2022 Agenda
Agenda
North American Financial Information Summit 2022
08:30 – 09:00
Registration and continental breakfast
09:00 – 09:05
09:05 – 09:20
Kick-off keynote: Data centricity as a guiding principle to enterprise outcomes in a changing world
Eric Hirschhorn is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) of BNY Mellon. He is part of the Global Operations and Technology Executive Committee and reports to the firms CIO, Bridget Engle. As CDO, Eric is focused on digital transformation, operational efficiency, artificial intelligence/machine learning, regulation and helping the firm evolve to become data driven by design.
Before joining BNY Mellon, Eric was the Chief Information Officer for Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners. Prior to Cantor, he spent several years in various senior roles on Wall Street, most recently as Managing Director of Global Fixed Income eTrading & Rates Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Prior to Bank of America, Eric was at Morgan Stanley serving as CTO of Fixed Income, at Citi where he ran Global FX technology, at Lehman where he was responsible for Global Fixed Income eTrading, and at JPMorgan Chase where he ran International Treasury technology. His professional life has taken him around the world including several years living in London. Eric is an authority on how technology drives transformation in financial markets. He has been involved in various industry working groups.
Eric graduated Cooper Union in 1989. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering and current serves as Vice Chair of the Board Trustees at the Cooper Union. Eric lives in New Jersey with his wife, Hillary, and their two children.
09:20 – 09:40
Fireside chat: Big Tech & Exchanges: The future is here
- What benefits can market participants expect in the near term and in the long run?
- What are some of the anticipated challenges associated with this transition?
- As a user of these services what should they plan for going forward?
- Will we see a day when everything from trade matching to multicasting are done in the cloud?
Bill Dague leads the development and growth of Nasdaq Data Link, a technology platform designed to empower all segments of the investing public with a comprehensive suite of core financial, fund and alternative data.
Nasdaq Data Link is a unified source of trusted data and analytics that enables users to efficiently discover and integrate market intelligence into their investment strategies. The platform connects the global financial community to the information needed to generate alpha, manage risk and gain transparency into public and private markets. The platform also provides end-to-end data management services, as well as infrastructure that enables users to privately share proprietary data, manage data access and monitor data quality over time within a single organization.
Prior to this role, Bill led Nasdaq’s alternative data research (including teams from the Quandl acquisition). Bill and his team applied leading-edge technologies such as deep learning to create new solutions for traditional and alternative asset managers, and quant trading groups.
Formerly the Director of Data Science, with a deep background in software engineering, he focused on putting alternative data to work on financial problems using machine intelligence. Bill is particularly interested in applications of deep reinforcement learning and complex systems analysis to financial markets. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a management degree from the Wharton School of Business.
09:40 – 10:15
Panel: Market consolidation: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Looking at consolidation in the market data space, in what ways will end users benefit, and what are the hidden pitfalls?
- Where do vendors most often go wrong when integrating new systems & data products?
- From a contract & licensing perspective, what do end-users need to keep in mind after an acquisition?
Barry has recently joined TickSmith Corp as its Head of Data Practice. TickSmith is a cloud-based data and commerce platform that transforms data distribution and monetization, making it possible for companies to easily package data products and launch private marketplaces. His role is to provide guidance to clients and prospects on the many aspects of data commercialization, such as licensing structure, to insure that TickSmith’s clients are successful in their new data businesses.
Prior to this position, he was the Managing Director of the Market Data Services practice for Jordan & Jordan (J&J), a New York-based consulting firm. He has extensive expertise in market and reference data across the securities industry. His in-depth market data experience and network relationships enable him to provide clients with a wide range of consultative services based on clients’ requirements. Among his achievements at J&J, he led a global implementation initiative for a multi-faceted messaging system for a large investment bank. Barry is the recipient of the 2017 FISD Lifetime Achievement Award.
Before he joined J&J, Barry spent 28 years as the Managing Director of the Americas for SIX Financial Information and performed a similar role at GBST, a financial software firm. Barry is a member of the Inside Market Data Hall of Fame and has been a frequent industry panelist and speaker at various venues across the globe. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Buffalo.
He currently resides in Oceanside, California with his wife, Pamela, and they have two adult sons. He enjoys golfing, biking and travel.
10:15 – 10:35
Spirited Discussion: Whose data is it anyway?
A discussion of data fees, data pricing and regulation in the US market. How can the industry arrive at a fair model for valuing, pricing and licensing data?
Max is editor-at-large at WatersTechnology. Max is editor of Inside Market Data and Inside Data Management. Max joined then-Risk Waters Group (prior to its acquisition by Incisive Media) in 2000, and has worked as a reporter on Risk Magazine, FX Week, Trading Technology Week (now Sell-Side Technology) and Buy-Side IT (now Buy-Side Technology), before joining IMD as European reporter in 2003. He moved to New York as US reporter in 2005, and became editor in 2006.
Max lives in Astoria, New York with his wife and twin girls, and enjoys playing rock music, wine tastings, and market data.
