Speakers

Suvrat Bansal is President and Founder of Stellar Data Labs, an innovative data company helping clients in harnessing the power of data and analytics. Prior to forming Stellar Data Labs, Suvrat was the Chief Data Officer for UBS Asset Management, where he led the full suite of data and analytics capabilities from data management and governance to AI/ML and advanced analytics. Suvrat has 25 years of leadership experience in driving data and analytics strategies for global organizations.

Laura Hamilton is Managing Director, Global Head of Corporate Treasury Technology and Financial Forecasting Technology at Bank of America. Prior to joining the bank in 2017, Laura was the Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Stress Testing Technology, Global head of Compliance Technology, America’s Head of Risk Technology at Deutsche Bank. Laura spent twenty years in various roles across J.P. Morgan where she was Chief Technology Officer delivering global enterprise business initiatives and industry-leading technology programs within Corporate and Investment Banking (Global Markets). Other experiences include the launch of technology innovations for eCommerce platforms for brands such as Nike, Estee Lauder and Best Buy.

Laura has extensive experience setting technology strategy and delivering business value through innovative and cost effective technology across various roles including: Line of Business IT Development, IT Infrastructure, Risk & Control, Chief Data Office/Data Architecture, Financial Crime Compliance, Technical Architecture, Regulatory Reporting, Corporate Treasury (Capital, Liquidity, Funding, Market Access). Laura’s experience spans Lines of Business including Global Markets, Commercial/Business Banking, Wealth Management, and Consumer Retail. Laura evaluates emerging technology and design principles with an entrepreneurial spirit along with a mindset of controls, ongoing sustainability and reusability. Laura has successfully implemented programs leveraging Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics/Process Automation, Public Cloud, and Advanced Data Analytics. She has a proven track record for delivering collaboratively with Agile and Lean principles to focus on the highest business value. Multiple Patent applications.

Laura is a passionate technologist who enjoys helping individuals develop professionally in their careers, especially women in technical and applied STEM roles.

Sham is the Global Head of Enterprise Technology and is responsible for group-wide shared technology capabilities, such as cloud, data, and central and end user infrastructure.

Sham is passionate about three main areas:

1. Delivering client value with robust, secure and resilient technology solutions that are fit for the future.
2. Innovating and striving to lead change through tribes of competence; championing tech experimentation through aXess Academy and aXess Labs, both created under his leadership.
3. Building and fostering a culture of collaboration, empowerment, inclusion and learning with our diverse talent.

His strategic priorities include enablement of the Bank’s Cloud first strategy to facilitate the acceleration of cloud deployments in the Bank and the transformation of the Bank’s digital workplace. In addition, he is leading the shift towards a software defined infrastructure which is secure, resilient and compliant by design, whilst also evangelising the Bank’s global data lake, among other priorities.

Sham also places a huge emphasis on the value of creating a diverse and inclusive culture in the Bank. He represents Technology & Innovation in the Bank’s global D&I Council, and has led programmes to attract, retain, engage, and develop diverse talent; reaching thousands of employees through multiple initiatives in 2020.

He has been with Standard Chartered for more than 17 years and has held several leadership roles, before being appointed to his current role in 2021. Most recently, as CIO Foundation Services & Tech Strategy, he was responsible for enterprise wide technology strategy and the foundational elements of the Bank’s technology infrastructure. He also headed GBS India, Malaysia, China and Poland T&I teams helping to build an engineering culture, driving talent uplift through learning and aXess, and significantly upping employee engagement and collaboration in our tech centres.

Outside of work, you’ll find Sham at home, taking on the next boardgame challenge with his daughter, potting pool balls with his son or binge-watching the latest Netflix boxset with his wife whenever time allows.

Vikramaaditya is former Chief Transformation & Administration Officer for HSBC’s global asset management business. He had responsibility for leading the global portfolio of business and regulatory change initiatives including global digital and infrastructure transformation. He also led the Global Operations and Administration functions focusing on delivery, first line risk activities and the optimisation of operating models for the global business. HSBC Asset Management is a full service asset manager with assets under management of over USD 600Bn and operations in 26 countries and territories across the world.

Vikram has over two decades of experience in the financial services sector across asset management and asset servicing businesses in UK and India. Vikram was earlier responsible for global business strategy for HSBC’s asset management business and was CEO for HSBC’s asset management business in India. Vikram has also led HSBC’s Securities Services business in India. Vikram was also the non-executive Chairman of HSBC ETFs plc which oversees HSBC’s global ETF fund range domiciled in Ireland.

