Susanne Chishti

(Twitter: www.twitter.com/SusanneChishti)

Susanne Chishti is the CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s first Angel Network focused on FinTech opportunities and the founder of the FINTECH Circle Institute, the first global peer-to-peer FinTech learning platform to acquire FinTech and digital skills. She is co-editor of the bestselling title The FinTech Book, which has been translated into five languages and is sold across 107 countries. Susanne is recognized in the European Digital Financial Services “Power 50” 2015, an independent ranking of the most influential people in digital financial services in Europe. She has been selected as top 15 FINTECH UK Twitter influencer and as the UK’s “City Innovator – Inspirational Woman” 2016. Susanne is a FinTech TV commentator on CNBC and a guest lecturer on financial technology at the University of Cambridge.

After completing her MBA, she started her career working for a FinTech company (before the term “FinTech” was invented) in Silicon Valley, 20 years ago. She then worked for more than 15 years across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong. Susanne is an award-winning entrepreneur and investor, with strong FinTech expertise. She is a mentor, judge and coach at FinTech events and competitions such as SWIFT Innotribe and FinTech & InsurTech Startup Bootcamp. She is also a conference speaker at leading FinTech events globally.

FINTECH Circle is a global community of more than 100,000 FinTech entrepreneurs, investors and financial services professionals globally. FINTECH Circle’s advisory practice services clients including leading financial institutions such as BNP Paribas and the UK’s innovation agency NESTA, which appointed FINTECH Circle as partner for the £5 million Challenge Prize to work on Open Banking initiatives for SME banking in 2017.

Susanne is also a non-executive director of the Just Loans Group plc, Kompli-Global and Lenderwize Ltd.

About FINTECH Circle

FINTECH Circle (www.FINTECHCircle.com) is a global community of 100,000 FinTech entrepreneurs, angel and VC investors, financial services professionals and FinTech thought leaders, focusing on FinTech seed investing, education and enterprise innovation. FINTECH Circle’s CEO, Susanne Chishti, co-edited The FinTech Book published by Wiley, which became the first globally crowdsourced book on financial technology and a global bestseller across 107 countries in five languages.

Twitter: @FINTECHCircle

Instagram: @FINTECHCircle

About the FINTECH Circle Institute

The FINTECH Circle Institute (www.FINTECHCircleInstitute.com) is a peer-to-peer online learning platform, designed to empower finance professionals with the necessary digital skills to adapt to the rapidly changing industry. With board members ranging from traditional banks and FinTech experts through to academics from leading universities, the platform offers practical bitesize courses on topics including WealthTech/robo-banking, InsurTech, RegTech, blockchain, artificial intelligence, enterprise innovation and start-ups. Every quarter, new bitesize classes are released online to ensure that members have access to the latest FinTech insights and industry experts working on the most cutting-edge FinTech innovations globally.

Twitter: @FTC_Institute

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Thomas Puschmann

(Twitter: www.twitter.com/PuschmannThomas)

Thomas Puschmann has spent more than a decade at the nexus of technology and business. Currently, he is founder and director of the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab at the University of Zurich and a member of the Swiss Innovation Council Innosuisse. In addition, Thomas is a senior advisor for many public and professional initiatives and projects. He is a founder of Swiss FinTech Innovations, an independent association of major Swiss financial institutions, a founder of the consulting firm FinTech Innovations and an advisory board member of the Center on Global Internet Finance. Lastly, he is a judge and mentor for several start-up competitions in Europe and Asia and a conference speaker.

Thomas holds a PhD in business administration with a specific focus on information systems from the University of St. Gallen and a master in management and information sciences. Before his current position he was heading a large international financial services research project from the Universities of St. Gallen and Leipzig where he was working on his postdoctoral lecture qualification. In addition, Thomas was a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a member of the board at ESPRiT Consulting and The Information Management Group where he was responsible for business technology.

About the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab

The Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab is a cross-disciplinary platform for education, research and entrepreneurship that involves researchers and practitioners from banking and finance, business informatics, innovation management, social sciences, economics, law and many other disciplines. The lab researches and teaches on the topic of the digitization in the financial services industry together with participants from the whole value chain, including banks, insurers, start-ups, service providers, regulators, and various other organizations and associations from the financial services ecosystem. It aims to create knowledge in this emerging field to improve and foster intra- and entrepreneurship. Hosted at the University of Zurich, the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab cooperates with a broad international network of researchers and universities.

Web: www.swissfintechinnovationlab.ch

Twitter: www.twitter.com/PuschmannThomas

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/thomaspuschmann