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Mayiz Habbal
is managing director of the Securities & Investments Group at Celent
and is based in the firm’s
New York
office. His areas of research focus on enterprise architectures and
aligning business strategy with IT initiatives. He brings with him over 15
years of experience in the management and development of software and
engineering of IT strategies, predominantly in the investment banking
industry.
Before joining Celent,
Dr. Habbal worked at Oracle Siebel,
where
he was an executive charged with the development of engineering
strategy for all of Siebel’s product lines. He previously served as a
senior vice president at Bank of
America, where he was responsible for the implementation of the
bank’s new customer information systems -- a project involving several
hundred employees. As part of this project, he developed one of the first
SOA-based proprietary core retail banking engines in the world.
Dr. Habbal served
previously as deputy CIO and CTO for Dresdner
Kleinwort, the investment banking group of Dresdner Bank.
Kleinwort Benson had been for many years a significant investment banking
concern headquartered in London, and Dr. Habbal was brought in shortly after the acquisition of the firm by
Dresdner Bank to reengineer the business and IT strategy of the
investment bank, modernize and streamline its trading operations, and
prepare it for significant growth.
While at Dresdner
Kleinwort, Dr. Habbal evaluated and deployed numerous software packages to
support an investment banking business strategy based on service and brand
differentiation.
Dr. Habbal came to
Dresdner Kleinwort from the investment bank of Swiss
Bank Corporation (now UBS), where he was a member of the Global
Reengineering Committee and Director of Business Process Reengineering in London.
At SBC, he was also the Global Head of Exchange Listed Derivatives IT.
He received his Ph.D. and
Sc.M. degrees in operations research and computer science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In addition to his doctoral work, Dr.
Habbal received his B.Eng. degree from the American
University.
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