Managing Director for Financial Services
Anthropic
Belinda is the Managing Director for Financial Services at Anthropic, serving as the industry principal at the intersection of financial services and a frontier AI lab. She helps the world's largest financial institutions deploy frontier AI safely and at scale.
Before Anthropic, Belinda spent 19 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as Chief Operating Officer of Core Engineering, where she led product management and engineering partnerships. She was a member of the firmwide AI steering group and a Goldman Sachs Global Institute fellow. Previously, she served as COO of Marquee, the firm's digital platform for institutional clients and started her career in Global Investment Research in London. Before that, was a research chemist in Sydney, Australia.
Belinda holds an MBA from London Business School and a BSc (Hons) from Macquarie University in Chemistry.
Every bank is adopting AI, but few are going about it the same way. At this working breakfast, Belinda Neal, Managing Director for Financial Services at Anthropic, will cover five decisions where banks are taking different paths, including whether the business or IT leads, whether to start customer-facing or internal, and whether to build, buy or partner. She’ll share what she’s seeing across the industry, with tradeoffs and real examples. Interactive table discussions follow, so you can compare approaches with peers and decide what to adjust.