About a-team Marketing Services
The knowledge platform for the financial technology industry

A-Team Insight Blogs

Siperian Expands Team with Four Key Hires

Subscribe to our newsletter

Siperian, developer of a master data management (MDM) platform, has appointed four people to its executive team in response to the company’s growth and expansion into new markets. Joining Siperian are Dr Jeff Sidell in the newly created position of chief scientist; Sean Ward as vice president, worldwide sales; Tony Spensieri as vice president, financial services; and Michael Perry as chief financial officer. Sidell most recently led the server engineering group at Enkata Technologies, a business-process optimisation software provider. He is charged with defining the strategic direction of the Siperian MDM Hub. Ward previously served as the western region vice president of sales at PeopleSoft. In his new role Ward is responsible for global sales management and operations. Spensieri joins from his role as vice president, North American sales with GoldenSource Corporation. Spensieri is responsible for the overall strategic direction, growth, and management of Siperian’s product and solution offerings to the financial services industry worldwide. Perry was most recently chief financial officer at Vitria Technology.

Subscribe to our newsletter

Related content

WEBINAR

Upcoming Webinar: The Data Office at a Crossroads — AI Governance, Organisational Design, and the Evolving Mandate of the CDO

Date: 28 July 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Who owns AI governance in a capital markets firm – and is the Data Office structured to bear that weight? These questions sit at the heart of A-Team Research’s latest findings, presented here for the first time: the combined...

BLOG

Most City Mega Mergers Test Tech More Than Balance Sheets

By Gus Sekhon, head of product, FINBOURNE Technology. The City loves nothing more than a takeover tale as old as time. A US$2.5tn US asset management behemoth snapping up one of London’s most historic investment houses for £10bn sounds like a story of global ambition and deep pockets. The Schroders brand stays, the headquarters remains...

EVENT

AI in Capital Markets Summit London

Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.

GUIDE

AI in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...