FinTech Female Fridays 10/12

Apr 9, 20202 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Nikki Cross, Director of Data Science, Mission Lane

As a data scientist at a credit company, what‘s your day to day like? I am the company’s resident expert on external data sources and...

Apr 2, 20206 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Ratika Gandhi, Program Manager, Mongo DB

What are some practices you employ as a PM at MongoDB in order to ensure your company builds superior products every day? As a Program...

Mar 26, 20204 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Shana Hennigan, Chief Commercial Officer, Safened

Basel III pertains to tighter capital and liquidity requirements in banking regulations. At Safened, how did you structure and build the...

Mar 19, 20203 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Nitya Rajendran, Senior Associate, Tribeca Venture Partners

What emerging technologies do you see playing a major role in the New York FinTech space in the next 6-12 months? Amassing and...

Mar 12, 20204 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Wendy Cai-Lee, CEO of Piermont Bank

How is Piermont Bank looking to change the industry of typical commercial banking? Piermont Bank is reinventing how banking works for...

Mar 6, 20204 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Catherine Martin, U.S. Head of Legal, OakNorth

What drew you to pivot from covering the credit markets business at Citi to OakNorth, a credit platform for mid-market global businesses?...

Feb 27, 20204 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Lolita Taub, Venture Partner, NextGen Venture Partners

This week we go beyond New York to feature Lolita Taub from Baltimore, Maryland. What drew you to become a Venture Partner specifically...

Feb 20, 20203 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Zoe Chaves, Senior Product Manager, Splitwise

Splitwise is a consumer app that millions of people around the world use to track shared spending and "who owes who". Today we sit down...

Feb 13, 20202 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Cat Hernandez, Operating Partner, Primary Ventures

Primary Ventures is a seed-stage firm focused on NYC-based startups. What were some of the successful FinTech trends you saw in 2019 and...

Feb 6, 20203 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Merrin Trombka, Director of Sales, Riskified

How were you able to pivot from Goldman Sachs to Riskified? Goldman Sachs was an incredible place to start my post-college career, and I...

Jan 30, 20205 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Petal

This week we are partnering with Petal to feature six women from Petal: Vivian Jiang, Serra Kazanc, Martina Lugo, Kaijia Tian, Lucy...

Jan 23, 20202 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Sabrina Lamb, CEO and Founder, Wekeza

In December 2005, you founded WorldofMoney.org which is an organization that provides financial literacy to adolescent children. How has...

Jan 16, 20204 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Leigh Blechman, Full Stack Developer, Alloy

Why did you pivot from Visual Designer to developer? My decision was a slow realization. I always dreamed of being a fine art...

Jan 9, 20203 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: MarketAxess

This week we are featuring two women from MarketAxess who will be speaking at our event on January 14th for How the "Tech" In FinTech is...

Jan 2, 20203 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Maya Brooks, Product Manager, iFundWomen

What made you pivot from commercial banking at JP Morgan to a crowdfunding firm that supports female entrepreneurs? I graduated from NYU...

Dec 26, 20194 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: NYC FinTech Women Steering Committee

As the year concludes we would like to feature the steering committee members who are the backbone of NYC FinTech Women: Larissa Carrera,...

Dec 19, 20197 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Lindsay Davis, Senior Intelligence Analyst, CB Insights

How were you able to pivot your career from DTCC to CB Insights? My career started off like most, trying to unwind a “fat finger” trading...

Dec 12, 20194 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Anastasia S. Tarpeh-Ellis, Special Projects, Backstage Capital

What made you pivot your career from working for the City of Los Angeles to Backstage Capital? I started working on side projects with...

Dec 5, 20193 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Jackie Hyland, Angel Investor, Advisor and Head of Mexico, a55

What attracted you to the LATAM FinTech space and lending space; specifically, Mexico? My interest in Latin America (and thus, Mexico)...

Nov 27, 20193 min read

FinTech Female Fridays: Sofia Gonzalez

At 11 years old, Sofia Gonzalez is the youngest member of NYC FinTech Women. She is an active attendee at our events and each time we...