Kashmera Self

Recipient of Rising Star Award from Women in Payments and nominee for Scotiabank Femtech Leader award as one of the Top 50 Women in FinTech from the Digital Finance Institute. Passionate about taking ‘out there’ ideas and turning them into something meaningful by leveraging trends, emerging technologies, and wonderful teams.

Twenty years of product management expertise, including the go-to-market strategies within the payments, financial services, and travel industries. Career concentration on the digital economy including the move from traditional bricks and mortar to online, contactless payments, pre-paid solutions, mobile commerce, and social commerce because as important as profit is, it cannot be achieved without taking people and planet into consideration.

Focus today is on the Canadian innovation ecosystem leading strategy development and execution of future-looking initiatives including digital commerce, open banking, data exchange, blockchain, workforce, and innovation with social purpose.