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Jessica Chen Riolfi
Jessica Chen Riolfi is the co-founder and CEO of Uprise, a fintech building embedded tax and financial advisory for small business owners. She spent more than a decade shipping products at Wise, Earnin and Robinhood, ran TransferWise's Asia business across 15 countries, and started out in J.P. Morgan investment banking before pairing human advisors with AI to make real financial advice affordable for entrepreneurs.
Taavet Hinrikus
Taavet Hinrikus is an Estonian tech entrepreneur who became Skype's first employee, co-founded Wise (formerly TransferWise) in 2010 - growing it into Europe's largest fintech IPO via a 2021 direct listing at $11B - and now invests through Plural Platform alongside backing social initiatives like kood/Jõhvi coding school. One of Estonia's first billionaires, with a net worth around $1.35 billion, he is also a co-owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers.
Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann is the co-founder and CEO of Wise, the global fintech company making cross-border money transfers radically cheaper and faster. A former Deloitte and PwC consultant, he turned a personal frustration with hidden bank fees into one of Europe's most valuable tech companies—and became Estonia's first billionaire in the process.