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David Millar
is a process, IT and risk management professional covering business and IT strategy, consulting and business
development, training, outsourcing and change management initiatives. A
speciality is risk management including the New Basel Accord
(Basel II), Sarbanes-Oxley and their control and supervisory requirements.
He has
worked at board and operational management levels in Europe, Africa, Asia
and the USA in investment banking, brokerage and exchanges, clearing and
settlement services, and is an active industry influencer. David is active
in the risk community, having advised both vendors and financial
institutions and sits on the Professional Risk Managers' International
Association and the Advanced Operational Risk Panel of the Securities &
Investment Institute. He prepares business and promotional literature,
client and investor proposals, is experienced in the positioning of IT and
process products and services and assists vendor organisations in the
formulation of sales and business strategies.
David
is an experienced and popular trainer, writer and conference presenter in Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley and enterprise and operational risk. An excellent consultant, team leader and presenter, he is
mobile, can also work in Spanish and is used to
working globally within different cultures. For some of David Millar's articles and conference
presentations, please go to
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John Maher is a business and
IT professional with experience in managing and participating in teams to
deliver complex end to end processes and systems into highly regulated
environments within the financial sector. This has included a number of
solutions for major retail banks including multi-channel sales and service
facilities using architectures with common data and information. All these
solutions were to corporate governance standards and conformed to the
current risk assessment and control requirement.
John is a team player or team
leader and a strong facilitator and presenter. A strong change manager, he
is a highly analytical person with the skill to identify with the bigger
picture and is skilled in the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley, the COSO internal
controls on business and the COBIT standards. |
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Colin Stringer MA
left Oxford University
with a degree in German and French and worked for 8 years for NatWest Bank in both
retail and corporate banking divisions and in their private
banking arm, Coutts. He subsequently worked as a consultant for two major
providers of treasury management software and was head of Management
Information Systems at the London branch of Union Bank of Finland (now Nordea).
In 1995
he joined
a major global IT consulting and services
organisation and for 5 years headed up
euroTRANSFORMATION® Services, their portfolio of EMU-related
services and was personally involved in the winning and delivery of over 100
euro assignments. Recent involvements have been as lead in the requirements
definition and product selection for a Basel II-compliant operational risk
management facility and as a section leader in the definition and roll-out
of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for a credit card organisation.
Colin has
written many articles for leading industry journals and appeared on radio
and television, both in the UK and overseas. He has written two books on
euro preparations in the Financial Times Management Briefings series,
and brings to the topic of operational risk an analytical approach, drawing
on the experience of looking at enterprise-wide challenges. |
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Ian Graham is an industry consultant with over 25 years'
experience as a practitioner in IT, including having been a senior manager
in charge of methods at various global investment banks. He is recognized
internationally as an authority on business modelling, object-oriented and
component-based software development methods and expert systems. He has a
significant public presence, being associated with both UK and international
professional organizations in a responsible capacity, and is frequently
quoted in the IT and financial press.
Ian is well known in Britain and internationally as a
public speaker, reviewer and writer on advanced computing and is the author
or editor of 13 books on the subject and his book "Object-Oriented Methods"
is rated best-seller in its field. His latest book "A Pattern Language for
Web Usability" appeared in January 2003. Ian has lectured globally and is a
regular panellist and keynote speaker at major conferences. He was Visiting
Professor of Requirements Engineering at De Montfort University from 1998 to
2001 and a pioneer of object-oriented methods in the period
leading up to the creation of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). For some of
Ian Graham's articles and conference
presentations, please go to
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Harry Efde is a
learning and development professional with 10 years' experience designing and
delivering a range of training programmes. Harry developed and implemented a
suite of regulatory training programmes for the investment arm of a British
retail bank which enabled the company to fully comply with the
exacting requirements of a Regulatory training and competency regime,
designed to offer a world class level of investor protection.
His strong Regulatory training
experience is underpinned by exceptional facilitation skills developed
during the delivery of key Management Development programmes for the the
corporate office of a major global banking conglomerate. |
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Lesley Millar has performed administrative and
documentation roles in many industrial companies including over ten years
within a North Asian organisation. There, in addition to
administrative and logistical tasks, she has been responsible for the
quality of written communications, having to create quality public documents
from a variety of business and technical sources, often written by those for
whom English is not a mother tongue. In addition to the above roles, Lesley
has been involved in carrying out research for company projects,
both over the web and through other public sources.
Lesley
is a specialist in the usage of Microsoft documentation tools and, as well
as carrying out all administration, is responsible for the quality of all
DXL deliverables. |
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