About Sarah Biller

Sarah is a driven and energetic entrepreneur, executive & educator with experiences founding start-ups and also innovating in large, incumbent firms in the Financial Services, Life Sciences and Telecom sectors. She likes to be the first one in tackling hard problems; building talented, outcome-oriented teams; investing the time, smarts and capital in new ideas; and, then leveraging strong quantitative and analytic skills, strategic insights and interpersonal relationships to drive business objectives, profitable results and exits. Sarah is the Executive Director of Vantage Ventures and also the co-Founder of FinTech Sandbox, a Boston-based not for profit that provides entrepreneurs access to high quality data sets, and Capital Market Exchange, a predictive analytics platform for institutional bond investors. She was most recently the Chief Operating Officer for Innovation at State Street Bank’s Global Exchange division and Head of Innovation Ventures. Sarah was named by Innovate Finance as one of the Top 150 global women leaders in FinTech and Lattice80’s list of Top 100 Women in FinTech in the UK and Hong Kong. She sits on the board of multiple start-ups and has also held roles at Fidelity Investments; worked on MCI’s corporate venture team; and launched and led research divisions for Fortune 500 CFO’s and treasurers at the Corporate Executive Board. Her core skills include: – Corporate Leadership and P&L Operations – Competitive and Complex Analysis – Consensus and Team Builder – Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Emerging Technologies (AI, NLP, Blockchain) – Data Consent, Governance, Aggregation & Analytics – Predictive Analytics – New Product and Business Development – Early Stage Start-up Advisory & Investing – Venture Fundraising / IPO / Crypto