Dr. Efi Pylarinou

Global Fintech & Tech Thought Leader and Founder

Dr Efi Pylarinou is a global fintech and technology thought leader and the founder of GrowFin, a consulting and influencer services business trusted by major technology brands and innovative financial services providers. Born and raised in Greece, she studied mathematics there before switching to finance in 1987 and completing a doctoral thesis in 1992 on stock market returns and chaos theory. She began her career on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers in fixed income structured products before moving from academia and banking into fintech analysis and advisory. She has a following of around two hundred and thirty thousand across professional and video platforms, was ranked by Refinitiv as the number one global woman influencer in finance, and appears in listings of the top forty technology leaders, top fifty digital futurists and top twenty fintech influencers. She co-authored a 2024 Wiley book and contributed to the 2018 WealthTech book, and lectures at The Fast Future Executive on the future of finance and money.