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Snehal Fulzele
Snehal Fulzele is the founder and CEO of UPTIQ, a McKinney, Texas company building an AI agent platform for banks, credit unions, wealth managers and non-bank lenders. A Carnegie Mellon-trained engineer who spent time at Adobe and Oracle before co-founding Cloud Lending Solutions (sold to Q2 Holdings in 2018 for about $105M), he is now on his second fintech infrastructure company, having raised roughly $69M in total including a $25M Series B in February 2026 led by Curql.
Joel Kandy
Joel Kandy is the Chief Business Officer at Lyzr AI, the New Jersey-based agent-building platform, where he runs global enterprise sales and pushes governed, production-ready AI agents into banks, insurers, healthcare and e-commerce. A Columbia computer-science grad who started on a Credit Suisse trading-tech desk, he spent the 2010s selling security and intelligence software in heavily regulated markets at ThetaRay, KELA, CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard) and IronVest before betting on agentic AI. He argues, loudly and often on LinkedIn, that banks are stalled not by the models but by operating discipline.