Women in Technology & Data Awards 2019: All the Winners and Why they Won

Here are this year’s ‘women’s awards’ winners. The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards – WatersTechnology’s woman of the year and traiblazer (lifetime achievement) award – went to Beatriz Martín of UBS and Cathy Bessant from Bank of America, respectively. 

• Best company for diversity and inclusion (end-user): BNP Paribas
• EDM professional of the year: Pam Hueston, Xenomorph
• Exchange professional of the year: Julie Holzrichter, CME Group
• Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (end-user): Ruth MacQuiddy, Deutsche Bank
• Rising star (end-user): Irene Kan, TD Securities
• Technology innovator of the year (end-user): Pinar Emirdag, State Street
• Technology leader of the year (end-user): Kirsten Achtelstetter, Man Group
• Best company for diversity and inclusion (vendor): Refinitiv
• Consultant of the year: Michelle Feinstein, BNY Mellon Pershing
• Data science professional of the year: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
• Engineer/programmer of the year: Maureen Buotte, Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company
• Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (vendor): Frieda Lewis, Broadridge Financial Solutions
• Legal/compliance professional of the year: Miranda Morad, MarketAxess. Click on this link for a Q&A with Miranda Morad. 
• Market data professional of the year: Emily Kasparov, SIP Operating Committees
• Reference data professional of the year: Louise Green, Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics company
• Rising star (vendor): Payal Jain, Indus Valley Partners
• Risk professional of the year: Mire Cardenas, Axioma
• Startup professional of the year: Sunaina Swaminathan, M Science
• Support professional of the year (vendor): Meena Jeenarain, Abacus Group
• Technology innovator of the year (vendor): Regina Williamson, LSEG
• Technology leader of the year (vendor): Natasha Shamis, Liquidnet
• Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year: Marisol Collazo, DTCC
• Vendor professional of the year (data and operations): Tamsin Hobley, SIX
• Vendor professional of the year (trading and risk): Susan Estes, OpenDoor Securities
• WatersTechnology’s woman of the year: Beatriz Martin, UBS
• Traiblazer (Lifetime achievement) award: Cathy Bessant, Bank of America