Women in Technology & Data Awards 2019: All the winners and why they won
The 26 category winners from this year's Women in Technology and Data Awards were announced on the afternoon of March 8 at a sit-down lunch in London.
Here are this year’s ‘women’s awards’ winners. The two highest-profile categories of this year’s awards – WatersTechnology’s woman of the year and traiblazer (lifetime achievement) award – went to Beatriz Martín of UBS and Cathy Bessant from Bank of America, respectively.
- Best company for diversity and inclusion (end-user): BNP Paribas
- EDM professional of the year: Pam Hueston, Xenomorph
- Exchange professional of the year: Julie Holzrichter, CME Group
- Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (end-user): Ruth MacQuiddy, Deutsche Bank
- Rising star (end-user): Irene Kan, TD Securities
- Technology innovator of the year (end-user): Pinar Emirdag, State Street
- Technology leader of the year (end-user): Kirsten Achtelstetter, Man Group
- Best company for diversity and inclusion (vendor): Refinitiv
- Consultant of the year: Michelle Feinstein, BNY Mellon Pershing
- Data science professional of the year: Amanda Stent, Bloomberg
- Engineer/programmer of the year: Maureen Buotte, Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company
- Gender equality/diversity professional of the year (vendor): Frieda Lewis, Broadridge Financial Solutions
- Legal/compliance professional of the year: Miranda Morad, MarketAxess. Click on this link for a Q&A with Miranda Morad.
- Market data professional of the year: Emily Kasparov, SIP Operating Committees
- Reference data professional of the year: Louise Green, Bureau van Dijk, a Moody’s Analytics company
- Rising star (vendor): Payal Jain, Indus Valley Partners
- Risk professional of the year: Mire Cardenas, Axioma
- Startup professional of the year: Sunaina Swaminathan, M Science
- Support professional of the year (vendor): Meena Jeenarain, Abacus Group
- Technology innovator of the year (vendor): Regina Williamson, LSEG
- Technology leader of the year (vendor): Natasha Shamis, Liquidnet
- Vendor partnership or alliance professional of the year: Marisol Collazo, DTCC
- Vendor professional of the year (data and operations): Tamsin Hobley, SIX
- Vendor professional of the year (trading and risk): Susan Estes, OpenDoor Securities
- WatersTechnology’s woman of the year: Beatriz Martin, UBS
- Traiblazer (Lifetime achievement) award: Cathy Bessant, Bank of America
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