Monetizing Data Science on Wall Street (Seminar Recording)
In this seminar, Ron Papka discussed:
- Use of Machine Learning, NLP and Analytics in the financial sector
- Skills needed for change management projects leveraging Data Science and AI innovations
- The business value of data and analytics on Wall Street
Ron Papka
SVP, Head of Data Engineering and Governance
Voya Investment Management
Ron Papka has spent over 30 years in the Financial Services industry creating applications of analytics across capital markets asset classes. He is SVP, Head of Data Engineering and Governance at Voya Investment Management. He was previously Managing Director in Global Banking and Markets Technology at Bank of America, and as Head of Modeling, NLP and Analytics for Global Banking Technology, where he designed and developed AI solutions for transforming the business and operations for the world’s largest commercial bank portfolio. Prior leadership experience included roles at Citi, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, and BlackRock, where he built data, analytics, risk and trading systems software for those companies and their clients.
His academic work is in the field of Machine Learning and Information Retrieval, and his primary interest is financial news modeling and natural language processing with a focus on prediction algorithms using very large data.