Ian Headon
Senior Vice President, Northern Trust Depositary Services
Ian is responsible for technical development and regulatory deployment within of Northern Trust's depositary business across EMEA. He joined Northern Trust in May 2005. He has been Chairman of Irish Funds Task Force on AIFMD and is currently on the Industry’s Alternatives Steering Group. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).
Loretta O'Donnell
CTI Country Head Ireland Sub Cluster Head Europe, Citi
Loretta joined Citi in 2007 as part of the Citi Acquisition of BISYS. She became CTI Country Head for Ireland and Jersey in 2010. In 2016 Loretta took over as Sub-Cluster CTI Head for Europe whereby she is responsible for CTI in a number of Europe countries. She is a member of the CITI Women mentoring committee and Women In Technology group. Loretta joined the BISYS organization in 2002 as part of their Technology support group. Later, she became responsible for the management of the technology department which provided local and remote support to the various BISYS businesses in Ireland, Hong Kong and Bermuda. Before BISYS, Loretta worked for in Australia for a number of years, where she worked in Cisco and Nestle supporting their Exchange environment for ASPAC. Prior to this, Loretta worked for Digital Networking services in Ireland , delivering network/infrastructure solutions for numerous projects for companies such as Bank of Ireland, AIB, Commerzbank, Irish Trade Board, Nortel and many more implanting networkinfrastructure solutions. With almost 20 years of IT experience, Loretta currently holds a MSc in Software Engineering from Carlow IT, Microsoft MCSE and ITIL certification.
Carol Ward
Chief Operating Officer, Man GLG
Trustee, Chair AIMA Research Committee, Enterprise Ireland Fintech Mentor
Carol Ward is Chief Operating Officer & Partner of Man GLG, a role she assumed in October 2015. Man GLG is Man Group’s discretionary investment management arm with assets under management of $32.9bn. In this role Ward is responsible for the execution of business strategy and the day to day running of all non-investment activities. She is currently revising GLG’s technology strategy with a target end goal of making GLG a leader in applying technology and innovation to discretionary investing. Prior to joining Man GLG, she spent five years at Man AHL, Man Group’s $21.5bn quantitative investment manager, where she held a number of business management roles, including most recently Chief Operating Officer for two years. Before joining Man AHL in 2010, Ward was a senior Technology project manager at Fidelity International. Ward appeared in the Hedge Fund Journal’s ’50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds’ 2017. Since July 2016, she has chaired the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Research Committee. She is also a FinTech Mentor for Enterprise Ireland. Ward holds a BSc in Business Information Systems from University College Cork, Ireland.
Jonathan McCrea
Broadcaster, Whipsmart Media
Jonathan is a multi-award-winning TV and radio broadcaster and founder of Whipsmart Media, a communications consultancy based in Dublin. He is the founder of science communications conference SCI:COM and a highly regarded keynote speaker on future technologies and communication strategies. With 10 years of experience in broadcasting and journalism, Jonathan is also the creator of “Futureproof”, Newstalk’s flagship science programme that has won 7 national radio awards in the 7 years it has been on air. He presents “Ten Things To Know About”, the critically acclaimed 6-part TV series for RTE that showcases Irish research and previously TV3’s big-budget studio quiz show “The Lie” that aired in 2014/5. As a consultant, Jonathan media trains executives in the science, medical and technical sectors on communicating to the media and public speaking. He also advises brands on how to innovate in their communications through Wilson Hartnell’s Cultural Collective and is an invited expert panellist for Katerva, the global sustainability awards. Prior to joining Northern Trust in 2005, he was at Bank of New York and PFPC International in Dublin and has been in the financial services industry since 1996.
