Fireside chat 3.15pm – 4.15pm
Fireside chat Room 1.05
This fireside chat features David Abosch, CEO at ReCognition Circular and Director at Cognition Cloud and Marina Antoniou, Executive Board Member and Risk Management Consultant. David will discuss his business Cognition Cloud and his aim to help other organisations
reduce the environmental impact from IT and Communications Technology.
David Abosch Chief Executive, ReCognition Circular CIC
Marina Antoniou WBS Ambassador and Executive Committee Member of the Warwick Finance Professional Network
In the UK we throw away the equivalent of 40 laptops every second. At the same time a quarter of young people in the West Midlands don’t have access to a computer at home. To try to address this problem, David started ReCognition Circular, a not-for-profit Community Interest Company promoting and enabling digital inclusion in Birmingham. ReCognition runs workshops to train young people to repair and refurbish computers. They support participants with finding fulfilling work that also helps eliminate e-waste. ReCognition offer Refurbished Devices as a Service (RDaaS). For businesses hesitant to use second hand devices they provide peace of mind by supporting and maintaining the devices. Having started on the Distance Learning programme in 2000, David was awarded an MBA from Warwick Business School in 2006. As a business and IT consultant, David spent over 20 years helping large global enterprises implement digital transformation, post-merger integration and other business change initiatives. That experience is now focused on advising organisations on sustainability strategy.
Marina specialises in risk management and innovation with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and digital transformation. She has extensive experience in global capital markets non- financial risks with a focus on conduct risk, rogue trading, fraud, financial crime, trade and comms surveillance. She also has experience in risks and controls relating to Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models and Data Privacy. Marina has extensive experience working with regulators globally. She acted as lead validator, at Top Tier banks, on regulatory conduct risk programmes sanctioned by the US Federal Reserve Bank and the US Department of Justice. Marina also acted as the Global Head of Global Markets Risk & Control Assessment at BNP Paribas. She was the Citigroup Head of Audit for a number of countries and received the Global recognition award for her performance. Previously, she worked on quantitative research as well as due diligence projects during M&A banking transactions and IPOs.
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MBA Alumni Conference
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