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Overseeing money for the rich is supposed to be one of the best businesses in banking, but even the world’s biggest wealth manager is finding that it doesn’t always work out like that.

Kate Mitchell is the chief executive officer at Edge Intelligence. Prior to that she was CEO of CopperEye. She possesses nearly three decades of wide-ranging, customer-facing executive success with such database leaders as Oracle and IBM. Prior to joining CopperEye, Mitchell was senior vice president of marketing and business development for SeeBeyond Technology Corporation, where she worked with such customers as Target, barnes&noble.com, JP Morgan Chase and General Motors to grow revenues 400 percent in her four-year tenure and establish SeeBeyond as the global leader in business integration. Contact her at kate.mitchell@edgeintelligence.com.

Andrew Hewitt is an analyst at Forrester Research serving infrastructure and operations professionals. Andrew’s research focuses on enterprise mobility and how organizations can create better mobile experiences for employees that, in turn, improve customer outcomes. He is a contributor to Forrester's employee experience research, and his key coverage areas include enterprise mobility, unified endpoint management, enterprise mobility management, and bring-your-own-device (BYOD). He also looks at how companies can employ IoT technologies in the workplace to improve employee experience and productivity.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to his role as analyst, Andrew served as a researcher on Forrester's infrastructure research team, focusing on enterprise mobility and IoT-connected smart buildings. Before that, he was a senior research associate; he spent his time researching the cloud and hyperconverged infrastructure market. Before joining Forrester, Andrew worked as a help desk assistant for the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado.

Education

Andrew graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in international relations.

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Dave Dyell is president and CEO of Jellyfish Health.

As the SEC furloughs workers, the consequences are rippling across the entire wealth management industry.

Laura Friedel is a partner and chair of Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC’s Labor & Employment Group. She helps businesses, including accounting firms, maximize their most important and often trickiest asset – their employees. Laura works with companies to develop employment documents, policies and practices that improve employee relations while protecting the company's investment in its people and minimizing legal risk. She also represents companies before federal and state courts and agencies in a broad range of employment litigation.

Jill Purcell is AVP of dental & vision product and market development at Unum.