Speakers

With nearly 30 years banking technology experience, i.e. transaction and payment processing, credit card personalization, payment and other transaction terminals, Artificial Intelligence applications in finance, cryptography, Distributed Ledger Technology and factoring solutions in different “C” positions in Business Planning, Finance, M&A, R&D, Marketing & Sales, Operations and After-Sales with World Card International, DataCard Corporation, Gemplus/Gemalto, FidelioNetworks, FirstData Corporation, Postbank POS Transact, Tech4Fin Deutschland and Factoring Blockchain Solutions, Federico is the strategic architect and now executer for efcom’s new global marketing & sales approach.

Federico is also Senior Partner at the Amontis Consulting Group, Executive Board Member at Sevar AG, Board Member at Meshed Systems, Sales Partner at Asteria AB and holds an MS from Technische Universität Berlin, MBA Visiting Scholarship from University of Illinois and lectures Entrepreneurship at the Computer Science Department at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He has lived and worked in the Americas, EMEA, Mainland China and speaks Spanish, English and German.

Olena Gryniuk is responsible for the development of the SME Banking Club in the CEE region. Before getting involved in the SME Banking Club activities, Olena was in charge of SME products and sales in Raiffeisen Bank and Eurobank groups.

About SME Banking Club
The SME Banking Club was established by a team of former SME bankers in 2010 as a professional network of bankers to exchange information and experiences in the segments of micro, small and medium-sized businesses. The SME Banking Club organizes regional SME banking conferences and webinars that bring together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation and promote the growth of SMEs in the region. Moreover, it provides its members with access to detailed analytical market reports and annual studies. SME Banking Club’s main activities are concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe.

Katalin Kauzli is a co-founder of Partner HUB Ltd, the developer of a white label digital invoice management solution for banks. Charlie-India is the core IT platform for the BUPA and OTP eBIZ solutions.

Klaudia has been leading teams delivering projects for banking clients at Verita HR since 2017. Her particular focus is on delivering human resources solutions to financial services and technology clients within Poland. Working mainly with Polish, Chinese, British, and U.S. clients with businesses and teams based in Warsaw and Krakow. Klaudia and her teams are also located in these financial and technological hubs. Klaudia attends and speaks at some of the leading Fintech and Banking events in Europe and the U.S., both in person and online. She is a specialist in all things blockchain, Web3 and digital assets. As well as specializing in working with quantitative and fixed income professionals within investment banking. Additionally, Klaudia works as the Digital Lead at Disruption Banking and Magazyn Rekruter. Ensuring that clients receive the most important stories affecting financial services and organizational development. These stories are driven by data. And they use the most effective storytelling and the most engaging visuals.

Wiktor leads the Central Eastern Europe region at FacePhi, working with clients across various
verticals on streamlining eKYC processes, applying biometrics in different use cases and fighting
fraud.
He has been involved in the digital finance and banking for almost 7 years. Prior to FacePhi, Wiktor
was at LexisNexis Risk Solutions as the main expert at EMEA level helping banks and fintechs in
automating cross-border payments. During this time, he was able to share his knowledge to the
wider audience on banking and fintech events in Zurich, Riga, and Tashkent.
With a strong background fintech, digital transformation and UX, Wiktor focuses on securing
compliance and anti-fraud systems with simultaneous attention on improving customer experience in front-end channels.
Wiktor is a strong advocate of co-creating the product with customers and enjoys working on
projects that require inter-team cooperation in order to deliver value for the project.

Jevrosima Zogovic is the Fintech Sales Lead at Logate. She possesses in-depth knowledge of banks’ needs and frustrations in the modern banking environment, having worked directly with some of the largest banks in the Balkans. At the CEE23 SME Banking Conference, she will take the stage to present different paths to great customer relationship management. Jevrosima spoke on banking topics at Technobank conference, Central Bank of Montenegro’s Fintech conference, and events organized by Association of Serbian Banks.

Enrique Caballero works at Aware Inc, as Sales Director EMEA, for the Biometrics division. His areas of function include evangelizing Aware’s Biometrics and Digital Identity solutions and their impact on transforming the government and private sectors landscape.

Ivica Tatar is the Strategy lead and co-founder of Logate, a software empowerment company from Montenegro that delivers solutions for banks and telecoms and CEO of Poslovna inteligencija Podgorica, DWH solutions provider. Thanks to his strategic thinking and collaborative mindset, Ivica built a reputation of a problem solver among the banking circles in the Balkans region. In the past 15 years, Ivica managed to expand Logate’s business to 11 European countries, servicing the clients such as Magenta Austria, Telekom Srbija, United Group, Erste Montenegro and many others. Ivica will participate in a panel discussion where he will showcase the role of software vendors in the changing banking industry.

Nelson Wootton is the co-founder and CEO of SaaScada. Nelson has held many senior technology and business roles over the last 20 years, including several CTO and CIO roles delivering global projects. Nelson is a cloud evangelist, having worked on and in cloud (and nothing but cloud) since 2006. His extensive experience and huge passion for technology and its ability to transform business processes, coupled with a track record of delivery, has enabled transformational changes in numerous businesses over the years. He has led, scaled and exited two technology businesses. As a huge technology enthusiast, Nelson still gets excited by the possibilities!

Marcin Woch, CEO of Algolytics Technologies, is an experienced expert, practitioner, and Data Science manager with twenty years of experience gained in consulting and implementation projects for leading telecommunications, financial, and e-commerce companies.

He is also a co-creator of the DSML platform, focusing on machine learning and MLOps. Since 2018, he has been developing Algolytics Technologies – a company providing a comprehensive DS/ML platform equipped with generic models for managing the risk of consumer and company insolvency, as well as for fraud detection.

Simon is an innovation, user experience, and marketing lover, and a co-founder at Everly.eu – online magazine oriented on innovative Challenger banks and fintech.

With nearly 30 years banking technology experience, i.e. transaction and payment processing, credit card personalization, payment and other transaction terminals, Artificial Intelligence applications in finance, cryptography, Distributed Ledger Technology and factoring solutions in different “C” positions in Business Planning, Finance, M&A, R&D, Marketing & Sales, Operations and After-Sales with World Card International, DataCard Corporation, Gemplus/Gemalto, FidelioNetworks, FirstData Corporation, Postbank POS Transact, Tech4Fin Deutschland and Factoring Blockchain Solutions, Federico is the strategic architect and now executer for efcom’s new global marketing & sales approach.

Federico is also Senior Partner at the Amontis Consulting Group, Executive Board Member at Sevar AG, Board Member at Meshed Systems, Sales Partner at Asteria AB and holds an MS from Technische Universität Berlin, MBA Visiting Scholarship from University of Illinois and lectures Entrepreneurship at the Computer Science Department at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He has lived and worked in the Americas, EMEA, Mainland China and speaks Spanish, English and German.