Jennifer is the Sales Leader for North America Financial Services at NVIDIA. Her team works with the top banking and asset management firms to drive growth and innovation by leveraging NVIDIA’s full stack AI platform to transform their business. In her 6 years at NVIDIA, Jennifer has worked with top financial firms to harness the power of AI and GPU accelerated compute in the cloud and on-prem datacenters. She aligns NVIDIA’s groundbreaking AI software and innovations to empower financial services customers to drive new capabilities in areas such as trading, asset management, and customer engagement by unlocking the potential of Gen AI through AI Factories and GPU accelerated HPC workloads.

Sri Ambati is the founder and CEO of H2O.ai. A product visionary who has assembled world-class teams throughout his career, Sri founded H2O.ai in 2012 with a mission to democratize Al for anyone, anywhere, creating a movement of the world’s top data scientists, physicists, academics and technologists at more than 20,000 organizations worldwide. Sri also regularly partners with global business leaders to fund Al projects designed to solve compelling business, environmental and societal challenges.

Most recently, Sri led the initiative o2forindia.org, sourcing O2 concentrators for more than 200 public health organizations in Tier 2 cities and rural communities in India during the Delta wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, helping to save thousands of lives. His strong “Al for Good” ethos for the responsible and fair use of Al to make the world a better place drives H2O.ai’s business model and corporate direction.

A sought-after speaker and thought-leader, Sri has presented at industry events including Ai4, Money2020, Red Hat Summit and more, is a frequent university guest speaker, and has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, IDG and the World Economic Forum and has been named a Datanami Person to Watch.

Before founding H2O.ai, Sri co-founded Platfora, a big data analytics company (acquired by Workday) and was director of engineering at DataStax and Azul Systems. His academic background includes sabbaticals focused on Theoretical Neuroscience at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley, and he holds a master’s degree in Math and Computer Science from the University of Memphis. Sri is inspired by his two daughters and genius wife.

Janna Wagoner is a dynamic and accomplished technology executive with over 14 years of experience at Fifth Third Bank, where she has led transformative initiatives across commercial, consumer, enterprise, and risk IT. Janna is known for her strategic leadership in technology transformation, organizational change, and execution excellence. Throughout her career, Janna has held a variety of impactful roles, her diverse experience reflects a deep understanding of the banking ecosystem and a relentless drive to improve how technology powers the business.

Janna brings a continuous improvement mindset to every challenge, thriving in ambiguity and complexity. Her “banker first” approach—grounded in her finance background and insatiable curiosity about the business—sets her apart from traditional technology leaders. She is passionate about building strong relationships with business and strategic execution partners, a skill often referred to as her “superpower.” Janna believes that trust and connection unlock creativity and innovation, and she leads with empathy, clarity, and purpose.

As other lenders have struggled in the small business market recently, Hanmi Bank has grown its SBA loan production by double digits in the first six months of this year. 

The Los Angeles based- bank increased its SBA loan production by 18% between January and June 2025 over the same time period in 2024. In fiscal year 2024, Hanmi Bank reported $187 million in SBA loans, which was a 25% increase over fiscal year 2023. 

Led by executive vice president and chief community lending officer Anna Chung, Hanmi Bank continues to stay the course through chaotic markets and tough conditions.

Rachel Anderika is the Global Head of Operations at Anchorage Digital as well as the
Chief Operating Officer at Anchorage Digital Bank. She joined Anchorage Digital in 2022
and brings more than 15 years of experience in regulatory and risk management and
nearly a decade of professional experience at the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency. There, she served as National Bank Examiner (and later, Large Bank Examiner)
to ensure that national banks operated safely and soundly while complying with
applicable laws and regulations. Rachel then served eight years in the private sector at
Promontory Financial Group, a premier bank regulatory consulting firm, later purchased
by IBM where she worked with numerous traditional financial institutions on risk
management and compliance. Rachel also helped found Promontory’s Digital Assets Risk
and Compliance Team, where she guided digital assets custodians through the state and
federal regulatory licensing process. Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree in finance and
economics from King’s College.

