Introducing
KATE DREW
Contact Information
KATE DREW
Partner
Kate Drew is a partner and member of the firm executive team. Kate manages all research at CCG Catalyst. She focuses on the strategies and technology related to fintech and global/domestic banks of all sizes. Her recent research has addressed open banking, core modernization, digital channels, payments, lending, artificial intelligence, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), among other areas. She is a seasoned banking industry research expert with more than a decade of experience in financial services.
Kate has worked with a broad range of U.S. and international clients, analyzing industry trends, and identifying market opportunities, product gaps, and potential partners to help them achieve their strategic goals.
She has also written for numerous publications, including CNBC, NBCNews, The Fintech Times, Forbes, FinTech Futures, and Business Insider. And she was named to FinTech Magazine’s list of Top 100 Women in FinTech in 2021. Her perspective helps to inform and educate both within CCG with clients as well as broadly through her involvement with external outlets and publications.
Area of Expertise
- Fintech, technology vendors that support financial services with a focus on artificial intelligence, BaaS, core systems, consumer banking, mobile banking, customer onboarding, customer experience, digital transformation, and open banking, etc.
Representative Work Includes
- Data-driven research reports informed by industry interviews and perspectives
- Bespoke research projects for clients to help determine solutions to specific pain points through data-driven analysis and insight
- Thought leadership on the fintech industry for external publication, i.e. articles
- Curation of partnerships with fintech solution providers to help better serve clients
- Orchestration of design thinking workshops that enable clients to find solutions faster using Jobs to Be Done thinking and proprietary methodologies
- Leads many of the CCG Catalyst client 4-D™ strategy workshops
Education
- Bachelor of Science, Villanova School of Business, Villanova University
- Master of Arts, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University
