Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
ABN AMRO
Biography
Bhaskar is the Head of Strategy and COO, Global Infrastructure which has a yearly €2.0 billion footprint of IT assets for ABN AMRO and is helping deliver the largest and most complex financial industry merger integration process from the technology infrastructure functional perspective. Joining ABN Amro in 2003, he headed up Strategy, Architecture and Change Management for ABN AMRO Europe’s IT Division and has lead the global Investment Bank’s Basel II programme; Strategic Risk Architecture programme, Professional Fees Cost reduction programme etc.
Prior to ABN Amro, he worked at Salomon Smith Barney; Goldman Sachs; Barclays Capital and other several international banks in a variety of trading and risk management roles as well as for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and SunGard. He is completing his second doctorate in Politics, Terrorism and Financial Markets from Kings College, London; his first was in financial mathematics and computational finance from Manchester Business School, Manchester. Besides holding an MBA in Finance and IT and BSc in Mathematics, he is also a visiting professor at several universities.
Chris Keeling
Barclays
Biography
Chris Keeling is a highly experienced risk management consultant and has specialised in the Business Continuity and Crisis Management disciplines for many years.
He is a Partner in Acuity Risk Management LLP, a management consultancy company providing Information Security, Risk Management, Business Continuity and Crisis Management services to a wide variety of public and private organisations in the UK and Europe.
He focuses on delivering Business Continuity and Crisis Management solutions and works with clients from all market sectors. He specialises in the financial services sector in the UK and sits on a number of business continuity industry groups and committees. In particular, over the past five years, Chris has worked closely with the Financial Services Authority in the delivery of the annual Tripartite (FSA, Bank of England and HM Treasury) Market Wide Exercises.
Chris was engaged by Barclays Bank PLC in 2005 to design and build an effective Crisis Management capability for the Group which was successfully delivered by the end of 2006 including the recruitment of a permanent team. Chris continues to provide crisis management and strategic business continuity support to Barclays on a part time basis. He is also currently supporting Crisis Management and Business Continuity for the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass).
He is a recognised authority on crisis management and business continuity and is a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences. He is regularly quoted in industry publications and has authored a number of articles and white papers.
David Llamas
Harrods IT Director
Biography
After 12 years working as a consultant and ERP program manager in retail and other industries, David joined Harrods in February 2003 as Enterprise Applications Controller. In April 2005, David was promoted to his current position of IT Director in charge of Technology Infrastructure, Business Applications, Business Intelligence, e-Commerce and Telecoms.
Executive MBA at London Business School 2005
Euan Davis
Forrester
Biography
Euan is a senior analyst who covers a broad range of topics for sourcing and vendor management professionals. His expertise spans IT and business process outsourcing, shared services, and the ongoing developments within the European IT services industry. Euan also researches and consults around sustainable ICT strategies.
Euan brings nine years of dedicated research experience to Forrester. Prior to joining Forrester, he served as Yankee Group’s European IT services domain expert for two years; prior to this, he worked at IDC for five years as a research manager for IT services. There, he managed the research agenda, directed custom consulting projects, and wrote syndicated research papers covering all aspects of the European IT services industry. He has lived and worked extensively in Europe, including six months in Madrid setting up a Spanish IT services research practice. Euan has also been featured in broadcast media, such as CNN, and has been extensively quoted in the Financial Times.
Euan has a B.A. degree from Portsmouth University and lives in Cambridge, UK.
Myron Hrycyk
NYK Logistics UK& Eire
Biography
Myron, a MBA from Birmingham University has delivered major I.T. strategic programmes and mission critical services. He has re-organised corporate I.T. units and deployed high performance I.T. practices for international businesses operating within a number of different sectors. With over twenty years of experience he has seen the role that I.T plays in commercial organisations move from the back office to being a major factor in delivering client facing competitive advantage.
Leading logistics service providers like NYK face increasing demands form their clients to further lean, speed up and increase visibility of products in the supply chain. Processes and technology are interwoven to produce competitive services and in today’s logistics business service providers need to integrate system internally and externally with clients and other companies in the supply chain.
Myron has previously presented at a number of IT industry conferences on a range of topics including “Delivery of Mission Critical Systems” and “Driving Business Innovation through IT”. Myron is a member of the BCS and number of other IT industry bodies.
Pascal Wattiaux
Biography
Pascal is currently an independent consultant.
Until recently he was the interim Director of Technology at the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games where he was responsible for defining a technology strategy, launching the first critical initiatives as well as recruiting an elite Technology Team. Pascal is still consulting for London2012.
His Olympic experience stretches back to 1988 when working for Andersen Consulting where he was director of a project for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. As Director of Technology for the International Olympic Committee (1996-1999) Pascal was responsible for the co-ordination of the technology departments of summer and winter Games, starting just after the Atlanta 1996 Games.
