Joy Hanawa

Director of Technology, Edge Capital

Joy is an accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving innovation, optimizing infrastructure, and delivering transformative technology solutions in the financial services industry. She has proven expertise in cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, and business process automation. Joy is passionate about building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. With her two+ decades of experience she has played an integral role in building top-notch teams and extraordinary organizations in the niche finance and SaaS space. Her skills have grown revenue for companies such as E-Capital, Thunder Funding, Adicio, The New York Times, Dow Jones, Boston Globe, Monster, Google and E-Bay.

As a strategic thought leader Joy identifies problems and seeks to turn them into opportunities, creating compelling and profitable new products. She draws from her experience to create new online and offline monetization strategies. To this end, she has turned data, analytics and web-based applications into progressive B2B and B2C business opportunities resulting in managing/launching dozens of successful SaaS software products, recruitment, motors and real estate classified portals and business engagements at diversified companies with sales ranging from $3MM to $300MM.

Joy is an expert in providing analytics to optimize business processes to align with business strategies, with a proven track record of improving operational processes utilizing automation and technology to deliver efficiency, accuracy and visibility. She excels at creating value and mitigating risk in high-growth organizations and is instrumental in driving strategic business decisions through data analytics, identifying the "Information" lost in the data. 

Joy is respected for her strong ethics, integrity and a relentless focus on consistent revenue growth. A quick review of Joy's online recommendations highlight her skills with customers and team members a like.