Svetla Marinova

New York, New York

FinTech Strategy | Wharton MBA | Money 20/20 Rise Up

Summary
Svetla is an experienced FinTech strategist and product manager across three corporate innovation
labs for large financial services organizations. She was a founding member and primary business
analyst of the S&P Global Innovation Lab, lead of the Innovation Lab of APG Asset Management,
and is now a part of Grant Thornton’s FinTech innovation solutioning initiative, where she focuses
on sustainable investing and digital transformation efforts for the Asset Management vertical.
Svetla’s expertise and interests revolve around the use of unstructured and alternative data to enable
investment decisions through advanced analytics techniques such as Artificial Intelligence and
Natural Language Processing.

Svetla holds a BA in Economics from Adelphi University’s Honors College, a MA in Climate and
Society from Columbia University, where she was also a Research Fellow at the Earth Institute, and
an Executive MBA from The Wharton School with a major in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is
also a Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Rise Up Academy alumna.

Experience
Advisor at Holt Accelerator
2019  -  Present  (less than a year)
Advisor to the current cohort of startups at Holt FinTech Accelerator (only 10 residents selected out
of 400+ applications globally)

https://www.holtaccelerator.ai/our-team/

FinTech Manager at Grant Thornton LLP

2018  -  Present  (1 year)
Solution Design & Product Management
Alternative data and ESG / sustainable investing strategy for Asset Management
Digital transformation
FinTech strategic partnerships
Design Thinking facilitation

Vice President, Innovation Management at APG

2017  -  2018  (1 year)
 FinTech strategic partnerships and experiment coaching (R&D) in the fields of:
Alternative Data
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Blockchain
Investing in Sustainable Development (ESG)

Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank

2015  -  2017  (2 years)
Business Analyst/Project Manager covering strategic data sourcing initiatives for listed derivatives,
resi/commercial mortgages & wealth management to meet Basel III, CCAR, and IHC regulatory
reporting requirements.

New York Lead of Career360 -- a global employee resource group tasked with creating knowledge-
building, networking, and mentoring opportunities for Chief Operating Office

Senior Lead Business Analyst, Innovation Lab at S&P Global Market Intelligence
2012  -  2015  (3 years)
Strategic partnerships and new product development initiatives in the FinTech space
Creator & organizer of Mission Possible summer competition (4 years), Innovation Challenge (3
years), and Garage Speaker Series (TED-style talks on FinTech)

Analyst at AlphaSights
2011  -  2012  (1 year)
knowledge brokerage and primary investment due diligence for Private Equity clients

Graduate Research Assistant / Fellow at The Earth Institute, Columbia University

2010  -  2011  (1 year)
Measuring the impact of natural disasters in developing economies

Research Intern at The Climate Institute

2009  -  2009
Researched the economic impacts of climate change on the farming industry in Australia

Education
The Wharton School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 2016 - 2018
Activities and Societies:  study abroad in Japan, Spain, Argentina
City University of New York-Baruch College
Certificate, Finance and Investment Principles, 2013 - 2015
Columbia University in the City of New York
Master of Arts - MA, Climate and Society (Environmental Economics), 2010 - 2011
Adelphi University
BA, Economics, Honors College, 2005 - 2010
Boston University
Economics Summer Internship Program in Sydney, Australia, 2009 - 2009
Bard College
Certificate, Advanced Studies in International Affairs (BGIA), 2008 - 2008
Svetla Marinova
New York, New York
FinTech Strategy | Wharton MBA | Money 20/20 Rise Up

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11/15/2019—View by Saurabh Bansal,EIT