Month: November 2017

Global Innovations, Operational Efficiencies, and Diversity & Inclusion Programs Leader London, United Kingdom LinkedIn Profile Your career in banking started out in recruiting, and ended up as head of transformation/innovation. How did your time in HR influence your views on how to best tackle system transformations? Although business transformation is perceived as organisation and processes, in reality it always comes down to inspiring the leaders and staff to motivate them to thrive and change. My HR background fed my…

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Startup Accelerator Program Manager at Wells Fargo Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota LinkedIn Profile | Wells Fargo Accelerator You grew up in a family of entrepreneurs. How did this shape you in your career? I seem to have inherited the drive, intelligence, risk taking, as wells as a ‘what could be’ take on nearly everything. I grew up as one of four children. I was the first born of the next generation in my family and a woman. My life, among my…

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Chief Marketing Officer at Capital One, UK London, England @AmyLenander | LinkedIn Profile You’re Chief Marketing Officer at Capital One UK, but you started out with the bank in McLean, Virginia. How did you get tapped to join the UK team? I’ve worked at Capital One my whole career, and one of the main reasons I’ve stayed is that I continue to get to learn new things and take on different challenges. My experience in our US business ranged from…

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Chairman & Co-Founder, FirstCapital London, England @hazel_moore | LinkedIn Profile You’ve garnered accolades for your work in Private Equity, but you didn’t exactly plan on being in finance. You studied Natural Sciences at University. How did you wind up in finance? I started in finance by chance really. I had a degree in sciences, but through a series of circumstances I found myself in Hong Kong and I needed a job. As Hong Kong is a major financial centre,…

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By Michelle Moffatt and Amy Ciolek Picture this… You are at a work function or out at a dinner party with friends, and someone asks you, ‘what do you do’? Do you: A) Mumble something hardly audible because you feel a little awkies because in reality you are the big boss running the show B) Add words like; ‘just’, ‘only’, ‘small’ or ‘little’ to describe your empire that is minting it C) Proclaim proudly and unapologetically from the roof…

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VP & GM Credit Americas at PayPal Washington, DC LinkedIn Profile The central theme of “helping people in their financial lives” repeatedly came up during our conversation. Why is this your personal mantra? My passion for helping people achieve financial health stems directly from my own experience growing up. I watched my parents struggle to make ends meet, leveraging credit cards to survive, and then eventually getting stuck in a vicious cycle that took them decades to recover…

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