Liz Thomas is SoFi’s Head of Investment Strategy, responsible for providing economic and market insights to a variety of audiences. Prior to joining SoFi, Liz was the Director of Market Strategy at BNY Mellon Investment Management where she formulated and delivered views on macroeconomic themes and their effects on capital markets. Earlier in her career, she was a portfolio analyst at Baird and a research analyst at BMO Global Asset Management. Liz holds a BBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MBA from Marquette University. She is a CFA Charterholder, and member of the CFA Institute and CFA Society of New York. Liz is passionate about educating others on markets and investing in order to help people feel empowered to take a more active role in their financial futures.

As Head of Wealth Management for Wilmington Trust, Lisa leads a team of experienced professionals who provide comprehensive wealth management advice across the areas of wealth planning, investment management, trust and estate services, private banking and family office solutions. Clients include affluent, high-net-worth and ultra high-net-worth individuals and families, business owners, foundations and endowments.

Lisa’s team works with clients and their advisors to help them meet their current needs and plan for their long-term objectives.

Lisa joined Wilmington Trust as Head of U.S. Markets in 2023 during which time she led each of the Wealth Management regions in their quest to provide comprehensive wealth management advice to the clients they serve. Prior to joining Wilmington Trust, Lisa worked for Union Bank where she served as Head of Community Banking and Head of Private Wealth Management. Overall, Lisa has over 30 years of financial service experience, including leadership positions with Citi Private Bank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Private Bank.

During her time in California, Lisa was named one of the Area’s “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times in 2015, 2018, and 2019.

Lisa holds an MBA from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and a bachelor’s degree in finance from Indiana University Bloomington.

Jessica Carta is a self-described “payments geek”. As the senior vice president for consumer and small business payments, Carta leads all digital consumer and small business payment initiatives across the bank. Prior to joining Citizens, she worked at Mastercard and built payment products at two different fintechs. 

“Payments and money movement touch every part of our day, every part of our ecosystem,” Carta said. “I particularly love the consumer angle because I’m a consumer, you’re a consumer. We can all understand and relate to it.”

Amanda K. Allexon is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Financial Institutions Practice. Based in Washington, D.C., Amanda advises domestic and foreign banks, bank holding companies, other regulated financial institutions and investors on the full spectrum of transactional, governance, regulatory and supervisory matters, including complex high-profile mergers and acquisitions. She routinely represents clients before the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and U.S. state banking regulators. She also advises on private equity investments involving banks and bank holding companies, and Volcker Rule issues.

Examples of Amanda’s work includes advising:
– BTG Pactual in its entry into the U.S. banking market through its proposed acquisition of M.Y. Safra Bank
– BMO in its acquisition of Bank of the West*
– Umpqua in its merger with Columbia*
– Mechanics Bank in its acquisition of Rabobank*
– Huntington in its acquisition of TCF*
– BB&T in its merger of equals with SunTrust*
– Independent Bank Corp. in its acquisition of Enterprise Bank
– Sterling Bancorp in its acquisitions of Astoria, Hudson Valley and Provident New York, as well as the merger with Webster Financial*
– Numerous transactions involving small and medium sized banking organizations*

In addition to her private practice experience, Amanda worked in the Legal Division of the Federal Reserve Board, including serving as Senior Counsel. During which time she evaluated merger and acquisition applications subject to review under the Bank Holding Company Act, Home Owners’ Loan Act, Bank Merger Act, Change in Control Act or Federal Reserve Act, and other applications and interpretive issues under these statutes. Amanda was a primary Federal Reserve contact for matters related to extensions of credit by banks to their insiders (Regulation O), regulation of holding companies (Regulation Y and LL), and matters related to the control of depository institutions and holding companies. Amanda also assisted the transition of savings and loan holding companies to Federal Reserve supervision and rules after the financial crisis, reviewed and established key policies related to control and private equity investments in bank holding companies, and served as a liaison to the U.S. Treasury related to post-crisis investments in banks.

*Includes experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP