Data Quality Engineering in Financial Services

About the Author

Brian Buzzelli is senior vice president and head of data governance for Acadian, a quantitative institutional asset management firm specializing in active global, emerging, and frontier investments utilizing sophisticated analytical models and specialized research expertise. Brian has defined a systematic and rigorous approach to data quality engineering through application of manufacturing principles and based on his expertise developed over 27 years of experience. His leadership implementing data governance, data usage policies, data standards, data quality measurement, data taxonomies, architecture, and metadata have supported some of the most complex financial business functions at Acadian, Nomura, Thomson Reuters, and Mellon Financial. Data quality engineering, data management, and the application of manufacturing principles to data dimensions and data quality validation are at the center of his professional focus. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor of science degree in information and decision systems and holds two master’s degrees: management of information systems and MBA in finance from the Katz Business School at the University of Pittsburgh.