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Gabriele is an open source leader and technologist at heart, having spent more than 10 years building thriving communities and delivering business value through open source. He thrives in working with open source communities to drive disruptive innovation, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a
Prior to founding Protect AI, D was the Global Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Solution Architects. His team was responsible for customer facing engineering resources that helped the AI/ML business of AWS become the largest AI/ML business in the world. Prior to Amazon, D was Sr. Vice President of Digital Strategy at Howard Hughes Corporation where D built an industry leading AI platform to price and model economics of illiquid assets using advanced ML techniques in 2015. Previous experiences included Sr. Vice President and Managing Director of Technology and Data Products at NYSE, acquired by ICE in 2013. Prior to NYSE, D was at Intel Corporation for over 12 years where his roles included building the first financial services vertical team and delivering over $1B of annual revenue contribution from the group, Chief of Staff and Technical Advisor to the global sales and marketing organization, and a variety of other leadership roles in product, sales, and marketing functions.
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.
Based in Minnesota, Phil serves as the Americas Field CTO for GitHub and is passionate about helping organizations improve their software velocity and adopt open source software and practices.
When he's not working to help development teams he can usually be found in the kitchen, playing board games with his kids, or spending time skiing and biking small midwestern hills
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.
