Svetla Marinova

Category: Financial and Professional Services (HR, Recruitment, Legal, Accountancy)

Svetla is an experienced FinTech innovation strategist with expertise in the use of unstructured, ESG, and alternative data to enable investment decisions through Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing. She is currently responsible for expanding Amazon's Partner Network to include fintechs of strategic value. She started her career in FinTech as a founding member and primary business analyst of the S&P Global Innovation Lab. She led of the Innovation Lab of APG Asset Management in New York, and was most recently a part of Grant Thornton’s FinTech innovation solutioning initiative, where she focused on sustainable investing and digital transformation efforts.

Svetla holds a BA in Economics from Adelphi University’s Honors College, a Master's 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. She is a Money 20/20 Europe 2019 Rise Up Academy alumna, one of 50 Inspiring Fintech Females by NYC Fintech Women for 2019, a published author, conference speaker, content curator, and advisor for Holt Fintech Accelerator.

Her volunteer efforts focus on STEM initiatives and mentoring for not-for-profits such as FIRST Robotics, NFTE, Year Up, Girls in Tech, and Built by Girls.