Amy Nauiokas

Amy Nauiokas is the founder, Group CEO and General Partner at Anthemis, the industry leading venture capital firm widely credited as the first to focus on the multi-trillion dollar fintech industry.

She is also the founder of Archer Gray, an award-winning production company, responsible for Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning projects like "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," "Diary of a Teenage Girl," "Lost Girls" and Broadway sensation "Once." Through Archer Gray, she continues to bring new, diverse, and innovative stories to life.

Nauiokas is a transformational leader who has spent three decades running and building purpose-led organizations at the intersection of access, equity, and innovation. She has dedicated her career to seeing around corners and leading teams to uncover what could be rather than accepting the status quo.

She began her career on Wall Street and rapidly rose to the top of the global financial services industry, with senior posts at Cantor Fitzgerald and Barclays. From there, Nauiokas shifted from corporate CEO to entrepreneur, co-founding Anthemis. Along with her Anthemis team, she led the digital revolution in financial services, investing and supporting more than 250 companies and thousands of entrepreneurs.

She sits on a number of startup and growth-stage company boards and has also been honored to serve on the board of Make-A-Wish International, the Worldwide Orphan Foundation, and The Bubble Foundation, which she founded and merged with Edible Schoolyard.

She earned a BA in International Studies from Dickinson College, where she has served on the Board of Trustees for 20 years, and an MA in International Business from Columbia University, where she also served as an Adjunct Professor in the business school.

Through all her ventures, Nauiokas has stayed true to her passion for bringing more people in, and creating organizations that can adapt to the fast-changing world around us. She re-defined what values-driven leadership looks like, charting a course for, and influencing, system-level change agents around the world.