Bill has 25+ years of financial services industry experience in a variety of strategy, business and marketing roles at Interxion, Thomson Reuters and Tibco.  Bill was a VP at Interxion, where he led the Enterprise segment, with a special focus on Financial Services. At Thomson Reuters, Bill drove business development for Elektron Managed Services. Before starting in the financial services industry, Bill was a lecturer at the University of Vienna as well as holding a post-doctoral post at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Linda Gibson is a Director and Head of Regulatory Change at BNY Mellon | Pershing EMEA. Linda has overall responsibility for reviewing emerging regulations and supporting clients, working with relationship managers to anticipate and advise on the impact and opportunities. Linda joined Pershing EMEA in 2009 as head of compliance advisory and moved to her current role in 2014. Linda has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services. Prior to joining Pershing EMEA, Linda was head of compliance for Penson Financial Services Limited and before that worked at the FCA where she managed a team responsible for all aspects of ongoing supervision for wholesale firms.

Joseph Byrne serves as a Privacy Solutions Engineer at OneTrust – the #1 most widely used privacy, security and trust technology platform. In his role, Joseph advises companies large and small on EU GDPR, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Brazil LGPD, and hundreds of the world’s privacy laws, focused on formulating efficient and effective responses to data protection requirements as well as building and scaling privacy programmes. Joseph is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and earned a degree in Engineering from the University of Leeds.