September 9, 2024 – Jenius Digital Banking President John Rosenfeld and Prairie Women Dorothy Beasley

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John Rosenfeld – President of Jenius Bank

John Rosenfeld is bank President. He used to jump out of airplanes as a Green Beret. John Rosenfeld currently serves as President of Jenius Bank, a division of SMBC MANUBANK, member of SMBC Group. He joined the firm in February 2021 to further develop the U.S. retail banking business with a completely new consumer digital bank offering. John assembled a team of 300+ digital and consumer banking experts, aligned key technology and operations partnerships, and established ongoing agile development processes. Jenius Bank launched in June 2023 with unsecured personal loans and expanded with savings accounts in November 2023. The team expects to launch several other products and services over the next 2-3 years, including a mobile app, checking, credit card, and other loan types. John’s vision is to humanize digital banking and lead a monumental shift in the industry. He has more than 25 years of executive experience in financial services, including several leadership positions in digital banking, product innovation and management, retail sales, service, and operations.
Dorothy “Louise” Beasley – Dreambuilder Coach & Author of the Voices From The Prairies: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Ranch Women

Dorothy is born and bred as a livestock rancher’s daughter, then cattle rancher’s wife, mother of 4 children who were born and raised on a ranch. She learned to cook when she got married, as before that she was her dad’s helper with the farm machinery, cattle and sheep. She has been married to the same man for 48 years, and now has 10 amazing grandchildren, along with all her children and their partners helping on the ranches too. She learned to cook when she got married and has cooked for many ranch crews throughout the 48 years on the ranches. The purpose of writing this book about ranch women is to give those women a voice, as up until recently women have been active participants on the livestock ranches, but not always been classed as valuable, worthy, good enough to be partners on the ranch with their husbands. They were told in the past that speaking about themselves in a positive light would be called “bragging about themselves” and they were only “ordinary women”, the same as everyone else. These co-authors demonstrate the extraordinary values and determination to make a go of the ranches they live and work on, become spokeswomen advocates for the land, the rural communities, the families and for the continuity of livestock ranching as a healthy and worthwhile lifestyle. Women deserve to be seen and heard, listened to and valued as equal partners on these livestock ranches.