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Otmar Issing
President Center for Financial Studies
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Otmar Issing has been one of the most influential European central bankers over the past 10 years, being a member of the executive boards of the Bundesbank (German Central Bank) and the European Central Bank. Having studied economics at the Universities of Würzburg (Germany), London and Paris, he wrote his PhD on Monetary Problems within the European Union. He was appointed Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, for several projects he worked with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C.
The German Government appointed him to their economic advisory board in 1988. Shortly after that he became Chief Economist and member of the executive board of the Bundesbank. In 1998 he joined the President Wim Duisenberg as Chief Economist and member of the executive board at the European Central Bank, he is the only member who has been voted for the maximum period of eight years in office. He retired from the European Central Bank in 2006.
At the European Central Bank, he was responsible for European Monetary Policy. He made all the decisions regarding the euro interest rate and was known for being the architect of the ‘Two Column Strategy’: economic indicators as well as monetary criteria (i.e. growth of money supply) must be considered for any decisions on interest rates.
Otmar Issing has published many articles and books including Monetary Policy in the Euro Area, Cambridge University Press.
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Hamish McRae
Chief Economic Commentator, "The Independent" and "The Independent on Sunday"
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Hamish McRae is one of Europe's foremost speaker on future trends in economics, business and society. In January 2010 he published his latest book, What Works. He is the Economic Editor of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. He is also the author of the acclaimed work on the future, The World in 2020: Power, Culture and Prosperity. Hamish's other books include Capital City - London as a Financial Centre, co-authored with Frances Cairncross, and Wake-up Japan, co-authored with Tadashi Nakamae. His most recent awards are the David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism in 2005, the Business and Finance Journalist of the Year in the 2006 British Press Awards, and Communicator of the Year at the 2007 Business Journalist Awards. He is a Visiting Professor at the School of Management at Lancaster University and a council member of the Royal Economic Society. Hamish is in demand around the world for his lucid insight into the current economic situation and how future trends are likely to affect business and governments.
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Steve Turpie
Commercial Programme Director
Aviva |
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 Steve is currently Commercial Programme Director at Aviva UK, with responsibility for the Commercial and Strategic Management of Aviva UK’s IT Infrastructure. Prior to this Steve led the disposal of Aviva's offshore operations in a landmark transaction for the BPO industry, transforming Aviva's Offshoring Strategy. Before joining Aviva he held a number of senior finance positions, including FD, in Telecom’s and Financial Services. He is also a Non-exec Director for an Acute Hospital Trust in Suffolk. He has been involved with forming and implementing Strategic Change Programmes for more than 15 years, more recently within the Offshoring and Shared Services arena. He and has a degree in Finance and Accounting and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants.
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Jean-Claude Nobili
CEO, BEKB | BCBE |
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Mr Nobili joined the Cantonal Bank of Berne in 1977 as a National economy assistant of a member of the Executive Board. During his first years he was coordinating lectures at the University of Berne on selected questions on Swiss banking policy.
In his role as Head of Marketing (1981 - 1990) Mr Nobili was responsible for the external communication, and was also member of the project management group during the fusion of the Cantonal Bank of Berne with the Hypothekarkasse Berne.
He continued his career as Head of Management, followed by Head of Finances, and in 2003 became Head of the Executive Board.
Mr Nobili has a certificate as lic.rer.pol of the University of Berne on National economy, business economies and business law.
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Beatriz Kissler Fernandez
Area Director, Banking Services Operations
“la Caixa”
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 BEATRIZ KISSLER joined “la Caixa” in 1999 assuming the direction of the Channels development department inside the Information Systems Area. During these years she was the responsible for the development of all the IT projects related with ATMs, Internet services, and the portal services offered by “la Caixa” to its customers.
Today she has the direction of the Banking Services Operations Area. The Banking Services Operations area is responsible for the operations and back-office of all the following services:
- National Payments and Debits including taxes payments
- International Payments and EBA, TARGET and SWIFT administration
- International Commerce (includes import and export letters of credit)
- Credits back-office (includes Factoring, Confirming and Leasing)
Academic Background:
MBA in the Business School IESE in Barcelona
Computer Science Studies in the Polytechnic University of Barcelona
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Jürgen Laartz
Senior Partner
Financial Services / Business Technology Practice
McKinsey & Company
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 Jürgen Laartz is a Senior Partner in McKinsey's Berlin office. He has been with McKinsey for 18 years and is a leader of the firm's European Banking and Securities Practice and also is a leader in McKinsey's Business Technology practice with a focus on IT Architecture and IT Strategy. Mr. Laartz is also a core member of McKinsey's global Cloud initiative and regularly consults with clients on the implications of the Cloud on their business practices and supporting infrastructure.
