Keynote Speakers

Gabriele is an open source technologist at heart. He spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures, whether it’s for an early stage tech startup, a Fortune 500 firm or a non profit foundation. He has recently won the Tech Leadership Award at FinTech Futures USA Banking Tech Awards.

As Executive Director Gabriele grew the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster, leveraging open source as a model of collaboration. He then led FINOS to join the Linux Foundation umbrella to accelerate growth, ensure long term sustainability of efforts and reduce fragmentation in the Foundation’s ecosystem. In 2022, he took on a dual role as General Manager of the newly launched Linux Foundation Europe, which was created to foster regional open collaborations in the European continent and expand the global platform of the Linux Foundation.

Gabriele holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad and advocate wannabe.

Madeleine is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in financial services technology across the Buy Side, Sell Side, and Exchanges.  She began her career at Accenture in the Financial Markets practice, executing large software implementations at multiple investment banks on Wall Street.  Madeleine then joined Goldman Sachs in 2000, where she led the development of the NYSE and Listed Trading Systems, working alongside 90 traders on multiple trading desks.  In 2006, Madeleine and her family relocated to Boston, where she joined Wellington Management Company in the Information Technology department.  Over 19 years of service at Wellington, she led technology-driven transformation throughout the investment process, trading, and operations.  As Partner and Chief Information Officer, Madeleine held multiple governance roles providing oversight across areas such as compensation, risk management, technology, and trade execution.  Madeleine currently serves as Chair of the Board for FINOS (Fintech Open Source Foundation) and the Treasurer of the Board for Boston City Singers.

Kim joined BMO in August 2021 from RBC where she was the Global Head of the Client, Banking & Digital Channels Technology group across Capital Markets. Kim developed and implemented a comprehensive client data strategy adopted by Capital Markets, sunset legacy applications and united the global salesforce under a single CRM instance. Collecting and connecting client touchpoints with external data sets allowed her team to proactively source opportunities and recommendations using advanced AI and machine learning to deepen client relationships and increase wallet share. Kim held multiple roles at RBC over 15 years supporting the business in various capacities from running Global Fixed Income Production Services to Head of Fixed Income Sales and Credit Trading technology.

Prior to joining RBC, Kim ran Front Office technology at Mizuho as well as the API Connectivity Development team at ICAP and was part of the initial launch of BrokerTec. She has also held multiple positions across the street with Kidder Peabody, Deutsche Bank and Chase Securities. Kim received a BA from Stockton University in accounting.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as a Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment. He also works closely with Linux Foundation members and projects, and on key initiatives to advance Linux.

Greg created and maintains the Linux Driver Project. He is also currently the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of different subsystems that include USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at SUSE.

Greg is an adviser to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab and a member of The Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. He has delivered a variety of keynote addresses at developer and industry events, and has authored two books covering Linux device drivers and Linux kernel development.

Bhupesh has over 20 years’ experience working in the front office trading technology for some of the world’s leading investment banks. Beginning his career at Barclays working across Infrastructure, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income and Credit Derivatives, he moved to Lehman Brothers for 4 years in 2005 before returning to Barclays where he held a number of senior management positions and was to inevitably head up Credit, Municipal and Securitized Products Technology alongside running Trade Capture across Markets. He subsequently left Barclays to take on the opportunity as Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services at RBC in July this year. With deep expertise in risk, analytics and electronic trading and passion for technology, Bhupesh has continued working closely with innovators in the FinTech space to build forward looking platforms in Investment Banking.