About Your Speakers

Chris is currently Managing Director – Head of Global Pricing and Reference Data at Barclays covering pricing and reference data across Corporate and Investment Banking, Wealth and Investment Management Operations.

Chris started off his career in 1994 at Finantia Securities where he was involved in the start up of a leading edge fixed income trading business, he then moved on to hold management roles in Operations at Credit Suisse finally running the global reference data programme and line functions.

Following this, Chris became Managing Director at Spirit Solutions, where he had broad responsibilities for the growth of this niche data management consultancy including sales, marketing and client delivery.

Chris joined Thomson Reuters in 2004 taking on various senior roles from Global Head of Product and Capabilities Management to Head of Post Trade Services most notably running the DataScope Pricing and Reference business in EMEA and launching the Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Data Management.

Between 2010 and 2012 Chris lead the Enterprise Data Management group at Nomura, integrating Market Data and Reference Data and consolidating data functions, this included a significant focus on offshore resource.

Chris studied Strategy: Creating and sustaining competitive advantage at Harvard Business School in 2008.

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.

Marc Berthoud has been acting as deputy head of SIX Swiss Exchange’s Data & Index Products Division since 2002 and has been driving projects in the area of market data and market micro structure analytics for several years. Other project include leading the Quote Quality Metrics (QQM) service development on behalf of Scoach in 2009, enabling the ongoing assessment of market making quality over some 30’000 securitised derivatives. He held similar project management responsibilities in the cross market order book metrics initiative (ELM) and also delivered the Market Quality Metrics for Bonds service in the fixed-income area.

Marc currently chairs the MMT (Market Model Typology) Technical Committee. MMT is an industry initiative driven by the FESE (Federation of European Securities Exchanges), the FIX Protocol Organisation (FPL) and some leading data vendors. The goal is to standardise trade flags across all equity markets in Europe. This standardisation effort will significantly improve market transparency and reduce complexity, and thus the processing costs of market data.

Marc is also active as Vice Chairman of the Economics & Statistics Committee of FESE. He ‘s particularly involved in the quantitative data issues related to the MiFID2 review process.

Marc had previously assignments at the Geneva Stock Exchange during the transition phase towards fully automated trading and at Bayernwerk AG (now EON) in Munich.

Marc graduated in Economics in 1992 . He was awarded the FISD certification as Financial Information Associate in 2010. He is also a certified PRINCE2 project manager and a holder of the ISMA (now ICMA) certification.

Born in Athens in 1962. Married, with one son. Attorney at law, Doctor of Constitutional Law (University of Paris I, Sorbonne). Chairman of the Greek Capital Markets Commission (as of 2011), Chairman of the Market Integrity Standing Committee (MISC) within ESMA. Ex member of the European Parliament (2007-2009), member of the Budget and Budget Control Committees, as well as the Constitutional Committee. Ex member of the National Council of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK). Worked as a lawyer specialised in public law and in the Legal Division of the Bank of Greece. Teaches European Constitutional and Financial Law to post-graduates at the Panteion University and at Alba University. Regular columnist in the newspaper TA NEA, as well as the magazines “Metarrythmissi” and “Diavazo”. Author of seven books on legal and political issues (the two latest: “The institutional aspects of the Greek crisis” and “A guide to the Lisbon Treaty”). Speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish and some German.

Darius Clayton is a senior data professional with over fifteen years experience. Early in his career he was involved on the technical side after which he progressed into business transformation & outsourcing. The common thread through all his roles was the data challenge and managing the needs of both the IT and business community.

Since 2007 his focus has been on data governance, collaboration, and the business view of the data asset. Darius spent the last six years working with financial institutions to control and improve their data while delivering tangible business benefits.

Anthony B. Coates (Tony) is a financial modelling and message design specialist based in London. Tony has been involved with numerous financial standards since 2000, including FpML, ISO 20022, XBRL and MDDL. He is currently a Data Architect in the Chief Technology Office at UBS.

Tom is the Global Head of GDS Financial Instruments and Pricing. With over 20 years of success in delivering global systems and infrastructures he is a recognized expert in reference and market data with a reputation for delivering quickly.

A passionate believer in building tightly-integrated teams, he describes himself as a well-rounded, hands-on computer scientist with a tenacious drive for deploying systems under challenging conditions. Tom previously ran enterprise reference data projects at Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch prior to joining the firm in 2012.

His interests include music, skiing, DIY and technical scuba diving. He recently renovated a 100-year old Arts and Crafts home in NJ and built a log cabin in the Adirondack Mountains. Having recently moved to London in summer 2010 with his family, Tom has been enjoying his return to Europe.

