Women in Technology & Data Awards 2020: All the winners and why they won

Here are this year’s award winners. The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards—WatersTechnology’s woman of the year and trailblazer (lifetime achievement) award—went to Ann Neidenbach (London Stock Exchange Group) and Barb O’Malley (Northern Trust), respectively. 

• Best company for diversity and inclusion (vendor)—Datactics
• Consultant of the year—Selvi Pasumalaithevan, SS&C Advent
• Data science professional of the year—Anita Patel, Bank of America
• EDM professional of the year (end-user)—Donna Rudnicki, RBC Capital Markets
• EDM professional of the year (vendor)—Mansi Bagga, Oxane Partners
• Engineer/programmer of the year—Lana Kapulovskaya, JP Morgan Asset Management
• Exchange professional of the year—Lauren Dillard, Nasdaq
• Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (end-user)—Wincie Wong, RBS
• Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (vendor)—Pamela Hutchinson, Bloomberg
• Legal/compliance professional of the year—Miranda Morad, MarketAxess
• Market and credit risk professional of the year—Elaine Wong, Moody’s Analytics. Click on this link for a Q&A with Elaine. 
• Market data professional of the year—Amanda Duggan, London Stock Exchange Group
• Operational risk management professional of the year—Sihem Mouelhi, Elucidate
• Reference data professional of the year—Louise Green, Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics Company. Click on this link for a Q&A with Louise.    
• Rising star (end-user)—Charlie Beeson, Man Group
• Rising star (vendor)—Amy Ross, SIX
• Startup professional of the year—Margaret Hartigan, Marstone
• Support professional of the year (vendor)—Mardís Heimisdóttir, SS&C Advent
• Technology innovator of the year (end-user)—Saritha Parchuri, Bank of America
• Technology innovator of the year (vendor)—Reeba Mathen, Cloud9 Technologies
• Technology leader of the year (end-user)—Amie Caban, Guggenheim Partners
• Technology leader of the year (vendor)—Ann Neidenbach, London Stock Exchange Group
• Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year—Mitra Roknabadi, OpenFin
• Vendor professional of the year (business development)—Stephanie Sparvero, Bloomberg
• Vendor professional of the year (data and operations)—Julie Armstrong, ChartIQ
• Vendor professional of the year (trading and risk)—Irina Slobodyanyuk, Numerix
• Trailblazer (Lifetime achievement) award—Barb O’Malley, Northern Trust
• WatersTechnology’s Woman of the Year—Ann Neidenbach,  London Stock Exchange Group