Susanne Chishti is the CEO of FINTECH Circle, Europe’s 1st Angel Network focused on fintech opportunities & Founder of the FINTECH Circle Institute, the leading fintech learning platform offering Innovation Workshops to C-level executives and online courses. She is also the Co-Editor of the Bestseller “The FINTECH Book” which has been translated into 10 languages and is sold across 107 countries, and The WealthTECH Book and The InsurTECH Book (published by WILEY in 2018).
She has also been a fintech TV Commentator on CNBC. After completing her MBA she started her career working for a fintech company (before the term “fintech” was being invented) in the Silicon Valley 20 years ago. She then worked more than 15 years’ across Deutsche Bank, Lloyds Banking Group, Morgan Stanley and Accenture in London and Hong Kong.
Susanne is an award-winning Entrepreneur and Investor with strong FINTECH expertise. She is a Judge & Coach at global FINTECH events and competitions and a conference keynote speaker. Susanne leads a global community of 120,000 fintech entrepreneurs, investors, financial services professionals globally (www.fintechcircle.com). Our advisory practise includes leading financial institutions as clients such as Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and UK’s innovation agency NESTA which appointed us as partner for the £5 million Open Up Challenge Prize to work on Open Banking initiatives for SME Banking in the UK.