SILVER
Tara Nathan, EVP, Growth Segments and Founder, Community Pass – Mastercard
Tara Nathan is a visionary leader redefining how inclusive technology can scale real world impact. As Founder of Mastercard’s Community Pass, she has pioneered an innovative digital platform that expands access to essential services for people in low income and limited technology communities, enabling rural smallholder farmers to participate fully in the digital economy, while also supporting broader commercial outcomes.
Under Tara’s leadership, Community Pass has helped farmers access fair markets, quality inputs like seeds and fertilizers, digital payments, and credit which has led, anecdotally, to increased productivity, reduced losses and 25% to 50% higher prices for harvest yields. Tara’s strength is the ability to align commercial sustainability with social purpose.
From early pilots in East Africa to multi country deployments across Africa and Asia, Tara’s work has engaged millions of farmers. Tara is not simply widening access; she is reshaping systems.
BRONZE
Andy Lang – Munny Group
Andy Lang is the founder of Munny Group and a leading advocate for financial education as a form of prevention, not crisis response. His leadership is shaped by lived experience and over two decades working across debt advice, insolvency, banking and financial education, supporting people only once financial problems had already escalated.
Andy firmly believes the absence of financial education is a systemic failure. As he often puts it, we require lessons, assessments and licenses to drive, yet people are given access to money without a single lesson on how it works. His work focuses on changing that reality.
Through Munny, Andy has led the development of independent, education-first financial support across workplaces, sport and communities, working with national bodies including the UK’s largest Employee Wellbeing Organisations, the FA, the Premier League and the LFBF’s Financial Capability Steering Committee.
Andy doesn’t just talk the talk, he walks the talk.