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THE EVOLUTION OF FINANCIAL MARKETING
18 MARCH 2021 | 10:30 - 12:30 (CET)
SPEAKER PROFILES
Fabrizio Ballarini
Head of Organic Growth and SEO at Wise
Fabrizio leads Organic Growth at TransferWise. His team mission at TransferWise is to drive organic growth by educating and solving customer problems. Before bootstrapping his current team at TransferWise he used to consult enterprise clients across finance, e-commerce & tech at Neo@Ogilvy, Ogilvy's performance marketing agency. He's passionate about search engines, online communities, startups, slightly obsessed with exchange rates and bringing transparency to the finance industry.
Smita Gupta
Global Head of Platform, Apps & Marketplaces Marketing at Finastra
Smita is a Global Marketing Executive recognized for transforming organizations into future power houses for sustained relevance and growth in the Fintech, software, and telecoms industries. Smita leads Finastra’s global platform ecosystem, applications and marketplaces marketing function. She created a commercially driven, diverse global marketing organisation focused on innovation, go-tomarket strategies, partnerships, revenue generation and growth. Prior to this, Smita was Global Head of Partners and Ecosystem Marketing, responsible for supporting and driving strategic alliances with fintechs, developers, system integrators, resellers and channel sellers around the world. She has also been Chief Marketing Officer, Asia Pacific at Finastra, where she drove the company’s visibility, sales performance and revenue generation across the region. Smita led the creation of a strategic marketing function from the ground up lifting the APAC business to top position globally for new license revenue. Smita joined Finastra from Tata Communications, where her role was Head of Strategy and Marketing for Asia Pacific. At Tata, Smita led APAC go-to-market strategy and launched ROIdriven demand generation programs, ultimately catapulting the brand to “Leader” position in Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global. A marketing and technology evangelist, Smita champions the use of innovative technology in financial services, strategic collaboration within ecosystems, as well as the creation of diverse and inclusive workplaces. Smita was recently nominated as the ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ in Asia and has won the ‘Global Super Woman Achiever Award’ from the Global HRD Congress. She was appointed to the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of the CMO Council in 2012. Smita graduated with an MBA from Ohio University, USA and a Bachelor of Economics from Delhi University, India. Smita on stage Smita is a passionate and engaging keynote speaker. She brings energy and translates complex topics into simple dialogues that resonate with the audience. Smita speaks regularly at regional and international industry events on topics related to marketing, technology and digital transformation, as well as women in leadership. Panel appearances include the Women’s Forum for Economy and Society, Asian Women Leadership Summit 2018, CMO Asia Summit 2018, ABF Digital &Open Banking Conference 2018 and FTI WINCMS Holborn panel on ‘Sponsoring Women to Success’.
Jas Shah
Founder and Product Consultant at bitsul
Jas is a founder and consultant at Bitsul, a product focussed consultancy using lean development principles. He's worked in financial services for over 12 years building all types of products. More recently he's helped build challengers in Australia and the Middle East.
Christoph Kullnig
Head of Group Marketing at Raiffeisen Bank
Christoph Kullnig is a marketing executive, business leader and purpose-driven innovator from Austria. Before starting in his current role as Head of Group Marketing at Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Christoph gained more than 15 years of experience in the field of digital, brand, marketing & sales in companies like Runtastic (adidas), Paysafecard and J. Lindeberg.Christoph’s wide variety of teams at Raiffeisen Bank International AG are responsible for strategic brand management, marketing and events with focus on Head office and CEE network bank retail, corporate & investment banking and Austrian subsidiaries.
Jenny Gaffner
Head of Marketing at BNP Paribas Personal Finance
I'm a Digital Marketing & Sales expert with 15 years experience from Digital Banking and E-commerce. I'm passionate about smart solutions where business, technology and design meet. I've helped Express Bank grow by 45% in 5 years by focusing on leading transversal teams, creating outstanding CX and improving digital product development. I have strong communications skills as well as a strategic and commercial mindset.
Marius Nedelcu
Chief Marketing Officer at TransferGo
Marius has had an unconventional journey to becoming a marketing and brand strategist. After a successful music career in his native Romania, Marius spent 15 years in the health and fitness industry, managing country-wide marketing operations and brand development.
Now, as the CMO for TransferGo, an international money transfer service that specialises in migrant remittances, Marius relies on his diverse marketing experience to guide the organisation’s sales and marketing efforts across complex international markets. As a migrant himself, Marius is passionate about developing creative PR, social, out of home advertising and direct marketing campaigns to drive brand awareness amongst a dispersed customer base and against the backdrop of rising anti-migration sentiment.