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.

Following an initial career in the defence sector, Colin has held senior infrastructure management and software development positions in several investment banks.

He joined RBS in 2006 and led several initiatives to address key data and architecture challenges facing M&IB. These included a programme to develop and implement a consolidated, authoritative store of all transactions.

As Head of Data Architecture, Colin works across M&IB to drive progress towards an agreed target state for how data is understood, sourced, stored and shared. He has led the work to create, populate and leverage the “Data KnowledgeBase” - a central repository of information about M&IB’s data.

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.

For the first fifteen years of Frank’s professional career he lectured at various Universities within the UK developing an international reputation in mathematical modelling and the development of knowledge based systems. During this period Frank undertook various consulting assignments in various sectors usually centred around business improvement using process transformation and advanced technology. In addition, for four years Frank was an advisor to the Department of Trade and Industry within its Support for Innovation programme.

In 1988 Frank left academe and with his team joined Touche Ross Management Consultants as Associate Partner. During this period the team were responsible for many technology and mathematical based solutions that enabled various forms of fraud prevention and detection for his clients that included, Barclaycard, British Gas, CCTA and Central Government. In 1994 Frank took his team to Unisys and expanded the consulting to a wider clientele but specialising in financial services. Within Unisys Frank rose to become a Vice President and General Managing Principal in charge of various global teams including that for Decision Support. He was also appointed to the European Board.

On leaving Unisys in 2002 he held various other positions included VP of analytics for Fair Isaac, head of financial services for Compass Consulting and Oakleigh Consulting, till finally becoming an independent consultant in 2005. Frank brings to his client assignments a unique blend of operations management, risk management, business process transformation and change management experience with a deep understanding of the role and power of analytics to provide fact based evidence for his own and his client’s decision making.

Since 2005 Frank has largely worked for the Lloyds Banking Group as a special advisor and has established a reputation within the Group not only for sound programme management but also bringing his particular expertise in analytics to help support several of the Groups major programmes of work.

In recent years Frank supported and advised the Group on its problems associated with payment protection insurance not only providing the necessary data analytics and statistical analysis to provide insight into some key issues but also to act as programme manager and programme director for projects that were particularly customer facing.

Sally has worked for over 25 years in the enterprise data management space, for financial institutions, consultancy firms and for major vendors. Her major successes include:

• Establishment of a centralised shared service data organization encompassing both technology and operations for a major Tier 1 investment bank, providing high quality service to the global organization, for both market and reference data, from 6 staff locations.
• Definition of successful strategy and operating models for several global, top tier financial institutions as well as leading major change programmes to implement recommendations.
• Negotiation of a 5 year multi-million dollar data vendor enterprise licence agreement which resulted in significant cost savings for a global Tier 1 bank.
• Leading large global multi-disciplined teams (data management, software development, infrastructure, commercial management etc.) providing excellent quality of service with optimised budget management.
• Leading several large global transformation and implementation programmes, delivering on time and to budget.

She founded the Information Providers Users Group (IPUG) which now has over 70 active member firms and has substantially influenced the market data environment over the last 20 years. She was recognised as one of the 25 inaugural members of the Inside Market Data Hall of Fame in 2010. In addition she served on the EDM Council Board of Directors whilst Global Head of Enterprise Data Management for HSBC.

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.

Paul Jones is a Director in the Group Information Risk Management team at Barclays and has Group-wide responsibility for Finance and Risk Data Governance. He is currently leading an initiative to join up data-related activities across all parts of the bank, including oversight of initiatives to meet requirements such as the BCBS 239 principles. Paul joined Barclays in early 2012. He previously worked as a consultant at Ernst & Young and Detica, leading data and business transformation projects for a range of organisations including financial services, telecommunications and public sector clients.

Andrew Lewin is head of Non-Global Markets, Market Data, Expense Management EMEA at Citi. Andrew Joined Citi in 2010 where he has run cost saving initiatives within the Market Data and Reference Data arena. Previously Andrew worked at Credit Suisse where he was global lead for Index and ETF Market Data and EMEA lead for Reference data. Andrew has worked on both the buy-side and sell-side in the financial industry. Andrew is part of the Investment Management Association (IMA) Asset Services working party as well as the TPA Solvency II Working Group.

Michael is Principal of MMM Data Perspectives, a new company formed to provide consultancy to organisations on how to effectively drive data into the heart of business strategy – based on a commonsense approach to organising, understanding and exploiting that data.

