Kareem Saleh is the Founder and CEO of FairPlay, an AI enablement company helping financial institutions test, validate, and optimize AI systems so they can deploy them faster, more profitably, and in compliance. 
 
Kareem has spent his career at the intersection of financial services, artificial intelligence, and expanding access to financial opportunity. Prior to founding FairPlay, he worked at ZestFinance (now Zest AI), where he partnered with lenders adopting AI-powered underwriting, and at Softcard, where he worked with financial institutions, retailers, and technology companies on mobile payments. 
 
Earlier in his career, Kareem served in the Obama Administration, helping manage the team that negotiated the Paris Climate Agreement and overseeing approximately $3 billion in annual investments in emerging markets. 
 
Today, Kareem is a frequent speaker and writer on AI in financial services, fair lending, model governance, and the responsible deployment of AI and AI agents.