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Bank of America recently announced that John Bottega has joined the company as chief data officer. In this role, Mr. Bottega is responsible for the bank's data management strategy, policy and governance.
Alexander E. Abramov previously served as a National Practice Leader at Ernst & Young, where he was responsible for design of IT Compliance Programs for the pharmaceutical clients. Mr. Abramov also was an IT Audit Manager at Ernst & Young. Prior to E&Y, he was a Head of IT Application Development at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Mr. Abramov is a Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM.)
Jon is a senior member of the Trillium Data Intelligence and Governance (DIG) Solutions division, where he has overseen the development of key solution deliverables for the financial services market. Jon has over 13 years of experience in information management and data analytics, working for both global consultancies and software vendors and many international Financial Services clients. Working within the field of complex data analytics, assisting clients to optimise business insight, Jon has developed a detailed understanding of the practical challenges inherent in integrating data from disparate systems. Key deliverables from DIG solutions that Jon has engineered are transparent, measure-able and centralized best practices for data quality management in risk reporting and risk-reserve management
Over the last 5 years, Jon has focused exclusively on data quality management and has provided advisory services to clients, defining data quality strategies, building business use-case justifications and plans for data management initiatives within Data Governance and Master Data Management projects. 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. These engagements have developed robust data quality monitoring and governance processes validating inputs to credit risk models and capital reserve calculations. A critical deliverable from these initiatives is a documented ‘corporate action plan’ that engages business and technical teams in a joint solution that addresses regulatory requirements for robust systems that validate “accuracy” and “consistency” of processes and risk components – including on-going measurement and monitoring actions.
Mike has been a professional facilitator and financial information industry advocate for over 20 years. He is currently the Managing Director for the Enterprise Data Management Council – a business forum for financial institutions, data originators and vendors on the strategy and tactics of managing data as an enterprise-wide asset. Mike is an active participant in standards initiatives and has been involved with many organizations including the Reference Data Coalition (REDAC), the Securities and Financial Information Markets Association (SIFMA), the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) and the UK Reference Data User Group (RDUG). He was also a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Data and a member of both ISO TC68 and ANSI X9D. Mike has been the Managing Director of the EDM Council since February 2006.
Mr. Peter Richard Benson is the Founding and Executive Director of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA). This not for profit association was founded in 1999 to develop and promote the implementation of co-operative solutions for the unambiguous exchange of information. Peter is also the General Manger of PiLog USA Inc., a member of an international group of companies providing data quality solutions. Peter has enjoyed a successful career in structured data and pioneered many of the principles governing the distribution of unambiguous language independent data. Peter developed a method for securely updating distributed encrypted databases with usage monitoring using simple email exchange. This was successfully applied to the distribution of the SEC filing index before the release of the EDGAR filing index. Peter subsequently received a British patent in 1992 covering the use of automated email to update distributed databases. From 1994 to 1998 Peter chaired the ANSI committee responsible for the development of EDI standards for product data (ANSI ASC X12E) and Peter was responsible for the design, development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an international commodity classification for spend analysis and procurement. Most recently, in pursuit of a faster, better and lower cost method for obtaining and validating master data, Peter designed and oversaw the development of the eOTD (ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary), eDRR (ECCMA Data Requirements Registry) and eGOR (ECCMA Global Organization Registry) as open registries of terminology, data requirements and organizations mirrored on the NATO codification system.
Peter is the project leader for ISO 8000 (data quality) and ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries), he is recognized as an expert on the capture, maintenance and distribution of master data as well as the automatic rendering of high quality multilingual descriptions from master data that are at the heart of today’s ERP applications and the high speed and high relevance search engines.
Peter works to focus international attention on the importance of open metadata and data provenance at the data element level. On the one hand open metadata protects an organization’s rights to their own data and plays a key role in long term data retention, while on the other, data provenance is critical to being able to trace the origin of data and therefore its accuracy and reliability.
Tom is the Risk Information Manager at JP Morgan Chase. His organization provides risk organization leadership across all risk data initiatives and the infrastructure/operational processes surrounding risk data. A primary focus of the organization is to ensure the data quality, business processes and infrastructure for risk information is well maintained and enhanced as needed.
