Women in Technology and Data Awards 2018 – All the Winners
The winners of the 24 categories making up this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on Friday March 9 at a luncheon in London.
Below is the list of category winners in the inaugural Women in Technology and Data Awards. All 24 category write-ups will appear in the April 2018 issue of Waters magazine.
- Best company for diversity and inclusion – Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
- 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
- Rising star (end-user) – Kari-Anne Clayton, Deutsche Bank
- Rising star (vendor) – Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters
- 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 leader of the year (vendor) – Bethany Baer, IHS Markit
- Trade execution professional of the year – Mariya Kurchuk, Pragma Securities
- Trailblazer (lifetime achievement) – Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters
- 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
- WatersTechnology’s woman of the year – Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg
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