Simon Young is Chief Compliance Officer, Overseas of Ping An Group where he provides supervisory oversight with respect to regulatory compliance of Ping An Group’s businesses outside Mainland China, including virtual banking, traditional banking, securities, asset management, insurance and fintech. Simon also served as Group Head of Financial Crime Risk Management in 2020, a group function that develops and employs AI-empowered advanced data analytics and machine learning tools to detect and monitor financial crime risk for 36+ business groups covering over 200 million customers.

Over the course of his 20+ years career, Simon has held various senior compliance, risk management and anti-money laundering leadership positions across banking, financial services and fintech industries. Prior to joining Ping An, he was Senior Director of Tencent Financial Technology and Alternate Chief Executive of WeChat Pay Hong Kong Limited; and Risk Management & Compliance Director of the Hong Kong homegrown Octopus Cards.
 
Simon holds a master’s degree in Information Systems Management and a master’s degree in International Corporate and Financial Law. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a board member of The Association of Certified Anti-Money laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Hong Kong Chapter.

In his role as Head of Enterprise Innovation, Hans is responsible for global Innovation Centers focused on rapid experimentation on new ideas and developing products and services in collaboration with clients, fintechs, “big tech” companies and internal teams.

He is also responsible for BNY Mellon’s partnership strategy creating partnerships and principal investments with startups and external stakeholders to deliver new capabilities, products, content that enable the company and its clients to be successful.

As Chief Information Officer for Corporate Technology, Hans leads the team responsible for the delivery and transformation of the technology supporting Human Resources, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Regulatory, Legal and Corporate Treasury through the application of emerging technologies.

Hans is a member of BNY Mellon’s Technology Executive Council, the Asset Serving and Digital Executive Committee, and the Enterprise Digital Council. He also serves on the Board of Symphony and on the Strategic Advisory Council of the ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN).

Hans holds a Master’s in International Technology Management from the University of Warwick, England, and a Master’s in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool, England.

Janine Hofer-Wittwer has been with SIX since 2014. She is responsible for creating SIX Financial Information’s ESG and sustainability proposition and by doing so contributing to a more sustainable and diverse economy, which are topics very close to her heart. Her role entails analyzing market trends and leading the creation of innovative services for the wealth, asset and risk management industry. Prior to that she has been driving the development of risk and analytics services.

Before joining SIX, Janine Hofer-Wittwer worked at UBS in Private Banking and at the Investment Bank both in Switzerland and abroad. After UBS she joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London where she was a Risk Manager for many years. Janine Hofer-Wittwer has a master’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Berne and is a CFA charter holder.

Innovative, agile and multi-award winning banking leader with over 25 years' international financial services experience with leading blue-chip institutions across three continents in progressive leadership roles, both executive and NED, in Investment Banking, Wealth Management, general management, business development, strategy and latterly in FinTech. His value proposition is centered around enabling challenger banks to establish strategic partnerships with FinTechs to create profitable financial products using an 'open architecture model.' Expert in driving digital banking transformations both in terms of creating 'best in class' digital customer experiences, and transforming key internal support functions to fully align with the overall digital transformation programs of financial institutions.

Andrew Foster, C.F.A., is the Chief Data Officer at M&T Bank. As CDO, he leads data strategy and governance, as well as the development and delivery of platforms, tools, and methodologies to enable M&T to harness the full potential of its data to continuously meet the evolving needs of customers and communities. He also partners with multidisciplinary teams across the organization to drive data-driven outcomes to support customer experience, business resilience, performance optimization, and growth.   

Foster brings over 20 years of experience leading data, automation, and innovation organizations in the financial services industry, most recently as Deputy Chief Data Officer (Americas) and Head of Data Governance at Deutsche Bank in New York. He previously held leadership positions at Europe Arab Bank (EAB) PLC and Arab Bank PLC, both in London.  

Committed to pursuing greater inclusion in the fields of data and technology, Foster has consistently advocated for women in data management, serving in volunteer leadership and outreach roles for Women Data Professionals, the gender diversity arm of EDM Council, a leading global trade association for data and analytics management.  

A native of South Africa whose career has taken him through London and New York, Foster works at M&T Bank’s Tech Hub at Seneca One in Buffalo, New York. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, specializing in Finance, from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and has participated in executive leadership programs through the London Business School. 

Andreas Burner, Chief Innovation Officer of SmartStream Technologies; has been with SmartStream since 1997 and has over 20 years of experience in building financial service solutions for leading international banks. He is the head of the SmartStream Innovation Lab with a mission to establish a culture of innovation within SmartStream. Andreas works closely with all teams to identify, prototype, and deliver new technologies to the SmartStream product range. His team of researchers are working on blockchain and artificial intelligence technology. 

In parallel, Andreas pursued an international academic career and contributed to the field of machine learning in the medical domain with AI technology that assist in the diagnoses of diseases. 

