15+ years’ sales experience in corporate banking and asset management working for bluechip institutions including Citigroup, ABN AMRO, UniCredit and Dimensional Fund Advisors. Thought leader in the future of financial services. First to map the new financial system and coin the term “alternative finance”. Finance Innovation Lab Fellow. Qualified executive business coach. Member of the cohort of the young Romanian leaders who actively contributed to the development of the new society after the revolution. Selected by Citigroup for the inaugural Eastern Europe Leadership Program. Avid reader of science and historical fiction. Emanuela holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.