Bryan Christian is an industry veteran with over 25 years of financial services experience, bringing acute sales acumen to Symphony’s commercial organization. His expertise lies in Equity & Exchange Market Structure, and most recently in with blockchain technology.

As head of business development, Byran focuses on the company’s priority growth initiatives, including new markets, segments and client engagement.

Previously, Bryan worked at LMAX Group, as director US Institutional Sales, having also worked in senior commercial roles at Nasdaq, Cboe Global Markets, and Old Mission. Bryan is on the board of directors for the SIFMA Foundation.

Dan is Founder of It's Pronounced Data, a consulting and media business focused on the data and information services sector. His career experience spans startups through Fortune 500 organizations, including senior roles at Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC) as Executive Director of Data Strategy, FactSet (NYSE: FDS) as SVP, Senior Director of Partnerships, and Datavore Labs as CEO leading the company to acquisition by Above Data in 2020. In addition to his executive roles, Dan serves as an Advisor to multiple data companies including Bobsled (data delivery), Exabel (data platform), Gulp Data (data valuation), and Intangiable (IP data).

Danny West leads a team of attorneys at Two Sigma that advise the firm’s research and engineering teams on how to appropriately acquire and leverage big data in the financial markets.

He is involved in every aspect of the firm’s data onboarding process, including diligencing novel alternative datasets and developing scalable data and privacy-related policies, procedures and controls.

Prior to joining Two Sigma, Danny was assistant general counsel at American International Group, Inc. (AIG), working with the firm’s big data and science teams to develop cutting-edge healthcare / financial tools and technologies, often utilizing strategically de-identified and/or aggregated data.

Dmitry (Mitya) Miller is a Senior Vice President and General Manager of Aquata, Arcesium’s comprehensive self-service data platform purpose built for the investment management industry. Mitya is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Aquata business, including P&L ownership, customer base growth, customer delivery and engagement, and product roadmap.

Previously, Mitya was the head of Arcesium’s Technical Relationship Management and Forward Deployed Teams where he led global teams of solution architects, software engineers, project managers, and data specialists delivering solutions to our clients’ most complex business and technology challenges.

Mitya has over 20 years of experience building software platforms for portfolio management, valuation, security and reference data mastering, and enterprise data management. In addition, he is an expert in investment management technology, cloud architecture, and the data landscape in asset management.

Duncan W. Robinson is the Director of Quantitative Insights and Data Science at Allspring Global Investments, a data scientist, a former options market-maker and the creator of several patent-pending inventions covering alternative data, including ESG, SDGs, data privacy and signal evaluation. In this capacity, he leads a team that is responsible for innovation, research, risk measurement, regime analysis and exploring alternative data using quantitative and statistical learning techniques.

Ed is currently the VP of Investor Intelligence heading up the Finance vertical at Placer.ai, the market leading geolocation data provider. Prior to this, he spearheaded the Finance vertical at Similarweb, which he led for over 6 years, enabling them to become a global leader in the alternative data space. Ed is a seasoned thought leader and has worked with 100s of investment institutions helping them drive their adoption of Alternative Data

Farah started in the alternative data space by providing patent intelligence to public and private equity investors. In conjunction, Farah worked with corporate research & development departments from a broad range of industries.

Farah has an LLB in Law from Durham University.

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Ian heads the Client Engagement group at Neudata, as well as its busy programme of events. He has spent the last six years helping asset managers, investment banks and retailers to get value out of traditional and alternative data. Prior to that, Ian's experience encompassed analytical and commercial roles at Vodafone, Bank of Scotland and Liberty Mutual.Ian holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and a Saltire Fellowship in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts.