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Randall Brett has held senior management positions for over 25 years in software development and financial services.  Currently, he is Head of Risk Technology at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, a Quantitative Long/Short Equity hedge fund based in NYC. Previously, he was at Pine River Capital Management in NYC, most recently as Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer.  His prior positions include: Senior Vice President, Application Development and Integration at Harvard Management Company, Boston; Director, Risk Technology at SAC Capital Management, and CTO at Askari Risk Management Systems/DSTi.  Education:  BA, English, Sociology, University of Colorado, 1980 PRM Certification, 2006 (Professional Risk Manager).

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Matt Costello leads Booz Allen’s Commercial Advanced Analytics and Engineering practice.  Matt brings over 20 years’ experience helping clients leverage analytics, AI and advanced platforms across finance, energy, communications and high-tech manufacturing.  Prior to Booz Allen Matt worked in the wireless industry and as Chief Technology Officer for a startup focused on the Telecom and Cable markets.

Matt Costello is a senior technologist, bringing deep experience in cloud architecture, security analytics, high volume and velocity data pipelines and enrichment.  At Booz Allen, Matt has managed multiple large engagements leveraging multiple public and private cloud providers.  Matt has also worked in Enterprise Architecture, supporting a tier-1 wireless carrier in the US as well as a cable multi-service operator.  In addition to consulting and architecture, Matt spent several years as CTO at a startup leading a large development, testing and product management team.  He has led numerous agile Analytics and Cloud projects, and is a certified SCRUM master.

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Luke Simonetti is a Vice President in Booz Allen’s Commercial Practice and leads the firm’s Financial Services Vertical Market, helping clients to understand and envision their current and future cybersecurity goals. The Financial Services market works with the top clients in the industry to help them address the tops cybersecurity issues they face while achieving the business goals the organization desires using an outcome-driven, risk-based approach. Luke is a seasoned professional with a variety of technical and executive level leadership positions in both the federal and commercial markets. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Luke was responsible for the Global Security and Risk Management Consulting Practice at Gartner. He has served as an executive team advisor, team leader and experienced information security subject matter expert, with deep levels of hands-on experience in network security, application security, information protection, business/IT integration, security operations and monitoring, process improvement, risk management, and board of directors/senior executive communications. Luke holds a BS in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University and maintains several industry certifications including: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and System Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP).

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Piyush has over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience, with the past 20 focused in software and technology services. Currently Piyush serves as CEO and a Board Member of Data Dynamics, Inc., a company he founded in 2012. Piyush is committed to building software solutions that drive value for his customers. He believes that a customer-centric focus is a must, and thus builds an internal team culture with a “customer-first” mindset. This customer-centric focus has allowed Data Dynamics to have 25 percent of the Fortune 100 companies as its customers, as well as 12 of the world’s top 20 banks.

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Mr. Goodman has spent his career devoted to understanding, managing, and advancing the digital fabric of modern corporations, data, analytics, organization, process, and technology.

Mr. Goodman leads the Data, Intelligence, and Automation Advisory practice at NTT DATA Services focusing on helping clients leverage data, analytics, automation, and technology to address business challenges across the financial services, insurance, manufacturing, life-science, commercial, public, and healthcare sectors. Practice professionals combine expertise in analytics, data, technology, process, and industry with significant consulting and advisory experience to ensure each client realizes maximum benefit.  Mr. Goodman also defines the key focus areas for the practice and leads related R&D and thought leadership efforts.

Before joining NTT Data, Mr. Goodman spent time at:

• BBVA USA leading model risk management and risk data management organizations.
• Bank of America in various information protection, data management, technology strategy, architecture, and process engineering roles.
• Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) on large technology projects in multiple industries.

Education:
Mr. Goodman has his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from California State University, Chico.

He is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and holds patents in process measurement and distributed compute resource management.

Contact Information:
E-Mail Mr. Goodman at: michael.goodman@nttdata.com

Follow Mr. Goodman on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/mgoodman10

Connect with Mr. Goodman on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsgoodman1/

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Oleg is a Solution Architect who is leading the group of API engineers and System Integration Architects as part of CoE Platforms at SoftServe. He is with SoftServe for the last 11 years, worked with variety of customers in different verticals. At this moment, involved in five active projects as SME for API Management or System Integrations.

His main interests are to help customers understand the API Management domain, validate their needs and possibilities there, and then to choose the appropriate solution to expand their APIs to the world.