Andreas holds a MSc in Computer Science with a specialisation in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Technology, Vienna, and a MA in Mediation and Coaching from ARGE Educational Management, Vienna.

Kamran Khan is Deutsche Bank’s Head of ESG for Asia Pacific, with responsibility for defining and executing the bank’s ESG strategy across all business divisions in the region. He is a member of the Global Sustainability Council of Deutsche Bank.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Khan established Infra-Tech Capital, an impact fund investing in companies utilizing technology to provide infrastructure services and achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. He was also appointed by the Obama White House to serve as the head of global investments and operations at the US Millennium Challenge Corporation, where he managed a USD 10bn portfolio and led a USD 1.5-2bn annual investment program globally.

Previously, Mr. Khan held senior executive roles at the World Bank and helped establish the World Bank Group regional hub in Singapore, comprising the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Insurance & Guarantee Agency (MIGA). Prior to his time at the World Bank, Mr. Khan worked on M&A transactions and advisory mandates at JP Morgan and LEK. He also served as a US Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where he led operations for the project finance and guarantees facility.

Mr. Khan served as an Advisor on Infrastructure Finance to APEC, ASEAN, and the G-20. He is a member of the Senior Advisory Board at Fudan University Fintech Centre in Shanghai with a mandate to advise on Belt and Road Initiative projects. He has also served on the Board of Advisors at a variety of market-leading companies using technology to achieve ESG goals. He is a frequent speaker at events such as World Economic Forum, ASEAN Summit, APEC Summit, and in major international media.

Mr. Khan holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an MS in Applied Economics and Master of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Economics from George Mason University.

Louis John Rosato, III, Director, is a member of BlackRock's Investment Operations Group. He oversees Business Strategy and Industry Relationship Management with Blackrock’s Counterparties, Providers and Industry Partners within Investment Operations. He is a member of the BlackRock’s Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Equity, Liquidity, Cross Trading and Product Resource Oversight Committees.

Before taking on his current role, Mr. Rosato lead the Global Trade Operations Teams in the US and EMEA. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2004, Mr. Rosato was with Jennison Associates, LLC where he was responsible for establishing and managing the firms Retail Separately Managed Account Trading and Operations Teams. He performed similar roles for 1838 Investment Advisors and Rittenhouse Financial Services, and worked as an Equity Specialist Clerk and Foreign Exchange Options Floor Broker for Dean Witter Reynolds on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. He began his career in 1987 as an Operations Analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

Mr. Rosato is a Board Member of ISITC, and Chairperson of the Investment Company Institute Securities Operations Advisory Committee. He is a Member of the SIFMA Operations and Technology Committee and Chairperson of the AMF Operations Leadership Committee, and active participant and Co-Chair of several ISITC, SWIFT, FIA and FIX Trading Community Committees and Industry Working Groups. He previously represented BlackRock on the OMGEO Regional Advisory Council in the Americas. He earned a BS degree in Business Administration from Widener University.

Dr. Chen is the Head of Alternative Alpha Research at Robeco. In this role, he is responsible for leading the research and development of innovative alpha insights and solutions for use across Robeco. He started in this role in March 2022. Dr. Chen’s current research interests are in the areas of quant sustainability, machine learning/NLP, and alternative data, and has published a number of journal articles on these topics.

Previously, Dr. Chen was the Head of Sustainable Investments at PanAgora. In that role, he led the research and development of sustainable investment solutions across PanAgora, and the commercialization of PanAgora’s ESG offerings. In addition, he is responsible for model research and development in the Equity Division while participating in the daily management of the firm’s portfolios. While at PanAgora, Dr. Chen developed and applied for a patent for a framework to construct sustainable portfolios based on dual objectives of alpha and sustainability outperformance.

Prior to joining PanAgora, Dr. Chen was a Portfolio Manager at BlackRock’s Scientific Active Equity (SAE) team, where his responsibilities include portfolio management and research into alpha insights for use across the entire SAE platform. While at SAE, Dr. Chen won the “Signal of the Year” award for a signal he researched and developed.

Dr. Chen started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York where he traded and managed a portfolio of exotic US rates derivatives. While at Morgan Stanley, Dr. Chen researched, developed, and patented a framework that allowed for the pricing of derivatives based on two rate curves with dynamic multiplicative spread, one of the first such models on the street. 

Dr. Chen graduated from the University of Illinois in 2005 with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During graduate school, he published in leading academic engineering and applied mathematics journals and had been invited to talk at numerous academic and industry conferences.

