Christine Barry

Aite Group is a leading independent research and advisory firm focused on business, technology and regulatory issues and their impact on the financial services industry. It was founded by leading industry experts in Banking and Securities & Investments. Aite Group brings together a team of business strategy, technology and regulatory experts to deliver comprehensive, timely, and actionable advice to financial institutions and technology vendors. It seeks to become a true partner, advisor, and catalyst by exchanging ideas and challenging basic assumptions to ensure that its clients always stay one step ahead of the competition.

Aite-Novarica Group is an advisory firm that provides mission-critical insights on technology, regulations, markets, and operations to hundreds of banks, insurers, payments providers, and investment firms. The company is based in Boston, MA, and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The company comprises former senior technology, strategy, and operations executives, as well as experienced researchers and consultants, who provide actionable advice to their client base. The company's experts leverage deep insights developed via their extensive network of clients and other industry contacts. The company was founded by Gwenn Bezard, Frank Rizza, Sang Lee, and Gerald D. Clemente.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

KBC Bank NV (KBC Bank) is the wholly-owned banking subsidiary of KBC Groupe SA (BE: KBC) in Belgium, an integrated bank insurance group serving mainly retail customers, small and medium-sized enterprises and private banking clientele. Based in Brussels, the bank was established in 1998 when Kredietbank, CERA Bank and ABB insurance company merged to create the KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company. In 2005 the KBC Bank and Insurance Holding Company merged with their parent company, Almanij, to create KBC Group NV.

Celent LLC is an investment research firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded by Frank Rizza in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Oliver Wyman Group, ultimately held by Marsh & McLennan Cos, Inc. (NYSE: MMC). Celent provides research, advisory, and consulting services focused on technology sector for financial institutions globally. It offers reports, executive extracts, flash reports, blogs, webinars, discovery dives, technology strategy review, commissioned research, vendor selection, and mergers and acquisitions strategic fit assessment.

HighQuest Partners LLC provides strategy, advisory and consulting services to food and agribusiness industries. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Topsfield, MA.