Gordon Tveito-Duncan, CEO, GaiaLens
Gordon Tveito-Duncan is CEO and Co-Founder of GaiaLens, an AI-powered sustainability analytics platform serving institutional investors and financial services companies.
Banking
Ben Swails, GM Northern Europe, Pleo
Ben Swails is General Manager for Northern Europe at Pleo, a venture-capital-funded business spend management platform offering smart company cards, automated expense reporting, and invoice management.
Jonas Wenke, Principal, CommerzVentures
Jonas Wenke is a Principal at CommerzVentures, an early-stage fintech fund that invests €5-20m in Series A and B startups across Europe, Israel and the US. With an investment banking background, Wenke sources and manages deals while developing investment theses for the €300m third fund.
Shawn Du, CEO, Revenir
Shawn Du is CEO of Revenir, a fintech that partners with banks and financial institutions to simplify VAT reclamation for international purchases. With a background in consulting, investment banking, and three prior startups, Du leads the company focused on removing friction from cross-border...
Incumbents at Parity?
An observer of fintech trends notes that incumbent banks have achieved feature parity with neobanks through regular mobile app updates, challenging assumptions that younger generations automatically prefer digital-first banking alternatives.
Ivan Maryasin, CEO, Monite
Ivan Maryasin is CEO of Monite, a financial automation platform offering embedded accounts payable, receivable, and B2B payment solutions to neobanks, payment providers, and vertical SaaS platforms serving SMBs.
Mark Burges Watson, CEO, Kaldi
Mark Burges Watson is CEO and co-founder of Kaldi Financial Technology, a fintech app that transforms savings habits for Gen Z and Millennials by auto-investing cashback from high street retailers into low-cost equity index funds at checkout.
Lisa Ashford, CEO, Ethex
Lisa Ashford is CEO of Ethex, a UK platform for ethical investment opportunities. With a background in energy policy, carbon markets, and financial strategy from Said Business School, Ashford discusses how she founded Ethex over a decade ago to use finance for positive social and environmental...
Stelios Constantinidis, Director, AI and AI Products, MQube
Stelios Constantinidis is Director of AI & AI Products at MQube, where he oversees AI capabilities and commercialisation. He discusses how MQube uses transformer-based AI models to reduce mortgage approval from 11 days to 15 seconds, leveraging his background in electrical engineering, computer...
Krishna Subramanyan, CEO, Bruc Bond
Krishna Subramanians is CEO of Bruc Bond, a corporate cross-border payment provider. He brings extensive experience in financial services compliance, risk management, and banking across major institutions including Citibank, Macquarie Bank, and Scotia Bank, before joining the fintech startup.
Peter Curk, CEO, ICONOMI
Peter Curk is CEO of ICONOMI, a crypto investment platform founded in 2016 to simplify digital asset access for non-experts. He discusses the company's regulatory-first approach, its target demographic of non-crypto natives aged 35-60, and his vision for blockchain to streamline B2B settlement...
Royden Greaves, CEO & Founder, Jarvis
Royden Greaves is CEO and Founder of Jarvis, a pension fintech that empowers employees to actively manage their retirement planning through an intuitive platform.