Elvie Lahournere is Director, Digital & Innovation, Asia Pacific at Natixis as part of the bank’s move towards digitalisation in the pursuit of creating high value-added solutions for its clients. In this role, Elvie is responsible for promoting and facilitating the Digital and Innovation Strategy across the APAC platform and the bank globally. After 12 years of experience across Asia and Europe, with expertise in operational, and strategy development across different industries, Elvie has held senior roles with several technology and strategy businesses based in China such as Alten, and most recently Roland Berger. Elvie also developed her deep knowledge and network within the technology landscape in China as the co-founder and board member of French Tech Hong Kong.

Kim joined BMO in August 2021 from RBC where she was the Global Head of the Client, Banking & Digital Channels Technology group across Capital Markets.  Kim developed and implemented a comprehensive client data strategy adopted by Capital Markets, sunset legacy applications and united the global salesforce under a single CRM instance.  Collecting and connecting client touchpoints with external data sets allowed her team to proactively source opportunities and recommendations using advanced AI and machine learning to deepen client relationships and increase wallet share.  Kim held multiple roles at RBC over 15 years supporting the business in various capacities from running Global Fixed Income Production Services to Head of Fixed Income Sales and Credit Trading technology.

Prior to joining RBC, Kim ran Front Office technology at Mizuho as well as the API Connectivity Development team at ICAP and was part of the initial launch of BrokerTec. She has also held multiple positions across the street with Kidder Peabody, Deutsche Bank and Chase Securities. Kim received a BA from Stockton University in accounting.

Sumeet Chabria is the head of Global Business Services. He leads a global team of more than 23,000 employees and several thousand strategic partners providing technology, operations and business capabilities for all of Bank of America’s lines of businesses.

Sumeet is a member of the company’s Management Operating Committee and chairs the board of one of Bank of America’s international subsidiaries. His responsibilities also include running all shared technology services globally and managing all technology contractors and resourcing vendors.
Sumeet frequently represents the bank on artificial intelligence at various forums, including branches of the U.S. government. Sumeet is a member of the Council for the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a sponsor of the company’s Executive Education program on Operations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He is also a member of the board of trustees of SciTech Scity, a technology district being developed by the Liberty Science Center and the city of Jersey City, N.J.

Before joining the bank in May 2015, Sumeet held various leadership positions for 24 years across Europe and the U.S. He worked for eight years in London, most recently as chief information officer for Global Banking & Markets at HSBC, where he was responsible for technology, data and shared operations teams with over 10,000 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas. He also served in a business role as the global head of One HSBC Securities and Wealth, and in various global markets CIO and front-line roles across fixed income, derivatives, risk and electronic trading.
Sumeet began his career with technology start-ups and consulting in New York, leading financial innovations across both buy- and sell-side firms, including asset management and hedge funds. Clients included Goldman, Swiss Bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, Republic, Bridgewater, Wasserstein Perella and Omega Advisors.

In 2014, Sumeet’s organization received Euromoney’s Best Wholesale Banking Technology Innovation award. Previous accolades include the American Financial Technology Awards (Waters) and the European Banking Technology Awards. Sumeet holds a master’s degree in management, master’s degree in technology and bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stony Brook University, with executive education from the Ross School, IMD Business School in Lausanne and London Business School.

Keyun is a world-renowned expert in cloud forensics, a cutting-edge branch of cybersecurity, having created the field during her PhD on cybercrime investigation in 2009. She has ten years of rare expertise in cloud security and risk management, having worked in academia, edited the world’s first academic reference book, trained law enforcement agencies, and contributed to international standards developments widely adopted today. Her work has resulted in significant uplifting of security, incident management and resilience of the global digital infrastructure. She has advised the world’s largest financial services organisations and the fastest growing fin-tech companies on their cloud security strategies and digital transformation. 

Keyun is currently working on her second project on cybernomics - a new field in economics dedicated to the study of digital asset valuation and cyber risk measurement, tailored for the 4th Industrial Revolution. Her theories involve novel principles, laws and valuation models for digital assets, the backbone of our economy today. She was the first to academically propose a pair of risk units for measuring cyber risk, hekla and bitmort. The units were first published in the Journal of Computer & Security in 2016, the oldest journal in the field of cyber security. Her second textbook, “Digital Asset Valuation and Cyber Risk Measurement: Principles of Cybernomics”, has been published by Elsevier Economics in May 2019. 

Keyun holds a PhD in computer science and a diploma in art and design. She has a passion for trans-disciplinary innovation and design. Currently, Keyun is Head of Security, Risk & Compliance at Google Cloud. She is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences about her work.  She also speaks about inclusive and female leadership.

