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Camellia co-founded Koxa with Conner in 2020 and serves as the CTO. Prior to Koxa, Camellia held a series of technical product leadership roles: most recently as Head of Product at Ninth Wave (where she and Conner met); Head of Mobile Product for Infor; and designing, developing and launching Venmo’s first B2B product – Venmo Checkout – as Venmo’s Head of Product (where she and Delano met).

Camellia is a recognized expert on privacy, security and user-permissioning of financial data. She serves as an Emeritus Member of the Financial Data Exchange (FDX), which is the consortium of financial institutions, fintechs, and other industry participants that is defining a standard for consumer-permissioned financial data sharing. Camellia is a principal author of FDX’s “User Experience Guidelines” for user consent (published December 2020) and a Taskforce Lead in the API & Data Structures technical working group.

Camellia earned a bachelors in design from Carnegie Mellon University and graduate degrees from California College of the Arts. She lives with her husband Alek and son Asa in Brooklyn, where there is MLB on one screen or another around the clock (even in the off-season).