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As President of Centralized Operations at FirstBank, Lavonne ensures seamless, compliant, and efficient processing across all fraud prevention functions and payment channels, including instant payments, cards, checks, ACH, and wires. Her extensive experience in payments and operational excellence acquired in over 20 years in banking has positioned Lavonne as a trusted authority. In addition to her professional role, she is deeply involved in community and...

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Kate is an award-winning Payments and Banking leader with proven success building teams and products solutions from the ground up. She is a driven and innovative strategist that excels with execution using a hands-on approach and prioritizing the end-to-end customer experience. Kate currently leads Payments for Business Banking at Citizens and previously spent most of her 15-year banking career managing commercial product solutions at Citizens...

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Brad Goad is the Chief Revenue Officer and General Manager for Matera International. Prior to Matera, Brad worked for Fiserv and predecessor First Data Corporation as Vice President, leading product commercialization and partner channel development in the merchant acquiring business. Brad led numerous successful product launches, such as the market introduction of least-cost debit routing, real-time disbursements, on-line EBT, multiple alternative tender types, and numerous...

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Angie is Head of Business Innovation at TD Asset Management and leads a team of data scientist creating machine learning techniques that increase efficiencies, generate revenue while becoming a leading-edge global firm. Prior to working in the Innovation space, she worked in Investment Risk where she analyzed risk and performance attribution reviewing current trading strategies and providing quantitative analysis, and before that in a front...

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Sami Huovilainen is an Analytics and Data Science leader at Citi US Personal Banking with 25 years of experience in translating data into insights, strategy, and business outcomes. As a Head of Next Gen Analytics at Citi, Sami is responsible for designing, building, and deploying AI/ML & Gen AI solutions and translating Big Data vision and findings into tactical implementable steps and tangible outcomes. Prior...

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As the President of Retail Banking at Southern Bancorp, I lead a large team of customer obsessed professionals who provide a superior customer experience and deliver exceptional financial wellbeing plans and financial solutions. In this role, I balance the dual objectives of margin and mission in our company's efforts to build wealth for all the communities we serve. I leverage my 20+ years of experience...

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• People leader with nearly 20 years of continuous hands-on experience in model development and validation. • An innovative leader who has a systemic view to design an integrated automation and AI/ML model platform with AI Agent for Modeling and Analytic tasks using LLM, and to prototype the ModelOps for digital model lifecycle management. • Proven track record of building highly competent and efficient model validation teams...

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Valerie Drew is an executive-level technologist known for optimizing companies' growth with visionary technology leadership through relentless innovation in Artificial Intelligence, global security, cloud infrastructure, and financial application development for Fixed Income and Capital Markets. She is a thought leader who catapults teams to exceed expectations in complex environments. She propels MM revenue savings by utilizing predictive analysis, code optimization, and best practices in the...

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Experienced Senior Advisor on Payments and Cash Management Services. Principal at Quad Solutions Ltd, heading Management Consulting Services. I cover both Strategic and Product consultancy for IT Vendors, Banks and Corporates across Europe. Providing professional advisory and training to payment fintechs and banks on strategy, products, targeting, sales approach, pricing, implementation and post-sales. I also work as Senior Advisor with global payment infrastructures and central banks for the...

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Steve Kenneally works at ABA on issues related to a range of payment systems including check, ACH, card, wires, as well as coins and paper money. He spends an increasing amount of time focused on emerging payment technologies such as mobile payments, virtual currencies, and blockchain technology, with an eye towards making them faster, safer and frictionless in the future. He is the staff liaison...

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