Michelle Katics is the co-founder and CEO of BankersLab and PortfolioQuest, SaaS simulation platforms she describes as flight simulators for bankers. After two decades inside the machinery of global finance - the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the IMF, Fair Isaac (FICO), and Standard Chartered - she decided the best way to teach risk was to let people lose fake money first. Her platforms run synthetic loan portfolios with more than a trillion possible outcomes, training bankers in over 45 countries. A fixture of the Singapore and Southeast Asian fintech scene, she has been named to the Women in FinTech Power List and recognized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Carolyn Mooney is the co-founder and CEO of Nextmv, a Philadelphia-based developer platform for building, testing, and deploying decision models - everything from vehicle routing to staff scheduling. A systems engineer by training, she ran missile simulations at Lockheed Martin, optimized pizza deliveries at Zoomer, and led Grubhub's systems engineering team before deciding the messy gap between data science and operations needed its own discipline. She calls it DecisionOps. In May 2026, FICO acquired Nextmv, vindicating the bet she and co-founder Ryan O'Neil made that optimization deserved the same engineering rigor as software.
Will Lansing is the CEO of FICO, the analytics software company that invented the credit score - a number that quietly governs whether Americans can buy homes, cars, or start businesses. Since taking the helm in January 2012, he has transformed FICO from a $620M revenue business into a nearly $2B enterprise, steering it through the AI revolution while insisting that credit decisions must remain explainable and transparent. A lawyer by training, a McKinsey veteran by discipline, and an endurance athlete by temperament, Lansing has spent 30+ years running companies across internet media, direct marketing, and private equity before landing at the company whose three-digit score most Americans know by heart.