< The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

Technology may be disruptive or revolutionary, but be careful about pinning those labels on Amy Nauiokas and Sean Park. Although they lead one of the trailblazing fintech-specializing venture capital firms, they are in business to ease pain rather than cause more, bringing to bear two decades of executive experience and “knowledge of how markets work,” says Anthemis Group president Nauiokas, 43. Their expertise is available to both entrepreneurs and incumbents facing “systemic changes in the financial system and the massive impact of regulatory reform,” she adds. The London-based firm’s approach has a historical antecedent; chief investment officer Sean Park, 47, calls it “a modernized model of late-19th–early-20th-century merchant banks.” Just as those institutions helped usher corporations through the upheavals of industrialization, “we are living in a time of rapid change, uncertainty and complexity in which broad and deep networks of talent are drivers of value,” he says. Nauiokas, formerly CEO of Barclays Stockbrokers and a Cantor Fitzgerald partner, and Park, who built Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein’s digital markets division, started predecessor firm Nauiokas Park in 2008. They formalized the advisory side of Anthemis under CEO Nadeem Shaikh, a former First Data Corp. president. They were ahead of the pack in key fintech subsectors, investing early in “challenger banks” Moven and Simple, robo-advice pioneer Betterment, blockchain enabler Eris Industries and insurance and asset management play Trov. Nauiokas, who recently returned from a five-year detour into entertainment financing, says, “Trend-spotting and being there first is important, but it’s not just about the companies in the portfolio — it’s what ties them together.”

 
The 2015 Fintech Finance 35

1. James Robinson III & James Robinson IV RRE Ventures 2. Jane Gladstone Evercore Partners 3. Matthew Harris Bain Capital Ventures Methanol Gains Traction as an Alternative Energy Source Sponsored by CME Group May 5, 2025 4. Steven McLaughlin Financial Technology Partners 5. Jonathan Korngold General Atlantic

6. Richard Garman & Brad Bernstein FTV Capital 7. Amy Nauiokas & Sean Park Anthemis Group 8. Thomas Jessop Goldman Sachs Group 9. Meyer (Micky) Malka Ribbit Capital 10. Hans Morris Nyca Partners

11. Maria Gotsch Partnership Fund for New York City 12. Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz 13. Barry Silbert Digital Currency Group 14. Jay Reinemann Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria 15. Mariano Belinky Santander InnoVentures

16. François Robinet AXA Strategic Ventures 17. Vanessa Colella Citi Ventures 18. Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi Credit Suisse NEXT Fund 19. Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena SenaHill Partners 20. Rodger Voorhies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

21. Michael Schlein Accion International 22. Kenneth Marlin Marlin & Associates 23. Rumi Morales CME Ventures 24. Mark Beeston Illuminate Financial Management 25. Vladislav Solodkiy Life.SREDA

26. Fabian Vandenreydt Innotribe SWIFT 27. Derek White Barclays 28. Alex Batlin UBS 29. Jeffrey Greenberg & Vincenzo La Ruffa Aquiline Capital Partners 30. P. Howard Edelstein REDI Holdings

31. Nektarios Liolios Startupbootcamp FinTech 32. Roy Bahat Bloomberg Beta 33. Andrew McCormack Valar Ventures 34. Lawrence Wintermeyer Innovate Finance 35. Janos Barberis FinTech Hong Kong