Shail Deep is the Chief Product Officer for TransUnion, one of the biggest credit reference agencies in Europe. She leads the UK and EU teams aiming to help people everywhere access financial opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life. Part of TransUnion’s mission is to use what they call ‘Information for Good’ in order to ensure that every consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace.  She is a retail banking executive with extensive experience in partnerships, innovation, P&L and product development. In this conversation we talk about innovation and w ..read more

Lisa-Marie Fassl is the co-founder and CEO of Female Founders, Europe’s fastest growing community of female entrepreneurs. Lisa and her co-founder, Nina Wöss, set up Female Founders to empower women to start and scale ventures, as well as to tap into wider pools of leadership opportunities. Female Founders’ core accelerator program is now the go-to accelerator for women entrepreneurs looking for a comprehensive and inclusive program ranging topics from finance to mental health. Lisa is also a member of the Austrian Angel Investors Association, which she also led for a while. Since 2020, Lisa i ..read more

Oana Aristide, a macroeconomist by background who started her career at the Romanian Central Bank where she also worked with the office of the Romanian Prime Minister. She has worked as Chief Economist at Dun & Bradstreet in London before leaving it all to manage a boutique eco-hotel on the island of Syros in Greece. As if the refurbishment project of turning a heritage villa into a hotel would not have been challenging enough, the global pandemic delayed the formal opening of Hotel Aristide by one season to the 2021 summer season. Oana is also a published author, with her debut novel (Und ..read more

Lois Cox is the Chief Investment Officer of the KSU Foundation, where she leads the investment team of the endowment pool of her Alma Mater the Kansas State University. Lois has spent over 30 years in investment management working with endowment, insurance, pension, and family office investors.  In our conversation, Lois shares insights into endowment portfolio management and fund manager selection. We also talk about mentorship, why it’s helpful and more importantly how to get access to mentorship-like guidance. Visit the Women in Finance Podcast website for the show notes and to sign up ..read more

Alifia Doriwala is a Managing Director and Partner at RockCreek, a leading global investment management firm that applies data-driven technology and innovation to investing. Alifia is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee, co-CIO on multi asset class portfolios and is involved in portfolio management, asset allocation and investment decisions across alternative and traditional asset classes. An active investor, she sources, directs, and manages relationships with top-quartile public and private investments on behalf of endowments, foundations, and pension funds. Building on a life-long i ..read more

Nadine Terman is the Founder, CEO and CIO of Solstein Capital, LLC. Nadine oversees both investment and operations functions and leads the firm as a Managing Member. With over twenty-five years of experience, Nadine manages tactical, global portfolios for institutional, family office and high net worth clients. Visit the Women in Finance website for the show notes and to register to the WiF newsletter ..read more

Elif Ulbrich is the co-founder of Contextual Solutions, a Berlin-based strategy consultancy, coaching and publication agency focused on fintech and legaltech. Elif and her team help entrepreneurs, SMEs, and corporations enter the ecosystem and strengthen their positions in the market by outsourcing the necessary tools and ideal or by facilitating connections to the network of experts. Elif is an avid avocate for diversity and digitization across industries. Elif was trained as a banking lawyer in Turkey before embarking on a discovering journey in the work of business and fintech in Germany.&n ..read more

Gabriela Herculano is the co-founder and CEO of iClima Earth, a leading green fintech that focused on helping investors find climate champions, i.e. listed companies that can decarbonise the planet. Gabriela has been an investor in the renewable energy space for many years and today she shares her journey from starting off as a financial analyst in Brazil to pioneering the impact green fintech space and launching the first equity benchmark composed of Climate Champions or listed securities that can help the world transition to a carbon neutrality. We also talk about activism and Gabriela’s les ..read more

Margaret Reid is the Senior Portfolio Manager at The Private Bank at Union Bank. Margaret manages a broad array of investment portfolios on behalf of high-net-worth clients, trusts, foundations, and non-profit organizations. She works with a team of specialists in The Private Bank, and exclusive part of Union Bank, to provide wealth planning, investments, risk management, trust and estate services, and banking advice to clients and advisors. Across her career, Margaret has been committed to supporting and empowering women both as growing and unstoppable economic force and as upcoming leaders i ..read more

Tanya Rolfe and Nicole Denholder are the co-founders of Sophia, a newly launched platform dedicated to helping women manage their wealth and learn about investing. Sophia is the first platform taking a gender lens in financial education and inclusion in Asia. Both Tanya and Nicole have channeled their wealth of experience as investors (at Her Capital and Next Chapter Ventures) and advisors in and to women and women-led businesses.  In this conversation, Tanya and Nicole make the case for women looking for women angel investors. We also talk about Tanya’s and Nicole’s own challenges and le ..read more