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​Having spent over 20 years in the financial services industry, across the three lines of defence, (i.e., front-line business, compliance, risk management, and internal audit), I have hands-on experience in designing and implementing enterprise risk and compliance frameworks across global jurisdictions.
 
My vision for Genesis Risk Consulting (GRC), founded in 2020, is to be the boutique consulting firm of choice for helping senior leaders align risk and strategy through balanced, innovative solutions.
 
I identified this niche opportunity through my experience and that of my network. During my time as an executive at a major Canadian bank, I engaged consulting firms for targeted support to address capacity shortfalls or the need for specialized expertise. Through all the initiatives and external engagements, I frequently searched for an industry practitioner who had an appreciation for the challenges we were facing. My goal was to attain a right-sized solution for our requirements and not necessarily one that was implemented elsewhere.
 
I discovered that my peers at other financial institutions often shared the same goal. As such, with a strong vote of confidence from my trusted advisors and network, I set out to address this industry need.
 
Although running a business is by no means easy, it has already been a fulfilling experience. I have witnessed the meaningful contributions GRC has made to our clients during the early stages in our journey

Meet Kanish Raajkumar, Founder and CEO from Sonero.AI 
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We are an AI start-up building the smartest solution out there to make meetings much more efficient and productive. We are currently in market with a product that transcribes online meetings into intelligent summaries covering key insights such as action items, talking points, conversation highlights, recaps of important topics and so much more to help drive immediate change and action. The problem with meetings is well-known. Even though there are other productivity tools in the market, most meetings are still inefficient and ineffective. Lack of follow-ups and poor meeting notes result in knowledge that is lost easily which only yield more ineffective meetings. It is an endless cycle of mundane meeting experiences. My passion is in building cutting-edge software products and so I wanted to use my technical expertise in solving this age-old problem in an innovative way for today's world.
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Meet Robert Benedetto, Managing Director, Market Data Company  
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We are a boutique consulting firm serving the financial information services industry. Our consultants are industry experts on market and reference data products and investment management solutions.
 
At MDC, we partner with our clients to answer the growing demands of their business by providing the deep expertise that lead to increased performance.  Specifically, we offer a series of diagnostic software tools that drive down costs while optimizing services. We believe that market participants within the wealth management and banking sectors are underserved when it comes to their consumption of market information. We are committed to helping teams uncover insights that improve how they manage their market and reference data relationships, through software solutions that benchmark data and define its value to each participant across the enterprise. We are a client-centric organization with the objective of channeling new ideas, providing thought leadership and optimizing market data consumption for our clients.
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  Meet Mark Rowan, CEO and Co-Founder Data Sentinel Inc. 
 
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The massive growth of data held within corporations, coupled with new and evolving data privacy regulations and the ever-increasing risk of data breach, has caused companies to view data as a potential risk. Data Sentinel was created to help companies control and mitigate this risk.
 
Data Sentinel is a data trust platform that helps businesses manage data governance, privacy and quality, persistently. The core of Data Sentinel is our deep learning discovery technology that allows you to know exactly what is in your data - measuring the risk, quality, and critical data elements, regardless of the source, location, type or scale of data. Data Sentinel tracks and manages the data in real time against policies and rules - persistently measuring data usage and placement against those policies; triggering automated data remediation actions which ensure correct, compliant, and well governed data for your business. Data that you can trust.
 

Meet Robert Wilson, SVP, Global Investment Companies Canada, Donnelley Financial Solutions (DFIN)

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 DFIN is a leading global risk and compliance company with the objective of helping our clients make smarter decisions with insightful technology, industry expertise and data insights at every stage of their business and investment lifecycles.
 
We entered the regulatory space in response to the growing demand of the investment companies market, which aligned very closely with our knowledge and expertise, and our ability to support clients globally.

Meet Stephen Preston, Vice President and Co-Founder of Exempt Edge

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​At Exempt Edge we believe that participants of the Private Capital Markets of Canada have been historically underserved when it comes to technological solutions. Because of that, we created a total Software Solution for all participants of the Canadian Private Capital Markets. Our goal is to create robust software solutions specifically designed for Exempt Market Dealers, Mortgage Investment Entities and Issuers raising capital in this space.