Oliver Browne is a Researcher/Lecturer with the University College Cork (UCC), where he is currently pursuing a PhD in accounting, focusing on regulatory and risk reporting in the area of semantics. He has worked in the banking sector for Bank of Ireland, Group Treasury, in the preparation and submission of regulatory reporting and financial statements and in the management of liquidity in group deposits. Mr. Browne has also worked for Allied… Read More

Nenad Krdzavac is an accomplished research scientist with extensive experience conducting ground-breaking research, contributing to knowledge of Semantic Web technologies. Dr. Krdzavac has strong research interests spanning description logics, automated reasoning, ontology development, Web services development, and model-driven engineering. He previously held roles at Michigan State University and the University of Belgrade. Dr. Krdzavac is a co… Read More

Philip O’Reilly is a Cutter Expert and Professor of Financial Technologies and Information Systems at Cork University Business School, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He is the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)–approved Principal Investigator of FINTECHNEXT, a multiyear, multimillion Euro research collaboration between UCC and Fexco. Dr. O'Reilly is also Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales Business School, whose… Read More

Mark Hutchinson is Professor of Finance and Deputy Head of the Cork University Business School at University College Cork (UCC). From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Hutchinson traded futures, options, and cash equities at HSBC Investment Bank in London. At HSBC he was responsible for institutional market making and proprietary trading. In 2002 he joined UCC, where he has led several research teams, securing over €5 million in research funding. With… Read More

David Saul is Senior VP and Chief Scientist at State Street Corporation, reporting to the CIO. In this role, he is responsible for proposing and assessing new advanced technologies for the ­organization as well as evaluating technologies already in use at State Street and their likely evolution in order to reinforce the organization’s leadership position in financial services. Mr. Saul previously was Chief Information Security Officer, in which… Read More

Dáire Lawlor, who joined State Street in 2010, draws on over 25 years of management experience working on both the client and the vendor side across a range of sectors in Ireland, the UK, Spain, and India. With over a decade’s worth of experience in senior management roles in the asset and fund management sector, he is currently head of the Consultancy Services Group for State Street International (Ireland) Ltd., managing a team of expert… Read More

Daragh McGetrick works for the Consulting Services Group in State Street Global Services. He has 13 years’ experience in financial services, with the last 10 years focused on transformation initiatives across fund accounting, derivatives pricing, custody, financial reporting, and regulatory reporting. Mr. McGetrick holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance, a higher diploma in IT, and a ­master’s degree in economic science. He can be… Read More