Karine Hirn is a partner and co-founder of East Capital Group, as well as Chief Sustainability Officer. Founded in Sweden in 1997, East Capital Group is an independent asset management group that comprises several strategies and specialisations to offer active management solutions in equities, bonds and real estate assets with a clear ESG framework and manages a total of USD 5.5 billion for a broad range of international investors. Established in Sweden in 1997, East Capital has expanded its reach from being a pioneer investor in Eastern Europe, and one of the largest investors in this region, to offering global emerging and frontier market strategies. The firm also offers innovative products in the field of sustainable investing, such as East Capital Global Emerging Markets Sustainable. Karine is the vice Chair of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Board Director of the European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, an advisor to Northeastern University Center for Emerging Markets and a French Trade Advisor.

Raj Solanki is an Executive Director with over 15 years’ experience shaping global strategies and delivering successful change. Raj’s current role at JPM sees him responsible for driving strategic and digital transformation across APAC Operations to facilitate new business, efficiency, scale and an improved client experience.

Prior to JPM, Raj worked at ABN Amro and Royal Bank of Scotland across London, New York and now Hong Kong where he’s been for the past 10 years. His roles spanned across Technology and the Business with focus solely on change the bank initiatives.

Raj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and enjoys spending his free time travelling with his family and learning Mandarin.

Srinivasan Shanmuganathan is the Head of API Platforms & Development Portal from Enterprise Technology arm of Standard Chartered. Competent Financial Services Technologist working on a mission to build & grow StanChart API Ecosystem business.

Accomplished Integration specialist, he has a unique 15 years background in Financial Markets technology, Enterprise Messaging, Open Banking Ecosystem & API Platforms which provides his organisation with unique advantages. Leveraging the unique lessons he learned from the inside out – literally! - Shan made a seamless transition to the world of building API Platforms and Open Banking Implementation. He had a brief stint with Bloomberg Singapore managing FICC Integration business for APAC.

Shan holds an Engineering Degree from Anna University.

Baptiste Puyou is Chief Architect for Societe Generale in Asia.

Coming from a technology background, he has spent most of his career in the region.

He is interested in discovering new technologies and discuss his findings with other people, and his position as architect allow him to do exactly just that.

Dr. Wanpracha Chaovalitwongse is Senior Director and Head of Data Management and Analytics at Bank of Thailand. Before joining BOT, he served as the 21st Century Leadership Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor of Industrial Engineering, and Co-Director of the Institute of Advanced Data Analytics at the University of Arkansas. He previously held faculty positions at University of Washington, Princeton University and Rutgers University. Before working in academia, he worked at the Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering. He currently holds three patents of seizure prediction system and an intellectual property on opioid risk prediction tools. He has been invited to give lectures in top institutions around the world including Amazon, Facebook, MIT, Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of London, National University of Singapore, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Seoul National University, and KAIST.

Dessa Glasser is FRG’s Principal for the data strategy advisory and analytics practice, providing innovative solutions to clients in data, risk, and analytics. She is an independent board member of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc; and chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).

Before joining FRG, Dessa was the Managing director at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for the Capital Stress Testing Analytics and was the Chief data officer for Asset and Wealth Management. As Deputy director of the Office of Financial Research, she received the US Treasury Exceptional Service Award. Dessa was the Chief risk officer for Bunge and held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and KPMG.

Dessa has a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Fordham University, where she is on the advisory board for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 

Paul Milon joined BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) in January 2008 and has more than thirteen years of experience in the asset management industry. In his current position, he leads BNPP AM’s stewardship activities in Asia Pacific. This includes direct and collaborative corporate engagement, as well as working with policymakers on key issues relating to sustainable finance and investment. Paul works closely with Asian investment teams to better integrate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) criteria in investment decisions, including through engagement with portfolio companies. He is the co-chair of the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) Engagement & Policy working group.

Prior to that, Paul held various positions within BNP Paribas Asset Management in Hong Kong and Paris. As ESG Specialist, he successfully established our Sustainability Centre’s presence in Asia. Before that, he was a senior investment specialist within our Fundamental Active Equities teams. In this role, he oversaw the strong growth of BNPP AM’s Indian equities capability for international clients. Paul was also responsible for consultant relations in Asia, and launched and managed the award-winning BNPP AM Investment Academy in the region. Before relocating to Hong Kong, he worked as an ESG analyst in the Sustainability Research team in Paris.

Paul holds a Master’s in Management with a major in Entrepreneurship from the EDHEC Business School in France. He is a SASB FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) Certificate holder.

Victor heads Citi Ventures’ Programs and Strategic Partnerships across APAC. His focus is on developing the infrastructure, networks and talent necessary for the continuous origination of impactful ideas and experiments that have the potential to transform the financial industry.

Victor is a seasoned entrepreneur, global citizen, and systems thinker focused on business model innovation and advanced decision automation. He has over a decade of experience in building and scaling technology ventures across the globe.

