FIMA US 2025

April 07 - 08, 2025

Westin Copley Place, Boston MA

Michael Smith

EVP, Business Development Communify Fincentric

Michael Smith, EVP, Business Development at Communify Fincentric, has spent the last 25+ years designing and developing cutting edge financial systems and digital products for the worlds largest banks, wealth managers and asset managers. Michael began his career at NASA and spent more than a decade in senior positions in the Capital Markets practice at Deloitte and then co-founded InvestCloud where he was EVP Global Business Development and a Managing Executive. Michael holds an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BS in Business Administration and Entrepreneurism from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Day 1: Addressing Today’s Most Pressing Data Needs

1:00 PM Interactive Thought-Leader Roundtables

Be sure to join these interactive roundtable sessions and take a deep dive into the specific areas you came to discuss. Opportunities to sit and learn from executives like these do not exist elsewhere. Take control of your own event experience. 


  1.  Improving Cloud Migration Strategy – Josh Crowe, Principal Data Consultant, Continuus Technologies 
  2. The Language of Data: Why a Common Terminology is Key to Literacy – Jason Stearns, Senior Practice Lead - Information Governance, Data Privacy & Records Management, Arrayo
  3. Data Integrity: The Cornerstone of Trustworthy AI – Shalaish Koul, Director of Sales Engineering, Precisely 
  4. Knowledge Bases: Unifying Client & Market Data to Provide Intelligent Insights to Investors and Investment Professionals – Michael Smith, EVP, Business Development, Communify Fincentric
  5. Accelerating Decision-Making: How AI Amplifies BI Capabilities – Jean-Luc SansCartier, VP, Sales & Marketing, Solution BI 
  6. AI-Powered Operational Alpha: Optimizing External Data for Faster, Smarter Insights – Naggi Asmar, CTO, Crux 
  7. Future Proofing your Data solutions – Vijay Gurusamy Raju, Big Data and Cloud Engineering Lead, Mass Mutual 
  8. Unlocking the Power of Your Partnerships - Jean – Christophe (JC) Lionti, Managing Director & CDO, Mizuho 
  9. How Data Cen Be Better Used to Achieve Operational Efficiencies - Odene James, VP, Risk Management, Coastal Credit Union

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Michael.

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