Prior to this Michael was Head of Information Solution Design at AIB Bank, strategically centred on the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Michael was also responsible for related data management functions such as data modelling and metadata and was creator of the Intranet Knowledge Portal for enterprise data analysts. Through these, and various IT management roles, Michael was the key influencer on the design and deployment of the Enterprise Data Warehouse in AIB.

Michael was Chairman of the UK & Ireland Teradata User Group in 2003 & 2004 and has presented and published widely on Data Warehouse, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Analytics and Data Governance related topics.

Michael has a B.A. in History of Art, Philosophy & Film Studies and an M.Sc.Management in Organisational Behaviour.

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.

David is data architect at Moneysupermarket.com, the popular price comparison website.

He first became interested in databases and data while working for a B2B direct mail company in the early 1990s. The idea that prospect/suspect/customer behaviour could be predicted and influenced through data was and remains an enduring fascination.

Working for McCann-Erikson and seeing those ideas applied to a wide range of B2C and B2B clients nurtured this interest but also lead towards the DBA path as database systems at that time simply were not powerful enough to allow the required analysis without significant technical involvement.

Moving on to a company specialising in information delivery introduced the concept that data can only be useful if it can be presented in the correct context and targeted at the correct audience

He joined Moneysupermarket in 2006 where he was introduced the rigours of high transaction loads and the challenges of 24/7 operation and the design disciplines necessary to support such an operation by ensuring efficient data flow.

His current challenges are:

• Establishing data lineage both in systems requiring considerable software archeology
• Wrestling with how metadata can be maintained in the schemaless world of NoSQL.
• Defining how Moneysupermarket data systems can move from a traditional RDBMS to a polyglot data layer.
  
  

Vinod joined ING Investment Management two years ago as a Senior Market Data Vendor Manager. Vinod was previously at Macquarie Bank, London for 2 and half years where he was doing the commercial management of market data for EMEA region. Before then he was a Market data analyst at Macquarie bank in Sydney for 3 years. Before moving into Market data world, he has been working in Finance for over 7 years. At ING Investment Management he is responsible for the contract and vendor relationship management mainly with the tier 1 vendors.

Olivier Rose joined the Fund administration division of Société Générale Securities Services in 2004 as Head of the Market Data for SGSS' fund accounting software implementation project. In 2008, he was appointed Head of International Data Management and intervenes as a specialist for all projects requiring market data expertise. Previously Olivier has held various positions in market and insurance activities and, more specifically, operations, fund administration and IT development. Leveraging his past experience with several international companies (including US and Japanese corporations), Olivier is also actively involved in several professional organizations to sponsor market participants point of view.

Tim Rowe is the manager of the Trading Platforms and Settlement Policy team at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The team is responsible for the FCA’s domestic and international policy regarding exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and settlement, as well as elements of OTC trading (including the MiFID regimes for post-trade transparency and systematic internalisers). The team is involved currently in European discussions on the MiFID Review, the Central Securities Depositories Regulation and proposed legislation on securities law. The team also examines elements of market microstructure, such as the role of high frequency trading, direct market access and co-location services. As part of this, Tim co-authored IOSCO’s 2011 report entitled “Regulatory Issues Raised by the Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency.

Tim worked for a number of years at the London Stock Exchange managing the team responsible for the LSE’s secondary market trading rules. He was also the compliance officer for EuroMTS, a bond trading platform within the London Stock Exchange Group. Prior to that, Tim undertook a number of regulatory roles with the Financial Services Authority and the Bank of England.

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.

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.

Previously, Peter was the Chief Data Officer for Global Banking and Markets at HSBC and in this role he was responsible for improving the consistency of data across the GBM locations and product areas with particular focus on Entity (Client) data. He was the executive sponsor of two global change programs, the global entity (client) data management program and the global trading account data strategy across Global Banking and Markets, as well as responsible for the global entity and trading account ‘run the bank’ operations.

Before joining HSBC, Peter was a 28-year veteran of JPMorgan having held several key positions in business and information technology. He was the Global Head of Pricing Operations and the Global Head of Market Data Service Vendor Management at JPMorgan’s Worldwide Securities Services. Previously, he was the Chief Data Officer for Worldwide Securities Services responsible for the development of information and technology practices to fully integrate data across the Worldwide Securities Services businesses and the firm.

He served as head of Global Reference Data Services for the Shared Technology and Operations group at JPMorgan, overseeing reference data for the wholesale portion of the firm, which includes the Investment Bank, Private Bank, Commercial Bank, Treasury and Security Services and Investment Management. He helped consolidate technology platforms to converge data from disparate sources resulting in improved data quality and reduced cost. He also consolidated and restructured the reference data operations teams into a dual-hub model resulting in improvements in information quality, controls, operational efficiency and a significant reduction in costs.

