Scaling with technology and data teams in financial services

Robert is a non-typical thinker. He is an Open Source and inclusive workplace advocate. A dotcom veteran with many years of experience across Finance, Banking, Investment Management and Fintech startups. Currently an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, Asset and Wealth Management and serving as the Regional lead for Managed Accounts, Client Data and Client Service Technology.

Data has been central throughout much of his career from postulating on e-commerce possibilities through personalisation in the 90’s to rolling out investment personalization at scale today. Data regulation, distribution, aggregation, security are daily challenges he faces when growing teams and building platforms to service the needs of our customers.

Vicky has over 20 years experience delivering analytics projects across both private and public sectors, enabling companies to effectively use their data to make better decisions. She currently is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer for the crypto wallet app Zumo and has previously headed up the data functions within FinTech scale-up Modulr.

She won the Data IQ award 2019 for Data Analytics leader of the year when she led the multi-award-winning Advanced Analytics practice for Merkle UK and was a member of the AI steering committee for the Scottish Government.

Gordon is Head of Personalisation Products at Natwest. He is an established leader of customer experience and digital transformation through data, analytics, and marketing platforms. In his current role, his work is focused on improving the ability of Natwest to personalise customer experiences through advanced analytics and technology. He is actively involved in the development and execution of strategy to create partnerships and offer data products to the market.

In previous roles at Natwest, he has helped to scale an innovation start-up from 15k customers to a set of products that are used to create personalised experiences for all Retail, Wealth, and Commercial customers across the organization’s entire portfolio. He has led a number of teams of highly skilled product designers, engineers, data scientists and cloud platform developers.

Keith has over 20 years of commercial experience in software development and has helped many companies in financial services and other sectors to develop software products.

Keith is currently working as Head of Development for Nude, a fintech startup helping people save for their first home.

He’s an active member of the Glasgow developer community and currently organizes Tech Meetup, a monthly developer-focused meetup based in Glasgow.

Marilena Karanika is the Head of Data Innovation at Experian, providing data and analytics support across different product domains such as affordability, credit risk and insurance.

With more than 10 years of experience in Credit Risk Modelling and Analytics in financial services, a key area of her expertise is enabling organisations to make better use of data, reach more informed decisions and support consumers throughout the customer lifecycle. Most recently Marilena and her team created and launched products that helped clients understand the impact of events such as the Cost of Living crisis and COVID to help them navigate these challenging times.

Marilena is passionate about the power of financial education and works with universities and professional bodies to deliver guest lectures and industry talks promoting a better and wider understanding of analytics and responsible data ownership. She has been voted Innovator of the Year 2021 in the Women in Credit Awards.