Strategy, risk, and compliance executive focused on fintech, banking-as-a-service, and embedded finance. ✣ Currently working at Upgrade managing its financial crimes compliance division. ✣ Previously worked at Klaros Group. I joined as employee #2 and helped grow Klaros's advisory business from 3 to 100+ clients. I worked with fintech and digital asset clients from startup to scale, community, mid-size, and large banks, and credit unions. ✣ Prior to Klaros, I was a Promontory Financial Group consultant, working primarily with large and mid-size banks and fintechs on enforcement, risk management, regulatory relations, and bank licensing matters. ✣ Prior to Promontory, I was a regulator and payments specialist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors focusing on new and emerging payment types. ✣ I started my career working at Pew focusing on federal and state fiscal health issues for policymakers and the press. My work was featured in over 50 leading publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.