Hany is directly responsible for heading up data and has a wealth of experience supported by a strong technology and data analytics background.  In his role, Hany is both people and process focused with a strong business acumen and international exposure, where he leads highly successful strategy at the Bank of England.

Colin heads up data and communicates the vision for data to the CEO at Credit Suisse.   Colin believes that changing regulatory landscape and rate of industry change demands a centralised point of accountability within the business, and is passionate about improving data management through an empowered data team.

Dessa directs the data strategy and implementation for Asset Management at JP Morgan, where she is directly responsible for data governance and delivering data and analytics to key external and internal stakeholders.  In her role, Dessa draws on her extensive experience in in financial products, data, risk and technology to ensure a highly successful and streamlined data strategy.

Peter is responsible for the data management practice across all businesses and global functions at HSBC focusing on improving data consistency across the firm. Peter is viewed as a pioneer in data strategy development and has been responsible for the development of the HSBC Data Vision and Strategy and leads the Group Data Strategy Board consisting of the CDOs and COOs of each of the Global Businesses and Global Functions.  Peter is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Enterprise Data Management Council, a financial services industry data management association.

Colin is responsible for all aspects of Enterprise Architecture across Willis, the global risk advisor, insurance and re-insurance broker.  His team has established the target-state architecture for Willis’ business processes, data, applications and common technologies, with governance to ensure that investment and change initiatives make progress towards that vision. He has championed initiatives to establish enterprise-wide reference and transactional data platforms critical to Willis’ position as “the analytical broker”.  Previously Colin drove the creation of a central reference repository of information about data in his role as Head of Data Architecture for the Markets division of RBS.

Christina oversees the strucutre and organisation of data management globally for Société Générale and leads her team on strategic initiatives, including big data and data transparency.  Recently, Christina has been focussing on what makes a model set up throughout the business, and has pioneered a strategy for how to streamline this globally.

Andrew is directly responsible for managing data governance, risk, policy implementation, and data strategy formulation in the CIB Chief Data Office for the Corporate and Institutional division at RBS.  Andrew has previously led change management teams around business process, technology design and re-engineering including FATCA, Data Remediation, FXMM & Treasury processing, and Fixed Income processing, as well as successfully managing various elements of the operating model design and integration during the RBS integration with ABN AMRO.

Mitch manages the strategies for market data compliance, and is directly responsible for advising users on exchange policies and market data license requirements. Under his remit, Mitch drives data cost optimization for users on demand, ensures the correct understanding of procedures and oversees exchange and vendor audits and follow ups.

Romain is directly responsible for production and change the bank activities across the technology platforms used by UBS IB to on-board and vet clients, with a focus on regulatory requirements including KYC, Dodd Frank, FATCA and EMIR. In his role, Romain owns the client data master for the IB and is responsible for delivering platforms used to set up and master trading accounts and entitlements, including settlement and confirmation instructions.

Following a range of roles in Financial Services starting in 1992, Graham joined the RBS Group in 2009 as COO for Risk Management in Corporate Banking. From 2012, as RBS Chief Data Officer, Graham started to develop the data agenda within RBS. Graham is now using his experience and vision to drive improvements in the way RBS creates, manages and utilises data across the Group

Andy reports to the Group Chief Data Officer and leads of global teams delivering Reference Data (Client, Account, Settlement Instructions, Instrument & Price) to our clients and businesses in Wealth & Investment Management, Investment Banking and Corporate Banking.

Sean leads and empowers his team to provide data services globally within the Asset Management Division. In his role, Sean is responsible for Global client relationship management, data consulting, and expanding new data service offerings. As part of his responsibilities, Sean is involved with data strategy and planning, data governance, MDM projects, and setting data policy to meet current and anticipated business objectives.

Pejman leads the Big Data Initiative across Société Générale; where he is directly responsible for overseeing the Big Data Insight Platform development and production.  Recently Pejman has pioneered collaboration with both  internal and external partners to drive joint design efforts. Pejman has 15 years of experience in IT financial sector with a background in IT Risk & Security Governance and Data Management.

