Top 15 Fintech Speakers to Book for Your Event in 2026
The right fintech speakers can shift how your audience thinks about money, technology, and what's coming next. I've pulled together the voices worth booking—people who bring real expertise, sharp insights, and ideas your attendees will actually use long after the event ends.
Top 15 Fintech Speakers
Below are the profiles of the top fintech speakers, covering who they are and the impact they've made in this space.
Renaud Laplanche
Renaud Laplanche is co-founder and CEO of Upgrade and previously founded and led LendingClub. These two fintech businesses are centered on consumer credit, digital banking, and lending innovation.
Laplanche helped make online…
Renaud Laplanche is co-founder and CEO of Upgrade and previously founded and led LendingClub. These two fintech businesses are centered on consumer credit, digital banking, and lending innovation.
Laplanche helped make online personal lending more widely accepted before building Upgrade around consumer credit and banking products. His experience launching, growing, funding, and leading major fintech companies gives finance leaders practical insight into credit and financial innovation.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Sebastian Siemiatkowski co-founded Klarna in 2005 and remains its CEO. He has led the company from a Stockholm startup to a global digital bank and publicly traded fintech business.
His work spans…
Sebastian Siemiatkowski co-founded Klarna in 2005 and remains its CEO. He has led the company from a Stockholm startup to a global digital bank and publicly traded fintech business.
His work spans payments, consumer credit, commerce, AI, and the economics of scaling financial technology. As Klarna has evolved from checkout provider to global digital bank, Siemiatkowski has become a prominent voice on fintech growth, efficiency, customer experience, and technological change.
Jackie Reses
Jackie Reses is co-founder, CEO, and chair of Lead Bank, a technology-focused bank. Her career also spans Block, Yahoo, Apax Partners, Goldman Sachs, and major public-company board roles.
At Lead, Reses is…
Jackie Reses is co-founder, CEO, and chair of Lead Bank, a technology-focused bank. Her career also spans Block, Yahoo, Apax Partners, Goldman Sachs, and major public-company board roles.
At Lead, Reses is building banking infrastructure for fintech and technology companies. Her earlier work at Block included Square Financial Services and Square Capital, giving her a broad perspective on banking, credit, payments, technology, investing, and the infrastructure beneath financial products.
Lito Villanueva
Lito Villanueva is EVP and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer at RCBC. His work covers digital banking, financial inclusion, fintech, and public policy.
Villanueva has built his career around expanding digital financial…
Lito Villanueva is EVP and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer at RCBC. His work covers digital banking, financial inclusion, fintech, and public policy.
Villanueva has built his career around expanding digital financial services and connecting banking innovation with inclusion. He gives CFO audiences an Asia-Pacific perspective on digital finance, regulated innovation, access, and how established banks respond to fast-moving fintech markets.
Immad Akhund
Immad Akhund is co-founder and CEO of Mercury, the fintech company building banking and financial workflows for startups. He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in software and startups.
Akhund has…
Immad Akhund is co-founder and CEO of Mercury, the fintech company building banking and financial workflows for startups. He is a serial entrepreneur with a background in software and startups.
Akhund has helped build a fintech model designed for technology companies. Through Mercury’s accounts, payments, treasury services, and other financial tools, he has gained practical insight into the banking needs of founders and finance teams.
Edward Woodford
Edward Woodford is Founder and CEO of zerohash, a financial infrastructure company for crypto, stablecoins, and tokenized assets. He previously built and sold a regulated derivatives venue.
Woodford develops infrastructure that connects…
Edward Woodford is Founder and CEO of zerohash, a financial infrastructure company for crypto, stablecoins, and tokenized assets. He previously built and sold a regulated derivatives venue.
Woodford develops infrastructure that connects traditional finance with onchain money. His work covers custody, settlement, liquidity, tokenization, stablecoins, and regulated digital assets, giving finance leaders useful insight into new payment systems and financial infrastructure.
Rohit Arora
Rohit Arora is co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit and Biz2X, businesses focused on small-business finance and digital lending. He has led their work in credit, data, and lending technology.
Arora has spent…
Rohit Arora is co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit and Biz2X, businesses focused on small-business finance and digital lending. He has led their work in credit, data, and lending technology.
Arora has spent nearly two decades applying technology and data to small-business finance. His work spans lending platforms, AI, underwriting, and access to capital, giving finance audiences a close view of how digital lending is changing credit decisions and the infrastructure behind business funding.
Phil Goldfeder
Phil Goldfeder is CEO of the American Fintech Council, representing responsible fintech companies. His career includes fintech public affairs, the New York State Assembly, and government service.
