FinTech Disruptors: Buzzwords or Business Ready?

Sanjay Balu is a seasoned Strategy, Architecture, Solutions Delivery, and Operations executive with 25+ years in the Financial Services and Retail industries. His experience spans senior customer-facing global business, and IT roles for Fortune 500 and Technology consulting companies. He currently heads Enterprise Applications Architecture, Project Operations and Analytics, and Strategic Partner Management for the Global Technology and Investment Operations Group of MFS Investment Management. In this role he focuses on Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Operational Planning, and Delivery Partnerships. Prior to that, Sanjay spent over 13 years at Avery Dennison in various roles and was most recently the Global Director for Customer-Facing Digital Solutions. In various roles, he has hired, mentored, and led very large global technical, functional, and operational teams in the US, Asia, and EMEA.  Prior to that, Sanjay spent time in the consulting industry with Sapient, implementing solutions for major clients in Financial Services.

Jim Fanning leads North America for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Financial Services organization. His team helps financial services customers adopt cloud services and plan their cloud strategy with a focus on security and compliance. Jim has been with AWS for 10+ years and previously served as the AWS Country Manager for Switzerland and Austria. Jim has over 25 years of sales, management, and technical experience. He started his career as a C/C++ developer on Unix platforms and he takes pride in staying detail-oriented on the latest technology trends. Prior to Amazon Web Services, Jim worked at Microsoft, Accenture, and was a founding member of Tellme Networks, a Silicon Valley startup.

Gautam leads the SS&C Chorus Intelligent Automation Solutions platform, which includes the SS&C Chorus BPM and Document Automation products. In his role, Gautam is responsible for the global intelligent automation solutions business which includes providing solutions to help clients on their digital transformation journeys using technologies like Workflow, Document Automation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Robotic Process Automation. SS&C Chorus has 580 clients with 300,000 active users processing 4 billion transactions and digitizing 600 million pages annually. Gautam joined SS&C from PwC, where he was a partner and led the Intelligent Automation practice for Financial Services. Before PwC, Gautam served as COO at WorkFusion, a robotic process automation, machine learning, and process automation platform. Prior to WorkFusion Gautam spent time building and implementing solutions for Financial Services clients at Markit, JPMorgan, and ARGO Resource Corp.