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Mukund Ramachandran’s Long Road From Ad Tech to the HSA Moment
After two decades turning complex software into stories buyers could use, the HealthEquity CMO has a new brief: make an underused financial account legible to millions more Americans.
Greg Boosin
After nearly two decades learning every side of Mastercard, Greg Boosin moved to Equitable with a practical thesis: complicated financial products still have to make sense to actual people.
Jill Kramer
Jill Kramer learned to make weather maps by hand, found her footing on Madison Avenue and rebuilt a global consultancy's brand. Now she is asking what Mastercard's next chapter should feel like in an age of AI, agentic commerce and fragile trust.
Eric Solis
Eric Solis is the founder and CEO of MovoCash, Inc., a fintech company building on-demand mobile banking for the underbanked. A self-described full-stack entrepreneur with more than 25 years in finance, he was a senior investments executive at Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities before launching SaveDaily and SAVE252. At MovoCash he developed MOVO, a patented platform that blends on-demand banking, distributed-ledger technology and AI to issue Real Time Payment Cards and move digital cash peer-to-peer. The company raised roughly $9 million across a 2016 seed and a 2018 Series A, partnered with Mastercard and FDIC-insured banks, and grew past 250,000 users.
James Savoldelli
James Savoldelli is the founder and CEO of Pesto, a San Francisco fintech building an asset-backed secured credit card that lets people borrow against valuables like gold and watches without selling them or needing a credit score. A Stanford Human Biology grad and NYC native, he worked inside Los Angeles's largest pawnshop during the pandemic, watched customers cycle through loans that never built credit, and turned that observation into a Mastercard issued by Continental Bank. Pesto went through Y Combinator (W21) and raised $11M in Series A funding in 2023 from investors including Activant Capital and Plural.
Lawrence Herman
Lawrence Herman is the Chief Financial Officer and AI Strategy Leader at Cents, the all-in-one operating system for laundromats and dry cleaners. A payments and fintech finance veteran, he has steered the books at Dwolla, Accrete, and Paxful, and logged earlier stretches at Mastercard, American Express, Dataminr, EY, Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs. Harvard-trained in economics, he is known for calm during industry cycles, a preacher's zeal for financial literacy, and a habit of walking into every meeting with three discussion points and three asks.
Paul Monasterio
Paul Monasterio is the CEO and co-founder of Kalepa, a New York AI company building decision-support software for commercial insurance underwriters. A Venezuelan-born nuclear physicist with a PhD from MIT, he traded particle research for big-data analytics at Applied Predictive Technologies (acquired by Mastercard for $600M) and Facebook before launching Kalepa in 2018. Its Copilot platform helps underwriters 'bind with confidence,' and the company raised a $14M Series A from Inspired Capital in 2021.
Vicky Bindra
Vicky Bindra is the CEO of Trulioo, a Vancouver-based global identity verification platform that has raised $478M in funding. A Chartered Accountant with an MBA from MIT Sloan, Bindra brings nearly 30 years of fintech and payments experience from leadership roles at Visa, Mastercard, Citi, GE Capital, Pine Labs, FIS, and Nuvei. Appointed CEO of Trulioo on April 1, 2025, he is now focused on accelerating product innovation, AI integration, and establishing Trulioo as the trusted infrastructure layer for digital identity in the era of agentic commerce.