Women in Technology and Data Awards 2023 | Infopro Digital Risk (IP) Limited | The Langham, London, 1C Portland Pl, London W1B 1JA, UK

WatersTechnology has always felt strongly about recognising 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.

Categories
• Vendor Partnership Or Alliance Professional Of The Year
• Best Company For Diversity And Inclusion (Vendor)
• Best Company For Diversity And Inclusion (End-user)
• Rising Star (Vendor)
• Rising Star (End-user)
• Engineer/programmer Of The Year
• Data Science Professional Of The Year
• Reference Data Professional Of The Year
• Market Data Professional Of The Year
• Wellness/work-life Balance Award (End-user)
• Above And Beyond Award (Vendor)
• EDM Professional Of The Year
• Vendor Professional Of The Year
• Support Professional Of The Year (Vendor)
• Support Professional Of The Year (End-user)
• Trade Execution Professional Of The Year
• Legal/compliance Professional Of The Year
• Risk Professional Of The Year
• Gender Equality / Diversity Professional Of The Year (Vendor)
• Gender Equality / Diversity Professional Of The Year (End-user)
• Wellness/work-life Balance Award (Vendor)
• Exchange Professional Of The Year
• Consultant Of The Year
• Startup Professional Of The Year
• Technology Innovator Of The Year (Vendor)
• Technology Innovator Of The Year (End-user)
• Technology Leader Of The Year (Vendor)
• Technology Leader Of The Year (End-user)
• Traiblazer (Lifetime Achievement)
• Above And Beyond Award (End-user)

2021 Winners

Above and beyond (end-user) award
• Helen Packard (Bank of England)

Above and beyond (vendor) award
• Mitra Roknabadi (OpenFin)

Best company for diversity and inclusion (end-user)
• Carson Group

Best company for diversity and inclusion (vendor)
• First Derivatives.

Consultant of the year
• Nidhi Kalra (EY)

Data science professional of the year
• Lory Nunez (JP Morgan)

EDM professional of the year (vendor)
• Libby Isenstein (Morning Consult)

EDM professional of the year (newcomer)
• Saori Fotenos (IHS Markit)

Engineer/programmer of the year
• Jane Xue (JP Morgan)

Exchange professional of the year
• Diane Schmidt (London Stock Exchange Group)

Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (end-user)
• Teri Shepherd (Carson Group)

Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (vendor)
• Linda Middleditch (Itiviti)

Legal/compliance professional of the year
• Miranda Morad (MarketAxess)

Market data professional of the year
• Lisa Schirf (Tradeweb)

Reference data professional of the year
• Louise Green (Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company)

Rising star (end-user)
• Christine Grant (Guggenheim Partners)

Rising star (vendor)
• Sophie Chen (Nasdaq)

Risk professional of the year
• Sujata Dasgupta (Tata Consultancy Services)

Startup professional of the year
• Ambre Soubiran (Kaiko)

Support professional of the year (end-user)
• Sarah Gosler (BNY Mellon)

Support professional of the year (vendor)
• Rachel Wilkes Swenson (HPR)

Technology innovator of the year (end-user)
• Olga Prudits (BNY Mellon)

Technology innovator of the year (vendor)
• Clare Flynn Levy (Essentia Analytics)

Technology leader of the year (end-user)
• Laura Barrowman (Credit Suisse)

Technology leader of the year (vendor)
• Lauren Dillard (Nasdaq)

Trade execution professional of the year
• Danielle Caravetta (Pragma)

Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year
• Tosha Ellison (FINOS)

Vendor professional of the year (business development)
• Jennifer Theiss (IHS Markit)

Vendor professional of the year (data and operations)
• Masami Johnstone (CLS Group)

Vendor professional of the year (trading and risk)
• Zara Pratley (Tradeweb)

Wellness/work-life balance award (end-user)
• Rebecca Lythgo (BNY Mellon)

Wellness/work-life balance award (vendor)
• Elena Rusakova (Exactpro Systems)

Trailblazer (Lifetime achievement) award
• Linda Coffman (SmartStream Technologies)

WatersTechnology Woman of the Year
• Vrinda Menon (JP Morgan)