Awards & Rankings
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Rising Star (End-User)—Kari-Anne Clayton, Deutsche Bank
Kari-Anne Clayton, design thinking lead at Deutsche Bank, weaves together design, user experience, data, and business analysis to create efficiency and collaboration, a role for which she has been training her entire working life. Clayton, the 2018…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Rising Star (Vendor)—Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters
Hella Hoffmann, data scientist at Thomson Reuters Labs, takes home this year’s rising star (vendor) award. Despite having only left university in October 2015, Hoffmann, who specializes in graph databases and data cleaning/anomaly detection, possesses…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Support Professional of the Year (End-User)—Anitha Iniyavan, RBC Capital Markets
By definition, support professionals are the unsung heroes of data teams, organizing, assisting and linking key team members and smoothing processes to ensure efficient delivery of services. Anitha Iniyavan, the 2018 WatersTechnology Women in Technology…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Support Professional of the Year (Vendor)—Dawn Patrick, Numerix
An average day for Dawn Patrick, COO and winner of the support professional of the year (vendor) category, entails managing the company’s day-to-day operations, driving projects forward and resolving inefficiencies. As someone who prefers to work behind…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Technology Innovator of the Year (End-User)—Kim Prado, RBC Capital Markets
The financial technology industry has few rock stars, but Kim Prado, global head of client insight, banking and digital channels technology at RBC Capital Markets, is certainly one of them. Having been at the forefront of technology for well over 20…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Technology Innovator of the Year (Vendor)—Jennifer Peve, DTCC
As the co-head of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp.’s (DTCC’s) office of fintech strategy, Jennifer Peve has the broad mandate of ensuring that the DTCC stays ahead of the industry when it comes to fintech. That means having to know about…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Technology Leader of the Year (End-User)—Wendy Redshaw, Deutsche Bank
It is a truth universally acknowledged that leopards cannot change their spots. Wendy Redshaw would like to respectfully disagree. The CIO for collaborative technology solutions at Deutsche Bank, who wins the inaugural award for technology leader of the…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Technology Leader of the Year (Vendor)—Bethany Baer, IHS Markit
An interesting fact about IHS Markit Digital’s CTO, Bethany Baer, is that she’s relatively new to finance. Before joining the industry on the insurance side in 2011, her most significant stint was as a vice president in various roles at travel specialist…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Trade Execution Professional of the Year—Mariya Kurchuk, Pragma Securities
Mariya Kurchuk spent a decade studying and conducting research in the field of electrical engineering, ultimately earning a PhD in the subject from Columbia University in New York. It’s natural to think, therefore, that she’d end up at Boeing, Lockheed…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Vendor Partnership or Alliance Professional of the Year—Wendy Collins, UnaVista (LSEG)
Wendy Collins, managing director, global strategic partnerships at UnaVista, an operating unit of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), wins this year’s vendor partnership or alliance professional category, thanks to her contribution to establishing…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Trailblazer (Lifetime Achievement)—Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters
Debra Walton, global managing director, customer proposition, financial and risk at Thomson Reuters, is the first recipient of one of the two highest-profile awards of the Women in Technology and Data Awards, the other being WatersTechnology’s woman of…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: WatersTechnology’s Woman of the Year—Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg
Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg’s head of strategic alliances in the firm’s global data group, wins this year’s highest-profile award due in no small part to her astonishing 30-year career at the firm. She currently manages Bloomberg’s strategic…
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Jennifer Peve, DTCC
The DTCC's Jennifer Peve, co-head of the firm's Office of Fintech Strategy, won the technology innovator of the year (vendor) category at this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Wendy Collins, UnaVista
UnaVista's Wendy Collins, managing director of global strategic partnerships, is the first recipient of the vendor partnership or alliance professional category at the Women in Technology and Data Awards.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters
Hella Hoffmann, a data scientist at Thomson Reuters Labs, won the rising star (vendor) category at this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards held on the afternoon of March 9 in London.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Aouda Bellout, Schroders
Schroders' Aouda Bellout won the reference data professional of the year category at this year's London-hosted Women in Technology and Data Awards held on March 9.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Jennifer Keser, Tradeweb Markets
Tradeweb's Jennifer Keser won the legal/compliance professional of the year category at this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards held in London.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Sallianne Taylor won the final category of this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards in London - the woman of the year award.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Georgia Prothero, Schroders
Schroders' Georgia Prothero won the EDM professional of the year category at this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards held in London.
Witad Awards 2018 Winner's Interview – Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters' Debra Walton won the Traiblazer (lifetime achievement) category at the inaugural Women in Technology and Data Awards.
Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018 – All the Winners
The winners of the 24 categories making up this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on Friday March 9 at a luncheon in London.
Shortlisted Entries for the Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018
Below are the shortlisted entries to the 23 categories making up this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards, to be held in London on March 9.
AFTAs 2017 Winner's Interview: Imagine Software
Imagine Software wins the Most Innovative Third-Party Technology Vendor—Risk, Compliance and Reporting category at AFTAs 2017.
AFTAs 2017 Interview: SmartStream
SmartStream nabbed the Best Back-Office Initiative category at the 2017 AFTAs.