Jo Lang
VP, Digital Trade & Research at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJo Lang is a strategic fintech and trade innovation leader with a decade of experience commercializing advanced technologies across banking, payments, and supply chain. As VP of Digital Trade & Research at SMBC she champions AI adoption in Global Trade and Transaction Banking, drives fintech partnerships, and has designed internal tools that cut supplier onboarding costs by over 60%. Her background spans product launches (Xometry Pay), blockchain programs (IBM World Wire), and cross-industry labs (R3 LRC), giving her a rare blend of product, go-to-market, and research chops. Jo repeatedly turns pilot projects into revenue-generating services—one program she reworked delivered $10M+ in additional revenue with minimal systems spend. Comfortable engaging C-suite stakeholders and engineering teams alike, she pairs academic rigor from Swarthmore with a hands-on entrepreneurial streak dating back to a SIBOS-winning startup. Based in New York, she focuses on pragmatic AI/ML-native solutions that create differentiated, high-margin growth for banks.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Duke in Berlin Fall 2009, Duke in Berlin Fall 2009 at Duke UniversityThe Brearley SchoolB.A. Honors History; German Studies, B.A. Honors History; German Studies at Swarthmore College
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
typography2
python2
cross-platform1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jo-lang/ZHdK-lecture200606
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
jo-lang/drawbotscripts
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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