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Mike Wolfel and the Work Between the Screens
For three decades, Mike Wolfel has worked on the plumbing of finance. At Savana, his campaign is simple to state and difficult to execute: make a bank's many systems behave like one bank.
Alison Durant Learned Strategy on the Water - Then Took It Into the C-Suite
A sailing instructor's unexpected internship became a career in technology marketing. Three decades later, Durant still treats leadership like navigation: read the conditions, trust the crew, and keep the plan flexible.
Mackenzie Burnett Took the Long Road to Make Accounting Feel Like Freedom
Before Ambrook became financial software for 8,000 independent businesses, its CEO spent years chasing a less fashionable question: what do farms, ranches and family companies actually need to stay independent?
Julián Colombo
Julián Colombo is the founder and CEO of N5 Now, a multinational technology company that builds AI-driven software for banks, insurers and financial firms. After 20 years inside Banco Santander - ending as Global Managing Director of CRM and Business Intelligence in Madrid - he left in 2017 to start N5 with a USD 100 idea. Today N5 works across 18 countries with clients including Santander, Mastercard and Itaú, and in February 2025 raised a USD 20 million Series A to accelerate its banking AI products. An economist and journalist by training, and a former member of Argentina's parliament, Colombo is a frequent voice on how AI will reshape finance over the next decade.