Morten Nygaard
Program Director Global Payment Business Development & Sales, Financial Services Sector
IBM
Morten Nygaard started his IBM career in 1985 with IBM Europe and held various sales executive positions for IBM Europe between 1985-1995. He was assigned to IBM's HQ in New York in 1995 and held various executive sales, marketing and business development positions in a global capacity until 2005, focusing on financial services transformation programs. From 2005 until the present he has been the Program Director of IBM's Payment Industry responsible for Business Development, Sales, Marketing, and delivery of payment solutions to Financial Services clients world-wide. He has led multiple legacy payment transformation projects with large commercial banks, central banks, card networks, card issuers and Acquirers, Telcos/MNOs world-wide. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Lund, Sweden and an MBA from the University of San Diego, California.
Maura K Schoonmaker
Program Director for IBM Z and LinuxONE Banking and Financial Markets
IBM
Maura Schoonmaker is the Program Director for IBM Z and LinuxONE Banking and Financial Markets. Maura works across IBM to bring banking solutions to our existing clients, as well as driving new clients to the Z platform. Maura has an extensive background in Security and developing new solutions. She has worked in the Security, Cloud and Analytics areas. She has va strong passion for bringing first of a kind offerings to the market.