Susanne is CEO of Fintech Mundi, Chair of Boards at Payr and VIO and Board Director at Crunchfish, Neonomics and Blippit. She is former Executive Chairman at Zwipe and was Board Director at Nordax and MasterCard Europe. Prior to joining Fintech Mundi, Susanne was Director at Nordea Finance and Head of Cards at Nordea. Susanne is also Regional Ambassador, Nordics and Baltics at Findexable.

Janne Salminen is heading Fintech Farm, which is the fintech hub of Helsinki, and a financial innovation service provider. Fintech Farm is part of Hub13 Ltd the first private startup hub in Helsinki established in 2014 with the focus on startup and corporate collaboration. Janne is an engineer who holds prior experience from the tech industry working both for corporations such as Nokia Networks and several startups.

Rugilė is a senior Investment Advisor for Fintech at Invest Lithuania. She specialises in the global fintech markets and advises international fintech clients on scaling and licensing in Europe. Rugile is focused on helping fintechs to discover business opportunities in Lithuania and is committed to ensuring that they have the best business infrastructure for their operations. She has worked with companies from the United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore, and China, helping them build their European operations by leveraging Lithuania’s talent pool, infrastructure, and regulatory environment.

Atle Sivertsen is the CEO of the Norwegian Fintech Cluster, NCE Finance Innovation, which has in a short time period grown from a regional initiative to a national initiative with international ambitions. He has a degree in Economics and Business Administration (siv.øk.) from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) with focus on e-commerce. Additionally he has taken courses in Design Thinking and Board authorization. He is currently enrolled in the Fintech Executive MBA program at NHH.

Marite dedicates her full attention to building relationships between Swedbank and the startup ecosystem. She has led the collaboration process of creating the first fintech accelerator in the Baltic countries, now graduating it’s 3rd class. Marite organizes events for startups and helps manage DoBe and RockIt fintech hubs in Riga and Vilnius, hosts promising fintechs and facilitating a range of events around innovation trends.