Speaker Category: Panelist

Brian Hamilton
Brian Hamilton is a 28-year financial services veteran working with credit unions, banks, finance companies, and fintech providers. He has managed all facets of consumer lending operations, and has led key initiatives in the…

Michael Beste
Michael Beste is an AI solutions leader whose career in customer experience, marketing analytics and risk management has spanned more than 20 years. His teams have deployed and refined GM Financial’s Nanci chatbot, rapidly…

Justin Wickett
Product executive with over a decade in consumer-facing Internet. Prior roles at Credit Karma – reinventing how consumers refinance and buy insurance, at Lyft – overseeing passenger growth and engagement initiatives and at Zynga…

Stephanie Alsbrooks Hanson
Stephanie Alsbrooks Hanson’s auto industry career began in 1996. She joined Tricolor as president of a new division, Tricolor Financial, in 2021. Her goal is to take everything the team has worked hard to…

Mark Cromer
Mr. Cromer is the Chief Operations & Technology Officer for Farm Bureau Bank. Established in 1999, Farm Bureau Bank is a full-service financial institution supporting the banking needs of Farm Bureau members in 45…

Puneet Chandra
Puneet Chandra is the Head of Product and Digital Innovation for Wells Fargo Auto. Wells Fargo Auto is a leading indirect auto lender offering consumers vehicle financing through a network of over 11,000 dealers…

Holly Thomson
As part of the Auto Digital Strategy and Innovation team, Holly leads the strategy and roadmap development for Wells Fargo Auto’s direct-to-consumer digital capabilities. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Thomson worked at Ally Bank where she…

James Wright
James (Jim) Wright Jr went to High school and College in Indianapolis, In. After finishing school at IUPUI he went on to what would be how he spent the next 17yrs, running Big box…

Naren Kumar
Narendra (Naren) Kumar is Executive Vice President and Chief Data Officer for Exeter Finance. In his current role, he is responsible for defining and implementing the enterprise data strategy and playing a key role…

Brandon Tapp
Brandon Tapp is the Head of Dealer Services for Chase Auto, one of the leading bank providers of auto financing in the country with a portfolio of more than $80 billion in assets and…