Women in Technology & Data Awards 2020: All the winners and why they won
The 28 category winners from this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on the afternoon of March 6 at a sit-down lunch in London.
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
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