Alicia Roisman Ismach
With over 20 years in electronic transactions and financial technologies, Alicia is a serial entrepreneur and fintech expert at Venn Innovation supporting the growth of the fintech industry in Atlantic Canada. Alicia is Chair to the Technology Committee of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), and a financial industry columnist. Previously, Alicia was part of Amaryllis, the most advanced End to End Payments Platform for Complex Payments Models serving top payment acquirers, marketplaces and payment service providers, and Seergate, that launched the first real time account to account banking payments system in 2007. In her efforts to support early stage startups, Alicia led the Founder Institute in Israel, part of a global accelerator headquartered in Silicon Valley, and later on founded The Founders Café, a social network for founders to share ideas and get support from peers, with over 1,800 members. Alicia holds a Master’s Degree in Enterprise Innovation from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. ORGANIZATIONS Electronic Transaction Association (ETA) – Technology Committee WNet - Women in Electronic Transactions Women in Payments