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FINOS Hires Two New Team Members in Marketing and Projects

April 07, 2022
We’re excited to announce two new members to the FINOS team; Niamh Parker joined us as our new Marketing Manager and Rob Moffat as our Senior Technical Architect. 
 

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Niamh, who joined a few weeks ago is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, and has a wide range of experience within the Marketing and PR industry. From beginning her career in Consumer PR, working with various high profiled clients to moving into the finance and tech world working at Broadridge and most recently, Symphony. Niamh holds a BA(Hons) in Media, Culture and Communication and a Postgraduate degree in International Business.

Niamh’s initial work in her new role will be owning and project managing various pieces of marketing content. She and the rest of the marketing team will be reaching out to member firms and the wider community to get input for thought leadership and project content this year.

 

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We are also delighted to announce Rob Moffat to the team, based outside of London in Colchester, U.K. Over the last twenty years, he has worked at many of the top-tier investment banks in London on regulatory and transformation IT projects. Most recently he has been an advocate for the Symphony platform and the transformational capabilities of chat bots within finance.Rob is a staunch advocate of Open Source and works on many open source projects, including the FINOS "Spring Bot" project which he built and contributed whilst working at Deutsche Bank.Rob holds a Computer Science degree and an MBA and is the author of "Risk-First Software Development"

Rob will be growing the technical footprint of the FINOS team, playing a key role in supporting our community towards an ever more efficient and productive open source development lifecycle, while continuing to remove hurdles that developers in financial institutions face in their OSS engagement. Rob is already engaging in flagship projects like Legend and FDC3, which, together with his deep Symphony ecosystem experience, have the potential to support true industry wide workflows across data, interop and identity.

Listen to Rob's Open Source in Finance Podcast interview to get to know him a little better

 

Contact information:

 

Connect with Niamh

Email: niamh.parker@finos.org

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niamhoparker/ 

 

Connect with Rob

Email: rob.moffat@finos.org

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoffat/  

 

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