AYESHA KHANNA

Ayesha Khanna is a strategic advisor with over a decade of experience counseling CEOs on how to leverage technology, information and analytics to gain competitive advantage in global markets. She is a Partner at the management consulting firm Fitzgerald Analytics, and Director of Hybrid Realities, a research firm based in New York. Clients have included leading broker-dealers, buy-side institutions and clearinghouses such as Banc of America Securities, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, American International Group, US Trust, Deutsche Bank, and Depository of Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

Ayesha has written for diverse publications including BusinessWeek, Forbes and the IBM and XML Developer Journals. She has been on the Architecture and Risk committees of FpML, an industry standard for messaging financial products. Ayesha is also series editor of The Complete Technology Guides for Financial Services published by Reed Elsevier, and author of the book Straight Through Processing for Financial Services (Reed Elsevier, 2007).

Ayesha has a BA (honors) in Economics from Harvard University and an MS in Operations Research from Columbia University.