KIMRA CONFERENCE | 4 JUNE 2025

AlphaSense

Silver Sponsor

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

Atlas

Bronze Sponsor

ClearPeople is a global leader in enterprise solutions that help organizations turn information chaos into clarity. Its flagship product, Atlas, is purpose-built for Microsoft 365 and empowers teams to automatically capture, classify, and connect knowledge. Atlas is setting the standard for modern knowledge management by delivering instant access to trusted information and powering precise, context-aware AI experiences.

BMI

Gold Sponsor

In an uncertain macroeconomic environment, BMI’s systematic, independent and data-driven market insights, analysis and forecasts enable clients to recognize and assess risks and opportunities across 200+ markets and 20+ industries. For 40 years, BMI has provided impartial and transparent analytics, data and research across themes, countries and sectors, with deep insight into emerging markets, enabling you to easily make comparisons and interrogate data to support your strategic plans and investment decisions.

Amanda Quinlan

Strategic Leader in Research and Knowledge Operations

Amanda is an experienced strategic leader in Research and Knowledge Operations, with over two decades of expertise gained across top-tier consulting firms. Most recently Senior Manager at Boston Consulting Group, Amanda built and led high-performing international teams, driving innovation in service delivery, operational efficiency, and stakeholder engagement. She’s passionate about sharing ideas and learning from others who are equally committed to building high-quality, impactful research functions.

Athena Peppes

Director and Co-Founder
Beacon Thought Leadership

Athena Peppes specialises in foresight and researching emergent technology trends. She helps senior executives navigate the future of business by leveraging research-powered insights. With over 15 years of experience, she has led thought leadership projects on business transformation, AI, and the trends shaping tomorrow’s industries, including at Accenture. Her insights have been featured in Harvard Business Review, The European Business Review, and Rotman Magazine. Passionate about developing research talent, she designed and led Accenture Research’s global thought leadership training curriculum. She started her career as an economist for ArcelorMittal and the Association of British Insurers.

Gabriele Birnberg

Head of People Transformation
KPMG

Gabi’s career started in research, with a PhD in Politics from the London School of Economics, which led her down the road of Public Policy Consulting. For more than 5 years, she helped shape EU policy as research and analysis lead for EU wide impact assessments and evaluations. She subsequently transitioned into the Big Four, where she spent well over a decade advising financial services clients on HR strategy and transformation. More recently, she moved in-house at KPMG, where she is leading the HR integration work, following the merger between KPMG UK and KPMG Switzerland earlier last year.

Lyndsey Anderson

Global Head of Content
BMI

Lyndsey joined the business in July 2024, with over 20yrs of experience in data, forecasting and analysis, much of which was spent in previous research, analysis and management roles within Fitch Solutions. Lyndsey has a strong focus on developing content and products that support organisations in getting to better decisions, faster. She also has an excellent track record in building and managing large, commercially-focused content teams and in working closely with Product and Commercial teams to deliver relevant insights to customers. Lyndsey graduated in Politics from the University of East Anglia and studied Economics as a post-graduate at Birkbeck in London. She is also a graduate of the Hearst Management Institute leadership programme. Prior to re-joining Fitch at BMI, Lyndsey spent 4yrs at The Economist Group, running the research and content programme for the Economist Intelligence Unit. In her spare time Lyndsey enjoys playing and watching a variety of sports, reading fiction and spending time with her young family.

Charlotte Holden

Holden Head of Data Strategy & Services
Evercore

At Evercore, as Head of Data Strategy & Services, my mission is to forge the path for data-driven decision-making in financial services. With certifications in Business Analytics and Data Management, I’ve steered our team to innovate and excel in data governance, infusing our projects with strategic problem-solving and effective communication.

Leveraging my background from working in a successful startup to top ranked IB and expertise in financial markets data, my accomplishments include establishing a robust data services delivery model and influencing key stakeholders. This has enabled us to support and refine Evercore’s data structures and platforms, contributing to the bank’s reputation for excellence in a complex and dynamic industry.

David Mantle

Senior Resource Manager
Orrick

Originally qualifying in the Heritage and Archaeology disciplines, David moved into research and has become an experienced information manager with an extensive background in the legal sector. Working up from a Library Assistant at CMS Cameron McKenna over 25 years ago and subsequently obtaining an MSc in Records Management. he has worked at several law firms over his career. This has including going through firm mergers, working for 2 of the Magic Circle, and is currently the Senior Resources Manager at Orrick LLP with responsibility for managing significant global and local resources, setting standards, and implementing best practices across the firm’s Research & Library function. His expertise includes strategic planning, budget management, contract negotiation, and staff development.

He has spoken at various events and conferences, been involved in panel discussions and hosted round table sessions, focussing on vendor relationships and product management in the legal information sector. He has also been involved in the assessment, evaluation and roll out of several AI tools, both internally developed and third party products.

Tom Mowat

Director, Insights and Analytics, Global Customer Experience
Microsoft

Tom Mowat is a data science and analytics executive with over 15 years of international research and strategy experience. Tom currently leads the insights and analytics function at Microsoft’s global customer experience team, managing the strategy behind the company’s internal listening instruments and responsible for the dissemination of insights to stakeholders around the wolrd. Prior to this Tom worked as the founder and CEO of Vesta Smart Packaging, as well as multiple consulting and research roles at companies including PWC and Analysis Mason.