Senior Market Data Advisor for Interactive Brokers LLC with the organization for over six and a half years. In the securities industry for 51 years. 15 years with companies containing the name Morgan in New York, the Institutional Representative for the CTA Advisory Committee. Prior to New York investment banks, I spent 18 months in Egypt consulting for the Egyptian Capital Markets Authority and the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. 17 years Senior Vice President at the Boston Stock Exchange, managing the trading floor, corporate communications and acting as a Participant to the Consolidated Tape Association. My first introduction to the industry was working Merrill Lynch while putting myself through both undergraduate and graduate degree programs at Suffolk University in Boston.
My goal is to utilize my experience with exchanges and data providers, and leverage my relationships in the market data industry to expand the uses of information while reducing or eliminating administrative burdens.
10:35 – 11:05
Networking morning break and opportunity to meet and quiz the speakers at the 'Off the Record Q&A Lounge'
11:05 – 11:35
Panel: Data governance in the age of cloud: shifting strategies
- How do you audit third parties, test operational resilience, and address security and privacy concerns?
- How do you make sure everyone in the organization can access the data they need?
- How do you achieve interoperability between applications or cloud providers in a multi-cloud environment?
Dessa advises clients in the areas of data, analytics and risk. She has a 25-year proven track record successfully designing and executing global innovative solutions, often influencing a Board or Operating Committee. She built the Chief Data Office for JPMorgan Chase Asset Management, serving as the first CDO, and initiated the Capital Stress Testing Analytics team for JPMorgan Chase. She was Deputy Director of the Office of Financial Research (US Treasury), responsible for data, international standards (including the Legal Entity Identifier, LEI), analytics and technology and building the Office. As the first CRO, she launched the Chief Risk Office for Bunge. Dessa has held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM and KPMG. She began her career teaching finance at Rutgers University. Dessa has a Ph. D. and MA in Economics from Fordham University and serves on the advisory Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She has a BS in Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University and was co-president of the Women's Bond Club of NY.
Hiroki is the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Audit for Operations Engineering for Goldman Sachs and responsible for driving strategic initiatives, audit planning and resourcing, regulatory interactions, continuous monitoring, and audit projects. His global audit portfolio focuses on a variety of risks and controls related to the technology eco-system that supports pre- and post- trade execution functions, including data governance and management, client on-boarding, trade processing and settlement, treasury, margin, collateral & client valuations, asset servicing, and regulatory/tax reporting and monitoring. Prior to his current role, he was a head of Americas Operations Technology Audit. Before that, Hiroki was responsible for technology audit for Asia in Tokyo, Japan.
He joined Goldman Sachs in 2008, was named Vice President in 2012 and Senior Audit Manager in 2018. Prior to joining the firm, Hiroki worked at Ernst & Young and at Oracle in Tokyo, Japan. Hiroki earned a B.S. in Photonics Engineering from Ritsumeikan University in Japan in 2002.
He has been a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) since 2006 and became a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder in 2022. He is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), CFA Institute and CFA Society New York.
Sumanda Basu is currently leading Data Quality and Controls for Société Générale Americas. He was previously responsible for data governance and data management technology. Before joining Socgen, Sumanda had several data and technology management leadership roles in JP Morgan Chase, Citi and HSBC.
Ethan Shen is a Managing Partner at Crizit, a technology specialist in Market Data Management and Analytics. He is head of product development and research, with over a decade of experience delivering monitoring, optimization, and data distribution solutions to Tier 1 Asset Management firms. Prior to co-founding Crizit, Ethan served as a vendor systems analyst and Bloomberg data specialist at consultancies based in New York, London and Vienna. Ethan is based in New York City, earned his Masters in Information Science from U of Washington, but will always be a Texan at heart.
Tom is an accomplished Data Management and IT professional with over 20 years of management experience. He is considered a thought leader in the Data Management space and has built the Global Data Management practices at two of the largest financial institutions. His experience spans managing bank consolidations and conversions, global IT
transformation and Innovation initiatives, as well as standing up Centers of Excellence around Data management, Operations and Technology services.
He spearheaded the Basel II Data Quality reporting to the Board of Directors as well as developed targeted Corporate KPIs which were used to manage the Liquidity and Capital Ratio of the firm. He also built the global Big Data Shared service supporting advanced analytics to effect expense reduction and revenue growth
11:35 – 12:10
12:10 – 12:35
Panel: Mo’ vendors, mo’ problems. Building, managing, and optimizing multi-vendor environments
- Strategic purpose: the resiliency and competitive sourcing benefits of multi-vendor strategies. Are they really cheaper and more reliable?
- People problem: Managing multiple vendors requires more vendor management professionals, yet firms are reducing their numbers. What tools and approaches can make this easier?
- Will standardized cloud data delivery options make it easier for firms to manage multiple vendors and licenses via a single channel?
- New normal: The implications for data professionals of vendor and exchange consolidation, the growth of new startup vendors, and increasingly complex licenses, on creating and maintaining a balanced multi-vendor strategy.
