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Anneika is the Technology Partnerships Manager at Ocrolus and has been building a career in financial services over the past decade. Her passion for financial services was sparked at 18, when she won a grant to work at a microfinance bank serving female entrepreneurs in rural Argentina. In her current role, she is dedicated to helping Ocrolus establish and scale tech partnerships that generate revenue, create new products, and result in delighted customers.
Anneika is an investor by background, having worked in both the public and private markets, including time spent at Argo Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and GCM Grosvenor. She was able to hone her critical analysis skills by evaluating mortgage derivatives and combing through FinTechs’ financial projections in the early part of her career. At Ocrolus, she applies the same thoughtful lens when assessing any new partner in order to ensure success and value creation on both sides.
Anneika holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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Working with Partners to Transform the Fintech Ecosystem
Part of what first attracted me to Ocrolus was the opportunity to work for a company that is making financial services fairer, more accessible, and more transparent. In addition, I figured that managing partnerships for Ocrolus would give me the opportunity to utilize many of the skills I had learned as a venture capital investor at Argo and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and as an institutional investment analyst. That was over two years ago. Today, I’m happy to report that new partnerships are helping drive growth at Ocrolus, and I’m excited to be part of a fintech infrastructure company that uses…
The Reluctant Consumer: Empowering Decision-Making in Data Sharing
Giving customers the power to safely control their personal data is the key to streamlining automation in the financial services sector. This requires the implementation of consumer-permissioned parameters for accessing data and sharing documents. Consumer-permissioned data is mission-critical for transactional businesses, such as online banking, borrowing, and electronic payments. This is data that a consumer has given a business or another third-party permission to access. The increasing importance of digital data Regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) represent government efforts to protect consumers from losing control…
