Everything you need to know about Women in Open Banking
In this special episode of Open Banking Expo Unplugged, Holly Coventry, VP, international Open Banking payments at American Express and Adam Cox, co-founder of Open Banking Expo, explain why they jointly launched the Women in Open Banking initiative and how it will champion women. They are joined by Bankifi CEO Mark Hartley, who has signed up as a Women in Open Banking mentor, to reveal what mentees can expect from the mentoring scheme. Finally, all three tell Open Banking Expo’s Ellie Duncan about the main barriers to entry for women trying to enter Open Banking or move up the ranks.
Ellie Duncan
Ellie Duncan
Head of Content Open Banking ExpoFormer Financial Times Group journalist Ellie Duncan has a decade of experience across financial services. While arguably best-known for her asset management work, she has also covered open banking, credit, private equity and entrepreneurship.
Holly Coventry
Holly Coventry
Vice President International Open Banking Payments American ExpressHolly is responsible for continuing to grow the UK business and creating the future vision and roadmap for Open Banking Payments globally. Holly is an accomplished, well-respected leader who is strategic and commercially focused in her approach. She has an entrepreneurial and partner centric outlook and is highly adept at working in the emerging fintech Open Banking space.
Mark Hartley
Mark Hartley
Founder BankifiPrior to founding BankiFi, Mark has operated globally in a range of general management, sales, innovation and strategy roles in technology businesses servicing the financial services industry. This included spending over a decade working in the APAC region and latterly Europe, with brands including Clear2Pay and FIS.
His vision around open payments lead to the creation of the Open Payment Hub, the ‘stable’ product that led to the acquisition of the company in 2014 by FIS. A renowned innovator and thought leader on the subject of Payments & Open Banking, he served as strategic Advisor to the Board of Nationwide Building Society.
Adam Cox
Adam Cox
Managing Director Open Banking ExpoAdam is the Co-founder of Open Banking Expo, the largest global Open Banking community incorporating event platforms in the UK, Canada and Europe, alongside Open Banking Expo Magazine which is distributed worldwide. Adam has spent his career working for various B2B financial services events and publishing firms in London before founding his own business in 2013. With a huge passion for curating timely and pertinent content across the mix of media channels available, Adam truly believes the principles of Open Banking should be adopted on a global scale and utilised by all corners of society.
