He is the founder and CEO of JWG-IT Limited, a Think Tank which helps implementers of European regulatory driven IT change increase the likelihood and speed of successful implementation by recommending 80% common, market sensitive and affordable IT operating models. Prior to commercialising this entity, he co-chaired the IT Subject Group of the Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID) Joint Working Group. In this capacity he collaborated with sell-side and buy-side firms, the European Commission, CESR, FSA, HM Treasury and their counterparts across Europe as well as the IT and market data supplier communities.

PJ has served in a variety of operational roles, most recently as the Global IT Chief Operating Officer and the Global Head of IT Customer Services at Barclays Capital. In this capacity he led a team of 60 to set IT demand levels and control supply for £350m+ of expenditure. He created a category aligned vendor management organisation working with 800+ vendors, created the IT Management Information, IT Risk and off-shoring teams, implemented a project management office and led IT strategic planning efforts while landing within +/- 2% of target two years in a row.

Prior to Barclays Capital, PJ spent fourteen years in management consultancy with EDS/ A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen& Hamilton, and McKinsey serving global companies outside the Financial Services industry. He delivered over $50m of IT strategic services to manufacturing, process industry and retail clients across the US and Europe including: CRM, strategic sourcing and IT transformation. He was awarded 4.7/5.0 quality scores by clients and received Intellectual Capital Awards for e-Business strategy and CRM at A.T. Kearney. He was recognised for developing and field-testing IT Strategy and Organisation methodologies at Booz Allen.

In the early 1980s PJ developed IT solutions for American Management Systems’ Financial Services practice which solved business problems based on productised technical services.

He is a frequent author and public speaker on topics including the impact of MiFID on the Financial Services landscape, the future of Linux, Application Portfolio Management and Financial Services Infrastructure. He serves as a Wholesale Banking Technology Innovation Award judge for the Financial Times’ The Banker magazine.

PJ received a BA in an Economics from Wesleyan University. He has completed internal and external coursework in Strategy, Operations, and Change Management. He is a dual US/Italian citizen and has worked extensively across Europe, the US and Asia.

See also: 11:00 am ‘MiFID and its impact on the European Derivatives Industry’