Mayiz Habbal, PhD

Senior Vice President
Securities & Investments

mhabbal@celent.com

Mayiz Habbal is Senior Vice President 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.