Rachel Schneider is founder and CEO of Canary, a company helping the 21st-century social net evolve to reflect the future of work. She’s led the development of Grant Circle, a high-impact solution for challenges she uncovered as co-author of The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty. Grant Circle exists so employees can access emergency support in times of financial need and enable them to recover quickly.

She brings experience from Merrill Lynch, Financial Health Network, and The Aspen Institute, as their entrepreneur-in-residence. She credits her commitment to the potential for innovative finance to solve major social problems from her days as a VISTA Volunteer

Ellen Stark is an Executive Editor with Foundry 360 at Dotdash Meredith, where she creates relevant and engaging content for major financial services companies. Previously, she spent more than 20 years as a writer and editor at Money magazine and Money.com. She has written about personal finance, business, and entrepreneurship for publications that include Time, Consumer Reports, Crain's New York Business, This Old House, and AARP Bulletin. At Money, she covered all aspects of personal finance, from retirement and investing to healthcare and taxes, and produced packages recognized for excellence by the
Gerald Loeb Awards, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the American Society of Magazine Editors. From 2018 to 2019, she was a consulting editor for the launch of Considerable.com, a financial, lifestyle, and health website for people in their 50s and 60s.