Global Head of Transformation & Platform Management team in charge of managing the evolution and support of BBVA Global Markets Platform. The main duties of the team involve platform strategic design, transformation programmes definition and execution acting as Product Owners, senior management reporting, vendor management and functional configuration of FO systems.

I am an award-winning passionate computer scientist, author, engineer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and inventor. I am neurodivergent, a pianist and violinist, and I hold the titles of EUR ING, BSc, MPhil, PhD, CEng, FIET, FRSA, AFHEA, IntPE. I hold the Freedom of the City of London, am a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers and an Engineer member of the International Engineering Alliance.

I am the Chair of the Tech London Advocates Smart Cities Group,  a reviewer of grant/awards of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET, and the ACM. I am a Council Member of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Ambassadors, a Committee member of the Grace Hopper Celebration and the ABIE Awards, and I’ve served as ambassador for many technology/educational organisations.

My career includes +16 years working in engineering. I work at Google as a Data Practice Lead (AI/Machine Learning, Smart Analytics, and Data Management), and I am a Google AI Principles Ethics Fellow. I work on the Interplanetary Internet on cloud computing. My continuing academic work is at UCL and University of Oxford where I serve as an Honorary Associate Professor in Computer Science and a guest Lecturer, respectively.

I have received numerous awards and recognitions for my contributions to the industry and international science.  I am an active keynote speaker and an open-source contributor.

Since 2003 I’ve actively worked towards increasing the representation of people of all kinds in Engineering and Technology.

Nick Mazing is Director of Research for Sentieo, a financial and corporate research platform for executives, investment analysts, and researchers. His career also includes having worked on both the buy side and on the sell side at Lehman Brothers. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and is based in Sentieo’s New York City office.

Head of UK Regulatory Transaction Reporting Service Delivery (RtB) at UBS

Responsible for the Meeting the TR, Governance, Change Governance and Quality Assurance teams for all UK reporting obligations, including MiFID ii, EMIR, SFTR as it goes live, Takeover Panel and Primary Dealer. Responsible for the Quality Assurance team in Krakow, Poland that complete QA for all global regs.

Manager of the dedicated EMIR Client Service team covering all queries from clients using the Delegated Reporting Service and our proactive outreach team, assisting clients maximise the value of the DR service.

Chris has 20 years’ experience in financial markets, entrepreneurship and investing. His first degree, a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, launched a career in financial services, specifically capital markets, sales and trading in London and Geneva with banks such as UBS, Societe Generale and BNP Paribas.

Subsequently he completed a #1 ranked Executive Education Global Entrepreneurship program at Babson College (Boston, USA), exposing him to the Silicon Valley, UK and Chinese entrepreneurial ecosystems, expanding his global network, and solidifying his passion for FinTech and innovation.

In recent years, Chris has combined his financial expertise with his passion for entrepreneurship as Head of European Innovation at Fidelity Investments before successfully founding an institutional crypto-asset custodian. Given the expanding institutional interest in crypto-assets, Chris joined Swissquote Bank to head the digital assets proposition. Swissquote is focused on maintaining its position as the number one Swiss bank for crypto-assets and continually growing its offering, including institutional equity certificates for crypto trading.

A serial entrepreneur, his start-up experience includes founding three ventures and consulting on several more in the fields of Digital Currencies, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence & Big Data.

Chris has also held Board roles at the bsi, IFS, and SwapsBall, was Founder of the Young Professionals Group for the BSCC and President of Nyon Toastmasters club. Chris remains active in the European Innovation Ecosystem, mentoring at accelerators and forming connections with some of Europe’s top VC’s and tech startups.

Boon is Head of Securities Market and Technology Advocacy, based in Singapore.

He joined Deutsche Bank (DB) in 1998 as a Management Trainee. In his banking career, he has gained valuable cross-transaction banking and international experience in specialist and leadership roles in areas including working capital management, structured finance, risks, and funds and custody.

In his current role, Boon represents DB as a securities market and technology advocate on regulatory, market and digital changes. He has participated in APEC and the World Economic Forum Digital ASEAN forums, in digital assets/DLT, cryptocurrency and darkweb discussions; and served in industry associations like the Association of Global Custodians, ASIFMA, ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum and the APAC CSD Group.

He pursues related interests in cryptocurrency/digital assets and cybersecurity governance; and as a community volunteer, he also supports Aging society inclusiveness and financial literacy. Boon holds a chartered accountancy qualification, MSc in Computation (AI), and a GIAC cybersecurity proficiency certificate. 

Cathy has over 17 years’ experience in the banking and finance industry spanning a breadth of roles from Treasury and Market Risk to being at the forefront of the future of finance as UnionBank’s Blockchain Center of Excellence Head. 

