Mona Vernon Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

As Head of Human Resources for Fidelity Investments, I manage the teams responsible for delivering a positive, engaging and inclusive candidate and associate experience, supporting career vitality, running HR platforms and people analytics.

Boston, MA, US

Led the business unit responsible for building and acquiring fintech businesses to drive organic growth Member of the CIO Council, contributes to the global CIO’s technology strategy and roadmapMember of the Technology Advisory Committee for the Audit Committee

New York, NY, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

FinTech Industry Committee—composed of 15 members drawn from member firms, academia, and industry participants, in addition to one Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) observer and one North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) observer. The committee provides FINRA, member firms and others with a platform for ongoing dialogue and.

Reston, Virginia, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Compensation Committee

Cambridge, MA, US

The MIT Future of Data Initiative will lead technical research on privacy-enhancing data systems and analytic techniques, create a policy dialogue with extensive public engagement, and develop new educational opportunities related to data governance technology and public policy.

Boston, MA, US

FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit that helps FinTech startups around the world build great products and applications. It was started by a group of FinTech entrepreneurs and investors in Boston who recognized that the high cost and/or inaccessibility of data posed a consistent challenge to FinTech startups. Backed by some of the world’s leading.

Investor and advisor to CEO from founding to exit. In May 2021, Apple Inc. bought machine-learning startup Inductiv Inc.

Cambridge, MA, US

Board Observer until I left Thomson Reuters to join Fidelity. Role tied to investment made by Thomson Reuters.

Cambridge, MA, US

Updated the syllabus (for AI and Blockchain) Appointed lecturer in 15.914 (Competitive Dynamics and Strategy – Winning in Technology Markets). Also lectures in the business analytics seminar.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Leads global R&D, Center for Cognitive Computing, Blockchain, Digital Experience design and engineering teams, and data science and visualization resources globally - Delivers AI product capabilities, AI-enabled data.
• Manages TR’s corporate venture fund and the academic research agenda & investments
• Established TR’s first start-up incubator
• Responsible to deliver the technology strategy for the CEO

Toronto, ON, CA

• Hired data science and data visualization experts to establish an enterprise-wide data science practice and lab
• Working with sales and largest business unit, rapidly prototyped a big data analytical framework that was selected by a large customer out of 10 collaboration options
• Results in the first 12 months of the lab resulted in new sales with key customers
• Routinely contributed to executive decisions on topics such as content strategy and the role of emerging technologies in enabling organic growth
• Secured funding from CEO for global expansions of labs

Toronto, ON, CA

• Identified key emerging technologies, their impact on the business units and defined the lean start-up approach to test and validate them
• Established and staffed a team with the mandate to accelerate adoption of external innovation in the areas of NLP, visualization, content search & discovery, crowdsourcing and analytics.
• Created and launched a best-of-breed corporate open innovation initiative that was adopted by all divisions in 6 months and resulted in new algorithms and software code for product release
• Managed multi-million dollar portfolio in academic research at MIT and other leading US and EMEA universities, and in proof of concepts with start-ups
• Regularly delivered structured analyses to the executive committee and the board on the implications of disruptive technologies on our business models and how the company can respond
• Designed and established a Technology Associate Program that recruits PhDs in Computer Science and Mathematics with strong leadership skills from top U.S. universities

Cambridge, MA, US

Institute for Data, Systems and SocietyThe mission of IDSS is to advance education and research in state-of-the-art, analytical methods in information and decision systems; statistics and data science; and the social sciences, and to apply these methods to address complex societal challenges in a diverse set of areas such as finance, energy systems.

- Advice the formation of a Big Data Consortium for the Commonwealth- Increase public awareness of the region’s unique capabilities in big data and analytics- Support the development of a highly-skilled big data workforce- Accelerate innovation and company growth through novel collaborations between academia, government and industry- Advisory committee.

- Business Implications Of Enterprise 2.0- Research assistant on the book "Race Against the Machine"Principal Investigator: Andy McAfee- The Role of Customer Experience in the adoption of ITFully funded by British Telecom to define strategies for entering in new business areas using an advanced business modeling techniquesBuilt domain expertise in cloud.

Boston, MA, US

- Developed a marketing/outreach plan that will significantly increase the number of qualified students registered with the CCF- Defined communication strategy and execution plan

Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, FR

- Conducted marketing strategy study on role of France Telecom in the Digital Home- Presented findings to France Telecom Chairman

US

- Managed microDMx™ sensor portfolio–primary and proprietary technologies used in all Sionex products- Created strategic roadmap for Sionex sensor; approved for implementation by executive management- Led team of scientists and engineers to develop chemical warfare agent detector for leading defense contractor. Program accounted for 30% of 2008 revenue.

Billerica, MA, US

- Directed principal engineers and physicists who invented and delivered cutting-edge MEMS and fiber optic packaging technologies which met aggressive new product launch schedule- Promoted for launching and leading a successful initiative to prevent manufacturing capacity bottlenecks for Telecom product lines- Hired senior scientists and engineers, managed.

New York, NY, US

Completed Corporate Finance TrainingContributed to the Real Estate Lending Group as an analystReason for leaving: I was recruited as an early employee by the founders of a start-up, Axsun Technologies

S.M., Engineering & Management, Institute For Data, Systems, And Society

Msme, Mechanical Engineering

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Baccalaureat De Sciences, Science

Education record