Carol Realini is a successful Silicon Valley executive and an expert in financial services innovation. She is the author of Bankrupt, an optimistic book that uses the crisis we are experiencing as a way to look forward to a very different kind of future for banking—one that will benefit both the banks and their millions of customers.

Carol has worked with leading financial institutions including MasterCard and Citi, as well as numerous multinational and regional banks to change the way banking is conducted. To chart a path to the future, Realini draws upon her extensive personal experience in India, and reveals the amazing revolution in grassroots banking that is taking place right now.

In 2011, as a Technology Pioneer attending the World Economic Forum, she led discussions on alternative banking at their meeting in Davos. A serial entrepreneur, she has been recognized as one of the one of the 50 Top Women in Technology by Corporate Board Member magazine.