Tech Behind Fintech

Join us on Friday, December 5th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a critical episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Brian Soby, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at AppOmni — a 20-year cybersecurity veteran with deep experience across fintech, SaaS, defense, and enterprise security. Brian has held leadership roles at Salesforce, MITRE, Raytheon, and Taulia, giving him a rare 360-degree perspective o...

Join us on Friday, November 21st, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-impact episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Len Covello, CTO at Engage People — a lifelong entrepreneur and payments innovator reshaping how loyalty, rewards, and points function as real currency. In The Hidden Economy of Points: How 1.4 Billion Points Were Redeemed, Len reveals one of the most overlooked engines in modern payment...

Join us on Friday, November 14th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a groundbreaking episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Wilfred Daye, Chief Strategy Officer of Mercurity Fintech — a 25-year Wall Street veteran turned digital asset strategist who’s helping redefine how global companies manage capital in the age of Bitcoin. In The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook: Corporate Finance Meets Crypto, Wilfred breaks...

Join us on Friday, November 7th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-impact episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Deepak Jain, CEO and Founder — a serial entrepreneur and payments visionary who’s been building the future of secure digital transactions long before “biometrics” became a buzzword. For years, the payments industry has chased speed and convenience — yet passwords, PINs, and friction-fille...

Join us on Friday, October 31st, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-impact episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Jeff Mahony, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of RYT — and a technologist who’s been solving financial infrastructure challenges long before “blockchain” existed. Blockchain has been hyped for years — yet too often stuck in pilots, proof-of-concepts, and whitepapers. In Blockchain That Actu...

Join us on Friday, October 24th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an in-depth conversation on Tech Behind FinTech featuring Jon Fry, CEO and Founder of Lendflow, a leading embedded finance infrastructure company empowering fintechs, lenders, and vertical SaaS platforms to build and launch credit products faster and smarter. In Embedded Lending Revolution: How Agentic Platforms Are Transforming Credit, Jon u...

Join us on Friday, October 17th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an inspiring episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring J. Michael Fischer Jr., Managing Director at DBD Investment Bank. In a world that celebrates nonstop hustle, J. Michael Fischer challenges the traditional definition of success. In The Vitality Blueprint: Redefining Success for Today’s Leaders, he explores what it really means to lead with...

Join us on Friday, October 10th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a transformative episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Chinwe Grace Jones, CEO and Founder of Trusted Teams. In a world where startups chase funding rounds and product launches, one critical factor often gets overlooked — leadership. In Beyond Funding and Tech: The Leadership Mindset That Scales FinTech, Chinwe reveals why people, not just...

Join us on Friday, October 3rd, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a candid episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Donat Husjainov, CPO at XData Group. Banks know they need to innovate—but legacy systems, siloed data, and outdated infrastructures are holding them back. In Banking’s Blind Spot: The Data Challenge Nobody Wants to Admit, Donat Husjainov pulls back the curtain on why modernization often fails,...

Join us on Friday, September 19th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a forward-looking episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mike Lavia, Director of Payments at DataVisor. In the race to modernize financial services, everyone’s talking about AI—but how much is too much? Mike breaks down one of the industry’s toughest challenges: finding the sweet spot between innovation and over-automation. With more than...

Join us on Friday, September 5th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a behind-the-scenes episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Sarah Biller, Co-Founder of FinTech Sandbox, and Nicole Edwards, Marketing & Community Associate. FinTech conferences don’t just happen—they’re built. From securing speakers and curating content to managing logistics and fostering a global community, Boston FinTech Week has bec...

Join us on Friday, August 22nd, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mary Ann Miller, VP, Evangelist & Fraud Executive Advisor at Prove. Identity fraud is one of the fastest-growing threats in FinTech, costing billions each year and eroding customer trust. Mary Ann shares proven strategies for staying ahead—using mobile signals, device intelligence, and...

Join us on Friday, August 15th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Elizabeth Gore, Co-Founder and President of Hello Alice. Small businesses fuel the global economy, but too often they’re shut out from the capital, credit, and connections they need to scale. Elizabeth shares how Hello Alice is using AI to change that—providing over 1.5 million entrepreneur...

