Wavelength Podcast Ep. 184: Broadridge’s Mark Schlesinger
Mark Schlesinger joins the podcast to discuss Broadridge’s cloud initiative.
Wei-Shen Wong, Asia Editor, and Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology, record a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
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Mark Schlesinger, Broadridge’s CIO, joins the podcast to talk about Broadridge’s efforts in migrating its infrastructure to IBM Cloud, and how that will give the firm access to new capabilities to develop applications.
5:00 – What is The Broadridge Private Cloud?
9:00 – What does migrating a significant portion of Broadridge’s infrastructure to IBM Cloud mean to the firm, and its clients?
12:00 – What motivated this decision, and when will migrations happen?
18:00 – What are some of the new application development capabilities that IBM Cloud provides? Mark talks about the wealth platform, and the data intelligence platform that Broadridge will launch soon.
23:30 – A look into Broadridge’s blockchain efforts.
28:30 – Why is implementing a multi-cloud strategy easier said than done?
34:00 – Mark talks about his passion for squash and starting the day early.
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