Prior to joining the Bank’s Fintech Group, Cathy gained experience through handling Market Risk and Statistical Analysis roles. She later joined the Treasury team wherein she stayed for over 12 years, eventually heading its Fixed Income (Indonesia and South Asia) and Derivatives Desk. 

Transitioning from traditional banking roles, Cathy currently leads her team which harnesses blockchain technology to prepare the Bank for the future token economy. Under her leadership, her team launched the award-winning BitBox, UnionBank’s Virtual Currency ATM- the first central bank compliant, bank-operated bitcoin ATM in the world.   

Cathy is also a certified Money Market and Foreign Exchange Trader and a licensed Fixed Income Salesperson.  

She graduated Statistics from the University of the Philippines – Diliman and is a candidate for Master of Science in Financial Engineering at De La Salle University. 

21 years+ experience including 15 years in the Financial Crime arena. At Mashreq, leading the AML, ABC and RegTech function in Group Compliance. At HSBC, led the buildout of sustainable capability and risk stewardship of the TM framework after leeading a regional team in MENAT of 40+ covering AML Policy, Governance, Projects and Investigations in the MENA region. Passionate about technology in the AML space. Keenly observing AI, Machine Learning, DLT and it's potential in fighting financial crime sustainably. Before HSBC, led regional teams performing surveillance operations covering 24 countries in Middle East, Pakistan and Africa At Standard Chartered Bank. Developed Financial Crime Analytics capabilities globally. Experience in AML, Sanctions, Governance, Surveillance operations, Regulatory relationship (including US, UK, Middle East and Monitors), people, project and cost centre management / oversight.

Qualified CA (India), CIMA (UK) and CAMS (US). Started career at Ford India and Hewlett Packard as Financial Analyst and Six Sigma Black Belt gaining experience in Financial Analysis, Reporting and Project Management. Joined KPMG Forensic Dubai in 2005 where he led various financial fraud investigations in the region involving, in certain instances, sums exceeding US$ 20 million. Managed multi-year, multi-disciplinary AML and Sanctions assignments for various multinational banks.

End-to-end exposure to one of the largest Fraud Risk Management assignment for one of the largest conglomerates in the region.

Having spent 5+ years in the practice, moved to banking industry specialising in managing Financial Crime Risk at Standard Chartered Bank in the UAE and later covering the region. Appointed as regional head of financial crime intelligence operations for MENAP and later Africa.

Sumanda Basu is currently leading Data Quality and Controls for Société Générale Americas. He was previously responsible for data governance and data management technology. Before joining Socgen, Sumanda had several data and technology management leadership roles in JP Morgan Chase, Citi and HSBC.

Bill Murphy is a Managing Partner at Cresting Wave, a technology advisory firm bringing innovative technologies to the enterprise technology community.   Bill is also a board member at Accurics and investor/advisor to a broad portfolio of early-stage companies.

Bill was a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Technology Officer at Blackstone, leading the Blackstone Innovations team from 2011-2020, responsible for the firm's use of technology along with a strategic technology investment portfolio. Mr. Murphy also served on many boards of directors of our investments along with the board of the Blackstone Charitable foundation.

From 1999 - 2011, Bill was founding Chief Technology Officer for Capital IQ where he was responsible for overseeing all product design, development, infrastructure, and technology support and was involved with all operations of the business. Before Capital IQ, Mr. Murphy led teams at Sapient, delivering solutions for large clients primarily in financial services. Mr. Murphy received a BSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, Class of ‘96.

Having joined Chartis in July 2020, Jay’s primary focus is to lead and build-out our offerings for the buy-side, both in asset management and wealth management. Buy-side is a focused area of Chartis’s expansion and we are delighted to have Jay leading this area which is increasingly important for both our clients and the industry in general. Jay was most recently a Senior Principal at Finastra. Prior to this he spent 4 years as a Senior Analyst at Celent, 4 years as the Director of Capital Markets at HP, 5 years as a Research Director at Gartner and his first 8 years in industry as a Group Manager in fixed income IT at UBS.

Jay holds a BFA from Cooper Union, a BA from Saint Lawrence University and an MBA in Finance from NYU Stern School of Business. Additionally, Jay is Series 7 certified with FINRA.