Prior to JP Morgan Chase, Tom spent eight years in risk at Bank of New York Mellon and eight years in the United States Navy. He is currently a lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve. He holds a BS in History from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from the University of Michigan
Malcolm Chisholm has over 25 years experience in data management, and has worked in a variety of sectors, including finance, insurance, manufacturing, government, defense and intelligence, pharmaceuticals, and retail. He is an independent consultant specializing in data governance, master/reference data management, metadata engineering, business rules management/execution, data architecture and design, and the organization of Enterprise Information Management. Malcolm is a well-known presenter at conferences in the US and Europe, writes columns in trade journals, and has authored the books: Managing Reference Data in Enterprise Databases; How to Build a Business Rules Engine; and Definitions in Information Management. He holds an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, and can be contacted at mchisholm@refdataportal.com.
Fred Cohen is Group Vice-President and Global Head of iGATE Patni's Capital Markets and Investment Banking practice. With over 25 years’ experience in the financial markets, Fred has held senior management positions with high-profile employers such as Lehman Brothers, State Street, Thomson Financial and DST; he also has extensive experience managing very large scale financial projects.
Dan Defend earned his Masters in Computer Science from University of Illinois. He has experience at Motorola as an Engineering Manager first in Unix OS and then in embedded cell phone software where he also led analysis and data-driven improvement using Digital Six Sigma methodology. He is currently leading the Data Quality program at Yahoo! where significant improvements are underway involving centralized monitoring and data cleansing across Yahoo!’s audience data pipeline and relying heavily on organizational leverage and distributed ownership and accountability.
Kelvin Dickenson is the Senior Product Director for D&B’s Enterprise Risk and Compliance solutions. His role is to ensure unparalleled data quality and business insight enabled by a single pristine view of clients and counterparties for financial institutions: maintain accurate counterparty data to determine risk exposure and minimize financial loss; increase the efficiency of their data cleansing and linkage process; and enable current and future regulatory compliance. Since joining D&B in 2005, Kelvin has led multiple key client engagements leveraging the full range of D&B products. Moving to a product management role in 2011, Kelvin is now focused on leveraging D&B’s capabilities to help our Customers meet increasingly requiring regulatory and risk management challenges. Prior to joining D&B Kelvin spent 20 years in a number of roles in the banking sector and most recently was the leader of commercial credit and loss prevention at MBNA America.
Neil has more 30 years experience in financial reference, pricing, and market data. He has extensive experience within major data vendor, aggregation, and data management consulting firms, implementing data solutions within top tier buy, sell and insurance firms. Neil is currently on staff at First Derivatives focusing on helping clients achieve cost effective highly flexible enterprise data solutions. Prior to First Derivatives, Neil spent four years as Vice President at GoldenSource and in executive positions, at Capgemini, Accenture, Sungard, Thomson, and Interactive Data.
Hagen Feuchter is a Senior Industry Consultant for Teradata. His expertise is in the application of data management and analytics for financial institutions, with specific emphasis on risk and return management decisions. Hagen has supported many of the top US North American banks with their risk, governance and compliance challenges as well as profitability and performance management. He has developed a unique assessment correlating information management with the ability to manage risk and has published several white papers on various risk management topics.
Prior to Teradata, Hagen worked for 15 years at two top North American banks in a range of roles from customer profitability and management, risk analytics and reporting, Basel II implementation and commercial and retail portfolio management. In addition to having been a qualified commercial lender, he brings a strong track record of leveraging technology to provide data to solve and improve risk challenges. His risk analytic work between 1993 and 1995 was a key input into the credit risk foundation for the Basel II capital accord.
Alexis “Allie” Grassie is a Director with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in the newly created Data Management Group, a ground breaking department focused almost entirely on improving information quality and availability for the business, rather than focusing on the technical aspects of data.
Her main responsibilities include creating policies, processes and standards that will create, enhance and maintain data quality and integrity for CIBC data.
She also serves as the liaison for the Data Management Group’s communication and outreach strategy, which includes internal stakeholder engagement and marketing as well as participation in national and international financial data and trade associations. She has worked closely with the Enterprise Data Management Council, a financial industry-focused semantics and data organization.
She sits on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Steering Committee for Legal Entity Identification, and was part of the industry delegation to the Financial Stability Board meeting on LEI in Basel in 2011.
Prior to joining CIBC, Allie worked in a number of progressive positions in the healthcare informatics industry, most notably with Toronto’s University Health Network’s (UHN) Shared Information Services, where as Manager of Enterprise Data Warehousing, Databases and Business Intelligence she oversaw a team who undertook the implementation of the UHN’s first business intelligence tool. In her tenure at UHN, Allie guided the implementation of the BI tool, creation of an enterprise wide balanced scorecard, and creation of a new financial reporting data mart and analysis area, as well as increasing the Data Warehouse information holdings through various integrations by almost a half terabyte a year!