Max is editor-at-large at WatersTechnology. Max is editor of Inside Market Data and Inside Data Management. Max joined then-Risk Waters Group (prior to its acquisition by Incisive Media) in 2000, and has worked as a reporter on Risk Magazine, FX Week, Trading Technology Week (now Sell-Side Technology) and Buy-Side IT (now Buy-Side Technology), before joining IMD as European reporter in 2003. He moved to New York as US reporter in 2005, and became editor in 2006.
Max lives in Astoria, New York with his wife and twin girls, and enjoys playing rock music, wine tastings, and market data.
John Bottega is a senior data management strategist and executive with over 40 years of experience in the finance industry. Over his career, John has held various roles in supporting an organization’s data strategy and data implementation objectives. In 2006, John became one of the first Chief Data Officers in finance with his appointment as CDO at Citibank. He went on to hold the role of CDO in both the public and private sectors, serving as CDO for Bank of America, and holding the post of CDO for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
As the former Chief Data Officer at Bank of America, John was responsible for driving the enterprise data management strategy. This included championing the data management policy and standards, establishing and operationalizing data governance, working with technology to define the data platform, infrastructure and tool simplification, and supporting the bank's data scientist team in their efforts to drive improved information analytics.
As the Chief Data Officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), John worked with domestic and foreign regulators on financial sector data management and data quality. While at FRBNY, John led the effort to define and establish the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier), a global information standard for unique entity identification, key to enabling and strengthening systemic risk analysis in support of global financial stability. John also served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), an agency established by the Dodd-Frank Act within the US Department of the Treasury, responsible for the analysis and monitoring of industry-wide systemic risk.
Today, John is the President of the EDM Council, a non-profit professional trade association, focused on elevating the practice of data management through best practices, data standards, research and education. The EDM Council supports over 250 organizations comprised of over 10,000 members, helping them successfully advance their data programs within their firms, while creating a global network for data management community collaboration.
John has been a frequent speaker for over 20 years at industry conferences and industry symposiums. He is a former member of the US Department of the Treasury, Financial Research Advisory Committee to the Office of Financial Research; a current member of the Data Coalition Financial Transparency Act Task Force; Data Coalition Open Data Standards Task Force; CPA-Canada Data Governance Committee; WatersTechnology Advisory Board member; member of the Advisory Board of NewVantage Partners, and member of the Board of Directors of ACTUS, a non-profit association focused on the improvement of systemic risk monitoring and financial market transparency.
Andrew Foster, C.F.A., is the Chief Data Officer at M&T Bank. As CDO, he leads data strategy and governance, as well as the development and delivery of platforms, tools, and methodologies to enable M&T to harness the full potential of its data to continuously meet the evolving needs of customers and communities. He also partners with multidisciplinary teams across the organization to drive data-driven outcomes to support customer experience, business resilience, performance optimization, and growth.
Foster brings over 20 years of experience leading data, automation, and innovation organizations in the financial services industry, most recently as Deputy Chief Data Officer (Americas) and Head of Data Governance at Deutsche Bank in New York. He previously held leadership positions at Europe Arab Bank (EAB) PLC and Arab Bank PLC, both in London.
Committed to pursuing greater inclusion in the fields of data and technology, Foster has consistently advocated for women in data management, serving in volunteer leadership and outreach roles for Women Data Professionals, the gender diversity arm of EDM Council, a leading global trade association for data and analytics management.
A native of South Africa whose career has taken him through London and New York, Foster works at M&T Bank’s Tech Hub at Seneca One in Buffalo, New York. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, specializing in Finance, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has participated in executive leadership programs through the London Business School.
12:35 – 01:40
Networking lunch and opportunity to visit exhibition hall
12:35 – 01:40
Cornerstone Leadership Forum - Invite Only
Overcoming common hurdles in interoperability: what do we need and what can we learn from our peers?
- What are the best practices when implementing API services?
- Where are bottlenecks typically seen and how can we better manage and overcome them?
- When budgeting for projects what should you look out for and plan for?
- How can you maintain expectations with stakeholders?
Sakshi Sharma has over 12 years of multi-platform professional journalism experience as a financial news editor and reporter at global news organizations in New York, London and Mumbai at Euromoney, CNBC and Bloomberg. Over the past ten years she specialized in infrastructure and energy finance news across the Americas with a deep understanding of financial markets, project finance, asset management, institutional investors, capital markets and various debt & equity instruments. In her current role, as Americas commercial content lead and an editor with Infopro Digital’s Ignite team, she provides financial industry clients with compelling thought leadership content across its brands - Risk.net and WatersTechnology.
01:40 – 02:00
Guest Address: “Driving Our Business Edge”
Tigress Financial Partners made history at the New York Stock Exchange after becoming the first disabled and woman-owned pit brokers in the marketplace. During her keynote speech, Founder and CEO Cynthia DiBartolo will talk about the challenging journey towards this historic breakthrough, and what it means for the financial services industry and its efforts towards diversity and inclusion. Understand how the financial services community can continue to diversify and be better able to deliver value for customers and employees alike.
