Jean Donnelly

Advisor at FinTech Sandbox

Member since June 2020

Financial Services and Wealth Management

Education: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - University of Edinburgh
Boston, MA, USA

Biography

FinTech Sandbox is a non-profit that provides streamlined access to a broad range of financial data, enabling entrepreneurs to develop and test their applications faster, more cost-efficiently, and to higher quality standards. We have assisted over 200 FinTech startups across the US, UK and Canada in gaining access to premium data sets from over 40 data providers.

Jean Donnelly, the FinTech Sandbox Executive Director, is a recovering engineer who has spent time at GE Capital, Fidelity Investments, and EnerNOC, as well as a digital forensics startup. With over twenty years experience in technology, operations and process excellence in both financial services and clean tech, she now heads up an organization looking to create as many collisions within the FinTech ecosystem as possible.

Jean received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her MBA at University of Edinburgh.

Passion

Everything related to helping startups!
Also an avid EPL football fan!

Best Story

Explaining to someone that FinTech, has nothing to do with Fish Fins
I'm also proud of being able to explain how an aircraft engine works in 4 intriguing words

Origin Story

Continually re-inventing myself each decade has brought me to a great intersection of Tech and Financial services, having been parts of large and small companies, I find myself working with startup businesses at a pretty amazing time, and being able to contribute and move the industry forward!

Example Talks

FinTech trends

Thomson Reuters Millenial Summit speaker NYC 2016: spokeon recent trends in FinTech

Topics/Keywords

fintech innovation business transformation cio strategy innovation process improvement big data implementation system improvements organizational efficiencies program management it assessment and governance financial services software development business process redesign management vendor selection management pl management

Featured Video

I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
Everything is negotiable

Best Story

Explaining to someone that FinTech, has nothing to do with Fish Fins
I'm also proud of being able to explain how an aircraft engine works in 4 intriguing words

Origin Story

Continually re-inventing myself each decade has brought me to a great intersection of Tech and Financial services, having been parts of large and small companies, I find myself working with startup businesses at a pretty amazing time, and being able to contribute and move the industry forward!

I am willing to travel more than 100 miles
Yes
Everything is negotiable

Example Talks

FinTech trends

Thomson Reuters Millenial Summit speaker NYC 2016: spokeon recent trends in FinTech

Topics/Keywords

fintech innovation business transformation cio strategy innovation process improvement big data implementation system improvements organizational efficiencies program management it assessment and governance financial services software development business process redesign management vendor selection management pl management