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Krishna is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler, a Machine Learning Monitoring company that empowers companies to efficiently monitor and troubleshoot ML models with Explainable AI. Prior to founding Fiddler, Gade led the team that built Facebook’s explainability feature ‘Why am I seeing this?’. He’s an entrepreneur with a technical background with experience creating scalable platforms and expertise in converting data into intelligence. Having held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and Microsoft, he’s seen the effects that bias has on AI and machine learning decision making processes, and with Fiddler, his goal is to enable enterprises across the globe solve this problem.

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Johna Till Johnson is the CEO & Founder of Nemertes Research, an 18-year old research-advisory firm specializing in the business impact of emerging technologies. Ms. Johnson spearheads Nemertes’ security and risk management practice, where she works with Fortune 200 financial services, manufacturing, utility, and other leading organizations.

Ms. Johnson’s career in information security began more than 25 years ago when, as a young engineer, she developed security products for Mosler Security Systems. In the early 1990s, she ran the lab-testing program at Data Communications Magazine, which uncovered vulnerabilities in the then-novel RSA two-factor authentication system. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Johnson ran the Global Networking Strategies Service at the META Group, which included META’s security and risk management offering. Subsequently, she served as the Chief Technology Officer overseeing the security practice for Greenwich Technology Corp., a global consulting and engineering firm that developed and implemented leading-edge security architectures for financial services firms and other global organizations.

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Dharmendra Kapadia is Associate Director, Data Strategy/Architecture and Governance at EquiLend, the global financial technology firm for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries. At EquiLend, he is working on the firm’s initiatives in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Dharmendra is an accomplished senior technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in developing and executing business technology solutions and strategies. Before joining EquiLend, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering and Operations at nova IQ, an AI and ML services firm. Before that he held senior technology and consulting roles at Ness Digital Engineering, Apollo/Gravitas, Oliver Wyman Group, Goldman Sachs and Proctor & Gamble. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Dharmendra Kapadia is Associate Director, Data Strategy/Architecture and Governance at EquiLend, the global financial technology firm for the securities finance, collateral and swaps industries. At EquiLend, he is working on the firm’s initiatives in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Dharmendra is an accomplished senior technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in developing and executing business technology solutions and strategies. Before joining EquiLend, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Engineering and Operations at nova IQ, an AI and ML services firm. Before that he held senior technology and consulting roles at Ness Digital Engineering, Apollo/Gravitas, Oliver Wyman Group, Goldman Sachs and Proctor & Gamble. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Matt Costello leads Booz Allen’s Commercial Advanced Analytics and Engineering practice. Matt brings over 20 years’ experience helping clients leverage analytics, AI and advanced platforms across finance, energy, communications and high-tech manufacturing. Prior to Booz Allen Matt worked in the wireless industry and as Chief Technology Officer for a startup focused on the Telecom and Cable markets.

Matt Costello is a senior technologist, bringing deep experience in cloud architecture, security analytics, high volume and velocity data pipelines and enrichment. At Booz Allen, Matt has managed multiple large engagements leveraging multiple public and private cloud providers. Matt has also worked in Enterprise Architecture, supporting a tier-1 wireless carrier in the US as well as a cable multi-service operator. In addition to consulting and architecture, Matt spent several years as CTO at a startup leading a large development, testing and product management team. He has led numerous agile Analytics and Cloud projects, and is a certified SCRUM master.

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Kevin Hanegan is Chief Learning Officer at Qlik. Kevin oversees internal and customer facing initiatives involving Learning, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Talent Development. His passion is the intersection of business, technology, learning and psychology. He believes the world is constantly evolving and as such we should ourselves always be evolving and improving in business and in our personal life.

Kevin has also written multiple computer books on various programming languages and technologies. He is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer worldwide on topics of Disruptive Innovation, Change Management, Adult Learning, and Data-informed Decision Making.

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Barry Hurewitz is Global Head of Evidence Lab Innovations.  He is the founder of UBS Evidence Lab, one of the largest and most experienced primary research teams in the world, containing 55 distinct practice areas and powering over 3,000 UBS Research Reports per year.  Mr. Hurewitz also leads a team that is responsible for Sales, Analytics and Marketing platforms to improve client engagement and salesforce effectiveness throughout the UBS.  Prior to his current role, Mr. Hurewitz served as the Global COO for UBS Investment Research, which, under his tenure, was voted the top global equity research provider in the world by Institutional Investor magazine.

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With 25 years of experience building technology systems for Wall Street and other businesses, Mr. Kasarla has been focusing extensively on Big Data Analytical Systems over the last few years. For the last two years at BBH, he has been responsible for building a modern data platform to address BBH’s growing data and self-service demands. Mr. Kasarla previously worked at BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs in their technology organizations.