Max Yankelevich is the CEO and co-founder and of WorkFusion, the leading crowd computing platform. WorkFusion was born of his research in 2009 with MIT’s CSAIL, which combined AI and crowdsourced workers to identify fraud in online financial transactions. Recognizing a larger challenge, Max founded WorkFusion in 2011 to improve the quality, speed, and efficiency of the information industry by pairing online workers with machine learning to train and maintain automation algorithms. WorkFusion today provides workforce scale and resilient automation to the top data vendors and financial services firms.

Max previously founded and sold Freedom OSS, one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first integration partners, and was among the first entrepreneurs to spot the cloud computing opportunity. A software and systems architect by background, Max has dedicated his efforts to enterprise technology, leading SOA teams at companies such as Double-Click, Deutsche Bank, AIG and D&B. WorkFusion is the culmination of his commitment to bringing transformative innovation to businesses through exponential technology.

Jon leads the advisory consulting practice at Trillium Software where he is responsible for the delivery of best practice advice and guidance to Trillium’s many international clients. He has over 16 years’ experience in information management, data quality management, data governance and data analysis, gained through working for both global consultancies and software vendors across a variety of international Financial Services clients.
Over the last 5 years, Jon has advised senior business officers at a number of global financial services firms in support of Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) initiatives within credit risk. Having overseen a number of regulatory compliance engagements linked to Basel II, Solvency II, FSCS (faster payout) and credit risk data assurance, Jon has developed a detailed understanding of the practical challenges inherent in assessing complex data from disparate systems. A critical deliverable from these initiatives is a documented ‘corporate action plan’ that engages both business and technical teams in a consistent joint approach.  The objective being to addresses regulatory requirements for robust systems that validate “accuracy” and “consistency” of data, processes and risk components – including on-going measurement and monitoring actions.
Most recently Jon has been working with financial clients to assess the data requirements and challenges associated with FATCA compliance.

Leading the centralisation of all external vendor related activity across JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) with priority for Market Data. Driving the value propositions across WSS, to provide best practice, quality and value for money using a standard vendor model for Market Data. Previously Head of Operations & Technology for ICICI Bank covering Retail, Investment and Treasury banking; Prior to that Headed Operational Risk & Controls for the EMEA region at for the Investment Bank at JP Morgan. Before that was Chief Administration Officer & Head of EMEA Vendor Management for JP Morgan Asset Management. 25+ years financial service industry experience.

Les joined Northern Trust in 2011 as Global Head of Investment Operations Outsourcing Product Development, and is responsible for driving the strategy and development of our future services for both global fund managers and institutional investors.

Prior to joining Northern Trust, Les worked for State Street in numerous capacities. He joined State Street at the beginning of 2001 as part of the first European lift out where as Operations Director he led the team across from SWIP. At State Street he was IMS Operations Director for EMEA, and was responsible for operations and service delivery as well as providing product and sales support to grow the State Street business. In 2007, he moved into on-boarding and transferred to South Africa for two years to run the office and transition the client business onto the core architecture. On his return to the UK he was responsible for the operational deployment of all clients onto the core architecture, as well as leading the due diligence stream for client migrations.
Prior to this role, Les had worked in SWIP/Hill Samuel Asset Management for 20 years in operations, client servicing and change management, where he oversaw several integrations through the acquisitive nature of the parent bank.

In December 2008, David joined UBS AG and is Director in Market Data & Commissions Global Sourcing. He was previously Head of Procurement & Cost Control at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Europe from May to Nov 2008. From 2006 to 2008 he was Global Head of Market Data at Barclays Capital. From 2001 to 2006 he was Global Head of Market Data for Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. He first worked there as Head of Supplier Management for Market Data Services. From 1993 to 2001, David worked for Morgan Stanley, first in the Fixed Income, Commodities and FX department, where he held Sales and Trading posts around Europe. He later performed in Morgan Stanley Market Data and Technology department in London. He is Executive Committee member at IPUG, COSSIOM and FISD. David earned a “Diplomkaufman” in Berlin, a “Diplome des Grandes Ecoles” degree in Paris and a “Master’s Degree” in Oxford.

Married with three children, he is a keen rugby and ice-hockey player.

Jonathan is Global Head of Financial Services for Tech Mahindra and Group CEO of Citisoft, a wholly owned subsidiary.

