Gopal Subramanian

Senior Vice-President Of Data Services
Fidelity Investments

Gopal Subramanian is Senior Vice President of Data Engineering for Fidelity Investments Management Technology group, a unit of Fidelity Investments, a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing and other financial products and services to more than 20 million individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries. Mr. Subramanian has been in his current position since 2008 and is responsible for managing data for Asset Management.

Previously with Fidelity, Mr. Subramanian was Vice President, Data Engineering & BI with Fixed Income Division. In his role, he led a team of professionals responsible for delivering projects in the areas of Trading, Portfolio, Research and Quant. He joined Fidelity in 1999 as a Director in the Marketing Division primarily responsible to implement Marketing Data Warehouse and CRM.

Prior to his 15-year tenure with Fidelity, Mr. Subramanian worked for numerous technology start-up firms leading their data mining and predictive modeling efforts. In, 1990 Mr. Subramanian joined a start-up firm in Singapore to develop generic software for Insurance industry to support the needs of South East Asia. Mr. Subramanian began his technology career in 1988 with Tata Unisys in India.

In his free time, Mr. Subramanian mentors and teaches entrepreneurship to high school students. He is also a board member and charter member of TiE, (The Indus Entrepreneurs) group that is the largest not-for profit organization, which promotes entrepreneurship, and is a member of the committee responsible for reviewing business cases and selecting businesses for investments by venture capitalists.

Mr. Subramanian often speaks at various industry conferences. He received his MBA from Boston University.

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Data Management Operations to Add Value and Meet Regulatory Obligations

Wednesday, August 12th, 2015

09:00 Getting Buy-In to Set an Overall Strategy and Drive Value for the Organization

Executive sponsorship varies vastly across the industry. Many are still making a case for data, and even after gaining buy in, there is a need to constantly keep senior leadership engaged. How can you ensure you have the ear of and continue to be heard by senior leadership? How do you get your organization to change to see data management as a value added activity?
Find out how to:
• Give and receive ongoing support to senior leadership
• Create a case for global data management initiatives that require heavy investment and time before benefits can be reaped
• Position data as a business asset and allow each line of business to contribute and consume it

15:20 Roundtable Discussion Hour

Be sure to join these interactive roundtable sessions and take a deep dive into the specific areas you came to discuss. Opportunities to sit and learn from data management and data governance executives like these do not exist elsewhere. Take control of your own event experience. Don’t be shy! Ask questions (or answer them!) of other conference attendees who are dealing with the same challenges as you.
• Network with industry peers with very similar challenges, interests and responsibilities
• Take a deep dive into a niche topic in an intimate and informal setting moderated by a subject matter expert
• Don’t miss out on the discussions you want to participate in—you’ll get to select a new topic after 30 minutes

Roundtable Discussions:

1. Getting Buy-In to Set an Overall Strategy and Drive Value for the Organization
Gopal Subramanian, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Investments

2. The Pod Approach to Accelerate Data Centralization
Cara Dailey, Senior Vice President, Chief Data Officer, Bank of the West

3. Bringing Value to the Business Through Data Management Activities
Alicia Barco, Vice President, Enterprise Data Management, Workers Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (Inc.)

4. Building Data Management at a Steady Pace
Scott Sovine, Director, Data and Project Management, Parametric

5. Leveraging Metadata to Facilitate Data Governance
Robyn Lussier, Data Governance Senior Manager, Capital Group