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Michelle Neal
Michelle Neal is Group Chief Executive Officer of Fnality International, the London-based fintech running the first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system. She joined Fnality in early 2025 after leading the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and previously ran BNY Mellon's global markets business as its CEO. Her mandate: extend Fnality's central-bank-backed settlement rails from sterling into dollar and euro, and turn a working pilot into the plumbing of 24/7 institutional finance.
Arjun Jayaram
Arjun Jayaram is the Founder and CEO of Baton Systems, a San Francisco-based fintech company rebuilding post-trade infrastructure for the world's largest financial institutions. A serial technologist who previously co-founded Compass Labs (acquired by Yahoo) and held roles at Twitter and Dwolla, Jayaram identified a stubborn problem in the financial plumbing - that moving digital assets across different ledgers was the real bottleneck, not the digitization of assets themselves. Under his leadership, Baton's platform now processes nearly $30 billion in daily transaction value for seven of the nine largest western banks, enabling real-time settlement and intraday liquidity management without requiring institutions to replace their core systems.