ARCHIVE: Spring 2021 Series

A 25 year veteran in the payment industry, and current CEO of BlueSnap, Ralph Dangelmaier has spent his career creating financial products, while growing both public and private companies. Stemming from his years of industry experience, Ralph brings a wealth of knowledge related to leading strategy, marketing, sales, product development and other initiatives to BlueSnap’s global customer base. Most recently, Ralph was named one of the Top 50 SaaS CEOs by the SaaS Report and a finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year program. Prior, Ralph served as the President of ACI Worldwide and CEO of P&H Solutions ...

Alissa Onofrio graduated cum laude from Stonehill College in 2017 with a BSBA in finance and a minor in economics.  Upon graduation, she began a position as an Investment Analyst in John Hancock’s Investment Division Rotational Program where she completed four six-month rotations over the course of two years: Law and Compliance, Hancock Natural Resource Group, Risk Analytics and ESG in London and Real Estate.  Alissa graduated from the program and landed a permanent position as an Investment Operations Analyst at Hancock Capital Management.  Alissa now works at a fintech startup in Downtown Boston called Flywire. She works as an Associate ...

Deniz Johnson is a results-driven digital transformation expert and intrapreneur with the demonstrated ability to successfully implement emerging technology and build innovative culture in established firms. Balancing strategic insight with hands-on technical knowledge, Johnson has a proven track record leading large-scale initiatives in industries including asset management, financial services, software, and healthcare across the Americas and EMEA. As a FinTech thought leader, speaker and Startup board member, Johnson is passionate about the responsible use of AI and Machine Learning (ML) in highly regulated industries to level the playing field for startups, established firms and society. Johnson is the founder and ...

Nick Maynard is a Senior Vice President for Commonwealth, where he has spent almost 15 years building, piloting, and scaling innovations to improve the lives of financially vulnerable Americans. Commonwealth has helped nearly 1M Americans save more than $3 billion. Nick is an expert on savings innovation, especially prize-linked savings, gamification and tax-time savings; and he has led successful strategic partnerships with Walmart, Staples, and H&R Block. As part of the Blackrock Emergency Savings Initiative, Nick currently leads efforts deploying proven, innovative savings to LMI Americans at scale via their employers, financial services firms, fintech partners, and gig platforms. Nick is also exploring innovative ...

Ali is the current Country Manager for Touch Group in Kenya. He also supervises business development activities in Uganda, Tanzania and Egypt. Touch Group is a pan-african fintech company that aggregates means of payment and digital services across the continent for potential merchants like Total. From 2017 to date, Ali has integrated into the Touch Platform partners like Safaricom MPESA in Kenya, Airtel Money and MTN for mobile payments, GTP USA for prepaid cards, WorldRemit and RIA for international remittances, and banks like Equity, Ecobank, UBA for services related to payment and agency banking. Africa has seen a rapid rise ...

Kim (she/her) is the global head of diversity, equity and inclusion at Remitly, a fintech company serving over 4 million immigrants throughout the world to conveniently send money safely and securely to their families across global borders. She has been a banking executive in the financial services industry for over 20 years. The first half of Kim's career was spent building and growing new lines of business. The latter half has been dedicated to scaling the social impact of financial institutions, developing and leading corporate social responsibility and ESG strategies, including how companies build trust and rapport with customers and ...

William H. Hebert is a senior industry advisor and director working with various organizations and committees in both financial services and other industries. Throughout his career Mr. Hebert has been responsible for strategic technology, product and business development, electronic trading & trading systems technology, global market structure initiatives, client relationship management and strategic partnerships.  Mr. Hebert most recently served as managing director of the Financial Information Forum (FIF), partner and managing director at Alpha Omega Financial Systems, and as vice president and director of Strategic Development and Trading Solutions for Fidelity Capital Markets and the Institutional Products Group of Fidelity Investments, where he managed the various aspects ...

Ashley is a senior vice president at Eastern Bank, where she is the chief digital strategist and head of Eastern Labs. She is responsible for driving innovation and connecting Eastern Bank to the broader fintech ecosystem through experimentation, partnership and investment. She also serves as the program development chair for Brandeis University’s Masters in Digital Innovation for FinTech Program – the first program of its kind in the country. She holds a BS in Business Administration from Boston University and a MBA from Northeastern University ...