Women in Technology and Data Awards 2021 | Infopro Digital Risk (IP) Limited | 15 January 2021 | Online Awards

WatersTechnology has always felt strongly about recognizing and promoting women who occupy technology and data roles across the capital markets. However, it has invariably proven a struggle for us when looking to invite women speakers to participate in our events or for candidates for Waters' cover profiles. Time and again we have been disappointed by the poor levels of female representation in both technology and data disciplines, and we want to change that.

At our events around the globe, our traditional C-level panels inevitably touch on the issues of personnel and how capital markets firms should best go about attracting top talent, especially in the technology and data industries where buy-side and sell-side firms have to compete with the likes of Amazon, Google and large numbers of technology start-ups.

It goes without saying that women are the most undervalued human resource in our industry, an issue that we want to remedy by way of creating a launch pad for capital markets firms to recognise and foster their female talent through a focused technology and data awards programme.

2020 Winners

Best company for diversity and inclusion (vendor):
• Datactics

Consultant of the year:
• Selvi Pasumalaithevan, SS&C Advent

Data science professional of the year:
• Anita Patel, Bank of America

EDM professional of the year (end-user):
• Donna Rudniki, RBC Capital Markets

EDM professional of the year (vendor):
• Mansi Bagga, Oxane Partners

Engineer/programmer of the year:
• Lana Kapulovskaya, JP Morgan Asset Management

Exchange professional of the year:
• Lauren Dillard, Nasdaq

Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (end-user):
• Wincie Wong, RBS

Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (vendor):
• Pamela Hutchinson, Bloomberg

Legal/compliance professional of the year:
• Miranda Morad, MarketAxess

Market and credit risk professional of the year:
• Elaine Wong, Moody's Analytics

Market data professional of the year:
• Amanda Duggan, London Stock Exchange Group

Operational risk management professional of the year:
• Sihem Mouelhi, Elucidate

Reference data professional of the year:
• Louise Green, Bureau van Dijk, a Moody's Analytics Company

Rising star (end-user):
• Charlie Beeson, Man Group

Rising star (vendor):
• Amy Ross, SIX

Startup professional of the year:
• Margaret Hartigan, Marstone

Support professional of the year (vendor):
• Mardís Heimisdóttir, SS&C Advent

Technology innovator of the year (end-user):
• Saritha Parchuri, Bank of America

Technology innovator of the year (vendor):
• Reeba Mathen, Cloud9 Technologies

Technology leader of the year (end-user):
• Amie Caban, Guggenheim Partners

Technology leader of the year (vendor):
• Ann Neidenbach, London Stock Exchange Group

Traiblazer (Lifetime achievement) award:
• Barb O'Malley, Northern Trust

Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year:
• Mitra Roknabadi, OpenFin

Vendor professional of the year (business development):
• Stephanie Sparvero, Bloomberg

Vendor professional of the year (data and operations):
• Julie Armstrong, ChartIQ

Vendor professional of the year (trading and risk):
• Irina Slobodyanyuk, Numerix

WatersTechnology’s woman of the year:
• Ann Neidenbach, London Stock Exchange Group