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Martin Sey
Senior Infrastructure Architect, Standard Life plc
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 With more than two decades of experience working within IT environments for financial and manufacturing organisations, he has ensured that the major UK asset managing company Standard Life, has the correct technologies, innovations and roadmap to give the best service to their customers. Graduate of Napier University, Edinburgh, he brought his knowledge of planning and installing IT infrastructures to Standard Life in 1998 and has been in his current role since 2004.
A recent achievement was finally realise his plans to implement a Managed Print Services solution which met his expectations and tracked well against their cost-benefit analysis and also made printing more fluid for employees by including the HP ePrint solution.
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Jan Zadak
Managing Director EMEA & Senior Vice President Enterprise Business, HP |
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Jan Zadak serves as senior vice president and managing director for HP Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). In this role he chairs the regional leadership team responsible for the company strategy in EMEA, developing partnerships and key stakeholder relations for HP. As part of his role, he also leads the enterprise storage, systems and networking, software & solutions and services businesses, including sales and marketing to enterprise and public sector customers.
Prior to this role Zadak led the Enterprise Business Sales organization in EMEA. In this role he led HP’s Global Accounts sales organization in EMEA and was responsible for the management of top corporate and enterprise accounts as well as for driving profitable growth across the entire portfolio of enterprise storage and systems, software and services, and for providing best in class total customer experience to HP's Enterprise and Public Sector customers in the region.
Zadak joined Compaq Computer in 1997 and held several senior management roles in EMEA’s emerging markets including Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Before joining Compaq, Zadak spent five years with Olivetti Czech Republic.
A native of the Czech Republic, Zadak graduated from the Czech Technical University of Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering in1988. He did a one year PhD study program at Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany in 1991, and gained a PhD from his alma mater, the Czech Technical University in 1992.
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Arie Ossewaarde
Vice President Financial Services Industry EB, EMEA, HP
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Arie Ossewaarde leads the HP EMEA Financial Services Industry organization reporting to Jan Zadak, senior vice president Sales, Enterprise Business, HP Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this function, he is a member of the HP EMEA EB sales leadership team.
He is responsible for driving profitable growth across the entire portfolio of the financial services industry, and for providing best in class total customer experience to HP's financial services customers in the region. HP's rich heritage in the Financial Services Industry is reflected in a significant presence in all the top 200 banks, all the top 50 brokerages, all 100 of the world’s major stock and commodity exchanges, and all of the top 25 insurance companies.
Prior to this role, Arie has been responsible as CBM for the ING account and before joining Hewlett-Packard, Arie held various management positions with Computer Sciences Corporation as ING Account Executive, FSI Netherlands Country Manager, and FSI EMEA Corporate Account Leader.
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Steve Shakespeare
Director - EMEA Enterprise Solution Services
Intel
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Steve Shakespeare is accountable for business development and sales of Intel based IT solutions to business customers across EMEA. Steve is also responsible for the organization that works with partners across EMEA to develop enterprise solution offerings based on Intel technology including Intel Core, vPro and Xeon.
With twenty years experience in the IT and IT sales and marketing industry backed up by an honours degree in electronic engineering, Steve is an expert on trends and developments in the IT industry. Steve has a broad range of skills having previously run the UK Enterprise sales business, Consumer Sales business and Local OEM business amongst other roles.
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Allan Russell
SAS Fellow
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Allan has had an exceptional and very long tenure, having joined SAS in 1980. As the third employee hired when the company was establishing its first European operation in the UK, he played a critical role in establishing SAS’ presence through EMEA and Asia Pacific. Over the years, he has been actively involved as a thought leader in extraordinary technical advancement, including SAS/Access products in the 1980s, Executive Information Systems and data warehousing in the 1990s, and score carding and performance management in the 2000s. Allan has been called upon often to paint a vision of where SAS is going in the marketplace.
While much of SAS Product Management focuses on what is required in upcoming releases within an 18-month time span, Alan Russell conducts research into longer-term industry trends that will drive SAS product requirements over a two- to five-year span or even longer. His research focusses on “Uses of BI in a Process Centric World” and covers areas such as Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring, SAS Workflow Tools and Integration between SAS and Process Platforms.
A critical part of his role is in helping deepen strategic relationships with customers who are making a significant investment in SAS products for use throughout the enterprise. Allan also speaks about emerging trends in the market at industry events and conferences, hosts executive visits to SAS locations, drives vision discussions with industry analysts, and publishes white papers or other collateral to support SAS thought leadership at the C Level.