He was the founder partner of Citisoft, a company he set up in 1986. Citisoft is a highly specialised consulting company providing services to the investment management sector. Jonathan led the domestic growth until 2002 when he acquired a Boston based consulting firm to establish Citisoft’s presence in the US, a geography that now represents 50% of its business.
 
In 2005, Jonathan took Citisoft into a strategic acquisition by Tech Mahindra, a global services firm employing over 85,000 people. The combined company has the largest pool of investment management expertise of any professional services firm, combining analysis, planning and program management methodologies with expert knowledge of business models, processes and technology.

Since January 2012 Jonathan has been responsible for Tech Mahindra's services to the Financial Services industry.

Adam Cottingham is Vice President of Utilities and Services at SmartStream. He is responsible for managing the company’s strategy and growth in the utilities space with a key focus on data management and fees management. Key to his role is the promotion of best practices within a utility framework of processes, people and technology which is integrated with clients individual governance procedures.

Adam Devine leads product marketing for WorkFusion, an enterprise crowd computing platform for automating the processing and production of content by pairing human workers with machine learning. Adam is charged with understanding the problems of WorkFusion’s vertical markets and collaborating with the company’s product team and customers to develop and communicate platform applications to solve them. He has spoken at a number of financial conferences, including FIMA, Massolution, NAFIS, NFAIS, and SIIA. Adam welcomes your questions about crowd computing at adam@workfusion.com.

Former COO IT at Barclays Capital, PJ is the founder and CEO of JWG – a think-tank recognised by regulators, financial institutions and technology firms as the independent analysts to help determine how the right regulations can be implemented in the right way. He works with executives in top financial institutions, and with their regulators and suppliers, to bring practical insights into the implementation global regulatory reform. Prior to starting his own company in 2006, he spent 14 years providing IT strategy and implementation services with McKinsey, Booz Allen & Hamilton and AT Kearney. He is a frequent author and public speaker on topics including EU regulation and financial services infrastructure. He has served as a Wholesale Banking Technology Innovation Award judge for the Financial Times’ The Banker magazine and the Financial News Awards for IT excellence.

Anastasia Dokuchaeva is a Sales Specialist in the  Content & Technology group at FactSet.  She is responsible for part of the UK market, as well as Strategic Partnerships in Europe.   Before joining the Content & Technology team 4 years ago, Anastasia has held a number of different positions at FactSet, first focusing on New York Investment Management and Hedge Funds community, then managing a consulting team in Scandinavia.   In her current role, Anastasia is focusing on datafeeds and technologies for data enrichment of clients’ in-house systems, also application development.     
Through her work in recent years, Anastasia has developed an expertise in Regulations, and Solvency 2 in particular.   With over 10 years of experience in the financial industry and her knowledge of market data, she aims to look at regulatory requirements from the data perspective, data quality, availability, collection, and methodology.   Anastasia’s other interest is in working with FinTech start-ups, advising them on market data, vendor relationships, as well as developing sales strategy and pitch

Graham is based in Edinburgh and has worked at Standard Life Investments Limited for 12 years as their Manager of Global Information Services and Market Data. His areas of expertise include vendor management & negotiations, market data compliance and guidance, and advising on legal and commercial aspects of vendor licenses. Before 2001, Graham was a Director and Senior Consultant at Screen Consultants (Scotland) Limited for over two years. Prior to this, Graham worked for Bridge Information Systems as the Scottish and Irish Sales Manager. He started his career at Wood Mackenzie & Co. (Stockbrokers). Graham has been involved with IPUG for 10 years and was Chairman of the group from July 2009 to July 2011. In his spare time, he enjoys motorcycling and scuba diving.

Colin is Global Architecture Director of Willis, the global insurance and re-insurance broker, responsible for all aspects of Enterprise Architecture across the group. He is driving work to agree the target-state architecture for Willis’ business processes, data, applications and common technologies and establishing governance to ensure that investment and change initiatives make progress towards that vision. He sponsors key initiatives to establish enterprise-wide reference and transactional data platform critical to Willis’ position as “the analytical broker”.
Prior to joining Willis, Colin was Head of Data Architecture for the Markets division of Royal Bank of Scotland where his achievements included the creation of a central reference repository of information about data in the organisation. He has held senior technology infrastructure, business application development and programme management positions in several major investment banks.

