Jo Ann Barefoot

Jo Ann Barefoot is CEO of Barefoot Innovation Group, Cofounder of Hummingbird Regtech, Senior Advisor to the Omidyar Network, and host of the podcast show Barefoot Innovation.  The first woman Deputy Comptroller of the Currency,Jo Ann led the OCC’s original consumer protection and community reinvestment unit; served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; was Co-chair of Treliant Risk Advisors; was a Partner and Managing Director at KPMG; and founded Barefoot Marrinan, Inc.  She serves on the fintech advisory committee for FINRA, is an Executive Board Member of the International RegTech Association (IRTA), and a member of the Milken Institute U.S. FinTech Advisory Committee. Jo Ann chairs the boards of the Center for Financial Services  Innovation and FinRegLab and previously served on the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board.  She’s an angel investor, serves on the board of Oportun, and advises financial companies and governments worldwide.  She is a Senior Fellow Emerita at Harvard University’s Center for Business & Government in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, working on a book and series of papers on financial innovation and regulation.  Jo Ann has authored four manuals on bank regulatory matters and published numerous articles for publications ranging from Forbes to American Banker.  Other volunteer activities include serving on the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and previously chairing the global Trustee Council of the Nature Conservancy and the board of Hiram College, as well as serving on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and the national advisory board of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Jo Ann was an International Visitor to the European Community and spends time in rural India to work with micro-finance and education in leprosy-affected communities.  As a Cofounder of Hummingbird Regtech, Jo Ann works with anti-money laundering technology to combat the funding of terrorism and trafficking in human beings, weapons, drugs and endangered animals. The UN estimates that current systems catch less than one percent of the nearly $2 trillion in annual laundering.