Allie has been involved in standards for many years, from health informatics and messaging, as Secretariat for HL7 Canada, and is currently a Board member for the Information Resource Management Association of Canada.
Allie has been published or interviewed in various standards and Health Informatics spaces (Canadian EMR, HL7 Canada, SIMS Podcast, Canadian Healthcare Technology), has been on a few committees and boards (IHE Canada Board, Canada Health Infoway Steering Committee, HL7’s Rim Based Application Architecture, Marketing, Membership, Publishing), and has a fondness for presenting (HL7 Canada Conferences, IHE Canada, HL7 International, MDM Conference).
When not agitating for data quality and truth, justice and the Canadian way, Allie relaxes at her home in Toronto’s Beaches, with her husaband, two teenage daughters, dogs, cats and a garden that is constantly in need of weeding.
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 Centralised 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 globalisation, 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.
Amy G. Harkins is the Managing Director and Senior Vice President at BNY Mellon. Her direct responsibilities are to provide a central utility for Account Opening, Reconciliation, Tax, Income and Control for all client types and all systems globally. Services include account set up, collection of market and tax related documentation, data security administration, exception management processing, identification, research, limited resolution, and reporting of exceptions, income collection, reclaim processing, tax withholding, preparation of IRS filings, claims management, regulatory reporting and risk mitigation.
Ms. Harkins serves on the DTC Advisory, Broadridge, Enterprise Data Management Council, and FIMA Market Data Advisory Boards. In addition, Ms. Harkins is actively involved in the Securities Industry Association FISD and FIMA Program Committees.
Nick holds the position of Global Reference Data Manager for Northern Trust, which includes responsibility for worldwide, shared service, reference data operations and for working across the enterprise to assess and define the business, operational and technology data needs and solutions from both a short term and strategic perspective. His role also encompasses leading Northern's Data Governance agenda as well as defining global reference data standards and policies.
Mark has been in the financial community for over 20 years, supporting realtime market data services for several banks, with a few years on the vendor side as well. He recently added on the responsibility of managing instrument static data at HSBC in the US, heading the project to off-shore and centralize data maintenance tasks.
Emmanuel Kiyanda is Senior Manager, Market Parameters at National Bank of Canada.
He is based in Montreal and is responsible of market data, static data and plays an important role in the data governance at the Bank.
He formerly worked in credit and market risk management at Caisse centrale Desjardins, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and National Bank of Canada.
Recently, his team and him successfully integrated a state-of-the-art data hub application and are currently in the process of centralizing the market parameters for the Financial Markets business line using this new technology.
Peter is responsible for Informatica’s Banking, Capital Markets, and Insurance industry solutions marketing practice. Mr. Ku has over 15 years developing and marketing data integration, reference data, data management, business intelligence, and data governance solutions to the global financial services industry with Visa International, Sagent Technology, Iteration Software, Dorado, and Ellie Mae. He also spent 3 years with Providian Bancorp managing their high risk credit card products and marketing. Mr. Ku is a regular presenter at industry events across the globe and author of many articles related to data integration, data governance, reference data management, and data management in the financial services industry.
Richard Livesley is Head, Information Governance and Quality at BMO Financial Group. Working within the Global Information and Technology Risk Management team, his accountabilities include identification and management of information risk across the enterprise. Areas of focus include risk metrics, data integrity and life cycle management. He is an active board member of the University of Waterloo’s Center for Information Integrity and Information Systems Assurance.
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
Evelyne Roy is currently Head of the Client Intelligence Program and Reference Data Management at BMO Capital Markets. Her accountabilities include delivering 360 Degree Client reporting and analytics. Areas of focus include Client Relationship Management and Data Management with respect to data integrity and client life cycle management.