Shiri Grosbard
Head of Culture & Innovation at AppsFlyer; Co-Founder at G-CMO
I am an entrepreneur with vast experience in establishing companies from scratch and a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in various companies in different sectors and segments (B2C, B2B). I am also one of the 3 women co-founders of G-CMO, a community of Israel's leading CMOs from global companies and the EBM community: Employer Brand Marketing in Israel.
In 2012 I Co-Founded and acted as CMO @ Join Digital Talent Agency, a successful recruiting agency for digital marketing positions.
Before that, I was the CEO of the company I started to work for as the first team member: Nirshamim Ltd. A lead generation platform for higher education institutes. The company was the first of its kind and was very successful. We were bought out by the largest media group in Israel at the time: Internet Gold.
I am an active advocate for women’s rights and preserve the memories of holocaust survivors, all of whom will disappear from the world in a few years. I have also mentored many young women and will continue to do so in the coming years.
I was awarded “top 100 influencers in digital” at 2017.
Victor Efthimiades
Executive Director, Axiom Consulting
As Executive Director, Victor Efthimiades leads strategy formulation and international business development.
Victor has a 30-year tenure in strategic marketing, business development and enterprise software engineering, of which 20 years in Axiom’s leadership position, where he has delivered consistent growth and profitability. Victor’s professional skills cover a wide range of management, marketing and information technology practices, from the design of the general company strategy, to strategic marketing plans, to sophisticated loyalty business models for industry verticals, including retail, banking and travel. Victor has put particular emphasis on strategic business intelligence and customer loyalty management for large organizations, with an impressive portfolio of successful international engagements at leading banking institutions and retailers.
Prior to joining Axiom Consulting, Victor worked in engineering and account management positions at IBM Corporation, where he designed and led the implementation of multiple large-scale projects, including the development of the country’s first and largest customer loyalty programs.
Victor holds a Masters degree in Computers & Software Engineering from the National Metsovio Technical University of Athens and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Sheffield. He is also the recipient of numerous professional certifications, including one from IBM’s Advanced Marketing Institute.
Victor directs Axiom’s international business development out of the company’s headquarters in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Chris Crespo
Futurist and Digital Strategist. Former Chief Futurist at Nordea
Chris is a Futurist and Digital Strategist who has led transformation initiatives in banks Across Europe and Latin America. He is an expert in Digital Transformation, Business Model Innovation, and Disruption. He has consulted to some of the largest incumbent banks in the Nordics, Southern Europe and North America and has provoked and inspired audiences in events from New York to Shanghai, speaking about the Future of Banking, Disruption in Financial Services, and Digital Mindset.
As a Behavioural Economist Chris is driven by trying to understand what makes people tick, spotting early signs of inflection points and finding the trends and patterns that will unravel the future of society and business.
Dr. Christine Bailey
Author | CMO | Technology/FinTech Marketing Consultant, Sophia Marketing
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Commercial and strategically-oriented senior B2B technology/payments marketing leader with +25 yrs’ experience including Cisco & HP as well as pre-IPO companies (CTP, Extraprise, Valitor)
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Author of Customer Insight Strategies: how to understand your audience and create remarkable marketing and contributing author of The Paytech Book
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Doctorate in use of customer insight for customer acquisition, development & retention. Very well versed in the use of data/analytics across the marketing spectrum, especially digital/social
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Career spent in an international environment, working in close collaboration with sales
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Expert in revenue marketing
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Experienced public speaker and respected thought leader (two TEDx talks Unconventional Career Advice & Break Free of your Comfort Zone/resident contributor of Rockstar CMO/former Forbes contributor)
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Voted #1 woman making the biggest impact in tech by B2B Marketing March 2019 & named in list of 150 women B2B thought leaders you should follow in 2021
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Senior fellow of The Conference Board, on advisory boards of EWPN & MPE
Christian Luckow
Chief Customer Solution Owner at Danske Bank
With the future of payments in the Nordic moving towards open-access and common infrastructure, the question becomes - how will financial institutions differentiate themselves in a harmonised market? In 2019 Christian returned to Denmark after 15 years overseas, to help Danske Bank answer this exact question.
Combining strong business acumen with deep technical understanding, he has been the driving force behind a number of digital financial platforms and deep integration of financial services within 3rd party platforms.
Prior to joining Danske Bank, Christian headed up the expansion of a Nordic finance company into the Australian market where he successfully developed financial solutions for verticals that were under-serviced due to legislative, operational or legacy complications.