Marco was Strategy & Marketing Director at BT and M&A Strategist at J. P. Morgan & Co. with European-wide responsibilities. He holds an active role at the European Consulting Payments Association, is a Certified Management Consultant at the Management Consulting Institute. In the last five years Marco was involved in helping customers navigating through their digital transformation and moving towards a data sharing economy He helped a number of European banks and Payment Services Providers and software vendors in addressing Open Banking opportunities, increasing efficiency in the online space including digital onboarding, customer journey, authentication, instant payments and B2B payments. Marco holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a Master of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of California at San Diego and speaks regularly at conferences across Europe.

Stéphane holds a Master in International Administration (Paris 2) and graduated from INSEAD’s Advanced Management Programme

He left the Bank of Italy in 2009 and since then held a number of top management and consulting roles at payments services providers and Fintech companies. He was a professor of Economics of banking and financial intermediaries at the University of Pisa. He was CEO of an IT services provider to PSPs and banks, CEO of one of the first Payment Institution in Italy, an independent Board member of an Italian Payment institution and an advisor of a Payment institution of a network of cooperative banks. At present he is a senior payment expert at CleverAdvice and the chairman of a Fintech company that provides Account Information and Payment Initiation services. He is author of several articles supporting the use of electronic payments and the reduction in the use of cash via measures based on convenience and/or economic advantages rather than regulatory mandates.

At Capgemini he was involved in the development of several editions of the World Payments Report where he has had the opportunity to deal with several key payment players across the World. In the last 5 years he was involved in the implementation of processes and solution to meet Strong Customer Authentication and Open Banking mandated by PSD2. He was also responsible of developing action plans to implement complex projects and communication strategy to get the buy-in from key stakeholders.

Sameer holds a Ph.D. in Economics from IGIDR (Mumbai) an advanced research Institute set up by the Reserve Bank of India. He has almost 20 years of post-Ph.D. experience in industry and academia having taught at IIT-Bombay, University of the Azores and Johns Hopkins University where he is currently affiliated as an adjunct faculty.

During his professional experience he developed strong abilities to combine business and IT skills. Cesare holds an M.A. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and an M.B.A. from MIP-Polytechnic University of Milan.