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Anish Karyat Spent Two Decades Teaching Bonds to Move Faster
After 15 years at Jane Street and a turn leading systematic credit at Citadel Securities, Anish Karyat joined former colleagues at Moment. His assignment is familiar in principle and larger in scope: turn the bond market's hard-won human judgment into software.
Quan Nguyen Is Building a Payday That Arrives When the Work Does
The former banker left a comfortable finance career to rethink the long wait between earning money and receiving it. At Gimo, his wager is that a fairer payday can become the front door to wider financial access for Vietnam’s workers.
Anubhav Kaushal Has Spent 20 Years Learning Where Finance Gets Stuck
From writing software at D. E. Shaw to helping 9fin scale an AI-native credit platform, AK Kaushal has built a career around one stubborn question: how do you make complicated financial systems actually move?
Arad Levertov Turned One Awkward “No” Into Millions of Better Answers
A declined store card gave the immigrant fintech executive a problem worth keeping. His answer was Sunbit - built at the counter, scaled through merchants, and disciplined by an operator’s allergy to waste.
Christopher Lotz Bet on the Boring Part of Fintech
A yacht underwriter crossed oceans, learned the machinery of risk, and came home to rebuild renters insurance around a plain idea: the customer should be on the same side as the company.
Nanna Nielsen
Nanna Nielsen is the Chief Business Officer of Critical Loop, a Los Angeles-area industrial power company that helps factories, airports and data centers get electricity in days instead of years by pairing battery storage with autonomous control software. A Danish-born operator who once ran banking operations for fintech unicorn GoCardless - overseeing more than $52 billion in transactions for 93,000+ businesses - she now applies that same operational rigor to fixing America's grid bottleneck. The company raised a $26 million Series A in April 2026.
Nihad Rahman
Nihad Rahman is the CEO of ezCater, the Boston-founded online marketplace that turns office lunch into logistics across 100,000+ restaurants. He joined in 2022 as CFO after two decades in finance at JPMorgan Chase and General Electric, stepped in as interim chief in January 2025, and was handed the permanent job that May - succeeding 16-year co-founder Stefania Mallett. He runs a roughly 850-person company from Bronxville, New York, commuting to the downtown Boston headquarters rather than the other way around.