Justine Le Goas is a Consultant within Mastercard’s Advisors & Consulting Services Strategy & Transformation team, based in the Athens hub. She supports companies across Europe in shaping and executing their business and payment strategies.

Her journey into the payments industry began unexpectedly—while working on her first-ever request for proposal at a communications agency in Paris, which happened to be for Visa. With a background in research and a focus on strategic planning and business development, Justine quickly became captivated by the complexity and dynamism of the sector.

Over the years, she has worked with several key players in the payments ecosystem, including Stripe, CyberSource, Skaleet, and Helios. Each experience deepened her understanding of the industry’s many layers.

This growing passion led her to fully dedicate her career to payments, joining a Paris-based consulting firm specialized in the field. There, she led strategy and implementation projects for schemes, PSPs, merchants, and financial institutions.

Outside of work, Justine enjoys getting lost in a good book or exploring the underwater world through scuba diving.

• Emilia is a Senior Analyst at Flagship Advisory Partners, a boutique consultancy specializing in payments and fintech.
• Emilia is based in Prague and has experience working with financial sponsors, fintech, and other market providers across Europe and North America on strategy consulting, M&A, and market analysis.
• Emilia is fluent in English and Italian.

• Aigerim is a Manager at Flagship Advisory Partners, a boutique consultancy specializing in payments & fintech.
• Based in Prague with 5 years of experience in strategy consulting, M&A, and analytics, advising strategic investors, fintechs, and other key players, focusing on payments & fintech.
• Prior to joining Flagship Advisory Partners, Aigerim worked in sales and marketing across different industries.
• Aigerim is fluent in English, Russian, and Czech.

Srishti Jain Andreasen is a seasoned leader in the global payments industry, with over a decade of experience driving digital transformation and payment modernization across Europe, North America, the UK, and Asia-Pacific. As Head of Business Development for Europe at RS Software—a leading provider of digital payment solutions and infrastructure—she partners with banks, payment service providers, and fintechs to enable next-generation payment systems. Her work spans real-time payments, digitized bill payments, and enterprise fraud and risk management.
Srishti has a proven track record of building consensus and delivering results in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. She is known for leading innovation workshops across cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, and accelerating the co-creation of digital payment solutions. Her ability to work seamlessly with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures has been key to her success in shaping and delivering impactful strategies on a global scale.

Before joining RS Software, Srishti led cybersecurity initiatives for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security at Stanford Research Institute (SRI International), where she focused on protecting national critical infrastructure.

As an Ambassador for EWPN, Srishti is deeply committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in fintech and payments. She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of leaders—especially women—sharing her experience, insights, and support to help them thrive in their careers and make their mark in the industry.

Louise Hogan is a lawyer at A&L Goodbody LLP focused on providing regulatory advice to banks, payments and e-money firms. Louise assists both established players and challengers in the FinTech market, including providing advice on new product launches, authorisations, regulatory engagements and navigating PSD2, the E-Money Directive, Instant Payments and the EU SEPA Regulation. As the crypto sector has grown in Ireland, Louise also provides advice to cryptoasset service providers and potential issuers on MiCA-compliance, tokenisations and the expansion of services into Europe.

Louise regularly engages with industry groups in Ireland including the Fintech and Payments Association of Ireland, Blockchain Ireland and the Irish Compliance Institute and is excited to be an ambassador for the EWPN in Ireland.

Louise has a degree in Law and German from Trinity College Dublin and an LLM in European Law, focussing on regulation from the Europa-Institut at Universität des Saarlandes. Prior to working at A&L Goodbody LLP, Louiseworked at the Central Bank of Ireland.

In her spare time Louise is interested in EU politics – having previously worked in Brussels for a short time – and loves dogs, green tea and discovering new places.

Elaine is Head of Marketing at fscom. A professional services marketing specialist, Elaine has led initiatives that have positioned fscom as a Financial Times leading consultancy.

An advocate for European Women Payments Network (EWPN) since 2019, Elaine has played a key role in organising conferences, leading the Ireland hub of the EWPN conference and awards in 2024. Passionate about diversity, inclusion, and empowering women in financial services, she believes deeply in the importance of lifting each other up through networking and mentoring.

In her spare time, Elaine enjoys gaelic football and has recently taken up learning to play the bodhrán.

Linda is a director with Innopay, a business of Oliver Wyman, supporting clients with their payment strategy and projects. Prior to joining Innopay, she was Head of Payments Strategy at ING and part of the management team of EPI during the start phase.

Linda has more than 25 years’ experience managing strategy projects across Europe and Asia, both as external consultant and internal strategist. The last 15 years, she has been specializing in financial services, banking, and payments. She has a master’s degree in both Applied Physics from Delft University and Business Economics from Erasmus University
In her spare time, Linda is a tea sommelier and yoga teacher. She loves spending time outdoors, hiking, cycling or diving and has travelled extensively – preferably by train

Catherine is a Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) with a Higher Diploma in Taxation, known for her analytical prowess and strategic reporting expertise. Her career began with completing articles at a big four firm in Johannesburg. She then moved into Investment Banking in London, later working on financial due diligence, including leveraged buyouts and private equity transactions at another big four firm in Hong Kong.

For a decade, Catherine worked for a major South African bank, focusing on Board reporting for the Retail segment. She supported the Chief Risk Officer by delving into risk concerns, conducting industry analysis, and contributing to thought leadership.

Since June 2020, Catherine has been based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she continues to consult in the South Eastern European region. She co-founded TribeL Consulting, aimed at advancing women in leadership roles. Her notable projects include co-developing a “Program by Women for Women” in collaboration with women content creators, which has run for four years through StartIt@KBC for Women in Tech entrepreneurs.

Building on this success, Catherine recently co-created the Thrive Project, an online program for Women Leaders and business founders. This initiative focuses on enhancing leadership skills, boosting confidence, fostering strategic thinking and the creation of strong networks for women.

Outside of her professional life, Catherine is a mother of three and two dogs. In her free time, she enjoys long runs and traveling!

Christiane empowers clients to transform their payment experience with innovative and accessible products and services. Christiane is an active LinkedIn Creator and a marketing guru. She has a passion in accessibility, sustainability and the new development of technologies.

Elisabetta works as a product specialist at Mastercard in Frankfurt, in a team focused on the go-to-market and commercialisation of Mastercard’s identity and post-transaction services in Europe. Prior to Mastercard, she worked in the business development team of finleap connect, a fintech start-up based in Milan.
Elisabetta holds a masters degree in management and computer science from IE university in Madrid.

Elisabetta loves traveling, discovering new cultures, and languages, in particular Arabic – a passion which was born from her upbringing in Cairo.