Previously, he was Chair of the JPMorgan Enterprise Architecture Board, which established cross-business consistency and better integration across the firm of architecture standards and design methodology. He has also served as Chief Architect of Finance and Corporate Risk, Head of Corporate Risk Application Development and Head of Foreign Exchange Application Development.

Mr. Serenita holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from New York University.

Paul Sharkey, Vice President, Operations and Technology, has been with Northern Trust Ireland since August 2008. Paul received his Business Studies Degree from W.I.T. before joining Citibank in 1997. Previous to joining NT Paul worked for Irish Life Investment Managers as Pricing Manager between 2001-2008. Paul is Member of NT Executive Management Committee, Risk Committee and also a member of the Irish Fund Industry Association and Institute Of Bankers.

Emanuel is a multilingual Consultant in the Change Management / Business Architecture domain. Emanuel has an academic background in Linguistics (Modern Languages & Literature - French & German Studies).

His professional career since 1990 has been entirely in Financial Services, with both Sell and Buy-side organisations. In the Banking sector, this has been specifically within Retail, Private, Corporate (Wholesale) & Investment Banking (Trade Support, Securities Operations and Financial Control). From 2002, Emanuel's work has focussed mainly on the Regulatory domain (Governance, Risk & Compliance) within Banking & Insurance (Life & Pensions).

More recently, Emanuel has been engaged in assignments on the Buy-side in the Investor Services, Fund Administration and Custody arena.

Throughout his career Emanuel held a number of diverse roles, working for some of the top tier European and US Banks in various international locations. The international exposure has allowed Emanuel to gain an acute awareness of different cultural aspects through various assignments abroad, some of which in the context of major enterprise-wide change programmes. This experience has allowed him to develop also a sense for the appropriate tact and diplomacy required to interact with people at all levels of an organisation whether business line staff or Executive Board members.

With an academic background founded in Engineering coupled with more than 20 years of Financial Services experience, Graham’s passion for problem solving, energetic leadership and his significant experience have positioned him well to create the vision required to drive improvements in the way RBS creates, manages and maximises utilisation of its data across the Group.

Graham entered Financial Services back in 1992 with Prudential, later moving to Coopers & Lybrand where he worked with Lloyds of London on its restructuring following the near collapse of the Lloyds market in the early 90s. In 1996 Graham joined ABN AMRO where he held a number of senior positions over the next 12 years. These included Head of Risk Technology and Head of Bank-wide Basel 2 Programme.

After running part of the ABN AMRO integration into RBS Graham joined the RBS Group in 2009 as Chief Operating Officer for Risk Management in Corporate Banking Division, where he held responsibly for Change Management, Risk Reporting, Risk Modelling and Analytics. In 2011 he became the first group-wide RBS Chief Data Officer and is responsible for the data agenda within RBS.

Claire is Director, Global Head of KYC, Account and Book data operations at RBC Capital Markets. Claire joined RBC in February 2010 to work on the client data change strategy and implementation, and spent just under a year in Australia as part of this process setting up a team to provide client data support for the Asia Pac region. In addition Claire worked on rolling out an automated KYC tool to streamline the KYC process within RBC. On returning from Australia, Claire assumed responsibility for the KYC, Account and Book Data operations teams based in London, New York, Toronto and Sydney.

Prior to this Claire worked at Citi for 12 years. During her time at Citi she gained exposure to the cash management and Agency and Trust businesses, before joining the client data operations team where she was responsible for the EMEA team performing KYC and account opening/maintenance functions (including SSI maintenance), as well as providing input on major projects around KYC and SSI automation

Mr Taylor joined Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management in January 2009, focussing on client solutions off and onshore. Responsibilities now include management of Intermediary Sales in London, focussing on key client relationships and bank-wide solutions. He previously held positions across UBS AG where he was latterly EMEA Head of the cross-asset Client Onboarding & Introduction Group. Mr Taylor started his banking career at Goldman Sachs International having served as an officer in the British Army after graduating from the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and the University of London. He advises a number of charities in a pro-bono capacity and is a member of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers, applauds the invention of the Blackberry and has a brace of disobedient chocolate Labradors.

