Simone Caraffini is Deputy CEO and Chief Operation & Market Officer in Hypo Bank Italy since 2011.
Prior to that, he was a Junior Partner at McKinsey & Company, consulting financial institutions in Italy and Eastern Europe.
Simone received his Master of Science from “Politecnico di Milano” and his PhD from University of Illinois at Chicago

Mr. Fischer is having more than 20 years experience in banking industry. After starting in Controlling area he switched to credit operations managing the centralization and outsourcing of all credit processes in Bank Austria Creditanstalt. In addition he was responsible project manager for implementing bank wide WfMS/DMS for loans and mortgages. As global manager Mr. Fischer set up a near shore location in Poland dedicated to Austrian credits business and he was leading several competence centers in five countries managing existing credit business of UniCredit Mature Markets. Based on his experiences in credits area he is leading a internal consulting team that is implementing a Standard Operating Model for back office entities leveraging on lean management techniques to be used in all business areas.

Philippe de Brossard has worked at Société Générale since 2001 in various roles, including head of commodities operations and interest rates derivatives. In 2011, Societe Generale created a team dedicated to OTC clearing operations in interest rates derivatives, credit derivatives and non- delivery forward, in order to optimize collateral at each CCP.

After finishing his professional ice hockey career, he moved to IT development being Application Developer and Webmaster in Italy, Switzerland and homeland Croatia. End of 1999 moves to Telecommunications industry by joining newly founded mobile operator Vipnet (Croatia), as Application Developer and Project Manager, delivering internet portal and various mobile payment solutions. In 2004 moves to mobilkom’s Head office in Austria where he coordinates international projects, aligns operational processes among mobile operators in the Group and creates competence centres strategy. End of 2008 moves to Finance industry by joining Erste Group Bank (Erste Holding) where he worked on structuring project and portfolio management, definition of cooperation model among countries and job profiles definition. As a Head of Group Core Banking Desk managed setting up of Core Banking Competence Center in subsidiary in Slovakia. Currently is Project Manager for project whose target is alignment of Core Banking Systems of two Banks to one common platform and is, as Senior Consultant to Group CIO.

Jarosław Orlikowski, Managing Director in PKO Bank Polski S.A. – the biggest bank in Poland, leading bank in CEE and ranked among top 25 in Europe. Jarosław is responsible for all banking operations, settlement, ATMs, cash processing, card settlement, procurement and administration. Jarosław is a member of Supervisory Board of national clearing house. Before he joined PKO Bank Polski, Jarosław was the CEO of leading fund administration company. He worked for Polish subsidiaries of Creditanstalt, Bank Austria, and Commerzbank Group. Graduated from Warsaw Technical University, he completed postgraduate studies at the Warsaw School of Economics and continues his doctoral studies in Polish Academy of Science. Chartered accountant. Jarosław is Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Senior banking Executive with 20+ years in banking. Skills developed throughout the career involve all aspects of Banking Operations from both operational and managerial point of view. Extensive experience in bank mergers, CORE systems change, banks reorganisation, projects and change management. Favourite challenges include Strategic Decisions, Senior Level Liaison, Staff Leadership and Coaching, Influencing and Negotiations.

Dr. Udo Milkau is head of strategy, market development and controlling of Operations & Services, the transaction banking unit of DZ BANK, central bank of the co-operative banking sector in Germany the primary focus of his responsibility is the ‘quantitative strategy development’ of DZ BANK’s transaction banking including payment services, card services, trade finance, securities transaction services and loan processing from his point of view the scientific ‘measurement’ of financial, process and capacity KPIs is key for an integrated management approach for transaction banking after his academic education in physics he worked as a research scientist in large collaboration and performed experiments at different European research centers incl. CERN, SARA, GANIL, Saclay and GSI afterwards he joint a mechatronic manufacturer as head of a task force for ‘project bail out’ and was responsible for automotive clients in Asia and Europe he held different management positions in consulting firms and was with CSC Financial Services EMEA responsible for the European banking industry before he joint DZ BANK, Frankfurt.

Piotr Piskorski is the Head of IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture for Nordea Bank Poland and Baltic countries. Currently, he is responsible for defining the strategic architecture and implementation of the IT strategic initiatives at Nordea in four emerging countries. He is also member of Enterprise Architecture steering committee for entire Nordea Group.
Over the last 10 years, he has acted in the capacity of both IT Management and Architecture performing different assignments.

He is Head of the Financial Operations Services Division within the Directorate General Market Operations of the European Central Bank since 1 September 2011. He was Head of the Market Operations Analysis Division within the same Directorate General from 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2011.
In these functions, Michel acquired expertise on the monitoring and assessment of the performance of the Eurosystem’s monetary policy implementation framework from an operational point of view, monitoring the liquidity position of the banking system and preparing the Eurosystem’s monetary policy operations.
Michel’s previous assignments include the positions of Head of the Monetary, Financial Institutions and Markets Statistics Division of the ECB, Head of Section in the European Monetary Institute, and in the late 80s – early 90s professional member of the permanent secretariat of the Committee of Governors of the Central Banks of the Member States of the European Economic Community in Basle. Before that he worked a few years at the European Commission.
Michel holds a PhD (Doctorat d’Etat en Sciences Economiques) from the Pierre Mendès France University in Grenoble (France, 1986). He graduated in Economics at Ghent University (Belgium, 1981) and is a Bachelor of Philosophy (1980) of the same University.

I joined Lloyds Banking Group in March 2009, and since May 2010 have been Head of Credit for Global Funds. I have also been Head of Credit Policy and was involved in the design of a new rating model for the Fund sector. I sit on various working parties looking at Clearing of OTC Derivatives/Emir/Mifid/Collateral Optimisation. I am also reasonable for the credit aspects of the Division’s derivative training.
Prior to joining Lloyds, I spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank, where I was Head of Western European Financial Institutions Credit .I was involved in the liaison between the BBA, the Bank of England and the Investment Management Association prior to the NIPS Code change regarding FX Trading on an undisclosed principal basis. I have also been involved in industry working parties providing comment on repo master agreements. My first banking role was at NatWest International Division. I have worked in Credit Risk since 1990, when I returned to the UK from NatWest’s Paris office.
I graduated from the University of Durham with a joint honours degree in French & Russian.

Kirsi Ripatti graduated in Economics at the University of Helsinki, 1991.
She started her professional career in Bank of Finland in 1991 and currently works at the Bank as a Senior Adviser of payment and settlement systems issues in the Banking Operations Department.

After 7 years experience as IT professional, I joined Belfius Bank (at this time Crédit Communal de Belgique) in 1995.
1995 – 2000 : IT Department supporting the financial markets, front, middle and back- offices. I started as analyst and ended as head of the department.
2000 – 2003 : Head of the IT Department supporting Human Resources, Imaging technologies and Marketing Datawarehouse.
2003 – 2006 : Senior Project Manager for the financial markets
Major projects : Belgian IFRS implementation for the financial markets and the first phase of an international project aiming to harmonize the IT architecture of financial markets in Belgium, France and Luxembourg (in the context of the former Dexia Group).
2006 – now : Head of Control and Support Financial Markets.

Omer Fuchs has over 15 years of experience in various software companies focusing on the enterprise workforce optimization and customer experience industry. As part of his career he led major software implementations projects in large contact centers, and served as consultant and trusted advisor to several tier 1 service providers in the U.S. and Canada. In NICE Omer is part of the enterprise workforce optimization line of business, working with customers in Europe and APAC to realize their true potential in the back office and ensure continuous improvement of the solutions provided by NICE.