CEO of Tigress Financial Partners (Disabled & Woman-Owned Financial Services Firm)
CEO of RISE Financial Services (Woman-Owned Prime Broker)
She guides the overall strategy and direction of both of these firms where she has parlayed her extensive corporate and securities experience into a new generation of mission-driven financial services firms. In her professional life, Cynthia has nearly 40 years of accomplishment-laden practice working in finance. She spent more than two decades aligned with Fortune 500 companies, driving achievements in revenue growth, brand expansion and new offerings. Her ability to set the overall vision and strategy for a company propelled her career at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Smith Barney-Morgan Stanley and Citigroup. Her impressive track record in sales, compliance and risk management contributed significantly to the firms’ profitability. In 2009, she become suddenly disabled after a battle with recurrent head and neck, this prompted her to found Tigress Financial Partners, the nation’s only disabled and woman-owned and operated financial services firm. Tigress is a fully licensed investment bank, broker dealer, NYSE floor broker and registered investment advisor dedicated to the principles of diversity and inclusion. Tigress offers Proprietary Research, Investment Banking, Sales & Trading, Capital Markets, Asset Management and Wealth Management services. Tigress offers distribution to institutional and high-net worth clients in more than 23 countries, with over 30,000 accounts and $17.6 billion in Assets Under Management. In March 2021, StoneX Capital Inc, a Fortune 100 Company, purchased a minority stake in Tigress. In partnership with StoneX, Tigress and its clients will benefit from StoneX's global reach, broad product range, and best-in-class technology.
In July 2021, Cynthia and Tigress Financial Partners made history becoming the first disabled and woman owned floor broker and member of the New York Stock Exchange in the Big Board’s 229-yr history. In November 2021, Cynthia launched RISE Financial Services the only diversity Prime Broker, woman-owned and operated specialized in offering a comprehensive suite of prime brokerage services aligned with the growing mission driven Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) initiatives of institutional investors. RISE offers a patented next generation global cap introduction platform called FUEL, which propel capital raising.
Cynthia was profiled by Forbes in their CEO Series in an article entitled “A Tigress in a Shark Tank.” Forbes described Cynthia as "one tenacious Tigress…her father’s words inspired her to pick herself up from tragedy and start a business. Both the woman and her story are unique, amazing and forcefully inspiring." Cynthia is committed to paying it forward. Cynthia holds extensive outside business affiliations. She serves as Chairperson of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Steering Committee for Financial Services, under the appointment of Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. She is the Founder & Chairperson of the Diversity Broker- Dealer & Asset Management Coalition, an advocacy and thought leadership group that strives for best practices in diversity and inclusion on behalf all certified diverse Broker-Dealers & Asset Managers. She was selected to the Executive Task Force for The Wall Street Journal: Women in the Economy, a select group of 200 influential CEOs, luminaries and subject- matter experts, chosen to create a business-based, action plan to address making better use of female talent to promote economic growth. She is currently Vice President of the Women’s Syndicate Association.
Cynthia was a Business Leader to the White House Business Council for the Obama Administration. She shared the panel at the Comptrollers Summit with along with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer to discuss advancing diversity and inclusion in financial services. Cynthia previously served as a Business Leader for New York State Governor’s Ten Points-Women’s Initiative, which aims to break down barriers to women's full participation in society and create a positive and sustainable meritocracy in business. She served as the leading business advocate for the NYC and NYS Minimum Wage Increase speaking before the Governor and members of the Senate, as well as, the Mayor of New York City. As part of her mission, Cynthia provided Testimony to the Independent Democratic Conference of New York State on the issue of Campaign Finance Reform.
She was the previous recipient of the Common Cause Champion of Democracy Award. Common Cause and it's over 400,000 members are one of the most effective and respected organizations working for political change in America, seeking to restore the core values of American democracy and empower ordinary people to make their voices heard in the political process. She was the previous recipient of the Distinguished Leadership Award from A Better Balance, a national organization dedicated to advancing the rights of working families. Cynthia has written numerous op-ed articles that have been published in the NY TIMES, NY Times Digest and TIMES UNION on “Campaign Finance Reform”, “Providing Access to Capital for Small Business", “Increasing Minimum Wage” “Pregnant Workers Fairness Act” and “Women’s Equality”. Cynthia testified before House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Representative Carolyn Maloney on Paid Family Medical Insurance Leave.
She participated along with Senator Kristen Gillibrand in the Women’s Economic Empowerment Summit. Cynthia provided testimony before a Congressional Briefing hosted by Senator Robert Casey, Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Jerry Nadler on Making Pregnancy Discrimination a Thing of the Past: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act at 35 & the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, as well as, providing testimony to the Independent Democratic Conference of the New York State Senate Hearing on “Restoring the Voters’ Trust in New York State Government”. Cynthia was invited by Rev. Jessie L. Jackson, Sr., to serve as Chairperson for the Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit and remains in that role for more than 10 years. She was also selected to serve on the Small Business Majority Summit at the White House. Cynthia testified at the White House on Campaign Finance Reform before the White House Office of Public Engagement and participated in the White House Leadership Summit along with Valarie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President and Ambassador Robert Holleyman, Deputy United States Trade Representative with respect to International Trade Policy.
