Cheryl Lynn Baxter is currently a Fellow with the CEO Action for Racial Equity, a corporate sponsored fellowship focused on changing the projected Full Bio

Cheryl Lynn Baxter is currently a Fellow with the CEO Action for Racial Equity, a corporate sponsored fellowship focused on changing the projected outcome of Black Americans impacted by effects fo systemic racism. Cheryl also leads advocacy efforts focused on policy and best practice solutions for social issues.

Prior to the fellowship, Cheryl was the Global Head of Compliance for S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of S&P Global. In this role, Cheryl was responsible for driving a strong ethical and compliance culture, ensuring alignment with regulatory obligations, industry best practices and external stakeholders’ expectations. Cheryl developed, enforced company policies and led oversight programs to mitigate risks.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Cheryl held various roles in the regulatory, risk management and actuarial space with organizations including TIAA, Deloitte Consulting (Human Capital Practice) and Towers Perrin.

A passion for service, Cheryl has held volunteer roles with civic organizations, served on a not for profit board and has mentored students and early career professionals. Currently, Cheryl supports the S&P Global diversity and inclusion mission through ERG leadership, programming and diversity recruiting.

Cheryl earned a JD from Brooklyn Law School, MBA from Temple University and a BBA in Insurance with a concentration in Actuarial Science from Howard University. Minimize

Dr. Alain Biem is the Chief Data Scientist at S&P Global Market Intelligence in charge of the strategy and delivery of data-driven and machine-learning-based Full Bio

Dr. Alain Biem is the Chief Data Scientist at S&P Global Market Intelligence in charge of the strategy and delivery of data-driven and machine-learning-based solutions and innovations for SPGMI products and services.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Alain was Director of Data Science at Wayfair overseeing the techniques and engines for personalization and recommendations for the Wayfair ecommerce storefront. AsVPofAnalytics atOpera Solutions,a data science consulting company,Alain leading a team of data scientists and engineers in delivering data science solutions for customersinRetail, Banking, and Entertainment.

At IBM Research, Alain was a senior data scientist and project lead in cognitive AI, machine learning, and business modeling, acting as the chief architect of analytics on IBM Big Data Products, and the technicallead invariouscustomers engagements.Alain has received numerous awards for his contribution toIBM products including IBM Watson Analytics, IBM Busines Component Modeling, and IBM Infosphere Streams big data platform.

Alain started his early career as a junior scientist and postdoc at ATR (Advanced Telecom Research), an NTT-affiliated research center in Kyoto, Japan, contributing to early advances in the field of conversational AI and deep learning, techniques used in products like Siri, Amazon echo, or Google home. He has published numerous papers and books chapters in machine learning and hold several patents. He is actively involved in academia as a Doctoral Thesis advisor and adjunct professor.

Alain earned his PhD in Machine Learning from Paris 6 University. Minimize

With more than 25 years’ experience in corporate citizenship and sustainability, Alyson Genovese leads S&P Global’s global corporate responsibility Full Bio

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Swamy Kocherlakota is the Chief Information Officer for S&P Global and is responsible for driving the digital transformation and delivering Full Bio

Swamy Kocherlakota is the Chief Information Officer for S&P Global and is responsible for driving the digital transformation and delivering productivity improvements for our customers and employees.

Prior to S&P Global, Mr. Kocherlakota was SVP, Global Head of Technology Operations & Infrastructure at Visa, Inc. where he oversaw global infrastructure and applications that processed over 130 billion transactions annually. Before VISA, he was at BNY Mellon as the head of Global Infrastructure Engineering and Architecture and led their infrastructure transformation. Mr. Kocherlakota holds the recognition of being a distinguished engineer at Lucent Bell Labs where he managed technology for Lucent and its ventures.

Mr. Kocherlakota is a NASD registered representative and has a PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University. Minimize

Felix currently leads the DE&I and People Movement initiatives for the Global Ratings business. His role provides oversight for recruitment across Full Bio

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