Laura Kornhauser is the co-founder and CEO of Stratyfy, where her team’s mission is to accelerate financial inclusion by providing greater transparency and less bias to critical financial decisions that impact millions of people. A known thought leader, Laura speaks frequently on the application of AI in financial services and practical methods for addressing bias in data and decisioning. Laura has two decades of experience as a financial services leader, working with financial institutions, technology providers, and regulators to advocate for the use of transparent, responsible AI and machine learning (ML) in the financial sector. Prior to founding Stratyfy, Laura was an Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase, where she focused on developing risk strategies and products for the bank and its largest corporate/institutional customers. Throughout her career, Laura has championed the use of ML to drive financial inclusion – including as a founding member of MoreThanFair, a research participant in the groundbreaking study on fairness in ML with FinReg Lab and Stanford University, and an expert contributor for MIT’s AI Policy Forum. She has a BSE in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. During her time at Princeton, Laura was recognized for her prescient thesis that correctly identified, quantified, and predicted the inflating housing market bubble years before its collapse. Laura has received the Inspiring FinTech Female Award twice, was named to Innovate Finance’s Women in FinTech Powerlist, and won BAI Global Innovation Rising Star Award in 2023.