Julia Streets MBE is a champion of capital markets fintech and entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, advisor, senior leadership coach, host and investor she is called on to speak around the world offering a wealth of commercial and leadership insight. In 2007, she incorporated her business Streets Consulting, the business development, marketing and communications consultancy. She and her team advise a wide range of international firms in the field of financial services and technology. Her successful business advises a wide range of domestic and international startups, scaleups, global organisations, and industry associations, helping them grow, transform and bring their innovative technologies to market. Prior to this, she served on the executive committee of the technology business of NYSE Euronext (the NY stock exchange group) as global head of communication, was head of business development at a global brokerage firm and head of eCommerce during the dotcom boom. In 2007, Julia founded and hosted the first DE&I podcast in financial services: DivercityPodcast.com. With listeners in 50+ countries, Divercity Podcast was rated one of the world’s leading DE&I podcasts and Julia received many accolades including being twice listed as one of 20 diversity champions in the Global Diversity List. In 2025, Julia was awarded an MBE in King Charles III’s Birthday Honours list for services to diversity and inclusion in entrepreneurship, particularly in the financial services and technology sectors. From her work as an C-suite executive coach and advising many scaleup businesses, in 2025 Julia and her team launched an online course: SoftSkilljngIt.com. Julia is called upon to speak and lead workshops and Streets Consulting is the professional skills partner for The Investment Association. Julia is fast becoming a leading authority on these all-important professional skills deemed ever more essential in the age of AI. She is called upon to chair many of the world’s leading conferences, awards ceremonies, closed session discussions and podcasts, drawing not only on her industry experience, but also her skills as a speaker, host and a former sell-out stand up comedian.