Annelies Jansen, Global Director Marketplace Partnerships with Facebook

Annelies' Bio:

Her career has taken her to numerous countries, cultures and companies, throughout which digital growth and transformation was the key theme. Annelies was CEO of Findmypast.com till September 2016 and from 2008 till 20113 she was CEO of SUP.com, Russia’s leading digital publisher Annelies came to SUP from ITV, the UK’s #1 commercial broadcaster, where she was Managing Director of ITV Broadband. At ITV she oversaw the launch of ITV.com in May 2007.

From 2000-2005 Annelies worked for News International as Director of Digital in charge of The Times online sites, followed by a position as director of New Media for The Telegraph group. Her previous roles before joining News International have included publisher of The Moscow Times, St Petersburg Times, Russia Business Review. Before joining the media industry she worked for Johnson and Johnson in Russia, managing two of their medical devices businesses (Livescan and Cordis).

Lara Druyan, Managing Director at RBC

Lara's Bio:

Lara Druyan is a Managing Director at RBC where she is the Head of Innovation on the West Coast, responsible for the Bank’s transformation through the smart use of technology. She leads the evaluation of start-ups, partnerships and venture capital investments that drive the Bank’s technology, analytics, payments and infrastructure roadmaps. She has initiated and managed over a dozen proofs of concept across the Bank. Lara has also designed a partnership strategy to build out the Bank’s ecosystem with high growth companies.

Uzma Makhdumi, Head of Payments Partnerships at Google

Uzma's Bio:

Uzma Makhdumi is currently Head of Payments Partnerships at Google where she has helped take Google Pay international and now leads new business development initiatives for consumer payments globally working with banks, payment networks and fin tech companies. Prior to Google, Uzma was leading commercialization for Visa Digital and was also one of the early Product Managers for Mobile at Yahoo! where she managed their first revenue generating mobile product. She has also been a consultant at McKinsey advising high tech companies in the areas of strategy, growth and acquisition, and was an engineer at Bose Corporation working directly for the founder/CEO, Dr. Amar Bose. She double-majored in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Management Science from MIT and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.