Goldfeder works across financial innovation,…
Phil Goldfeder is CEO of the American Fintech Council, representing responsible fintech companies. His career includes fintech public affairs, the New York State Assembly, and government service.
Goldfeder works across financial innovation, regulation, consumer protection, and public policy. His experience in government and fintech gives finance leaders practical insights into regulatory changes, responsible innovation, bank-fintech partnerships, and financial-services policy.
Peter Renton
Peter Renton is founder and CEO of Renton & Co and creator and host of Fintech One-on-One. He previously co-founded Fintech Nexus and has covered fintech through media and events since…
Peter Renton is founder and CEO of Renton & Co and creator and host of Fintech One-on-One. He previously co-founded Fintech Nexus and has covered fintech through media and events since 2010.
Renton has interviewed fintech founders and executives across lending, payments, banking, and financial infrastructure for more than a decade. That exposure gives him a distinctive ability to connect emerging fintech models with the strategic issues facing financial institutions and finance leaders.
Misha Esipov
Misha Esipov is co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit, a credit infrastructure and analytics company. Before entrepreneurship, he worked in finance at Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management.
Esipov built Nova Credit…
Misha Esipov is co-founder and CEO of Nova Credit, a credit infrastructure and analytics company. Before entrepreneurship, he worked in finance at Goldman Sachs and Apollo Global Management.
Esipov built Nova Credit around gaps in traditional credit data and has expanded its work into cash-flow underwriting and analytics. His perspective connects data infrastructure, lending, risk, and financial inclusion—giving finance audiences a grounded look at how new data sources are reshaping credit decisions.
Maik Taro Wehmeyer
Maik Taro Wehmeyer is co-founder and CEO of Taktile, a decision platform used by financial institutions to automate and improve risk decisions across lending, fraud, and financial crime.
Wehmeyer focuses on helping…
Maik Taro Wehmeyer is co-founder and CEO of Taktile, a decision platform used by financial institutions to automate and improve risk decisions across lending, fraud, and financial crime.
Wehmeyer focuses on helping regulated financial institutions use data and AI to make better decisions. Through Taktile’s work in credit risk and financial crime, he offers CFOs practical insights into automation, growth, risk management, and modern financial infrastructure.
Alex Johnson
Alex Johnson is the founder of Fintech Takes, where he works as a writer, podcaster, researcher, and consultant. His career includes financial-services strategy, research, marketing, and fintech analysis.
Through Fintech Takes,…
Alex Johnson is the founder of Fintech Takes, where he works as a writer, podcaster, researcher, and consultant. His career includes financial-services strategy, research, marketing, and fintech analysis.
Through Fintech Takes, Johnson explores the mechanics behind lending, payments, banking infrastructure, regulation, and AI in financial services. His analysis helps finance audiences look past fintech headlines and understand the incentives, risks, and business models underneath them.
Charly Kevers
Charly Kevers is CFO of Carta, a company focused on equity management and private capital. He previously held finance leadership roles at marketplace and technology companies.
Kevers offers the perspective of a…
Charly Kevers is CFO of Carta, a company focused on equity management and private capital. He previously held finance leadership roles at marketplace and technology companies.
Kevers offers the perspective of a CFO whose team uses the same financial and equity tools his company develops. His work covers finance operations, private-market data, ownership, automation, and AI. He also explores how finance teams can make decisions using real-time financial records.
Prashant Fuloria
Prashant Fuloria is CEO of Fundbox, a small-business lending company. He brings more than 25 years of product and technology leadership, including roles at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Flurry.
Fuloria combines technology…
Prashant Fuloria is CEO of Fundbox, a small-business lending company. He brings more than 25 years of product and technology leadership, including roles at Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and Flurry.
Fuloria combines technology and product expertise with experience leading a fintech lender for small businesses. His work across payments, monetization, data, and lending gives finance leaders a broad view of how technology can improve access to working capital and other financial products.
Long Dinh
Long Dinh is CFO of Ada, the AI customer-service company, where he works across finance, growth, and AI. He also invests in and advises early-stage technology companies.
Dinh brings a finance leader’s…
Long Dinh is CFO of Ada, the AI customer-service company, where he works across finance, growth, and AI. He also invests in and advises early-stage technology companies.
Dinh brings a finance leader’s perspective to the growth of AI-focused businesses. At Ada, he explains how organizations adopt AI agents. His investing and advisory work also gives him insight into startup finances, capital allocation, and technology growth.
Selection Methodology
We selected the leaders on this list based on their relevance, demonstrated expertise and impact, professional credibility, and ongoing contributions to the field.
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We look for evidence such as leading meaningful initiatives or delivering notable results within their organizations, developing influential ideas or practices, publishing research or educational resources, speaking or teaching, and other contributions that demonstrate impact within their work or the broader field.
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