Who will be the most influential women in FINtech?

Annually, Computer Weekly asks: “Who are the most influential women in UK tech?”

They seek out to name the top 50 most influential women in the UK’s tech sector. This year, the number of nominations has grown from 360 in 2019 to more than 430. You can check the full list here.

Women in technology are slowly finding their space. I know how hard it is to be around only white male managers. In all these years that I have been working in the fintech sector, I have only worked with 1 wonderful female director and 1 female manager. The funniest part is that women are the majority in number, but only as analysts, specialists and coordinators. Unfortunately, the director board is still not a place where you will find many of them.

In 2019, we had some amazing women nominated that worked with banks, investments and fintech. Hope this year we will see a rising of new influential women not only in Tech, but also in Fin-Tech.

Check out some fantastic women that were part of the list last year (credits to Computer Weekly):

Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank

Boden founded Starling Bank in 2014, where she is now CEO and a member of its board of directors, with the aim of creating a bank as focused on customer experience as possible.

She has a history in financial services, having previously worked for both Allied Irish Bank and RBS, and has just released a book, titled The Money Revolution, which aims to help people manage their money in a digitally driven world.

June Angelides, venture capitalist, Samos Investments

Angelides is an entrepreneur who went from a career in banking to a role as a venture capitalist at Samos Investments, and is a founding ambassador of the Fifty Fifty Pledge.

Angelides previously founded Mums in Technology, an immersive learning experience which helps mums learn to code and look after their children at the same time. She has been named a Rising Star by Computer Weekly in the past

Eileen Burbidge, chair, Tech Nation; partner, Passion Capital; government special envoy for fintech

Burbidge is a partner at London-based venture capital (VC) firm Passion Capital, where she brings experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product development roles at Yahoo, Skype, PalmSource, Openwave, Sun and Apple.

She also serves as chair for Tech Nation, is the special envoy for fintech for HM Treasury, and was previously a member of the prime minister’s business advisory group.

Magdalena Krön, ‎head of Rise London and FinTech platform lead, Barclays; co-founder, Geek Girl Meetup UK

Krön heads up Rise London, the Barclays Shoreditch Fintech hub which aims to connect the bank with London startups. She is also the vice-president of open innovation at the bank.

She co-founded Geek Girl Meetup in the UK, a network for women and girls interested in technology and design startups, and prior to Barclays, Krön was head of operations and investment manager at Capital List and the London Co-Investment Fund where she helped more than 300 startups with early stage business strategy.