10 CHROs in Financial Technology
Chief people officers and CHROs in financial technology, based from São Paulo and Singapore to London and New York, hold the top people role at Nubank, SoFi, Starling, OakNorth and six other fintech, payments and banking companies. Three took that seat after VP or SVP people titles at the same company, which helps with questions on building the people function as headcount grows across markets.
Professionals to explore
Alan C.
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief People Officer · OakNorth
Alan C. became Chief People Officer at OakNorth in 2026 and was Chief People Officer at GoCardless (2023–2025). Alan is also a CPO (Chief People Officer) Council member at Lattice and Seedcamp Expert Collective - People & Talent (Advisor role), both since 2023, and Fellow (Advisor role) at London COO Roundtable since 2021, and describes being a former COO. Alan fits questions on commercially driven people strategy.
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Anna Avalos
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · SoFi
Anna Avalos has been Chief People Officer at SoFi since 2018; SoFi offers products for students, home equity, mortgage, investing, insurance and business solutions. Before SoFi came Human Resources Leader roles at Tesla, for EMEA (2016–2018) and Operations (2015–2016), and Senior Director, Human Resources (2014–2015) and Director, Human Resources (2013–2014) at Stryker. Anna fits questions on people strategy for a financial company with many product lines.
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Catarina Abrantes Steinberg
LinkedInExperience: Group Chief People Officer · Starling
Catarina Abrantes Steinberg has been Group Chief People Officer at Starling since 2025, after Chief People Officer Dojo - Paymentsense at Dojo (2022–2025). Catarina was also Founding Member UK at Chief (2023–2024) and, at Russell Reynolds Associates, Co-Head Global Industrial Services & Infrastructure (2020–2022) and Executive Director (2016–2020). The executive search background alongside the Starling and Dojo people roles makes Catarina a fit for questions on hiring senior leaders.
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Daphne Noordhoff
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Enfuce
Daphne Noordhoff, Chief People Officer at Enfuce since 2024, works for a payment processing and card issuing platform that helps fintechs and financial institutions launch and scale card programmes. Daphne was VP People at Castor (2021–2024), Senior Director Global Talent Management at Backbase (2020–2021) and Head of Learning & Development & TA at Sligro Food Group (2018–2020), and sits on the Supervisory Board of Orthocenter. Daphne fits questions on talent management at a payments infrastructure company.
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Debora Bangun
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · DANA Indonesia
Debora Bangun is Chief People Officer at DANA Indonesia since 2024, a fintech offering digital payment solutions, and Founder at HRDebora since 2022. Debora also holds Regional Director Human Resources - South East Asia at Target, dated from 2012, and was Human Resources Director at OVO (PT Visionet Internasional) (2021–2022) and Head of Human Resources at Nielsen (2009–2012), and describes 25 years of HR experience. Debora fits questions on people strategy for a digital payments company in Indonesia.
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Egle Skorobogatoviene
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · TransferGo
Egle Skorobogatoviene has been Chief People Officer at TransferGo since 2025 and describes leading organisational transformation there to support global scale. Egle was Chief People Officer at Appodeal, Inc. (2022–2024), Founder at Egles Consultancy (2021–2025), Regional Human Resources Director (UK, Ireland, Nordics) at Ferring Pharmaceuticals (2021–2022) and HR Director, UK at The Stepstone Group (2018–2020). Egle fits questions on reorganizing a people function for international growth.
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Nicole Poon
LinkedInExperience: Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) · MatchMove
Nicole Poon is Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at MatchMove since 2024, having been its Chief of People (COP) from 2022 to 2023, and was Chief Operations Officer (COO) at Shopmatic (2023–2025). Nicole describes driving people strategy for a scaling fintech, from attracting and retaining talent to culture-building and workforce planning. Nicole also held two titles at UpCode Academy (2018–2019) and fits questions on workforce planning as a fintech expands.
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Saskia Donald
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Token.io
Saskia Donald moved from VP People (2021–2022) to Chief People Officer at Token.io in 2022; Token.io describes itself as the leading Pay by Bank infrastructure provider, powering major Pay by Bank schemes in the UK and Europe. Saskia also worked as a freelance HR Consultant (2020–2021) and was VP, HR at Addison Global - The Creators of MoPlay (2017–2020) and HR Director, UK at VUBIQUITY (2014–2017). Saskia fits questions on building a people team at an open banking and payments infrastructure company.
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Suzana Kubric
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief Human Resources Officer · Nubank
Suzana Kubric became Chief Human Resources Officer at Nubank in 2022, after serving as Global Human Resources Vice President there (2021–2022), and describes the work as redesigning HR as a product. Suzana was HR Director Latam and I&D Champion at Kantar IBOPE Media (2017–2021) and a Non Executive Board Member at Specialisterne Brasil (2020–2023) and Associação Prato Cheio (2019–2023). Suzana fits questions on treating HR as a product inside a financial services company.
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Tina Wilson
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Happen Bank
Tina Wilson has held five titles at Happen Bank (formerly LendingClub): Senior Director, Executive Search (2018), VP, Talent Acquisition & Org Strategy (2018–2019), VP, People Success & Talent Acquisition (2019–2020), SVP, People Success (2020) and Chief People Officer since 2020. As CPO, Tina is responsible for recruiting, culture, engagement, development, organizational design, real estate and facilities, and opened Happen Bank's offices in Lehi. Tina fits questions on recruiting and organizational design.
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Choose the right perspective
Senior hiring and executive search questions point to Catarina Abrantes Steinberg, formerly at Russell Reynolds Associates, or Tina Wilson, whose Happen Bank titles include executive search and talent acquisition. For Southeast Asia, try Debora Bangun at DANA Indonesia or Nicole Poon, based in Singapore; Suzana Kubric, who held an HR Director Latam title, suits Latin America, and payments infrastructure teams fit Daphne Noordhoff at Enfuce or Saskia Donald at Token.io.
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?
- 03How do you set up HR for teams spread across several countries with different employment rules?
About this directory
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