Francis’ Division, located within the Directorate General Statistics of the ECB, is responsible for the external statistics of the euro area (balance of payments, international investment position, foreign direct investment, etc.) and coordinates their harmonisation across the EU. It also runs and further develops the Centralized Securities Database (CSDB), which holds reference and price data for individual securities used for producing euro area statistics. The Division also manages the provision of all market data services for the ECB.

Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis worked for 15 years in the automotive industry. He joined Mercedes-Benz in 1986, and later moved to Mannesmann-VDO as Head of Strategic Planning. His roles ranged from materials research to globalization, with a focus on Asia. He subsequently worked at Rieter AG, focussing on post-merger integration and process development. Francis joined the ECB as Head of the Organisational Planning Division; he moved to his current position in 2006.

An engineering graduate of Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, Francis also holds an MBA from Henley Management College, UK.

In January 2014 Gerard Hartsink has been appointed by the Financial Stability Board as the Chairman of the Board of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). He served many years as Senior Executive VIce President of ABN AMRO, as Chairman of CLS Bank International, the European Payments Council, the RMG of ISO 20022 and as Director in the Boards of SWIFT, LCHCLearnet, Euroclear Netherlands and the European Banking Association.

Brian joined Moody’s Analytics in 2013 as an insurance specialist with significant experience in technology solutions to the global insurance industry. He has in-depth knowledge of the life and pensions business coupled with comprehensive understanding of enterprise technology in relation to the development and implementation of core administration, actuarial/ risk systems and Solvency II programs. Prior to joining Moody’s Analytics Brian had senior roles in Oracle and Towers Watson as well as being a Managing Consultant with Cap Gemini/E&Y. He has also worked for a number of large UK and US insurers in a variety of roles and several insurance technology vendors. Brian holds an MBA, a Certificate in Investment Management (London Business School, a Diploma in Marketing (Dip M) and is a Member of the Charter Institute of Marketing (MCIM), a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII), and an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute (APMI).

Rodney Hutchinson's current role is Head of Strategy and Planning where he supports the COO and Group Operations Board in developing their strategy and ensures the focus and alignment of their initiatives through the planning and delivery of the project Roadmap. Rodney has worked on the IBOR initiative at M&G for 2 years and is leading the supplier selection process.
Rodney joined M&G in 1999 and has held a number of roles across Investment Operations, IT and Change Management working from front to back office delivering technology solutions and  business transformation.

Suresh is currently Executive Director – Head of Enterprise Data Management, India at Nomura Services India Pvt. Ltd. covering Client Data, Instrument Data, Organizational Data and Market Data (Commercial).

Suresh started his career in 1999 at Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited in Depository Operations. He then moved on to Standard Chartered Bank in a similar role within Depository Operations. He was then involved in setting up the Depository Operations unit for Refco-Sify Securities India Pvt. Ltd. as a start-up project.

After spending more than three years in the Indian capital markets, Suresh joined DSL Software Ltd. in 2002, to get involved in the pioneering work happening at that time around offshoring of IB Operations’ processes, including those for reference data management. He later joined ABN AMRO Central Enterprise Services Pvt. Ltd. in 2004 to offshore and lead some of the client reference data management line functions. Over a period of five and a half years, he held various management roles within the Reference Data Management team at ABN AMRO / RBS, culminating in him taking over the overall responsibility for the offshored Reference Data Management function in Chennai, India.

Suresh graduated in Engineering and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration.

Paul Janssens is the LEI Programme Director at SWIFT. He has been leading the LEI initiative from concept to implementation.  He has more than 10 years of experience in reference data management and ISO standards across both operations and marketing. Since joining SWIFT in 1988, Paul has held different managerial positions amongst which: Group Treasurer, EURO Programme Manager and Y2K Programme Manager. Prior to joining SWIFT, he worked at Société
Générale as a cash management specialist.

Chris Johnson is Responsible for reference and market data for HSBC Securities Services which mainly involves supporting middle and back office services for fund managers, pension funds and Insurers. He is currently involved in all projects relating to new regulations, as well as existing services, with a key focus on new regulatory data content and achieving the necessary standards of complete, accurate and appropriate data.

