Deep Varma is the CTO at Alkami Technology, Inc., a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for banks and credit unions in the U.S.

Mr. Varma has over 20 years of Silicon Valley experience building scalable and reliable distributed systems with underlying platform capabilities to serve high-performing traffic. Throughout his career, he has gained deep expertise in artificial intelligence, big data and building world-class engineering teams. He has served in a range of leadership roles at Varo Bank, Zillow Group, Yahoo!, ABB and IBM.

A proven technology leader, Mr. Varma has a track record of setting and executing the innovation agenda for market-leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies and scaling their infrastructure for growth and resiliency.

Chris Sage is the director of business development at SavvyMoney, Inc. Mr. Sage is an experienced fintech sales leader specializing in digital banking, credit scores and lending. His experience includes senior sales roles at Fiserv, Alkami and Access Softek.

Zack is the chief growth officer at Derivative Path, Inc. Before this role he spent 8 years as its head of business development.

Prior to joining Derivative Path Inc., Mr. Nagelberg was at Wells Fargo Securities, marketing interest rate risk management solutions to banks, credit unions and non-bank financial institutions.

Geoff Knapp is the CEO at Allied Payment Network, Inc. He leads the company’s vision to deliver innovative real-time payment capabilities to the community banks and credit unions that Allied serves. Prior to being named CEO, he served as chief growth officer, responsible for new business development and creating go-to-market strategies for all products. Over his 20+ year career, Mr. Knapp has established a proven track record for helping organizations improve growth, profitability and efficiency.

Prior to joining Allied Payments, Mr. Knapp was the general manager of the payments division at 2checkout (acquired by Verifone in 2020). His earlier experience also includes various leadership positions with CheckFree and Fiserv.

Mr. Knapp serves on the board of trustees at the High Meadows School in Roswell, GA.

Ben Wallace is CEO at Summit Technology Group.  He has worked in financial services for over 20 years, holding leadership roles at JPMorgan, Bank One, First USA and Orrstown Bank.  Mr. Wallace has also owned and operated a boutique legal practice that focused on supporting clients across the northeast.  Mr. Wallace advises banking clients across the United States on technology transformation and organizational change management. 

Mr. Wallace holds several technical certifications, including numerous AWS competencies, as the firm evangelizes public cloud as a key component to building operating leverage for banks. Mr. Wallace serves on STG’s board of directors.