Snigdha Kumar is the CEO and co-founder of Brico.ai, which automates complex state-by-state financial licensing for sectors like money transmission and lending. The platform enables stablecoin, lending and payments companies to go to market faster and stay compliant at a fraction of the cost. With 13+ years of FinTech experience across product, operations, and strategy, Snigdha has worked across the U.S., India, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes, and she serves on the NYDFS Board of Financial Innovation.

Why this matters: Snigdha sits at the intersection of compliance and innovation both as a founder serving other builders in the space as well as by contributing as a board member to the NYDFS’s innovation agenda. This gives her a unique perspective on how both regulators and builders are thinking about enabling new technologies.