Anna Maj
Fintech Leader, CEO & Founder | CreatLink
Anna brings 20+ years of experience (including C-Level and NED roles) in driving Fintech and Payments innovation in Europe and in the Middle East.
She is a CEO & Founder of CreatLink connecting dots in Fintech and Innovation, a Senior Advisor at Truffle Capital as well as an Expert at the European Innovation Council.
Driving innovation in the European deep tech ecosystem (AI, Open Finance & Data, New Space). Facilitating access to private (VCs, BAs) & public (EIC) funding for innovative European SMEs. Connecting investors, corporates and tech startups.
Co-Author of The PAYTECH Book and The AI Book. Anna is teaching at the CFTE Centre for Finance, Technology & Entrepreneurship in London (Open Banking and Platforms in Finance) as well as at the AIDT Asian Institute of Digital Transformation (Open Banking & Open Innovation).
Recognized as one of the TOP 10 FinTech Influencers (2022); TOP10 FinTech Innovators (2021); TOP10 Women in FinTech (2020).
Linas Beliūnas
Fintech Executive & Influencer
If you’re passionate about FinTech and the future of finance you will know Linas. Over 100K professionals globally follow his work through his newsletter linas.substack.com. He is currently part of Flutterwave scaling the business and leading the company's expansion into Europe. Flutterwave is a Mastercard, VISA, Greycroft, Y Combinator, and Worldpay FIS-backed payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco simplifying payments for endless possibilities. Flutterwave is trusted by leading companies like Uber, Facebook, TransferWise, Netflix, Jumia, Azimo, Binance, among other 90,000+ businesses and recognized as the #2 Most Innovative Company in Africa in 2019, according to Fast Company.
Georg Hauer
Fintech & Digital Banking Advisor | Former N26 General Manager
Georg helps build and grow fintechs and drives innovation at banks. As a former executive at N26, he scaled the bank from a $500M to a $9B valuation and grew the bank compliance software company HAWK:AI to over 60 countries. With a strong background in tech, hyper-growth, and bank compliance, he now advises, invests in, and builds ventures for fintechs and banks across Europe, the Middle East, and the USA.
David Cunningham
Head of Strategy & Partnerships for Digital Assets, Treasury and Trade Solutions | Citi
David Cunningham is Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Digital Assets in Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions. Before joining Citi, David was a a serial entrepreneur and CEO leading a number of RegTech businesses and Chair of a virtual asset service provider regulated in Ireland. He has a keen interest in Startups and was CEO of the Lean Startup Company in EMEA and Entrepreneur in residence a the Techstars web3 accelerator. David focuses on how Citi can leverage advanced technology to compliment and enhance our offerings, in particular the use of blockchain technology.
Jin Jeong
Managing Director | Apis Partners
Based in Stockholm, Jin makes venture & growth capital investment for Apis Partners, a specialist financial services impact investor. He has spent 18 years investing in fintech, healthtech, and deeptech. Prior to Apis, Jin directed European tech investments for GIC (Singapore sovereign wealth fund) and invested for T Rowe Price and Wellington Management. Jin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton).
Liisa Kanniainen
VP, Strategic Lead | Nordea
Anniina Heinonen
Managing Director, Payments | Wolt
Currently steering the ship as Managing Director of Payments at Wolt, Anniina Heinonen explores the intersection between finance, technology, regulation and customer experience. Beyond her role at Wolt, Anniina serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at two investment companies, Tesi (Finnish Industry Investments) and the Illusian Family Office.
Ove Scavenius
CTO (upcoming) | Eira Blue Securities
Ove Scavenius holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics and has post-doctoral experience at the Niels Bohr Institute. Transitioning to cryptography, he specialized in mathematical proofs for security. As a quantitative researcher at Nordea and Bank of America, Ove built mathematical models for trading, sales, and risk. In 2008, he joined Danske Bank, where he played a pivotal role in developing the award-winning SuperFly system and later assumed leadership as Head of Quantitative Research. Expanding his responsibilities, Ove also took on the role of head of the Markets IT trading and risk platform department. In 2022, he founded the SuperAI department, focusing on AI-driven solutions for risk management and spearheading a new AI model development/execution IT platform for Danske Bank.
Monika Liikamaa
Co-CEO & Co-Founder | Enfuce
Monika is a disruptive leader in the payment industry, advocating for social inclusion and climate action. With nearly two decades of expertise at institutions like Crosskey and Aktia Bank, she is a dynamic and straight-talking leader, bringing this approach to the delivery of Enfuce’s products and services. Since co-founding Enfuce in 2016, Monika and her Co-CEO and Co-Founder Denise Johansson secured game-changing funding rounds for female founders, expanded Enfuce’s products and services, sealed key cross-vertical partnerships, and have built a robust and talented team comprised of some of the smartest people in the business. Beyond fintech, Monika leads ESG-focused initiatives, challenges business leaders through her advocacy programme ‘Everyone should give a damn’, and champions sustainability both within Enfuce and externally. From promoting social inclusion to empowering women in tech, Monika leads by example, urging others to join the cause and make a positive impact.
Antti Karhu
SVP, Payment Services | OP Financial Group
Antti leads the payment services of OP Financial group such as instant payments, cross border payments, premium apis and corporate cash management platforms.
Liina Samotoilova
Finance Lead | Supercell
Sarah Häger
CCO | Enable Banking
Sarah Häger is the CCO at Enable Banking where she is evangelising Open Banking, Open Finance and Financial APIs to further accelerate innovation in the financial industry. She has previously worked in a large bank, across several countries (Europe-wide) and along the value chain, with the main mission to provide value for the corporate customers. The last 7 years she spent on taking the open banking vision from PowerPoint to the multi awarded solution of today. She is passionate about innovation, technology and to create commercial opportunities out of regulation.
Flaminio Francisci
Director of Customer Values Management and Data Science | Nexi
Flaminio has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning multiple industries, roles and markets with focus on customer engagement, loyalty, marketing analytics, marketing automation in both consumer and business markets.Before that, he worked at SAP, where he had significant responsibilities, including being the VP of EMEA and MEE Marketing and Channel Marketing. Prior to SAP he had multiple role in Vodafone up to the role of Head of consumer customer base marketing and data science.He graduated in engineering from Politecnico di Milano and holds an MBA.
Anna Haapanen
Partner, Head of Technology & Data | Dittmar & Indrenius
Anna Haapanen is recognized as one of the leading international technology lawyers with international education and work experience both cross border and overseas and has practiced law in Finland, Sweden and the United States. She is dual-licensed attorney admitted to both the Finnish Bar and the New York Bar. She has earned Doctor of Laws degree in intellectual property law and advises clients with both non-contentious and contentious assignments.
Anna Haapanen is President of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations (IFCLA), representative of Finland at International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) and former Chairman of the Finnish IT Law Association. She is a member of the Delegation of the Finnish Bar Association, the highest decision-making body of the Finnish Bar Association.
Prior to joining D&I, Anna Haapanen worked at Roschier Attorneys in Helsinki and Stockholm, at Software Freedom Law Center in New York and as in-house counsel at Nokia and Hantro as well as held visiting lawyer positions at Supercell, Accenture, Nokia and Comptel.
And many more! View the full list of speakers on the Nordic Fintech Summit website.
