Witad Awards 2018: All the Winners and Why They Won

This year's Women in Technology and Data Awards held in London on March 9 featured 24 categories. Here are the write-ups profiling the winners and explaining why they won their respective categories.

The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards – the trailblazer (lifetime achievement) award and WatersTechnology’s woman of the year award – were won by Thomson Reuters’ Debra Walton and Bloomberg’s Sallianne Taylor, respectively. Below is the list of all 24 category winners. Click on the relevant links for the individual write-ups and winners’ video interviews/Q&As, and click on this link for the shortlisted entries to this year’s awards. 

Write-ups by Anthony Malakian, James Rundle, Jamie Hyman, Emilia David, Wei-Shen Wong, Josephine Gallagher and Victor Anderson.   

• 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. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview and on this link for a Q&A.   
• 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. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview and on this link for a Q&A. 
• Market data professional of the year – Patti Sachs, Citi
• Reference data professional of the year – Aouda Bellout, Schroders. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 
• Rising star (end-user) – Kari-Anne Clayton, Deutsche Bank
• Rising star (vendor) – Hella Hoffmann, Thomson Reuters. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 
• 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. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 
• 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
• Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year – Wendy Collins, UnaVista (London Stock Exchange Group). Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 
• Vendor professional of the year – Veronica Augustsson, Cinnober Financial Technology
• Trailblazer (lifetime achievement) – Debra Walton, Thomson Reuters. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 
• WatersTechnology’s woman of the year – Sallianne Taylor, Bloomberg. Click on this link for the winner’s video interview. 

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