Regina Lau is a global payments strategy leader driven by a passion for helping brands scale and grow faster. With over twenty years of experience in the payments and financial services industries, she has worked at both publicly-held and private-equity backed companies to leverage the enormous growth opportunities that international expansion, ecommerce and digitization of financial services can offer.
Currently the Chief Financial Officer at an embedded finance fintech, she has been the Chief Strategy Officer for both fast-growing fintechs and well-established brands in Europe and UK, defining growth strategies focused on innovation and technology to pivot a company’s trajectory. She’s also led pricing, value proposition creation and M&A for the organizations. Prior to relocating to Europe, Regina worked for American Express and Wellington Management Company in various leadership roles in partnership development, finance & revenue management and investment management. She was also on the advisory board of a Nordics-based mobile ordering startup.
Regina has been executive sponsor of many diversity & inclusion initiatives, such as creating “Women in Management” programs to increase leadership training and mentoring. She has also actively led recruitment, employee engagement and development programs to ensure that work environments are balanced for gender, culture, lifestyle and professional backgrounds. She is currently an advisor and CCO/CFO for Dali Spaces & InvestFem, a digital global community that empowers, enables and provides female founders and entrepreneurs access to investors and resources for success.