Edith leads the data governance strategy and is responsible for driving her team’s highly successful Data Governance Framework.  Within this remit, Edith oversees principles, standards and policies to prioritise and resolve data issues. Edith is also directly involved in designing processes  and organisational structure to optimize, quality issues, quality metrics and the data dictionary.

In his role, Simon is directly responsible for the service and product management of legal entity, client, and account reference data within UBS Group Data Services IT. Simon oversees and manages the service offering, roadmap and stakeholder engagement for a wide range of business and technical projects, with a focus on driving results and transparency as to the costs of these services to the firm.

Garry lead the strategy to embed a data governance and stewardship network across an international financial services provider, at both a local and global scale, in support of various regulatory requirements and a driven business wide desire to succeed.  In this role, Garry focused on the implementation of quality initiatives, from the initial monitoring, through root cause analysis and onto remediation, with one role involving introducing circa 200 front end controls to improve data quality at capture. He has recently changed roles and is now Head of Data Governance for the leading payments system in Europe.  Garry has worked in financial services for over 28 years and has worked both in industry and consultancy, across banking and insurance.

As a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and chairman of the ESMA Market Integrity Standing Committee (MISC), Kostas plays a key part in the regulatory dealing with cooperation, exchange of information and market surveillance in the capital market. Playing an active part in ESMA’s efforts regarding commission unbundling, Kostas is able to represent the regulatory voice on the current situation and efforts within the market.

James is a member of Deutsche Bank’s Chief Data Office. He has worked on the definition of Data Architecture standards, operating procedures, and trading, risk, and reference data models. James is currently developing new data visualisation and analytical tools to analyse and visually represent the Bank’s Information Architecture, both at an overall level and for local “Application Neighbourhoods.” James is a widely-followed voice on Deutsche Bank’s collaboration and social media platform and uses this to connect with people and share the benefits of information architecture across the Bank.

Neville leads his team in managing business change and BAU activity relating to the RBS Entity Master for the wholesale businesses , as well the management of a number of other datasets critical to RWA and Regulatory reporting. With over 15 years in financial services data management, Neville is best placed to share his experience in next generation data governance.

Igor is directly responsible for defining the technology strategy for Legal & General Investment Management. Igor has been taking an active role in the data management industry over the past years. In particular, he headed up an industry working group which came up with a standard definition of an Investment Book of Record capability. Igor has 15 years of experience in developing mission-critical enterprise applications predominantly for financial sector and telecommunications both in the UK and Russia, with a background in developing high-throughput transaction processing systems. Igor is also a member of International Association of IT Architects (IASA).

Chris is responsible for Market Data Product within HSBC Securities Services, and is currently identifying areas of cross-over in data content in order to achieve efficiencies for regulatory reporting.  Chris also works extensively with the industry to address and overcome challenges presented by new regulatory data.

Olivier is currently responsible for setting up IT architecture design for market reference data. He directs his team on solution implementation to challenges within capital markets, payments and settlements, transactions banking and the customer domain. Olivier’s main goal is to solve problems right from project inception and throughout implementation.

David directs his team to deliver scalable and operational IT solutions, with a focus on process advocacy, financial strategy and change management.  David oversees multi-discipline groups, implementing control structures and completing complex projects in time-sensitive situations in n enterprise level infrastructure, management solutions and system architecture.  In his role, David drives to improve functionality, streamline business operations, handle multi-functional teams and provide advanced solutions to diverse product groups within HSBC.

Claire is directly responsible for driving RBC Capital Markets’ highly successful operations for account and book data.  In addition Claire oversees and manages the strategy for meeting KYC requirements with a focus on aligning and streamlining internal processes.

Jason heads-up the data strategy for Schroders, reporting directly to the COO.  In his role, Jason manages global data strategies  with a vision to establish exactly what clients want and how it can be delivered.   Recently, Jason developed a highly successful  data governance framework, including redefining the organisation structure, and implementing cutting-edge key tools including cross data model and business data directory.

