Philip S. Wu is a Manager in charge of Data Quality in American International Group's Corporate Enterprise Risk Management group. He has served the financial services industry for more than twenty-three years managing global data management teams in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has successfully delivered business driven data/technical solutions from both the vendor sourcing and end-user investment banking perspective. Philip has developed established a depth and breadth of process, data and technical knowledge in Master Data Management.
Jennifer has worked at Babson Capital Management for 11 years. She has been a member of the Data Management group for 3 years. Her group oversees the daily operations of the Enterprise Data applications, including a data warehouse, security reference data application and multiple enterprise data stores. Her most recent project involved creating a single source for legal entity data, including internal applications and vendor feeds, as well as bringing in vendor data feeds into the security reference data application.
John Simeone is a Senior Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch responsible for firm wide Integration Management with the firm’s strategic Product Reference Data Platform – PME. He currently is leading several major Product Data integrations between Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. John has focused on Integrations for the past 4 years and has over 10 years of Product Data/Security Master experience in Operations and Technology. His previous roles include Business Analysis and managing Product Data Operations globally for Fixed Income and US Listed Options. John holds an MBA in Finance and is Series 7 certified.
Dr. Ron Klein is the 2007 Wilshire Metadata Best Practices Award Winner as lead Metadata practitioner at BMO Financial Group. He plays a leading role in enabling the organization to leverage the value of information assets by providing governance, data quality and the facilities to determine what information the bank has, it’s meaning, where it is, how it got there and how to use the information asset. He consults, promotes and raises awareness regarding information sharing, reuse and information best practices. Dr. Klein has been working with metadata since early Decision Support Systems and Data Warehouse projects.
Prior to his role at BNY Mellon, David worked at UBS from 2005-2008 as North America Regional Head of Data Management for the Investment Bank. David was responsible for managing a regional operations team tasked with Client, Account and SSI data input and maintenance as well as driving strategic people, process, and infrastructure change within the data management environment. Prior to joining UBS, David spent 20+ years at JPMorganChase & Co. (and its predecessor institutions) where he gained extensive experience in bank operations, technology management, credit and lending technology & operations and change management. His last assignment at JPMorganChase was serving as Business Lead for a global cross-business Data Transformation initiative.
Amy G. Harkins is a Senior Vice President at BNY Mellon. Her direct responsibilities are for Worldwide Global Corporate Event Operations, including corporate actions, class actions, and proxy processing for the combined entity. In addition to her operational responsibilities, Amy is involved in the Market Data Committee at BNY Mellon.
Mike Phillips is the Program Manager for CMMI at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), a position created to lead the Capability Maturity Model* Integration [CMMI®] product suite evolution for the SEI. He has authored Technical Reports, Technical Notes, CMMI Columns, and various articles in addition to presenting CMMI material at conferences around the world. He is a co-author of the recently released Addison-Wesley book on CMMI for Acquisition.
Prior to his retirement as a colonel from the Air Force, he was the program manager of the $36B development program for the B-2 stealth bomber in the B-2 System Program Office at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. In addition to over five years of B-2 experience, he has four years experience guiding acquisition programs in the Pentagon for both the Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. His bachelor's degree in Astronautical Engineering is from the Air Force Academy, and his masters’ degrees are in Nuclear Engineering from Georgia Tech, in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and in International Affairs from Salve Regina College and the Naval War College. He is a graduate of the Program Management Course at the Defense Systems Management College and of the Air Force Test Pilot School.
- Capability Maturity Model, CMM, and CMMI are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Catherine Louisy-Louis is a Director and Head of Global Investment Data Administration for the Citi Private Bank. In this role, Catherine is a major contributor to the CPB investment data strategy, systems and infrastructure. She leads a global center of excellence and provides an authoritative source of investment data and analytics to internal and external clients across critical functions including asset management, capital markets, customer relationship management and sales, client reporting, compliance and risk. Catherine has had a 15-year career in financial services, high technologies and management consulting in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Catherine earned her MS in Mechanical Engineering at École Centrale de Nantes, France and Keio University, Japan and her MBA in Investment in Finance and Investments at Baruch College, New York. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Steven DeLaCastro has deep specialization with over twenty-five years of experience focusing on banking technology, operations, software, and services; and has held the titles of Chief Information Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, General Manager, EMEA Sales Director, Regional Country Manager, Partner, and Managing Partner; at Bank of America, AIG, Hogan Systems, Tatum CIO Partners and Global Outsourcing Science. He has personally consulted to over 80 banking clients and software and services providers in 32 countries while living in EMEA, APAC, and North America.