Allan Russel is one of the principal authors of the book, Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow your Business, which describes how organizations mature in their uses of information and presents a model that enables organizations to evaluate their use of information objectively, providing a framework for making improvements necessary to compete in today's global arena.
Alan graduated in computing science from Glasgow University in 1975.
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Gordon Ejsmond-Frey
Managing Director for Financial Services in EMEA, Microsoft
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Gordon Ejsmond-Frey is Microsoft’s Managing Director for Financial Services in the EMEA region.
Gordon is responsible for defining and articulating Microsoft’s strategy for the finance industry across EMEA. This role involves working closely with key European, Middle Eastern and African clients, partners and opinion formers in all sectors of the industry to realise Microsoft’s vision for the future of enterprise technology.
He also works with Microsoft customer account teams in 17 territories across EMEA to deliver banking, insurance and capital markets solutions for distribution, CRM, BI, core banking and insurance processes, and Enterprise Risk Management.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003 Gordon worked as a technology strategy consultant for 15 years with McKinsey and PwC.
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Dr. Gunnar Schief
Vice President Business Solutions FS EMEA, SAP
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Gunnar Schief is Vice President, Business Solution Insurance for the EMEA region at SAP. He is responsible for SAP’s solution offering to the Insurance Industry. This comprises definition and execution of the solution strategy.
Gunnar joined SAP in 1997 and has held various positions in the Insurance unit, such as Head of Global Solution Management for Insurance. Prior to joining SAP, he ran IT projects in the insurance industry as a project manager at KPMG Consulting. Gunnar holds a Diploma in Business & Engineering and a PhD in Business Science.
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Peter Hill
Vice President, Head of Product Development, Operational Risk and GRC
Oracle Financial Services
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Peter has a 25 year investment banking background. He has worked in several banks in the City of London, with senior roles in operations, risk management, IT, funds management, private banking and financial markets including 9 years at Board level as Director, Head of Treasury, and member of the bank’s Executive Committee.
For the last 8 years he has had leading roles in operational risk and operational risk systems. He passionately believes in the importance of a strong approach to operational risk and its potential to bring a number of benefits to the business.
In 2009, he was nominated by the Op Risk and Compliance magazine as one of their Top 50 global operational risk experts.
He leads the team responsible for product development of the Oracle Reveleus GRC and Operational Risk solution.
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Kevin Reilly
Financial Services Vertical Leader, Avaya
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Kevin Reilly is the Financial Services Vertical Leader for Avaya. Based on his background, Kevin focuses on understanding Avaya's Financial Service customers pain points and develops and implements solution to address. Prior to joining Avaya, Kevin worked at JPMorganChase as a Senior Operations Manager. He has significant experience in the Retail Banking and Treasury Services Businesses where he has over twenty five years experience managing large call center networks. As a Senior Vice President of Chase's Credit Card Business, he managed a network of five Customer Service Call Centers globally with a staff of 2,400 employees handling 72 million calls annually. Through maximizing technology, 63% of this volume was handled via self service. Using segmentation tools, the organization also partnered with the Marketing team to better utilize agent time to generate over $100 million in sales revenue by turning servicing calls into sales opportunities. He has experience opening, re-engineering, consolidating, closing, off shoring and outsourcing of call centers operations.
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J.P. James
Chief Operating Officer - EMEA
iWorks Risk Management and Core Policy Solutions
SunGard Insurance
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 J. P. James is the Chief Operating Officer for iWorks EMEA, Risk Management, and Core Policy Solutions. He is responsible for supporting our customer base and our solutions for our Enterprise Risk Management business throughout the Globe. He has been with SunGard for seven years, and worked within the Insurance industry for approximately twenty years. He enjoys running, tennis, and time with his family.
Located in London, England, J.P. leads a global technology business with responsibility for solutions providing risk management platforms and policy processing solutions for the insurance and wealth management marketplace. The business includes a client base in more than sixty countries and a team of more than 400 employees located throughout the globe. |
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Stuart Bladen
VP Applications EMEA
Chairman of HP Information Security, HP
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 Stuart leads the Applications Business for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services in Europe, comprising 10,000 staff and $3Bn Annual turnover across 20 European and Middle East countries. This work includes Applications Development and Maintenance for some of the words largest companies and businesses in the Financial Services, Communications, Media, Entertainment, Retail, Manufacturing and Public Sectors. Stuart also chairs HP's Information Security Company.
