Diana Paredes is the CEO and Co-Founder of Suade, a software platform that enables financial institutions to understand and deliver their regulatory requirements. Prior to founding Suade, Diana had a successful career in investment banking, covering all asset classes at Barclays and Merrill Lynch, across sales, trading & structuring. Whilst working in the industry, she saw an opportunity to innovate and launch her current Fintech/Regtech startup. She believes that a data-driven approach to regulation is the key to preventing the next financial crisis.

Alex Panican is a serial entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience in Business Strategy, Digital Transformation and Innovation. He’s the Head of Partnerships and Ecosystem at the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT), where he’s supporting international fintechs to establish and grow their operations in Europe.

Alex is also a professor in Business Strategy and Digital Marketing. He holds an MBA in Strategy from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada.

The LHoFT aims to drive digitalization and innovation in the Luxembourg financial industry and build a collaborative ecosystem of innovators across all sectors of the domestic and international community, including traditional financial services firms, government, regulators, universities, investors and, of course, startups.

Jonathan Prince is an entrepreneur in the ICT and FinTech sectors with over 15 years’ experience in sales & marketing management. Jonathan is co-founder of Finologee a #Regtech company building digital finance platforms: Digital onboarding, XS2A, Messaging. He is also partner in charge of sales & partnerships at Mpulse handling over 95% of micropayments made via mobile operators in Luxembourg. In 2012, he co-founded Digicash a #Fintech startup, first SEPA based, multi-bank, mobile payment initiative in Europe. In 2007, he founded TCG a consulting and advisory service provider in the telecom and payments industries. Jonathan is also public speaker and host in various Finance and Technology conferences.

Cristina has recently been appointed Head Regulatory Solutions and Innovation. In her role, Cristina works closely with the fund industry innovators and promotes the adoption of digital client service delivery models. Prior to this, Cristina was the Chief Administrative Officer since 2014 responsible for internal governance, business control enhancement programs and coordination of strategic initiatives. The same year, she was also appointed to the State Street Bank Luxembourg management board.
Cristina has been working for State Street in Luxembourg since 1997 and has held a variety of management positions. In the transfer agency department, she has worked on key process and technology implementations, including the restructuring of the transfer agency operations. In 2007 she was a client relationship manager servicing strategic custody and fund administration clients.
Throughout her time at State Street, Cristina has been very active in State Street Corporate Citizenship initiatives. She holds a degree in political science and administration from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium and speaks Luxembourgish, German, French, Portuguese and English.

Fabien Henriet is Global CTO of eProseed RTC, a RegTech company headquartered in Luxembourg providing regulatory and supervision technologies dedicated to supervisory authorities and regulatory bodies, globally. With over 15 years of experience in IT and RegTech across Europe, US, and Middle-East, Fabien is an advocate of disruptive technologies in regulatory and finance landscapes.

Henri heads the Luxembourg Banking and Capital Markets practice. He served from 2008 to 2018 as Managing Partner of Allen & Overy in Luxembourg. He has more than 30 years of experience working in these areas. He specialises in capital markets, international banking and financial services regulatory matters including the establishment of banks, financial services professionals and electronic money institutions as well as EMIR, MiFID, CRD and related regulatory issues.

Henri is a member of the board of directors of the ALJB and a member of the banking and capital markets committees of the Luxembourg supervisory authority of the financial sector (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – CSSF), as well as a member of the MiFID Steering Committee, the Legal Affairs Committee, the Banking Supervision Committee and the Hierarchy of Creditors working group of the Luxembourg Bankers' Association (ABBL). He was a member (2009-2015) of the Consultative Working Group of the Corporate Finance Standing Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).

He is an active member of our FinTech task force, supporting clients from established financial institutions, incumbents and start-ups in developing innovative products.

He regularly publishes articles on banking and finance issues and represents Luxembourg on the advisory board of the Capital Markets Law Journal (published by Oxford University Press).

Emilie Allaert is Head of Operations and Projects at The LHoFT Foundation (Luxembourg House of Financial Technology), a public and private sector initiative that drives Fintech innovation in Luxembourg. She has more than seven years of experience in the financial industry, focusing on the implementation of financial regulations and review of processes, but also managing various IT projects with a special interest in the Fintech industry, the technologies development and its use within the financial sector. After working on regulatory issues as a Tax Adviser for KPMG Luxembourg, she joined the IT reorganization team where she worked on the centralization of processes. She then worked for J.P. Morgan Asset Management in the Business Change Group, implementing cross-border Master/Feeder under UCITS IV and implementing CISA guidelines. Before joining the LHoFT in March 2017, she worked for Alpha FMC as a manager working on regulatory implementations, a joint exercise between IT and process. Ms Allaert holds a BSc in Economics and Management from the University of Luxembourg, and an MA in Financial Management from Durham University Business School.

Pauline Cossic is FSIP Product Owner at eProseed RTC, a RegTech company headquartered in Luxembourg. With over 9 years of experience in the Financial Sector, Pauline’s main reasonability is to define the product roadmap of FSIP, a complete regulatory and supervision management platform dedicated to supervisory authorities and regulatory bodies across the globe, and to ensure that the product strategy is in line with their main business objectives and requirements.

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Bert Boerman is the CEO and Co-founder of Governance.com, the platform that helps regulated businesses achieve good data governance. Governance.com includes the technology (Governance.io) and the expert services (Governance.support) required to ensure a solid and efficient internal process. As a former banker with 15 years of experience he has dealt with regulatory oversight for many years. Frustrated with the lack of innoovation in regulatory compliance, Bert teamed up with his twin brother Rob in 2011 and built Governance with a team of business and IT experts. In 2016 Governance.io was awarded as the FinTech Startup of the year in Luxembourg. Since then, the company was included in the FinTech50 Hot ten list, the Global RegTech100, the European Fintech100 and many other publications.

Laurent was the EY Global Fund Distribution Leader and coordinate the efforts of EY globally on fund distribution services.

In May 2017, Laurent set-up ume (2017 best fintech start-up in Luxembourg) focusing on digital due diligence of fund distributors (KYD). On 1^st July 2018, ume was ranked #7 most influencial regtech in the world (Planet Compliance ranking). ume has been recently selected in the AppExchange accelerator programme of Salesforce.

Laurent is the co-Chairman of the ALFI Digital Distribution working group and a member of the Alfi Steering Group on Fintech.

Graduated from Paris IX Dauphine University, Franck has spent 18 years in the banking Industry.
He started his career in 1994 at JP Morgan before joining Paribas in 1996 in Securities Services to develop the liquidity offer and client financing. Within BNP Paribas, he participated in the creation of BP2S Bank, and manages ALM/treasury and Forex of this new European entity. In 2006, after he led ALM/treasury of the Investment Solution Pôle, he became the CEO of the new sub of Asset Management : BNP Paribas Fin’AMS (Buy Side outsourcing dealing solution) and contributed to its international development (70mio€ revenues in 2010).
After those experiences where innovation and complex project management required, and being the pioneer of the outsourcing dealing solution in Europe, Franck decided to join Greenwich Group to develop the EU and international dealing platform.