Cynthia is among the fifty Wall Street seasoned professionals profiled in the book Transforming Wall Street: A Conscious Path for a New Future. The book combines fresh insight, intelligence and experience from fifty leading Wall Street luminaries, together with a panel of academic experts and Teachers of Consciousness. Cynthia recently served as the inspirational keynote speaker on Resiliency for Morgan Stanley, Bloomberg LP, TIA, Caterpillar, Guggenheim Partners, Cognizant Technologies, and for numerous Unions, Public Pensions and Fortune 500 companies. She was Counsel to Eaton & Van Winkle, LLP and is currently on the Board of Consultors for Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law.
Cynthia was recently appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASP) and was named a Member of BNY Mellon | Pershing Minority Business Enterprise Council, as well as a Member of the Board of Directors of Siebert Financial Corp (NASDAQ: SIEB). Cynthia was named an alt Congressional Nominee to West Point Military Academy. She attended Wagner College on Scholarship, graduating with Honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Theatre and went on to earn a Juris Doctorate from Villanova University, School of Law. She holds FINRA Series SIE, 7, 24, 63 and 99 Licenses. She was admitted to the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut State Bars.
02:00 – 02:35
Panel: Building castles in the sky - How the Cloud offers a step change in analytics
- How are cloud technologies helping in 2022 to scale analytics?
- What do you need from your cloud provider to ensure consistency, speed, and scalability?
- How do you integrate data from multiple sources and make it more usable for these purposes?
Co-Founder and served as first Chairman and active Board member since inception in 2005. The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council is the leading global association for data management and analytics executives with over 250 member firms and 10,000 professionals. The Board of Directors includes CDO’s and Analytics leaders from the largest digital firms (AWS, Microsoft, Google) and leading global Fortune 1000 firms cross industry.
Lead EDM Council operations to include global industry engagement strategy, new member services and operations guidance in support of adoption of strategic best practice work products to include DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model) and CDMC (Cloud Data Management Capabilities) data standards with comprehensive training and eLearning certification programs. Since joining full time in 2015 have led the 300% growth in global membership.
Julia is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, CEO of Data4Real, LLC, a Board Advisor to several startups and Chair of Technology Advisory Council of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA).
She is a recognized thought leader in data driven digital transformation with over 25 years of experience in building technology and business capabilities that enable business growth, innovation, and agility. Julia has led transformational initiatives in many financial services companies such as Voya Financial, Deutsche Bank Citi, FINRA, Freddie Mac, and others.
Julia is a much sought-after speaker and mentor in the industry, and she has received recognition across the industry for her significant contributions. She has been named to engatica 2023 list of World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators; received 2022 WLDA Changemaker in AI award; has been named to CDO Magazine’s List of Global Data Power Women three years in the row; named Top 150 Business Transformation Leader by Constellation Research in 2019; and recognized as the Best Data Management Practitioner by A-Team Data Management Insight in 2017.
She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University.
Simon Letort is the Chief Digital Officer & Head of Innovation for Societe Generale Americas. In his role Simon orchestrates SG Americas technology strategy with a focus on client platforms, public cloud, data science, and DLT.
Simon joined Societe Generale in 2001, initially in Equity Capital Markets. In 2003, he moved to NY as Quant for the risk division. In 2005, he joined the Equity Derivatives department as financial engineer. He was appointed head of Equity Product Design in 2007 and head of Cross-Asset Product Design, covering Equity, Rates, FX, CTY and hybrids in 2009. In 2012, Simon moved to Sao Paulo as co-head of the Global Markets division for Brazil. In 2015, he returned to New York as head of Financial Engineering for the Americas. He was named Chief Digital Officer for the Americas in 2017.
Simon holds an M.Sc. in financial mathematics from Ecole Centrale Paris.
Cory Albert serves as Global Head of Bloomberg's Real-Time data business. Flagship products in this business include Bloomberg's real-time market data feed, B-PIPE, the Bloomberg Desktop API, Bloomberg Server API, and Event Driven Feeds for Bloomberg News and Analytics. These products power desktops, work-groups, and entire enterprises across the capital markets community by balancing high quality content with high performance, and lightweight technology. Cory's key areas of focus include product strategy and development, as well as building strategic alliances with capital markets ISV's and technology partners; including cloud service providers.
Hired in 2002, Cory has held numerous positions at Bloomberg including Global Head of Cloud Strategy for Enterprise Data, Head of Strategic Partnerships for Enterprise Solutions, Head of Product Development for Real Time Technology, and numerous roles in technical product development and software engineering.
Prior to joining Bloomberg LP, Cory worked for the Securities Industry Automation Corporation as a senior consultant in the NYSE Product Planning and Management division. Throughout his career, Cory has leveraged a balance of business and technical expertise to help develop financial applications or find ways for financial applications to leverage data.
Cory holds a B.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a M.S. in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University.
02:35 – 03:10
Panel – Panel Discussion – a practitioner's viewpoint: Moving the use of ML and AI to the top of your agenda – critical factors to successful implementation
- How quickly can you spin out the model and make it work?
- Understanding what your hit ratio and success criteria should be
- How to make ML a safe bet – learning from mistakes
- What constitutes agility in this area?