Preetham is the head of a business unit at iGATE, which is focused on providing reference data solution, including financial instruments data. He is responsible for managing the solution development, delivery and sales of iGATE’s reference data management solutions. With over 15 years of experience in sales, pre-sales, consulting and solution architecting Preetham has acquired a rare blend of business and technical expertise that has propelled his careers as a financial data management expert.

Peter Ku is responsible for Informatica's Global Financial Services industry solutions consulting practice. He is an expert in data integration, data quality, business intelligence, data warehousing, master data management and data mining technologies and has spent over 15 years helping banks and insurance companies understand how to leverage technology to accelerate business growth, comply with regulations, combat fraud and improve business efficiencies.  Mr. Ku spent six years in the credit card industry with Providian Bancorp and Visa International and five years in the residential mortgage technology industry with Dorado and Ellie Mae. Peter is a regular presenter at industry events across the globe and author of many articles related to Big Data, regulatory compliance, credit risk management, operational risk and driving customer insight and growth across the enterprise.

James Longstaff has worked at Deutsche Bank for almost four years. He currently works in the Reference Data change space, with responsibilities for rolling out data in several domains to diverse areas of the Bank. James also has links with the wider Data Architecture function and is currently assisting with defining Trade Data Standards.
James is a vocal advocate of the Bank’s social media platform and uses this to engage with people across all departments and geographies in order to be more efficient and effective at his role. He also enjoys observing unexpected beneficial outcomes from using social media at work and writes about these.
Prior to his current role James has worked on Market Risk, Client Service, Financial Accounting, and other Reference Data roles at numerous large Financial Services organisations.
In his personal life James is more used to giving updates in 140 characters.

Nigel has more than twenty years industry experience in business development and programme management, delivering solutions in reference data management, market data distribution, business integration, risk management and regulatory compliance. Nigel is currently Director, Data Operations Strategy & Change at Barclays. The strategic change programme aims to provide timely and consistent data that is critical to support business operations such as client engagement, decision support, risk control and capital utilisation.

Nigel was previously Executive Director, Programme Manager and Head of Strategy for the Global Reference Data (GRD) Programme at Nomura as well as EMEA regional head of Enterprise Data Management. Prior to that, Nigel held product management and business development roles at vendor firms including Thomson Reuters, Oracle and TIBCO.

Nigel has a Masters degree in Electronic Engineering, holds an ACI Diploma in Money Markets and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities & Investments. Nigel has been an active contributor to cross-industry initiatives including most recently, a representative on the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Private Sector Preparatory Group (PSPG) on the LEI.

Marc Murphy is the co-founder and CEO of Fenergo, global providers of regulatory onboarding, entity data management and client lifecycle management software solutions for investment banks and capital market firms. A financial technology specialist with more than 15 years’ experience developing and delivering enterprise software to leading financial institutions, Marc is dedicated to solving issues surrounding client and product onboarding – issues that include a constantly changing regulatory environment that produces ever more stringent compliance regulations and the resulting impact this has on client and counterparty data management, banking process management and the ability to onboard clients quickly and efficiently. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University.

Llew joined Deutsche Bank in 2010 and is currently the head of consumer service management for instrument reference data. He has over 18 years worth of experience managing reference data across the entire value chain. From data vendor (DataStream) to tier one bank (Barclays Capital), and from “project management” to “service ownership”; his roles have encompassed counterparty, instrument, time series and market data. With his rounded experience Llew is ideally placed to help navigate the difficult boundaries between roles, data classes and responsibilities.
In 2010 Llew was FISD certified and in partnership with the EDM council initiated and temporarily chaired the first industry wide Data Quality working group.

Ken Napolitano is the Global Head of Sales for Bloomberg Enterprise Content and Distribution. Ken is responsible for the sale of the Bloomberg Data License products, real time data and platform as well as BVAL, Bloomberg’s evaluated pricing offering.

Data License provides the financial markets with the highest quality reference, pricing and corporate action data. Bloomberg B-PIPE is a normalized and consolidated real-time market data feed that can be distributed throughout the enterprise. It provides complete coverage of all the same asset classes that Bloomberg Professional® service subscribers have access to.  BVAL represents a new standard for data transparency and quality in valuation. The service combines a unique market insight, sophisticated quantitative models and data from over 4,000 contributing sources to produce credible and defendable valuations.

