Sean O’Dowd is the Global Financial Services Director at MapR. In this role, Sean focuses on industry strategy and working with financial services firms to advance big data projects. He has spent over 15 years focus on financial services and capital markets. He comes to MapR after several years with Teradata as their Capital Markets Director, driving analytic strategies with financial clients. Prior to, Sean was IDC Financial Insights' Director of Global Securities and Investment Management Service responsible for research, consulting and forecasts on the securities and investment management sector. His coverage spanned financials, market structure, regulations and technologies that impact the business models and strategies of financial markets firms (buy-side, sell-side, wealth management, custody, exchanges, and retail brokers). This was following almost ten years in consulting and research analyst positions within the investment management industry. His experience is in investment research and management, securities valuation and portfolio analysis at his past firms JTC LLC, Ashton Partners and State Street. Mr. O'Dowd is a quoted source in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Institutional Investor, Wall Street Letter, Traders Magazine and Wall Street & Technology among others. Follow, connect and read more from Sean O'Dowd at <a target='_blank' href='http://about.me/seanodowd'><u>http://about.me/seanodowd</u></a>
