AYESHA KHANNA, Senior Advisor

Ayesha is a strategic management and technology governance specialist with over ten years of experience in leveraging technology and optimizing operations to gain competitive advantage in global markets. She has extensive experience guiding Executive Management in technology strategy development, benchmarking to market competitors and ensuring business-IT alignment. In particular, Ayesha has expertise in best practices for seamless automation of front, middle and back offices functions, ensuring compliance with global regulation, and overseeing governance of outsourcing partners. Clients have included leading broker-dealers, buy-side institutions and clearinghouses such as Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, American International Group, US Trust, Deutsche Bank, and Depository of Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Ayesha has written for diverse publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the IBM and XML Developer Journals. She is also editor of "The Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services" series published by Elsevier and author of the book "Straight Through Processing for Financial Services" (Elsevier 2007).

Ayesha has a BA with honors in Economics from Harvard University and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.