Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Consultant of the Year—Cristina Mures, CJC Ltd
Cristina Mures, senior consultant at CJC Ltd., wins the consultant of the year category at the inaugural Women in Technology and Data Awards. She says consultants often enter into complex, ambiguous and sometimes unreceptive situations. However, with…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Data Scientist of the Year—Stephanie Clarke, Broadridge Financial Solutions
This year’s data scientist of the year award winner, Stephanie Clarke, loves data. But for her, data is not just all about the numbers, but rather what that data means to the world around it. Clarke is the senior vice president of global market…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Risk Professional of the Year—Boryana Racheva-Iotova, FactSet
While finance was always a practical choice for Boryana Racheva-Iotova, director of risk research, FactSet, who holds an MSc in probability and statistics from Sofia University and a Doctor of Science degree in statistics, for which she graduated magna…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Best Company for Diversity and Inclusion—Tata Consultancy Services
The coveted award for the best company for diversity and inclusion at this year’s Women in Technology and Data Awards goes to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), for its commitment to improving diversity within its own organization as well as being an…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: EDM Professional of the Year—Georgia Prothero, Schroders
Sometimes the path to working in technology is not always clear, and Georgia Prothero, this year’s winner of the EDM professional of the year award, knows this well. Prothero had no idea that she was destined to work in technology and data within capital…
Witad Awards 2018 Winners’ Circle: Georgia Prothero and Aouda Bellout, Schroders
UK-based asset manager Schroders won two categories at this year’s Women in Technology and Data Awards: EDM professional of the year and reference data professional of the year, won by Georgia Prothero and Aouda Bellout, respectively. Victor Anderson…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Engineer/Programmer of the Year—Kate Stepp, FactSet
Kate Stepp, recipient of the engineer/programmer of the year category, has always loved computers. What she wasn’t sure about was working in finance. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science program, Stepp did not consider the…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Startup Professional of the Year—Emma Margetts, Visible Alpha
Emma Margetts, co-founder of Alpha Exchange (now part of Visible Alpha) and winner of this year’s startup professional of the year category, is no stranger to hard work and overcoming challenges. By 2016, before the age of 30, she had successfully helped…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Exchange Professional of the Year—Karen O’Connor, TrueEX
As one of the most senior members of staff for one of the newest swap execution facilities (SEFs), Karen O’Connor, president and COO of trueEx, has been on the ground floor of market structure reform in the US since trueEx’s establishment in 2013.
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Legal/Compliance Professional of the Year—Jennifer Keser, Tradeweb Markets
Jennifer Keser, director of regulation and market structure at Tradeweb Markets, wins the legal/compliance professional of the year category, thanks to her work in preparing the firm, its stakeholders and its clients for the revised Markets in Financial…
Witad Awards 2018 Winners’ Circle: Jennifer Keser, Tradeweb Markets
Mifid II highlights the critical role of legal, compliance and regulatory professionals. Jennifer Keser, director of regulation and market structure at Tradeweb and winner of the legal/compliance professional of the year award, was tasked with ensuring a…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Market Data Professional of the Year—Patti Sachs, Citi
Patti Sachs, the first recipient of the market data professional of the year category, believes in setting an example. Sachs, director of market data services and global head of compliance and exchanges for Citi, oversees market data use throughout the…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Vendor Professional of the Year—Veronica Augustsson, Cinnober Financial Technology
All CEOs of capital markets technology firms are busy people—that goes with the territory. But for Veronica Augustsson, CEO of Stockholm-based Cinnober Financial Technology and winner of the vendor professional of the year award, 2017 was an exceptional…
Witad Awards 2018 Write-Ups: Reference Data Professional of the Year—Aouda Bellout, Schroders
Aouda Bellout did not even know that she had been nominated in this category in the 2018 WatersTechnology Women in Technology and Data Awards, so hearing that she has been voted reference data professional of the year was “quite a surprise,” although her…
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…