Ken joined Bloomberg in 1998 and has held positions in Bloomberg Tradebook as Global Head of Sales as well as holding several positions within the Bloomberg Professional service sales division including Sales Manager. Before joining Bloomberg, Ken worked as a Registered Representative servicing high net worth individuals. He holds a Bachelors of Business Administration degree from Adelphi University and an MBA from Cornell University.

Diarmuid has spent his career within the securities services and asset management industry. In his role at LGIM he is responsible for a global information management capability at the enterprise level and ensuring that data quality and consumption are aggressively and consistently managed.  He has an operations background with a major focus on data over the past seven years. He has experience of developing and delivering strategic change in the data space from a fund services and more recently in the asset management industry. Prior to joining LGIM, he held roles in banking, JPMorgan and more recently was Global Head of Data at UBS based in Luxembourg. Diarmuid graduated from University of Cork with BA in history and French

Alan Paris is the Global Head of Financial Services Consulting and a Global Account Manager at eClerx. His responsibilities include global account management with a focus on operations, regulatory reporting, FATCA, Dodd-Frank, cost-basis and KYC (Know Your Customer). With over 25 years of experience in the financial sector, Alan contributes a high level of front to back office and financial markets expertise to eClerx’s global services platform.

Prior to joining eClerx, Alan was Executive Director at Ernst & Young, where he led the Capital Markets Technology and Operations Transformation division. He was formerly Global Head of Trading Support at Deutsche Bank and has held senior-level positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, BearingPoint, Capco and Bankers Trust Company.

Parag Pawar leads Hexaware’s Banking and Financial services practice in Europe region. He leads transformation consulting teams for BFS industry with over 15 years of experience in global IT outsourcing across sales/pre-sales, client consulting, business development and IT service delivery. He has a proven track record of increasing market footprint through alliances, partnerships and driving consultative sales to acquire new business. He specializes in consulting at CxOs /Sr. Management level vis-à-vis Financial IT transformation and deriving business cases, using combination of business, functional and technology skills.
 
With a multi-year experience in defining business and data architectural vision and roadmaps; Parag has participated in various industry seminars /publications.

Sophie Rutherford is the Deputy Head of Risk & Control for the recently formed Transaction Management Group (TMG) in the Markets division at RBS. TMG is a dedicated function within Markets, reporting to the Head of Logistics, Finance & Change and is the guardian of trade data quality and transaction integrity, in terms of risk, economic value and fact and focusses on the immediate post trade validation activities. The Risk & Control team provide Operational Risk services and also Front Office Supervisory oversight to TMG.

Sophie is also the Markets representative for the Group Data Quality Policy standard, chairs the Markets Data Management Group and has provided Data Quality and Controls input to Data Remediation programmes across Markets. Sophie has over 20 years experience in Investment Banking and has previously worked at UBS and Morgan Stanley. She has worked in technology, programme management as well as operational risk roles in Logistics & Control functions across Investment banking.

Sudhir’s areas of expertise In the Banking and Capital Markets domain center around COBAM and Post-Trade processing in the Capital Markets space and across Data Monetization, Retail Payments Processing and Wealth Management in the Banking space.

Before joining Genpact Sudhir spent 10 years with Infosys in the US. He was an Invitee to the Infosys Global Management Committee, a ranking member of the Infosys Banking and Capital Markets Exec Council and the Founder and Head of their BFSI Payments and Cards Practice.

Sudhir holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Management/Institute of Technology.

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.

Tom is responsible for the implementation of OTC derivatives reform at the FCA. He joined the FSA, as it was then, in 2012. Tom has previously worked at HM Treasury on various European and financial services policy issues and at the European Commission as an economist, focusing on UK growth and fiscal issues. While at the Commission, Tom co-edited a book on the causes and consequences of the financial crisis in the UK.

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 both a consultant and writer.  Silvano joined Hatstand in June 2012 and now runs Hatstand’s regulatory practice in London and global thought leadership.

Matthew P. Stauffer is Chief Executive Officer of Clarient Global LLC, a company founded by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and six leading banks to help firms meet client data and documentation needs for internal on-boarding as well as comply with a broad range of regulatory requirements.

Prior to this position, Stauffer was Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development at DTCC and was responsible for developing common industry platforms across DTCC’s global middle office businesses.  He was also head of DTCC’s Business Transformation Office, responsible for assessing and reengineering structures and processes to deliver greater business value.  He remains a member of DTCC’s Operating Committee and Strategy & Planning Council.

