Women in Technology and Data Awards 2019 | Infopro Digital Risk (IP) Limited |

WatersTechnology launched the Women in Technology and Data Awards to recognise, promote and celebrate the outstanding contribution that women make to technology and data roles across the capital markets.

Categories
Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has delivered outstanding levels of value and service through an alliance or partnership with another third-party technology/data firm.

Best company for diversity and inclusion
This award will go to the firm (vendor or end-user) that has sought to promote women where appropriate and remediate the historic gender imbalance across the capital markets.

Rising star
This award will go to a woman working in technology or data who has already had an impact of her organisation even though she isn't yet in a senior managerial position.

Engineer/programmer of the year
This award will go to a programmer who has had a material impact on her constituents through the software she has developed and delivered for them.

Data science professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has shown leadership/expertise in the field of data science through managing large data sets, interrogating that data, and deriving value from it through advanced analytics.

Reference data professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has shown initiative, innovation and leadership in realm of reference data.

Market data professional of the year
This award will go to the woman who has shown initiative, innovation and leadership in realm of market data.

Edm professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has worked with and addressed data management issues across her organisation, and by so doing has delivered value and brought about change across the business.

Vendor professional of the year
This award will go to a woman from the third-party technology vendor community who has shown innovation and outstanding service to her firm's capital markets clients.

Support professional of the year (vendor)
This award will go to a woman from a third-party technology vendor who has been particularly instrumental in supporting her team leader or cio.

Support professional of the year (end-user)
This award will go to a woman from a buy-side or sell-side firms who has been particularly instrumental in supporting her team leader or cio.

Trade execution professional of the year
This award will go to a woman from a buy-side or sell-side firm's front office who has excelled in the realm of trade executions.

Legal/compliance professional of the year
This award will go to a woman working in a capital markets firm's compliance department who has been particularly influential in ensuring that it complies with all its compliance mandates.

Risk professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has shown innovation and leadership in the market, credit or operational risk realms.

Exchange professional of the year
This award will go to a woman employed by an exchange or exchange group who has been particularly influential across either technology or data disciplines within her organisation.

Consultant of the year
This award will go to a woman who has shown outstanding levels of services and value delivery through her work at a consultancy advising capital markets firms on their technology/data strategies.

Startup professional of the year
This award will go to a woman who has been instrumental in the successful establishment of a fintech firm founded after january 2016 (I.E. Two years old or younger).

Technology innovator of the year
This award will go to a woman who has shown outstanding innovation in the field of technology within her firm (vendor or end-user).

Technology leader of the year
This award will go to a woman in a cio or cto role who has shown innovation and outstanding leadership through the delivery of software and technology throughout her organisation.

Traiblazer (lifetime achievement)
This award will go to a woman who has affected change within her organisation and has acted as a mentor for female colleagues and women in general.

Waterstechnology's women of the year
This award will go to a woman cio, cto or ceo who has reached the pinnacle of her organisation and has served as a role model for all women in the industry.

2018 Winners:

CONSULTANT OF THE YEAR
• Cristina Mures, CJC Ltd

DATA SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Stephanie Clarke, Broadridge

FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS EDM PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Georgia Prothero, Schroders

ENGINEER/PROGRAMMER OF THE YEAR
• Kate Stepp, FactSet

EXCHANGE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Karen O'Connor, trueEx

LEGAL/COMPLIANCE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Jennifer Keser, Tradeweb Markets

MARKET DATA PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Patti Sachs, Citigroup

REFERENCE DATA PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Aouda Bellout, Schroders

RISK PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Boryana Racheva-Iotova, FactSet

STARTUP PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Emma Margetts, Visible Alpha

SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR (END-USER)
• Anitha Iniyavan, RBC Capital Markets

SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR (VENDOR)
• Dawn Patrick, Numerix

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR (END-USER)
• Kim Prado, RBC Capital Markets

TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR (VENDOR)
• Jennifer Peve, Depository Trust and Clearing Corp

TECHNOLOGY LEADER OF THE YEAR (END-USER)
• Wendy Redshaw, Deutsche Bank

TECHNOLOGY OF THE YEAR(VENDOR)
• Bethany Baer, IHS Markit

TRADE EXECUTION PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Mariya Kurchuk, Pragma Securities

VENDOR PARTNERSHIP OR ALLIANCE PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Wendy Collins, UnaVista (London Stock Exchange Group)

VENDOR PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Veronica Augustsson, Cinnober Financial Technology

RISING STAR (END-USER)
• Kari-Anne Clayton, Deutsche Bank

RISING STAR (VENDOR)
• Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters

BEST COMPANY FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

TRAILBLAZER (LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT)
• Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters

WATERS TECHNOLOGY'S WOMAN OF THE YEAR
• Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg