Sophia Furber is a journalist with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she leads EMEA fintech and banking tech reporting. Full Bio

Sophia Furber is a journalist with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where she leads EMEA fintech and banking tech reporting. Sophia has over 10 years' experience as a financial journalist and political analyst, having worked with Oxford Business Group, The Carter Center and a range of leading business titles prior to joining S&P Global. Minimize

Sean is Chief Information Officer at OakNorth, the creator of the 0akNorth Credit Intelligence Suite.  Prior to joining OakNorth, Sean was one of the first commercial engineers at Palantir Technologies in Europe Full Bio

Sean is Chief Information Officer at OakNorth, the creator of the 0akNorth Credit Intelligence Suite.  Prior to joining OakNorth, Sean was one of the first commercial engineers at Palantir Technologies in Europe where he led trader oversight partnerships with large financial institutions, particularly Credit Suisse, which led to being co-head of the JV called Signac. Before Palantir, Sean was a strategist at Goldman Sachs for eight years, working in a number of areas including equities, fixed income and algorithmic trading. Prior to GS he was IT director at a dot com start-up writing their initial systems and managing a growing development team through two IPOs.  

Sean is an advisor to entrepreneurs at Antler the social impact start-up Kamayi and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital Banking. Sean contributed a chapter to "The RegTech Book" (Wiley Press) and is co-author on two patents in the field of anomaly detection. Minimize

As Chief Client Officer, Dr Leda Glyptis focuses on driving client success for existing and new 10x clients Full Bio

As Chief Client Officer, Dr Leda Glyptis focuses on driving client success for existing and new 10x clients.

Leda is a former banker, technology executive and founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry, where she led the growth of its modular core digital banking offering. Prior to that, Leda was Chief Innovation Officer at Qatar National Bank, the largest bank in the Middle East and North Africa, with responsibilities for employee-driven and market-led innovation strategy and execution.

Before QNB, Leda was a Director at business and technology consulting firm Sapient, focusing on digital transformation and emerging technologies, and led EMEA innovation at BNY Mellon. Leda joined BNY Mellon from fintech start-up Great East London Software, where she served as head of services development.

Leda holds an MA from King’s College, Cambridge, and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has taught politics, global governance and management principles, while working in management roles across various industries. Minimize

Driven by a love for economics and finance, Filipe started his career working on IT projects at major international banking groups. Full Bio

Driven by a love for economics and finance, Filipe started his career working on IT projects at major international banking groups. For example, he worked for the Santander Group in Lisbon and Madrid on IT projects for the Risk area until 2011. In 2012, he joined the Italian technology firm Reply in London, heading up various digital transformation projects for groups such as Deutschbank, BNP Paribas and UniCredit, gaining further international experience in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. In 2014, he joined the UniCredit Group as the Head of IT Financial Risk, a path that would then lead him to drive the Digital Core Banking Transformation and the Commercial Banking Software Factory.

In 2018, he came on board at illimity as the Chief Information Officer to help create a new paradigm bank driven by technological innovation. Filipe is married to Leila and in his spare time he is interested in sports, economics, technology and history Minimize