Tori Samples is a Senior Product Manager at the Stellar Development Foundation, where she leads humanitarian use cases and bulk disbursements. Before SDF, Tori was Co-Founder and CTO of Leaf Global Fintech, a blockchain-based digital wallet providing cross-border financial services on smartphones and non-smartphones. Tori built Leaf's system from the ground up in Rwanda. Initially designed for refugees and cross-border traders, Leaf operates across East Africa as Boss Money and was acquired by IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT) in 2022. Tori's background before Leaf was in tech as a Data Architect. She has an MBA from Vanderbilt University and is a certified Expert in Financial Inclusion Policy through the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.