Mark Uksusman is a Sr. Manager, Enterprise Data Architecture at eBay, Inc., overseeing Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Warehousing and Metadata Management. Mark Uksusman has more than 20 years' of experience in Data Management, Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Architecture, OLTP and Data Warehousing. Before joining eBay, Inc., he was a VP of Technology for First American Corporation. Mark led Information Management department for Franklin Templeton Investments and served as a principal consultant at PWC.

Garry is an independent Data Management consultant with extensive experience working in a variety of data management roles on regulatory initiatives such as Solvency 2, Basel 2 and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Having previously worked within Lloyds Banking Group (and formerly HBoS), Garry is currently working with Standard Life to support the design and delivery of the various data governance components that form part of their Solvency 2 programme.

Lorraine has over 25 years experience in Investment Banking Operations, Strategy, Business Management, Shared Services and Change and for the last 6 years she has combined all of this experience in her role as Global Head of Reference Data Management at a top-tier, global investment bank. Her major achievements include:

• Leading a large global, multi-disciplined, multi-location team of up to 500 FTE strong (Data Management Operations, regional front-facing, business liaison teams in the main trading hubs, Reference Data Change and Integration teams globally), delivering significant improvements to Operating Model, quality of service, the control environment and tangible business benefits for a top-tier investment bank.
• Building strong partnerships with in-house and outsourced IT teams, Procurement and Vendor Management, Compliance and Control as well as delivering to key Reference Data stakeholders in Front Office, Operations, IT, Finance, Risk and Group Functions.
• Leading a 3-year Reference Data integration and transformation programme, delivering significant business benefit including a 60% reduction in manual processing and associated resource savings, reducing the Ops market data budget by over 50%, extending golden source coverage from less than 20% to over 70%, implementing a central repository for Securities data, an effective Workflow tool and an innovative Calendar data service supplying data to over 70 systems, all against a background of significant organisational change and market turmoil.
• Leading several successful transformation, restructuring and system implementation programmes for the banks she has worked for, including RBS, ABN Amro, Lloyds TSB, Santander UK and Lehman Brothers, delivering on time and to budget.

Lorraine is an active member of the EDM Council and has been a keen advocate of the work they are doing on leading Data Management Maturity and Standards. She is a regular speaker at Data Management conferences on Reference Data Strategy and is on the FIMA Advisory Board.

Martijn Groot is Director, Central Data Utility Product Management, at Euroclear. In this capacity, Mr Groot is responsible for the range of securities reference data products offered by Euroclear. His role includes defining, planning, implementing and reporting the results of this data cleansing joint initiative with SmartStream.

Before joining Euroclear in March 2013, Mr Groot worked at iGATE as a senior reference data consultant and at Asset Control where he was Head of Product Management and Market Strategy Director. Mr Groot also held positions at ABN AMRO Investment Banking in risk management and technology.

With 17 years of experience in banking and financial services, and technology, Mr Groot has comprehensive knowledge of financial institution business processes and of the financial content and application providers servicing them. He has broad experience in financial data management including product modelling, pricing and risk solutions, quality metrics and standardising financial information for major financial institutions.

Mr Groot is a certified Financial Risk Manager from the Global Association of Risk Professionals and is also the author of "Managing Financial Information in the Trade Lifecycle", published by Elsevier in May 2008. Mr Groot holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc in Mathematics from VU University in Amsterdam.

Marc Murphy is the co-founder and CEO of Fenergo, global providers of enterprise-wide Client Lifecycle Management solutions for corporate, investment, retail and private banks. 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 regulatory client onboarding and client/counterparty data management. These issues include a constantly changing regulatory environment that forces financial institutions to look at innovative new ways to break down data silos and bring together and re-use client and counterparty data from across the institution, helping them comply with new and evolving regulations and enabling them to measure risk exposure accurately. Marc is a software engineering and MBA graduate of Dublin City University.

Fabienne joined STET in March 2007 and is the General Counsel of the company. She was previously an International Contracts – ICT lawyer for Société Générale Group from 1999 to 2006 and dealt with all primary IT and market data providers, rating agencies and exchanges. She has gained an extensive experience in negotiating deals and contracts with these market players together with an in-depth understanding of their practices and industry. As a General Counsel, Fabienne is in charge of the relationships with customer banks and providers, and company related matters. Her major role and responsibility is to ensure

(i) compliance with the legal framework applicable to the company’s activity
(ii) the company’s commitments towards its customers are fully backed by its contracts with its providers, including data processing, IT services, etc.

By being a speaker at FIMA Market Data, Fabienne is looking forward to share her experience and understanding of the evolution of this industry together with the challenges faced by the financial sector in a generally more difficult market, characterised by growing pressure on contractual terms and conditions, including pricing.