CFTE - Key Persons


Anant Bhardwaj - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Andrea Dunlop

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  • External Advisory Board Member RTGS

Andrei Kirilenko

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  • Finance

Anna Maj

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  • Fintech Leader and Advisor

Anne Boden - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Aurelian Menant - CEO

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  • CEO

Cao Yang

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  • Research Director

Carlo Palmers

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  • Head of Payments Solutions

Carlos Figueredo - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Catherine Havasi - Founder

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  • Board Advisor
  • Co - Founder

Charles Delingpole - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Christina Nesheva

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  • Director / Hive Innovation Lab

Christophe Chazot

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  • Member of the Board
  • Ex Group Head of Innovation
  • Senior Advisor, Odysseus Investments

Claire Calmejane

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  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Innovation Officer, Societe Generale
  • Group CIO

Dan Liebau - Founder

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  • Founding Director

Daniel Aranda

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  • Ex - Managing Director Europe

David Hardoon

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  • Senior Advisor for Data & AI

Diane Nolan - Managing Director

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  • Managing Director

Douglas Arner

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  • Member of the Board
  • Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, the University of Hong Kong

Dr. Ayesha Khanna - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Ebi Atawodi

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  • Head of Product Payments

Eric Horesyni - CEO

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  • CEO

Ericson Chan

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  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Information & Digital Officer
  • Group Chief Information & Digital Officer, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

Erkin Adylov - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Francois Blanc - Managing Director

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  • Managing Director
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Francois Masquelier - CEO

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  • CEO

Frank Chen

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  • Senior Software Engineer

Frankie Tam

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  • International Technology Lawyer

Fred Bär

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  • Associate, Payments Advisory Group Secretary General, EACHA

Gabriela Guibourg

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  • Head of Applied Research Division

Gert Bijleveld

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  • Entrepreneur & Senior Associate

Giang Pham Thi Huong

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  • Head of Business Development

Gillian Cribbs

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  • Member of the Board
  • Leadership Development, Executive Coach and Advisory

Giorgio Andreoli - Managing Director

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  • Managing Director

Goncalo De Vasconcelos

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  • Chief Innovation Officer

Grace Chong

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  • Payments Regulatory Specialist

Grete Øverbø

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  • Head of Financial Services

Gurjeet Singh - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Huy Nguyen Trieu - Founder

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  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board

Janet Yuen

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  • Global Head of Conversational Banking

Janos Barberis - Founder

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  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • CEO, Supercharger

Jay Chinnadorai - Managing Director

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  • Managing Director

Jean-Michel Godeffroy

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  • President, JMG Consulting Former Director General ECB

Jean-Philippe Desbiolles

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  • Global VP for Data, Cognitive & AI

Jitendra Tekchandani

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  • Head of Open Banking

Jon Ng

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  • General Manager, Technology & Innovation

Jozsef Czimer

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  • Advisor to CEO

Julien Le Goc

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  • Director of Policy

Karim Lakhani

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  • Member of the Board

Keith Grose

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  • Head of UK

Kennedy Mubita

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  • Africa and ME Lead

Kim Ford

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  • Senior VP, Government Relations

Konstantin Peric

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  • Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor

Lajos Bartha

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  • Executive Director, Financial Infrastructures & Banking Operations

Leon Muis

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  • Chief Business Officer

Liz Oakes - EVP

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  • Executive Vice - President

Magdalene Loh

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  • VP & Head of Innovation

Marcin Detyniecki

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  • Head of Research & Development, Group Chief Data Scientist

Mariana Velazquez

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  • Innovation Specialist

Martin Markiewicz - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Co - Founder

Michael O'Loughlin - Founder

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  • Founder

Navin Gupta

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  • Managing Director, South Asia & MENA

Ned Philips - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Founder

Nick Ogden - Founder

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  • Founder

Nicolas Vrillaud

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  • Head of Business Development

Olaf Ransome - Founder

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  • Founder

Paolo Sironi

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  • Global Research Leader

Paul Fremantle - CTO

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  • Chief Technology Officer

Paul Rohan

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  • Head of Strategy - Finance

Peter Collingridge

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  • EMEA Head, D10x

Philip Watson

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  • Chief Innovation Officer

