Come explore the new FinTech landscape from various perspectives in this interactive panel exploring the impact of the pandemic on the industry and what innovation is yet to come.
Event Details
The panel will discuss a wide range of topis related to how COVID-19 has impacted Fintech in the US and globally, and the future opportunities for Fintech in a post-pandemic world.
Speaker Profiles
Christina Trampota (Moderator) '07
Engagement Director, Innovate :: Grow :: Scale
https://www.innovategrowscale.com/
Christina Trampota leads dynamic companies as they continue to innovate and evolve with the mobile and digital technologies of today and tomorrow. She brings over 15 years of experience including large enterprises such as Facebook, Visa, AT&T and Motorola as well as startups funded by Sequoia, Greylock, and Index Ventures. Her experiences include marketing, product, and business development in both big brands and startups and she knows how to succeed in both. Christina's award-winning business results have been recognized by leading industry and consumer publications and events- Fast Company, Forbes, MacWorld and GSMA.
She was named one of the top 40 under 40: Tech Diversity in Silicon Valley and serves as an advisor for startups in Founder Institute and other accelerators with a focus on female founders. Christina is an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University teaching Mobile Marketing and Digital Marketing courses and also guest lectures at other universities. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Juan Jose Galnares (Panelist) '11
VP, Marketing, PayClip
https://careers.clip.mx/
Is currently the head of Growth & Marketing at www.clip.mx (Mexico's leading fintech) which provides a solution for Mexican businesses to accept digital payments. Clip transformed card acceptance in Mexico and is backed by world renowned investors in the fintech sector such as General Atlantic, SoftBank, Visa, Amex. Mission OG among many others.
Most recently Juan Jose worked at a US Tech private equity firm and was a Seattle based eCommerce business owner at Amazon, prior to this, he was a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Co. USA. Prior to this, he was a Regional Group Brand Manager for Procter & Gamble where in various roles he managed a portfolio of brands.
Juan Jose has lived and worked across Latin America, USA and Europe. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business ('11) and a bachelor's degree in Business from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico.
Darwin Ling (Panelist) '15
Founder, Good AI Capital
https://goodai.capital/
Darwin Ling is the founding general partner of Good AI Capital, a venture fund focusing on early-stage AI companies in Fintech, Healthcare, and B2B SaaS. Prior to that, he has been an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a technologist as well as an angel investor in successful unicorns such as SoFi.
Most recently, Darwin served as the CTO and co-founder of SmarterMe, which aims to improve sales productivity by bringing AI / Intelligence to the flow of work. Counting enterprise customers such as Danaher (Fortune 500 medical device ), Home Depot and GE, SmarterMe was recently acquired. As a distinguished alumnus of Purdue University, Darwin was featured as one of Purdue's Tech Titans and is serving on the leadership board for the School of Science.
Darwin received his MBA (Honors) from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. He also holds a BS (Phi Beta Kappa) with distinction in Computer Science and Mathematics and an MS in Computer Science, both from Purdue University.
Vineeth Subramanyam (Panelist) '07
VP, Global Payments, Visa
https://usa.visa.com/
Vineeth is the VP of global payments at Visa, where he brings a 20+ year track record of delivering growth, product leadership and business transformation in fintech and e-commerce.
He leads a 25-person global product organization with overall responsibility for payments processing at CyberSource. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of business strategy, product management, and related commercialization activities such as product operations, partner/vendor management, contract negotiation across card, alternate payments, and disbursements.
He has diverse experience across technology startups (Drugstore.com, acquired by Walgreens), consulting (McKinsey) and payments (Visa, Vantiv/WorldPay). Strong business acumen with P&L experience and foundational technical capabilities as software developer. He is also the author of two cookbooks available on Amazon.