Andrea Linehan

CMO

Andrea is a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and investor in the FinTech space. She is a Fractional CMO and advisor to start-ups and was listed as one of The Top 30 Most Influential Fintech Marketers of 2021. After 10 years in the Middle East working on a public-private partnership for the Omani government, she returned to Ireland in 2013 where she spent over 5 years as CMO and Board Member of start-up GRID Finance. She is now global CMO of FinTech scale-up Zai, a B2B payments technology company and its sister B2C brand, CurrencyFair. Andrea sits on the board of the Irish International Business Network, is an advisory board member of the CMO Council, and until 2020, she was an advisory council member of the Small Firms Association in Ireland, a position she held since 2016. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Finance, is a Postgraduate of the Chartered Institute of Marketers, has an MBA from the University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin) and is a Chartered Management Accountant (CGMA).