Judges

Ana-Maria is an experienced delivery manager with a 20 year history of working in the banking and fintech technology industry.

Starting with January 2020, Ana-Maria is co-founder of Smart Fintech, the first third-party provider in Romania authorised by the National Bank of Romania on both open banking services: account information and payment initiation.

Since January 2023, Ana-Maria has been acting as board member of the Romanian Fintech Association. RoFintech was established in January 2020 as a professional entrepreneurial association to represent the interests of Romanian-founded enterprises that are developing proprietary technological solutions. Within the Romanian Fintech Association, Ana-Maria coordinates the Romanian Open Banking Initiative – ROBI. Through ROBI, RoFin.Tech aims to facilitate enhanced cooperation, efficiency, and progress within the local ecosystem, ensuring that the benefits of open banking are fully realised by all stakeholders.

Miranda is an award-winning marketing leader with more than 25 years’ experience in strategic and operational marketing in financial services and fintech. Before joining Ecommpay as chief marketing officer, she led the creation, launch and development of the Banking Circle and Banking Circle Group brands globally. Throughout her career, she is proud to have also been responsible for successful marketing programmes for leading professional corporate brands, including Equifax, LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters and Standard & Poor’s.

Passionate about championing the skills and expertise of diverse and underrepresented groups, Miranda sits on the Executive Board of the not-for-profit European Women Payments Networks (EWPN), as well as the Advisory Board of the FinTech B2B Marketing Community.

Sarah is a senior commercial leader with over 25 years’ experience driving growth for fintech start‑ups and scale‑ups. She specialises in go‑to‑market strategy, revenue acceleration, and strategic partnerships across global financial institutions, with a career spanning data, analytics, benchmarking, and pre and post‑trade operational efficiency at Thomson Financial, Data Explorers (now S&P Global), Taskize, Duco and Hoptroff. 

A Women of FinTech Ambassador and committed advocate against ageism, Sarah champions gender diversity and multigenerational inclusion as core drivers of innovation and sustainable growth. 

As a certified Habit Mechanic Coach, Sarah brings a neuroscience‑based approach to strengthening resilience, performance, and leadership in high‑pressure, fast‑moving environments.