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Accomplished leader with over 25 years of proven track record of product delivery and business results. Unique ability to take a company in new, innovative, and sometimes disruptive directions while recognizing and building upon the valuable assets of existing customers and profitable businesses. Champion of inspiring people and building global high-performance teams. Prior to TeleSign, Tom has built several success stories on SaaS and Communications at Cisco and Poly.

Telco and SaaS veteran, Guillaume is the former founder of a Belgian public company’ spin-off into the U.S with 15+ years of experience in Telecommunications, Identity and Security. As an executive at TeleSign he is leading the Data and Identity roadmap and vision – heading teams responsible for Data Science, Identity Products, and Technology Partnerships.

Guillaume lives in Los Angeles, California where he aspires to live in full harmony following the path of his spiritual mentor: JCVD

Jason is the Head of Citi Innovation Labs, London. With a background in digital product development and digital transformation, his passion is helping businesses break into new markets through the better use of data and applied research. He has over 20 years’ experience building digital products and services for the banking, insurance, scientific, energy, and legal sectors. Having led AI and analytics product teams within Bloomberg and Refinitiv and being a hands-on techie and data scientist, he understands the value of information and enjoys leading applied research teams.

Jason has extensive experience partnering with financial institutions and clients to create new business models and partnership strategies.

Jason is also serves as a Trustee at the Institute of Business Ethics where he promotes the ethical use of AI in decision making processes.

Ornit joined Citi Venture in March 2017 to lead its venture investment activities in Israel. Her focus of interest includes data FinTech and Enterprise. As part of her role she also manages Citi’s Global Innovation Labs external Innovation and Citi’s Accelerator. Ornit is on the advisory board of Copenhagen Fintech, Biocatch, Contguard, Silverfort and a board member in Access Fintech.

Prior to this role, Ornit ran External Innovation and Business Development for Lenovo in Europe and Israel. In this capacity, she invested in Cloud technologies as well as Artificial Intelligence and biometric authentication. Prior to Lenovo, Ornit worked at Citi, where she founded and ran Citi’s first Accelerator. Prior to Citi, she founded and served in managerial roles in multiple companies.

Ornit founded Yazamiyot, Israel’s leading women’s entrepreneur network, and was selected by Haaretz (one of Israel’s leading newspapers) as one of 66 Women You Should Know. Ornit, who clerked for the President of the Israeli Supreme Court, holds a joint honors degree in English Law and French Law from the London School of Economics and an LLM cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Adam Elboimis a trailblazer in modern telco-based authentication and verification. In 2013 Adam designed the first mobile operator reference APIs for mobile identity, wrote the original mobile operator contracts, and created the industry compensation scheme that largely still exists today. Since then, Adam has continued to expand his impact within the mobile identity space, leading the global sales engineering team at Juvo (building credit identities using telco data) and currently as VP of Product for Identity at Boku. In his current role, Adam is responsible for strategy and global scalability of the company’s next-generation authentication products to stop account takeovers and verification products to stop synthetic identities.

Adam has an MBA from Duke University and resides in San Mateo, CA.

Rajat co-founded Yabx in 2018 with a mission to build a platform that enables financial access to the under-banked using proprietary AI and ML algorithms on massive amounts of alternate data. Prior to starting Yabx, he spent almost a decade working in various operating roles such as Channel Sales, Marketing and Product Management for Comviva Technologies, the global leader in Mobility Solutions.

Prior to Comviva, He was a strategy consultant with ElectrifAi (erstwhile called Opera Solutions) where he worked with top PE firms and their portfolio companies in the US on various data driven projects across Financial Services, Consumer goods and Telecom space.  Prior to ElectrifAi, he was an analyst with Hughes Software Systems, a unit of Hughes Network Systems, where he wrote code for the SGSN and GGSN  network nodes. Rajat has an MBA from INSEAD France where he took most of his electives in Entrepreneurship and Decision Sciences.

After working for credit card portfolios of major banks and insurance companies in US and UK, Arpan started looking for use cases of data science to improve people’s lives. He started with solving problems in agriculture using data and then landed in solving credit and fraud problems using ML-driven algorithms on Telco and other alternative data sources.

Arpan’s own journey to excellence has been fueled by an unrelenting passion for empowering people. From a childhood fascination with mathematics and visualization, Arpan’s gift and passion for mining insights from data allowed him to think out of the box and develop business solutions.

His studies in engineering, statistics, and business enable him to drive scalable, economically viable, and continuous innovation.