Future of Finance Summit 2024

John Curry

Founder/CEO Last Mile AI

John founded Last Mile to use his hard-won battle experience to make good on the promises of AI to clients. Heading up the AI team of talented data scientists and engineers, John loves to work on projects all the way from requirements through to successful deployment and value delivery.

John has worked in data science and applied AI for over a decade with several years of software development before that.  He first programmed BASIC on an Acorn Electron in the 1980’s to produce patterns of swirling shapes and was aghast at how long it took to produce something so completely useless.

When modern AI finally helped us to accomplish something real, he knew he had to get on board.

Leda Agapi Glyptis

Client-first Exec, NED, Advisor, Author and Speaker

Leda is a seasoned fintech executive and former banker, with a career spanning two decades working in transformation and technology functions across a variety of financial services verticals. She is the author of best-selling book ‘Bankers Like Us: Dispatches from an Industry in Transition’ (Taylor and Francis, 2023) and of the upcoming ‘Beyond Resilience: Patterns of Success in Fintech and Digital Transformation’ (Taylor and Francis, 2025). She a frequent keynote speaker at flagship industry events globally including Sibos, M20/20, Finovate as well as specialist regional and corporate events; and she is the author of the highly acclaimed #LedaWrites column on Fintech Futures.

Leda is a Visiting Professor of Practice for the University of Loughborough London, focusing on fintech and the digital economy. She works as an external advisor to boards and executive teams for banks, financial institutions and technology companies globally, supporting leadership teams in transition: be it a process of transforming themselves, their business or their software infrastructure. Additionally, Leda works with established technology and younger fintech companies as a board director and advisor, currently serving as a strategic advisor to Smarter Contracts, Incuto and the Disruption House as well as a special advisor for the European market for FinScan. Leda has served as a Non Executive Director for Flagstone (who achieved one of the highest capital raises of its kind in the UK with backing from Estancia Capital).

She was a NED at Simply Pay Me (until its acquisition by MyTown Technologies) and she chaired the Board of Geophy (now a Walker and Dunlop company) through its successful exit. Leda served as the Chief Client Officer of 10x Banking and the founding CEO of 11:FS Foundry (both in the cloud-native core banking space); she was the Chief Innovation Officer of Qatar National Bank and held a variety of innovation and transformation roles at BNY Mellon. Leda completed her undergraduate studies at King’s College Cambridge and holds an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mary O'Dea

Chief Executive of IOB

Mary joined IOB in April 2018 from the Central Bank of Ireland where she was Director of Securities and Markets Supervision. She was previously Ireland's representative at the World Bank and prior to that held the role of Alternate Executive Director representing Ireland with the International Monetary Fund. Mary previously held several director roles with the Central Bank of Ireland, including Director of Financial Operations, Consumer Director and Acting Chief Executive of the Financial Regulator.

Mark Little

CEO & co-founder of Kinzen

Mark Little is a media and digital entrepreneur with a rich background as a foreign affairs broadcaster and award-winning journalist. He founded and sold two successful media companies over 11 years and currently hosts the podcast The History of the Future.

A former Washington Correspondent and Foreign Correspondent for Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ, Mark won TV Journalist of the Year and authored three books. He later founded Storyful, which he sold to News International, and served as managing director of Twitter Ireland before co-founding Kinzen.

Mark is also a sought-after speaker on leadership, disinformation, and innovation, known for his dynamic and engaging presentations.

Phil Healy

Olympic Finalist, European Relay Medallist, and one of the fastest female sprinters in Irish History

The ‘Bandon Bullet’ has been one of the key figures in driving up the standard of Irish women’s sprinting over the past decade. She has made major finals, broken Irish records, and won 17 national titles. The West Cork woman has competed for Ireland in the Olympic, World, and European Championships.

In 2024, she was part of the Irish women’s 4x400m team that smashed the Irish record and finished 4th in the Olympic Games. A moment that will go down in Irish sporting history and captured the hearts and minds of the nation.

Phil was also on the team that claimed a sensational silver medal at the European Athletics Championships in June and was part of the mixed 4x400m team that made Olympic final in Tokyo. During her athletics career, she has made finals at major championships, from the European Junior Championships to the World Student Games and European Indoor Championships.

Phil has overcome medical health issues in recent years with a thyroid issue called Hashimoto’s disease, presenting challenges and impacting her performances, but is now back on track after 18 months dogged by the illness.

As a recipient of the prestigious Waterford Institute of Technology Scholarship, Phil pursued her academic interests alongside her athletic career, earning a master’s degree in Enterprise Computer Software.