Banco Popular de Puerto Rico

Sarah Arvin, chief marketing officer at Urjanet

Grayson Clarke is the Head of Capital One�s Venture Card business, responsible for product innovation, marketing and profitability of the portfolio.� The Venture product suite was launched nationally in 2010, and is Capital One�s flagship travel rewards program.� Prior to his current role, Grayson worked as the Head of Strategy for U.S. Card.�Grayson has also worked at LexisNexis, leading their Credit Risk & Analytics business, as well as at Bain & Company, as a consultant on financial services and private equity engagements.� He holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.�� Grayson resides in Richmond, Virginia with his wife and two sons.��

Nick Papachristou is Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Marketing for Associated Banc-Corp and Associated Bank, NA. He is responsible for marketing strategy, product management, brand management, advertising and promotions, database marketing and research.Papachristou has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience for a variety of regional and national financial institutions. He joined Associated in July 2007. Previously, Papachristou held the position of Senior Business Leader with MasterCard Worldwide, based in New York, where he managed the commercial and strategic relationship with the Royal Bank of Scotland Group in North America and China. Other experience includes senior management positions in marketing and product management with Citizens Financial Group, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland; eMarquette Holdings; Bremer Financial and Norwest Bank. Papachristou holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Vanessa heads marketing for the NA Consumer Bank. She is responsible for all branding and advertising activity as well as online acquisition. In addition, her team supports direct marketing, internal communications, and digital marketing.Vanessa joins Citibank from USVP, where she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, responsible for uncovering, analyzing, and evaluating new investment opportunities in media, technology, and financial services companies. While at USVP she advised CEOs at online marketing, business services, and consumer media start-ups, and oversaw various stages of start-up funding, including driving a financial services investment, yielding 14X annualized return.Prior to USVP, Vanessa was Senior Vice President of Insights at Yahoo!, with responsibility for developing and executing the company's consumer data and research strategy globally. Under her leadership, her team identified new opportunities for using data to improve and personalize consumer experiences, delivering higher returns to advertisers, and engaging in unique business partnerships to accelerate the development of the online marketing ecosystem. While at Yahoo!, Vanessa also lead B2B marketing and strategy for Yahoo!’s U.S. Region, focusing on communicating the unique value of Yahoo!’s solutions to the advertising and publishing communities. In addition to creating marketing solutions, programs, and packages for customers, Vanessa’s team developed strategy and thought leadership programs for Yahoo!’s industry and agency teams, actionable customer insights and market research, and training and creative services.Vanessa was previously a Partner at McKinsey & Company, working primarily in the areas of strategy development, innovation, and organizational change for media and technology companies. Vanessa published a book on agent-based modeling and taught courses at the Santa Fe Institute on the dynamics of complex systems. She received her Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from M.I.T.'s Media Lab. Early in her career she did her undergraduate work in molecular biology at M.I.T., taught Junior High and High School through Teach for America, was a research fellow at Rockefeller University, and received masters degrees from Columbia University and M.I.T.