Dr Louise Beaumont is a market development strategist with deep expertise in fintech, financial services, technology, and critical national infrastructure. She has held executive and non-executive roles across global corporates, start-ups, scale-ups, industry bodies, and venture capital, working in approximately 30 countries. Louise specialises in developing commercial opportunity in markets with regulatory complexity, specialising in smart data ecosystems from their genesis in open banking. She has over 15 years of experience in the field: from being the fintech entrepreneur to running VC fintech portfolios; from founding Mastercard’s Open+ programme to leading marketing, communications & design for Invela; from chairing open banking and open finance working groups at UK Finance and techUK to participating in standards working groups with Open Banking Ltd and The Berlin Group; and from engaging with relevant government departments to working with key regulators.