Smart strategy making the hard parts of financial technology easier
Ise Lund founded PL Interactive in 2000 to help organizations navigate the leading edge of technology without losing sight of the fundamentals: customers, data, and trust. Across 26 years and a long-standing love of the technological frontier, Ise has developed a talent for sorting the hype from what’s genuinely useful, and for turning that insight into systems institutions can stand behind.
Ise began in product leadership building search engines and online directories, leading a team of 50 responsible for relevance, measurement, and results. Her career moved through the translation of offline experience into digital, and the optimization of customer journeys for measurable return. Over time that experience matured into a focus on the back-end systems that make modern financial services work: data governance, identity and access management, privacy, consent, and regulatory compliance.
Understanding what the people who rely on financial organizations really need, protecting their personal data, meeting regulatory guidelines, and helping build the systems that make all three possible is at the core of what Ise does.
It takes experience to distinguish technological hype from what’s actually useful. Ise knows the often unglamorous work it takes to make sure what she delivers stands up to regulator scrutiny and ultimately benefits the customer.
About Ise Lund
Ise has provided strategic direction and implementation oversight for end-to-end digital and data transformation since 1997, working inside top-tier U.S. financial institutions and alongside the consulting firms that serve them. She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree from Harvard University.