Mark D. Flood did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he majored in Finance (B.S., 1982), and German and Economics (B.A., 1983). In 1990, he received his Ph.D. in finance from the Graduate School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a Visiting Scholar and Economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis from 1989 to 1993.
From 1993 to 2003, he served as an Assistant Professor of finance at Concordia University in Montreal, a Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Senior Financial Economist in the Division of Risk Management at the Office of Thrift Supervision. He is currently a Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Housing Finance Agency in Washington, D.C.; co-chair of the Data Committee of the Committee to Establish the National Institute of Finance; a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland; and the co-founder of ProBanker Simulations, which sells educational simulations of a banking market. His research interests include financial markets and institutions, data integration technologies, securities market microstructure, and bank market structure and regulatory policy. His research has appeared in a number scholarly journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Quantitative Finance, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the St. Louis Fed's Review.
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 Benson is the Executive Director and Chief Technical Officer of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA). Peter is an expert in distributed information systems, content encoding and master data management.
Peter designed and oversaw the development of a number of strategic distributed database management systems used extensively in the UK and US by the Public Relations and Media Industries. From 1994 to 1998, Peter served as the elected chairman of the American National Standards Institute Accredited Committee ANSI ASCX 12E.
Peter is known for the design, development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an internationally recognized commodity classification and more recently for the design of the eOTD, an internationally recognized open technical dictionary based on the NATO codification system.
Peter is the Project Leader for ISO 22745 and ISO 8000 as well as the ISO TC184/SC 4 Quality Committee convener. He is an expert in the development and maintenance of Master Data Quality as well as an internationally recognized proponent of Open Standards that he believes are critical to protect data assets from the applications used to create and manipulate them.
John Bottega is Vice President and Chief Data Office for the Markets division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. John joined the Bank in February of 2009, responsible for driving and implementing the Markets Data Management strategy, which encompasses business, governance and technology in order to establish a sustainable business data discipline and technology infrastructure.
Prior to joining the Bank, John held the position as Chief Data Office for Citi, making him the first person in the finance industry to hold this title. At Citi, he was responsible for planning and managing the Investment Bank’s data management strategy, data policies, operational line functions and data investments.
John has over 28 years of experience managing and transforming reference data functions, having spend 9 of those years at Lehman Brothers from 1990 to 1999 building their data management infrastructure of centralized market data processing and data quality, and 9 years collectively at Merrill Lynch, first as an applications developer, then as Product Manager for their Product & Pricing Data environments.
As an active industry participant, John has given over 2 dozen presentations and participated in dozens of round-table discussions on data management best practices at various Data Conferences globally, including a presentation to the State banks of China, an anti-money laundering conference in Singapore, and a presentation on data management organizational structure and strategy to the US Department of Defense.
John is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EDM Council (Enterprise Data Management Council), an industry association focused on Financial Industry Data Management. He has also has served as the chairman of the executive committee of the Financial Information Services Division of the SIIA, has been a member of the SIA Standards and Protocol Committee, the Market Data Definition Language Committee and has been a member of the ISO Working Group 10 and Working Group 11 industry standards bodies.
Diane Schmidt is currently responsible for the management of Freddie Mac's Enterprise Information Management (EIM) organization whose primary objective is to improve information quality across the enterprise. Information Quality Metrics, Reference Data development, Data Management Operations, Data Governance Execution; Control Management, Audit and Risk Management are all key functions of the sixty person organization. Since joining Freddie Mac in 1998, Ms. Schmidt has held a series leadership positions and managed a myriad of mission critical data initiatives including those related business intelligence, data warehousing, financial reporting, risk, compliance and controls. Prior to joining Freddie Mac, she consulted for SAIC and focused upon enterprise data modeling in support of federal and local governments. Ms. Schmidt received her MS in Information Management from Marymount University and a BA in International Affairs from the University of Mary Washington. She is also a graduate of George Washington University Program with certifications in Program and Project Management.
Tom holds the position of Data Governance Leader for GE Asset Management (GEAM). In his role, Tom is responsible for creating a data control vision and deployment plan for the entire organization. In addition, he is responsible for anticipating emerging business requirements, assessing industry trends, monitoring competitors and setting data standards and guidelines across GEAM’s asset classes.
Leading a team of operational resources Tom has partnered with Information Technology to redesign GEAM’s data sourcing, validation and delivery processes by the end of 2009. The implementation of Master Data Management focuses on driving strong business rules and definitions, enabling easy integration of system and data flow, and ensuring efficient, accurate and consistent retrieval of data.
Tom has held functional roles in Finance, Sourcing, Project Management, Operations, and eBusiness development.
