Full Name
Uma Meyyappan
Speaker Bio
SVP – Head of Product Innovation, LPL Financial
Uma is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry with a major focus on Financial Services. She currently is SVP, Head of Product Innovation at LPL Financial where her focus is to create a culture of Innovation, apply diverse technologies to accelerate business value, future-proofing, and bringing the outside-in view of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Before this Uma was at Wells Fargo, where she spent 15 years leading product management, technology, and lately, Innovation R&D. She has helped define Wells Fargo’sfuture vision for customer interactions and Innovation DNA across the company. Uma’s R&D labs executed numerous experiments and proof of concepts, many of which became production. She also headed the evaluation of startup companies for the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, which invests in startups for return on Innovation and Investment. Before Wells Fargo, Uma worked for Fortune 500companies, management consulting firms, and startups.
Uma’s extensive research in financial technologies such as digital payments, biometrics, augmented reality, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in over 30 issued patents to her name.
Uma is deeply passionate about child literacy, entrepreneurship, and promoting women. She is on various nonprofits supporting these. Uma is a founding circle member of Neythri, a global community of south Asian professional women who are committed to helping each other succeed.
Uma is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry with a major focus on Financial Services. She currently is SVP, Head of Product Innovation at LPL Financial where her focus is to create a culture of Innovation, apply diverse technologies to accelerate business value, future-proofing, and bringing the outside-in view of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR). Before this Uma was at Wells Fargo, where she spent 15 years leading product management, technology, and lately, Innovation R&D. She has helped define Wells Fargo’sfuture vision for customer interactions and Innovation DNA across the company. Uma’s R&D labs executed numerous experiments and proof of concepts, many of which became production. She also headed the evaluation of startup companies for the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, which invests in startups for return on Innovation and Investment. Before Wells Fargo, Uma worked for Fortune 500companies, management consulting firms, and startups.
Uma’s extensive research in financial technologies such as digital payments, biometrics, augmented reality, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has resulted in over 30 issued patents to her name.
Uma is deeply passionate about child literacy, entrepreneurship, and promoting women. She is on various nonprofits supporting these. Uma is a founding circle member of Neythri, a global community of south Asian professional women who are committed to helping each other succeed.
