Paul Lashmet Email & Phone Number

North Castle Integration matches business challenges with the right innovative technologies to implement practical, cross-functional, and fit for purpose solutions that drive optimization, regulatory compliance, and new revenue streams. The results are: (1) Innovative solutions that efficiently integrate underlying (and often disconnected) businesses, operational groups, 3rd party partners, and customer needs; (2) A direct path for technology firms to highly qualified prospects and situations, reducing the sales cycle; (3) New joint ventures between firms that leverage each other's best of breed expertise, data, and technology. - Featured on TabbForum: http://tabbforum.com/users/plashmet/profile - Latest posts on behalf of Arcadia Data: https://www.arcadiadata.com/blog/author/paul-lashmet/ Projects for a tier one financial services organization include:• Directed the working group that evaluated data virtualization as a component of an enterprise wide hybrid cloud/on premise data integration strategy.• Developed an innovation framework road-map that will be used to facilitate, persist, and measure innovation throughout the Enterprise in a self-sustaining cycle. • Designed the taxonomy/knowledge management flow and implemented a collaboration and alignment framework that is helping the organization improve transparency and trace-ability across multiple projects and business, architecture, and technology teams.

New York, Us

Paul focuses on the continual improvement and optimization of cross-entity business and operational processes and procedures, primarily through the development and distribution of learning content and knowledge management.

Representing Park Avenue Finance on the CRAFT Industry Advisory Board, I am also helping to lead a working group that is exploring and addressing the intellectual property (IP) and commercialization challenges and opportunities that come with research and development of novel financial technologies.The Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technology (CRAFT) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) that is devoted specifically to the Research and Development (R&D) of financial technology and science and to conduct and advance interdisciplinary fintech research, innovation, and workforce development.

Armonk, New York, Us

ForHumanity is a tax exempt public charity that is establishing audit rules, standards, guidelines and where appropriate, public policy for all Artificial Intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems in the areas of Ethics, Bias, Privacy, Trust, and Cybersecurity.As a ForHumanity Fellow, I am proud and excited to join a global interdisciplinary community of experts to help craft an Independent Audit of AI Systems. For more information, visit https://www.forhumanity.center/"

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

As part of my research and analysis work with North Castle Integration, I write about emerging technology and its impact on the capital markets.

London, Gb

Led multiple strategic programs that streamlined business processes and integrated technology.• Implemented an eTrading strategy that improved cross selling between the global markets, private banking, retail, and the wealth management businesses, increasing revenues by 44%.• Managed an award winning cross asset global trade routing system that reduced error rates by 65% and provided significant cost savings.• Re-engineered the foreign fixed income trade flow between US customers and global trading affiliates, ending significant operational losses. • Designed and implemented regulatory solutions that enabled traders, sales teams, and relationship managers to evaluate client suitability and meet due diligence obligations.• Established the roadmap and business case for the development of a CRM system to facilitate global connectivity and collaboration between sales, research, relationship managers, and client services teams.

Rishon Letsiyon, Il

Managed the IT relationship and integration across related banking services for loan operations, load review, and commercial real estate. Developed and executed a consistent vendor evaluation methodology, resulting in a comprehensive RFP and vendor selection process for a new bank wide loan system.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Coordinated the development, implementation, and support functions of a $30MM global equities trading and routing system as the central point of contact between the business units in Frankfurt and the technical teams in New York and London.

Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, De

Managed the RFP and vendor selection process for the delivery of call center, credit bureau, data entry, voice over IP, toll free numbers, and electronic payment services to support the expansion of a European mobile payments system into the US market.

Built a two person partnership into a twenty employee multimillion dollar company that provided internet technology solutions and consulting services to fortune 500 financial and telecommunications companies.• Managed all aspects of business development, corporate client relations, contract negotiations, budgeting, resource planning, employee recruitment and compensation, outside legal counsel, and establishment of the central office.• Co-authored the business plan that raised venture capital for the development of a sophisticated medical record management system and recruited several high profile physicians to consult on product development.• Led product development of sophisticated rules based eCommerce, procurement, customer information, and inventory management web applications. Principal owner of 11 software copyrights.

New York, New York, Us

Managed the RFP and contract selection process for the global HR call center. Designated sole contact between senior executives and Fortune 100 corporations bidding for the project.

Prior to moving into the information technology field, managed architecture and urban design projects in the US, Colombia, and Austria and was a guest lecturer in architecture at universities in Tennessee, New York, and New Jersey.