Join us on Friday, August 8th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a hard-hitting episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Sergio Barbosa, CIO of Global Kinetic and CEO of FutureBank. Legacy systems are suffocating innovation—but AI might be the escape hatch. In this episode, Sergio breaks down how banks can sidestep the traditional modernization grind and leap into becoming AI-native institutions. From radica...

Join us on Friday, July 25th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for an insider-focused episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Alex Curtis, Americas Managing Director at Hanover Search. In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, we sit down with Alex Curtis to explore the evolving talent landscape shaping the future of FinTech, InsurTech, and WealthTech. From Chief Data Officers to CTOs, Alex has spent over a deca...

📅 Join us on Friday, July 18th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a sharp-edged episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Gary Dmitriev, Founder and Chief Technology Advisor at CrestPoint Strategic Advisors. AI isn’t just for Big Tech anymore—it’s rapidly redefining the playbook in private equity, hedge funds, and alternative investments. With 17 years of experience leading enterprise data strategies and aut...

What do Starbucks, Uber, and Shopify have in common? They're not banks — but they act like it. Welcome to the invisible FinTech revolution, where embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) are quietly transforming everyday businesses into financial powerhouses. In this episode, we sit down with Tom Mallon, Data Partner Manager at Fintech Sandbox, to unpack how APIs, partnerships, and data ac...

In this Tech Behind FinTech exclusive airing Friday, June 27th, 2025, we sit down with Dr. Adnan Masood, Chief AI Architect at UST and one of the most sought-after minds in artificial intelligence. From advising Fortune 500 CEOs to shaping billion-dollar AI deployments, Dr. Masood doesn’t just predict the future—he builds it. This conversation goes deeper than buzzwords. We explore how machine lea...

In this episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13 at 12PM EST, we explore how fake news, deceptive content, and bot-driven amplification are being used to exploit public trust and disrupt financial ecosystems. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, brings deep expertise from years in open-source intelligence and narrative risk analysis. Together, we unpack: How d...

In this eye-opening episode of Tech Behind FinTech, airing Friday, June 13, 2025, at 12PM EST, we dive into the fast-moving world of misinformation and narrative warfare, where financial brands are being targeted, manipulated, and sometimes destroyed in the court of public opinion before they even realize it. Our guest, Molly Dwyer, Director of Insights at PeakMetrics, pulls back the curtain on th...

Join us on Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a high-stakes episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Mike Gulla, CEO & Co-Founder of Adaptive Insurance—a startup rewriting the rules of climate risk coverage in the age of AI. With climate-driven power outages on the rise and traditional insurers lagging behind, a $150 billion blind spot has emerged in the small business insurance market....

Join us on Friday, May 23rd, 2025 at 12 PM EST for a visionary episode of Tech Behind FinTech as we sit down with Kony Kwong, CEO and Co-Founder of GAIB—the platform reshaping how we invest in AI infrastructure. In a world where GPUs are becoming as valuable as real estate, Kony breaks down why compute power is no longer just a tech resource—it’s a financial asset. We’ll dive into the tokenization...

Join us on Friday, May 16th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a chilling yet essential episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring James Edgar, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Corpay (NYSE: CPAY). With a career spanning top roles at Elavon, U.S. Bank, and Cox Communications, James brings a deep, real-world understanding of the threats financial institutions face today. In this episode, we explore...

https://techbehindfintech.com/subscribe Join us on Friday, May 9th, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a powerhouse episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring John Shammas, Chief Growth Officer at DriveWealth—a firm revolutionizing how people around the world invest. At just 17, John helped build the core API infrastructure that now powers investing features for over 100 partners globally—including brands like...

📅 Join us on Friday, May 2nd, 2025, at 12 PM EST for a game-changing episode of Tech Behind FinTech featuring Ryan Rosett, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Credibly—a company on a mission to rewrite the rules of small business financing. Born out of the 2008 financial crisis, Credibly is now a leading force in modernizing how capital reaches small and medium-sized businesses. Under Ryan's leadership, the...