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The FISD Women's Group offers women in the financial information industry the opportunity to network, discuss challenges and share advice.

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FISD Women's Group Speakers:

jenHilary London: Global Sales Director, Morningstar. Based in Morningstar’s London office on City Road, Hilary is responsible for driving the company’s sales of its international (ex US) products and solutions for financial institutions and independent financial advisers. Hilary is particularly involved in assisting Morningstar’s institutional clients. Before joining Morningstar, Hilary worked at financial information provider Interactive Data, where she held a number of roles including general management and sales leadership for the real time, pricing and reference data business, as well leadership of the managed and desktop solutions sales teams across the EMEA.

jenJennifer Nayar: Head of Global Market Data, NYSE Technologies. Jennifer Nayar joined NYSE Euronext as Senior Vice President - Global Head of Market Data Products in December 2009. In this role, Ms. Nayar is responsible for short-term and long-range planning and budget development to support global market data business goals. She manages a global team of Product Managers and Analysts who are responsible for delivering world class market data products and solutions for both real time data feeds and historical data products. Ms. Nayar is also responsible for policies, licensing, compliance and pricing related to global data product redistribution.  Prior to her appointment to NYSE Euronext, Ms. Nayar was Senior Vice President at NYFIX where she was responsible for product management for Millennium ATS. Ms. Nayar was Director of Product Management for Omgeo from 2005 to 2007 and Product Manager at Thomson ESG following an acquisition from the London Stock Exchange from 1987 to 1996.  Originally from England, Jennifer now lives in New York.

eileensEileen N. Sinett: President and CEO: Eileen N. Sinett is an author, speaker and executive speech coach/consultant. Her company, has helped corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve results through strategic communication coaching and training. Her mission is to drive clarity, confidence and connection in speakers worldwide.

SJuliaJulia Sutton: Director, Customer Data, Deutsche Bank. Julia has been involved in the Financial Services area for 36 years and the last 27 in reference data. She has held several global roles predominantly heading up customer reference data for 4 major banks and joined Deutsche in October 2011 to set up a unique identification system and drive it, together with core customer data throughout the infrastructure.

Sue Baldwin: Executive Director - Global Head of Vendor Management, J.P. Morgan. Sue leads the centralisation of all external vendor related activity across JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) for Market Data. Her responsibilities include evaluating external market data vendor services and driving a value curve model for delivery of their services in line with Industry best practise. She was previously Head T&O for ICICI Bank and headed Operational Risk & Controls for the EMEA region at JP Morgan for the Investment Bank. Prior to that was Chief Administration Officer & Head of EMEA Vendor Management for JP Morgan Asset Management. 25 year + financial service industry experience.

clarehClare Hart: Executive Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. She is responsible for the Company's media portfolio serving the corporate, media, financial services and government markets. The unit is comprised of Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions (including Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Newswires, and Factiva), Dow Jones Financial Information Services, and Dow Jones Indexes, as well as the Company's enterprise-facing joint venture, STOXX.

Debra A. Dandeneau: A high-powered lawyer with Weil, Gotshal & Manges, her practice focuses on all aspects of dealing with distressed (or potentially distressed) companies, including debt trading and protecting intellectual property rights.. Debra will share behind the scenes stories on her experiences dealing with these very current and hair-raising topics as well as discuss ideas on how women can better position themselves to move ahead within their organization.

vtVenetia Thompson: Author of "Gross Misconduct", one the few female inter-dealer bond brokers, tells all in this behind the scene view of the male dominated industry. Venetia Thompson is a regular contributor to The Spectator, The Daily Beast and broadsheet newspapers.


amyhAmy G. Harkins: Managing Director and Senior Vice President at The Bank of New York Mellon. Her direct responsibilities are for Global Corporate Event Operations Worldwide, including corporate actions, class actions, and proxy processing for the combined entity. In addition to her operational responsibilities, Ms. Harkins is involved in the Market Data Committee at The Bank of New York Mellon.

fisdpicMarion Leslie: Global Head of Instrument and Pricing Content at Thomson Reuters - She reports both to the Managing Director of Content Technology & Operations (CT&O) and to the President of the Sales & Trading Strategic Business Unit. She has held this position since January 2011. Previously, Marion managed Sales and Trading Content (2009-2010) and headed up Fixed Income Content (2007-2009). She spent nearly four years in India (2004-2007), setting up the Bangalore operation, building the office from scratch to 2000 employees across multiple functions including Data, Editorial, Customer Order Management and Finance. Although now based in London, Marion is executive sponsor for Bangalore and other large operational centres across Europe and Asia. Marion joined Thomson Reuters in 1994 and has significant operational, global team management, programme and change management experience. Marion is leading a number of strategic content initiatives through innovative customer focus and partnership. She is passionate about talent and diversity, leading a number of strategic initiatives on behalf of the board.

Nancy Gardner is the Executive Vice President & General Counsel of the Markets division of Thomson Reuters. She leads a global team that provides legal and regulatory services to Thomson Reuters financial and media businesses worldwide. Before Thomson Corporation’s acquisition of Reuters in April 2008, Ms. Gardner served as Reuters Global Head of Compliance and General Counsel for the Americas, and held a number of management positions in Reuters Americas legal department. Prior to joining Reuters, Ms. Gardner worked for the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Ms. Gardner established Reuters first women’s affinity group in 2005 and co-founded the Thomson Reuters women’s network on completion of the merger. She currently heads the Executive Committee’s subcommittee on diversity. In 2009 Ms. Gardner was selected by the United Way’s Women United in Philanthropy’s a Woman of Excellence and Achievement Honoree, and in 2010 she was recognized as a women leader by the YWCA-NYC Academy of Women Leaders. MsGardner is a frequent speaker at external conferences on women, the law and diversity.

Ms. Gardner is on the Boards of Directors of InMotion, a non-profit organization that provides free legal services to low-income women who suffer from abuse and domestic violence; Junior Achievement of New York, a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy; and the Organization for International Investment, a trade association that represents the interests of the US businesses of non-US companies. Ms. Gardner received a B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University and a J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center.

Adena Friedman: Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Global Data Products, NASDAQ OMX. Friedman’s responsibilities include identifying and developing strategic opportunities for NASDAQ OMX and overseeing its Global Data Products business unit. In her role as head of Global Data Products, Friedman is responsible for maintaining the integrity of all market data disseminated to the public, as well as creating new data products to serve the industry’s information needs. Friedman joined NASDAQ in 1993, where she has served in several roles, including as Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President of NASDAQ Data Products prior to her current role.


 

Women's Group Testimonials

"Having women from different backgrounds to share their experiences made the atmosphere comfortable and open to discussion"

"It was great, I finally got to meet the faces I had been communicating with by email and telephone"

"It was fascinating to meet women who have been in the market data industry for a good portion of their careers and hear about the type of work they do in the field"

"Having attendees from a range of organizations and backgrounds made for interesting conversation. On the flip-side everyone knew market data - a central theme which made it very easy to strike up conversations"

"I had the opportunity to discuss some business issues that would have been difficult to address during a phone call or business meeting"

"The introductions were great - it gave us an opportunity to get up and speak with someone we didn't know and talk about their positions"

"This worked so well because it was all women and since we are a minority in this field it gave a sense of empowerment. It was great to hear how they all fell into the market data arena"