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Michael Ball

SVP, Markets & Strategy

Kinective

Ravi Mikkelsen

CEO & Co-founder

Atmos Financial

Elia Blankenship

Director, Management Consulting, Financial Institutions Advisory

RSM US LLP

Mark Dreux

Global Financial Services Leader

ID DataWeb

Joshua Jordan

Director of Digital Engagement

Jack Henry

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Michael Ball

SVP, Markets & Strategy

Kinective

Michael leads the strategic marketing programs and initiatives at Kinective, focused on connecting financial institutions to the future of banking. With over 30 years of experience in technology go-to-market (GTM) leadership within the banking and financial services sector, he is a recognized spokesperson and advocate for leveraging technology to drive innovation. Michael is passionate about helping financial institutions deliver competitive, customer-centric products and services that enhance their ability to better compete and serve their markets.

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Ravi Mikkelsen

CEO & Co-founder

Atmos Financial

Ravi Mikkelsen is the CEO and co-founder at Atmos Financial, PBC., a climate fintech company that accelerates the deployment of climate-positive infrastructure. He has been in the clean energy sector for over 20 years. Starting in materials science and engineering, Mr. Mikkelsen transitioned to deploying clean energy assets, and ultimately, moved into financing – a sector he describes as “the Archimedes Lever” needed to move the world off of fossil fuels. Through Atmos Financial, Mr. Mikkelsen is working towards catalyzing a global movement for a greener, more resilient future.

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Elia Blankenship

Director, Management Consulting, Financial Institutions Advisory

RSM US LLP

Elia Blankenship is director of management consulting and financial institutions advisory at RSM US LLP. She focuses on operational efficiencies, organizational alignment, process automation, implementations and system or vendor selection opportunities for financial institutions, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) and Housing Finance Authority (HFA).

Prior to joining RSM, Ms. Blankenship had more than 20 years of managerial and technical background in branch operations, lending operations, deposit operations, card services, electronic banking, treasury services, risk management, vendor management, organizational analysis and processes improvement implementations.

Organizations have benefited from Ms. Blankenship’s broad bank operational background resulting in improved efficiencies, streamlined processes, reduced risk and organizational alignment. Her technical background administrating banking systems coupled with process improvement opportunities allows her to leverage technology to help solve process inefficiencies.

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Mark Dreux

Global Financial Services Leader

ID DataWeb

Mark Dreux is a global financial services leader at ID DataWeb.  For the last 20 years, he has been focused in fintech sales in North America and the UK.  His sales career began at DMS, one of the original fintechs, where he ran sales and helped grow the company by developing new verticals and partnerships to handle smaller financial institutions.  For the last 5 years, Mr. Dreux has been helping fintechs (like Scienaptic, aire, Stratyfy, TrueWork and Array) build out their go to market strategy. 

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Joshua Jordan

Director of Digital Engagement

Jack Henry

Joshua Jordan is director of digital engagement at Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. He is responsible for fostering partnerships and collaborations with fintechs and articulating the technical and strategic vision of Jack Henry Digital to community financial institutions and the fintech industry. Mr. Jordan has been with Jack Henry since 2015 and has more than 20 years of community and digital banking experience.

FinXTech Connect Tech Talks

The third FinXTech Connect Tech Talks session provides participants an additional opportunity to hear from 5 technology companies in FinXTech Connect that financial institutions should be aware of as they consider new strategies. Each presenter addresses the problem their company’s technology solves, the benefits and the steps to move forward. The foundation of these talks is how the technology company provided a return on investment for the bank and/or credit union. Each presenting company also has a space in the FinXTech Demo Hall. Participants are encouraged to visit these booths to learn more about each company’s product or service.

Tech Talk 1: Connectivity is King: Bridging the Legacy Technology Gap

Tech Talk 2: Turnkey Lending for Solar — How Fintech Partnerships Can Expand Your Loan Portfolio Without Increasing Staffing

Tech Talk 3: Empowering FIs With Real-World Insights and Industry Experience to Determine the Best Fintech and Technology Partners

Tech Talk 4: How to Put Your Customers First and Stop Account Opening and Takeover Fraud

Tech Talk 5: Fast-Forward Innovation and Feature Delivery With Embedded Fintech

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