Dessa Glasser is FRG’s Principal for the data strategy advisory and analytics practice, providing innovative solutions to clients in data, risk, and analytics. She is an independent board member of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc; and chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).
Before joining FRG, Dessa was the Managing director at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for the Capital Stress Testing Analytics and was the Chief data officer for Asset and Wealth Management. As Deputy director of the Office of Financial Research, she received the US Treasury Exceptional Service Award. Dessa was the Chief risk officer for Bunge and held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and KPMG.
Dessa has a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Fordham University, where she is on the advisory board for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Lory is a data science director for wealth management technology, responsible for leading global AI initiatives at JPMorgan. As a former law intern, software engineer, business intelligence analyst, research scientist and as "engineer one" of a start-up, she brings a unique perspective on data projects. This diversity of experience has driven her to make data science accessible for everybody. She holds multiple patents in AI applications, and is a published technical author and an international speaker for Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Lory was named the 2021 Data Science Professional of the Year at the WatersTechnology Women in Data and Technology Awards. Lory holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of San Carlos in the Philippines.
Pablo is an Executive within BNY Mellon’s Advanced Solutions group and manages the portfolio of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) initiatives across the company globally.
Advanced Solutions offers enterprise AI/ML capabilities and has developed solutions across 8 BNY Mellon’s businesses, including predictive analytics, automation, risk management and natural language processing.
Previously, Pablo was a Strategy and Innovation consultant at Deloitte, helping clients across multiple industries drive revenue growth, create products leveraging emerging digital technologies and become more customer centric and innovative.
Pablo also led software development and technology projects for Teletech Holdings, a business process outsourcing company, and ran an e-learning startup.
Pablo holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology.
Suryakant is a Technology Leader with 23+ years’ experience designing and delivering Enterprise Data & Service solutions across a broad spectrum of businesses in the financial and capital markets space. He is currently leading a multi-year Initiative for migration of On-Prem Warehouse & Analytics Sandbox to Cloud (Azure)
Highly entrepreneurial, with a proven track record to build and motivate high performing teams, develop strong business partnerships and lead large, globally diverse teams with transformational programs.
Successfully established modern data and analytics practice as a component of traditional IT landscape including adoption & advancement of the Big Data platform strategy supporting large scale analytics programs like NBA, AI and Machine Learning.
03:10 – 03:35
Networking break
03:35 – 04:05
Panel: innovation in data delivery systems
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We know the three most important elements in organization tread formation is people process and technology. What does this mean in data delivery innovation?
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Examining the major challenges of transitioning to the Cloud
- What lessons have financial firms learned from their initial efforts using innovation technologies to deliver data to end-users in more efficient ways?
Steve O'Bott
Global head of investment and financial data architecture, Chief data architect
Vanguard
Steve is known a passionate chief data architect who is recognized as a business leader with a wide-range of experience in large enterprises architecting, designing and managing data in effective ways that produce meaningful business outcomes to grow new revenue, increase operational efficiency, and lower business risk.
Business leaders seek Steve out for his real world experience, industry perspective and insights to develop innovative data designs and they rely on him to deliver global data solutions in the cloud as well as in integrated hybrid environments.
Steve is known for his executive presence, ability to make decisions, and track record for getting things to the finish line. He put his thoughts into compelling stories to effectively communicate to senior business and technical leaders across an organization.
As a leader Steve sees the unique qualities of each person and is adept at figuring out how people who are different can be intentionally inclusive and work collaboratively to get things done.
Specialties:
* Data Platform and Architecture - Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Database Architecture, High Availability, Resiliency, Multi-Region, Scalability, Capacity Planning, Multi-Tenancy
* Architecture & Process Frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, CMM / CMMI DMM, DAMA / DMBOK, Six Sigma, COBIT, ITIL, ITSM
* Data Management Strategies: Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Quality, Data Modeling and Design, Database Engineering, Master Data Management, Metadata Management
* Date Store Technologies: AWS (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Neptune, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Keyspaces); PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCP (Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable), Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Aerospike, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra
* Data Analytics Technologies: AWS (S3, Glue ETL, Glue Catalog, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, Quicksight, FinSpace, Data Exchange); GCP (Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Spanner, Data Catalog), Tableau, Hadoop, HBase, IBM Netezza
Experienced Technology Program Manager / Executive focused on Digital Projects in Financial Services Sector. Career spanning from analytical and technical roles in Operations and IT to managing Communications Americas Surveillance IT both in a consulting role and as part of financial services firms.
Successfully led multiple regional and global projects and specializing in building disciplined and high performing agile teams from the ground up, delivering on business / regulatory critical projects.
Mark is the Chief Technology Officer of Crux, overseeing Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Operations, and Information Technology initiatives. Mark started his career at Logica, a UK software house, and later worked at J.P. Morgan, where he built major systems across the firm as well as headed their distributed computing group globally. Joining Goldman Sachs in the mid 2000’s, Mark led their infrastructure group in EMEA prior to leading the Application Systems Infrastructure group that established virtualization within the firm and led to the development of the Goldman private cloud. Leaving the firm in 2015 to help bring a trading spin-off to market, Mark joined Thomson Reuters through acquisition in 2017. Prior to joining Crux, he was the Global Head of Trading Technology at Refinitiv. Mark lives in New York with his wife Louise, has three children, and loves travel and skiing.