Stuart has 25 years' senior-level experience in large scale systems, technology and consulting for public sector, defence, security, utility and justice clients across Europe, often in consortiums. Originally trained as a nuclear engineer, Stuart has led implementation and operation of mission critical systems for the nuclear industry, governments, armed forces and police. These include the 999 systems for London, purchasing systems for Ministry of Defence, the Royal Navy's IT networks, support systems for UN, and Flemish Government tax collection systems. Stuart has also advised public sector organisations on business performance management and improvement. |
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Ian Coventry
Director, Worldwide Financial Process Outsourcing, HP
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Ian is Director for HP’s Worldwide BPO Financial Process Outsourcing business that includes Mortgages, Consumer loan, Retail Banking Back Office and Collections. His responsibilities include creating and executing business strategy, product development, enhancing relationships with existing clients and expanding our global presence. Ian actively engages in developing new client relationships and business partnerships.
Ian transitioned from Abbey National to EDS in 2001 as Managing Director of EDS Credit Services, the newly created joint venture between Abbey and EDS that provided mortgage and consumer loan processing services to Abbey.
Ian has more than 25 years experience in the financial services sector in a variety of roles including leadership, strategy development, service delivery, operational and programme management.
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Mohamed Dekhil
Chief Technologist for Strategic Innovations, HP Labs
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Mohamed Dekhil is the Chief Technologist for Strategic Innovations at HP Labs in Palo Alto. He is responsible for creating and driving innovative solutions for several industries including financial services, retail, and hospitality in the areas of multi-channel information capture and management, personalized information delivery, and social media analytics and opinion mining. Dr. Dekhil has over 20 years of experience in the computer and information systems industry. He started his career designing and developing large scale software systems for retail chains and large hospitals to manage and analyze their operations. Previous positions include: Engineering Manager at Rainfinity (acquired by EMC), delivering software products for Internet security and storage high-availability; Project manager at the Software Technology Lab in HP Labs, working on application and service management; Senior Software Engineer at Sarcos Research Corp. designing and implementing virtual reality applications and software for non-invasive medical devices; and Research Associate at the National Research Center in Cairo, developing information and decision-support systems.
He earned his Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1994, and 1998 respectively. He has over 60 publications and 5 patents in the areas of software engineering, application and service management, performance analysis of real-time systems, simulations and prototyping environments, virtual reality, mobile robot navigation and control. He can be reached at mohamed.dekhil@hp.com.
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Wayne Lewin
Insurance Segment Executive, Hewlett-Packard Company
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Wayne leads the global Insurance team at HP. In this role he is responsible for HP’s strategy, solutions, and service frameworks in the Insurance sector. Wayne’s goal is to help Insurance firms maximize technology investments, growing HP’s presence in this important market as a result.
Since joining HP in 1997, Wayne has held marketing, business development, and strategic account management roles—all focused on the Financial Services Industry. In 2000 Wayne was named to lead Financial Services marketing for the U.S., establishing
a multi-year strategy for increasing HP’s presence in the marketplace. In 2002 Wayne assumed responsibility for strategic initiatives with one of the world’s largest Insurance companies, and one of HP’s largest accounts. Through direct collaboration with company senior executives, a major strategic project breakthrough was achieved in less than one year. From 2005 until assuming his current role this year, Wayne led Strategy and Planning for HP’s global Financial Services Industry team.
Prior to joining HP, Wayne spent over 27 years in the Financial Services Industry. He has held executive positions at leading financial institutions, as well as founded a company to serve financial organizations. Wayne was COO of BAI, the leading research and education organization for the Financial Services Industry, where he also was responsible for CEO/CFO relationships with tier 1 financial firms. In 1985 Wayne founded Ist Financial Video, which became the largest provider of video training material to the industry.
Wayne has written more than 30 articles on management, marketing, and operational trends in financial services, and is often invited to speak at industry events. He has a bachelor’s degree from North Park University and a master’s from DePaul University.
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Lawrence Ryan
Chief Technologist Financial Services Industry, HP
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Larry is HP’s Chief Technologist for the Financial Service Industry segment. In this role, Larry is
responsible for leading the technical strategy for the financial services segment, collaborating with
solution managers and peer CTO’s to exploit HP’s portfolio to build compelling business solutions,
and representing HP across the financial service industry standard bodies and forums.
Prior to this position, Larry was responsible for development of HP’s high performance computing
business in FSI, which is a rapidly growing business. He also led business development of
Linux/Open Source in FSI and built and directed Tandem’s/Compaq’s financial service industry
lab responsible for the development of solutions for this market. In this role, he led a team of
software and infrastructure engineers that integrated Tandem and third party products into complete
solutions, such as the NonStop Payments Factory.
