Financial technology
10 CHROs in Financial Technology
These ten executives hold the chief people officer or chief human resources officer title at fintech companies, digital banks and payments firms. A reader can learn how HR leaders at financial technology companies build people teams, shape culture and plan the workforce as the business scales.
Professionals to explore
01—10Alan C.
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · OakNorth
Chief People Officer at OakNorth since January 2026, after serving as Chief People Officer at GoCardless from 2023 to 2025. His profile headline gives his current role as CPeO at OakNorth Bank, and he is also a CPO (Chief People Officer) Council member at Lattice and an advisor in Seedcamp's Expert Collective for People & Talent.
Anna Avalos
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · SoFi
Chief People Officer at SoFi since 2018; her profile describes SoFi as a financial solutions company offering products for students, home equity, mortgage, investing, insurance and business. She was Human Resources Leader, EMEA (2016–2018) and Human Resources Leader, Operations (2015–2016) at Tesla, and Senior Director, Human Resources at Stryker (2014–2015).
Catarina Abrantes Steinberg
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief People Officer · Starling
Group Chief People Officer at Starling since June 2025, after serving as Chief People Officer Dojo - Paymentsense at Dojo from 2022 to 2025. Her profile describes her as Chief People Officer of a European fintech. She was Co-Head Global Industrial Services & Infrastructure (2020–2022) and Executive Director (2016–2020) at Russell Reynolds Associates.
Daphne Noordhoff
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Enfuce
Chief People Officer at Enfuce since November 2024; her profile describes Enfuce as a payment processing and card issuing platform that helps fintechs and financial institutions launch and scale payment card programmes. She was VP People at Castor (2021–2024) and Senior Director Global Talent Management at Backbase (2020–2021).
Debora Bangun
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · DANA Indonesia
Chief People Officer at DANA Indonesia since 2024; her profile describes DANA as a fintech company working to make Indonesia a cashless society with its digital payment solutions. She was Human Resources Director at OVO (PT Visionet Internasional) from 2021 to 2022 and has been Founder of HRDebora since 2022.
Egle Skorobogatoviene
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · TransferGo
Chief People Officer at TransferGo since January 2025, where her profile says she partnered with the founders to lead organisational transformation and support global scale. She was Chief People Officer at Appodeal, Inc. (2022–2024) and Regional Human Resources Director (UK, Ireland, Nordics) at Ferring Pharmaceuticals (2021–2022).
Nicole Poon
LinkedInExperience: Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) · MatchMove
Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at MatchMove since December 2024, after an earlier period as Chief of People (COP) there from 2022 to 2023. Her profile says that as CHRO of a scaling fintech she drives people strategy aligned to business growth and leads initiatives across culture-building and workforce planning. She was also Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Shopmatic (2023–2025).
Saskia Donald
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Token.io
Chief People Officer at Token.io since 2022, following VP People at Token.io (2021–2022); her profile describes Token.io as a Pay by Bank infrastructure provider and lists open banking, payments and fintech in her headline. She was VP, HR at Addison Global - The Creators of MoPlay (2017–2020) and HR Director, UK at VUBIQUITY (2014–2017).
Suzana Kubric
LinkedInExperience: Chief Human Resources Officer · Nubank
Chief Human Resources Officer at Nubank since December 2022, following Global Human Resources Vice President at Nubank (2021–2022); her profile headline describes her work as redesigning HR as a product. She was HR Director Latam and I&D Champion at Kantar IBOPE Media from 2017 to 2021.
Tina Wilson
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Happen Bank
Chief People Officer at Happen Bank (formerly LendingClub) since 2020; her profile says she is responsible for recruiting, culture, engagement, development, organizational design, real estate and facilities. Her earlier roles there include SVP, People Success (2020), VP, People Success & Talent Acquisition (2019–2020) and VP, Talent Acquisition & Org Strategy (2018–2019).
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Match the company's stage and model to yours, since an early-stage payments startup, a licensed digital bank and a listed financial services company face different hiring, pay and governance questions. Check how long each person has held the role and where they worked before, since that shapes which stages of growth they have seen firsthand.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you build the people team and HR systems as headcount grew, and what did you add at each stage?
- 02How do you compete for engineering and product talent against larger technology and banking employers?
- 03What changes did you make to performance management and pay as the company moved toward profitability or a listing?
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