Meet Jo Ann Barefoot - CEO & Founder of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation, CEO of Barefoot Innovation Group, Cofounder of Hummingbird RegTech, and host of the podcast show Barefoot Innovation.
A noted advocate of “regulation innovation,” Jo Ann is Senior Fellow Emerita at the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business & Government and is writing a book on financial innovation and regulation. She has been Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, partner at KPMG, Co-Chairman of Treliant Risk Advisors, and staff member at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. She’s an angel investor, serves on the board of Oportun, and advises financial companies and governments worldwide
Her newest venture The Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) is a nonprofit aiming to help transform the financial regulatory system to digital design, to make it faster, cheaper and better, all at once.