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GENERAL SESSION
Beyond Borders
Two disparate forces are converging in Europe, together they will change the way we all run our businesses. The first is technology, the second - economic unification. Both are reaching tipping points. The opening of technology standards is changing the way technology is developed and the move to services changing the way it is deployed, whilst Brussels Directives, for example, the Markets in Financial Instrument's Directive (MiFID) and the Directive for Payments Services in the Internal Market (SEPA), are forging the creation of one European capital market. Both forces are driving a fresh wave of mergers and acquisitions.
Experts from both areas will dive into their latest respective initiatives, providing insight into how managers can turn this convergence to their advantage. Building scale beyond organisational and geographic borders is one way to seize the initiative. Joint-ventures, outsourcing, offshoring, embracing co-opetition, new alliances and cross-border mergers are the shared characteristics of those who are taking the lead.
Irmfried Schwimann
European Commission
Mrs Schwimann is head of the European Commission's Financial Services Policy Unit within the Internal Market General Directorate. Mrs Schwimann was also responsible for financial services issues for the Internal Market and Services Commission under Charlie McCreevy's predecessor, Frits Bolkestein. Before joining the Commission Mrs Schwimann worked for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for an Austrian insurance group.
David Blair
Nokia
Mr Blair is the treasurer of Nokia Corp, with global responsibility for Nokia's treasury including enterprise-wide risk and insurance. Previously he was managing director of Nokia Treasury Asia Ltd in Singapore, and program director of the RosettaNet Payment Milestone Program. Before moving to Singapore, Mr Blair was deputy general manager of Nokia Finance International BV, and previously finance manager of ABB World Treasury Centre, both in Switzerland.
Alberto Giovannini
Unifortune Investment Management
Mr Giovannini, well known for his work on 15 barriers to efficient EU cross-border clearing and settlement, is founder and CEO of Unifortune Investment Management. He is chairman of the consultative group on the Impact of the Euro on European Capital Markets and Principal Policy Advisor of the European Commission's Clearing and Settlement Advisory and Monitoring Group. Mr Giovannini illustrious career includes
significant academic posts in America and Asia and being on the board of Borsa Italiana and Montetitoli.
Bob Fuller
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein
Mr Fuller is IT director, strategy at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW). He is co-chair of the MiFID Joint Working Group – IT, the IT sub group for the MiFID JWG which was set up to evaluate the European MiFID legislation and its affect and cost across Europe. Mr Fuller joined DrKW in May 1998 with responsibility for IT strategy and infrastructure, including exchange and Swift connectivity and centrally cleared products - including exchange-traded derivatives, equities and bonds.
Angela Knight
APCIMS
Ms Knight is chief executive of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers, Europe's largest private investor association with over 200 member firms. She is also a nonexecutive director on the boards of LogicaCMG, LloydsTSB and Scottish Widows and IFSL. She was a member of the UK parliament from 1992 – 1997 and Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1995 and 1997.
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Cris Conde
SunGard
Mr Conde is SunGard's president and chief executive officer, and a member of its board of directors. Mr Conde served as chief operating officer between 1999 and 2002
and previously headed up SunGard's Trading Systems division, which he started in 1990. Prior to joining SunGard, Mr Conde co-founded Devon Systems International, Inc., which was acquired by SunGard in 1987.\
Till Guldimann
SunGard
Mr Guldimann is SunGard's vice chairman, focused on strategy. He was previously vice chairman of Infinity Financial Technology, before it was acquired by SunGard in 1998. Mr Guldimann joined Infinity after a 21-year career with J.P. Morgan where he last headed the Global Research Group and developed the bank's market risk management
systems. He is also the originator of J.P. Morgan's highly successful RiskMetricsTM initiative launched in 1994.
Don Wood
SunGard
Mr Wood is chief product officer (CPO) of SunGard Financial Systems, defining cross-product strategy for SunGard's global brokerage, trading, risk, compliance, trust, and operations applications. In his role as CPO, Mr Wood provides direct guidance to the product managers within financial systems, while also providing market and client-driven input into the continued growth of SunGard's Common Services Architecture.
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