Pauline Bellée-Babel is the Chief Financial Officer at Spendesk, where she leads strategic and operational finance to drive the company’s next phase of sustainable growth. A graduate of EM Lyon Business School, Pauline began her career at EY before holding senior finance roles at Parrot, Forvia, and Aviv (SeLoger, MeilleursAgents). At Aviv, she scaled MeilleursAgents to profitability and double-digit growth, then successfully integrated it with SeLoger, France’s largest real estate marketplace. With deep expertise in scaling high-growth SaaS businesses and a strong focus on customer needs, Pauline brings both transformational finance leadership and firsthand insight as a former Spendesk customer.

Zeno de Cock is Director of Accounting Systems at SoundCloud, where he bridges financial precision and cutting-edge technology. With nearly two decades of experience at firms like Deloitte and Lanxess, he has spent nine years scaling financial infrastructure for a platform with a massive global footprint and a lean team. At the CFO.Connect AI Summit, Zeno brings a pragmatic perspective on AI: his work focuses on perfecting the foundational data layer so finance teams can shift from manual data entry toward high-value strategy.

Commercial Finance leader with 20 years of international FP&A and FinOps experience, previously Managing Director at HSBC. Moved to the AI sector this year joining DeepL (an AI-powered translation company), implementing agentic tools and automation to improve P2P operations. Recently stepped into the role of Finance Director for R&D, now shaping investment strategy across the company's tech stack.

Tom Kelly is the Sr. Director Product Marketing/Management for the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit, responsible for Global Cloud Financials. Before joining Oracle NetSuite, Tom founded T-Edward, a strategic and operational cloud consultancy providing cloud expertise and CXO services from companies in the Fortune 500 to start-ups. Prior to T-Edward, Tom held a variety of executive financial and technology related positions with large cap companies including PepsiCo, eFunds and Deluxe Corporation, as well as small cap, privately held entities such as FullContact and PeopleNet Communications.

Finance leader with 12+ years in-house across companies of all scales, focused on Strategic Finance and FP&A at tech and startups in the Bay Area and Paris. Currently VP Finance at Riot, a cybersecurity company, running all things Finance & Legal (150 people, $20M+ ARR). Previously Finance lead for In-Person Payments at Stripe, and built and automated Stripe's full cash flow forecast from scratch. Also FP&A leader at Talend (publicly listed data company) and Head of Finance at Terroirs, a Paris food startup.

Lucile is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures, which is a $11bn AUM global VC platform with offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Eight Roads invests at Series A to Series C in sectors including consumer, B2B SaaS, healthcare and fintech. Its portfolio companies include HiBob, Neo4j, Appsflyer, Fireblocks, Fever, Funnnel, Tibber, Juro, Raft, 7Bridges, Spendesk and Owkin. Lucile is a French native, and focuses on software and vertical SaaS. She joined Eight Roads in 2015 from Summit Partners.