Board Roles

Babette Reynolds, Independent Director and Board Advisor

Babette Reynolds serves on the boards of fintech, regtech and payments companies and is available for board seats at banks, fintechs, regtechs and payments companies, bringing an independent voice on compliance and risk. She has run compliance programs, sat across the table from examiners and closed enforcement actions, and she brings that experience to the boardroom.

Babette Reynolds

Board roles Babette is available for

  • Independent or Non-Executive Director for public and private companies, including Series B to D fintechs
  • Risk and Compliance Committee member or chair, grounded in committee infrastructure and governance
  • Advisory Board member for founders and leadership teams building toward bank partnerships, licenses or a charter

What Babette brings to a board

  • Direct experience with the OCC, FRB, FDIC, CFPB and state regulators, including exam management and enforcement remediation
  • Remediation of OCC and FRB consent orders, MRAs and MOUs at Bank of America, Citi and MUFG, and of multi-state and single-state consent orders at Wise
  • Risk appetite, committee reporting and metrics that give directors a clear view of compliance risk
  • Bank-fintech partnership governance and global third-party risk management
  • The judgment of an attorney and the discipline of a former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer

Where Babette fits best

Banks, fintechs, payments, capital markets, financial exchanges and blockchain companies in the U.S., Canada, the UK and Europe, and the venture and private equity firms that back them.

Current boards

  • Advisory board member, Performline
  • Advisory board member, McCarthy Hatch
  • Advisory board member, Lemonade Payments
  • CEO mentor, Lendview
  • Mentor and advisory board member, RevTech Labs Fintech Accelerator