Timothy P. Ryan, CIPMis a Vice President and Head of Performance Measurement at Hartford Investment Management Company. In this role, Mr. Ryan is department head responsible for GIPS® compliance, return calculation, composite maintenance, peer ranking, and performance attribution support for this $150 Billion plus asset manager. Previously, Mr. Ryan spent seven plus years at Fidelity Management and Research Co. in Boston, culminating in the role of Director of Attribution Analysis following stints as Manager of Attribution Analysis and Fixed Income Performance Attribution Analyst. He is a frequent speaker and author on performance topics,serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Performance Measurement, also serves on the CIPM Association Advisory Council, is the 2004 recipient of the Dietz Award for Performance Measurement Literature, and editor of the book Portfolio Analysis. Tim additionally acted as the firm’s Data Governance Officer for a year, during which he lead the firm’s Data Integrity Group and the firm’s cross-functional/inter-departmental Data Governance Advisory Council.
Mr. Singh has over 14 years of comprehensive experience in innovative supervision of teams, data technologies, data application development/support, and data standardization improvement. Beginning his career “under the hood” as a software developer, Mr. Singh has worked in several industries including Consulting, Government, Mortgage Finance, and Financial services. He is currently leading an Enterprise Data Governance program design and implementation involving reference data definition, vendor source identification, feasibility analysis, internal data cleanup, and process control definition and automation at Oaktree Capital Management. The program covers the entire systems and processes for data delivery for Oaktree’s enterprise of Investment Decisions, Trading, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, and Marketing departments. Mr. Singh holds a BA/BS in Philosophy/Psychology from Brigham Young University and a MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Barry Smith is a leader in the field of ontology research and development and the creator of ontology resources used by over 100 organizations for purposes of data integration and analysis. He is Director of the National Center for Ontological Research and Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Computer Science and Neurology in the University at Buffalo. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the US Department of Defense, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. He is consultant on ontology technology to the German Federal Ministry of Health, the US Army Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate, the US Government Joint Planning and Development Office, and to multiple research organizations especially in the biomedical field.
Dale is a leader in the financial software and information industry with over 25 years of success in building and creating software and information companies. Prior to joining First Derivatives, he was CEO/Founder, LakeFront Data Ventures (LDV), a specialty boutique strategic data / information consultancy. Prior to LDV, he was with SunGard as Chief Data Officer & President, Enterprise Data Management (EDM). While at SunGard, Dale was one of the 3 founding partners of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) council together with IBM and GoldenSource. Prior to Sungard, Dale was President & CEO at FAME Information Services where he lead FAME from specialty time-series software vendor to global leader in Energy and Financial data management services with record sales growth and industry recognition as the Top Global Data Management Solutions Vendor for 3 years in a row. Prior to FAME he was founder, CEO Benton Associates Inc:, a successful global consulting, software solutions & quantitative analytics company. Dale has held varied board positions with Covarity, (solutions for commercial loan monitoring), Diaphonics (biometric voice recognition solutions for compliance in financial markets), TAP Systems (a data management solutions firm), and is also on the board of the Jazz Apprenticeship Program, a NYC-based jazz educational / mentoring program for aspiring inner-city kids.
Anu George is the Chief Quality Officer at Morningstar, Inc., a leading provider of independent investment research. Her responsibilities include providing a strategic direction to the quality initiatives at Morningstar and driving process excellence. George has more than 20 years of experience in reputable organizations such as Unilever, GE, and Morningstar. She has global experience through her extensive work in Asia, North America, and Europe. Her strengths lie in operations management and LEAN Six Sigma. She is a frequent speaker on topics such as business process excellence and leadership.
George holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from the University of Mumbai, India, and a master’s degree in business administration with a specialization in marketing from the J. Bajaj Institute of Management at the University of Mumbai. Her hobbies include horseback riding and reading books on business management, Zen, and macroeconomics.
John Randles is chief executive officer of PolarLake. John joined PolarLake from Siebel Systems, where he was CTO Banking and responsible for the Retail Banking business across the Americas and EMEA.
Prior to joining Siebel, John was CTO of Eontec, a world leader in component-based banking systems, which was acquired by Siebel Systems in 2004. John also led Eontec’s business in North America and had previously led Product Development, Strategy, Product Marketing and Pre-Sales globally.
Philippe Chambadal is the CEO of SmartStream Technologies, leading its acquisition in 2007. Philippe has held many senior management positions in software and hi-tech firms over the past 15 years. He was the Founder & CEO of MetaMatrix, the leading data services platform purchased by Red Hat and was EVP at FAME Software, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company - subsequently acquired by Sungard. Additionally, Philippe co-founded Reuters New Media and was responsible for the successful launch of the Reuters Terminal, the first Windows-based product launched in the financial market. He also created and led the Research & Analytics division at Instinet.