Breaking into FinTech

In partnership with Emory Goizueta Business School, join us for a discussion about breaking into FinTech. Our panel of esteemed speakers currently work in strategy/partnerships, product and institutional investments at Coinbase, Fiserv and more.

We’ll dive into questions like:

• What do the paths into FinTech look like?
• How did you break into the field?
• Must you have a technical or financial background?
• What role did your MBA play?
• What are you looking forward to in this field?
• and more (including time for our Q&A)

Speaker details are below – register here!

Speaker Details 

Kelly Pettersen is a senior executive at Coinbase Institutional, the largest regulated digital asset exchange in the world, where she works with institutional investors across EMEA to provide them access to crypto markets and institutional services integrating the entire crypto value chain. 

Prior to Coinbase, Kelly led business development and marketing at skew, the leading market analytics and derivatives firm for cryptocurrency markets. Kelly also led the M&A integration for the business as part of skew’s acquisition by Coinbase. Previously Kelly was part of the founding team at one of the first digital asset lending start-ups where she was the Global Head of Business Development and CMO. Prior to this, Kelly oversaw European Marketing for BNY Mellon’s largest revenue generating business, Asset Servicing. Earlier, Kelly held various roles at Macquarie in New York and London. She started her career at BMO Capital Markets and received her Executive MBA from Esade Business School.

Mari Kikaleishvili is a Product Manager at Fiserv, the American multinational financial technology company, where she owns strategy and product roadmap for small business banking and 3rd party integrations for value-added services.

Prior to Fiserv, Mari led small business support programming at the largest commercial bank, TBC Bank, in the country of Georgia aiming to help small businesses grow and encourage entrepreneurship in the country.

While working at TBC Bank Mari developed innovative small business banking products and services such as startup capital, business rewards debit card, and business app market platform.  She also organized multiple business forums across the country to help small business owners build network and find mentors. Mari received her MBA degree from Emory Goizueta Business School in 2021.  

Avi Sinha is a Client Consulting Manager at Visa’s Consulting & Analytics division where she works with various banks, financial institutions and fintechs across North America to solve for their leading challenges and critical business needs.

Prior to joining VCA, Avi owned business development and corporate strategy efforts at BYJU’S where she designed and implemented strategies to increase market share and enhance user experience. 

She also conceived and led various sales and marketing campaigns to maximize revenue, owned major client relationships comprising of educational institutes and government education wings. 

Avi graduated in 2021 from Emory University’s full-time MBA program.

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