Dean Karlan

Professor of Economics

Yale University

President

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

co-director

Financial Access Initiative

co-Founder and President

StickK.com

Dean Karlan is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. Karlan is also President of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), co-director of the Financial Access Initiative, a consortium created with funding from the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, a research fellow of the M.I.T. Jameel Poverty Action Lab, and co-Founder and President of StickK.com.

Robert A. Annibale

Global Director

Citi Microfinance

Bob Annibale is Global Director of Citi Microfinance. He leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance institutions, on a multi-business and multi-product basis, providing financing and product partnerships to institutions that serve the poor and the unbanked.

Janie Barrera

President & CEO

ACCION Texas

Janie Barrera is founding president and chief executive officer of ACCION Texas. Created in 1994, ACCION Texas has become the largest nonprofit micro-lending organization in the United States. The agency provides small loans and management training to micro-enterprises throughout Texas. As president and CEO, Ms. Barrera is responsible for the organization’s financial management, oversight of its annual budget and the development of methodology and loan delivery procedures.

Bob Jones

CEO

Old National Bank

David Porteus

Founder & Director

Bankable Frontier Associates

David Porteous is the founder and director of Bankable Frontier Associates, a niche consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. He has undertaken consultancy assignments in the areas of financial strategy and policy for a wide range of clients including public clients such as DFID, the World Bank, CGAP and private clients including a banking group and telco group.

Deb Roy

Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Deb Roy directs the Media Lab's Cognitive Machines group, is founding director of the Center for Future Banking, and chairs the academic program in Media Arts and Sciences. A native of Canada, he received his bachelor of computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1992 and his PhD in cognitive science from MIT in 1999. He joined the MIT faculty in 2000 and was named AT&T Associate Professorship of Media Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Mark Troughton

President, Cards and Network

Green Dot Corporation

Mark Troughton, President, Cards and Network, oversees the prepaid card business at retailers nationwide for Green Dot Corporation. He also leads the Green Dot Financial Network (GDFN) management team. Under his leadership, Green Dot has expanded its distribution and in-store presence in major retailers across the country and GDFN has become America’s leading reload and cash acceptance network. Prior to joining Green Dot Corporation, Mark ran Internet software businesses in Dallas and London. Previously, Mark worked for McKinsey and Company in London. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa.

Peter Tufano

Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management

Harvard Business School

Peter Tufano is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at the Harvard Business School, and serves as the school's Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs. He previously served as the Director of Faculty Development and as Head of the Finance Unit at HBS. His research and course development focus on mutual funds, corporate financial engineering, and consumer finance.