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Alex is the Chief Operating Officer and part of the founding team at Column, a nationally chartered developer-first bank. Prior to Column, he invested in financial services and technology at Warburg Pincus, including a secondment as the Chief of Staff at fintech portfolio company Mosaic. Alex has a Bachelor’s in Economics from Yale University and attended Stanford Graduate School of Business before dropping out to launch Column.

Chandni is the Chief Risk Officer for Wise and responsible for managing and overseeing risks for the group. Prior to joining Wise, Chandni spent over a decade leading several roles at Morgan Stanley including Global head of Quant Research and EMEA head of risk. She has more than 16 years of experience working in Finance, both in the front office, as well as risk, both on the buy and sell side. She holds a PhD in statistics & probability from Michigan State University and specialises in use of advanced analytics to build risk intelligence.

Eyal Lifshitz is the Co-founder and CEO of Bluevine, the banking platform that serves as the financial operating system for startups and small businesses. Through a single account, companies can earn more, save more, borrow, and manage their money whenever and wherever they do business – without ever stepping into a branch. Accessible through one dashboard, its product suite integrates high-yield business checking, accounts payable, debit and credit cards, loans, and lines of credit. Since 2013, Bluevine has served over 500,000 customers, delivered over $14 billion in loans, and is currently trusted with over $1 billion in managed customer deposits.

As a third-generation small-business entrepreneur, Eyal is passionate about helping small businesses grow and prosper. Before Bluevine, Eyal was a principal at Greylock IL, Greylock Partners’ dedicated fund for Israel and Europe. At Greylock, Eyal was involved in investing over $100 million in start-up companies. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and an engineer at Texas Instruments. Eyal currently lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife and two kids. He holds an MBA with high honors from the University of Chicago, where he was a Carlton Fellow.

Harsh is Chief Technology Officer at Wise, enabling our infrastructure to power money without borders all over the world. Prior to Wise Harsh was the Director of Product at PayPal. He led product strategy and development of PayPal’s mobile apps and software. He has previously led various technology functions at eBay, including eBay Motors and eBay local. Harsh is also an angel investor, an advisor to early stage start-ups, and regularly speaks at conferences. He holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Sikkim Manipal University, India.

Jag Duggal is Nubank’s Chief Product Officer, a position he has held since 2020. Before joining Nubank, he worked at several companies, including as a director of product management at Facebook from May 2018 to January 2020, as senior vice president and member of the executive leadership at Quantcast Corporation from June 2011 to March 2018, and in several roles at Google from 2006 to 2011 including Head of Strategy for the Google Display business and product leader for Google’s Brand advertising business. He holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.

Jenny is Head of US Product, Country Manager at Wise, a role that blends both product and operational experience aimed at Wise’s growth and future innovations in this market. Her focus is on building the vision and strategy for cross-border payments products, guiding teams across product, engineering, compliance, finance and data science to facilitate impactful and efficient product development.

Kristo is the co-founder and CEO of Wise, the global tech company building the best way to move money around the world. Prior to starting Wise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting & PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He worked with European banks and insurers to modernise their processes and systems. Stunned by their inefficiency, he teamed up with Taavet Hinrikus, then Skype’s director of strategy, to develop an entirely new system for moving money across borders. Kristo was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2015.

Nilan is Chief Product Officer at Wise, where he leads on growth across channels including product and platform.

Prior to Wise Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction.

Rina Wulfing leads Policy & Campaigns in North America for Wise. Based in New York City, Rina works closely with regulators and advocates for policies that further Wise’s mission of money without borders, including transparency in international payments and improving access to payments systems. Prior to Wise, she worked as Chief of Staff for Congressman Denny Heck on financial services policy.

Steve Naudé is the Managing Director of Wise Platform, Wise’s market-leading global payment infrastructure for banks, financial institutions and enterprises around the world. Wise Platform provides these organisations with the capabilities, technology and network to enable fast, secure and cost-effective international payments for their customers. Previously, Steve has worked on payments international expansion, as well as direct connections to payment schemes such as UK Faster Payments and Swift.