Stauffer has over 15 years of financial services experience including strategy, business development, operations and technology.

Previously, he held other key roles at DTCC including, Managing Director, Operations; Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Director, Information Technology.

Prior to joining DTCC in 2004, Stauffer worked at Accenture in their Financial Services Transformation practice, dealing mainly in organizational transformation and business re-engineering.  

He graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Communications.

Dominique Tanner is Head of Business Development at SIX Financial Information since 2007. As part of this role, he has lead the development of a number of complex regulatory as well as data quality initiatives. Most recently, he oversaw the implementation of FATCA and the Swiss Final Withholding Tax. He works with financial intuitions globally to conceptualise 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.

Lakshmi is the Client Reference Data Business Architect at Credit Suisse since 2011. At Credit Suisse, Lakshmi she had performed various other roles in IT Architecture, Program/Project Management and Global Team Management in Singapore & London with Credit Suisse. Prior to Credit Suisse Lakshmi worked as a consultant specialising in Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions.

Having worked in both Business & IT, her focus is to have the right balance of technology and business solutions to achieve the vision. Over the years, Lakshmi has worked in a number of programs combing off the shelf solutions/products with In house systems. Lakshmi holds a BACS (Finance) from the University of Madras, India and a diploma in Information Management.

Justin is an independent Data Management consultant, whose primary area of expertise is in Data Governance and the effect it has on organisations and people. Justin has experience in developing and implementing data governance and data management solutions in both regulatory and non-regulatory environments. He has worked in the field of data management for fifteen years, initially as a serving officer in Army Logistics before leaving and becoming a consultant with a niche defence consultancy and then independent with a major UK Insurance company and now a significant financial services organisation. Justin has split his recent consulting work between Solvency II and PRA/EBA regulatory reporting including Financial Reporting, Common Reporting and Firm Data Submission. Justin is also a qualified personal performance coach and offers data management / governance coaching and mentoring through his own company. Justin lives in Oxford, holds an MSc in the Design of Information Systems from Cranfield University and an MBA from the Open University.

Ralf Zeitler, Product Manager for Temenos DataSource has over 20 years of experience in software development in the securities processing business. Temenos DataSource is a modern solution for the centralized management and distribution of reference and market data, and has been successfully implemented by Tier 1 banks.

Dr. Yousif is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Architecture for the Royal Dutch Shell Global account at T-Systems, International. Before joining T-Systems, he was with IBM Canada, Global Technology services, as CTO for its Cloud Computing Services. He was a chief architect at Numonyx with focus on the role of Phase Change Memory (PCM) in servers' architectures and datacenters optimizations. He was also a principal engineer at Intel leading many projects on energy optimizations, virtualization and autonomic computing.

Yasmeen Jaffer is a director at Markit and head of business development for Markit | Genpact KYC Services, a service that centralises the management of know your customer data for banks worldwide.  Yasmeen joined Markit in 2007 and became co-head of Markit Counterparty Manager, a secure system for document exchange between banks and their institutional clients that is used to streamline KYC and regulatory processes.
Before joining Markit, Yasmeen was a senior business analyst with EON Energie and Business in the Community, where she designed information and trading systems.
In 2013, Yasmeen was among the professionals on the 40 Under 40 for Trading and Technology list compiled by Financial News.  She holds a BA with honours in information system design from Kingston University in London.

Peter Serenita is the Group Chief Data Officer at HSBC.  In this role, he is responsible for the data management practice across all businesses and global functions at HSBC focusing on improving data consistency across the firm.  He is 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.

Mady Korada is an expert in strategy, architecture and innovation in enterprise data management. He brings an inclusive, creative, thorough and diligent approach to his prolific output. His clients have spanned industries including regulatory bodies, investment banking, asset management, insurance and government. Mady helps clients assess their strategies and produce roadmaps for delivering mature application and data capabilities. He has held various global delivery and architecture roles. His works have been accepted into a leading standard. Gartner have published his articles on data economy and the future of data. Mady has published articles on Enterprise Information Management and a book on Big Data Governance with a group of experts. Mady is a member of numerous councils and industry forums. Mady provides thought leadership as an independent consultant. You can also follow him on Twitter @mostlyknown where he tweets actively.