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As the CEO & President of Imagine360, Jeff spearheads the company's continued mission to reduce health plan costs for US employers, employees and their families. Jeff has three decades of experience in managing and growing healthcare services companies, Jeff was the global practice leader of the Health, Life Sciences and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) division for Wipro Limited and was the president and CEO of HealthPlan Holdings (HPH) — a leading healthcare solutions business serving payers, self-funded employers, unions, small businesses and individuals — its acquisition by Wipro.
Emma Kinery covers fintech and crypto for American Banker out of Washington, D.C.
Kahini Shah is a behavioral researcher at Duke University. Her work primarily focuses on leveraging insights from human behavior to design products and systems that promote financial wellbeing. She has worked on projects across the globe to help people build wealth, increase their savings, and reduce their debt.
Shaye-Ann Hopkins is a behavioral researcher at Duke University, where she works with design tools and interventions that enhance wellbeing. Her work focuses on designing and testing behaviorally informed solutions that support healthier financial behaviors and more resilient communities.
Rathi Murthy is the Chief Technology Officer at Varo Bank, the first nationally chartered all-digital consumer bank in the United States. In this role, she leads the company's end-to-end technology strategy, overseeing the design and development of secure, scalable, and AI-powered digital banking platforms. Her leadership is instrumental in advancing Varo's mission to build inclusive, accessible, and real-time financial solutions for millions of consumers.
A seasoned technology executive, Rathi brings over 25 years of experience leading innovation and digital transformation at some of the world's most recognized technology and financial services companies. Prior to joining Varo, she served as Chief Technology Officer and President of Expedia Product & Technology at Expedia Group, where she modernized the company's global travel infrastructure, integrating AI-driven personalization, modular architecture, and advanced cloud capabilities across its family of brands.
Earlier, she held executive leadership roles at Verizon Media and Gap Inc., where she led enterprise cloud migrations, e-commerce platform evolution, and large-scale product delivery initiatives across global markets.
Rathi also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Enterprise Growth at American Express, where she was responsible for the technology strategy and operations of the Serve platform and a suite of prepaid products including Bluebird.
Rathi's early career includes engineering leadership roles at eBay, Yahoo!, Sun Microsystems, and WebMD, where she consistently delivered improvements in platform stability, operational agility, and customer experience.
In addition to her executive work, Murthy is a board member at PagerDuty, Inc., a leader in digital operations management, and serves as an External Expert Advisor to the University of San Francisco's Board of Trustees Committee on Information Technology Strategy. She is also a regular speaker at industry events and leadership forums, offering thought leadership on topics such as fintech innovation, integrating AI, platform transformation, and executive technology leadership.
Eva Stukenberg leads the Bloom Financial Associates team at Thrivent, a Fortune 500 financial services organization.
She brings extensive expertise to the financial services industry, having spent 15 years in corporate roles spanning insurance, investments, banking and consulting, followed by a decade serving clients directly as a financial advisor. She holds an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship management and a BSB in marketing from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.
Chris Borkenhagen is the chief digital officer and chief information security officer of AuthenticID.
Guy Baker, CFP, Ph.D., is the founder of Wealth Teams Alliance in Irvine, California.
He is a member of the Forbes 250 Top Financial Security Professionals list and is author of "Maximize the RedZone," a guide for business owners, as well as "The Great Wealth Erosion," "Manage Markets, Not Stocks" and "Investment Alchemy." He received the 2019 John Newton Russell Memorial Award for lifetime achievement in insurance.
Cathy Knepp leads HR at Platform Accounting Group, a next-gen accounting firm with more than 900 employees. She is committed to creating better experiences for accountants through people-first policies and practices that support better work. She has a tenured career in financial services and more than a decade of experience in various areas of the accounting industry.
