Witad Awards 2023: Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year—Jane Gavronsky, Finos

An innovator by nature, Jane Gavronsky says that ironically, her decision to become a technologist wasn’t all that innovative. “Both my parents were in technology, so it was a little bit in our blood,” she says.

Gavronsky, the newly named COO at the Fintech Open Source Foundation (Finos), is the daughter of a Cobol programmer—her mother—who first showed her that technology could offer a more level playing field for women than other industries.

“It’s kind of like solving math problems—you get