Gerti Dervishi's guest appearances

Gerti Dervishi

The Backbone: a journey inside finance at a startup

Fintech Impact

Voice of FinTech®

David Katz

Ian Crosby

Jeff Epstein

Austen Allred

Geoff Ralston

Michael Kitces

Mauricio Di Bartolomeo

Daniel Crosby

Parag Khanna

Gil Akos

Alan Moore

Elizabeth Rossiello

Jeremy Balkin

Alex Sklar

Samantha Ettus

OwlTail

Jason Pereira talks to Gerti Dervishi - Chief Growth officer for Flybits. The company helps financial institutions utilize the context of clients, individual situations, geography, and other factors that help serve up better next recommendations. Episode Highlights:1.08: Flybits the company is rooted in R&amp;D. For many years, the research group built a lot of intellectual property and patterns behind the technology that continues to partner with academic institutions to move forward the agenda of innovation. 03:42: There are so much data that you are regularly giving to a person who makes decisions to look for things you are replicating before they get to the conclusion, says Jason.04:15: Gerti's company is very heavily rooted in research, and they bring all data together, which is no small challenge. 04:40: One extremely important thing is that you have to do things in a privacy-preserving way to deliver services, says Gerti.05:01: We do tokenization not only for extremely important privacy-preserving but also for security purposes, Gerti.08:27: The one thing we do when we partner with the customer or financial institution is we almost act like an extension of their innovation team, says Gerti.12:23: Gerti explains some of the most popular use cases from the consumer angle. 12:30: The card is a very big driver in our business. Consumers are particularly driven to that product in terms of spend, rewards, and offers because it's a product they probably interact most with, says Gerti.13:24: Mortgages are a very big deal, but we see unique here is that thanks to some of the functionality that we bring in terms of how we create the different datasets, says Gerti.17:05: We have created a set of utilities and tools very quickly and existing mobile applications that can be empowered with a recommendation system, explains Gerti.19:11: On the channel side, one of the biggest things right now in the market is the metaverse, and it is another channel that we are going to be interacting with, says Gerti.3 Key PointsGerti says that they are primarily focused on financial services, including insurance and banks, but they are an experienced design and delivery platform that makes the organization's personalization ready from data to the customer experience.We see more and more the creation of data alliances where multiple different essentially verticals converge into a financial transaction or outcome, says Gerti.Gerti explains how he brings a variety of products and creates a customer-centric rather than a product-centric approach where a multitude of different parts of financial services will cater to improve the overall financial status is important.Tweetable Quotes"We bring together the internal knowledge of an institution and how you bring that with external components." – Gerti "You started probably taking a bunch of standard datasets that you expect, so what products do they have like geographic location and all." – Jason"From a technology perspective, we are about to see some significant improvements and leaps in terms of customer experiences, which drives me." - GertiResources Mentioned:Facebook – Jason Pereira's FacebookLinkedIn – Jason Pereira's LinkedInWoodgate.com – Sponsor Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jason Pereira talks to Gerti Dervishi - Chief Growth officer for Flybits. The company helps financial institutions utilize the context of clients, individual situations, geography, and other factors that help serve up better next recommendations. Episode Highlights:<ul><li>1.08: Flybits the company is rooted in R&amp;D. For many years, the research group built a lot of intellectual property and patterns behind the technology that continues to partner with academic institutions to move forward the agenda of innovation. </li><li>03:42: There are so much data that you are regularly giving to a person who makes decisions to look for things you are replicating before they get to the conclusion, says Jason.</li><li>04:15: Gerti's company is very heavily rooted in research, and they bring all data together, which is no small challenge. </li><li>04:40: One extremely important thing is that you have to do things in a privacy-preserving way to deliver services, says Gerti.</li><li>05:01: We do tokenization not only for extremely important privacy-preserving but also for security purposes, Gerti.</li><li>08:27: The one thing we do when we partner with the customer or financial institution is we almost act like an extension of their innovation team, says Gerti.</li><li>12:23: Gerti explains some of the most popular use cases from the consumer angle. </li><li>12:30: The card is a very big driver in our business. Consumers are particularly driven to that product in terms of spend, rewards, and offers because it's a product they probably interact most with, says Gerti.</li><li>13:24: Mortgages are a very big deal, but we see unique here is that thanks to some of the functionality that we bring in terms of how we create the different datasets, says Gerti.</li><li>17:05: We have created a set of utilities and tools very quickly and existing mobile applications that can be empowered with a recommendation system, explains Gerti.</li><li>19:11: On the channel side, one of the biggest things right now in the market is the metaverse, and it is another channel that we are going to be interacting with, says Gerti.</li></ul> 3 Key Points<ol><li>Gerti says that they are primarily focused on financial services, including insurance and banks, but they are an experienced design and delivery platform that makes the organization's personalization ready from data to the customer experience.</li><li>We see more and more the creation of data alliances where multiple different essentially verticals converge into a financial transaction or outcome, says Gerti.</li><li>Gerti explains how he brings a variety of products and creates a customer-centric rather than a product-centric approach where a multitude of different parts of financial services will cater to improve the overall financial status is important.</li></ol> Tweetable Quotes<ul><li>"We bring together the internal knowledge of an institution and how you bring that with external components." – Gerti </li><li>"You started probably taking a bunch of standard datasets that you expect, so what products do they have like geographic location and all." – Jason</li><li>"From a technology perspective, we are about to see some significant improvements and leaps in terms of customer experiences, which drives me." - Gerti</li></ul> Resources Mentioned:<ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jason.pereira" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> – Jason Pereira's Facebook</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereirajm?trk=org-employees_mini-profile_title" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> – Jason Pereira's LinkedIn</li><li><a href="https://www.woodgate.com/#plan-prosper-preserve-financial-planning-toronto" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Woodgate.com</a> – Sponsor</li></ul> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Flybits with Gerti Dervishi | E230

