As a Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Unique, I lead our vision to redefine financial services through advanced generative AI solutions. I bring extensive experience in building and scaling digital products that anticipate market needs and prioritize user impact. My role focuses on steering product development, from in-depth market analysis to driving adoption across our financial service clients.

With a track record in successful partnerships and user-centric strategy, I’m committed to shaping the future of financial technology by making AI accessible and transformative for our clients. If you’re interested in AI in finance, innovative partnerships, or exploring synergies, let’s connect!

Pooja Daswani is a seasoned financial services executive with over 20 years of experience
driving operational excellence and digital transformation across banking and wealth
management. She is currently a General Partner at Edward Jones, where she leads Branch
Operations and is a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. In this role, Pooja oversees
the firm’s real estate network of 16,000+ branches, virtual advisor channel, remote staffing
solutions, retirement and asset transition programs, and the evolution of the firm’s teaming
strategies. Pooja also serves on the Advisory Board of the Wharton School’s AI and
Analytics Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to Edward Jones, Pooja held senior leadership roles at Citigroup for over a decade. As
Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Consumer Bank, a ~$18 billion business with more than
40,000 employees, she led operations across Retail, Wealth, and Cards, delivering cost
efficiencies and spearheading critical regulatory and digital initiatives. Her earlier roles at Citi
included leading Client Experience for global institutional businesses and serving in the
Productivity Office, where she advised the executive team on strategy and performance
improvement. In recognition of her impact, she was named to the Institute of International
Finance’s Future Leaders Class of 2018.

Pooja began her career at Deloitte, consulting global financial institutions on infrastructure and
technology modernization, and later led consulting teams at Google, specializing in display
advertising operations. She holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Information Technology from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.

Ladan Stewart is the Global Head of Fintech and a Partner in the Firm’s Global White Collar / Investigations Practice, where she focuses on SEC and other regulatory enforcement matters, white collar investigations, civil litigation, and trials. Ladan regularly advises financial institutions, asset managers, fintechs, crypto projects, and others on a range of regulatory and compliance issues. She represents companies and individuals in connection with enforcement matters before various regulatory bodies, including the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, and FINRA, as well as in internal investigations and securities and other civil litigation.

Before joining White & Case, Ladan served for over 8 years in the Division of Enforcement of the SEC, most recently as Assistant Director and Regional Trial Counsel heading the SEC’s crypto and cyber litigation team. Ladan litigated the SEC’s most complex and programmatically important crypto enforcement matters, including against Ripple and Coinbase. She also investigated and litigated a broad range of potential securities law violations, including insider trading and disclosure violations.
Ladan is committed to pro bono work and community service, and sits on the Board of Directors of Sanctuary for Families. Ladan earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Rosemary “Ro” Spaziani is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ro is a member of the Financial Institutions, Financial Regulatory, and FinTech and Digital Assets Practice Groups. Ro brings extensive experience advising U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions on the full spectrum of transactional, governance, regulatory and supervisory matters, including complex mergers and acquisitions and enforcement actions. She routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and state regulators. She also regularly advises clients in the establishment of commercial relationships to between banks and financial companies, as well as the creation and development of new deposit, digital asset and payments platforms.

Prior to joining the firm, Ro was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she served as the global head of the bank regulatory, deposits and transaction banking legal practice groups. In such capacity, she was responsible for a number of strategic acquisitions and builds, including the acquisition of the retail deposit platform and the development and launch of the global transaction banking business. Most recently, Ro was at a major U.S. law firm, where she focused on bank mergers and acquisitions. Ro began her career at a multinational law firm in New York and serves on the board of The Acting Company.
Ro graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology, magna cum laude, from Bucknell University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.

When Jennifer Doyle landed a temp job on the First Union trading floor in Charlotte, North Carolina, after graduating from college, she felt like she’d won the lottery.

At the time Doyle didn’t know much about Wall Street or investment banking, or sales and trading. But as a former college tennis player, she relished the fast pace and competitive nature of the work.

“It was truly right place, right time,” she said.

