Women in Technology & Data Awards 2019: All the winners and why they won

- By Victor Anderson
- 08 Mar 2019

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

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