Management Team

Ellen O’Dwyer, President ( E-mail: ellen@odwyergroup.com )

Ellen’s close association with the financial technology industry spans more than 25 years. Hired by Mike Bloomberg in 1984 as one of the original salespeople of the Bloomberg Analytics toolkit to the Wall Street community. Ellen went on to be a founding member of the team that was responsible for the explosive growth of the Bloomberg brand globally when she moved to Tokyo in 1987 to establish the Company’s Asian presence. During her time in Asia Ellen was responsible for developing and managing Bloomberg’s business in what was a rapidly expanding and increasingly diverse market.

With Bloomberg’s market dominance in the Asian market cemented Ellen was lured back to New York to bring her experience to bear in the then embryonic derivatives trading and risk management sector. Working with David Bruce and Co. (subsequently becoming First Options of Chicago) she was responsible for managing the teams selling into and supporting some of the leading players on Wall St.

In 1992 Ellen went on to join London-based Lombard Risk Systems as head of their US operation. With a growing market presence in the US for the flagship ‘Oberon’ derivatives and risk management system, she went on to build a sales and support operation which expanded and consolidated Lombard’s position as the leading supplier of risk systems to the US capital markets industry.

With Oberon now well established in the US market Ellen went on to join Silicon Valley-based startup Infinity Financial Technology. Once again she was successful in growing the firm’s presence on Wall Street, selling cutting edge financial toolkits and applications to support derivatives trading, operations and risk management for both sell side and buy side firms, resulting in a successful IPO in late ’96.

Following Infinity’s subsequent acquisition by SunGard, Ellen continued to manage major accounts before deciding to apply her extensive specialist knowledge of technology and financial services to create The O’Dwyer Group in 1999.

 

Diane O’Dwyer, Vice President ( E-mail: diane@odwyergroup.com )

Diane brings twenty plus years of diverse sales and operations experience in the financial services industry to The O’Dwyer Group. Prior to that, she spent 16 years as an intelligence NCO with the United States Air Force, both active duty and reserve status, and with the National Security Agency.

Her first private sector position was as manager of the telecom department of GFI Group, providing operational support to a group of government bond brokers. She then transitioned to the role of bond broker, following a six-month tour of active duty in Desert Storm, by moving to Titus and Donnelly, the municipal arm of Garban/Garvin Guy-Butler. At Titus and Donnelly, Diane sold municipal bonds to institutional clients for five years.

Subsequently, Diane helped establish the newly formed risk management division of Reuters America.