Tarun directs his global team of matrix-managed individuals and direct reports on all Information Management infrastructure projects for Investec Asset Management, with a clear vision to make corporate-wide data and information available.  In his role, Tarun is accountable for the development and maintenance of the Firm's Information and Data Management strategy, policies, processes and organisational structures.  Tarun’s main goal is to drive the most appropriate activity to support the adoption of the Firm’s Information and Data strategy and policies.

Edward is directly responsible for the global implementation of a highly successful enterprise data strategy at Pioneer Investments. Edward has been involved in Data Governance at various levels over the last fifteen years and has held leadership positions in IT, Operations and Data.  Under Edward’s remit, he has managed major transformation programs, including post-merger integration projects at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Fortis Investments and at ABN AMRO Asset Management. 

With experience in managing the risk, compliance & legal aspects of The Investment Association, the trade association of the UK’s £5 trillion investment management industry, Guy leads the policy teams which cover the regulation of funds and managers, and most of their engagement in the retail and institutional markets and on the capital markets. Mr Sears is also a director of the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.  .  In previous roles, Guy has served as Deputy Chief Executive of APCIMS and as Head of Market Conduct and Market Infrastructure at the UK’s FSA.

Cressida heads-up a team of 550 employees across 9 sites, overseeing Operations Client Relationship management (OCRM), Client Data Maintenance and Documentation Operations for HSBC.  In her role, Cressida is directly responsible for managing the operational relationship with HSBC's priority clients as well as leading the strategy for the maintenance of client data and documentation for post-trade activities.

Adam manages his team in developing models to support projects, regulations and BAU with a key focus on creating full transparency across data models.   Having successfully supported POC for Markets Big Data solution, leading successfully strategies in risk and operational data, and with 20 years of working in Finance across America, Europe and the Far East, Adam is best placed to share experience on how to achieve a centralised client reference data hub.

Chris is directly responsible for delivering the data component of the Think Forward Strategy for ING globally as part of the COO organisation, working with partners across the business.

Emmanuelle creates and drives the current strategy for market data vendor selection.  In her role, Emmanuelle has identified the importance of understanding the importance of meeting the needs of internal customers, including portfolio managers and traders, risk management and operations teams, whilst ensuring that market data vendor contracts are closely monitored and adhered to.

Roberto heads-up the data strategy at UniCredit group, and is in charge of defining, developing and implementing the strategies and methodologies for usage and management of data, according to business and risk management strategies, of governing and controlling the end-to-end management of the Company’s data acquisition, production and usage processes, of ensuring quality, consistency and timely availability of data, through advanced "business intelligence/Analytics" solutions.   In his role, Roberto is also responsible for  the Data Stream of Risk Data Aggregation (BSBC 239) for Information Solution and Analytics which includes Group Customer and Product Profitability and Regional  Business and Commercial Network Monitoring, covering of the entire  Performance Risk Adjusted Management value chain.

Thomas’ work in the Department of War Studies covers a broad spectrum of security questions. As author of ‘Cyber War Will Not Take Place’, which analyses political computer network intrusions, Thomas is ideally placed to deliver eye-opening anecdotes on major security breaches which have had a global impact – including the SONY hack and physically destructive incidents in a German steel mill and a pipeline in Turkey. The main driver of cyber security spending in financial services companies is compliance – not innovation, Thomas believes this is a problem and should be challenged.

Kiou manages a global team centralising the commercial and contractual negotiations, risk management and supplier relationships across the Investment Bank and Wealth Market Data. This includes internal and external audit and regulatory interactions and reporting and Index Licensing specifically focusing on Index and derivative product creation. Recently, Kiou has taken on the additional responsibilities as the Head of Investment Bank and Market Data Supplier Relationship, Risk & Controls at Barclays where Kiou is creating a new supplier management function that is responsible for overseeing and managing the Investment Bank’s supplier relationships with accountability for driving the effective management of Supplier Risk. Kiou has over 24 years experience across The Toronto Stock Exchange, Reuters, Citigroup, HSBC and Barclays.

