BIO

Andrea is listed as one of The Top 30 Most Influential Fintech Marketers of 2021. She is a regular speaker at conferences, summits and universities covering topics such as marketing, branding, financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship, FinTech, start-ups/scale-ups and much more. After 10 years in the Middle East, she returned to Ireland in 2013 where she spent five years as CMO of FinTech start-up GRID Finance and she is now CMO of the FinTech scale-ups CurrencyFair and Assembly Payments. Andrea sits on the board of the Irish International Business Network, is an advisory board member of the CMO Council, and until 2020, she was an advisory council member of the Small Firms Association in Ireland, a position she held since 2016. Whilst in Oman, she developed commercial and leisure brands for the Omani Government. And there she was founder of the Irish Business Network and co-founder of Oman Gaelic Athletics Association and the Omani Irish Friendship Society. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Finance, is a Postgraduate of the Chartered Institute of Marketers, has an MBA from the University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin) and is a Chartered Management Accountant (CGMA).