Jane Barratt
MX Chief Advocacy Officer
Speakers
Jane Barratt is Chief Advocacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at MX. Jane serves as FDX Board Co-Chair and has been a member of the FDX Board of Directors since 2021. She is a personal finance expert and champion of financial strength. In her role, Jane collaborates with financial institutions, regulatory bodies, policymakers and the financial ecosystem to ensure people have better financial outcomes through permissioned and secure data-driven innovation. She is a financial educator through LinkedIn Learning. Prior to MX, Jane was CEO of GoldBean, an education first investment advisory platform; and spent two decades driving growth for Fortune 500 companies.
Hasan Akbar is Partner Director at Candescent and a partnerships and revenue leader with 13+ years of experience across fintech and SaaS. He builds strategic partnerships, channel programs, and go-to-market motions that drive scaled growth.
Neff Hudson is a technologist and Principal at Castle Hills Consulting LLC, where he helps organizations navigate open finance, digital transformation, and product strategy. Over a long career bridging financial services and experience design at industry bellwether USAA, he led development and operations teams deploying mission-critical applications across multiple channels, from agent desktops to web, mobile and text. He has worked with intelligent automation and conversational interfaces since Watson’s early days, but has been secretly obsessed since meeting and hating Microsoft Clippy. At his most optimistic, he is a patented inventor who still thinks we can make life easier and better for most people.
Tom Wells is Chief Risk Officer at Primitive, where he ensures risk and compliance function as the foundation for agentic AI in financial services, not a constraint on it. He brings over 20 years of financial services and technology consulting experience, most recently as Chief Risk Officer for Digital, Data, AI, Innovation and Open Banking at U.S. Bank. Tom originated the Agentic Financial Services Protocol (AFSP), the open specification defining how AI agents are trusted to act on a consumer’s behalf before any banking relationship exists. At Primitive, his experience in regulated environments is the reason customers can give examiners real answers about how their AI agents are governed.