Speakers Biographies

Steve Van Wyk (1958) received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Business Administration at the Central University of Iowa in Pella, his birthplace. After graduation he joined Philips Petroleum (1981-1988) and Pella Windows and Doors (1990-1993) in diverse IT and internal audit functions. At Deloitte & Touche (1993-1996) in Chicago, Van Wyk led a team of consultants engaged in IT assessment and related advisory work. Van Wyk spent 10 years (1996-2006) in diverse IT management functions for the global financial services provider Morgan Stanley in New York. Finally, as Chief Information Officer and Chief Operations Officer of the Retail Division, he was responsible for developing systems, infrastructure and delivering back office operations globally. Steve Van Wyk started at ING in March 2006 as Chief Information Officer for ING Insurance Americas. In September 2007, Van Wyk became Head of Operations & Information Technology Banking. In this function Van Wyk reports to Eric Boyer de la Giroday. June 2009 Steve Van Wyk also took up the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for ING Group. In this function Van Wyk reports directly to Jan Hommen. Van Wyk is known for his extensive track record in leading and building world-class information technology operations for complex organizations.

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Dr. Thomas Mangel is CIO of Postbank Systems AG and is with Deutsche Postbank AG since 1995. After several responsibilities in Postbank’s former IT-Infrastruktur and –Operations department Thomas Mangel became one of the founding board members of Deutsche Postbank’s overall IT-supplier Postbank Systems AG. In 2009 he was chosen as the chairman of the company. Postbank Systems delivers all IT-Services for Postbank group including Operations, Projectmanagement, Application-developement and -integration. Thomas Mangel is responsible for the Development Departement which includes Projectmanagement, Testing- and Qualitymanagement, Portfolio- and Releasemanagement. Postbank systems has a sound track record where the well published successful project of migrating all of Postbank’s corebanking systems to SAP is an outstanding example. Thomas Mangel has his Dr. rer. nat. in mathematics, living married with two kids near Bonn.

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David Vander is the worldwide Sales Excellence Lead for the Enterprise Business within Microsoft Corp based in Redmond. Vander is responsible for driving and managing Microsoft’s Enterprise sales operations, sales management and growth planning worldwide. Specifically, Vander drives the regular cadence of the business that includes reporting, forecasting, pipeline management and customer satisfaction efforts as well segmentation, quota setting, relationship management and change leadership via the Sales Excellence community worldwide. As part of the worldwide Enterprise Leadership team, Vander also is responsible for the systematic implementation of growth planning, talent development and creating a stepwise improvement in sales capability and quality, ensuring that the full extent of Microsoft’s vision and value proposition is realized by Enterprise customers globally. Vander has been with Microsoft for over seven years and prior to this role was as the worldwide Managing Director for Banking and Financial Services at Microsoft. Vander’s background is as a strategist within financial services specializing in business transformation around technology, but combines this with a strong focus on strategic execution. Vander has extensive experience and knowledge on the evolving challenges and opportunities presented to enterprises today and how institutions might prepare themselves for the future. During his entire career, Vander has continued to educate himself and has four degrees including a Masters Degree in Engineering, a Masters Degree in IT and an MBA. Vander is also a Board Member of the Banking Industry Architecture Network.

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Harold Finders manages SunGard Financial Systems’ business, alongside Jim Ashton. He is responsible for six global Financial Systems business segments. He takes the lead in developing Financial Systems technology strategy and in the development of the business internationally.
From 2005-2007 Harold was group chief executive officer of SunGard Europe. From 2001 to January 2005, he headed the SunGard Investment Management Systems in Europe. From 1996 to 2001, he held various senior management positions with SunGard overseeing a number of SunGard’s European investment-support systems businesses. Harold founded and headed a Geneva-based wealth management systems business that SunGard acquired in 1996. Harold is based in Geneva, Switzerland. He is married with three children, speaks four languages and has an MBA from the University of Lausanne.

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