Keith Lubell is Chief Technology Officer at Berkery Noyes. Since 2002, Keith has been developing an application and database of the Mergers and Acquisitions marketplace, encompassing more than 47,000 transactions and 123,000 companies in the software and information industry, including a toolset to understand business models and identify short and long-term trends. Berkery Noyes uses this application to generate market reports and to host live access to the data viahttp://mandasoft.com. Prior to Berkery Noyes, Keith worked as Director of Application Development at Valinor - Ikon Office Solutions, where he obtained certifications as a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, Microsoft Certified System Engineer and Microsoft Certified Trainer. Earlier in his career, Keith worked on radar training simulators for Electronic Warfare Environments for the Department of Defense. As an inventor, Keith holds a US patent for a "Method of Displaying Enhanced Three-Dimensional Images," and has published in Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and American Journal of Physics. Keith earned a B.A. degree in Physics from Middlebury College.

Ellen Gentile has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector and has worked in various capacities for companies such as Cowan & Company, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Banc of America Securities and Pershing, LLC. 

Prior to managing SMBC's data quality, Ellen championed the use of qualified data as a core enterprise resource supporting decision makers. To best deliver and monitor quality of service and information, Ellen established and set enterprise standards through operational quality scorecard products at Pershing, LLC. The quality based products she managed provided the much needed insight and transparency clients require to manage and grow their businesses.

Ioana Surpateanu is CSO at DIA where she runs DIA Labs and coordinates policymaker/regulatory interactions on Decentralised Finance and crypto. She was formerly Co-Head of Gov’t Affairs and Innovation strategy lead at Citi as well as Vice-Chair in the American Chamber to the European Union. Prior to joining Citi she was Head of Cabinet to the Vice-Chair of the EPP Group in the European Parliament. Her professional portfolio includes collaborations with various companies from Europe and the Middle East. She appears on Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Powerlist and is shortlisted for WIBF’s Tech Star Award. Ioana received two Master’s degrees from the University of Bucharest and the University of Tel Aviv. She speaks five languages (RO, EN, FR, ES, HE).

Mason Gregory is an ESG and Sustainable Investing Specialist in the Investment Solutions Group at MFS Investment Management® (MFS®). 
In this role, Mason develops research and works with clients to communicate investment strategy and insights on ESG and sustainable investing. 
Prior to joining MFS in 2009, Mason was a product specialist for real estate equity strategies at The Tuckerman Group, where he was also responsible for ESG product development. Prior to that, he was a product analyst at State Street Global Advisors. Mason graduated from St. Lawrence University with a BA in English Literature and Communications Arts.

Chuck Teixeira is the Founder and CEO of WCKD RZR, an enterprise software firm focused on delivering intelligent automated Data Privacy solutions.

Previously, Chuck was the Chief Administrative Officer and Head of Transformation for Global Banking and Markets at HSBC. Under the Transformation banner at HSBC, Chuck led the global, cross-business effort of business model redesign and solution, using the latest market capabilities; Big Data, Automation, Distributed Ledger Technologies, Digital Platforms, FinTech partnerships and Cloud enablement.

Prior to HSBC, Chuck has held several executive roles as: a member of the EMEA Corporate Client Solutions Executive Committee at UBS, the Global COO of the Client Capital Management division at Barclays, COO Equities Americas at Nomura and the CAO of Equities EMEA at Lehman Brothers. 

Chuck is a Canadian chartered accountant and has an MBA from the University of Toronto where he serves as a member of their European Leadership Council.

Following a marketing and advertising career, Fiona set up MESH Experience in 2006 to fill a gap in data and analytics. Brand growth is driven by all experiences people have with brands, yet half or more typically go unmeasured. By taking an Experience Driven Marketing approach and capturing how people come into contact with brands in real time MESH helps clients, like LG Electronics, to take quicker and smarter decisions about their investment.  Fiona is a Fellow of the Market Research Society, sits on the editorial advisory board for ESOMAR’s Research World magazine, a member of the Marketing Society and sits on the board of WIRe (Women in Research).  She has worked with Professor Hugh Wilson at Cranfield School of Management on a knowledge transfer partnership that was a finalist for the Innovate UK award in 2015.

Andy McMahon is a data scientist and machine learning engineer with several years of experience leading data focussed technical teams and working to support analytics strategy at start-ups, FTSE 250, and now FTSE 100 organisations. His current role is focused on defining best practices for machine learning software development and for creating re-usable software patterns, processes, and assets to shorten the machine learning development lifecycle.

Previous to joining NatWest Andy was Analytics Lead in the Insights team at Aggreko, a team that won the Experian Data Excellence Award at the 2019 Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. His work at Aggreko on applying data science and machine learning to the optimisation of generator fleet servicing and predictive maintenance alerting also led to him winning the ‘Data Scientist of the Year’ award at the International Data Science Awards 2019. He is an active contributor to the Scottish data community and has spoken about ML Engineering, MLOps, and data science at several international conferences.

Andy has a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London and loves to spend his spare time with his wife and baby son. He also maintains a few active side projects, including writing a book on Machine Learning Engineering to be published later in the year.