04:05 – 04:25
Fireside Chat - Part I: A strategic overview of ESG data
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How do the challenges of sourcing and stewarding ESG dovetail with enterprise data management challenges more generally?
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Climate risk is top of mind for many in the industry. How is climate risk being assessed now? What are the key elements within data and models clients need to have to effectively account for climate risk?
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Regulations like SFDR represent more hurdles for firms in disclosures, not to mention that SFDR reports overlap with those of other regulations, like Priips, and there is no harmonization with regimes across the world. How do you address these issues?
Max is editor-at-large at WatersTechnology. Max is editor of Inside Market Data and Inside Data Management. Max joined then-Risk Waters Group (prior to its acquisition by Incisive Media) in 2000, and has worked as a reporter on Risk Magazine, FX Week, Trading Technology Week (now Sell-Side Technology) and Buy-Side IT (now Buy-Side Technology), before joining IMD as European reporter in 2003. He moved to New York as US reporter in 2005, and became editor in 2006.
Max lives in Astoria, New York with his wife and twin girls, and enjoys playing rock music, wine tastings, and market data.
Brad Foster joined Bloomberg in June 2017 and manages the Data Content group within Enterprise Data.
Brad is focused on transforming how financial firms consume and use data by providing the most comprehensive, high quality and complete enterprise content offering to customers. In his role, Brad has a global remit that includes Reference Data, Regulatory & Accounting Products, Risk & Investment Data Analytics, including Bloomberg’s Liquidity Assessment (LQA) product, ESG & Climate Risk data and Exchange and Contributed Pricing.
Prior to joining Bloomberg, Brad spent almost 20 years on the sell-side in multiple locations including London, Tokyo and New York. He worked at Deutsche Bank as a Managing Director in trading and was responsible for various front office desks across debt, FX and credit trading, front office risk management where he managed a team that built cross-product risk, margin and portfolio analytics and looked after regulatory initiatives including Basel III / CRD IV and Dodd-Frank Uncleared Margin. Prior to Deutsche Bank he was at Credit Suisse First Boston in the market risk management group.
04:25 – 05:00
Panel - Part II: ESG data – how do you make sense of it?
- Examining ambiguity around classifications and vendors new offerings
- Understanding the criteria to use when selecting ESG vendors
- What the proposition should be when delivering value to the business
- Real life examples from providers and consumers – issues and challenges
John Bottega is a senior data management strategist and executive with over 40 years of experience in the finance industry. Over his career, John has held various roles in supporting an organization’s data strategy and data implementation objectives. In 2006, John became one of the first Chief Data Officers in finance with his appointment as CDO at Citibank. He went on to hold the role of CDO in both the public and private sectors, serving as CDO for Bank of America, and holding the post of CDO for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
As the former Chief Data Officer at Bank of America, John was responsible for driving the enterprise data management strategy. This included championing the data management policy and standards, establishing and operationalizing data governance, working with technology to define the data platform, infrastructure and tool simplification, and supporting the bank's data scientist team in their efforts to drive improved information analytics.
As the Chief Data Officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), John worked with domestic and foreign regulators on financial sector data management and data quality. While at FRBNY, John led the effort to define and establish the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier), a global information standard for unique entity identification, key to enabling and strengthening systemic risk analysis in support of global financial stability. John also served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), an agency established by the Dodd-Frank Act within the US Department of the Treasury, responsible for the analysis and monitoring of industry-wide systemic risk.
Today, John is the President of the EDM Council, a non-profit professional trade association, focused on elevating the practice of data management through best practices, data standards, research and education. The EDM Council supports over 250 organizations comprised of over 10,000 members, helping them successfully advance their data programs within their firms, while creating a global network for data management community collaboration.
John has been a frequent speaker for over 20 years at industry conferences and industry symposiums. He is a former member of the US Department of the Treasury, Financial Research Advisory Committee to the Office of Financial Research; a current member of the Data Coalition Financial Transparency Act Task Force; Data Coalition Open Data Standards Task Force; CPA-Canada Data Governance Committee; WatersTechnology Advisory Board member; member of the Advisory Board of NewVantage Partners, and member of the Board of Directors of ACTUS, a non-profit association focused on the improvement of systemic risk monitoring and financial market transparency
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.
Since joining SG in 2009, he has held a range of positions. Currently, he is the Chief Data Officer, SG Americas, with responsibility for data management and governance within the Region. This function is responsible for implementing the requirements of BCBS 239, establishing sound data governance framework that meets Group needs and local supervisory expectations, and creating a solid platform for the data to be leveraged for strategic business decisions. Prior to that, he headed up the Project Management Office for the SG US Transformation project. SG roles before that included Deputy CFO of the Americas Region of their Corporate & Investment Bank and Head of Finance Offshoring in SG Bangalore.
