Founding Member
RMK Group
Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann is a seasoned CEO with broad leadership experience in sales, marketing, risk management, and international business operations. She draws on deep expertise in the financial services industry and has a demonstrated track record of leading highly successful business turnarounds, scaling new businesses, and expanding operations globally. She recently wrote a book, FitCEO: Be The Leader of Your Life, about achieving holistic health—at work, home and play.
She is the founding member of the RMK Group, LLC, an advisory and consulting service focused on fintech, digital currency and payment systems, which was formed in 2020. Previously, she served in various senior leadership roles at Citibank from 2008 until 2020–including as Head of the International Personal Bank, President & CEO of Banamex USA and as President of Citibank California & Nevada–and as an Executive Vice President at Wells Fargo from 1996 until 2008.
Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann currently serves on two Nasdaq Boards: MNTN (Everest Consolidator) and BCSA (Blockchain Acquisition Corporation I). She previously served as a non-executive director of Revolut USA, a global financial technology company, and Flutterwave, a Pan-African Payments Technology Company and as Chair of the board of Banamex USA/Servicing Inc, a subsidiary of Citigroup. She also serves on the advisory board of DigitalDX Ventures, a majority women-owned venture capital impact fund focused on leveraging AI and big data to solve global health issues. Rebecca also serves as an advisor to: Notabene (a privacy-preserving compliance platform for digital currency companies), Banyan (a global infrastructure company for item-level receipt data), Kapitalwise, Inc. (a unified client acquisition and retention platform for financial institutions), Lucrisma (a FinTech company focused on aggregating financial data) and IDClear (a technology company preparing to launch). In addition, Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann serves as Audit Chair of the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
Recognized for her transformational leadership, Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann was honored by the San Francisco Business Time’s Influential Woman in Bay Area Business for ten years and named a Forever Influential Woman; as well as the 2010 Financial Woman of the Year by the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco.
Ms. Macieira-Kaufmann earned a B.A. from Brown University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University. Additionally, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki, in Helsinki, Finland.