Cadence Counsel's FinTech Friday: A Bullish Approach To A Growing Market

FinTech, a combination of “Finance” and “Technology,” is a current hot-button word. Whether in relation to the recent stock market events that brought meme lovers and at-home day traders together to create waves on Wall Street or to companies revolutionizing the personal banking space, the word encapsulates a diverse and dynamic industry.

“FinTech” originally described the technology utilized by companies, business owners, and consumers to improve their management, operations, processes, and development. More recently, however, the shift from large brick-and-mortar financial institutions to more consumer-oriented online services has also broadened the definition to include several different industries, and FinTech now includes a variety of companies in spaces as seemingly dissimilar as education, food, investment banking, retail, real estate, insurance, and cryptocurrency.

FinTech Friday, a weekly Q&A series and new initiative by Cadence Counsel Directors Melissa Cohen and Ashley McCall, seeks to highlight prominent attorneys in the FinTech space, showcasing the area’s diversity and dynamism. Combining a personal interest in the intersection of financial services and technology with the desire to provide exposure to well-qualified attorneys in the space, and to help engender conversations with and between attorneys on an upward professional trajectory, FinTech Friday has already attracted a great deal of interest in the market. Through this endeavor, Melissa and Ashley have been able to speak with leading attorneys at a number of large and up-and-coming FinTech companies, with a focus on the representation of female and diverse talent. FinTech is a sprawling space, and it draws from a phenomenal talent pool.

Over the last few weeks, Melissa and Ashley have published interviews with attorneys whose experience includes Am Law firms (Tracee Davis), big banks, startups and unicorns (Julie Lickstein), and companies that are helping ease the struggle of COVID for some essential businesses (Damier Xandrine). Going forward, Cadence Counsel will continue to focus on these consumer-oriented organizations, as well as the talent that is playing an integral role in their growth. Ashley and Melissa pride themselves on bringing advice and insights from legal leaders in the space to Cadence Counsel’s audience of attorneys and corporate leaders.

For more information on FinTech and FinTech companies, or to review these thought-provoking Q&As, please connect with Cadence Counsel on LinkedIn and Twitter. Keep an eye out for Cadence’s weekly FinTech Friday feature—and for some exciting related offers that will soon be coming down the pike. If you would like to learn more about FinTech Friday and how you can be featured, or if you are interested in otherwise collaborating with Cadence Counsel, please reach out to Melissa Cohen (mcohen@cadencecounsel.com) and Ashley McCall (amccall@cadencecounsel.com).

We look forward to hearing from you. Happy FinTech Friday!

Ed. note: This post is by Ashley McCall and Melissa Cohen of Cadence Counsel.

Ashley is Cadence Counsel’s California-based recruiter. She has spent the entirety of her recruiting career working with in-house attorneys and law departments. Previously with a large international legal recruiting firm, she’s placed attorneys in leadership positions with companies both large and small, including working with companies in industries as disparate as cannabis, food and beverage, and life sciences. She prides herself on her ability to discern both skill set and cultural fit, and to build consultative trust relationships with clients and candidates.

Melissa is Cadence Counsel’s East-Coast based executive legal recruiter. After graduating law school and passing the Florida Bar, she moved across the world to Australia, where she joined the country’s largest specialist legal recruitment agency, and quickly became one of a handful of legal recruiters who had a reputation across APAC. After a couple of years, she was recruited by the industry’s premiere legal recruitment firm to join their in-house division, focusing on placing senior level attorneys in corporate legal departments. Now, part of a boutique in-house group, Melissa provides her clients with unparalleled transparency, communication, and advice. Melissa’s success in placing attorneys is credited to her strategic approach and ability to build lasting relationship with her clients and candidates.

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Cadence Counsel is a boutique search firm that focuses exclusively on the placement of in-house counsel. We specialize in Retained Executive Search, Ad Hoc Counsel Placement, and Diversity & Development Consulting. A certified Women’s Business Enterprise, Cadence Counsel is a leading diversity supplier of in-house legal professionals within the Fortune 500.