Prof. Lisa Short

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  • Lead Research
  • Our Expert
  • Professor
Professor Lisa Short is recognised as one of the top thought leaders and influencers in the world to follow for her work in digital tech, blockchain, crypto assets and EdTech. Lisa is a preeminent innovator, systemic change digital technology analyst, strategist & design ecosystem thinker with vast international experience founding & managing multiple companies and significant cutting-edge digital technology, value chain improvement projects, across different industry segments, and global markets including UK, APAC, Africa, Singapore, Europe & UAE. As Founder of Areté Business Performance, Mind Shifting, Hephaestus Collective Limited, P&L Digital Edge Ltd & Africa Agri Tech Ltd, and inventor of several Patents, Professor Short is at the driving force of digital technology enabled by resilient, cyber healthy businesses & people, fuelled by inclusion & education, and driven by impact commercially, and for a better place to live and work. Authoring multiple papers, articles & reports, her current work includes co-authoring books on blockchain enabled ecosystems for higher and continuing education, and on blockchain, data, AI, IoT, privacy and cyber health for business. Appointed to the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies & Research as an expert Senior Policy Analyst, Lisa leads and is Group Chair of the Special Interest Group, CySME that focuses on cyber public health and research to support SME's and start-ups. Professor short holds multiple Board Roles for EWOR, UK Cyber Security Association and International Cyber Security Expo. A motivational and influential international leader Professor Short is regularly invited to analyse and resolve through digital technology some of the most pressing complex and difficult socio-economic problems. Professor Short has delivered and worked with the Unite Nations; the World Summit of Noble Peace Laureates; the Kairos Society EU, International Network of Appropriate Technology, UN Women; the International Immersive Learning Networks; The 36 Group; The UK Cyber Security Council Formation Project, and AAPG's for Blockchain and AI in London.

Ramneek Gupta - CEO, Founder

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  • Founder
  • Managing Partner

Rand Hindi - CEO

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  • Chief Executive Officer

Reed Luhtanen

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  • Executive Director

Rob Frohwein - CEO, Founder

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  • CEO
  • Co - Founder

Ronit Ghose

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  • Global Head of Banks Research
  • Global Head of Banks Research, Citi

Sandra Alzetta

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  • Global Vice President

Scarlet Sieber

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  • & Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer

Scott Farrell

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  • Senior Partner

Secil Watson - EVP

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  • Executive Vice - President

Serey Chea

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  • Assistant Director

Shameek Kundu

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  • Head of Financial Services & Chief Strategy Officer

Shankar Srinivasan - COO, Founder

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  • Co - Founder
  • COO

Shonali Krishnaswamy - CTO

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  • Chief Technology Officer

Siew Kai Choy

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  • Director
  • Member of the Board
  • Board Member - Director, FactSet

Sopnendu Mohanty

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  • Chief Fintech Officer

Sylvain Kalache

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  • Entrepreneur and Software Engineer, Holberton School

Søren Rode Jain Andreasen

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  • Chief Digital Officer

Tanya Andreasyan

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  • Editor

Tram Anh Nguyen - Founder

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  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Board
  • Co - Founder of CFTE, Centre
  • Expert
  • Non Executive Director of Passerelles Numeriques
CFTE's Co-founder, Tram Anh Nguyen, signed the Epic sharing pledge to help create a social impact and uplift the underprivileged. Epic Foundation backs outstanding nonprofits and social innovation to change the lives of disadvantaged youth. Tram Anh Nguyen is the co-founder of CFTE, Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship, a global impact platform for education in Fintech and the future of financial services. Tram Anh is an Entrepreneurship Expert at Saïd Business School, Oxford and is an Industry Fellow of Imperial College. Tram Anh strongly believes that in a world dominated by technology, people must remain at the centre of society and organisations and that education and training are key to helping individuals adapt to a fast-changing world. This was the motivation that drove her to build CFTE ,one of the fastest education platform in Finance and Fintech, to help finance professionals up-skill, find more opportunities and build better finance. Tram Anh serves as a Non Executive Director of Passerelles Numeriques. She holds a few advisory Board Member roles including for EDHEC, a Board Panel for the Association of the Corporate Treasurers. Former Trustee of the Montessori Education and current Exco Board Member of the GlFT ( Global Impact FinTech Forum, Board Member for the Business France Frenchtech UK, and Ambassador to the Singapore Fintech Festival. Appointed Ambassador to the Inclusive Fintech Forum 2023. Recently Tram Anh has won recognition for her work among The Top 10 Asian Pioneers Tech UK 2023. She got awarded by the Association from the Global Academy of Finance and Management, by the Asian Fintech Academy as the "Woman Fintech Ecosystem Leader". Top 10 Women Transforming Tech, is a great advocate for women leadership in Fintech and recognised as Senior Leader Women in Fintech on the Powerlist. A few of Tram Anh's significant achievements include being a part of releasing the Fintech Job Report and the Blockchain Job Report, New Skills in Financial Services. The Fintech job report is the first of its kind in history, where the major developments in the field, possible work roles, and pertinent employability skills required to help governments, regulators, employers, and job applicants with future job creation and prospects have been outlined. A new book will be released. Prior to co-founding CFTE, she had navigated between the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds. She has a diverse background in finance with 18 years of experience having worked in trading, institutional sales and private banking for major financial institutions such as Standard Chartered in New York, Dresdner Kleinwort and UBS Wealth Management London, Advisor to family offices. Of Vietnamese origin, Tram Anh was born in France and lived in Paris, New York, and now London. She provides a great understanding of both Asian and Western cultures and is always keen to bring the best of them together.

Veiverne Yuen - Founder, Managing Director

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  • Co - Founder
  • Managing Director

Vincent Desnot

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  • Founder & CEO, Teach on Mars

Vivek Ramachandran - CEO

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  • Chief Executive Officer

Winnie Cheng

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  • Director of the AI Lab