Ken Napolitano

Global Head of Sales, Enterprise Content and Distribution
Bloomberg

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.

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Day 1

Thursday, December 11th, 2014

10:00 Keynote Panel: The role of Chief Data Officer – what is achievable in 2015 and how?

Can you imagine your business without a Head of Marketing? How about getting rid of the Head of Sales? Do we really need a CFO? These questions sound crazy and unreasonable, and yet the Chief Data Officer still has to defend his/her right to exist. Why? What is stopping organisations from giving power to the person who keeps and looks after often the first or the second most valuable asset in any company? Financial institutions are not alone. Retail, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, logistics, transport companies are all working on recognising the role of data in their bottom lines. And it is taking
ages. A company's data has value. However, to date, data assets have not been shown directly on company books, although it is sometimes there as goodwill or is partially reflected
in the price of the stock. How, as a community, do we value our arguably most profitable commodity Data, and what is the point of having a Chief Data Officer? Attend this keynote panel to discover the views of leading CDOs. Take their feedback to your board of directors and, who knows, perhaps your business will change its approach to the value of data.

• Identifying the main challenges facing the CDO

• Is CDO following in the footsteps of CIO

• Why should CDO be on the board of every financial institution?

• Relating data maturity to the role and practical goals of the CDO

• Some argue that CDO is an impossible job with an impossible task – true or false?

• Looking into the future role of CDO and data in business

Day 2

Sunday, January 11th, 2015

11:50 Better compliance through regulation-ready data

As our industry grapples with data-related issues such as total cost of ownership, governance, efficiency and innovation, to name just a few, companies must focus on informing smarter decision-making, both for themselves and their clients. This session explores how firms can use technology to manage and capitalize on their data, ultimately transforming their greatest asset into intelligent, actionable information.