VIRTUAL MEETING
Fintech Leaders Roundtable
A 100 Women in Finance and Black Women in Asset Management joint session
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What is the current state of the market for FinTech? What changes are poised in the horizon?
Gain insights on key topics for professionals in the FinTech industry on issues including:
- How FinTech is democratizing the financial ecosystem
- FinTech as an ESG solution
- The global FinTech network and how to harness opportunities
Following the panel presentation, attendees will be directed to breakout rooms for more intimate discussions led by the panelists. For a more engaging session, you are requested to be on camera for this segment. This part of the event will not be recorded.
This event is aimed at female professionals in leadership positions within the Fintech industry.
This session will be hosted on Black Women in Asset Management’s Zoom platform. After submitting your RSVP, click the link in your registration confirmation email to get your Zoom access link.
To promote peer connections and networking between members of the two organizations, you are invited to share the link to your LinkedIn profile when completing the second step of your registration. This will be shared with participants after the event.
Please RSVP promptly. Spaces are limited to ensure a high-quality experience for all participants.
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08:00 AM N. America East Coast
01:00 PM London - Dublin
02:00 PM CET
04:00 PM UAE
08:00 PM Hong Kong - Singapore
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The program will begin promptly. |
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Carole K. Crawford, CFA
fincap360
Kenzy Goodwin
Finceler8
Maya Horgan Famodu
Ingressive Capital
Agnes Abosi
Moderator
Brown Rudnick LLP
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Carole K. Crawford, CFA
Founder and Managing Partner, fincap360
Carole K. Crawford, CFA, is founder and Managing Partner of fincap360, developing venture portfolios for family offices, often actively engaged with portfolio companies. Carole serves on the Board of Directors of 100 Women in Finance, and founded and chairs the 100WFinTech Global Visibility Initiative, a campaign to elevate the public profile of female fintech leaders and to enable stronger interconnectivity to the fintech ecosystem. Carole serves on CFA Institute's SGI Board of Regents and Capital Markets Policy Council, in addition to CFA Society New York's Board of Directors, where she founded and chairs the Fintech Thought Leadership Group. Prior to fincap360, she built a successful wealth management practice at Morgan Stanley and led business development for alternatives and SMAs for two of the largest offices of the firm. She has counseled the White House, Congress, and political leaders on issues related to financial services and entrepreneurship. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan, completed the Investment Management Analyst program at the Wharton School Aresty Institute of Executive Education, and is a CFA charterholder. She is part of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Accelerate Program and was recognized by NYC Fintech Women as a 2020 Inspiring Fintech Female.
Kenzy Goodwin
Partner, Finceler8
Kenzy Goodwin is a Partner at Finceler8 which is an establishment with a mission to accelerate the engagement of fintech firms within financial markets. Here she has succeeded in developing business strategies for fintechs as well as outsourced sales. Her passion is to help entrepreneurs grow and shape their companies. Kenzy held the post of Senior Equity Trader at BlackRock for twenty years where she traded pan-European markets for all equity investment products. During that time she was also viewed as an ambassador of the BlackRock culture and she managed several internal personal development programmes.
Maya Horgan Famodu
Founder and Managing Director, Ingressive Capital
Maya Horgan Famodu is Founder & MD at Ingressive Capital, a $10 Million VC Fund I and $50 Million Fund II targeting early stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa’s key tech markets. Ingressive Capital Fund I has seeded some of Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, including Paystack (sold for $200M+ to Stripe); 54gene (Series A led by Adjuvant, an IFC fund); Tizeti (Series A led by 4DX). 33% of portfolio companies are female founded and 31% of companies are Y Combinator alumni. Maya and her team are building a pipeline from the time a student thinks “I want to be in tech” all the way to the time they IPO. As such, she co-founded Ingressive for Good, a nonprofit focused on cultivating technical talent and resources for the African startup ecosystems; and founded Ingressive Advisory, a market entry / market operations firm that has assisted more than 50 international companies to enter and operate across Africa, and they’ve done a collective 40+ deals on the continent. Many of these clients became investors in her fund, which has led to 80% of Ingressive Capital’s limited partners running their own later stage fund, and providing companies with access to international capital. She is a two-time Forbes 30 under 30 nominee (Africa and VC), United Nation’s Most Influential Person of African Descent, and worked previously in private equity research and at JPMorgan after completing Cornell Prelaw Program and attending Pomona College.
Agnes Abosi
Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP
Agnes is a Private Equity and Structured Finance Partner in the London Office of Brown Rudnick LLP. Agnes has fifteen years’ experience of structuring high value complex cross border transactions and providing legal advice for leading funds, companies and lending institutions since graduating with a Masters from Oxford University. Agnes takes a pro-active and solution driven approach when leading meetings and negotiations with investors, shareholders, senior partners, management, directors, decision makers and continually achieves successful outcomes for clients in response to fast-moving developments in legislation and technology. Some of Agnes’ notable transactions include: (a) advising a fund on the transfer of over £1 billion debt and equity interests (the largest transfer of that financial services asset class at that time by the fund under a single framework agreement); (b) advising a multi-billion pound listed FinTech business on its strategic growth structure; (c) advising an investment fund and senior management at an investment business (a regulated administrative and financial service provider) on a £149 million leverage refinancing; (d) advising a real estate fund on the development of an innovative shared living space, with fintech operational management and putting in place the equity and debt financing arrangements to achieve their goal. Agnes has previously worked as in-house counsel on secondment to a leading sponsor team of a lending institution and an international financial news and technology business. Agnes has also spoken at various conferences including the Loan Market Association Leverage Finance conference and the Global Investors Annual Meeting.
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Black Women in Asset Management
Black Women in Asset Management brings together professionals in the asset management industry aligned around a common goal to advance and retain Black women leaders across all investment strategies. Launched in 2019, BWAM’s mission is to champion the positive impact of the talented Black women who work in asset management and provide the tools that will enable them to thrive.
100WF's 20th Anniversary
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