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The $1 doorway Norman Wanto built into Wall Street
A scholarship student became a software builder, then turned a three-person coding sprint into a cross-border investing platform. His quiet advantage was never finance theatre - it was systems thinking.
Michelle Katics
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.
Michael Wu
Michael Wu is the founder and CEO of Interlace (interlace.money), a Singapore-based card issuance and digital-asset payments platform that has issued more than 6 million cards across 180+ countries for over 12,000 enterprise clients. A Stanford-trained engineer who built software at Google, Dropcam, and PalmDrive before turning founder, Wu set out to collapse the months-long process of issuing branded payment cards into an API call, positioning stablecoins as the bridge between Web3 and traditional finance. In December 2024 Interlace raised $10 million in Series B1 funding led by Bitrock Capital.