
After years of buying marketing technology for financial advisers, Susan Theder crossed the table to build it - betting that the best system is the one that gives busy people their time back without sanding away their personality.

The English major turned fintech executive has spent her career making complicated subjects easier to enter. At eMoney, her real product is not software alone - it is permission to begin a useful conversation about money.

For more than two decades at Raymond James, Mike White has worked on a delicate brief: give thousands of financial advisors the tools of a large institution without sanding away the personal voices that clients trust.