Archives: Speakers
Jim Jensen
Jim Jensen is Strategic Accounts Director for Financial Services at Elastic, where he helps banks and financial institutions across the Nordics and beyond turn underutilized data into tangible business value. With a background spanning enterprise technology and financial services, Jim specialises in building the data foundations that make AI work in practice — across use cases from fraud detection and AML to real-time payments and customer experience. Jim brings a pragmatic, results-driven perspective to the intersection of data, search, and AI, shaped by years of working closely with some of the industry’s most data-intensive organisations.
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Piers Bishop
Piers Bishop is Regional Vice President of Sales at Seismic in Europe, leading go‑to‑market strategy for Financial Services with a focus on wealth and asset management organizations.
He partners with senior leaders to drive revenue growth, improve advisor productivity, and strengthen client engagement through modern sales enablement.
Based in London, Piers works with global wealth firms navigating scale, regulatory complexity, and evolving client expectations.
Andras Kis-Benedek
Andras has over 12 years of experience in Software sales, with four years in ERP sector, and eight years’ within the Financial Services Industry. Andras is working now as an Account manager for the Verint Financial compliance product line, covering Nordics, Benelux, and Eastern Europe.
Over the years, he participated closing several Tire1 bank deals, and contributed generating business in the mid-market area as well, specifically with Microsoft related products. He also built a strong partner network in these regions and continues progressing in these territories.
David Pierson
David is a founding Director of Omba and is responsible for all Operations and Technology functions with a particular focus on building a modern, scalable and efficient operating model.
David has a wealth of experience in Technology and Change roles which includes managing global projects and development teams within both financial institutions and startups, running a national Archiving business and has hands-on experience in software development and architecture. David holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of the Witwatersrand where he majored in Information Systems and Management Accounting and has held a Prince Practitioner Certification.