As Co-Head of Technology, Madeleine jointly leads the global department responsible for all technology for the firm and oversees over 500 employees. Madeleine’s focus areas are overall strategy as well as the technology platforms for portfolio implementation, global trading, legal and compliance, and regulatory. Madeleine is chair of the Technology Strategy Board, vice-chair of the Trading Policy Review Group, and a member of the Americas Compensation Committee and the Risk Committee.   

Before joining Wellington Management in February 2006, Madeleine worked at Goldman Sachs in New York managing the NYSE and Listed Trading Systems. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a manager at Accenture in the Financial Markets practice.  Madeleine moved to the US from her native France to attend Columbia College, where she earned a BA in mathematics. Her bilingual education at an international school in France enabled her to develop fluency in both English and French. Madeleine serves as a board member for Boston City Singers.

Andy Smith is a Distinguished Engineer at Discover Financial Services with over 20 years of experience building products, leading engineering and open source engagements. Andy has served in board/leadership roles of several open source organizations for member organizations including OpenSocial, jQuery and JS Foundation.

Bhupesh has over 20 years’ experience working in the front office trading technology for some of the world’s leading investment banks. Beginning his career at Barclays working across Infrastructure, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income and Credit Derivatives, he moved to Lehman Brothers for 4 years in 2005 before returning to Barclays where he held a number of senior management positions and was to inevitably head up Credit, Municipal and Securitized Products Technology alongside running Trade Capture across Markets. He subsequently left Barclays to take on the opportunity as Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services at RBC in July this year. With deep expertise in risk, analytics and electronic trading and passion for technology, Bhupesh has continued working closely with innovators in the FinTech space to build forward looking platforms in Investment Banking.

Alexandra Mysak is the Director of Sales, Financial Services - Enterprise at Databricks. She is a sales leader driving growth of the Financial Services business vertical for Databricks - the SaaS platform for data + AI. Enterprise advisor on cloud, big data & advanced analytics. This is complemented by an initial 15 years in Financial services (Goldman Sachs 12 years, Standard chartered 3 years) within Capital Markets and Corporate Banking. Deep understanding of financial services workflows on both buy side, sell side, investment banking, consumer banking & capital markets.