Jessica Chen Riolfi is the Head of Asia at TransferWise, the international money transfer platform. She has spent her career building global products and currently accelerates TransferWise’s mission of money without borders throughout Asia. Previously, she led growth at eBay where she focused on reaching new customers in China, Brazil, and Mexico, including launching the eBay store on WeChat. Jessica holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College.
Interviews
CS Lai, HSBC #fintechbanking
CS Lai, HSBC, manages relationships with venture capital firms and connects their portfolio companies to HSBC’s global network, technology investment, and strategic leadership. CS has been working with start-ups for over twelve years. He has a BS in Managerial Economics from UC Davis.
Brian Hamilton, EIR BBVA Digital Ventures and CEO Azlo #fintechbanking
Brian Hamilton, EIR BBVA Digital Ventures/CEO Azlo, a disruptive new banking service for freelancers and entrepreneurs. A serial entrepreneur himself, Brian has over 15 years of experience in product development, business management and innovation in Payments & FinTech. Brian was a co-founder at Pushpoint, a location-based ad redemption platform successfully acquired by Capital One, where he served as President of Capital One Merchant Services and SVP for National Digital SMB banking. Brian was also a founder at Isomer Labs, a technology incubator in San Francisco which developed the Chargesmart Mobile payments platform later acquired by Verifone. Prior to his start-up experience Brian led Product & Strategy for Clear2Pay, the global payments technology provider based in Brussels, and began his early career at Wells Fargo as a CLO, later leading new product development for the WF Foreign Exchange group.
Brian Ley, CEO/Founder Alpharank #fintechbanking
Brian Ley CEO/Founder Alpharank. Alpharank helps banks and credit unions monetize their data by turning transaction data into social influence data. He has always been fascinated with how viruses, behavior, trends, and emotions travel through human networks. Alpharank publicly launched in April 2017 at Finovate where it was voted best new technology by over 1000 bankers. Brian was then listed in June as one of the top innovators in banking to watch alongside the CEO of Plaid and CTO of Ripple. The seemingly fast rise to success is actually a 6-year story of persistence in the face of countless signs to quit.