Ruth Ward

Executive Director of Knowledge & Expertise
Ashurst

Ruth began her career as a finance lawyer in the City of London, moving into the knowledge and innovation area at the turn of the Millennium. Ruth has undertaken significant leadership roles in some of the largest legal public and private sector organisations. Based at international law firm Allen & Overy LLP for almost 20 years, Ruth managed a global portfolio of knowledge, legaltech and innovation teams and projects for A&O’s lawyers and clients. In 2019 Ruth took up the newly created role of Director of Knowledge for the UK Government Legal Department, putting in place the department’s first Knowledge, Capability and Innovation Strategy and establishing a specialist Knowledge & Innovation Division. Ruth returned to the private sector at the end of 2023, becoming Executive Director, Knowledge & Expertise for international law firm Ashurst. Ruth is accountable for the work and development of Ashurst’s global Knowledge & Expertise (K&E) function and Expertise Lawyer community, leading the development and delivery of a new K&E Strategy supporting Ashurst’s firmwide strategy and commitment to “outpace change”. Ruth co-sponsored Ashurst’s firmwide roll-out of Harvey in 2024 and is currently co-leading an international research initiative on skills for the AI-enabled lawyer.

Natasha Cambell

Principal Thought Leadership Consultant
Source

Natasha is a Principal Thought Leadership Consultant in Source’s Marketing Advisory team and is deeply passionate about content and actionable insights. In her role, she works with clients to help them shape and execute impactful thought leadership and content strategy. Day to day, Natasha works on thought leadership ratings and reviews, authors reports, and leads on bespoke client projects. With over 15 years of experience driving and delivering global, regional, and sector-focused thought leadership strategy and flagship campaigns within the Big Four, Natasha brings a broad perspective, leadership expertise, and a hands-on approach to her work with clients.

Luca Russignan

Deputy head
Capgemini Research Institute for Financial Services.

Luca Russignan is a global financial services strategist with 15+ years of experience leveraging data and emerging technologies like Gen AI to shape impactful thought leadership and insights. He is focused on driving innovation in insights and customers engagement, enabling better CXOs conversation to shape business strategies across the UK, the US, Italy, and APAC.

Kate Kimball

Director, AI – Alix Partners

Kate Kimball is a dynamic leader with a knack for transforming research into actionable insights that empower consultants and drive productivity. With a passion for AI and experimentation, she has been at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge technology into business intelligence, making work smarter, faster, and more innovative—all while keeping things fun and forward-thinking. Committed to responsible AI and ethical standards in data and AI, Kate ensures that emerging technologies are implemented with fairness, transparency, and accountability, fostering trust and long-term impact in the evolving AI landscape

Fiona Czerniawska

Founder and CEO of Source

Fiona is one of the world’s foremost commentators on the global professional services and consulting industry. Before starting Source, she had almost 20 years’ experience as a management consultant, primarily working in the areas of marketing and strategy, initially with PwC, before moving on to be head of strategy and business planning for EY in the UK. She’s the author of a dozen books including Business Consulting: A Guide to How it Works and How to Make it Work and Buying Professional Services, both of which were published by The Economist.

Ceri Hughes

Independent Executive Coach and NED

Ceri is an independent Executive Coach, Non-Executive Director/Advisor and Conference Facilitator. Until 2024 she was Director of Operations for KPMG’s Chief People Officer. Her career at KPMG spanned more than 24 years, latterly in Operations, but for 16 years she led Knowledge Management and Research groups at the firm in the UK and internationally, including the establishment of offshore knowledge operations in India, and then became the Head of Learning and Knowledge Management for KPMG UK in 2017. In 2020 she was part of the team leading the firm’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to working at KPMG, Ceri was the Global Head of Information and Records Management at an international telecommunications company. She began her career as a Library Association/SCONUL Graduate Trainee at the Lord Chancellor’s Department.

Andy Burden

Director
Substribe

Andy believes that subscription success comes from being embedded within workflows through exceptional team alignment. Armed with this conviction, he founded Substribe to help B2B information brands transform from “nice to have” into “must have” services for enterprise customers. In his role at Substribe, Andy has personally interviewed more than 500 business executives worldwide. These deep conversations have revealed a crucial truth: the most valuable knowledge services don’t just provide information – they create frameworks for better decision-making and drive meaningful organisational change. With over two decades of subscription experience, including senior roles at Datamonitor, Informa and Procurement Leaders, Andy works with cross-functional teams at information providers to optimise their subscription performance. Knowledge managers will gain valuable insights into how leading subscription brands achieve high adoption rates, demonstrate value across their enterprise customers, and build sticky services that become essential to daily workflows. Through Substribe, the expert network for B2B subscription leaders, Andy champions a simple but powerful idea: when knowledge services align perfectly with customer needs, they become indispensable assets that transform how enterprises work.

Andrew Cosgrove

Insights Leader
EY

Andrew Cosgrove leads Insights globally at EY. Andrew has >25 years’ Consumer Goods and Professional Services experience as an analyst in the US, Asia and Europe including roles at Mars and McKinsey. He has a track record of delivering distinctive insights which challenge executives to reframe their strategic choices on where and how to compete. Andrew has an MBA from London business School and is co-author of ”Managing Profitable Growth in Emerging Markets: Scaling the Tail.