Neil Edelstein joined GoldenSource in 2007 as Vice President of Marketing and Product Solutions. In his role, Neil has extended GoldenSource product line capabilities to reflect buy side investment strategies. He is responsible for GoldenSource Derivative Business Solution, which aggregates all derivative reference, counterparty and collateral information in single platform and thin client application.
Edelstein has more than 30 years experience in the financial services industry, including reference data and pricing expertise. He has previously held roles at Standard & Poors, Interactive Data, Thomson (as President of Muller Data), and SunGard, where he was Managing Director. Edelstein has also worked as an independent consultant for DTCC and Vanguard and has led Accenture's Data Management practice.
Ravi Vaidyanathan is the Vice President - Financial Services and manages the Securities and Asset Management Business Unit within Hexaware. Ravi has over 17 years of experience in the IT industry and over 10 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry including Securities and Capital markets. Ravi has developed several solutions in the areas of Reference Data Management, Portfolio Accounting, Investment Reporting, Reconciliation etc for various Wall Street clients of Hexaware. Ravi also specializes in the implementation of Data Management solutions from leading product companies like Eagle Investment Systems. Prior to Hexaware, Ravi worked for leading companies in the industry specializing in engineering and implementation of various application and system software products.
Prior to joining HSBC as the Global Head of Entity Reference Data, Peter was the Chief Data Officer for JPMorgan Worldwide Security Services. In that position, he was responsible for the development of information and technology practices that fully integrate data across the Worldwide Securities businesses and within the firm. Some of his focus areas included security reference data, security pricing, and account and client reference data.
Tony Brownlee is responsible for Kingland’s financial services MDM practice, working with major banking, financial markets, and insurance companies. Tony specializes in new solution development in areas involving process engineering, complex data, data management, and risk management problems and was instrumental in the creation of Kingland Systems’ data business.
Prior to her current role, Maryann was Vice President of Strategic Consulting for A-Team Group. She began that role in January 2005, after leading global financial information services initiatives for over 25 years. As part of A-Team’s management group, she headed up its consulting business in which A-Team’s management works with its clients – individuals involved in managing information technology and data for the financial services industry globally – to determine the direct impact of market trends, regulations and technology shifts on their firm and how to take advantage of change to achieve strategic growth.
Norman has 20 years experience in delivering Information Architecture strategies designed to increase straight through processing (STP) and reduce operational risk within the Capital Markets. At Morgan Stanley, he is responsible for defining and implementing solutions to manage Product reference data.
Colin Close BA (Hons), President, Netik, is a securities market expert and has spent over 25 years in the financial product discipline with Chase and Bankers Trust and the last 9 years with Netik. Colin has, through his experience in financial markets, successfully lead high profile business improvement initiatives for financial institutions through the creative engineering of people, processes and technology. At Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust, Colin was Managing Director for the Global Investor Services business, where he was responsible for the strategic development for a range of key products serving institutional investors and asset gatherers. Prior to that, Colin spent ten years at Chase Manhattan where he managed, latterly from New York, the strategic planning of service delivery to institutional investor clients.
As Head of Global Data Management since 2007, Kay is responsible for the worldwide shared services operating model for pricing and reference data. The shared services global operating model support's Northern's custody, asset management, fund administration and operations outsourcing businesses. Key responsibilities include not only daily operations but also strategic and transformation initiatives. With over 20 years of financial services experience Kay, has a deep awareness on the importance of data management to the business.
Laura Madison is a Senior Vice President and director of the newly formed Data Management Program at Rabo Support Services, Inc. (a subsidiary of Rabobank International) in Jersey City, NJ. She has spent the last year researching Data Management in the wider world, and educating her colleagues about the importance and value of including Data Management as a strategic function.
Laura joined Rabo nearly eight years ago, first as an operations manager providing support to the Bank’s South American and Canadian offices, and then as manager of wholesale Loan Administration and Trade Services for the Americas. In 2007, Laura managed retail lending projects for Rabo AgriFinance, a mid-west finance company owned by Rabobank.
Laura is currently member of the Bank’s Corporate Social Responsibility, IT Steering, and Americas Security committees.
Prior to joining Rabobank, Laura led a consulting group specializing in process improvement for wholesale international banking operations.
Rick Wilson is Vice President of Product Strategy and head of the financial services solutions team at Trillium Software. In the past, Rick has served as VP of Sales, VP of Strategic Sales and been client relationship manager with Bank of America, Citicorp, Lloyds TSB and HSBC. For the past two years, Rick operated out of Trillium Software's European offices where he concentrated on the development and deployment of a portfolio of solutions focused on credit, risk and BASEL II reporting with key international customers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has been with the company for 15 years.