Women in Finance - Authenticity as the Key to Great Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Startups as Empowerment Tools, Meaningful Connections, Supporting Women Fundraise and Disrupt the Tech Space - Lisa-Marie Fassl, Co-Founder of Female Founders

Authenticity as the Key to Great Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Startups as Empowerment Tools, Meaningful Connections, Supporting Women Fundraise and Disrupt the Tech Space - Lisa-Marie Fassl, Co-Founder of Female Founders

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05/30/22 • 61 min

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 is a Member of the Startup Committee of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs.

Lisa is truly a role model with an enviable sense of purpose, energy, and authenticity. In this conversation, we unpack Lisa’s own personal and professional journey to becoming the supporter of women entrepreneurs in Europe and of startups in Austria.

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Embedded Finance, Lifestyle Banking, and Other Fintech Trends, To Be Inspired Be Inspiring, Use Stereotypes to Your Advantage, Honest Advice for Entrepreneurs - Elif Ulbrich, Founder of Contextual Solutions

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.

There are so many aspects that resonate with me in Elif’s story, from pursuing her passion for technology outside of the bounds of her university training, to taking a leap and moving halfway across Europe to Germany, but what I find most inspiring is how Elif used curiosity, pragmatism, and commitment to high-quality work to build Contextual Solutions and serve her clients.

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Shail Deep joined TransUnion in 2019 as Chief Product Officer. With over 20 years’ experience across retail banking and technology consulting, Shail’s role involves fuelling new product innovation, ensuring robust product quality and delivery, sourcing and incorporating new data assets and delivering valuable analytics insights and solutions.

Previously Shail spent 16 years at HSBC, where she was Global Head of Strategic Partnerships and Innovation for HSBC Retail Banking and Wealth Management. Shail has held various leadership roles across cards, payments, risk, fraud, loyalty and proposition development spanning the UK, US, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Prior to HSBC, she worked with Citigroup (India) and i2 technologies (US).

Shail holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

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