Dream:Reality with Kelly Pettersen
Dream:Reality Season 1: Episode 4 with Kelly Pettersen.
Kelly has been involved in FinTech startups and Crypto currencies (full bio below). Based in London, we chat about the current interest in crypto, its future and what role FinTechs play in the banking systems..... Not a technical discussion - so everyone will be able to get their heads around it!
All opinions are Kelly's own, and not affiliated to any organisation.
The FT article mentioned during the chat: https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-future-fintech-global-banks-big-tech/ Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-pettersen-25166711/
Recommendations:
1- Podcast: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders https://open.spotify.com/show/24QifPSob9PbOE5dPwQzXa 2- Song: Anything by Billy Joel
Dream:Reality a podcast by Idunn Consulting. Talking to people who have used the last 18 months as opportunity. Dreamers, innovators, change makers. How can we create in the future that we have always dreamed of. Business related podcast looking at start-ups, technology, CSR, Sustainability and lots lots more.
Bio: Kelly has over 10 years of international experience helping companies of various sizes achieve growth. She has a track-record building fin-tech start-ups and has led multi-million-dollar strategic projects and transformational marketing and sales-driven initiatives in the finance and banking sector. Kelly is a valued and sought-after advisor to start-ups, on topics across the entire business lifecycle. Kelly currently works at Coinbase as a senior member of the Institutional Sales & Trading team, working with institutions across EMEA on their cryptocurrency adoption journey. Prior to joining the Coinbase, Kelly led business development globally for skew, the leading cryptocurrency market data, analytics and derivatives platform. Prior to this, Kelly was part of the founding team at Lendingblock, a digital asset lending platform where she was the Global Head of Business Development and CMO. Before making the move into crypto, Kelly oversaw European Marketing for BNY Mellon’s largest revenue generating business, Asset Servicing. Earlier, Kelly held various roles at Macquarie in New York and London. Kelly started her career at BMO Capital Markets. Kelly is an endlessly curious person, with an open mind and passion for diversity and for how technology can positively shape the future of financial industry. Kelly is a former US collegiate student athlete completing her undergraduate degree at Providence College. She is currently living in London, UK and earned her Executive MBA from Esade Business & Law School in Spain which is an international management program taught across Europe, Asia, Middle East, South America and the US.