Gerti Dervishi, Chief Growth Officer at Flybits, spoke to Rudolf Falat, founder of the Voice of FinTech podcast, about why contextual banking is the future of banking and how to get it right.Here is what they talked about: Gerti's background and motivation to join a start-up What is Flybits and the problem they are solving: helping banks to build  better connections with their clients using context, improving their mobile experience There is a lot of buzz around contextual banking. Yet, people are also more and more aware of how their data is used by companies and maybe vary of their data used for banking services proposals. How does Flybits resolve the tension between relevance and privacy? Target customers: B2BC business Business model, unit economics, and scale Canada and internal presence A critical piece of advice to Gerti's your younger self  Favorite non-fiction books: The Undoing Project, Shoe Dog, The Hard Thing about Hard Things or The Zero Marginal Cost Society  What are trendy hobbies on the Toronto start-up scene? Status check of Flybits' entrepreneurial journey  Best way to reach out

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gertidervishi/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gerti Dervishi</a>, Chief Growth Officer at <a href="https://www.flybits.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flybits, </a>spoke to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudolf-falat/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rudolf Falat</a>, founder of the <a href="https://www.voiceoffintech.com/subscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Voice of FinTech</a> podcast, about why contextual banking is the future of banking and how to get it right.Here is what they talked about:<ul> <li>Gerti's background and motivation to join a start-up</li> <li>What is Flybits and the problem they are solving: helping banks to build  better connections with their clients using context, improving their mobile experience</li> <li>There is a lot of buzz around contextual banking. Yet, people are also more and more aware of how their data is used by companies and maybe vary of their data used for banking services proposals. How does Flybits resolve the tension between relevance and privacy?</li> <li>Target customers: B2BC business</li> <li>Business model, unit economics, and scale</li> <li>Canada and internal presence</li> <li>A critical piece of advice to Gerti's your younger self </li> <li>Favorite non-fiction books: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Undoing-Project-Friendship-Changed-Minds/dp/0393254593" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Undoing Project</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Phil-Knight-audiobook/dp/B01CRJA470" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shoe Dog</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Hard-Things-audiobook/dp/B00I0A6HUO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hard Thing about Hard Things</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-Collaborative/dp/1137278463" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Zero Marginal Cost Society</a> </li> <li>What are trendy hobbies on the Toronto start-up scene?</li> <li>Status check of Flybits' entrepreneurial journey </li> <li>Best way to reach out</li></ul>

Contextual banking with Gerti Dervishi from Flybits

On this episode of The Backbone, I chat with Gerti about: His path to Flybits after roles in CIBC, IBM and the government; What Flybits does; Staying flexible with vendors and not placing heavy reliance on any particular vendor; Viewing the finance function from engineering perspective; and The importance of the finance function at an early stage technology company.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backbone/message

On this episode of The Backbone, I chat with Gerti about: His path to Flybits after roles in CIBC, IBM and the government; What Flybits does; Staying flexible with vendors and not placing heavy reliance on any particular vendor; Viewing the finance function from engineering perspective; and The importance of the finance function at an early stage technology company. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backbone/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backbone/message</a>

Vendor Selection Considerations & Viewing the Finance Function from an Engineering Perspective with Gerti Dervishi, VP Finance at Flybits