Cyber Resilience Summit keynote, Kevin Fedigan

Cyber Resilience Summit: Managing IT Risk in Financial Services
presented live April 23, 2020

Keynote presentation from Kevin Fedigan, Resiliency-minded CIO

Kevin Fedigan is a senior technology leader with a deep expertise in building resilient products and systems. He has held senior technology roles in a fintech of its time - DLJdirect, Pershing - a global financial solutions provider, and BNYMellon - one of 30 Global Systematically Important Banks (G-SIBS). Within BNY Mellon, Kevin became the Divisional CIO of their Broker Dealer Services Division, where he oversaw the modernization of its US Government Clearance platform which increased resiliency and future proofing of a platform that supports upwards of $10T in US Treasuries clearance on a given day. He then became the CIO of BNY’s Asset Servicing Division where he was responsible for the end-to-end technology deliverables for the largest line of business within the bank. Kevin has won a number of industry and company awards, including being named in Computerworld’s 2014 Premier 100 IT Leaders, as well as in CIO.com’s 2016 Analytics 50 Honorees, and has spoken at industry conferences around the globe.

Some of the key themes Kevin shared with us is how he fostered a measure first culture, the importance of developing a robust risk management cycle, how he managed the collaboration between product, operations and development teams, and the roles of suppliers and third parties in reducing IT risk.