Brian Buzzelli

Senior Vice President, Head of Data Governance
Acadian Asset Management

Mr. Buzzelli is Senior Vice President and Head of Data Governance for Acadian, a quantitative institutional asset management firm specializing in active global, emerging and frontier investments utilizing sophisticated analytical models and specialized research expertise. He has primary responsibility for data governance policies, standards, data quality measurement, and alignment of data taxonomy, dictionary and meta-data management. With more than 20 years of leadership experience in prior roles including: Executive Director, Head of Enterprise Data Management, Americas responsible for Nomura’s client reference and product data as well as market data commercial vendor management supporting the U.S. and global broker dealer operations. Vice President, Americas Head for Thomson Reuters Enterprise Pricing and Reference Data business and strategic roles as Business Architect and Cross-Segment Product Manager for Mellon’s Global Asset Services division. He began his financial career at Federated Investors and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Decision Systems and holds two Master degrees; Management of Information Systems and an MBA in Finance from the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Mastering Data Strategy and Data Quality to Remain Competitive

Saturday, October 7th, 2017

14:25 An Innovative Look at Data Quality Through Data Visualization

We've heard it before, data quality is the holy grail. We know about completeness, timeliness, accuracy and congruence, but what could it mean to see data quality? Brian Buzzelli, Senior Vice President, Head of Data Governance, Acadian Asset Management has built a system in house that presents the visualization of data at the data point level. This level of granularity provides a completely different opportunity for those looking at reconciliation reports versus heat maps and graphs. Through this new tool, users will be able to see millions of data points and get an immediate impression of what looks good and what doesn't.
Brian will share lessons learned, including:
• Understanding outliers and exceptional data quality scenarios
• Measuring data against service level expectations
• Next opportunities for data quality

Leveraging Standards and Technology to Drive the Business into the Future

Thursday, October 5th, 2017

14:00 Closing Future Outlook Panel |Revolutionizing Data Management to Respond to Future Market Trends, Technology Advances and the Information Explosion

Financial markets trending towards increased global integration, regulatory standardization, and resiliency; Exploding data and information volumes, velocity, capacity and analytics; Technology advances including cloud computing, Blockchain, IoT, maching learning. While the topics at a glance seem far removed from the ongoing demands of data lineage, data quality and regulatory requirements, data sits beneath each of these. What is going to have to change from a data perspective to take advantage of these opportunities to grow the business? How can data management support a broad range of product offerings to meet the demands of the changing customer?
Industry leaders will discuss:
• What transformations in data management techniques and frameworks will be necessary to respond to future demands and challenges
• Which information management and application technology innovations are likely and that we should anticipate
• On the horizon: implications for the connected person, data architecture, CX , regulation, data quality and governance
• How to approach the planning and preparation to assess the suitability, value and potential integration of new technologies, applications, and data management capabilities