Finovate Announces Industry-Leading Speakers for FinovateFall 2025

August 14, 2025 at 08:00 AM EDT

Finovate, a research and events firm focused on innovation in financial and banking technology, today announced its slate of speakers for FinovateFall 2025, taking place September 8-10 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.

As the leading event where fintech innovators and banking decision-makers connect, FinovateFall is set to welcome more than 2,000 senior-level attendees, including over 1,000 executives from banks, credit unions, and investment firms.

This year, over 100 industry leaders will be featured at the conference. Panels and speakers at FinovateFall 2025 will cover artificial intelligence in financial services, customer experience innovation, the outlook for community banks, women in fintech, lending strategies, open banking, payments modernization, and regulatory change. Other sessions will explore embedded finance, fraud prevention, financial inclusion, and partnerships between fintechs and traditional institutions.

FinovateFall’s featured speakers include:

Phil Goldfeder, CEO, American Fintech Council
Patricia Montesi, Founder & CEO, Qolo
Aditya Mehra, Senior Architect Machine Learning, Bank of America
Mary Miklethun, Senior Vice President, U.S. Bank
Ryan Miller, Vice President & Senior Counsel, American Bankers Association
Jennifer Tescher, Founder & CEO, The Financial Health Network
Sathish Muthukrishnan, Chief Information, Data and Digital Officer, Ally Financial
Sarah Biller, Co-Founder, Fintech Sandbox
Bryan Lewis, President & CEO, Intellicheck
Norah Coelho, Managing Director, Embedded Finance, J.P. Morgan
Ben Feller, Partner, Maslansky Partners
Theodora Lau, Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Ryan Caldwell, Founder & CEO, MX
Sherry Wu, Chief Technology Officer, University of Michigan Credit Union
Rodrigo Suarez, Chief Banking Officer, Piermont Bank
Larissa Cavalcante, Senior Digital Banking Advisor, ebankIT
Michelle Tran, Founder, NYC Fintech Women
Aleda DeMaria, Executive Vice President & Chief Banking Officer, PeoplesBank
Terry O’Neil, Head of Connected Commerce, Citi
Shruti Patel, Chief Product Officer, Business Banking, U.S. Bank

Learn more about the full speaker lineup.

If you’re a journalist and would like to inquire about a press pass, please reach out to finovate@gregoryfca.com.

About Finovate

Finovate is a research and events firm focused on innovation in financial and banking technology. Its team runs the Finovate conference series and authors the popular Finovate blog. Finovate is the only conference series focused exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. Finovate conferences consistently attract large, high-impact audiences of senior financial and banking executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers, regulators and entrepreneurs. For more information visit www.finovate.com.