Banco Popular de Puerto Rico is a full-service financial services provider with operations in Puerto Rico, the United States and Virgin Islands. Popular, Inc. is the largest banking institution by both assets and deposits in Puerto Rico, and in the United States Popular, Inc.
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Amandeep is chief executive officer and co-founder at Okera, which he launched in 2016 with CTO and co-founder Nong Li. While supporting customer cloud initiatives at Cloudera and playing an integral role at AWS on the Elastic MapReduce team, Amandeep oversaw some of the industry’s largest big data implementations. After witnessing first-hand the challenges companies faced in adopting big data technologies, especially in the cloud, he founded Okera to empower all users with easy data access through a unified, secure and governed platform across heterogeneous sources.
Andrew Rebhan is a consultant with Advisory Board's Health Care IT Advisor. His research interests include artificial intelligence, consumer medical IT, biopsychosocial IT, and other emerging technologies.
Peter Kilbridge is senior research director for Advisory Board and is an expert in the use of information technology to improve patient safety, and has conducted and published AHRQ-funded research on computerized surveillance of populations for adverse events.
Robert Lajdziak is the Insurance Business Consultant for the Insurance Practice at J.D. Power. He is responsible for the company’s syndicated research studies on both personal Home and Auto insurance in North America as well as Life insurance. He is also responsible for developing research-based solutions that drive measurable results for clients within the insurance industry in North America. His primary focus is on improving product quality, while building client relationships and delivering actionable insights.
Lajdziak joined J.D. Power in 2012 and has served in several positions in the Services Industries-Americas Practices, in both Financial Services and Insurance, including Senior Wealth Management Analyst, Research Supervisor, Research Specialist and Research Associate prior to joining the Insurance Practice team.
During his tenure at J.D. Power, Lajdziak has contributed to several thought leadership pieces—which were covered by trade publications and at industry seminars—regarding such topics as shopping with online chat; self-service and the future role of agents; transparency of commissions and fees; goals-based investing; and women in the wealth management sector.
Mr. Lajdziak earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing-management from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan.
After studying radio, TV, and film at Syracuse University, Yasemin found herself working in a televised investigative reporting program. Later, she went on to work at Hurriyet Daily News (formerly Turkish Daily News.) There, she mostly wrote features, with subject matters ranging from the faulted renovations of historic buildings in Istanbul to a story questioning how American mega coffee chains affect the all-important Turkish coffee culture. She also acted as the editor of the newspaper's real estate pages and filled in as the editor of diplomacy and foreign news pages. She is currently enrolled in New York University’s Business and Economic Reporting Program.
Jim Boomer, CPA.CITP, MBA, is CEO of Boomer Consulting Inc., and an expert on managing technology within an accounting firm. He serves as the director of the Boomer Technology Circles, The Advisor Circle and the CIO Circle. He also acts as a strategic planning and technology consultant and firm adviser to CPA firms across the country. Accounting Today called him a “thought leader who can help accountants create next-generation firms.” Prior to joining Boomer, Boomer worked for BearingPoint and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting in Phoenix and San Francisco. Throughout his career, his projects have focused on IT strategy and implementation, including knowledge management, document management, workplace collaboration and corporate portals projects. He has experience with several e-Business and Business Intelligence technologies, and his previous client list includes several Fortune 500 companies.
