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Chuck Thomas is a Senior Director, Advisory in Gartner’s Financial Services Practice, where he focuses primarily on investment management and wealth management. Mr. Thomas is also responsible for setting the agenda for and collaborating with the Wealth Management Leadership Council (WMLC) research team, helping to shape Gartner’s view on the present and future of investment management and wealth management.

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Guruprasad Ramamoorthy is the Global Head of Network Architecture, Engineering & Operations at S&P Global. He has been with the company since 2017 and is a hands-on technology executive with a unique blend of Product Development, Digital Infrastructure, End User Computing and Cybersecurity experience.

Guruprasad is responsible for plan-build-run functions of the global network that spans across 80+ offices, 10+ on-premises Data Centers and 4+ multi-cloud environments. He also leads various enterprise-wide initiatives to rapidly transform S&P Global’s core infrastructure to software-defined, re-imagine the edge infrastructure and strengthen the cybersecurity.

Guruprasad represents the company’s commitment to develop talent to deliver new insights, accelerate the speed of operations and value delivery for customers while establishing S&P Global as the most innovative company. To achieve this, he works closely with the global leaders to enable S&P Global’s product and systems with the help of 1000 + technology associates.

In his previous role, Mr. Guruprasad was responsible for building S&P Global’s Technology center of excellence in India from ground-up while attracting the best talent in the region. The site in India was purpose-built to facilitate innovation by providing employees with access to latest technologies and infrastructure, as well as physical spaces that enable highly collaborative teams.

Guruprasad has about 18 years of experience. He was previously associated with companies such as Visa, BNY Mellon and Sify Technologies. He has a Master’s in Business Administration and Bachelor’s in Information Technology.

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Lenworth is a technology executive with over 22 years industry experience specializing in several technology disciplines including implementing, deploying and managing next gen technology infrastructure, private clouds, platform optimization, business continuity, IT Security, etc. Lenworth has extensive experience and skills with implementing Global IT Security Programs, Virtualization and Hyper-Converged technologies.

Lenworth is currently the Head of the Global: Infrastructure, Operations and Security teams for EquiLend Holdings LLC, which is responsible for providing the business with innovative, reliable, cost-effective and secure technology solutions across all core infrastructure services.

Prior to joining EquiLend, Lenworth served as the EVP and Head of IT, Warehouse and Logistics for Lloyd’s Manufacturing Inc., a foods and beverages retail manufacturer in Jamaica, W.I. There he led the firm’s datacenter re-architecture, which successfully reduced costs and decreased complexity, while also providing improved disaster recovery for the firm’s critical systems.