Larry also worked in Tandem’s consulting group as a consulting architect (Tandem’s highest
architect position) leading projects at NASDAQ, Paris Stock Exchange, Vienna Stock Exchange,
Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Citigroup and other customers. Prior to that he proposed, developed
and deployed Tandem’s first remote electronic support platform, which included development of
messaging, communication and searching technology.
Throughout his career at HP, he has held management and technology lead roles in IT, software
development, consulting & integration, business development and pre-sales support. He has a
broad technology background spanning a number of platforms, including Tandem (NonStop),
Windows, UNIX, Linux, OS/360, OS/2 and Burroughs, as well as technologies, including
database, communications, messaging, languages, text processing and mining, high performance
computing, software development methodologies, enterprise application integration and high
performance transaction processing systems.
He is a PMI certified project manager, holds a MS in mathematics from the Courrant Institute NYU,
graduate certificate in banking from Adelphi University and certificate in financial engineering from
Cornell University. He is an active member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers) and ACM (Association of Computer Machinery). He also served as an executive board
member of the Open Grid Forum.
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Sadasivan Sambamurty
Global Director Core Banking, WW Financial Services Industry, HP
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Sadasivan S (SADA for short) is a Business Manager and a Banking domain consultant in the Global Financial Services Industry team of Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett Packard USA. He has been with HP for about 11 years. His total experience in the IT and Banking industry is more than three decades.
Till recently Sada was the Director, FSI, Consulting, HP Services India
He pioneered large core banking and multi year Solution and Services deals in the last four years - including Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, State Bank of India, UCO Bank and United Bank of India Led and managed relationship and benchmark certifications for Infosys applications which are now globally utilised and leveraged.
He also pioneered large core insurance implementations and acted as a Banking consultant to global and regional banking opportunities. FSI India now leads and delivers FSI solutions across the segment and is recognized as one of the leading SI in the country.
Presently the Global Director for Core Banking in the World Wide FSI team, he is mandated with leading the Hewlett-Packard initiative to take end to end responsibility, outsourcing and system integration of large core banking replacements and SOA enablement of legacy Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, Sada was the Vice President of the Global Banking Business Unit of the Indian subsidiary of BULL of France.
He worked for over 2 decades in the retail banking in a large bank and also was responsible for the IT transformation of the bank.
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Joseph Wagle
Market Development Consultant Financial Services Industry,
IPG- Managed Enterprise Solutions, HP
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Joe Wagle manages HP’s WW Financial Services Industry market strategy and solutions portfolio. Joe is a key member of HP’s Managed Enterprise Solutions organization, and works with Enterprise Capital Markets firms, Insurance Carriers and Banks worldwide. Joe and the FSI Industry team develop and deliver innovative solutions and business models that enable Financial Services customers to create competitive differentiation by improving operational efficiency, enabling regulatory compliance and improving customer service.
Joe has more than 14 years of experience in enterprise technology solutions, including business process improvement and document workflow solutions optimized for Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets customers. Joe joined HP in 1999 as an Enterprise Systems Solutions Consultant for Investment Banks and Retail Investment firms in New York. In that role, Joe led HP’s solutions team to help Financial Services customers leverage technology and services solutions to improve the efficiency of their operations, engage new markets and improve customer service.
Joe joined HP’s Imaging and Printing group in 2002, and managed HP’s Imaging and Printing solutions business in North America. Joe designed and built solutions that streamline document workflows, secure sensitive data and maintain regulatory compliance. Joe was instrumental in the creation, marketing and delivery of document management, infrastructure management and security technology solutions to meet the needs of HP’s Enterprise Financial Services customers.
Joe lives in Maplewood, NJ and works with global Financial Services firms out of HP’s New York, NY office.
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Bill Whittemore
Financial Services Industry Insurance Practice Principal, Business Intelligence Solutions, HP
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Mr. Whittemore is a technology, consulting, and business veteran with over 30 years of experience which includes over 22 years of insurance and financial services experience. Mr. Whittemore specializes in business intelligence, data warehousing and enterprise information management. Mr. Whittemore has deep experience working with enterprise-wide risk management data integration and advanced analytics projects. Mr. Whittemore is the HP Business Intelligence Solutions (BIS) Insurance Practice Principal and prior to that was the BIS practice leader for the healthcare payer insurance practice. In addition to project execution, Mr. Whittemore has developed enterprise data management strategies for clients, assisted clients with establishing data governance organization and processes, built information architecture, and setup business intelligence competency centers for numerous clients.
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