Karen Wendt is the founder of Eccos Impact, a company helping institutions implement sustainability from strategy to action. She serves as the President of SwissFinTechLadies, is an impact investor in Swiss FinTechs and Blockchain herself and a researcher in the field of finance. She also initiated and serves as the editor of the sustainable finance science series with Springer–Palgrave MacMillan.

In 2022 she was selected by finnews as one of the 8 women shaping fintech. Karen has accumulated investment banking experience in leading positions for over 20 years from strategy to origination to risk management. Today she is an internationally recognized expert in digital and sustainable transformation and well-known keynote speaker.