FT-TCS Financial Leaders Dinner Forum
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lee Fulmer
Managing Director, CTO Cash Management
JP Morgan
Lee Fulmer is the Head of technology for JP Morgan's cash management operations. He is responsible for all technology operations across the wholesale bank relating to client and bank cash management. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mr Fulmer was a global subject matter expert in cash management for IBM where he advised various clients on redeveloping their business models and products during the financial crisis. While at the Bank of Scotland group, Mr Fulmer held various roles across the organisation in payments and cash management and chaired several industry bodies in the UK including delivering the UK Faster Payments Service; the world's only real-time bulk clearing system.
 
Russell Graham
Managing Director and Global Head of Solution Delivery and Service, Transaction Banking
Standard Chartered Bank
Russell Graham is the Managing Director and Global Head of Solution Delivery and Service, Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered Bank. Based in Singapore, Mr. Graham is responsible for the bank’s solution delivery and service proposition across cash management, trade finance and securities and services globally. Mr. Graham joined Standard Chartered Bank in October 2011 from Deutsche Bank where he was the Global Head of Implementation and Service. Prior to that he was the Global Head of Client Management at HSBC. Having worked in Europe, the US and Asia, Mr. Graham has extensive global experience in transaction banking and consistently places the clients at the centre of his organisation. Mr. Graham has a First Class Honours degree in Mathematical Economics from the University of Birmingham and is an Associate of the Institute of Bankers.
 
Hubert JP Jolly
Managing Director and Global Head of Channel and Enterprise Services, Transaction Services
Citi
Hubert Jean-Pierre Jolly is the Global Head of Channel and Enterprise Services for Citi’s Transactions Services. In this role, Mr. Jolly is responsible for Citi’s core Channel Services, including Mobile, CitiConnect® (Swift, File, Messaging) and CitiDirect® Banking Evolution. Mr. Jolly is also responsible for Global Enterprise Services including Account Services, Billing, Analytics and Data Management. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. Jolly was the Global Head of Cards and Procure to Pay for Citi’s Global Transactions Services with 3.5 million Commercial Cards issued globally. Under his leadership, Citi doubled the number of cardholders it serves, extended its global footprint to over 50 countries, expanded its capabilities to include solutions spanning 90 markets, 40 currencies and 26 local languages, launched the industry’s first global multi-currency virtual card platform, was mandated the largest commercial card program by volume in industry history, and became the #1 issuer of Corporate Cards in the United States (as recognized by The Nilson Report). In addition, Mr. Jolly led the launch of Citi’s Procure-to-Pay (P2P) solution that combines services across Supplier Finance, Cards and Payments with e-Invoicing and supplier enablement. Since joining Citi as a summer Analyst in Brussels, Belgium, Mr. Jolly has served the organization in a variety of capacities – with leadership roles in payments, cards, cash management, trade and project finance in the United States, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, New Zealand, Poland, and Singapore. He has extensively represented Citi and spoken at industry conferences and is currently serving on the Advisory Board of SWIFT, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. He has served on the Board of NACHA, the Electronic Payments Association, and Advisory Boards of Mastercard and AFP, the Association for Financial Professionals. Mr. Jolly graduated from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics with a Bachelor of Science in Operational Research and Finance.
 
Cindy Murray
Head of Global Treasury Product Infrastructure, Platforms and eCommerce
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Cindy Murray is the head of Global Treasury Product Infrastructure, Platforms and eCommerce at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Her team is responsible for designing, building and launching new credit and treasury products to drive the acquisition and deepening of client relationships. She also leads the eCommerce portal strategic direction and development for the bank’s corporate and commercial clients. Ms. Murray joined Bank of America as part of the acquisition of LaSalle. Previously, she served as the head of ABN AMRO‘s North American Transaction Banking division, where she was responsible for product management and strategy, overseeing product development, treasury sales and client service initiatives for the commercial and wholesale markets. Ms. Murray was a member of LaSalle’s Executive Management Committee and also served on the Diversity and Inclusion, Commercial Steering, and Information Technology Committees. Ms. Murray was a founding member of the Executive Strategy Roundtable group for ABN AMRO’s North American operations. Ms. Murray began her career in the financial services industry in the Human Resources Training and Development group for Exchange National Bank. Since that time, she has held several senior leadership positions, managing product management, electronic banking, commercial card services and banking operations. She spearheaded the development efforts of LaSalle's technology products and services, including CashPro®, an industry-recognized electronic banking platform helping drive double-digit treasury fee income during the 1990s. Ms. Murray graduated from Illinois State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and earned her Master of Sciences degree in Industrial Relations from Loyola University. She has served on the board of directors for the National Automated Clearing House Association, SVPCo, and on the managing board of The Clearing House Payments Company, the premier private sector provider of U.S. dollar clearing and settlement services. Ms. Murray was honoured by FStech magazine with its 2012 Barry Holland Memorial Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. Previously, Murray has been named by Treasury and Risk magazine as one of the Top 100 influential people in finance and by U.S. Banker as one of the top 25 women to watch in banking.
 
N. Ganapathy Subramaniam
Executive Vice-President
Tata Consultancy Services
N. Ganapathy Subramaniam heads TCS Financial Solutions, a division of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (www.tcs.com/bancs); the development and nurturing of intellectual property (IP) within TCS; and is also responsible for iON, a solution offering for small and medium businesses Part of TCS and the Indian IT Industry for the past 25 years, Mr. Subramaniam has had numerous opportunities to perform a multitude of roles in delivering solutions to TCS customers globally, and especially, in the banking and financial services sector. As a part of his current role, he is responsible for steering the financial products business, under the brand name, TCS BaNCS, globally. TCS BaNCS is a suite of products covering the banking, capital markets, and insurance domains. In his previous TCS role as Global Head of the Banking Industry Practice, Mr. Subramaniam was entrusted with the responsibility of creating new opportunities, knowledge/asset management, consulting, third-party alliances, and the overall management of product-related initiatives. Mr. Subramaniam’s in-depth knowledge about IT trends and systems policies of leading global corporations, gleaned from international exposure, is evident in the leading role he has played in a number of mission-critical projects for the financial services industry. He actively participates in banking, technology and business forums in addition to specific knowledge streams in Straight-Through-Processing, risk management, front-office systems, back-office processing in capital markets and Six Sigma orientation.
 
Paul Taylor
Business Technology and Telecoms Editor
Financial Times
Paul Taylor is the FT's New York-based Business Technology and Telecoms Editor. He is responsible for The Connected Business section of the FT and a regular writer for both the newspaper and FT.com. He also writes a ‘How To’ column on technology for SMB’s. In his 35 years at the FT, Paul has been local government correspondent, assistant news editor, Americas page editor, New York correspondent, foreign news editor, SE Asia business correspondent and management writer. He was the FT’s UK-based IT correspondent for most of the 1990s and launched the FT's Personal Technology column in 2002. Paul left the FT briefly in 2000 to help found a web-based technology analysis start-up and moved back to New York, where he is based now. He has long had a passion for technology and computing and readily admits to being a gadget and gizmo freak and “a bit of a geek”. Born in Liverpool in 1953, Paul graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and has a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University.