industry leadership, in which women and men serve as investment professionals and executives, equal in achievement and impact. Through Education, Peer Engagement and Impact, the organization furthers the progress of women who have chosen finance as a career, and enables their positive influence over pre-career young women.
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