Arkadi Kuhlmann

About

Arkadi has built a career on transforming financial services to serve ordinary people. Arkadi is CEO of ZenBanx and was previously Chairman and CEO of ING Direct, a radical concept in banking that helped Main Street customers save their money. He created the first ING Direct in Canada in 1997, and the United States in 2000, and grew their enterprise value to $3.2 billion and $9.3 billion, respectively. Prior to this, Arkadi served as President of North American Trust and as CEO of Deak International, then a global leader in foreign exchange. Arkadi is an educator, an advocate of financial education, a speaker on finance and culture driven leadership, and is the author of two books on the latter. Arkadi described the genesis of ING Direct’s revolution in banking as a shift from supply-driven financial services, with banks dictating how things are done based on what’s easiest for them, to demand-driven, where consumer needs and preferences determine services. ING Direct was famously wi

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Redwood City, US