Advisory Board

Cornelia Andersson is Vice President of Research & Market Data at Blackstone, heading Research and Market Data Services for the firm globally. Ms Andersson manages Market Data, including vendor management, reporting, data analytics, and is responsible for providing best in class information and business intelligence services firm wide. Since joining Blackstone, Ms Andersson has also been involved in several bilateral projects, such as the redesign of internal client facing websites, process automation, reporting and applications.

Before joining Blackstone in 2007, Ms Andersson worked for Thomson Financial covering European private equity data. Ms Andersson received a Master's degree in Political Science from Lund University, Sweden.

Neels Vosloo is the Head of EMEA Regulatory Risk within Global Markets Risk Management at BAML. Before joining BAML, Neels headed up the Traded Risk Modelling team in Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in London. He has worked in risk modelling roles across market and counterparty risk, and has been a Senior Risk Specialist in the Traded Risk Department at the PRA, overseeing the transitions to both the CRD III and CRD IV / CRR regimes, and participating in drafting the first version of FRTB. Neels hold degrees in Mathematics, Philosophy, and Actuarial Science from the University of Pretoria.

Colin is a Regulatory Product Manager at BNY Mellon. He is responsible for ensuring that all products within Asset Servicing are compliant with upcoming regulations and serve our client’s needs to meet the regulatory requirements. He is focused on helping clients understand how they will be affected by upcoming regulations, including MIFID II, GDPR, MMFR etc, and how BNYM product solutions can assist them in ensuring compliance.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Colin spent 4 years working at Barclays initially as Industry & Regulatory Engagement Lead for Data Management, and then leading on the Impact Assessment for GDPR. Previously, he was Global Product Manager for Omgeo CTM responsible for developing the product to meet all client and regulatory requirements. He has also spent time at a number of leading Investment Bank institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Nomura, and Goldman Sachs, across a broad range of Data Management, Client Service and project management roles. 

Following graduation from the University of Birmingham and the completion of a post graduate diploma in Information Management I worked as a television researcher and Information Manager in the BBC Data department.  Whilst at the BBC I was selected for the US International Visitors Leadership Program.

In 1996 I moved into Investment Banking and joined a Corporate Finance Boutique and then Standard Bank working as a corporate finance researcher specialising in metals and mining. I was appointed the UK Information Manager at BNP Paribas in 2008 and was subsequently promoted to Global Market Data Procurement Manager.

I formed Source Data Ltd in 2017 and now provide Market Data Procurement and Business Information Consultancy services to the financial services sector. I am currently working with a UK banking group on a market data cost optimisation project following the completion of an industry first benchmark licensing compliance project. I have also recently worked as the sourcing lead on a project to roll out of market data terminals at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.

I have extensive market data and business information management, product and vendor experience including detailed knowledge of FTSE, Thomson Reuters, Moodys, Markit, Factset, Standard and Poors, Factiva, Fitch pricing models and services.

Suman Datta heads up the Portfolio Quantitative Research function within Lloyds Banking Group Markets division and is responsible for strategic cross-asset portfolio analytics covering FRTB, Prudential Valuation, Initial Margin, PnL Attribution and Stress Testing.

Suman also acts as the business/IT partner for architecting the next-generation risk and valuation platform to be used by trading, risk and finance functions. His background is in quantitative finance, technology and business strategy and key areas of interest are in bank regulation, digitisation and application of quantitative methods in new areas within finance

Francis Gross is Senior Adviser in the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank. His interests include developing vision and strategy for overcoming the dual disruption of rapid globalization and digitization, as well as designing and driving the implementation of concrete, feasible measures with transformational power to ultimately deliver measurement tools effective at the scale and speed of today’s finance, especially in a crisis. His immediate focus is on the “real world - data world” interface, primarily object identification. He serves on the Regulatory Oversight Committee of the Global LEI System (GLEIS) and has been instrumental in the emergence and development of the GLEIS. Prior to the ECB, Francis spent fifteen years in the automotive industry, eight of which at Mercedes, working mainly on globalisation, strategic alliances and business development. He holds an engineering degree from École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK

Beate Born has 17 years of experience in consulting and financial services in Switzerland, the EU, Australia and Asia including running her own consulting practice. She is currently Head of Global Business Management at SIX in Zürich and previously held the position of Head Strategic Programs at UBS Wealth Management.

Many of her 13 years at UBS she spent in Operational Risk and Capital Markets running global regulatory initiatives such as MiFID I&II as well as Brexit response and platform programs for Wealth Management. She is member of the leadership team of the Enterprise Data Management Council (EDMC) Women in Data Network and leads the ESG Regulatory and Standards Group.

In 2021 Beate completed a Master’s Degree in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge with a focus on ESG data reporting and carbon disclosure comparability.  Further Academic degrees include a DESS from the Sorbonne, an MBA from Clark University, an Executive MBA from the Swiss Finance Institute and a certificate of advanced studies in Financial Market Regulation from the University of Zürich.