With Experts Teaching Fintech and CFTE’s Co-Founder Tram Anh Nguyen
Empowerment. Opportunities. Leadership. These are some of the aspects that women in Fintech, and a plethora of other industries, strive to achieve today. While the current Fintech landscape has come a long way from its lopsided gender balance, we still have a long way to go. Women today are turbocharged to break through the glass ceiling and reach the pinnacle of their capabilities. All we need to do now is give them a chance! We need to normalise inclusion and diversity across the Fintech landscape so it’s no longer just an anomaly.
The big questions that this raises now is – How do we transform Fintech to be more inclusive and diverse? How do we encourage more women to get into Fintech?
At CFTE, we are driven to transform these questions into actionable strategies.
“One of CFTE’s missions is to ensure women are able to leverage access to education, effectively ensuring that they are able to adapt and thrive in the rapidly changing FinTech industry. And also it is through continuous education that women are able to empower themselves to break the glass ceiling. Today, it is a celebration to those who have been helping us to bring expert knowledge to the community, I would like to thank them”
Tram Anh Nguyen, the Co-founder at CFTE.
We also seek to provide equal representation for all across our online education programmes such as – AI in Finance, FinTech Foundation, Open Banking, Payments and Extrapreneurship, by ensuring that gender diversity is ‘alive and kicking’ amongst the pool of industry experts hired as educators.
An Industry Snapshot
As a part of CFTE #IWD21 #Choosetochallenge100 campaign, I would like to share a few key facts so we can evaluate the true state of the Fintech industry with women at the center of it. Here’s what’s happening:
- The global fintech founder community is still dominated by men, with women making up just 7% of the total pool according to Deloitte.
- In the UK women receive just 3% of VC funding in the Fintech sector according to Innovate Finance’s annual Venture Capital Investment Report.
- Women’s representation is dropping to just 19 per cent at C-suite level in the Fintech ecosystem according to a 2018 LendIt survey.
In a world where we claim we have achieved great success in combating inequality, these figures are certainly a reality check. It’s time to re-evaluate our game plan and encourage a women empowered world of Fintech.
Celebrating Female Trailblazers in Fintech and Finance
We are passionate about playing our part in the global agenda for diversity and inclusion. In this capacity, we give women leaders in FinTech, a platform to be heard. We spent a lot of time looking for exceptional women experts in Fintech who love to teach. CFTE’s team and I would like to celebrate these trailblazers who are transforming the industry in Financial Services, as well as those who are changing the face of Fintech.
To celebrate these Inspirational female Entrepreneurs, CEOs, Executives and Leaders, that are carving out a new path for the next wave of female pioneers in Fintech, we applaud these women that are the epitome of true change makers.
They all share a common goal to bring expertise and knowledge to everyone. Together with the whole industry in finance and in Fintech, we’d like to celebrate them and their achievements.
We’re very proud of the diversity we foster at CFTE, with our team and our community. In a world that needs to be re-built, it’s essential that we leverage diverse experiences, points of views and perspectives, wherever they come from. Thanks to all of these incredible women that are trailblazers in #education, preparing those who want to join the future of finance.
Our female leaders have embarked on a journey to use the power of education to train a new generation of finance professionals to adapt to a world of technology-driven finance, and to equip them with skills to thrive in this period of steep change, and we aren’t slowing down any time soon.
Meet the women carving out a new path for the next wave of female pioneers in Fintech.
Alice Newton-Rex
Director of Product at WhatsApp
Alice teaches Fintech at CFTE
Andrea Dunlop
International Executive Payments Industry, Angel investor and non-executive Director
Andrea teaches payments at CFTE
Anna Maj
Fintech Leader
Anna teaches Open Banking, AI and Conversational AI at CFTE
Anne Boden
CEO of Starling Bank
Anne teaches Fintech at CFTE
Ayesha Khanna
CEO of ADDO AI
Ayesha teaches AI at CFTE
Cao Yang
Research Director at Sensetime
Cao teaches AI at CFTE
Catherine Havasi
Co-Founder of Luminoso
Cantherine teaches AI at CFTE
Christina Nesheva
Co-founder and Director, Hive Innovation Unit at ViiV Healthcare
Christina teaches Intrapreneurship at CFTE
Claire Calmejane
Chief Innovation Officer at Societe Generale
Claire teaches Fintech and Open Banking at CFTE
Diane Nolan
Managing Director – Financial Services – Capital Markets at Accenture
Diane teaches AI at CFTE
Ebi Atawodi
Head of Product, Payments at Uber
Ebi teaches Payments at CFTE
Frankie Tam
Managing Director – Financial Services – Capital Markets at Accenture
Frankie teaches Open Banking at CFTE
Gabriela Guibourg
Head of Analysis and Policy, Payments Department at Riksbanken at Sveriges riksbank
Gabriela teaches Payments at CFTE
Georgie Smallwood
Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility
Georgie teaches Payments at CFTE
Grace Chong
Of Counsel at Simmons & Simmons JWS
Grace teaches Payments at CFTE
Grete Ovrebo
Head of Financial Services at boost.ai
Grete teaches Conversational AI at CFTE
Kim Ford
SVP, Government Relations at Fiserv
Kim teaches Payments at CFTE
Liz Oakes
Executive Vice President at Mastercard
Liz teaches Open Banking at CFTE
Magdalene Loh
Head of Innovation at Prudential Singapore
Magdalene teaches Intrapreneurship at CFTE
Melissa Guzy
Co- Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures
Melissa teaches Fintech at CFTE
Sandra Alzetta
Vice President, Global Head of Payments at Spotify
Sandra teaches Payments at CFTE
Scarlett Sieber
Managing Director, CCG & Contributor at Forbes.
Scarlett teaches Fintech at CFTE
Secil Watson
EVP, Digital Solutions for Business at Wells Fargo
Secil teaches Open Banking at CFTE
Serey Chea
Director General at National Bank of Cambodia
Serey teaches Payments at CFTE
Shonali Krishnaswamy
Chief Technology Officer at AIDA Technologies
Shonali teaches AI at CFTE
Sophie Guibault
Chief Growth Officer at OpenPayd
Sophie teaches the Future of Finance at CFTE
Tanya Andreasyan
MD & Editor-in-Chief, FinTech Futures
Tanya teaches Fintech at CFTE
Winnie Cheng
Director, AI Lab PWC
Winnie teaches AI at CFTE
Thank you to all the wonderful women experts teaching Fintech!
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