Catriona is directly responsible for Client Onboarding, KYC, Client Classification at Credit Suisse.  Catriona’s focused strategy is not just about ensuring regulatory compliance, it is also about ensuring that the needs of the client are met quickly and efficiently to remain competitive. 

Charles is pioneering a strategy to establish Enterprise Data Governance, launching a BPM center of excellence, and implementing operating and organizational models to support “big data” in Investment Research, Investment Risk, and Intermediary Sales.  In his role, Charles leads his team to drive transformation and effectiveness, with a focus on executing organizational, architectural, and cultural changes that produce exceptional Information Management solutions.

Suresh has day-to-day responsibility for Operations covering Client Data, KYC, Instrument Data, Organizational Data and Market Data (Commercial), across line and project teams.  He is also the Execution Lead for Reference Data within Nomura’s firm-wide BCBS239 program.

Tony is a solution data architect with a long involvement in the creation of financial data standards, especially XML standards. He is passionate about ensuring that data platforms are forward looking, so that they provide efficient and effective internal data services over the strategic longer term.

Chris has 19 years’ experience in Financial services in a variety of Operational, Finance, and Risk roles and is currently working in the Transaction & Data integrity  (T&DI) Optimisation team in RBS Corporate & Institutional Banking Division (CIB) delivering Operating model, strategy, & investment planning support to BAU teams including Regulatory Trade & Transaction reporting, CIB Chief Data Office, Reference data Master source, and Data Integrity functions (Data Quality / Data aggregators)

David is accountable for sourcing Market Data, Exchanges and Commissions services with a focus on using his experience and knowledge of Vendors, Instruments, Trading Venues, Products and Pricing. His goal is  to effectively manage the Data and Price Policies agreed with the Market Data Distributors and execution suppliers in a challenging cost optimization environment. David is also a member of the Executive Committee at FISD, IPUG (Information Provider User Group), and COSSIOM.

James is accountable for the development and maintenance of the Asset Management Group’s data management strategy, policies, processes and organizational structures and drives appropriate activity to support adoption the Group’s data strategy and policies.  James believes data is a key element in the business transformation programme and linking Change with Data ensures alignment and delivery of programmes in accordance with the overall wider business strategy.

Patrick is globally responsible for Zurich’s finance reference and market data management as well as their data strategy and overarching data governance. Patrick is accountable for heading-up his team’s operational roadmap, investments and implementations, whilst defining the data strategy for the business.

Tony is currently the Lead IT BA on the MiFIR programme for Commerzbank's Investment Banking unit, and is looking at preparation measures, especially in relation to additional reporting requirements and the use of big data. He has over 20 years experience in IT in the City, namely working in projects including Rates Client Clearing with LCH, DFA Reporting, DFA Mandatory Clearing with ICE Clear Credit LLC and EMIR Reporting.

Olivier leads his team of 100 to deliver project management and international master data services globally.  Within his role, Olivier coordinates key internal teams to provide globally accessible data for the fund administration securities services.

Michael is responsible for ensuring strategies and structures are in place to meet KYC regulatory requirements globally. Michael’s focused strategy is not just about meeting regulatory requirement, but it is also about enabling an efficient client onboarding process to provide Citi with a competitive differentiator.

Prasad oversees the implementation and change management for new data platforms.  Through is role Prasad’s goal is to evolve internal data distribution to ensure a centralised and streamlined system for all internal customers.

Thomas is accountable for vendor management and market data contract management.  Thomas’ focused strategy is not just about market data budget management , it is also about enabling business-wide company market data compliance.  Thomas is also a member of the GIPUG (German Information Providers User Group).

Ian leads the Market Infrastructure agenda as part of the Business Architecture and Transformation team within the Corporate & Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan.    Recently, Ian has focused on industry initiatives including covering responses to financial reform legislation which has involved working on industry conference platforms and representing the industry to regulators.  Ian has a vast amount of experience across middle office line functions, client relationship management, incremental and large scale change programmes.

