Sibos 2019 – Host Line-Up

Before being named CEO in 2019, Mr. Chuard held various leadership positions at Temenos since joining the Company in 2002. He was Chief Financial Officer of Temenos since 2012, where he had overall responsibility for finance, planning, treasury, information technology, investor relations, compensation and benefits and internal controls.

In 2015, Mr. Chuard was appointed Chief Operating Officer in addition to his Chief Financial Officer role, and was responsible for go-to-market operations including client management, delivery and driving Temenos’ expansion in the US. Mr. Chuard also led the Company’s mergers and acquisitions strategy, and has conducted more than 10 successful transactions including Akcelerant, Multifonds and Avoka. Mr. Chuard was also instrumental in revolutionizing Temenos’ banking software platform with the launch of two new cloud-native, cloud-agnostic products – Temenos Infinity and Temenos Transact to accelerate cloud adoption.

Prior to joining Temenos, Mr. Chuard started his career as a business analyst at JP Morgan and subsequently held a senior position at SWICORP, a Swiss merchant bank.

Mr. Chuard holds a Master’s of Science in Finance from the University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne), Switzerland.

Adam is responsible for the product planning and execution of Temenos’ Financial Crime, Treasury and Risk solutions. With a background in development and risk, Adam has worked for a number of international banks and has a track record of building and taking to market both Universal and specialist banking systems. Adam has 25+ years experience in the banking and banking software industry.

Bola has over 25 years of expertise spanning engineering, software development and IT analysis. She is the founder of Creative Intellect Consulting, and has worked at MWD Advisors and Ovum. Bola is a Chartered Engineer and has industry experience of application development and network computing in several sectors. She has worked as a senior software developer for Reuters and a chemical and process control engineer for Air Products. As an analyst, Bola has built a wide portfolio of product evaluations, strategy reports and competitive analysis reports. She is regularly sought to provide input into and drive supplier and product selection processes.

Daniela leads the Payments team of the Temenos Business Solution Group. She ensures that Temenos’ solutions fit our client’s requirements for the payments and payment-related regulations (such as PSD2, Open Banking). Daniela is a Payment expert with over 25 years’ experience in the banking software industry, banking and payments.

Des has been with Temenos since 2007 and is responsible for managing and growing the business in the UK & Ireland markets. Des has worked in financial services software for more than 25 years, previously with Kindle Banking Systems (later Misys/Finastra). In his early career Des has led core banking project implementations in the UK, Canada, India & Africa.

Mr. Jean-Paul Mergeai has been the Managing Director in charge of the Middle-East and Africa since 2014.
Mr. Mergeai graduated from the University of Liège magna cum laude with a master’s degree in Linguistics and Information Technology in 1984. He started his career as an academic focusing his research on machine translation and artificial intelligence as applied to natural languages.
Mr. Mergeai moved to the financial industry where he joined Reuters in Luxembourg in 1989. He has over 28 years’ of experience in implementing, designing, supporting or selling IT solutions for banks and financial institutions.
Mr. Mergeai joined Odyssey Financial Technologies in 2007 to manage the firm’s global accounts program. He later moved to New York to manage Odyssey’s North American operations.
After Temenos’ acquisition of Odyssey in 2010, Mr. Mergeai managed Temenos’ Private Wealth global operations and led North American sales operations until the end of 2013.

Kanika Hope is Global Strategic Business Development Director, Temenos focused on developing strategic sales opportunities with leading banks. Kanika has 25 years of experience in banking technology and operations. Prior to Temenos, she worked as Business Development Director at SAP for 10 years, where she engaged with European retail and corporate banks on core transformation, digital banking and more. Before that, she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company in their Business Technology Office, London focused on Banking, and at General Electric in a variety of global Information Technology.

Michael is a customer engineer at Google Cloud who works with customers in sprints of few weeks to accomplish innovative projects in big data and machine learning. Before becoming a Googler, Michael worked in a similar role at Amazon Web Services and SAP. After his studies in computer science, Michael spent several years in academia at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and obtained a PhD degree from TU Berlin.

Steve is responsible for our business banking and corporate cash management product vision and strategy. Following 22 years in international trade & banking services, Steve moved to financial services software in 2001, working at Fundtech and Gresham He is Temenos’ EBA Liquidity Management Working Group representative.

Prior to co-founding FutureFlow in 2016, Vadim had spent 9 years after business school analyzing macroeconomic trends and financial systems around the world, most recently as Portfolio Manager at the hedge fund Finisterre Capital in London. Prior to business school, Vadim had spent 8 years as a software engineer, most recently at the Fixed Income desk of Barclays Capital in New York City. Vadim is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Business School.