Prior to joining SG, Bala was with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) for fourteen years in a range of positions in Toronto and New York. As Senior Vice President of the Wholesale North America Finance, he headed up the controllership function for CIBC’s World Markets and Treasury & Risk Management Strategic Business Units within North America. With a global team across Toronto and New York, he was responsible for establishing a SOX-compliant industry-leading Finance control environment as well as supporting the efficient execution of business initiatives and managing the Finance related US regulatory relationships during a very demanding period. Prior to that, he also had stints as the business-line controller for the Bank's US origination businesses (Corporate Lending, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking, Structured Finance, and High Yield), as well as the 2/ic to the Chief Accountant, with responsibility for consolidated financial, management and regulatory reporting at the corporate level.
Born and brought up in Mumbai India, Bala has a degree in mathematics from the University of Mumbai and holds professional accounting qualifications from both India and the United States. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey is married with two children, and enjoys long-distance running.
A result-oriented leader with proven business acumen and relationship building skills who partners with stakeholders to identify value creation opportunities, develop pragmatic solutions and supports their execution. Over 17 years of experience in data and analytics leading data strategy, org design, operating model, strategic planning, data operations, data privacy, platforms and tooling, data security, data quality, data sourcing and Information Technology (IT) roadmap.
Michael Chiappinelli is Managing Director of SESAMm North America. With 20 years of institutional sales experience in financial services, information technology, trading technology, and alternative data, Michael has the expertise and deep knowledge in complex financial products and services for quantitative hedge funds, asset managers, and global financial institutions.
Previously, Michael worked at financial services companies such as TIM and StarMine (acquired by Thomson Reuters) among others.
05:00 – 05:30
Champagne Roundtables
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End the day informally as you regroup with your peers and discuss next steps on the following topics:
Navigating the choppy seas of ESG
- Bala Ayyar, Chief Data Officer, Americas, Société General
Accelerating Trusted Cloud Adoption with CDMC Industry Framework
- Mike Meriton, COO, EDM Council
How Do You Establish the Value of Data
- Bill Lee, Senior Market Data Adviser, Interactive Brokers Group
Innovation in Data Delivery
- Yinghua Zhou, Head of Enterprise Data Governance Capability and Control, BNY Mellon
Since joining SG in 2009, he has held a range of positions. Currently, he is the Chief Data Officer, SG Americas, with responsibility for data management and governance within the Region. This function is responsible for implementing the requirements of BCBS 239, establishing sound data governance framework that meets Group needs and local supervisory expectations, and creating a solid platform for the data to be leveraged for strategic business decisions. Prior to that, he headed up the Project Management Office for the SG US Transformation project. SG roles before that included Deputy CFO of the Americas Region of their Corporate & Investment Bank and Head of Finance Offshoring in SG Bangalore.
Prior to joining SG, Bala was with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) for fourteen years in a range of positions in Toronto and New York. As Senior Vice President of the Wholesale North America Finance, he headed up the controllership function for CIBC’s World Markets and Treasury & Risk Management Strategic Business Units within North America. With a global team across Toronto and New York, he was responsible for establishing a SOX-compliant industry-leading Finance control environment as well as supporting the efficient execution of business initiatives and managing the Finance related US regulatory relationships during a very demanding period. Prior to that, he also had stints as the business-line controller for the Bank's US origination businesses (Corporate Lending, Investment Banking, Merchant Banking, Structured Finance, and High Yield), as well as the 2/ic to the Chief Accountant, with responsibility for consolidated financial, management and regulatory reporting at the corporate level.
Born and brought up in Mumbai India, Bala has a degree in mathematics from the University of Mumbai and holds professional accounting qualifications from both India and the United States. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey is married with two children, and enjoys long-distance running.
Senior Market Data Advisor for Interactive Brokers LLC with the organization for over six and a half years. In the securities industry for 51 years. 15 years with companies containing the name Morgan in New York, the Institutional Representative for the CTA Advisory Committee. Prior to New York investment banks, I spent 18 months in Egypt consulting for the Egyptian Capital Markets Authority and the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. 17 years Senior Vice President at the Boston Stock Exchange, managing the trading floor, corporate communications and acting as a Participant to the Consolidated Tape Association. My first introduction to the industry was working Merrill Lynch while putting myself through both undergraduate and graduate degree programs at Suffolk University in Boston.
My goal is to utilize my experience with exchanges and data providers, and leverage my relationships in the market data industry to expand the uses of information while reducing or eliminating administrative burdens.
Co-Founder and served as first Chairman and active Board member since inception in 2005. The Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council is the leading global association for data management and analytics executives with over 250 member firms and 10,000 professionals. The Board of Directors includes CDO’s and Analytics leaders from the largest digital firms (AWS, Microsoft, Google) and leading global Fortune 1000 firms cross industry.
Lead EDM Council operations to include global industry engagement strategy, new member services and operations guidance in support of adoption of strategic best practice work products to include DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model) and CDMC (Cloud Data Management Capabilities) data standards with comprehensive training and eLearning certification programs. Since joining full time in 2015 have led the 300% growth in global membership.
05:30 – 07:00