Ewan has been developing data quality measures and issuemanagement for HSBC GBM and recently he’s taken responsibility for developingits Data Strategy focussed on ensuring that GBM’s data initiatives generatetangible benefits. He previously successfully implemented policy, measurementand governance within RBS Corporate.

Huw is accountable for leading the data strategy at Nomura, whilst defining the processes and procedures required to meet regulatory requirements, namely BCBS 239.  With a background in operational risk, Huw leads his team to develop a structured programme to deliver a streamlined and compliant data service.

Diarmuid is responsible for global information management capability at the enterprise level and ensuring that data quality and consumption are aggressively and consistently managed.  Diarmuid has developed and delivered strategic change in the data space in both fund services and more recently in the asset management industry.  Diarmuid has an operations background and is viewed as a leading pioneer in the data area over the past seven years.

PJ works with executives in top financial institutions, their regulators and suppliers to bring practical insights to implementing global regulatory reform. He focuses on building agendas and communities to manage business, technology and legal change in fast moving, innovative environments.

Stuart is directly responsible for Royal London Asset Management’s data strategy.  Stuart is accountable for leading The Operations Control and Data Governance team at RLAM, delivering the data requirements to both internal and external clients.

Paul drives the data strategy for the Corporate and Investment Bank, with a focus on developing and maintaining a centralised and empowered data team.  Paul drives to develop strong internal and external relationships to provide a client-first strategy and add value to the bottom line of the business.

Adam is responsible for Accenture’s Finance and Risk services for Banking and Capital Markets in the UK. In this role Adam works with major financial services organisations to help them implement major transformation programmes involving regulatory, restructuring and cost solutions. Adam works with senior business executives, CDOs and CIOs to implement data solutions to meet business and regulatory needs.

John Randles has led Bloomberg PolarLake since it was formed in 2012 as a result of the Bloomberg acquisition of PolarLake Ltd. John joined PolarLake as Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and drove the company’s move from being an integration technology supplier in many industries to focus 100% on the Capital Markets industry and particularly the Data Management challenges of that industry. Over six years, PolarLake established itself as the most innovative vendor in the sector leading to the acquisition in 2012. John led and managed the transformation of PolarLake from a pure Software vendor to a Data Management Service provider as Bloomberg PolarLake has re-structured the company’s offerings with the backing of Bloomberg.

Neil Farquhar joined Bureau van Dijk in January 2011 having gained seventeen years’ experience in a number of research and data management roles. Before joining Bureau van Dijk he spent ten years at professional services firm, Deloitte. His last three years at the firm were in managing its research tool portfolio. His role at Bureau van Dijk is to develop and manage its products for compliance, including its new Compliance Catalyst. Farquhar’s areas of expertise include AML compliance, international business information, and the user perspective.

Alan is a Principal and Member of the Senior Leadership Team at eClerx, an India-based BPO (Business Process Outsourcing Company), where he is the Financial Services Team Leader, Head of Consulting, and Head of Product Development. An accomplished and respected executive in the Global Financial Markets, Alan has 30+ years of experience delivering scalable and market-ready solutions in trading, risk, regulatory, compliance, and operations environments. Formerly the Global Head of Trading Support at a major bank, Alan has led 1000+ person teams in enterprise-wide projects in operations and process improvement, technology strategy, business process transformation, target operating model development, application development, and implementation of risk systems, finance systems, and trading technologies. He has specialized expertise in client, product, and legal reference data management. Alan’s articles and commentary have appeared in Global Capital, Compliance Week, Global Custodian, FinOps Newsletter, Risk Waters Magazine, Securities Industry News, and Wall Street & Technology. He has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Computer World, and Smart Money Magazine and a featured spokesperson in several major industry conferences, such as FIMA 2015 in Boston where he delivered the Chairman’s Address.

