About Kate...

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With nearly 25-years in Financial Services, Kate is a global leader, having driven commercial success in American, European, Australian and UK headquartered institutions. 

Delivering positive impact and change across the Financial industry (Asset Management, Markets, Finance, Strategy, Technology, Operations and Innovation), Kate has kept a clear focus on innovation and simplification, with the use of human-centred design and storytelling to ensure the complex is never complicated (for her teams and her stakeholders).

She led the initial build out and early success of Citi's early online platform (aka CitiVelocity), as well as being a co-founder and board member of Trade Ideas Limited (TIL –  an award-winning, industry utility for electronic Alpha capture.)

Kate's recent focus of creating partnerships and engaging with accelerators, incubators, start-ups and scales-ups, offers incredible access to founders, users, clients, fintechs, tech giants and other Financial Services brands. Her current focus is reimagining the intersection of TradFi & DeFi, board advisory roles and seeking additional stretch opportunities to feed her curiosity. 

Leveraging her authentically engaging energy and understanding to create high-performing teams, with shared purpose and vision, she is  well-placed within the FS and Fintech ecosystem to manifest more magic.

Having talked AND walked high value disruption delivery from identified challenge to ideation and execution, Kate currently engages willingly with all areas of responsible innovation - from unknown, known and near/distant future commercial challenges. 

Ever the protagonist, she continues  to challenge the status quo: to ask people to see beyond the obvious or comfortable in how to support people in living their best lives. She is lighthearted yet perceptive in her approach, enabling all stakeholders to align to a shared outcome with both passion and reason.

The active choice to remain curious and alive to the art of the im/possible is core to her character.

Ultimately, she would like to see problem solving leverage the extensive diversity of THOUGHT that is available via everyone's collective walks of life – from all levels of education, ability, gender, sexuality, religion, behaviour, thinking, industries, disciplines, neural make-up, etc. 

Kate is a firm believer in the power of a shared understanding/ awareness as something that can deliver significantly more meaningful, inclusive and resilient outcomes - especially when it is baked in at the beginning.