As Senior Vice-President of digital media company, Quokka, Pascal worked on optimising real time publishing of live events such as the Americas Cup and the Sydney Olympics on the internet, broadband platforms, wireless platforms and interactive TV.
In his previous roles Pascal has been Group CIO at Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, a senior manager at Price Waterhouse and Director for International Operations at Reebok International. He has been located in his native France, Switzerland, USA and in London.
Pascal has a Masters degree with majors in telecommunications, computer science and electronics from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.
Peter Hambling
Chief Information Officer of Lloyds
Biography
Peter Hambling is the Chief Information Officer of Lloyds, heading up the specialist insurance markets Information Technology Group. Previously, he was responsible for designing and supervising the build of HSBC's 2nd generation global e-commerce platforms. These now run 48 Personal Financial Services businesses and 18 Commercial Banking businesses globally servicing over 30 million customers. He has led teams pioneering, developing and supporting very large complex multi-channel distributed global FX & MM trading systems, associated integration middleware and market data infrastructure.
Mr. Peter Josse,
Global Head of Technology Infrastructure and Service Delivery.
Biography
Peter’s current role is to manage a €1.8 billion footprint of IT assets for ABN AMRO and responsible for the delivery of largest and most complex financial industry merger integration process from the technology infrastructure functional perspective. This footprint crosses more than 50 countries; 5,000 FTE; multiple product and business lines and multiple external bodies. He has been with ABN AMRO for more than 9 years and has been variously the Global Head of Change Management; Chief Information Officer (Europe); Head of Global Telecommunications Networks and Storage; etc.
With more than 15 years of experience in the Investment Banking Technology area, he has overseen large transformation, cost savings, change, merger and new business development programmes and speaks frequently at industry events on outsourcing and offshoring, communications, service delivery, IT Organisational Management and Governance, etc.
Neal Williams,
Chairman, Founder, Chief Scientist, President of Corda Services.
Biography
Neal Williams is also the Founder & Chairman of the Board for Corda Technologies. Neal Williams formed Corda shortly after leaving WordPerfect where he spent many years researching and developing advanced data visualization techniques and solutions. Neal has instigated major product expansion and directed significant company growth at Corda. In 2001, the Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum named Neal Williams the Utah Entrepreneur of the Year. During Corda's existence, Neal has overseen many firsts:
- The first non-Macromedia company to develop a solution supporting Flash technology
- The first company to support Scalable Vector Graphing (SVG) technology for graphing and charting
- The first company to provide the ability to utilize wireless technology to deliver data graphics to desktops, handheld devices and cell phones
- The first company to provide interactive charts, graphs and maps that have descriptive text enabling the visually impaired to "see" the graphical data with the use of a screen reader
- The first to automatically deliver the highest possible image a browser can accept utilizing best image auto-detect functionality
Steve Willson,
Copan.
Biography
Steve Willson has 20 years experience working in systems consulting, support, pre-sales and solutions roles for a variety of solution vendors. For the last 10 years, Steve has focussed on the emerging storage market, helping the first customers move from captive storage, through to shared infrastructures, and consulted on storage solutions, disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, security and now long-term retention and retrieval. Steve is the Solutions director for COPAN Systems in EMEA.
Charlie Cornish,
Principle Consultant, Kavanagh.
Biography
Charlie Cornish joined Kavanagh in 2007. He holds an MA in Engineering from Cambridge University and has 19 years of experience in Information Technology and Programme Management. Before joining Kavanagh, Charlie was IT Director for Aspect Software, a leading provider of Contact Centre solutions. Previously Charlie worked for other blue chip organisations including Vodafone and Thorn EMI. Charlie has a breadth of experience delivering tactical and strategic customer-focussed IT services and support to global organisations, in both the infrastructure and applications arenas.
Tony Stranack,
Pre-Sales Consultant, Kavanagh.
Biography
Tony Stranack joined Kavanagh in 2006. He holds a BSc in Computer Technology, and has 19 years experience of working in the IT industry. Before joining Kavanagh, Tony worked at EMC for 11 years where he was Lead Technology Business Consultant. Tony brings to Kavanagh and its clients a unique depth of knowledge around the Data Centre including substantial experience of practices and processes within the operational environment. His previous clients include, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Telecom, Vodafone, Barclays Bank, Norwich Union and Prudential.
Maurice Winn,
System Manager, Southampton Container Terminals.
Biography
- IT Veteran in Container Terminal and Freight Industry
- Extensive experience in the management, development and deployment of Container Terminal systems and Software
- System migration expert within Mainframe environments and Mainframe to NT
