Data: The New Oil Fueling Investment Industry Insights | Manhattan, Ny

Computational power and availability of data are changing how we view the world, make decisions and do our jobs. Today's WORLD is VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous), says Lisa Zonino. HAP Curators: Rhonda Eldridge & Maura Harris Experience Flow: 5:30- 6pm Check in, networking, light snacks and soft drinks 6-8pm Data Presenters and Luminaries Presenter: Joel Telpner, Chair FinTech & Blockchain Practice, Sullivan & Worcester, LLP Currently a senior partner at Sullivan & Worcester (NY) and Chair of the Fintech and Blockchain Practice with 30 +years of combined legal and business experience seeing around corners, identifying strategic opportunities and transforming complex legal hurdles into winning opportunities. He has become a respected leader and voice in the digital assets, blockchain and virtual currency space. Interview: Nigel Noyes, Former SVP/Head of Data Analytics+Engineering, Invesco interviewed by Lisa Zonino, Consultant, Egon Zehnder International Nigel is the former SVP/Head of Data Analytics & Engineering at Invesco (~1T AUM) where he built state-of-the-art data analytics and engineering capabilities to optimize sales distribution of funds. Nigel is an expert in building enterprise scale analytics capabilities (both as a data scientist and engineer) and has almost 20 years of experience in data analytics across diverse industries including Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Payments, Robotics, Aerospace, and Astrophysics. He has built three world class big data analytics platforms – including one at petabyte scale at MasterCard. In Capital Markets, he built the quantitative risk system at Interactive Brokers that handled 10% of the planet’s exchange trades and was their Head of Latam. Nigel holds a MBA from The Wharton School of Business, a MS in Cognitive Science from University of California at San Diego, a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a certificate in Quantitative Finance. Lisa is based in New York as a leader in the firm’s Financial Services Practice. She focuses on financial services, with experience across the human resources, enterprise risk management, legal and compliance, finance and operations functions. Lisa advises clients in talent strategy, conducts executive search and leadership assessment, and provides accelerated integration support to transitioning leaders. Presenters: Frances Newton Stacy, Director, Optimal Capital Frances predicted the stock market crash beginning in October 2007, amongst the very few who successfully traded the downturn. She got out of stocks a month before the all time high and simultaneously got into the historic gold trade. She is now passionate about what the data predicts about the next credit crisis, avidly studying the banking and credit systems in depth, discovering what has to be present in order to have a credit crisis. She studies the underlying algorithms of the banking system, which have an undeniable mathematical structure that regardless of the market swings are always present and have predictable implications. Alexandra Levin Kramer, Co-Founder, Womin.io Alexandra co-founded Womin.io to solve the crisis of freelancers not getting paid for work completed or losing the buld of their wages to recruiters and other intermediaries. Womin.io was created to solve the crisis of freelancers not getting paid for work completed or losing the bulk of their wages to recruiters and other intermediaries. It is a decentralized employment marketplace powered by blockchain which provides a platform for employers and freelancers ((Smart ContractorsTM) to engage directly on a peer to peer basis, meeting the needs of both in a growing freelancer economy. Raana Zia, Author, Your Hidden Light Raana is a Senior Finance Executive and published author with over 20 years of expertise building innovative teams with an entrepreneurial mindset . As a key member of leadership teams for multiple large brands including Gap, Sears, Time Warner, and Dressbarn, I have successfully led and delivered financial strategies that support the changing needs of the business while cultivating an environment that promotes individual and organizational success. She is also an author of a spiritual, self-help, personal growth book called Your Hidden Light: A personal guide to creating your desired life, a powerful handbook that synthesizes ancient and modern day wisdom in a way that easily shows people how to effectively create their desired life. Through a deeper understanding of how your thoughts, emotions, and beliefs impact your external world, you can harness your own inner power to consciously create anything in your life. In work and in life, there is always a more efficient and effective path to get things done – the most direct route is to first go within. 8 - 8:30pm Network or join Raana for quiet meditation What else? Breathtaking views of Manhattan from two outside balconies, culinary delights by Artiserie Sandwich Boutique and Lady M. HAP is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization so the amount paid for your ticket is a charitable donation. 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