Curinos Leadership

Craig Woodward is CEO of Curinos, a leading provider of data, technologies and insights that help financial institutions navigate the present and prepare for the future, enabling them to transform their business ahead of the competition. Curinos’ approach is not only founded on delivering world-class data and analytics through SaaS based tools, but also on providing clients with strategic advice from the industry’s best. Curinos’ technology and analytics ecosystem is meticulously designed for financial institutions to optimize their go-to-market decisions. Through sophisticated predictive modeling driven by A.I., Curinos enables clients to see a 360-degree view of their customers and prospects, allowing them to anticipate needs, drive profitability and ultimately win in an increasingly competitive market.

During Craig’s 25+ year career he has led sales teams to award-winning performance across three distinct industries: Financial Services, Research Consulting and Manufacturing. Craig also currently serves as an advisor to Elsen, a Platform-as-a-Service start up in the Financial Services industry. In his spare time, he likes to run, ski and golf. He lives west of Boston with his wife and three children.

Sona has a 20+ year career in technology, financial services, banking and payments. In her current role as Chief Commercial Officer at Curinos, she is responsible for driving Go-To-Market success across sales, account management, pricing, marketing, partnerships and developing the organization’s commercial strategy. Prior to Curinos, Sona was a senior leader at FIS Global where she held multiple leadership roles in Sales, Account Management, Go-To-Market, Commercialization, Line of Business and Consultant Relations. Sona brings a client-centric, data-driven and metrics-based approach with a focus on delivering greater client value and driving satisfaction and long-term loyalty among clients. She has won multiple awards within FIS and the industry as an innovator in sales and for a go-to-market approach proven in global markets and multiple product lines. She has been published in Entrepreneur, Observer, Paymentssource.com, SmartBrief and Inc. Magazine and currently sits on the Board of the New York City PayTech Women chapter. Prior to joining FIS, Sona worked in sales, marketing, product launch teams and finance at Rolls Royce and American Express. In her spare time, she loves to travel, mentor, write and read. Sona lives in New Jersey with her family.

Greg has over 25 years of global experience in strategic and operational finance with a proven track record of leading companies through significant revenue growth, while at the same time managing profitability, M&A activities, geographic expansion, cost optimization, and channel expansion. Greg joins Curinos having recently grown and sold AdvancedMD, a SaaS company where he was CFO. Before that, he was CFO of inContact, a cloud-based contact center software company with $350MM revenue, until its sale. He also served as CFO of several public and private companies, where he supported business growth, secured IPO and private financings, and completed mergers and acquisitions. Greg began his career with KPMG in Florida and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Stetson University. Greg lives with his wife live in Utah, where outside of work, he enjoys kite boarding, windsurfing, rock climbing and traveling.

Nikki has more than 20 years of global experience in people and organization strategy, culture and transformational change. She has a proven track record of leading companies through significant transformations, including M&A activities, strategic shifts and organizational restructuring. Nikki believes in fostering environments in which individuals feel safe to take risks, receive constructive feedback and have the support of their colleagues. Prior to joining Curinos, she was the Global HR leader for Strategy&, the Strategy Consulting capability for PwC, where she was instrumental in developing a global people and talent model and led HR initiatives across more than 40 countries. Nikki holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas and a BA in Economics. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, camping, hiking, and traveling with her family.

Olly joined Curinos in 2023 as Chief Data Scientist to lead the company’s Personalization Technology team, focused on helping financial institutions meet the mass personalization opportunity with their customers through the Scoring and Amplero product offerings. Prior to Curinos, Olly held enterprise executive roles leading technology teams in Data & Machine Learning Platforms, Personalization, Marketing Technology and Analytics. Olly was also Founder, CEO of Amplero prior to its acquisition by Novantas; where he helped invent the core technology, established and grew the team, and built an investable financial plan and then led the business through spinout, Series A and Series B funding, growing revenue from $233k ARR to $6.7M ARR in 18 months. Throughout his career Olly has specialized in applying abstract analytical ideas from mathematical, physical and statistical science to problems in the real world and commercializing them through scalable technology platforms and products; to date this has resulted in 42 granted US patents. An accomplished and published pioneer in machine learning, Olly has Erdös number 3 and published his first paper in Generative AI at the NeurIPS ’99 conference. Olly is based in the Seattle area, where he lives with his wife Kirsten and 3 teenage sons (Carter, Preston and Jackson). For fun Olly and his family race cars and go-karts at racetracks up and down the US West Coast.

Lisa Brown, is the Head of Product and Technology at Curinos, a leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make better and more profitable data-driven decisions faster. Over the last 15 years, Lisa has helped financial institutions create value through her work in consulting, software development and client success, with a focus on price optimization. In her spare time, Lisa enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, two children and Welsh Terrier on the CT shoreline.

Pete leads the Curinos Retail Deposits, Commercial Banking, Risk & Treasury and Corporate businesses. In this capacity, he oversees the company’s expertise in Pricing, Profitability Optimization, Balance Sheet Management, M&A and Regulatory Affairs. Pete encourages clients to embrace customer solution centric thinking throughout their sales, business and central functions so that banks can advance the fair value exchanges between themselves and their clients. He believes that this is the path toward an increasingly safe, sound and profitable banking system. Under his guidance, the Company has expanded its position as the go-to company for customer behavioral data, analytics and expertise, increasingly driven by artificial intelligence. Prior to Curinos, Pete was a Board member and Co-Head of Global Advisory for Novantas, and the Head of Risk Management at First Manhattan Consulting Group. He formerly taught Calculus-as-a-Second-Language to aspiring non-mathematicians at Harvard.

Brandon Larson is EVP, Head of Omnichannel Sales and Experience at Curinos, a leading provider of data, technologies and insights that enable financial institutions to make fast, profitable decisions. Brandon specializes in retail bank strategy, omni-channel distribution and marketing strategy, both speaking and publishing on these topics regularly, and has worked extensively with retail banks in the U.S. and Canada, completing market strategies for more than 20 institutions. Brandon holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College and lives in Connecticut with his wife and two kids.