Fintech Focus — November 2020

A curated selection of hires and promotions from across fintech. If you would like to sign up for our newsletter, you can visit our website.

November 2020

• AU10TIX: Carey O’Connor Kolaja was promoted to CEO at AU10TIX. Link
• Amazon: Ben Weiss joined Amazon Web Services in Financial Services Business Development. Ben was previously Head of Financial Products at Carta.
• Better.com: Kevin Ryan joined Better.com as Chief Financial Officer. Kevin was previously a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.
• Brightside: John Bradley joined Brightside as Head of Marketing. John was previously Head of Brand at Carrot.com
• Carta: April Lindauer was promoted to General Counsel at Carta.

David Puth — Centre

• Centre: We enjoyed partnering with Alesia Haas from Coinbase and Jeremy Allaire from Circle to recruit David Puth as CEO of Centre, the Coinbase and Circle joint venture responsible for the USDC stable coin. Most recently, David was CEO of CLS Group.
• Circle: Flavia Naves joined Circle as General Counsel. Flavia was previously General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Qwil. Link

Milana McCullagh — Coinbase

• Coinbase: Milana McCullagh joined Coinbase as VP, Deputy General Counsel, Product and Commercial Legal. Milana was previously Senior Director, Legal at Google. Link
• Compass: Steve Sordello joined the Board of Directors at Compass. Steve is CFO at LinkedIn. Link
• Credit Sesame: Ian Foley joined Credit Sesame as Head of Corporate Development. Ian was previously SVP of Business Development at Uphold. Link
• Fiserv: Denis O’Leary was appointed Chairman of the Board at Fiserv. Denis is a private investor and former Co-Managing Partner of Encore Financial Partners. Link Additionally, Kevin Warren joined the Board of Directors at Fiserv. Kevin is Chief Marketing Officer at UPS. Link
• Google: Aser (Rodriguez) Blanco joined Google as Head of Financial Services — Americas for Google Cloud. Aser was previously Managing Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Capital One.
• Hatch Card: Bert Friedman joined Hatch Card as Head of Compliance. Bert was previously Head of Compliance at Deserve.

Sandra Wijnberg — Hippo

• Hippo: Sandra Wijnberg joined the Board of Directors at Hippo. Most recently, Sandra was a Partner and CAO at Aquiline Holdings. Link
• Lemonade: Veena Ramaswamy joined Lemonade as Head of Corporate Development. Veena was previously VP, Head of Strategy and Corporate Development at CommonBond.
• Libra: Saumya Bhavsar joined Libra Networks as General Counsel. Saumya was previously Managing Director and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs at Credit Suisse. Link
• NerdWallet: Lynne Laube joined the Board of Directors at NerdWallet. Lynne is CEO and co-founder of Cardlytics. Link
• Opendoor: Andrew Low Ah Kee joined Opendoor as President. Andrew was previously Chief Operating Officer at GoDaddy. Link
• Point: Raghu Gupta joined Point as Head of Sales. Raghu was previously Head of Personal Loans at SoFi.
• Point72: Sunny Parikh joined Point72 Ventures as an Operating Partner. Sunny was previously Co-Head at the FinTech Innovation Lab.

Vlad Tenev — Robinhood

• Robinhood: Vlad Tenev has become sole CEO of Robinhood, a role he previously shared with Baiju Bhatt. Link
• Tally: Anthony Schrauth joined Tally as VP of Product. Anthony was previously Head of Product at Two Sigma IQ. Additionally, Meg Ciarallo joined Tally as Head of Marketing. Meg was previously Senior Director of Global Brand Marketing at StubHub. Link
• Trim: Ryan Reynolds joined Trim as Head of Product. Ryan was previously Senior Product Manager at Dave.
• UiPath: Jennifer Tejada joined the Board of Directors at UiPath. Jennifer is CEO of PagerDuty. Link

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