CEO of Fenergo, Marc is responsible for Fenergo’s business operational strategy and corporate direction. With 15 years’ experience developing, selling and delivering enterprise financial technology to global banks, Marc has developed a proven track record of building successful business-winning and leadership teams. In 2015, he led an $85m funding round with Insight Venture Partners and Aquiline Capital Partners, marking the second fundraising effort for the company. In 2013, Fenergo secured €4m funding from Investec Ventures Ireland Limited. The latest fundraising enables Fenergo to create a platform for global growth that will see it capitalize on the growing demand being created by an ever-evolving financial regulations market. Marc was recently named a Fintech 100 Most Influential Leader in recognition of the impact that Fenergo’s technology is having on the way financial institutions manage their compliance obligations and operational requirements.

Rupert Brown has spent more than 25 years in the Investment Banking sector working for a number of Tier 1 US and European Investment Banks designing and delivering Global Application, Market Data and Infrastructure Solutions. He has been instrumental in the evolution of the derivatives market platforms in Fixed Income, Equities and Commodities, the transition from host based to distributed and mobile technologies and deciphering the core data requirements of Regulators and Operational Risk managers in the post Crunch era. He graduated from Imperial College London and is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Dominique Tanner serves as Head of Business Development at SIX Financial Information. In his role, held since 2007, Dominique has led the development of a number of complex regulatory as well as data strategy and quality initiatives. Most recently, he oversaw the implementation of FATCA and the Swiss Final Withholding Tax. He works with financial intuitions globally to conceptualize and develop client-oriented products and services. Dominique Tanner has more than 20 years of experience in diverse regulatory topics, reference and market data, and global market development at SIX. Previously, he was employed as a Software Engineering Consultant by a Swiss IT and consulting company, and at Credit Suisse. Dominique Tanner holds a Master’s Degree in Business IT from the University of Zurich.

Marion Leslie is the Managing Director of Thomson Reuters Pricing and Reference Services business (PRS). The PRS business delivers award-winning pricing and cross-asset reference data services to financial services subscribers globally, including intraday and end of day pricing and valuations. 

 Prior to this Marion was the Global Head of Instrument and Pricing Content, creating highly valued content for the equity, fixed income, commodities & energy, foreign exchange and money markets, supported by a team of 1500 experts in 26 countries worldwide. 

Marion represents the vendor community as a member of the Consultative Working Group directly supporting the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)’s Market Data Reporting Working Group. She is a member of the board of the London Women’s Forum, a selective organisation for senior women working within the financial services industry in London. 

She has been supporting the board of the UK Hydrographic Office (a Government Trading Fund, part of the Ministry of Defence) since 2012. She is an external capability reviewer for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and in 2014 Marion was given the prestigious award for achievement by Women In Banking and Finance (WIBF).

Hubert Deroubaix is Head of European Regulatory Product. Hubert is responsible for developing and commercialising Interactive Data’s regulatory content offerings in EMEA. Prior to this Hubert’s roles have included managing both content management and strategic partnerships within Data Collection. Hubert joined the company in 2000 from the former Thomson Financial. Prior to that, he undertook a number of management roles within Deutsche Bank’s global custody operations in London. Hubert’s work with both providers and users of financial information has given him a wide understanding of the financial markets and their participants. Hubert has a degree in modern languages from Lille University

Steve Wyer is the Managing Director at Capital Markets Consulting and responsible for the strategic development and delivery of Regulatory, Risk & Finance Change & Transformation consultancy and change delivery, in particular focusing on banking regulation and data, as well as solutions specifically relating to Regulatory Finance and Risk change. Steve previously held posts with Big4 and global outsourcing and systems integration houses, in consulting, senior management and business development within transformation & change.

Anastasia Dokuchaeva is Director of Global Regulatory Solutions at FactSet. She has spent the past several years setting up a product strategy around regulations such as Solvency II, BCBS 239, AIFMD, and others. Having developed extensive knowledge of market data during her 10 years of experience in the financial industry, Anastasia aims to look at regulatory requirements from all angles – data quality, methodology, sourcing, product packaging and partnerships.

