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FinovateFall
September 9-11, 2026
The Marriott Marquis Times SquareNew York

Will Lawrence
CEO & Co-Founder at BrettonAI
Speaker

Profile

Will Lawrence is the CEO and co-founder of Bretton AI, an AI platform for financial compliance teams. He is based in San Francisco, California.

Before starting Bretton AI, Lawrence led product for Facebook’s anti-money laundering (AML) platform, where he worked on combating financial crime across payments, gaming, and e-commerce use cases. At Meta (formerly Facebook), he served as Product Lead for Payments & Machine Learning and previously worked as a Product Manager on WhatsApp Payments & Compliance.

Lawrence later joined Paxos as a Product Manager focused on Identity & Compliance, where he built core compliance infrastructure for a fintech platform that powers more than 10 million crypto wallets globally.

He holds a Bachelor of International Economics degree from The University of British Columbia

Agenda Sessions

  • Special Address: The Back Office has a New Operating Model

    5:05pm