Kosta Peric is Deputy Director for the "Financial Services for the Poor" initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading the Level One Project initiative to foster deployment of payment platforms to serve the poor. He is the author of The Castle And The Sandbox, a book on how to innovate in conservative companies.
Previously, Kosta was the co-founder of Innotribe, the initiative for collaborative innovation in the financial industry, & chief architect of SWIFTNet, SWIFT's worldwide secure network connecting banks & corporations, servicing the world economy.