Doyle parlayed her temp job into a 25-year career starting at First Union, its successor Wachovia and then Wachovia’s acquirer, Wells Fargo. For the last three years, Doyle has been co-head of the structured products group at the San Francisco-based bank, a role that continues to engage her competitive spirit.

Mary Ann Miller is VP, Fraud Executive Advisor at Prove and a well-respected expert in the fraud and identity space. Mary Ann was most recently Head of Fraud Strategy at Varo Bank where she led the fraud strategy process for transitioning the fintech to a nationally chartered challenger bank. By leading fraud management programs and applying advanced analytics, machine learning and channel security defenses Mary Ann has helped financial institutions globally lower exposure to fraud in an increasingly digital environment. Mary Ann’s previous directorships and executive roles in well known organizations like USAA, PayPal, Lloyds Banking Group and other technology firms provides a strategic business perspective of fraud challenges. Mary Ann has previously served on the US Federal Reserve Secure Payments Task Force and Scams Definition and Classification Working Group and has built a high visibility reputation as a thought leader and global authority on digital fraud through media coverage on BBC news, NPR, American Banker, USA Today, Forbes, Bloomberg and others.

Eralda is the Head of Domestic Payments Group of BNY Treasury Services. In her current role, Eralda is responsible for setting the strategy and optimizing all payable and receivable products that deliver value to the NBFI, Bank, Corporate and FinTech client segments of the Bank.
Eralda participates in various committees facilitated by The Clearing House, the U.S. Faster Payments Council, The Federal Reserve and Nacha.

Prior to this role, Eralda spent several years in payments, managing a range of payables and receivables products, most recently managing BNY’s Immediate Payments and Disbursements which are part of the Domestic Payments Group. Before that she worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston as a FedNow Senior Product Manager. Eralda has also served as BNY’s ACH and Account Validations Product Lead previously, and prior to that held several positions with other Financial Institutions managing operations and product in the electronic payments space.

Eralda is a Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), Accredited Faster Payments Professional (AFPP) and an Accredited ACH Professional (AAP). She holds a Master of Science in Finance from University of Pisa, in Italy, and a Bachelor of Business Administration, from University of Tirana, Economic Faculty, in Albania.

Sara Seguin is the Principal Advisor on Fraud and Identity Risk at Alloy, the leading identity decisioning platform. Sara brings 17 years of experience in the banking industry to Alloy. Prior to joining the company, Sara was the Head of Enterprise Fraud Strategy for KeyBank. Sara has deep-rooted experience within various fraud risk domains including deposits, payments, online activity, cards, risk and identity.

Nelle Miller is Head of J.P. Morgan’s New York Private Bank, as well as a member of the U.S. Operating Committee for the Private Bank. She leads the largest region in the U.S. Private Bank of more than 250 bankers, investors, credit executives, and former practicing trust and estate attorneys that provide wealth management advice, solutions, and service to executives, founders, and families in the New York area. Nelle also oversees the Global Investment Opportunities (GIO), Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO), and Morgan Private Advisory organizations nationally – over 150 investment, advice, and wealth planning specialists across the country servicing the firm’s largest families and most complex clients.

Additionally, Nelle serves as the Chair of the Northeast Region’s Market Leadership Teams (MLTs), a group of cross-LOB leadership teams focused on growing the firm’s business and supporting local engagement with clients, customers, and employees in the communities where the firm’s stakeholders live and do business, with a particular focus on New York City.

Nelle herself is a banker and advisor to some of New York’s wealthiest and well-known families – she personally oversees a total of $15B+ in assets. As a leader of the Private Bank, she is a known mentor to many young women across the firm and takes an active role in their career.

Prior to her role as Head of New York, Nelle spent 10 years as an original and founding member of the Global Investment Opportunities (GIO) team (the marquee trading desk in the Private Bank for large clients), focusing on multi-asset class trading strategies for individuals, family office and hedge funds across the country. She joined J.P. Morgan in 2002 as part of the Institutional Equities Desk, covering New York-based hedge funds and mutual funds as a research salesperson.

Nelle holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston College. Outside of J.P. Morgan, she sits on the boards of Good+ Foundation, Convent of the Sacred Heart School, and the Central Park Conservancy. Nelle lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.