Joshua M. Kimball
Strategic Technology Group, First Vice President
Enterprise Architecture and Web Services
The Bank of New York Mellon
Josh Kimball has worked in financial services for 7 years at The Bank of New York Mellon. During his tenure, he has operated in a variety of capacities—strategic business operations, strategic marketing, and technology. During these stints, Josh completed a score of business re-engineering projects in many of heritage Mellon’s businesses including Asset Servicing, Hedge Fund Administration, Asset Management, Global Cash Management (Treasury Services), Transfer Agency (institutional and retail), and Private Wealth Management. During this time, he also obtained his Six Sigma Black Belt certification during the Bank’s initial pilot of the methodology. Prior to these experiences, Josh lived in technology as a software engineer where he developed functionality for many of the Bank’s distributed application platforms.

Josh assumed responsibility of the Strategic Technology Group as a consequence of the merger between Bank of New York and Mellon. This group is charged with tracking emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping technologies for business applications, conducting diligence for corporate transactions, and delivering technological research (leveraging multiple channels and mechanisms) to the Bank of New York Mellon’s employees and customers.

In some sense, the group not only evangelizes the adoption of new technologies, but it also helps businesses understand their relevance and digest their impact, eg risks and value. More recently, the group has undertaken a number of initiatives involving collaboration technologies with a specific emphasis on Web 2.0, advanced data intelligence to promote business innovation, and alternative organizational strategies to enhance the companies overall software delivery, such as university engagement and organizational virtualization. Josh’s technical expertise includes object-oriented software engineering, advanced decision support systems, and non-linear statistical analysis.

Prior to working at the Bank, Josh completed an undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University. When he is not enjoying the delights of a rigorous business travel schedule, he enjoys all things cultural.