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Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss is the CEO and founder of omni:us, an AI provider helping the insurance industry embrace digitisation. Sofie, who was recently listed as one of Forbes ‘Top 50 Women in Tech’, originally founded omni:us after several successful business ventures, the first of which was set up when she was 21. Twelve years later in 2015, along with her team of co-founders, Sofie launched omni:us as a way to enable insurance companies to fully automate and streamline the claims process, utilising emerging AI and machine learning technology to understand, extract and validate data from a large variety of documents.

Bethany Faford will graduate from Nichols College in May 2019 with a BS in business administration. She is currently majoring in accounting and minoring in criminal justice. She is enrolled in graduate school and will obtain her MS in accounting in May 2020. Bethany is a peer tutor at Nichols College and is part of both the Zeta Alpha Phi Honor Society and the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society. She has worked at a nonprofit organization for two years and will start work at a CPA firm in June 2019.

The company released Fitbit Inspire and Inspire HR, its first business-to-business devices.

One tip for seniors: They should register their My Social Security account as early as they can before other people can create the account.

High cash-out rates exacerbate an already challenging situation for some minority retirement-savers. Households making $20K or less are especially vulnerable.

More clients are tailoring packages to meet the varying wants and needs of workers. They’re offering mixes of bonuses, flex time, paid time off, retirement plans, career development and more.

Cosmin Ene is CEO of LaterPay.

Eric Rosenthal is the Managing Director of the Americas at Rapyd.

Michele Goetz serves enterprise and data architect professionals. Ms. Goetz is a leading expert on data quality, data integration, metadata management, MDM, and data governance. She helps enterprises leverage data assets more effectively by improving the availability and accuracy of the information that businesses use in processes and analytics.Prior to joining Forrester, Ms. Goetz managed the business intelligence and data management programs at PTC. During her tenure, she developed and led the global consolidation of customer data across multiple CRM platforms to support a single view of the customer and manage enterprise-wide data quality. In addition, she established data governance and data quality teams and programs to support a center of excellence for data management.Ms. Goetz also held an executive position at Trillium Software, a provider of data quality solutions and services, introducing thought leadership and recommendations on how organizations can improve data quality and governance programs. She holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics, with a minor in computer science, from Framingham State College.

Meredith Colbert, one of EBA’s 2019 Rising Stars in Advising, uses her own experience to bolster young advisers at her firm.