Katy Elkin

Katy Elkin is Head of Financial Services Sales at OpenAI, where she focuses on applying AI and agentic systems in banking and financial services. She has also held emerging-technology and business-development roles at Seegrid, Desmos, and Clever, and previously worked at McKinsey & Company.

OpenAI Pitches Frontier AI as Infrastructure for Financial Services

Katy Elkin, OpenAI’s go-to-market lead for financial services, argues that banks, insurers, asset managers and market-infrastructure firms should treat frontier AI as enterprise infrastructure rather than a set of isolated tools. Her case is that financial institutions can use OpenAI’s models to redesign workflows, increase employee output and build AI-native customer products, provided they also put in place the governance, security and residency controls needed to absorb rapid model improvements.

OpenAIJun 8, 20266 min read