2022

Ilieva Ageenko
Ilieva Ageenko is the Managing Director of Innovation and Analytics in Truist Audit Services, with over 20 years of financial service experience. She is currently responsible for leading the Innovation and Analytics Center of Excellence to drive a culture of innovation, identify opportunities for increased utilization of audit analytics, intelligence automation across Audit services and […]

Booshra Ahmed
Booshra Ahmed has over 20 years of leadership and ‘Big 4′ consulting experience in all major functional business areas including Digital Marketing, Finance, Technology, HR, and Social Media Marketing. Currently Ms. Ahmed leads overall strategic planning and roadmap execution for Bank’s next generation of digital personal financial management products. Ms. Ahmed serves as a Leadership […]

Amanda Ambrosio
Amanda Ambrosio is a Sr. Manager focused on business transformation. The breadth of her 25+ years of experience includes work as a music therapist with kids with special needs and acute psychiatric patients, to coaching business leaders working to create change, to leading projects and programs, improving processes, and teaching Project Management to university students. […]

Ethel Anderson
Ethel has over 20+ years of international business experience ranging from global product marketing, alliance management to strategic GTM planning into Europe and Latin American markets. As a Data Analytics Specialist within the Google Retail team, Ethel now leads strategic initiatives helping retailers with digital transformation initiatives involving everything from data monetization to AI/ML strategies […]

Afsana Akther Asha
Afsana grew fond of Statistics, Mathematics, and Econometrics during her Bachelor’s and Master’s studies at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, which led her to get enrolled in UNC Charlotte’s School of Data Science. Afsana is a current student in the Master of Science program majoring in Data Science and Business Analytics and is looking forward […]

Zoya Ashirov, CRCP, CAMS
Zoya Ashirov CRCP, CAMS is an Associate Partner at Sia Partners specializing in Financial Crimes and Compliance. She is also leading our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging efforts in North America. She has 11 years of FINRA examination and leadership experience and did her executive education at the Wharton School.

Ramya Balakrishnan
Ramya currently works as a data scientist in Leadership Research at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). She supports research projects and external client work at CCL. She is working on research projects related to leadership challenges, EDI culture and team data. She is responsible for training other team members on the advanced techniques in […]

Anna Clark
With a strong focus on making processes approachable and transparent, Anna is currently a Sr. Joint Ventures Analyst within Duke Energy and sits on the Engagement & Inclusion Council. Clark has worked as a Data Scientist, Product Owner, and many roles in between with a background in Industrial & Systems Engineering. As a professional volunteer, […]

Chemere Davis
Chemere is currently the Senior Business Manager for the Microsoft Charlotte Engineering Hub & Community. She is a data scientist by training having joined Microsoft in December 2020. She has worked in the Artificial Intelligence field in financial services and software development. In her current role, she is leading efforts to create a purposeful and […]

Jessica Dunn, Panelist Moderator
Jessica Dunn is a senior data scientist that leads the innovation, deployment and management of data science laboratory strategy for on-premises and cloud resources. She also leads and gains alignment for high-performance machine learning frameworks, libraries, and their integration with data science use cases with a clear strategy into compliance, governance and path to production. […]