Jared Bahner is a 20 year veteran of the financial services industry. After starting his career working for a community bank, Jared moved into technology and has been helping financial institutions with their technology initiatives ever since. With a specific focus on digital banking, and all of the ancillary products/services/technologies that go into it, Jared has dedicated much of his career to guiding institutions through the various challenges and opportunities that are presented with digital transformation. After seeing AI sweep across the industry just like digital banking did at the beginning of his career, in 2024 Jared joined Hapax as Manager of FI Partnerships. Hapax is the industry's very first purpose-built, banking-specific AI solution and Jared is excited to see all the ways in which it will help financial institutions as they transition into the AI Age of Banking.