Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum

Welcome to the Financial Services Cloud Forum. We'd like to get to know you and what you want to achieve as a member of this community.

Take a minute to share your answers to these questions. Here are mine.

Describe your current job role.

I lead the strategy and growth for the Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum.

What do you want to achieve as a member of the Financial Services Cloud Forum?

The tenets of this community are learn, share, debate and solve. As program manager, I would like to see this happening daily in the Financial Services Cloud Forum as it brings like-minded people together to materially reduce the risk of cloud consumption across the financial services industry. 

Describe your areas of expertise, as it pertains to this forum?

• Helping members get their questions answered.
• Ensuring content is fresh, relevant and engaging.
• Finding people to share their expertise.

Share what you found most interesting on the Financial Services Cloud Forum and why.

Navigating the EU Cloud Regulatory Landscape with Anne Leslie. Anne does a superb job desribing how some of the world's largest banks are embracing a new model of engagement that puts competition aside. Instead of competing, banks are collaborating to solve for security, risk and resiliency in the cloud. 

Fun Fact

I am a huge football fan (United States football). I own a complete 1977 Topps Football card set - mint condition. Growing up, one of my favorite toys was the Mr. Quarterback Passer machine. 

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Michele M. Jordan
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I have been learning online courses for AWS cloud platform. My primary goal for joining this Financial Services is to learn and to get advise on how to migrate our existing infrastructure on BMO premise to the AWS cloud platform in the most cost effective way.

My area of expertise includes: infrastructure design, system integration and vulnerability remediation. I am also have extensive experience on Unix and application development on Unix.

Welcome Thang! We are really glad you are here and look forward to hearing more about your Unix and AWS experiences.

Meet Krista Summitt, Digital Content Lead, Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum

Describe your current job role.

I am the Digital Content Lead for the Financial Services Cloud Council and Forum at IBM. Blogs, videos, and webinars are my primary responsibilities.

What do you want to achieve as a member of the Financial Services Cloud Forum?

I want to ensure that our members are successful in our member blogging program, When we have more blogs submitted by our community members than by IBMers, I will feel I've achieved my objective. 

Describe your areas of expertise, as it pertains to this forum?

• Creating branded recurring content programming that our members look forward to consuming.
• Delivering content on different POVs relating to financial services.
• Creating regular opportunities to connect with financial services industry experts to learn best practices and get questions answered.

Share what content you found most interesting on the Financial Services Cloud Forum and why. 

IBM Financial Services Cloud Framework by Dave Kliemman and Aly Farooqui, because it is the foundation of this community and can benefit everyone in the financial services industry, no matter which cloud vendor you've standardized on. 

Fun Fact
I enjoy doing a boxing workout called Fight Camp. (Think Peloton, but for boxing.) Workouts are streamed on your phone or tablet in their app. All the instructors are professional boxers and/or kickboxers. There are fresh workouts every week, and there are sensors in your hand wraps to track punch speed, number of punches, and impact. It is great fun, a good stress reliever, and a complete workout. No abs or weightlifting needed when you finish.  Here are a couple of pictures of me hitting the heavy bag pretending I'm Laila Ali 🥊🦋🐝.

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Krista Summitt
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Describe your current job role.

CIO of Protego Trust Bank- responsible for developing and executing the banking technology and data strategy -   http://www.linkedin.com/in/weiyee

What do you want to achieve as a member of the Financial Services Cloud Forum?

Follow the tenets - learn, share, debate and solve; mainly to learn and ask questions, do not have the delusions of grandeur to Solve anything  

Describe your areas of expertise, as it pertains to this forum?

• digital transformation in regulated environments - we are an institutional (b2) digital asset custody bank (digital native by definition but our ecosystem has plenty of customers and partners that look to us for support in digital transformation 
• data management and analytics - data governance, data analytics, etc. - too many stakeholders in our ecosystem are excited by AI these days - we have spent 3yrs working with ML/RPA/genAI and DATA is the critical part - no lineage, integrity, provenance, etc. and AI is "garbage in, garbage out"
• regulatory compliance tech for financial services - especially for managing a broad and deep ecosystem with massive TPRM requirements
• spent 2 decades+ working as a publishing Wall Street tech analyst (UBS & BNP), head of equity research, head of ESG before being a CIO, so am fairly familiar with technology trends in financial services industry

Share what you found most interesting on the Financial Services Cloud Forum and why.

fairly new to the Financial Services Cloud Forum so everything is new and interesting

Fun Fact

 Not too much "fun" about me - work 18hrs a day; dialed into the Financial Services Cloud Forum  on AI (Sept 2023) from my first vacation in 3 yrs while eating my 11th out of 26th beignet for that week (New Orleans vacation)

Welcome Weiyee, we are thrilled that you joined us! Thank you for the thorough introduction. You have immense technology experience across the banking industry. I am optimistic that you will share some of this experience with us via blog posts and discussion threads. 26 beignets! - A vacation you will always remember.