Bennett Egeth is President of Broadridge Investment Management, Reference Data and Risk Solutions. Based in New York, Bennett leads a global organization serving hedge funds, asset managers, service providers and sell-side firms with technology and operational solutions. A senior leader at Broadridge since 2009, he brings over 25 years of experience from Bear Stearns, where he was a global leader and senior executive focused on revenue generation, strategy, solutions development and process improvement for the Prime Service, Correspondent Clearing, Advisor Service and Executive Services businesses. Bennett is an alumni of Cornell University.

Based in Glasgow, primary responsibilities are the management of asset and client data operations together with strategic development of related systems and vendors. Prior to this appointment, Gary was a Vice-President and Asset Data Product Manager with JPMorgan Chase & Co where he spent 21 years until June 2015. Career started at Royal Bank of Scotland Trustee Division in 1987. Gary has expertise in asset and client reference data, asset valuations covering mainstream and over-the-counter products, as well as extensive experience in the selection, assessment and relationship of market data vendors.

Hervé G. VALENTIN  is Head of Reference Data at SWIFT since last year,  running the global reference data utility called SWIFTRef. Before that, he has been involved in various roles in strategy (in particular securities markets), product and partnership. Before joining SWIFT, he worked for JP Morgan and Euroclear Bank, managing the network of custodians banks and CSDs. Hervé holds a Master degree in Management Engineering (Commercial Engineer) from Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and holds various Certificates including one from the International Capital Market Association.  

Joe joined Fenergo in 2010 and is responsible for the overall delivery of product strategy and design across the Fenergo suite of applications. With a strong background in regulatory compliance solutions, Joe has deep banking and regulatory knowledge and maintains currency of knowledge in this ever-evolving industry by taking an active lead in Fenergo’s Client Advisory Boards and industry roundtables and forums. Prior to Fenergo, Joe spent four years working for Lloyds Banking Group and three years with Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Limited.  Joe holds a Master’s in Business Studies from UCD, Smurfit School of Business, a postgraduate Diploma in Business Systems Analysis and Bachelor of Commerce degree from National University of Ireland. 

Following a range of roles in Software Development, Dealing Room Support and Project management starting in 1988, Mauricio founded BCC Group back in 2003. From 2007 he focused the company on developing a vendor agnostic Market Data Messaging Platform based on Solace Systems Appliances together with investment banks. After 4 years of testing and redesign with joint forces from Solace Systems and Tier 1 Investment Banks BCC Group released FMDP which, as a result got certified by Bloomberg for connection to their data.

After a long career as Change Director and Strategist for major financial institutions, Silvano decided to focus his professional growth on the Impact of Regulatory Change on IT. His experience in bridging communication gaps between stakeholders is the basis of his style as a consultant and writer. Silvano joined Hatstand in June 2012 and is now global head of group research.

Mr. Tom Dalglish has been Head of Transformation Services of SmartStream Technologies ltd. since August 28, 2014. Mr. Dalglish has over 20 years of experience in the industry and is a recognised expert in databases, data strategies and reference data. Prior to joining SmartStream, he was the Global Head of transformation for iGATE, where he designed and deployed a major data utility strategy for the firm. Previous to this, he worked for UBS as Chief Technology Officer for Global Data Services running a newly formed enterprise data group. With extensive experience in banking and financial services, he has held senior management roles for enterprise reference data initiatives at Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His roles have included: Chief Information Architect, Enterprise Reference Data at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Executive Director, Enterprise Reference Data at J.P. Morgan/Bear Stearns.

Sean O’Dowd is the Global Financial Services Director at MapR. In this role, Sean focuses on industry strategy and working with financial services firms to advance big data projects. He has spent over 15 years focused on financial services and capital markets. He comes to MapR after several years with Teradata as their Capital Markets Director, driving analytic strategies with financial clients. Prior to, Sean was IDC Financial Insights' Director of Global Securities and Investment Management Service responsible for research, consulting and forecasts on the securities and investment management sector. His coverage spanned the market structure, regulations and technologies that impact the business models and strategies of financial markets firms (buy-side, sell-side, wealth management, custody, exchanges, and retail brokers). This was following almost ten years in consulting and research analyst positions within the investment management industry. His experience is in investment (equity) research and consulting (securities and real estate), securities valuation and portfolio analysis at his past firms JTC LLC, Ashton Partners and State Street. Mr. O'Dowd is a quoted source in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Institutional Investor, Wall Street Letter, Traders Magazine and Wall Street & Technology among others.

Alex co-founded Complinet in 1997 and was an integral part of the global leadership team until acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2010. Industry professionals in more than 1,900 firms across 81 countries rely on Complinet for ongoing analysis and solutions that help them keep pace with financial services regulation. Alex was responsible for designing the core compliance products, liaising with major investment banks and brokerages, and developing thought-leadership that meant Complinet’s services were at the forefront of the most progressive compliance cultures. Alex was previously a compliance officer at Baring Securities and a regulator at the UK’s FSA.

Stephen Ingle is the Global Product Lead for Derivatives at eClerx. Stephen formerly worked at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for their Prime Brokerage and OTC Clearing Product across Rates, Credit and FX. He was also responsible for ensuring compliance with Dodd-Frank, EMIR and MiFID2 for the Listed and Cleared OTC Derivative business. Prior to Deutsche, Stephen worked at BNY Mellon Asset Servicing as the Global Head of Derivatives Product, bringing to market BNY Mellon’s Derivatives 360SM proposition, and building their OTC Derivative valuation service which provides independent valuation for some of the world’s largest Asset Managers’ derivative portfolios. Outside of work Stephen enjoys tennis, cycling, chess and spending time with his family.

Jez Davies is a Solution Architect looking at product development within Bloomberg PolarLake.

Mr. Davies recently joined Bloomberg PolarLake after working as an Enterprise Architect on regulatory solutions for Investment Banks in the UK. Mr. Davies has a background in technology that has seen him develop trading systems, risk management systems and settlement systems with a foundation in risk modeling and analytic development.

Mr. Davies has a Physics degree from the University of Warwick and a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Engineering from the University of London.

Adam runs marketing for WorkFusion, the leading smart process automation and cognitive computing platform for the financial industry. He joined WorkFusion as the second “business guy” and first marketer in 2012 and has helped to grow the business 300% each year with the backing of Mohr Davidow Ventures, iNovia Capital, Greycroft Ventures, and RTP. Adam began his career in management consulting at BearingPoint’s (nee KPMG Consulting) Banking & Capital Markets practice and held officer roles in strategic planning at some of the highest caliber advertising agencies in New York City, including Droga5, Naked Communications, and McCann Erickson. He has authored numerous business and technical papers and speaks frequently about cognitive computing, smart process automation, and machine learning at financial industry conferences, including Data Management Summit, FIMA, FISD, MarketTech, NAFIS, NFAIS, and SIIA/FISD.

Andrew manages the sales and marketing for Curium, a fast growing data management technology solution that gives the business users within financial services firms greater process control and visibility over the implementation of data governance processes, particularly effective data quality management and advanced master data management.

Andrew has been with SWIFT since 2012. His current role is as a Senior Market Manager for SWIFTRef and he is based in the SWIFT London office. Before joining SWIFT, Andrew was a key member of the external team that designed, built and brought to market the SWIFTRef initiative for SWIFT. He has built up extensive experience in reference data:

• Part of the executive team that successfully built CB.Net business and brand, and completed the sale of the company to Accuity in Dec 2008 
• Project Leader delivering the EPC SEPA Register and EBA Priority Payments Repository Projects 
• Lead the negotiations to manage the Irish NSC system for CB.Net and managed the team that successfully delivered the system to IPSO. 
• A senior member of the Accuity executive responsible for partnerships and relationships with infrastructures and organisations 
• Part of team that designed and implemented the SWIFTRef platform 
• Project Leader for the SWIFTRef E1/S1 database project.
• Project Lead for UK SEPAIO project 
• Global Head of SWIFTRef vendor programme 

Specialties: The Payments landscape and its transformation within Europe. Payment systems and the impact of data on the efficient operations of payment back offices.